Written and composed by Kenzie and LDN Noise, "Monster" is described as a "dark and intense" medium-tempo dance song with lyrics about a man's "excessive fixation on his lover". The song served as one of the "double title tracks" for Ex'Act, the other being "Lucky One", and was released together with the album on June 9, 2016. Exo began performing the song on South Korean music TV shows on the same day.
Monster
Exo Lyrics
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왜 심장이 뛰니
넌 아름다워 나의 Goddess
닫혀 있지 yeah, yeah
두드릴 테니 날 들여 보낼래 (oh-eh-oh)
감춰진 스릴을 줄게
눈동자의 호기심에
이미 넌 빠져들었고
Love is the way
Shawty, I got it
You can call me monster
I'm creeping in your heart, babe
뒤집고 무너트리고 삼켜
그래 널 훔쳐 탐닉해
널 망쳐 놓을 거야
니 맘속에 각인된 채
죽어도 영원히 살래
(Come here, girl)
You call me monster (you call me monster)
니 맘으로 들어갈게
She got me going crazy
(Oh yeah, she got me)
왜 심장이 뛰니 (oh yeah, oh yeah, she got me)
내가 좀 성격이 급해
그닥 온순하지 못해 (널 미워했어)
하지만 너를 원해
That's right, my type
가슴은 거짓말 안 해
시작됐어 내 안에서
위험한 신호를 보내
Don't be afraid
Love is the way
Shawty, I got it
You can call me monster
I'm creeping in your heart, babe
뒤집고 무너트리고 삼켜
그래 널 훔쳐 탐닉해
널 망쳐 놓을 거야
니 맘속에 각인된 채
죽어도 영원히 살래 (come here, girl)
You call me monster
니 맘으로 들어갈게
전율이 와 니 삶을 다
뒤집어 버리는 게
I'm sorry, you make me so crazy
You know you do
모두 날 두려워해 so I'm untouchable man
근데 네 진심은 왜 결국에 날 거부 못해
숨어서 훔쳐보다가 깜짝 놀라지 (who?)
네겐 안티노미 같은 난 네 존재의 일부 (how we do?)
날 그대로 받아들여
너의 두려운 걱정은 접어 두렴
니가 견딜 만한 고통을 누려
더 깊이 빠져들어
널 맘대로 가지고 놀아
내 손에서 맘껏 놀아
도망가지 마 넌 영원히 맴돌아 brah
You can call me monster
I'm creeping in your heart, babe (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
뒤집고 무너트리고 삼켜 (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
그래 널 훔쳐 탐닉해
널 망쳐 놓을 거야
니 맘속에 각인된 채
죽어도 영원히 살래 (come here, girl)
You call me monster
니 맘으로 들어갈게
Creeping, creeping, creeping
Creeping, creeping, creeping
You, oh whoa, creeping
Exo’s “Monster” is a song about being willing to do anything to get the person you want, even if it means becoming a monster. The lyrics talk about the singer’s desire and attraction towards their “goddess” and how they will do anything to be with her. The chorus repeats the phrase “You can call me monster” which can be interpreted as a warning about how the singer is willing to change and become something frightening to be with the one they love. The lyrics also talk about the power of love, with the line “Don't be afraid, love is the way” suggesting that the fear of transformation and becoming a monster is worth it for the sake of love.
The music video for the song also features dark imagery, with the members of Exo dressed in black leather and appearing in a dimly lit, abandoned warehouse. The choreography is sharp and powerful, emphasizing the “monstrous” nature of the song. Throughout the video, the members display their impressive dance skills against a backdrop of flashing lights and dramatic camera angles.
Line by Line Meaning
She got me going crazy
I am madly in love with her
왜 심장이 뛰니
Why does my heart beat so fast?
넌 아름다워 나의 Goddess
You are beautiful, my goddess
닫혀 있지 Yeah yeah
You are closed off to me, yeah yeah
두드릴 테니 날 들여 보낼래
I will knock on your door, will you let me in?
