Bestie (song)
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| EP by Jay Park | ||||
| Released | April 27, 2011 June 13, 2012 (Japan) |
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| Recorded | 2010-2011 | |||
| Genre | R&B, hip hop, dance-pop, pop | |||
| Length | 27:19 | |||
| Language | Korean, English | |||
| Label | SidusHQ, Yedang Company, Universal J | |||
| Producer | Jung Hoon Tak (also exec.), Choi Jang Hyuk (also exec.), Seth Friedman (also exec.), Jay Park (also exec.), Cha Cha Malone, Dok2, The Quiett, Eroc | |||
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Take a Deeper Look is the first mini album (second extended play overall) by Korean-American singer, Jay Park. The album was released in digital and physical format by April 27, 2011.
The song "Bestie" was released on October 4, 2010, in advance of the album's release. It was inspired by three members of a 6-year clique entitled "WhatsApp jam". It was first released as a digital single on October 4, 2010 worldwide on Bandcamp, then on iTunes on October 11, 2010 in English, and finally on various Korean digital music sites as "베스티" on October 26, 2010 as a digital single album. The single released in South Korea included the Korean version of "Bestie", a Korean remix version, and the b-side song "스피치리스" ("Speechless") by Park and AOM crew mate, Cha Cha Malone. Park first performed the "Bestie" on August 7, 2010, at the Summer Week & T Beach Festival at Naksan beach, nearly two months before being official released. Park also performed the English version of "Bestie" at ISA 2010 in Los Angeles.
In 2010, Malone gave Park another song, "Abandoned", and said he made it just for him. He also gave him the title of the song as a 4-syllable melody : "A-ban-don-ed". Park thought it would be great to add a choreography for the song, and asked Andrew Baterina, from MTV ABDC's season 2 runner-up SoReal Cru, to create a choreography for the song. The choreography took 4 months to be completed, being revised several times. Park started writing the lyrics in English first, but never finished, rewriting the song in Korean instead.
"Abandoned" had to be recorded twice, unlike the other tracks of the album recorded at once. Park recorded it again, because he decided to change the melody of the song at the middle. The song was mixed by American audio engineer and record producer Tony Maserati. Lyrically, "Abandoned" is written about a man being abandoned and hurt by a loved woman, expressing the sorrow and felt over a lost love.
In March 2011, Park sang a short snippet of "Abandoned" on the KBS show Guerrilla Date, his first appearance on a public broadcast in over one and a half years.
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