Beautiful Hangover Explained

Beautiful Hangover
Cover:Beautiful Hangover cover.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Big Bang
Album:Big Bang 2
B-Side:Somebody to Luv
Released:August 25, 2010
Recorded:2010
Length:3:46
Producer:
  • Nadir Benkahla
  • Saeed Molavi
  • Perry
Prev Title:Tell Me Goodbye
Prev Year:2010
Next Title:Tonight
Next Year:2011

"Beautiful Hangover" is a single by the South Korean hip-hop group Big Bang. "Beautiful Hangover" is sung in Japanese and English. It was released on August 25, 2010. The music video has two versions: an advised and revised. This song (and the b-side) was then added to BigBang's second Japanese album, Big Bang 2 (2011).

Music video

The video was filmed in July 2010. The advised version premiered on August 10, 2010, and was played on night-time television only, but was played on headliner. The revised (re-edited) version premiered on August 24, 2010.

The video is dark and muted; the neutral colors and many visible cameras give it a smokey look. The story shows Taeyang, hurt by a relationship with a beautiful but careless girl, being tempted to take drugs from Daesung's character. G-Dragon appears to have already been broken by this same mysterious girl, and is already addicted to the drugs.

During his verse, Seungri is shown seeming to control and observe Daesung and Taeyang from a white room full of computer screens. The screens also show T.O.P sitting in a dark office. Taeyang also dances in a great white room with pulsing grey dots in the air, and another room full of hanging cameras. The "drugs" that Daesung tries to convince Taeyang to take are frequently seen, also with Seungri. Taeyang is seen finally succumbing to Daesung.

A revised version was made, but it did not show clips of Taeyang dancing with the grey dots, but new scenes of him dancing with the cameras was shown instead. It was heavily edited, along with a scene of a hand holding alcohol.

Charts

Oricon Albums ChartPeak
position
Debut salesSales total
Daily Singles Chart525,46136,600+ <--36,616-->
Weekly Singles Chart7

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabel
JapanAugust 25, 2010CD single[1]
TaiwanSeptember 3, 2010Universal Music Taiwan[2]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Big Bang - Beautiful Hangover. Universal Music Japan. August 1, 2017. Japanese.
  2. Web site: Big Bang Beautiful Hangover. Chinese. October 11, 2019. Universal Music Taiwan. https://web.archive.org/web/20191011002652/http://www.umusic.com.tw/album.php?id=3780. October 11, 2019. dead.