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"(어떻게 하죠?) 어떡-어떡하죠?" (eotteoke hajyo? eotteok-eotteokha-jyo?) — literally "What should I do? What should I do?" — the pre-chorus captures the helpless paralysis of a first crush, the song's whole emotional register. "Gee" (released January 5, 2009) held #1 on KBS's Music Bank for nine straight weeks, a record that stood until Psy's "Gangnam Style" in 2012, and Rolling Stone later placed it at #170 on "The 250 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century."

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'LUV, 넌 내 전부야' (neon nae jeonbuya) means 'LUV, you are my everything' — a wholehearted Korean romantic declaration, softened by the stylized English 'LUV' so the confession doesn't feel too heavy. 'Luv' was released November 24, 2014, as the title track of Apink's fifth EP 'Pink LUV,' written and composed by Shinsadong Tiger and Beom & Nang; it debuted at number 2 on the Gaon Digital Chart (Wikipedia).

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'내 손을 잡아 걸어가면 돼' means 'just take my hand and we can walk on.' The title 'ICU' is a triple play — the hospital acronym, 'I see you,' and the Korean subtitle '쉬어가도 돼' ('it's okay to rest') (ReadDork). "ICU" is track 5 on aespa's EP Girls, released July 8, 2022, and is a gentle acoustic ballad about letting yourself slow down and rest (Wikipedia), which is exactly what this closing line offers — a hand to hold while you do.

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The hook 'I'll make you cry' is deliberately confrontational — the singer takes the aggressor's role rather than the more familiar K-pop posture of lamenting heartbreak, flipping a breakup into a promise of payback. 'I'll Make You Cry' is the third track on aespa's first mini-album, Savage, released October 5, 2021, and was written by Kenzie, Brandon Green, Kirsten Collins, Hautboi Rich and Timothy 'Bos' Bullock (Wikipedia / aespa Wiki).

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"세상 참 작은 것들에 울고 웃어" means "in this world I cry and laugh over such small things" — the line that distinguishes "Boy With Luv" from BTS's earlier grand, world-scale declarations. The song's Korean title, 작은 것들을 위한 시, literally means "A Poem for Small Things," and it is written as a parallel to their 2014 track "Boy in Luv" (Wikipedia). Per Billboard, the song's idea is that true strength and love come from finding joy in the smallest things in life (Wikipedia); it appears on the 2019 EP Map of the Soul: Persona.

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