Hey, K-pop students! 👋
I’m Student1, just another student who loves K-pop and wants to learn and enjoy it together with you!
I actually discovered TUIDE through “SUN KISS,” so I didn’t think much about the fact that “GRLS” was released before their official debut.
Then I went back and read the lyrics.
And suddenly I was like:
Ohhh. Now I get why they released this one first.
There’s one line that keeps coming back:
Meet my girls.
Instead of introducing themselves by saying, “Look at me,” they’re basically introducing the friends they’re about to debut with — the seven members of TUIDE.
And once I watched the performance again, that idea made even more sense.
Compared with a lot of recent K-pop songs, the individual parts in “GRLS” felt noticeably longer to me. As someone who was still learning the members, I actually had time to look at each face, hear each voice and start connecting the two.
“Oh, THAT’S her voice.”
Yeah. 😂
The song says “Meet my girls,” and it kinda does exactly that.
So let’s meet them. 💚
💚 What Does TUIDE “GRLS” Mean?
GRLS is a stylized spelling of GIRLS, with the vowel I removed.
It’s still pronounced:
“girls.”
In the song, though, GRLS isn’t just referring to girls in general.
It points back to TUIDE’s seven members themselves.
You hear phrases like:
Meet my girls
Me & my girls
My girls and me
again and again throughout the track.
So right from the title, the focus isn’t really on one individual member.
It’s the seven of them together.
That’s TUIDE’s introduction.
👭 “Meet My Girls” Instead of “Look at Me”
This is probably what I find most interesting about the song.
A rookie group’s introduction could easily be:
“Look at us.”
“We’re amazing.”
“Watch what we can do.”
But “GRLS” keeps coming back to:
Meet my girls.
Not:
“Look at me.”
More like:
“Come meet my friends.”
The confidence in the song doesn’t really come from one member trying to stand above everyone else.
It comes from seven different people being together.
They don’t need to have the same personality or the same color.
Put all seven together, and that becomes TUIDE.
Once I looked at it that way, choosing “GRLS” as a pre-debut introduction started making a lot more sense.
😎 Wait… What Is “Bestie-tude”?
This one actually made me stop when I first read the lyrics.
bestie-tude
I was like:
Bestie-tude? What is that?
😂
It looks like a playful combination of:
bestie + attitude
A bestie is your really close friend, and attitude is, well… attitude.
So I wouldn’t reduce bestie-tude to just “friendship.”
It feels more like:
the attitude you have with your besties
or
that extra confidence you get when your friends are right there with you.
The lyrics use it in:
Me me my girls got bestie-tude
and later:
Ain’t got no fear that’s bestie-tude
That second line especially makes the idea click for me.
It’s not:
“I’m fearless because I’m on my own.”
It’s more:
“My girls are here. We got this.”
And honestly, that one made-up word sums up a lot of what “GRLS” is about.
🎧 How Does “GRLS” Sound?
“GRLS” rides on a bouncy, rhythmic UK garage-style beat, with the members passing the song between each other before coming back together for the hook.
But there was something else I noticed pretty quickly:
the individual parts feel longer than what I’m used to hearing in a lot of recent K-pop songs.
Sometimes I’ll check out a new group and the parts switch so fast that I’m sitting there like:
Wait. Who was that??
😭
I didn’t have that problem as much with “GRLS.”
Each member seems to get a little more time to stay on screen, sing her part and let you hear her voice before the song moves on.
For someone like me who was still trying to learn TUIDE, that helped a lot.
I could actually go:
“Okay, that face goes with THAT voice.”
One member at a time.
🎶 It Really Does Feel Like “Meet My Girls”
That part distribution also makes the performance fit the lyrics really well.
One member gets her moment.
Then another.
Then they come together again.
So while the song keeps saying:
Meet my girls
the performance almost feels like:
“Here’s this member.”
“Now meet her.”
“And her.”
“Okay, now look at all seven of us together.”
That’s why I don’t really see “GRLS” as just an early taste of TUIDE’s music.
It works almost like an introduction video for people who don’t know the members yet.
Their faces.
Their voices.
Then the whole group.
And now I understand the pre-release choice way better.
🌎 Our Own Rules, Our Own Way
“GRLS” isn’t only about being close friends, though.
There’s a little more attitude underneath it.
One Korean line says:
편견 따윈 뒤로
and elsewhere, they talk about not following existing rules and making new ones instead.
But even here, the center of the song stays:
me & my girls.
It doesn’t really have that:
“I don’t need anybody.”
kind of confidence.
It feels closer to:
“We’ve got each other, so let’s do this our way.”
And yep.
