Jennie and Dominic Fike joined forces for “Love Hangover,” the second single off of her upcoming solo album, Ruby. The synth-y, trippy pop song compares the experience of an on-off fling to that of getting drunk and enduring the hangover that comes after.
Jennie spoke on the YouTube show Hyell’s Club about what inspired the song’s music video, where she keeps getting killed on dates with Charles Melton. It’s a dramatic reflection of the lyrics, she explained in Korean: “Each time I go out on a date, I keep dying when I fall in love. The lyrics are somewhat like that, knowing that I’ll get hurt and that it will be tough but why do I fall in love again and get drunk with that love? It’s about the hangover of love. When I heard it for the first time, I just really related to it. Anyone who has dated and been in love can easily relate to it.”
“Love Hangover” was written by a team of writers, per Genius, so it’s likely all their experiences contributed to the song. Jennie, Fike, Ido Zmishlany, Bülow, Blaise Railey, Carly Gibert, and Devin Workman are all credited for penning the track.
Jennie recently spoke to Billboard about why she purposely recorded her album Ruby in Los Angeles rather than Seoul. The choice was “very intentionally done. I just really wanted to throw myself out there to experience it,” Jennie said. “[In Seoul], I was so comforted in an easy environment that I created a long time ago, and I didn’t enjoy it. I was like, ‘No, if this is your career and if this is your life, explore and learn.’ I kept telling myself that.”
“I struggled a lot in the beginning,” she added of finding the right team to work with in L.A. “A few months, I would say, was just me throwing myself out there, walking into rooms filled with new people. I just had to keep knocking on the door, like, ‘Is this it?’ ‘Is this it?’ and then eventually, we got to a point where I found a good group of people that I linked with, sonically and as friends.”
“Love Hangover” says a lot about Jennie’s thoughts on romance and what her next era of music sounds like. Read the lyrics and take in the music video below:
Intro
I’m over, I’m so over
This love hangover (Yeah, go)
Verse 1: Jennie
Fight me, fight me, fight me
You made me so unlike me
I don’t wanna talk, come behind me
Know you ain’t the one, but you might be
Who sent you? Who sent you? Who sent you?
Who sent you ’round again? (Who sent you ’round?)
I’m so, l’m so shady
I don’t really mind when you play me
Wanna switch it up, go crazy
I ain’t gonna leave ’til you hate me
Who sent you? Who sent you? Who sent you?
Who sent you ’round? (Who sent you ’round?)
Chorus: Jennie
We say it’s over (Uh)
But I keep fucking with you (Yeah)
And every time I do, I wake up with this love hangover
You got me pourin’ for two
I swore l’d never do it again
Until you came over (Uh)
I started lying with you (Yeah)
And every time I do, I wake up with this love hangover, ah-oh
I swear I'll never do it again
Post-Chorus: Jennie
Ah, shit, I did it again (Call me back, call me back, call me back)
Oh-oh-oh, but you know l’m gonna do it again (Oh, shit, oh, shit, call me back, call me back, call me back)
Yeah, you know I’m gonna do it again
Verse 2: Dominic Fike and Jennie
I had woke up in a daze, my sweat was cold, my lip was cracked
I can’t leave this bitch, I had to single, double, triple back
She gon’ leave me, but she wants to keep me on, what’s up with that?
I don’t even really got time for all that shit right now, l’m a baby father
And all them jokes she told at dinner last night ain’t had me dead, I was playing possum
And when the waiter brought the check, she said, “Let’s head to
mine.” I said, “Okay, awesome.”
One minute, we’re growin’ apart, and next, I’m in her apartment
Just watchin’ her get naked and not thinkin’ with my heart
I ain’t even really got time for all that shit right now,
But if she wanted it right now
Then I could meet you there right now (Now, now, now, now)
Even though you barely even drink (Uh-huh), we hardly even spoke (Uh-huh)
But I know when I wake up that I’m still gon’ feel that hangover, babe
Chorus: Jennie
We say it’s over (Uh)
But I keep fucking with you (Yeah)
And every time I do, I wake up with this love hangover (Uh-huh)
You got me pourin’ for two (Uh-huh)
I swore l’d never do it again
Until you came over (Uh)
I started lying with you (Yeah)
And every time I do, I wake up with this love hangover, ah-oh
I swear I’ll never do it again
Post-Chorus: Jennie
Ah, shit, I did it again (Call me back, call me back, call me back)
Oh-oh-oh, but you know l’m gonna do it again (Oh, shit)
Uh-huh, uh-huh (Call me back, call me back, uh-huh, call me back)
(Thought you’d never do it again)
Yeah, you know I’m gonna do it again
Outro: Jennie and Dominic Fike
Back, back, ba-ba-back (Call me back, call me back, call me back)
Back, back, ba-ba-back (Ah, shit, ah, shit, ayy)
Back, back, ba-ba-back (Call me back, call me back, call me back)
Back, back, ba-ba-back (Ah, shit, ah, shit, ayy)
Back, back, ba-ba-back (Single, double, triple back, uh-huh)
Back, back, ba-ba-back (Single, double, triple back right now, right now, yeah)
Ah, shit, ah, shit (Single, double, triple back)
Back, back, ba-ba-back (Don’t know what l’m saying at this point)