감춰진 스릴을 줄게
I'll give you a hidden thrill
눈동자의 호기심에
Captivated by your curious eyes
이미 넌 빠져들었고
You have already fallen for me
Don't be afraid
Don't be scared
Love is the way
Love is the answer
Shawty I got it
I got it, babe
You can call me monster
I'm a monster for love
I'm creeping in your heart babe
I'm sneaking into your heart, babe
뒤집고 무너트리고 삼켜
I will turn it over, break it down and swallow it
그래 널 훔쳐 탐닉해
Yes, I will sneak and devour you
널 망쳐 놓을 거야
I will ruin you
니 맘속에 각인된 채
Carved into your heart
죽어도 영원히 살래
I will live forever even if I die
(Come here girl)
(Come here, girl)
You call me monster
You refer to me as a monster
니 맘으로 들어갈게
I will enter your heart
내가 좀 성격이 급해
I have a bit of an impulsive personality
그닥 온순하지 못해
I'm not really gentle
(널 미워했어)
(I used to hate you)
하지만 너를 원해
But I want you
That's right, my type
Exactly my type
가슴은 거짓말 안 해
My heart doesn't lie
시작됐어 내 안에서
It started inside of me
위험한 신호를 보내
Sending dangerous signals
전율이 와 니 삶을 다
Thrilling your entire life
뒤집어 버리는 게
Turning it all upside down
I'm sorry, you make me so crazy
I'm sorry, but you drive me insane
You know you do
You know you do (make me crazy)
모두 날 두려워해 So I'm untouchable man
Everyone fears me, so I am an untouchable man
근데 네 진심은 왜 결국에 날 거부 못해
But why can't you ultimately reject me for real?
숨어서 훔쳐보다가
Sneaking and peeking at you
깜짝 놀라지 (Who?)
Getting surprised (Who?)
네겐 안티노미 같은
To you, I am like a venomous snake
난 네 존재의 일부 (How we do?)
I'm just a part of your existence (How we do?)
날 그대로 받아들여
Accept me for who I am
너의 두려운 걱정은 접어 두렴
Put away your fears
니가 견딜 만한 고통을 누려
Enjoy the pain that you can endure
더 깊이 빠져들어
Fall deeper into me
널 맘대로 가지고 놀아
Play with you as I like
내 손에서 맘껏 놀아
Play with me as much as you want
도망가지 마 넌 영원히 맴돌아 Brah
Don't run away, you'll be going around forever, Brah
Creeping, creeping, creeping
Creeping, creeping, creeping
You, oh whoa, creeping
You, oh whoa, creeping
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Yeon Jung Kim, Stephen Bonnick, Hayden Chapman, Rodnae Denean Bell, Greg Paul
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@ForeverStarAngel
People told us that EXO was getting old and their time has come to an end. People left the fandom because they didn't believe that EXO would keep their sh*t together after three members left. People hated on EXO-L's saying that we were the worst fandom. People told us to give up on EXO because they weren't popular anymore.
