After the outstanding success of his solo debut song "Seven", taking advantage of this heat, Jungkook continued to release his second digital single titled "3D" (feat. Jack Harlow). Right from its release, the song attracted fans' attention because of Jungkook's pop star style in it.
Although very popular, the song also caused some mixed reactions, especially related to Jack Harlow's lyrics. While some people find Jack Harlow's lyrics very fiery, many people think that it deals with sensitive issues and is quite scary.
Below are netizens' different reactions to the lyrics Jack Harlow used in 3D. Of course, because everyone's understanding is different and there are many ways to view the song, all opinions are worth pondering:
On September 29, Jungkook released his next solo single - 3D in collaboration with αмєяι¢αn rapper Jack Harlow, marking the musical comeback of the youngest member BTS after only 2 months since the release of Seven. Belonging to the Pop R&B genre, completely different from Seven, 3D possesses a cheerful, witty melody, through a 3-dimensional perspective of space, expressing feelings to the loved one, to always be together with each other as "we".
The song quickly received a lot of support from the au∂ιєnce when it was #1 on iTunes in more than 100 countries in less than 24 hours since its release. Despite receiving much support from fans around the world, recently a topic suddenly emerged among fans, related to Jack Harlow's lyrics in this song.
ARMY surprisingly pointed out that if you pay close attention to Jack Harlow's verse, you can see that it has some strange and ¢яєєρу implications. Specifically, there is a paragraph related to Jungkook: "I’m on my Jung Kook, take a chick off one look. And when they get took, they don’t ever get untook (What?). When I seen that body, you would think it was a ďệäď body. The way I told my boys, “Come look”. I used to take girls up to Stony Brook. And steal they hearts like some crook, true story. Now when I hold somebody’s hand, it’s a new story"
However, this is the least sensitive line of all his lyrics in the song. Fans also pointed out the most egregious part when he sang about "the number of women he has" because "one girl is too boring." His lyrics include: "I had one girl (One girl), too boring. Two girls (Two girls), that was cool for me. Three girls, d̾a̾m̾n ̾, dude’s horny. Four girls, okay, now you whorin’. (Hey, hey, hey) Hey, I’m loose. I done put these shrooms to good use. I done put my city on my back. And the world know my name, I’m the truth"
This has made people feel like it's a psychological perversion because even if he doesn't consider women to be p̾r̾o̾s̾t̾i̾t̾u̾t̾e ̾s, there are many women (there's even a long line behind him in the MV). ) still makes many female listeners feel offended. Yet, the line that caused the most controversy was when he sang, “All my ABGs get cute for me.”
Some listeners were confused about the meaning of “ABG.” So they looked it up and Google defined it as “Arterial Blood Gas,” so they got even more confused about it. However, Asian listeners are well aware of its true meaning in the context of the song. It is an acronym for “Asian Baby Girl”.
Many people found Jack Harlow's use of “ABG” problematic and even offensive to Asian fans. They pointed out its historical origins and how it should not be used lightly, especially when a white person sings it. Additionally, no real “Asian Baby Girls” appear in the music video. So it was strange to include a lyric like that.
A lot of people are offended by both the lines “ABG” and “corpse,” so much so that they don't like Harlow's verses at all. So there are ARMYs who are choosing to listen to the Alternate version of “3D”:
- "I'm on my jungkook" what does that mean jack
- I loved this line I immediately knew what he meant and yet I can’t explain it
- THIS PART TOOK ME OUT
- I do not want to be mean, but jack part overall make me feel like Angel pt2, was so unnecessary. I need a version only with JK
- The self awareness had me wheezing
- Help? I like the song, but the other guy lines? A big no no for me. Just saying
- Just found out ABG is not arterial вlσσd gas and felt disgusting for what a whíte man sang
- I WAS SO CONFUSED! LIKE ...WHAT'S THAT ABOUT???
- Jack using the derogatory term “ABG” in the main version is VERY problematic…
- Riiight…. Jack is being offensive snd mis0gynistic and is NOT immediately being called out for that… So, I’m not seeing what that has to do w/the fact that the song just literally includes offensive and derogatory terms. The majority of JK’s fans are female. How is this okay?
- that abg line kinda irked me…like u a whíte man saying that on an asian man’s song that’s not…
- tbh I don’t really like Jack’s part. 1 girl is boring & he insinuates he uses wh0res sounded like your stereotypical western male celeb. not for mee, sorry. I really love Jungkook’s parts though. I prefer this alternate version
- are we hyping up a whíte man rapping about abg’s and ďệäď bo∂ιєs and body counts??? really??
On the contrary, some people believe that others should have a more open view of song as an art. They claim that the term “ABG” has now been reclaimed and many people even feel proud to identify with it themselves. So they don't feel offended by it:
- do i need to give my two cents on abg too like its an aesthetic that a lot of southeast asian girls (like me) have reclaimed as a way of going against the stereotypical "submissive and obe∂ιєnt" expectations society always has towards asian girls like it did originate from the asian g@ngs in chinatown in the 90s but in modern times its really a term that is used in rebellion to go against the "model minority" and disgusting stereotypes yall place on asians (esp viet girls ME) to be a certain way, like asian bad∂ιєs will dye their hair and get tattoos and piercings as a sort of rebellion against what is expected of them and now instead of using that term as leverage against women we use it as leverage against societal standards of asian females. ive literally called myself an abg multiple times every time ive gotten a new helix piercing or i go to a rave or do soṃệẗḧing NOT expected of asians so before u speak on the term as a non-asian maybe do ur research first
- If Jungkook doesn't have a problem with it why do you? Cause if he had a problem with it he's a big enough artist with enough influence to have it changed.
Moreover, ARMYs had nothing but praise for Jungkook. While they felt Jack Harlow’s lines were objectifying toward women, they appreciated that Jungkook’s lyrics emphasized the importance of consent:
- the ṩệẍiest line in this song is actually jungkook’s “so if you’re ready and if you’ll let me” CUZ CONSENT!!! IS!!! S3XY!!!!
- “so if you’re ready (and if you’ll let me)” jungkook knows consent is S3XY
- like jungkooks part was NOT objectifying, none of what he said was objectifying, BUT JACKS VERSE talking abt having multiple women like theyre f̾u̾c̾k ̾ing collectibles and using terms like ABG and telling the boys to "come look" like are yall f̾u̾c̾k ̾ing dense or what?