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Fantastic Baby
BIGBANG
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- Album
- ALIVE
- Released
- 2013
- Genres
- k-pop
- Length
- 3:51
- Tempo
- 130 BPM
- Label
- YG Entertainment
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About this song
Fantastic Baby is the third single from BIGBANG's fifth Korean-language extended play, Alive, and was officially released as a single on March 7, 2012. A Japanese-language version came out in March 2012 on the Japanese edition of Alive, translated by Verbal and M-Flo member Verbal, who is Korean-Japanese. The music video was one of YouTube's most viewed K-pop videos of 2012 and was featured in The Guardian; by March 2014 it had passed 100 million views.
What it's about
The lyrics are not explained in the text, so no meaning is given. The song's visual style, with its fancy costumes and riot chic, is noted by critics, and NME pointed to the 'Boom Shakalaka' refrain as recalling Sly & The Family Stone.
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Fun facts
- Sampled in 1 other song, like “Strange Days by PRO8L3M”.
- Covered 2 times, including “FANTASTIC BABY by STARRYSKY (Ft. Romi Laillot)”.
- Written by Teddy Park, G-DRAGON (지드래곤) and T.O.P.
- Produced by G-DRAGON (지드래곤) and Teddy Park.
- Recorded at YG Studio.