Music Monday|Twice — Dance The Night Away

It’s Monday again, BAYOG Fam! Y’all know it’s time for another Music Monday post! We’re continuing the summer themed Music Monday posts~ I’m going to try to keep it as short as I can because your girl is still dead inside…lol Anyway, I figured we’d go for kind of a bright, cutesy, and happy vibe today. So we’re going with Twice’s “Dance The Night Away”!~ I’m sure Nick( @rokutsu ) would be thrilled cuz he’s a ONCE.

Anyway, let’s start off with some quick background info! Twice is a third-generation idol girl group under JYP Entertainment. Again, JYP Entertainment created and managed well known artists such as: [g.o.d], Rain, Wonder Girls, 2AM, 2PM, Miss A, Got7, Day6, Stray Kids, Itzy, and JYP himself. Twice was formed under a TV program called Sixteen in 2015. They debuted in October 2015. The line up consists of 9 members: Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Jihyo, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung, and Tzuyu. Momo, Sana, and Mina form the Japan Line (aka the members from Japan).. While Tzuyu is from Taiwan.

I’ll be honest, I don’t really follow Twice. Y’all know I didn’t kind of stopped paying attention around the beginning of the third generation idols. However, over the past 2-3 years, I found their songs through some random dance play vids. So I started getting interested in some of their songs. I don’t know much about them. I just know Momo is dating Super Junior’s Heechul, Jihyo is dating Kang Daniel, Tzuyu was hella popular and the “IT Girl”, and Nayeon has a psycho German sasaeng (stalker) “fan”. Other than that, I don’t really know much about them at all. I listen to some of their songs, and I think they got some bops. I also recognize that they’re currently one of the top girl groups right now. However, I’m not invested enough to consider myself a ONCE (Twice’s fandom). Nick is totally a ONCE though.

Anyway, today’s summer bop is “Dance The Night Away”. It was the lead single from their Summer Nights EP that was released in 2018. I just found out [Wheesung] wrote the lyrics. He’s an OG K-R&B artist that I really liked before when he was with M Boat/YG Entertainment years ago. He was also asked by Craig David to sing the Korean version of [Insomnia]. Wheesung is also known as [Ailee’s] [mentor]. It’s a summery bubblegum pop x EDM track. It’s got some groove and bounce to it with the bright horns, the bass, and blaring synths. The track also has fun and cute vibes to it. Overall, it definitely screams youthful and summer bop. There was also a Japanese version of the track too that was released in March 2019 on the #TWICE2 Japanese album. I’ll be honest, I didn’t really care for the track when it first dropped. However, it did end up growing on me. I don’t particularly love it, but I don’t hate it. I can still jam to it, and I recognize it as a fun and cute summer bop.

You can find “Dance The Night Away” and their Summer Nights EP on Spotify, here:

You can find the Japanese version of “Dance The Night Away” and their #TWICE2 Japanese album on Spotify, here:

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DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY

The MV is cute, colorful, and bright. It was filmed in Okinawa, Japan. In the MV they’re basically stranded on an island. They’re making the best of the situation, exploring everything, and just enjoying their selves as they sing and dance.

If you wanna have some fun
Don’t let go of this special happiness
That’s like the salty air
One two three, let’s go
Let’s go dance like flying to space
Hey! Let’s dance the night away

Let’s dance the night away
One two three, let’s go
Scream so loud they can hear you across the ocean
Let’s dance the night away
Dance the night away
Let’s dance the night away
Dance the night away
Let’s dance the night away

TWICE| DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY|Translations: [Genius]

The choreography isn’t like one of my top fav choreos. However, I do find it really cute and fun. It also definitely fits the song and the summery vibes. Like they even have a part that’s like when you’re swimming. What I like about the choreo is that it’s not an overly complicated or difficult. It’s not a strenuous choreo that will leave you exhausted either. It’s just a relatively simple and just fun choreo. It’s pretty easy enough for anyone to do, I think… At least compared to most other dances anyway.

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Hope you enjoy the track, y’all~ I know I posted alot of more tropical house and deep house summer tracks. So I figured I’d switch it up with a cutesy, bright, and happy track. While it’s not my favorite TWICE track, it is a fun summer song with a cute and fun choreography~ Are you a ONCE? What’s your favorite TWICE track? Stay safe, stay healthy, and take care guys!~

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