| "Latata" | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ๐ Image Japanese cover | |||
| Single by (G)I-dle | |||
| from the EP I Am | |||
| Released | May 2, 2018 | ||
| Genre | |||
| Length | 3:22 | ||
| Label | |||
| Songwriter | Soyeon | ||
| Producers |
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| (G)I-dle singles chronology | |||
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| Music video | |||
| "Latata" on YouTube | |||
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| IZM | ๐ Star ๐ Star ๐ Star ๐ Image ๐ Image [3] |
"Latata" (stylized in all caps) is the debut single recorded by South Korean girl group (G)I-dle as the lead single from their debut Korean extended play (EP) I Am. It was released on May 2, 2018, by Cube Entertainment and distributed by Kakao M. It was written by member Soyeon, who also produced the song alongside Big Sancho.[4] A music video for the song was also released on the same day. Promotions for the song resulted in (G)I-dle's first music show win on SBS MTV's The Show on May 22, 2018.[5] The song also resulted in a second win on Mnet's M Countdown.[6]
A Japanese version was released on July 12, 2019 as the lead single from their Japanese debut EP of the same name.[7] An English version was released on May 15, 2020.[A][8]
Composition
[edit]"Latata" described as a Moombahton, trap song, featuring reggae rhythm.[2] It was composed in the key of A Minor with a tempo of 98 beats per minute.[9] Lyrically, it is about a woman in love, who expresses her desire to dance with her lover.[10] In an interview with MBC's Radio Star, Soyeon stated that "Latata's" chorus was a word-play on Song Joon-geun's catchphrase, she furthermore explained, "I was impressed with 'Ratata Arata', which was popularized by Song Jun-geun's character 'Gonzalez' from "Bongsunga School". After that, while listening to Latin music, the word 'Ratata Arata' came to mind, and that's how Latata was created".[11][12]
Promotion
[edit]The group started promoting their title track "Latata" on May 3. They first performed the lead single on Mnet's M Countdown, followed by performances on KBS' Music Bank, MBC's Show! Music Core and SBS's Inkigayo.[13] They received their first-ever music show win since debut on May 22, 2018 on SBS MTV's The Show.[14] Two days later, on May 24, the group received their second music show win for "Latata" on M Countdown.[15]
Commercial performance
[edit]"Latata" did not enter the Gaon Digital Chart in its first week, but did enter the component Download Chart at number 68.[16] In its second week, the song debuted at number 35 on the Gaon Digital Chart as a "hot" song and peaked at number 16 two weeks later.[17][18] The song entered at number 4 on the Gaon Social Chart, and climbed to number 3 the following week.[19][20]
In the United States, the song entered at number 11 on the Billboard World Digital Songs chart, and climbed to number 4 the following week, selling 1,000 copies, making it the best-selling K-pop song in the week of May 10.[21] The song has sold 3,000 copies in America as of August 2018.[22]
In September 2020, "Latata" music video surpassed 160 million combined views for the official music video uploaded on 1theK's channel and (G)I-dle's official channel.[23] On June 27, 2022 the music video surpassed 200 million views for the official music video uploaded on 1theK's channel.[24]
Accolades
[edit]| Critic/Publication | Year | List | Rank | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bugs! | 2018 | 2018 Year End Top 100 | 37 | [25] |
| Deezer | 2022 | K-POP 2022 Hits | Placed | [26] |
| Idology | 2018 | 2018 Songs of the Year | 1 | [27] |
| Paper | Top 20 K-Pop Songs of 2018 | 14 | [28] | |
| SBS PopAsia | Top 100 Asian pop songs of 2018 | 38 | [29] |
| Program | Date (3 total) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|
| The Show | May 22, 2018 | [5] |
| May 29, 2018 | [30] | |
| M Countdown | May 24, 2018 | [6] |
Charts
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Weekly charts[edit]
Monthly chart[edit]
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Year-end chart[edit]
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Release history
[edit]| Region | Date | Format | Version | Label | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Korea | May 2, 2018 | Original | [33] | ||
| Various | |||||
| Japan | July 19,2019 | Japanese | [34] | ||
| Various | |||||
| May 15, 2020 | English |
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See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ English translation by Lauren Kaori
References
[edit]- ^ "Rising Stars (G)I-DLE Are Defining Their Own Genre". MTV. Archived from the original on April 11, 2020.