BUT LOOK AT US NOW PEEPZ. WE DIDNT GIVE UP, EXO DIDNT GIVE UP. EXO SLAYED THIS COMEBACK AND BROKE THEIR OWN ALBUM RECORD SALES AND MV COUNT SALES AND THEY ARE NO 1 IN MUSIC CHARTS IN ASIA. THEY GOT A LOT OF HATE. A REAL EXO L STICKS WITH EXO THROUGH THE WHOLE THING. THERE'S A REASON WHY WE ARE ONE, THERE'S A REASON WHY WE SAY EXO SARANGHAJA, OR EXO-K + EXO-M +EXO-L=<3, BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT WE GO THROUGH, EXO WILL ALWAYS BE ONE. AND I AM PROUD TO CALL MYSELF AN EXO - L, BECAUSE WE FREAKING SLAYED THOSE HATERS AN SLAYED THOSE DOUBTERS.LETS MAKE IT 20 MILLION BY THE END OF THIS WEEK GUYS :)
EXO-K+EXO-L+EXO-M=<3
EXO SARANGHAJA
WE ARE ONE
I am so happy to be part of such a cozy, well rounded fandom:')
AND TO ALL OF THOSE FAKE FANS THAT LEFT EXO BEFORE BUT HAVE DECIDED TO LIE THAT THEY WERE TRUE FANS FROM THE BEGINNING AFTER THIS COMEBACK. YOU CANT CALL YOURSELF A TRUE FAN BC YOU DOUBTED THEM AND YOU ARE A LIAR. YOU ARE NOT AN EXO-L IF YOU THINK THAT IT IS OKAY TO SAY THAT YOU HAVE SUPPORTED THEM FROM THE BEGINNING WHEN IN REALITY YOU LEFT THE FANDOM, SO DONT EVEN THINK OF SAYING HOW YOU'RE PROUD OF THEM WHEN YOU CALLED THEM OUT AFTER OVERDOSE OR EXODUS. YOU CAN STILL BE A FAN, BUT PLEASE DONT LIE. EXO-L's DONT NEED LIARS HERE, GO BACK TO THE GROUP THAT YOU LEFT EXO FOR
@Windtorment
I saw this on OH today, and I felt even more proud to be a part of this "Worst Fandom" Called "EXO-L" .. All Credits goes to that girl who worked hard to make this huge list and proved the haters that Exo is the best boyband and they are the Legends.They are not the "Second bigbang" but they are the "Legends" of their own.
So brace yourselves to read the long list of Exo's acheivements.....
2012
Debut album MAMA surpasses 100,000 in one month.
EXO- K album reached number one on Gaon Album Chart and number eight on Billboard World Albums Chart
EXO- M album reached number two on Sina Album Chart
EXO- K MAMA MV reached number 7 on Youtube’s Global Chart
EXO- M MAMA MV reached number 1 on China's streaming sites
EXO- K Wins best New Artist at the 2012 MAMA Awards
EXO- M received the Most Popular Group Award at the 2013 Top Chinese Music Awards
Currently hold the record for the highest kpop debut album sales: EXO-M = 188,624/ EXO- K = 295,680 /Overall = 484,304 *
Total of 21 awards won + 3 Nominations in 2012
2013
XOXO reached number one on Billboard World Albums Chart a week after its release
XOXO sells over 1,000,000 copies, making Exo the first Korean artist to sell over a million copies of one album in twelve years and breaking the record for being the fastest-selling K-pop act. *
XOXO was named Album of the Year at the 2013 Mnet Asian Music Awards, making Exo the youngest ever boy band to win the award. *
“Growl” reached number one on all four of Korea’s major music programs
“Growl” placed number 3 on Billboard Korea Kpop Hot 100 and No 2 on Gaon Singles Chart
EXO had 6 of the 10 albums on Gaon’s Yearly Top 10 Best Selling Albums
Broke the Weekly Idol rating with an average viewership rating of 1.175% (July 10, 2012) *
Broke the then first week album sales record by selling more than 112,435 *
Broke the record for their live-stream event 'EXO LIVE! Growl on One Summer Night!' with a total of 350,000 fans live streaming *
“Growl” Charted for 49 weeks on Melon making it one of the longest charting songs on Melon
"Growl" has over 2 million downloads / sales
XOXO was the best selling album in Korea for 2013
Total of 23 awards + 17 nominations from Korean, Chinese, and International award Shows.
