"High High" | ||||
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Single by GD & TOP | ||||
from the album GD & TOP | ||||
Released | December 15, 2010 | |||
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Length | 3:08 | |||
Label | YG Entertainment | |||
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"High High" is a song recorded by South Korean duo GD & TOP (G-Dragon and T.O.P.). It was released on December 15, 2010, by YG Entertainment, as the first single from their self-titled debut album GD & TOP (2010). It was written by the duo with Teddy, and produced by the latter.
"High High" is a pop-rap [2] and electropop song [1] with references to old-school hip hop. [3] E. Alex Jung from Vulture described the song as a "synth club banger". [4] The track samples the 1985 song "La Di Da Di" by Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick. [5] The lyrics include sexual metaphors. [6]
"High High" received acclaim from music critics. Spin named the single the seventh greatest K-Pop song of all time, commenting that the track "grows gruffer and faster as it buttaflies [ sic ] higher and higher" and concluding "this is how LMFAO and Far East Movement want to sound." [3] Billboard chose "High High" as one of T.O.P's most memorable songs, with Tamar Herman writing that the "G-H-E-T-T-O E-L-E-C-T-R-O" chant on the track's bridge "remains one of the most catchy and baffling moments of Bigbang's career." [1] Additionally, the single's music video was named by Stereogum the fourth best K-Pop music video of all time, with Tom Breihan writing that the track "does poppy American club-rap better than any American has done it in many years" and that GD & TOP "appear to be having more fun than anyone else on the global pop-music landscape" in the music video. [2] Korean magazine Ize complimented that the song's uses the "club culture" boldly, and the result is "refined and digested". [6]
Weekly charts
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Chart | Sales |
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South Korea (Gaon Download Chart) | 1,390,163 [12] |
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M! Countdown (Mnet) [13] | January 6, 2011 |
Inkigayo (SBS) [13] | January 9, 2011 |