Stray Kids’ Bang Chan Confirms Who Actually Wrote The Lyrics For “Red Lights”

K-Pop fans are familiar with idols’ unique explanations to try and explain some of their song’s more suggestive lyrics.

NCT 127 fans, for instance, are probably familiar with the group entertainingly trying to explain the lyrics to their song “Highway to Heaven.”

It’s basically a song about you just relieving from your stresses and really taking the highway to heaven with us through our music.

— Mark

But fans of Stray Kids are familiar with leader Bang Chan‘s different approach in frequently claiming that he was not involved in writing the lyrics for some of their more suggestive songs.

For instance, Bang Chan and Lee Know teamed up to release the song “Drive,” which isn’t exactly subtle about its innuendos.

When Bang Chan played the song in one of his weekly Chan’s Room broadcasts, he jokingly claimed that Lee Know was the only one who wrote the lyrics.

chan on drive: "there's a lot of weird wordplay in the lyrics as well. some people know, some people don't but yeah. i didn't write the lyrics, it's not me. lee know wrote all the lyrics by himself ㅋㅋㅋ"

— 떡 (@seungdduk) April 9, 2022

chan was like 'oh about drive's lyrics leeknow wrote the whole thing…haha that's a joke..' and then he said he won't be explaining the lyrics any further HAHAHHA

— 현댕이 (@rachahyuns) July 3, 2021

And, of course, fans found evidence to prove that both of them were involved.

CONFIRMED: both Bang Chan & Lee Know wrote the lyrics of Drive as seen in the KOMCA credits ("A" means "Author")

neither of them beating the "wrote Drive's lyrics" allegations now pic.twitter.com/S5FjayCBM0

— ∞ (@sorikkungyoun) September 2, 2022

Bang Chan later released a song with Hyunjin, “Red Lights,” which, if anything, was even more suggestive than “Drive.”

When the song came out, fans joked that Bang Chan would once again claim someone else had written the lyrics.

so is chan going to come on during red lights to say hyunjin wrote the lyrics

— elise (@hwangsamericano) August 27, 2021

Which, ironically enough, is precisely what the idol playfully did.

"Chan who wrote the lyrics for Red Lights?"
: Definitely Hyunjin, Hyunjin wrote ALL the lyrics

Let's act like we believe you, Chan@Stray_Kids #StrayKids #스트레이키즈 #ChansRoomEp123 pic.twitter.com/7r5qzAWKPn

— Nuska (@Seungmonmon) September 12, 2021

Hyunjin responded to Bang Chan’s claims, immediately denying them.

''BangChan said u wrote red lights''
H: no he wrote red lights

They are fr gonna keep on doing this until jyp says it was him himself who wrote the lyrics just for them to stop????@Stray_Kids Hyunjin? Chan? y’all got something to say orrr??#straykids #RedLights_HyunjinChan pic.twitter.com/jmKwSG63M4

— sehluvzskz (@itzsehlol) September 17, 2021

Although Hyunjin later admitted that they both wrote them together.

: Red Lights… I wrote the lyrics, but Chan translated them into English, so basically, we both wrote them. I went to him with ideas and asked for feedback, then we mixed it with the top line he had. I didn't write it myself. We wrote it together.

— 生 (@skzlifes) September 17, 2021

comment: chan said you wrote red lights
'no, hyung wrote red lights. I wrote korean lyrics but he translated it, so you can say that we both wrote it'

— 김승민해 (@skzseungmin22) September 17, 2021

Fans enjoyed watching the two try to blame the other, finding the whole situation amusing.

LeeKnow and Hyunjin at the dorm waiting for Chan after he blamed them for writing the lyrics of Drive and Red Lights pic.twitter.com/LhfjSmXev7

— 0801 ⤮ (@ssickrachaes) September 12, 2021

Authorities are now in search of @Stray_Kids Bang Chan as he has been identified as a serial lyrics denier, after pinning two sexy masterpieces on bandmates, Lee Know and Hyunjin. Authorities would also like to gain access to the stripped, raw vocals version of Red Lights. https://t.co/p2x9O510a5

— #MAXIDENT & #CASE_143 out now! (@skznewsupdates) September 12, 2021

But in a recent interview with Billboard, Bang Chan opened up about some of the group’s biggest hit songs, explaining the creative process behind them and finally giving fans official confirmation.

Bang Chan | @jtbc_K909/Twitter

In the interview, Bang Chan brought up how “God’s Menu” was never actually intended to be a title track.

“God’s menu” is one of our most important songs and one of our most famous songs. It wasn’t originally “God’s Menu” that was supposed to come out [as a single], but we made the demo, and I remember Hyunjin’s reaction to it was like, ‘We should go with this one! Everyone listen to this!‘ So we went with it, and then, bang! It exploded.

— Bang Chan

And Bang Chan also discussed the creation process for “Red Lights,” explaining that it was his idea.

That one started off with me saying, ‘Hey, Hyunjin, you want to try something together? Let’s finally do something together!‘

— Bang Chan

The two of them then worked together to complete the track.

And I made a track, and luckily, Hyunjin really liked it, and then he full-on made a whole demo.

— Bang Chan

Before they collaborated on the lyrics, proving their incredible skill by finishing “in [just] a few hours.”

From there we fixed parts, wrote the lyrics together. It was just really seamless. We finished it in a few hours.

— Bang Chan

Thanks to the interview, fans now have Bang Chan’s confirmation of the official lyricists for “Red Lights.”

ik it’s always been settled that they both wrote the lyrics this just a joke btw

— yas♡⤮ (@beyondyasmin) October 7, 2022

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