Won 2 daesangs (Album of the Year at MAMA + Song of the Year at Melon Music Awards)
Total of 27 music show wins
2014
Broke the record for most pre-ordered album in kpop history with Overdose reaching 660,000 pre orders. *
Korean version of Overdose peaked at No. 2 on Billboard’s World Album Chart
EXO at the time became the highest charting kpop male group on the Billboard 200 peaking at 129 *
EXO were the best selling Kpop artist in Japan for 2014
Exo's member kyungsoo won "Best new male actor" award for the a movie "It's okay it's Love"
Overdose became the first mini album to top yearly chart awards and to win album of the year at the MAMA awards *
Broke the record for the fastest sold out concert for a Korean act by selling out in 1.47 seconds *
"Overdose" has over 1 million downloads / sales
Overdose was the best selling album in Korea for 2014
Total of 35 awards won + 9 nominations
Won 4 daesangs ( Daesang at Seoul Music Awards + Disk daesang at Golden Disk Awards + Artist of the Year and Album of the Year at MAMA )
Total of 13 music show wins
2015
Broke the record for the most amount of fans attempting to buy a concert ticket (1.2 million) *
EXODUS pre- sales surpass 500,000
“Call Me Baby” was the most watched kpop mv in the first half of 2015
“EXO Next Door” became most watched web drama of 2015 ( over 50 million views) *
“Call Me Baby” wins 18 music show awards becoming the second most awarded song in history and the most awarded song of 2015 *
EXODUS became the longest charting number 1 album on the album chart (4 weeks) *
Broke the US billboard 200 record as the highest ranking Korean artist at number 90*
Became first Korean group to enter Canadian Billboard Hot 100 at number 98 *
EXODUS sells over one million copies, EXO become “double million sellers”
“Call me baby” charts on Melon for 45 weeks, becoming one of the longest charting idol group songs.
“Love me right” charts for 42 weeks
"Call me Baby" and "Love me Right" both have over 1 million downloads / sales.
Broke the record for the shortest amount of time since debut to hold a concert at the Tokyo Dome *
Broke the record for the all time best selling debut single in Japan *
Japanese album sold 147,000 on the day of its release
First artist to hold a Korean Dome Concert (Gocheok Dome) *
Sing For You broke the then first week sales record by selling 267,900 copies in its first week *
The track "Unfair" became the first K-pop song to be ranked in the "best of the week" playlist by Apple Music *
Became the first Korean artist to be featured on the Apple Music homepage *
Named the most powerful celebrity by Forbes Korea for 2014
Ranked number 7 in Pop culture leaders for the year 2014
Became the first artist to win album of the year 3 times in a row and the MAMA awards *
First artist to win Daesang award 3 times in a row at Seoul Music Awards *
Reached number 7 on gallup poll for most popular artist in Korea for 2015
Xiumin’s Falling for Challenge became the most watched web drama of 2015*
Baekhyun’s OST for EXO Next Door titled “Beautiful” becomes first web drama ost to top digital charts *
EXO's Lay broke several online book records with the release of his autobiography Standing Firm at 24 which sold 68,537 copies in the first 24 minutes of pre- sales
EXODUS is the best selling album in Korea for 2015
Total of 23 awards + 10 nominations
Won 4 daesangs ( Daesang at Seoul Music Awards + Disk daesang at Golden Disk Awards + Album of the Year at Melon + Album of the Year at MAMA)
Total of 32 overall music show wins
2016
Ranked the most powerful celebrity of 2015 by Forbes Korea for the second year in a row
EXO Baekhyun's duet "Dream" reached over 1 million downloads/ Sales
Set concert attendance record for one of the concerts in the EXO'luxion in America tour *
EXO Sehun wins Weibo Kpop Star Award at Gaon Chart Kpop Awards
Broke record for most pre-sold album with Ex’Act pre sales surpassing 660,000 *
Ex’Act was the first Korean album to sell over 100,000 copies in one day *
Broke the first week sales record by selling over 522,372 copies in one week. *
W Korea’s EXOclusive became the best selling fashion magazine issue in Korea of all time *
Became the first artist to hold six consecutive concerts at the Olympics Gymnastics Arena *
Ex’Act reached number one on World Albums Chart
“Monster” hit number one on Billboard World Digital Songs Chart, with “Lucky One” at Number 3
Ex’Act hit #4 in 2016 Worldwide first week sales with 500,000 + sales
“Monster” becomes highest scoring song on M! Countdown for 2016 and the fourth highest scoring song of all time
Ex’Act breaks record for most album points in Music Bank history with a total of 8785 points
“Monster” charted number one on melon for 145 consecutive hours and 139 hours on Genie
“Lotto” hit number one on Billboard World Digital Songs Chart and number 2 on Gaon Digital Chart
Lotto Repackaged album ranked number 10 on Billboard World Albums Chart
Ex’Act reached number 1 and 2 on YinYueTai V-Chart
Ex’Act reached number 1 on Itunes Digital Albums Chart and number 8 on Global Itunes and Spotify Charts
EXO Lay’s Monodrama broke records by staying number 1 on YinYueTai V-Chart for 5 consecutive weeks.* It was followed by EXO’s Monster and Lucky one ranking at number 2 and 3.