We’re back to bestie-tude again. 😂
🎤 “GRLS” Korean Pronunciation
Alright, K-pop students. Let’s get into the Korean. 🎶
There isn’t a huge amount of Korean in “GRLS,” but there are still a few lines worth learning.
If you can’t read Hangul yet, I’ve written them in Roman letters below so they’re easier to follow while listening.
💡 Student1 Tip:
These are written for singing along, not as a strict Korean romanization lesson. Sometimes I’ll choose a spelling that feels easier to pronounce with the actual song.
🎧 Pronunciation Highlights
Korean:
알려줄게 this how we bestie-tude
Pronunciation:
Allyeojulge, this how we bestie-tude
Korean:
빈틈 없이 채워지는 our scheme
Pronunciation:
Binteum eopsi chaewojineun our scheme
Korean:
편견 따윈 뒤로 pretty lean
Pronunciation:
Pyeongyeon ttawin dwiro, pretty lean
Korean:
손쉽게 넘겨
Pronunciation:
Son-swipge neomgyeo
Korean:
시선은 locked in as we move
Pronunciation:
Siseoneun locked in as we move
💡 Korean Tip with Student1
Since most of “GRLS” is already in English, I don’t think there’s much point in explaining lines you can already understand.
So let’s look at the Korean parts instead.
🙅 편견 따윈 (Pyeongyeon Ttawin)
편견 (pyeongyeon) means a prejudice or preconceived bias about someone or something.
But the fun part here is:
따윈 (ttawin)
It comes from 따위는, and it can be used when you’re dismissing something like it isn’t worth taking seriously.
So:
편견 따윈 뒤로
has more attitude than simply:
“Leave prejudice behind.”
It’s closer in feeling to:
“Forget that kind of prejudice.”
There’s a little:
“Yeah, we don’t care about that.”
built into 따윈.
And that fits the song perfectly.
🧩 빈틈 없이 (Binteum Eopsi)
빈틈 (binteum) is a small gap, opening or empty space.
Add 없이 (eopsi), meaning “without,” and you get:
빈틈 없이
= “without any gaps”
= “completely / thoroughly”
The lyric says:
빈틈 없이 채워지는 our scheme
There’s this image of all the empty spaces being filled in.
And with seven different members coming together as one group, I kinda like that connection.
📢 알려줄게 (Allyeojulge)
알려주다 (allyeojuda) means:
“to tell”
or
“to let someone know.”
Then you get:
-ㄹ게 (-lge)
which adds the speaker’s intention.
So:
알려줄게
can naturally mean:
“I’ll tell you.”
But in:
알려줄게 this how we bestie-tude
I think:
“I’ll show you.”
captures the vibe better.
They’re not about to give us a definition of bestie-tude.
They’re about to show us how they do it.
✋ 손쉽게 (Son-swipge)
손쉽게 means:
“easily”
or
“without much difficulty.”
The lyric goes:
We got the flow
손쉽게 넘겨
And 넘기다 (neomgida) can mean getting something over, past or through.
So together, it gives me the feeling of:
Whatever comes up, we’ll move right past it.
Again, pretty confident for a group introducing themselves for the first time.
💭 Student1’s Take
I actually discovered TUIDE through “SUN KISS.”
So at first, I didn’t think much about “GRLS” being released before their official debut.
Then I went back and read the lyrics.
Meet my girls.
Again.
And again.
And I was like:
Ohhh. So THAT’S why this came first.
😂
They’re basically introducing the people they’re about to debut with while introducing TUIDE at the same time.
And watching the performance made that even clearer for me.
The members’ parts felt longer than what I’m used to in a lot of recent K-pop songs, so I actually had time to connect faces with voices.
“Oh, THAT’S her.”
One by one.
The lyrics are literally saying:
Meet my girls.
And weirdly enough, I really did feel like I was being introduced to them.
Then there’s bestie-tude, which I definitely had to stop and figure out the first time I saw it.
But now I kinda love it.
It’s not confidence because you’re standing there alone trying to prove how cool you are.
It’s confidence because your friends are standing right next to you.
I still don’t know all seven TUIDE members that well yet.
I found them through SUN KISS, and now I’m working backward and learning them through GRLS.
So I guess the song’s invitation actually works pretty well on me.
Meet my girls?
Okay.
Let’s meet them one by one. 💚
💗 See You in the Next Class!
That’s it for today’s K-pop class!
I’m not here as a teacher — I’m Student1, learning and enjoying K-pop right alongside you.
So let’s listen, learn, sing and discover more K-pop together. 🎶
Learn K-pop. Love K-pop. Together.
See you in the next class! 👋
— Student1