G-Dragon talks about the reference behind the “25 year old girl” lyrics for “Bae Bae” after it was speculated to be linked to his girlfriend, Kiko Mizuhara.
On May 4th, BIGBANG held a press conference at the Conrad Hotel in Seoul, South Korea as they promote their latest releases, “Loser” and “Bae Bae.”
In an interview with Star News, a reporter asked the group about a specific part of their lyrics “You’re forever 25 to me never changing Babe 5×5 Babe,” and asked “In ‘Bae Bae,’ a ’25 year old woman’ appears, did you guys have a specific person in mind?”
T.O.P took the question and explained, “Not really. We talked amongst each other about lyrics and wanted the lyrics to carry the selfish desire of a man for his lover not to age. We tried to come up with a fun way to elaborate this and decided that people generally think of 25 as the most beautiful age for women so went with 25.”
However, the reporter further expanded the question and linked it to the speculation that the group was referring to Kiko Mizuhara, model and alleged girlfriend of member G-Dragon. The question “Kiko Mizuhara is born in 1990 and 25. Does that have anything to do with it?” was asked.
Challenging the question, G-Dragon answered it with a reply saying, “Is Kiko 25? ‘Bae Bae’ was centered around the age 25 since we started working on it. It might come a bit offensive but we decided that 25 is the prettiest age. It doesn’t necessarily mean specifically the age 25 though. The theme is about love the lyrics may literally say 25 but it’s just a fun way to elaborate the idea of love.”
Since being spotted on a public date in Itaewon, South Korea last year, G-Dragon and Kiko Mizuhara have remained silent and private about their relationship. Just recently, the two were spotted attending the same launch party as the model was further seen heading home in G-Dragon’s car.
Full text translated by @big_seunghyun:
“You will always be 25 to me. It will never change, BAE BAE. 5 x 5 Bae Bae…”
Q. In the lyrics for “Bae Bae”, there is a line that talks about a 25 year old woman. Was there are specific person you guys were talking about in the song?
T.O.P: No, not really. All of us talked about the song and we all wanted the song’s theme to be about the selfish guy who doesn’t want a young woman to ever age. We all then came up with an idea to make this theme a little more fun. A majority of people all claim that a woman reaches the peak of her beauty at 25? 26? We tried to decide on an age for the longest time, but ended up going with 25. There’s no special meaning behind it though.
Q. Kiko was born in 1990 and is 25 years old. Does the age have a relevance to her?
G-Dragon: Is Kiko 25? (laughs) The theme of “Bae Bae” was about a 25 year old. When we started working on the song, that was the theme that popped up instantly. The five of us sat in the recording studio and talked about many things and that’s what we came up with. Many 25 year old women might be offended or upset about this, but we just thought that that’s the age when women are most beautiful. As public figures and artists, we thought that we could somehow incorporate that age with a love theme. We might be saying the age 25 and people can see it as just an age, but for us, the age 25 was something we could interpret and incorporate into the song to make this “love theme” more relatable and plausible. In the lyrics, we put the number 25 as an age, but to us, it was just a fun requisite.
T.O.P: Rappers really enjoy putting fresh, unused lyrics into their songs because it makes the lyrics so much more fun. rather than writing about something with philosophical meanings behind it, we put in a lot of lyrics that are just fun to hear.
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