A growing anticipation was building over the weekend as G-Dragon and CL released preview images from the “Dirty Vibe” music video. Skrillex and Diplo have been teaming up lately under their alias, Jack Ãœ and more recently, they have been working in tandem with another powerhouse duo–G-Dragon and CL–to produce the song “Dirty Vibe.”
This isn’t G-Dragon’s first time collaborating with American artists. His latest solo album Coup D’etat featured Missy Elliott, Sky Ferreira and Lydia Paek. For CL, this is the first of many collaborations set for her US debut as a solo artist under SB Projects management.
Initially when the song was released on March 17, 2014 on Scrillex’s Soundcloud page, the song was widely received by its listeners (as seen in the comments).
However, when Red Bull premiered the music video on December 12, 2014, the reactions ranged from utter disappointment to complete love for it.
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Neither Skrillex nor Diplo appear in the video and the focus is mainly on G-Dragon and CL. According to an interview he did with Redbull, Skrillex met with CL and G-Dragon in Korea and asked them to collaborate on a track that he and Diplo had been working on. Skrillex also claimed to have put significant input on the video’s artistic direction, though Redbull was the main producer of the video itself.
Despite many, many negative reactions, there were also a handful of fans defending the video:
According to SeoulBeats, “A common theme among the initial reactions to the song is that it does not showcase CL and G-Dragon’s respective skills, but it can also be argued that this is understandable because the song is essentially Skrillex’s, with the other artists simply featuring on the track.” What’s for certain is that the “Dirty Vibe” track strays away from the iconic YG sound that fans have been accustomed to, and we can only predict that there will be more experimenting from GD and CL.
So what do you think of the song and video? What do you make of G-Dragon mostly rapping in Korean and CL mostly rapping in English? Watch the video here and make sure to comment below.
–STORY BY ARIANNA CARAMAT AND AMANDA WALUJONO
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