Cheer Up (song)

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"Cheer Up" is a song recorded by South Korean girl group Twice, the lead single of their second extended play (EP) Page Two. It was released on April 25, 2016 by JYP Entertainment and distributed by KT Music. It is written and composed by Sam Lewis and Black Eyed Pilseung respectively.

The song is the best-performing single of 2016, as it charted number one on Gaon Digital Chart. It also won several awards including Song of the Year in two major music awards shows, Melon Music Awards and Mnet Asian Music Awards.

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Composition

"Cheer Up" has lyrics written by Sam Lewis and music by Black Eyed Pilseung, the same team who wrote Twice's hit single "Like Ooh-Ahh" from their debut EP. It is a dance-pop song that incorporates multiple genres, including hip hop, tropical house, and drum and bass; this blend was described as "color pop". Lyrically, the song emotes tease and frustration about a love interest.

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Music video

The music video for "Cheer Up" was directed by video production team Naive (Kim Young-jo and Yoo Seung-woo). It went viral on YouTube soon after it was uploaded on April 25, 2016 gaining 400,000 views in only thirty minutes. It reached one million views in less than a day, and surpassed seven million views on April 27.

In the music video, the members portray characters from famous films. Mina is Itsuki Fujii from Love Letter, Sana is Sailor Moon, Nayeon is Sidney Prescott from the Scream film series, Tzuyu is Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) from Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Jeongyeon is Faye Wong in Chungking Express. Momo is an action heroine reminiscent of the Tomb Raider and Resident Evil film series, Jihyo is a cheerleader from Bring It On, Chaeyoung is a cowgirl (reminiscent of different Western films, especially A Fistful of Dollars), and Dahyun is the gisaeng Hwang Jini (from the biopic Hwang Jin Yi). In the group dance scenes, the members are cheerleaders at a pep rally in a soccer stadium and a basketball stadium and in another dance scene, they are in front of a house, decorated as if hosting a party, wearing casual clothing.

A special music video, titled "Twice Avengers", was released on May 27 to commemorate the original music video reaching 35 million views on YouTube. In the special video, the members dance in their film character costumes on a set made to look like a planet in outer space.

On November 17, the video surpassed 100 million views. It then surpassed 200 million views on August 9, 2017, making Twice the first K-pop girl group with two music videos to reach this milestone.

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Reception

Billboard and Dazed included "Cheer Up" in their best K-pop songs of 2016 lists, with the later writing that "if the dead had risen in 2016, they'd probably be required to bust out the 'Cheer Up' dance" while the previous called the chorus "criminally catchy" and stated that, with this single, Twice "solidify themselves as a leader in the girl-group game."

The song's "shy shy shy" line became a viral meme and was imitated by many celebrities.

"Cheer Up" is commercially successful as it topped Gaon's Digital Chart with accumulative digital sales of 1,839,566 in 2016. It is also the most streamed song of that year with 111,556,482 streaming count. It entered Billboard charts' World Digital Songs at number 3.

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Japanese version

On February 24, 2017, Twice officially announced that their debut in Japan was set for June 28. They released a compilation album titled #Twice which consists of ten songs including both Korean and Japanese-language versions of "Cheer Up". The Japanese lyrics were written by Yu Shimoji.

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Charts

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Accolades

Music program awards

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References

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