It was penned by lyricist Wutan, Rick Bridges and danke, the latter whom is part of the writing team lalala Studio. Lyrically, the song sings about how the members overcome their own "fears and traumas." The group also refers themselves like Bruce Lee when on stage, through chantings like "Bass kicks swingin' like Bruce Lee", amongst other references like jeet kune and the movie Enter the Dragon. Excerpts of the song including the harmonization and the main riff were also incorporated for the group's instrumental prelude, which was initially unreleased during its parental album release on March 6, 2020. The song is composed in the key of G major and set in common time at a moderate tempo of 167 beats per minute. Musically, SM Entertainment describes the song as a "powerful" hip-hop dance record with heavy metal guitar riff and R&B elements throughout the song, while Tamar Herman of Billboard saw the track as "high-energy" with industrial beats, throbbing bass, whistling synths and chanting shouts. Problems playing this file? See media help. The rap recording process for member Taeyong and Mark was mostly the two members doing their respective parts in one-take to their preferences, and proceeded to arrange all the qualified cuts later. While fellow producer Abernathy created the song's beat loop, Deez took part in the R&B arrangement for the track, having constructed and composed the bridge and the dance break section with the idea of "maintaining" the "harmonic vocal color" and "extensively energetic" chord work and arrangement to bring out a "trendy and old-school" color to the song. He further revealed that the production team had to "revise and multiply" the song for about a hundred times from end of December 2019 to early February 2020. During an interview with music critic Kim Young-dae in March 2020, songwriter and producer Deez said that the song was originally prepared to "gird the loins" for "Cherry Bomb 2.0", with the outcome being "stronger" than the 2017 single according to the producer. The song marked the second time that Dem Jointz, Deez and Yoo Young-jin collaborated together with the boy group since "Cherry Bomb" in June 2017. Jhun, Mayila Jones and Rodnae Bell, with Yoo Young-jin took part in the song's arrangement. "Kick It" was produced by American producer Dem Jointz, South Korean songwriter Deez, Ryan S. The song had its official music video premiere one day later, while being released digitally along with its parental album on March 6, 2020. Following the video previews of other album tracks, the music video teaser for "Kick It" was uploaded on the official SMTOWN channel on March 3, 2020. On February 12, a "timeline" video for the album was announced on all social media platforms of the group, including a release schedule and the title of the lead single to be "영웅 / 英雄 (Kick It)". The label further confirmed that member Jungwoo would eventually join the group and participate in promotion activities following his initial hiatus from August 2019. The group went on to promote the song on several South Korean music programs in addition to their online concert via Beyond Live, titled Beyond the Origin.Īfter wrapping up promotion activities in the United States by the end of November 2019, SM Entertainment uploaded a music video for "Dreams Come True", along with the release announcement for Neo Zone on January 27, 2020. It also entered at number three on Billboard's World Digital Songs chart at number eight, while becoming the unit's second entry on the New Zealand Hot Singles chart. Commercially, the song became their first top-thirty entry on Gaon Digital Chart, as well as the unit's first top-ten entry on the Billboard K-Pop Hot 100, peaking at number nine. Music critics noted the song's "darkness" and "anthemic" return, in contrast to their previous singles, and believed it contributed to the group's musical diversity. An accompanying martial arts-themed music video premiered two days prior. Described as a "high-energy" song with "inspirational lyrics" that portrays the group's musical identity, it was released as the lead single from their second studio album Neo Zone on Maby SM Entertainment. It was written by songwriters Wutan, Rick Bridges and danke of lalala Studio, while production was handled by Dem Jointz, Deez, Mayila Jones, Chikk, Ryan S. " Kick It" ( Korean: 영웅 Hanja: 英雄 RR: Yeong-ung MR: Yǒngung lit. Hero) is a song recorded by South Korean boy band NCT 127.
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