Dynamite

BTS

’Cause I, I, I’m in the stars tonight

So watch me bring the fire and set the night alight

Shoes on, get up in the morn’

Cup of milk, let’s rock and roll

King Kong, kick the drum

Rolling on like a Rolling Stone

Sing song when I’m walking home

Jump up to the top, LeBron

Ding-dong, call me on my phone

Ice tea and a game of ping pong

This is getting heavy, can you hear the bass boom? I’m ready

Life is sweet as honey, yeah, this beat cha-ching like money, huh

Disco overload, I’m into that, I’m good to go

I’m diamond, you know I glow up

Hey, so let’s go

’Cause I, I, I’m in the stars tonight

So watch me bring the fire and set the night alight (Hey)

Shining through the city with a little funk and soul

So I’ma light it up like dynamite, woah-oh-oh

Bring a friend, join the crowd, whoever wanna come along

Word up, talk the talk, just move like we off the wall

Day or night, the sky’s alight, so we dance to the break of dawn (Hey)

Ladies and gentlemen, I got the medicine so you should keep ya eyes on the ball, huh

This is getting heavy, can you hear the bass boom? I’m ready (Woo-hoo)

Life is sweet as honey, yeah, this beat cha-ching like money, huh

Disco overload, I’m into that, I’m good to go

I’m diamond, you know I glow up

Let’s go

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’Cause I, I, I’m in the stars tonight

So watch me bring the fire and set the night alight

Shining through the city with a little funk and soul

So I’ma light it up like dynamite

Background

This is the first fully English song from the Korean boy band. This single is the same brand of cute, catchy, unassuming mass entertainment as Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk” or a singles from Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream.” It is an interesting crossover gesture from BTS because it correctly identifies breezy disco-pop as the path to a hit single in a year where Harry Styles’ “Watermelon Sugar” and Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande’s “Rain on Me” took the sound to the top of the Billboard Hot 100.