High High

"High High"
Single by GD & TOP
from the album GD & TOP
ReleasedDecember 15, 2010
Genre
Length3:08
LabelYG Entertainment
Songwriters
Producer
  • Teddy
GD & TOP singles chronology
"High High"
(2010)		 "Oh Yeah"
(2010)
Music video
"High High" on YouTube

"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.

Composition

"High High" is a pop-rap and electropop song with references to old-school hip hop. E. Alex Jung from Vulture described the song as a "synth club banger". The track samples the 1985 song "La Di Da Di" by Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick. The lyrics include sexual metaphors.

Reception

"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." 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." 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. Korean magazine Ize complimented that the song's uses the "club culture" boldly, and the result is "refined and digested".

Charts and sales

Sales

Chart Sales
South Korea (Gaon Download Chart) 1,390,163

Music programs awards

Program Date
M! Countdown (Mnet) January 6, 2011
Inkigayo (SBS) January 9, 2011

References

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  5. ↑ "GD&TOP's 'High High' sample of Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick's 'La Di Da Di'". WhoSampled. Archived from the original on 2017-04-23. Retrieved 2017-04-22.
  6. 1 2 "G-Dragon 고별展│가사로 본 지 드래곤의 인생". Ize Magazine (in Korean). June 13, 2017. Archived from the original on August 25, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
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  11. 1 2 "Yearly Digital Chart - 2011". Gaon Chart. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  12. ↑ Cumulative sales for "High High"
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