Last year, BTS‘s maknae Jungkook shocked ARMYs with his unexpectedly NSFW solo release “Seven” from his album GOLDEN.
The explicit song, which features American rapper Lotto, is quite literally about f*cking seven days a week. Jungkook got more explicit as he sang (in English, so no mistranslations here) about “the way that we can ride” and how he’ll be “lovin’ you right” seven days a week!
Tightly take control, tightly take his soul
Take your phone and put it in the camera roll (Uh)
Leave them clothes at the door
What you waitin’ for? Better come and hit ya goals
Uh, he jump in it both feet
Goin’ to the sun-up, we ain’t gettin’ no sleep
Seven days a week, seven different sheets
Seven different angles, I can be your fantasy
Open up, say, “Ah”
Come here, baby, let me swallow your pride
What you on? I can match your vibe (Vibe)
Hit me up and I’ma Cha-cha Slide (Skrt)
You make Mondays feel like weekends
I make him never think about cheatin’
Got you skippin’ work and meetings
F*ck it, let’s sleep in, yes (Seven days a week, ooh)— Latto and Jungkook, “Seven” Bridge
It’s the way he’s talking about fucking but holding onto a lamp pole and trying to not get blown away 😂 please, he’s so unserious 😂
— ₇ forever (@jinskindangels) July 14, 2023
y’all telling me to listen to explicit version but wasn’t the explicit verison in the music video …. like my eye is shaking DONT SCARE ME pic.twitter.com/p1j2tNPTMK
— keke⁷ 🤎 (@stallseok) July 14, 2023
The clean version of the song uses the word “lovin’” for the chorus. Yet, “f*ckin’” is used for the explicit version.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Saturday, Sunday (A week)
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Seven days a week
Every hour every minute every second
You know night after night
I’ll be f*ckin’ you right, seven days a week
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Saturday, Sunday (A week)
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Seven days a week
Every hour every minute every second
You know night after night
I’ll be f*ckin’ you right, seven days a week— Latto and Jungkook, “Seven”
WHAT DID HE JUST SAY pic.twitter.com/WHO86Sq4Bp
— jungkook 📂⋆ (@archiveforJK) July 14, 2023
the lyrics clean ver vs explicit ver
suddenly the concept photos make sense……… pic.twitter.com/hrqqNDJYq8— Sel⁷ (@BTStranslation_) July 14, 2023
THE EXPLICIT VERSION ??? JUNGKOOK????? pic.twitter.com/e45C49GTzu
— stacey :⁷ JIMIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNN!!!-!-!!-!-!-!!- (@minivminie) July 14, 2023
As it became a huge hit, it naturally made its way onto Kidz Bop 2024. Kidz Bop is an infamous American children’s music group that produces family-friendly covers of the most popular pop songs each year. It’s known for “butchering” pop songs by replacing original lyrics with G-rated alternatives that often don’t make sense.
Kidz Bop, the popular children’s themed music, covered #Seven by #Jungkook ft Latto.
They typically only cover the biggest “gp hits” and legally alter them so children can enjoy them as well!
(Yes, royalties get paid to Jungkook.) pic.twitter.com/Ze9gfPZXIL
— JK Radio Updater (@JKRadioUpdater) January 22, 2024
Considering what “Seven” is about, it’s curious what changes would be made to the song. It’s a lot of changes.
TIL that there is a Kidz Bop version of JK’s Seven.
Why? Why does this exist?
And who is tasked with identifying all the bits that need to be changed? pic.twitter.com/TaUCipaUoJ
— Butterfly (@NaviTokki) February 20, 2024
Kidz Bop covered Jungkook’s Seven as the hit songs of 2023 in their latest album for kids ‘Kidz Bop 2024’ pic.twitter.com/OG9nW7eskW
— Jungkook SNS (@Jungkook_SNS) January 22, 2024
For example, “Night after night, I’ll be lovin’/f*ckin’ you right” got changed to “Time after time, I’ll be treating you right.” The song went viral with 219K views on YouTube at the time of writing. ARMYs didn’t like the cover, saying that the original clean version exists already and that the Kidz Bop cover was unnecessary.
Check out the full cover below.
