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K-Pop Dreaming - Bonus #2: The Making of Red Velvet's "Psycho"

California Love

LAist Studios

Music

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:16.1

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One of my favorite K-pop songs from recent years is a song called Psycho by Red Velvet.

0:52.3

Oh, yeah. Psycho by Red Velvet.

1:03.2

It's catchy, the hook is super memorable, and it's just one of those songs where once it gets in your head, it refuses to leave.

1:06.2

And the song was pretty much an instant hit when it first came out back in December of 2019.

1:16.6

It was released as a single and debuted at number one on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales Chart, and the music video has over 300 million views on YouTube.

1:21.6

And even though the song debuted at the end of the year, critics still called Psycho one of the best K-pop songs of 2019.

1:30.5

And it's consistently cited by critics and fans as one of Red Velvet's best songs.

1:39.8

From Elias Studios, this is K-pop Dreaming.

1:47.0

I'm Vivian Youn, and in this bonus episode, we are going to be looking at the making of the hit song Psycho by Red Velvet.

1:55.0

We're going to talk to two of the songs composers, a producer named Drewskiki, and a songwriter named EJ, to see how the song came together.

2:06.6

That's coming up after the break.

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