Missing You

"Missing You" (Korean: 그리워해요; RR: Geuriwohaeyo) is a song by South Korean girl group 2NE1, released as a digital single on November 21, 2013. The song was produced and written entirely by long-time YG Entertainment producer and collaborator Teddy Park. Commercially, "Missing You" debuted at number one on the Gaon Digital Chart and sold over 1 million digital units by the end of 2014. Background and release Beginning on November 18, 2013, YG Entertainment began releasing individual teasers featuring each member singing a snippet from the track, leading up to its release on November 21, 2013. The day before the release, Yang Hyun-suk was quoted stating the single brought his wife to tears when she first heard it. Dara spoke about the song, saying, "I cried so much during the recording that I used up a box of Kleenex by myself." Bom commented, "It is a song through which you can hear the emotions that come from our hearts very well." A Japanese version for the song was later included in the group's Japanese edition of their second Korean studio album Crush, which was released on June 25, 2014. The track was also featured in the 2NE1 Best Collection -Korea Edition- compilation album, which was released by YGEX in December of the same year. Reception The song received positive reviews from music critics. Jeff Benjamin of Billboard praised the song's musical styles—where he wrote, "While slow and tender at its core, the experimental track incorporates unexpected electronic flourishes and alien-like harmonies before its soaring guitar line brilliantly evolves into a pounding piano chords for the ladies to belt over." Pitchfork included "Missing You" in their list of 20 Essential K-pop Songs in August 2014, praising its musicality and the group's vocal delivery and referred to it as "one of the most vocally rich and structurally distinctive singles Korea’s ever produced". The music video also received attention from press regarding CL's nude scene, with Billboard referring to it as a more sophisticated version of Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" music video, which was released just a couple months prior and also widely notable for unprecedented nudity.