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"Dream Glow" is a reworked version of an unreleased Charli XCX song titled "Glow". The song was written during writing sessions for XCX's third studio album in 2016.[1] XCX initially planned to include the song on her third studio album, but ultimately decided not to as she stated that "it never quite fit in my world in its original form".[3][4]
In 2017, Charli XCX met BTS in Seoul, South Korea, when she was in the country performing for a festival. During their meeting, they decided to work on a song together. XCX would later send them her version of "Glow" as a potential song to use, and it was eventually chosen as the song for their collaboration. The group "sat with it for a while" in order to tweak the song and also adapt it to fit the Korean language.[3][4]
Charli XCX's version of the song leaked in 2018,[5] with significantly different English lyrics from those on the released version.[6] XCX stated that the song was originally about "falling in love with someone in the club [because] they had that "glow" about them",[3] while the released version's lyrics is about following one's dream and empowering oneself.[6]
The song is credited as being "part one" of the soundtrack to the Netmarble mobile game BTS World.[7][2]
Critical reception
Sheldon Pearce of Pitchfork gave the track a positive review, saying Jin, Jimin and Jungkook "don't miss a beat, with Charli filling the vacant spaces to maintain their carefully arranged synchronicity". Pearce also said that the four "sing vaguely but assuredly, in English and Korean, about the yet-to-be-realized potential of dreams", calling it "starry-eyed but not fanciful", "nearly pessimist-proof" and "pristine EDM-lite".[1]
