"Your Eyes" is a song recorded by South Korean boy band

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. It appears as the sixth and final track on their second Japanese-language extended play (EP), ''

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''. The song was released on June 1, 2022, through

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, as the second single of the EP after the Japanese version of "

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Release and composition

Stray Kids' second Japanese-language extended play (EP), was announced on April 4, 2022. Later the title ''

'' and track listing were revealed on May 16, including the sixth and final track "Your Eyes". The song was released to

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and

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platforms on June 1, in conjunction with its accompanying music video. "Your Eyes" is described as a

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song driven by piano, written by Bang Chan and Changbin from

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, an in-house production team of Stray Kids, and KM-Markit, and co-composed with Jun2. The song expresses the lover's gaze with the feeling of anxiousness sometimes but still wishing to be happy in the relationship. It was composed in the key of

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, 130 beats per minute with a running time of three minutes and seventeen seconds.

Commercial performance

"Your Eyes" entered the ''Billboard'' Japan Hot 100 in the chart issue dated June 8, 2022, at number 68; on its component charts, the song debuted at number 60 on the Streaming Songs.

Music video

An accompanying music video for "Your Eyes" was premiered on June 1, 2022, alongside the single release. It was preceded by eight member-individual teasers. Directed by Novvkim, the music video is described as a " virtual

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", drawing the lover's perspective spend time doing several things with each member all day long, from the morning to the night.

Credits and personnel

Personnel *

– vocals, background vocals ** Bang Chan (

) – lyrics, composition, all instruments,

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, vocal directing,

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** Changbin (3Racha) – lyrics, composition, vocal directing ** Han (3Racha) – lyrics, composition, vocal directing * KM-Markit – Japanese lyrics * Jun2 – composition, arrangement, all instruments, vocal directing * Lee Sang-yeop –

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* Lim Hong-jin – mixing * Kwon Nam-woo – mastering Locations * Sony Music Publishing (Japan) Inc. –

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* JYP Publishing (

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) – publishing * JYPE Studios – recording, mixing * 821 Sound Mastering – mastering

Charts

Release history

References

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