Mother, Father, Who Are You?

G-Dragon “MichiGO”

The funny thing about K-Pop’s tendency to mash up Korean and English lyrics is that the result feels a little more strange and alien to me than if they were only singing and rapping in Korean, a language I cannot understand. The style exaggerates the hyperactive quality of G-Dragon’s music in particular, amping up the “a million things coming at you at once, can you possibly process this?” quality of his best songs. I have very little context for anything happening in this song or its astonishingly weird video, but the part of me that wants every song or piece of art to be a puzzle is hooked. Frankly, it is more fun to have no idea what’s really happening here.