CL - PR round up (day 1?)

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K-Pop Star CL Takes It Higher With “Lifted”

It’s finally here!

K-pop star CL has unleashed the video for US debut single “Lifted,” from her English-language EP of the same title. The clip, directed by Dave Meyers, features a cameo by a super smiley Method Man, despite the fact that he doesn’t actually provide any vocals on the song.

As mentioned earlier this week, the Korean songbird has spent the last year and a half working on her upcoming American album, collaborating in the process with such dance and pop luminaries as Skrillex, Diplo and Florence and the Machine

Watch below as CL bops around the city with a brown-bagged 40 oz. and thick gold jewelry galore in her “Lifted” video. After all, this may just be her big breakout moment, stateside, and you wouldn’t want to miss that.


CL’s New “Lifted” Video Is a Master Class in the Head-Turning Hair Transformation

CL is a master of bold beauty statements—that signature heavy winged liner, the river of silver strands that whips around her as she moves. So today, when the Korean pop star released the video for “Lifted,” her first full English-language single, the onslaught of striking hair transformations came as no surprise, but rather, her latest master class in chameleonic style.

There was a row of gold pistol-shaped clips, pinned to the right side of her waist-grazing lengths, to give her windblown texture a clean, geometric line, as it glided through New York City. Seconds later, she appears in a full power ponytail that’s been slicked tight against the crown and wound with a plait—a wink, perhaps, at equally fearless icons like Madonna and Beyoncé but delivered with her own bad girl twist. Saving the most metamorphic moment for last, CL ended her freewheeling romp with a shaggy layered lob—a head-turning look that, quite literally, lifted her up to cloud nine.


CL’s English-Language Debut Lives Up to the Hype, Comes Approved by Method Man

Continuing the summer of K-pop megastars going solo, 2NE1's CL has finally dropped her English-language debut after more than a year of buzz. Not to be confused with her American introduction — which technically came with "Doctor Pepper" and "Hello Bitches" — "Lifted" has been billed as her big crossover song and the first single from her upcoming debut solo album. An eleventh-hour entry into Song of Summer contention, it's a reggae-indebted ode to sun-kissed debauchery that comes with a video in praise of summer in New York City. "Lifted" borrows from Wu-Tang's "Method Man," so, of course, he makes an appearance. How high in the clouds do two people have to be to look like they're having this much fun? All is revealed in the end.

CL releases first single 'Lifted' from debut English record

CL has been teasing her proper English-language debut for well over a year, and now the K-Pop star has officially dropped the lead single, “Lifted,” from her first stateside release.

Following the premiere of grimy rap track “Dr. Pepper,” released in collaboration with Diplo, Riff Raff, and OG Maco in 2015, “Lifted” serves as the initial cut from CL’s upcoming EP. According to her tweets, CL wrote the song with Teddy and Asher Roth (“I Love College”). Previously, the singer premiered electro-hop buzz single “Hello Bitches” in November, ahead of appearing as a featured artist on Psy’s “Daddy,” which marked CL’s first entry on the Billboard Hot 100.

The 25-year-old, who initially found success as part of the K-Pop supergroup 2NE1, first teased the release of “Lifted” on Instagram, posting a photo of the track’s cloud-themed cover art and confirming its Aug. 19 premiere date.

CL is currently working with American talent manager Scooter Braun on her U.S. debut. Braun has also managed the careers of artists like Justin Bieber, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Tori Kelly.

At least she has a good PR team

idolator, vogue, vulture, ew

Comments

[soyunatetera.livejournal.com]

TLDR except but Florence & the machine???? I'm interested

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

It was announced january of last year, not sure if it did/will really occur

[soyunatetera.livejournal.com]

Pppffff ok I thought they were saying they collaborated with CL in her album. My fault for not reading properly

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

Nah, you read properly
It was indeed said that Florence and the Machine "would" collab, but since the album is not out yet (this was 1 year 1/2 ago) and nothing else was said we don't know if it's still a thing. Maybe the collab is real, it's just that nobody knows

[belintuchiha.livejournal.com]

so much nonsense omg I can't deal.

[awsteven.livejournal.com]

omg i cannot fathom what a collab with cl and queen florence would be like lmao. so random

[ah0000.livejournal.com]

Calling her a "Korean songbird" doesn't sit well with me, it makes her sound ~exotic~ and dainty idk

Anyway I'm interested in what Florence adds to this lol

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

it sounds like something you'd call an acoustic guitar singer/songwriter, lol

[asteri5k.livejournal.com]

She appears in a full power ponytail that’s been slicked tight against the crown and wound with a plait—a wink, perhaps, at equally fearless icons like Madonna and Beyoncé but delivered with her own bad girl twist.

