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Hwaa
"Hwaa" (Korean: 화(火花); lit. "Anger (Spark)"; stylized in all caps) is a song recorded by South Korean girl group (G)I-dle, released on January 11, 2021, by Cube Entertainment and Republic Records as the lead single of the group's fourth extended play, I Burn. The song is written by member Soyeon and co-produced by Pop Time. The inspiration for the song came to Soyeon when member Shuhua once said 'winter girl' in a conversation. She took the idea and created the concept of a woman trapped in winter. Musically, it is a moombahton, dark pop, dream pop and synth-pop track with oriental instrumentations, and contains double entendres about fire and flowers. The song was the last single released by (G)I-dle as a sextet, before Soojin's departure from the group in August 2021.
Commercially, "Hwaa" became (G)I-dle's first top-five hit on the Gaon Digital Chart—peaking at number four—and became their first chart-topper on the component Download Chart. It additionally peaked at number five on K-pop Hot 100, number six on World Digital Songs and number 173 on Global Excl. U.S. chart. An English and Chinese version of the song was released as a digital single two weeks later on January 27, 2021. A remix version of the song by Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike was released on February 5.
"Hwaa" refers to a flower, and represents spring and love. It uses two different Chinese characters with one meaning 'fire' (火) and the other 'flower' (花). Both characters are pronounced the same way in Korean as /hwa/ without tonal differences (since modern Korean is a non-tonal language), but are read in Mandarin as /huǒ/ and /huā/, respectively. The extra letter 'a' in the title is for added stylistic purposes. Soyeon said: "The reason I chose to put those two hwa's together is because the song features a narrator who is in winter but will burn the cold away and bloom like a flower and bring spring to them." Firework in Korean is 'fire flower', and Soyeon adds: "I hope the album will be a success that bursts like the blaze of a firework."
In an interview with Marie Claire Korea for the January edition, Soyeon hinted that the song, "[is] suitable for winter, but it won’t be just cold. It's going to be cold but somehow hot? Like the feeling of being covered in a thick blanket in a room with the boiler on, but because the windows are opened, only your face feels cold." "Hwaa" is (G)I-dle's second breakup song that gives off the chilly and bitterly cold winter vibe from a break-up.
"The three symbols present in I Burn, 'Winter' represents the frozen cold emotions following a breakup, and 'Fire' represents the desire to melt those feelings. The 'Flower' represents the cold but beautiful love that follows a breakup.” [...] It started with the image of a woman trapped in winter. "I wanted to include 'Winter', 'Fire' and 'Flower' in the word 'Hwaa' [to] contain the meaning of overcoming the wounds of separation and in full bloom."
— (G)I-dle on "Hwaa"'s concept, Korea Economic Daily
"Rather than conveying a certain concept, we put more thought into how to best convey the emotions. Although we are a multinational group, we wanted to convey emotions, since feelings about breakups are universal. I hope that these emotions feel like a novel." In response, Minnie confessed she had a hard time to understand how to express the word 'Hann' [(Alone in winter)] in Thai, but after talking with the members, she was able to understand the feelings of love and separation. "I tried hard to express my feelings for parting because (all countries) are similar." The choreography features sword dance moves, choreographed by Hyunzzinii and Performance Director Kim Sehwan. In SBS Originals Hanbam, Minnie revealed that "Hwaa" is a song which Soyeon produced after they appear on Mnet's survival show Queendom and "Lion", and before "Dumdi Dumdi". The group waited and aimed to release "Hwaa" that suits the cold weather.
"Welcoming spring by lighting a fire in a frozen heart like winter. I thought a lot to tell the story a break-up. The feeling of 'Hann' [(Alone in winter)] would have left regrets. I thought about whether there was regret [or it] might be a cold feeling like winter, so I thought it would be nice to burn that feeling."
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Hwaa
"Hwaa" (Korean: 화(火花); lit. "Anger (Spark)"; stylized in all caps) is a song recorded by South Korean girl group (G)I-dle, released on January 11, 2021, by Cube Entertainment and Republic Records as the lead single of the group's fourth extended play, I Burn. The song is written by member Soyeon and co-produced by Pop Time. The inspiration for the song came to Soyeon when member Shuhua once said 'winter girl' in a conversation. She took the idea and created the concept of a woman trapped in winter. Musically, it is a moombahton, dark pop, dream pop and synth-pop track with oriental instrumentations, and contains double entendres about fire and flowers. The song was the last single released by (G)I-dle as a sextet, before Soojin's departure from the group in August 2021.
Commercially, "Hwaa" became (G)I-dle's first top-five hit on the Gaon Digital Chart—peaking at number four—and became their first chart-topper on the component Download Chart. It additionally peaked at number five on K-pop Hot 100, number six on World Digital Songs and number 173 on Global Excl. U.S. chart. An English and Chinese version of the song was released as a digital single two weeks later on January 27, 2021. A remix version of the song by Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike was released on February 5.
"Hwaa" refers to a flower, and represents spring and love. It uses two different Chinese characters with one meaning 'fire' (火) and the other 'flower' (花). Both characters are pronounced the same way in Korean as /hwa/ without tonal differences (since modern Korean is a non-tonal language), but are read in Mandarin as /huǒ/ and /huā/, respectively. The extra letter 'a' in the title is for added stylistic purposes. Soyeon said: "The reason I chose to put those two hwa's together is because the song features a narrator who is in winter but will burn the cold away and bloom like a flower and bring spring to them." Firework in Korean is 'fire flower', and Soyeon adds: "I hope the album will be a success that bursts like the blaze of a firework."
In an interview with Marie Claire Korea for the January edition, Soyeon hinted that the song, "[is] suitable for winter, but it won’t be just cold. It's going to be cold but somehow hot? Like the feeling of being covered in a thick blanket in a room with the boiler on, but because the windows are opened, only your face feels cold." "Hwaa" is (G)I-dle's second breakup song that gives off the chilly and bitterly cold winter vibe from a break-up.
"The three symbols present in I Burn, 'Winter' represents the frozen cold emotions following a breakup, and 'Fire' represents the desire to melt those feelings. The 'Flower' represents the cold but beautiful love that follows a breakup.” [...] It started with the image of a woman trapped in winter. "I wanted to include 'Winter', 'Fire' and 'Flower' in the word 'Hwaa' [to] contain the meaning of overcoming the wounds of separation and in full bloom."
— (G)I-dle on "Hwaa"'s concept, Korea Economic Daily
"Rather than conveying a certain concept, we put more thought into how to best convey the emotions. Although we are a multinational group, we wanted to convey emotions, since feelings about breakups are universal. I hope that these emotions feel like a novel." In response, Minnie confessed she had a hard time to understand how to express the word 'Hann' [(Alone in winter)] in Thai, but after talking with the members, she was able to understand the feelings of love and separation. "I tried hard to express my feelings for parting because (all countries) are similar." The choreography features sword dance moves, choreographed by Hyunzzinii and Performance Director Kim Sehwan. In SBS Originals Hanbam, Minnie revealed that "Hwaa" is a song which Soyeon produced after they appear on Mnet's survival show Queendom and "Lion", and before "Dumdi Dumdi". The group waited and aimed to release "Hwaa" that suits the cold weather.
"Welcoming spring by lighting a fire in a frozen heart like winter. I thought a lot to tell the story a break-up. The feeling of 'Hann' [(Alone in winter)] would have left regrets. I thought about whether there was regret [or it] might be a cold feeling like winter, so I thought it would be nice to burn that feeling."