Sour Candy trivia| 33 facts about the new Lady Gaga and Blackpink song
Lady Gaga and Blackpink, finally, unvieled their new song “Sour Candy”. The highly anticipated collaboration comes on the heels of the new Lady Gaga album.
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the new song.
“Sour Candy” is a song by American singer Lady Gaga and South Korean girl group Blackpink
It was released for digital download and streaming on May 28, 2020
It is the first promotional single off of Gaga’s sixth studio album, Chromatica
It is a dance-pop, electropop and deep house song with a house and dance beat
The lyrics compare a relationship to the titular sour candy
In an interview for Japanese entertainment site TV Groove, Gaga talked about the genesis of the song
In the same interview Gaga said she called Blackpink and asked if they wanted to write a song together
Gaga added: “I wanted to celebrate them because they love powerful women like us, and they also wanted to celebrate me, and we had a great time together with this song. I was excited to hear them interpret the song in Korean, and told them that the part was so creative and fun. I was impressed when I heard their singing voice”
The members of Blackpink later talked about how the song came about: “We listened to each other’s music and became fans of each other, so we naturally carried out this project”
“Sour Candy” was officially announced on April 22, 2020
It was then that Gaga posted the tracklist of her Chromatica album
The release of the song was announced by Gaga via her social media platforms a day before the release of Chromatica
The song was released without any prior announcement after an internet leak spawned on Twitter the night before
“Sour Candy” is dance-pop, electropop and deep house song which features a “bouncy” house and dance beat
Its lyrics show Gaga and Blackpink trading off flirty lines in English and Korean
The post-chorus features Gaga performing a speak-rap
While the K-pop group’s verses include tight, almost mechanical melodies
Joey Nolfi from Entertainment Weekly called the song an “epic collaboration” with “a mouthwatering serve of mammoth dance beats”
Michael Roffman from Consequence of Sound said that “‘Sour Candy’ is another banger from the Oscar winner, proving Chromatica will bring the party to our pandemic”
Claire Shaffer from Rolling Stone found it “a sugar-sweet club track for all our at-home parties”
Zoe Haylock from New York magazine opined that “when the lyrics can basically all be Instagram captions, you know it’s a good pop song!”
Jem Asward from Variety found it “a sparkling combination of the two artists’ styles”
The audio for the song on YouTube has over 4million views after only five hours of release
It has garnered over 1.3 million likes on YouTube
It is #1 on the Itunes Charts of 38 countries
The title of the song is trending #1 on Twitter worldwide
There is a fan theory that a music video for the song will be released on June 2nd
The theory started when Lady Gaga posted a photo on Instagram of a weather forecast and numbers on the weather forecast post were the track lengths of the tracks on the ‘Chromatica’ album
Jisoo posted an Instagram story wearing a shirt with the word “Tuesday” on it
“Sour Candy” is the second collaboration with a foreign act for Blackpink after their collaboration with Dua Lipa on the song “Kiss and Make Up”
The song is the tenth song on the “Chromatica” album
Also, on the album Lady Gaga has a collaboration with Ariana Grande on the single “Rain On Me” and Elton John