Lmao. Who writes likes this??

[belintuchiha.livejournal.com]

mte that was a pretty ridiculous line.

[scionofawhisper.livejournal.com]

tight deadline and drunk at 2 am? lmao, idk

[asteri5k.livejournal.com]

It reads like bad romance novel with like a girl and a horse on the cover.

[dickslikejesus.livejournal.com]

That is mindbogglingly dumb lmfaooooo holy crap

[amandaplan.livejournal.com]

someone with a word count to reach lmbo

[ironicmustache.livejournal.com]

okay i'm going to sound like an annoying stan, but i just went through the MV post (i'm super late so missed everything) and everyone is commenting about how shit the lyrics are, and i would just like the point out that LITERALLY the only lyrics not from the original song are the first verse:
Gettin' dumb on the drum like rum-pum-pum-pum
Better run, when I come, what a bomb bomb
Sippin' on coke and rum, gettin' so drunk
Everyone wonderin' where she come from?
Got gold on my necklace, gold on my wrists
Girls gettin' mad cause their boys want a kiss
Fast with the cash, I just throw it in the bag
Everything I wanna have (well I think you get the gist)

every other lyric in the entire song is taken directly from Method Man, which was released in 1993.
this isn't to say that makes it better or worse, just as a stan of both CL and 36 Chambers, i just wanted to give credit where it's due lmao

[angela-derp-otp.livejournal.com]

I knew the lyrics were really familiar lol

[ironicmustache.livejournal.com]

i'm surprised more people didn't recognize the lyrics (even if not knowing what song they're from, just that they've heard them before)!

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

I think your average Kpop fan is way too young and too unfamiliar with hiphop as a genre to know the references.

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it took three people to write that though?

[ironicmustache.livejournal.com]

hey i just wanted people to know that if they're going to come for her because of the shit lyrics, they can only do it for the first verse haha. idk really know much about her song, i'm guessing the other two may have helped with the lyrics, but were heavily involved in the production/arrangement??

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Her teaser said it was only produced by teddy tho idk
but i mean hey, if it took three men to write "My Humps" I shouldn't be surprised it took three people for that verse too lol

[la-geni.livejournal.com]

I would have kept it to myself because this just gives more ammo against CL. It confirms it's about drugs and that she doesn't write her own verses.

[ironicmustache.livejournal.com]

yeah ngl i was kinda disappointed because i wanted more original content.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_clochette_/]

thank you

as a method man stan this whole thing hurts me on a personal level and tumblr is already driving me insane quoting it

[ironicmustache.livejournal.com]

i was shocked that nobody had pointed it out in that post!!! i guess there's not much fan crossover? thankfully over on asianjunkie there were a few people who realized it.

if your a method man stan you'll appreciate this: one time i went to his show and he did a stage dive and landed like on my head and my neck hurt for about 2 weeks. i felt #blessed lmao

[http://users.livejournal.com/_clochette_/]

lmao I'm seeing him live in like two weeks and that is literally what I am praying happens

it sucks to see people saying the lyrics are shit but I think people don't understand how much rap has evolved since 93. 36 chambers was an important album for a lot of reasons but the free-associative rapping (like not telling stories or whatever) was super new. also they were kids. meth was like 20 when he recorded method man. it's not like the pinnacle of sophisticated lyricism but like... respect the classics man. meth was always more about style and flow than lyricism anyway

I'm disappointed she left out my favourite part (not an average joe with an average flow doing average things with average hoes...)

[ironicmustache.livejournal.com]

ahh! that's the part i've been looping in my head all night after listening to lifted! haha

my fav lines are the "chim chiminey chim chim chereie / freak a flowing flow fancy free" and "fading motherfuckers like bleach". sakdkld that song is so fun.

[phychugirl.livejournal.com]

Seriously, thank you. I've been screaming internally every time someone complains about the lyrics. People did the same thing with "not bad meaning bad."

[angela-derp-otp.livejournal.com]

This PR is too shameless tbh I am surprised her team approved this lol

[adlyeith.livejournal.com]

This reads like a bad fanfic, and all the hair descriptions make me think of those author self insertion ones lol.