- ^ a b c Ko, Seung-ah (May 5, 2018). "(์ฌ์)์์ด๋ค ์์ฐ "๋ฐ๋ท๊ณก 'LATATA', ์ ์์๊ณกโฆ๋ฉค๋ฒ ์๊ฐํ๋ฉฐ ์ผ๋ค"" [(G)I-DLE's Soyeon "Debut song 'LATATA', my own song... I wrote it with the members in mind"]. Herald Pop (in Korean). Retrieved October 24, 2022.
- ^ Jung Hyo-beom. "Latata". IZM (in Korean). Archived from the original on April 19, 2021. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
- ^ "LATATA". www.melon.com (in Korean). Retrieved December 7, 2020.
- ^ a b "'๋์ผ' (์ฌ์)์์ด๋ค, ์ฒซ 1์ '๋๋ฌผ'..์ํ๋ผ์ ์ปด๋ฐฑยทNCT ์ ๋ ธX๊น์ฉ๊ตญ ์ MC[์ข ํฉ]". OSEN (in Korean). May 22, 2018. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
- ^ a b "[์ข ํฉ] '์ ์นด' (์ฌ์)์์ด๋ค, ๋ฐ๋ท๊ณก '๋ผํํ'๋ก 2๊ด์โฆ๋ฌด์์ด ์ ์ธ" (in Korean). Retrieved May 24, 2018.
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- ^ Jeff Benjamin (May 15, 2020). "(G)I-DLE Take Next International Step With English 'Latata' Single". Forbes.
- ^ "Key, BPM of Latata by (G)I-dle". tunebat. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
- ^ Jang, Woo-young (May 2, 2018). "[์ ๊ณก์ฝ๊ธฐ] (์ฌ์)์์ด๋ค 'LATATA', ๊ฐ๋ ฌํ๋ฉด์๋ ํ๋ คํ๋ค" [[Read New Song] (G)I-DLE's 'LATATA', intense yet colorful.]. SPOTV NEWS (in Korean). Retrieved October 24, 2022.
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- ^ "'๋์ผ' (์ฌ์)์์ด๋ค, ์ฒซ 1์ '๋๋ฌผ'..์ํ๋ผ์ ์ปด๋ฐฑยทNCT ์ ๋ ธX๊น์ฉ๊ตญ ์ MC[์ข ํฉ]". OSEN (in Korean). May 22, 2018. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
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- ^ "Week 19 of 2018 โ Digital Chart". May 6โ12, 2018. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
- ^ a b "Week 22 of 2018 โ Digital Chart". May 27 โ June 2, 2018. Retrieved June 8, 2018.
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- ^ "(G)I-DLE Hit New Peak on World Digital Song Sales Chart With 'Hann (Alone)'". Billboard. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
- ^ ""ํน๊ธ ์ ์ธ" (์ฌ์)์์ด๋ค, ๋ฐ๋ท๊ณก'๋ผํํ' ๋ฎค์ง๋น๋์ค 1์ต๋ทฐ ๋ํ". February 3, 2019.
- ^ Kim, Ha-young (June 27, 2022). "์๋ฐ๊ธฐ ์ ์ํ (์ฌ์)์์ด๋ค 'LATATA' MV๋ก 2์ต ๋ทฐ ๋ฐ์ด์ ๋ค์ด์๋ค" [(G)I-DLE 'LATATA' MV, which was received in the first half of the year, entered the ranks of 200 million views.]. Sports Trend (in Korean). Retrieved October 24, 2022.
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- ^ Benjamin, Jeff (December 21, 2018). "PAPER's Top 20 K-Pop Songs of 2018". PAPER. Retrieved December 26, 2018.
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