Performance videos don’t always warrant a full review on this site, especially when they’re supporting follow-up tracks rather than fully-promoted titles. However, I know how popular BABYMONSTER’s music has become and assume fans may want a space to discuss the merits of Billionaire. This song follows five (!) other promoted tracks on the album — a visual approach YG Entertainment has been employing since the days of 2NE1. We still haven’t reached the album’s nadir (Woke Up In Tokyo) and I wonder if the agency will be brave enough to give that lowlight any sort of visual representation.
Among the tracks promoted so far, Billionaire sits comfortably in the middle. Like title track Drip, it’s got a nice groove but doesn’t really go beyond that. The strummed rhythm guitar strongly recalls the early-2000’s while the confident chorus echoes K-pop favorite “aren’t you jealous of how great I am?” subject matter. A fun dance break injects extra funk and tight harmonies that should have been sprinkled more judiciously throughout the track. Overall, the song feels as if it could have been recorded by anyone. It’s stylish and sleek but ultimately too empty to inspire much excitement.
| Hooks | 7 |
| Production | 8 |
| Longevity | 8 |
| Bias | 7 |
| RATING | 7.5 |
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Given they said that only Forever, Drip, Clik Clak, Love In My Heart and Really Like You would get MVs, a PV of Billionaire was unexpected. So, with these monthly releases, if my intuition is correct, we’ll probs see a Woke Up In Tokyo video in March or April (depends if they release a Love Maybe MV too)
Anyways, for this song, it’s cute, I like the rhythm guitar, quite reminiscent of the 00s era as you pointed out. Though not something I’d play much often.
7.75 (8, 8, 8, 7) for me.
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Love maybe has an mv
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genuinely so sick of the ‘wow im so rich’ lyrics in kpop…..
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It’s the majority of gg songs at the moment, unfortunately…
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I’m sick of those songs too but you gotta at least read the lyrics if you’re gonna criticize them… because the song is stated no less than 3 times to not be about money but instead about confidence using money as a metaphor.
Something click, it’s a state of mind
Type of rich, can’t be quantified
Baby, I don’t mean to brag
You know I’m not talking cash
Got a thing that’s only mine
World is mine, yeah, life is so unfair
Money don’t compare
I got something rare
Feeling like a billionaire
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thank you i am aware of what metaphors are lmao. i can still criticise the lyrics though because them saying “we’re rich, not just MATERIALLY, but in spirit too…. yes, we are SPIRITUALLY and MATERIALLY rich” still falls under that insufferable category of braggadocious kpop songs. Ultimately, they’re still singing about wealth.
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I mean, sure, but the song states multiple times that it’s not about material wealth.
Singing about being spiritually rich or whatnot is not comparable to actual material wealth; in fact it’s a contrast usually used to indicate the opposite (critical of material wealth). Now I def wouldn’t say the song actually is critical of material wealth, just that there’s really not a basis in the song or in context to equate singing about a more abstract metaphor of wealth to bragging about material wealth. You can dislike the metaphor, but there are other critiques I have of the song (namely, that I find it musically not very interesting) that apply better than rather than a trendy (and unfortunately often moralized) critique that just doesn’t apply despite the title baiting it.
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There are a zillion songs that have the same theming “I am poor but I am rich” or “I am rich but I am poor” going back to the dawn of the pop song. Howabout, say, Elvis “Poor Boy”. Blues songs, if they ain’t singing about how their man or woman has left them, they are singing about money or the lack thereof.
Here’s a classic.
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Off topic but on Twitter you said there are no 9+ rated k-pop songs of 2025 yet, but you gave THUNDER by CIX a 9. Does it have to be above a 9 to be 9+?
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Unfortunately that one will be in my next “risers and fallers” post because it’s fallen a bit for me. I still like it, but not quite enough to give it a “9”.
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Ahh ok understood, thanks for the response
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“It’s stylish and sleek but ultimately too empty to inspire much excitement.”
Said I felt about the song better than I ever could. I’m also broke, so I never wake up feel like a billionaire
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i decided to give “woke up in Tokyo” a listen…. Just wow
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Hey Nick, off topic but wondering what you think of the new LISA song? BORN AGAIN (feat Doja Cat & RAYE)
It’s a 9.5/10 for me and I’m thinking you’ll like it as well
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The review is up now 🙂
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Didn’t they debut like last year, how are they already singing about being billionaires? 🤷♀️
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The song fits BM very well. It lacks of more imo but this is way better than recent higher rates on this blog.
The track definitely reminds me some 2000s rnb feel (typically BoA’s My Name)
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That chorus is damn good! What a beat & flow!
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