Lotto Korean version reached number one on Gaon Albums Chart with the Chinese version at number 2
Ex’Act becomes EXO’s third million seller album after 2 months of release. EXO become “triple million sellers”
“Dancing King” hit number 2 on Gaon’s Digital Chart and number 1 on Gaon’s download Chart
“Dancing King” ranked number 3 on Billboard World Digital Songs Chart
EXO’s Lay becomes the fastest Chinese Artist to reach one million views on YouTube
EXO’s Lay becomes the first Chinese artist to enter the US Itunes Chart with song “What U Need”
EXO's Lay's webdrama Old Nine Gates set records with its accumulation of over 10 billion views
EXO Baekhyun wins V Chart most popular Korean singer
EXO Chen's OST duet "Everytime" reaches over 1 million downloads/ sales
EXO Kai's webdrama "Choco Bank" becomes the most watched web drama of 2016
EXO Chanyeol's film So I Married an Anti Fan breaks the highest box office record for 2d Chinese-Korean films in one week
EXO ranked number 1 for group brand reputation for August and September of 2016.
Only Korean artist to hold a concert in the Philippines for two consecutive days
Ex’Act is currently the best selling Korean album of 2016
EXO rank number 9 in worldwide album sales for 2016
Total of 9 awards + 4 nominations
Won 2 daesangs (still counting) ( Daesang at Golden Disk Award + daesang at Seoul Music Awards)
Total of 17 music show wins
Other Records / Achievements
Only artist to debut at #1 on Gaon weekly album chart for 10 consecutive album releases.
Most Music Show Wins for a male group (excluding subunits and solos) - 87 Wins
Most Daesang Awards for a group - 13 wins (Youngest group on the list)
10th best selling Korean artist of all time including overseas sales and the youngest artist on the list ( 6.8 million + )
2nd best selling domestic Korean male artist and the youngest artist on the list (6.03 million + )
Best selling artist in Korea for four years in a row
Longest running best selling artist in Korea
Kpop artist with the largest Chinese fancafe (Almost 3 million fans)
EXO members collectively have 22 individual awards + 10 nominations
EXO members collectively have over 56 million social media followings (Weibo + instagram ) + nearly 4 million fans on the official EXO fan app.
Dear haters,what were you saying?Exo is declining?Think again.Because I know you haters are also reading this post.
@abrar8489
2015: call me baby
2016: call me monster
2019: call me bacon
@kimjongdaeloml3237
🤣🤣
@azamemrahnejad494
Lol :)))))
@booksandcoffee07
Lmao
@phoebecaybomowey5435
2020 Chen: Call Me Daddy
@JB-yu7vu
Watch this video Mnet vs EXO
https://youtu.be/KQrlrnBU7m0
@saraannicchini1558
they don’t make groups like this anymore 😔
@llawlightss
fr😭 i tried to listen nct bts and others (it was in 2018) and still no one’s better than exo
@Sfinasourus
The best year of Kpop is 2016-2018 😢
@user-hp2bd5mr1g
ikrrrr - this song is a master piece !!! but check out ateez they give the same vibe to me