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TXT | Dear Sputnik Reaction & Lyrics

Original videos:

Official audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJT7WMSzVMA

Lyrics: https://beomiebear.wixsite.com/onedreamography/post/dear-sputnik

Comments

Very cool. Thank you.

K-pop Auntie

I live in Dayton. The museum Spuntnik is at is at the air force base it is a free museum that I have been going to since I was a kid. Wright Patt(the air force base) is the largest base not by square mile but by personal. Not really relevent to the reaction but I wanted to share. This is one of my favorite TXT songs, on the album of my favorite title track 0x1 Love Song. I did not know that the satellite the song was inspired by was less the ten minutes from me.

Lydia Updike

Oh wow. The crazy things that can be done on Garage Band, and with a phone to boot.

K-pop Auntie

Thank you! The meaning of sputnik in slavic languages is not common knowledge in the US at least. I can see both the proper name of Sputnik and the general noun sputnik both being used here in the meaning.

K-pop Auntie

There is a professional live recording of Dear Sputnik during their headlining performance at Lollapalooza! It’s the second song they performed for the set and the video has chapter time stamps! https://www.youtube.com/live/yoB2QNeTZs8?t=244&si=b5aowBKKhtphkD5h (The link should take you directly to when Dear Sputnik starts) Also, Dear Sputnik was the first song Kai produced! Fun story, he made it with garage band on the phone his younger sister bought him ☺️

Tema

I'm not sure if it's common knowledge but sputnik in Russian ( and other slavic languages) actually means fellow traveler/voyager, or more directly translated someone, with whom you travel together or walk on the same path (I'm not sure how to accurately express it in english). So at least in my opinion, in the song they are playing with both the methanors for the satellite, but also with the meaning of its name.

Nadya


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