He Say She Say is a live album by the K-pop girl group, Mi•Mi. The audio of the album was released on May 18th, 2015 as the set list to their unannounced upcoming world tour. The album consists of the first half of the official studio album to be released after the world tour. Using the first 12 songs of the upcoming album all happening to be Spring themed, the audio are all live versions of each song, the studio versions to be released with the official studio album. The visuals of the live performances of the songs included on the album are to be released throughout May 18th to June 30th as they perform at various venues. Once these performances are released, the official audio of the song will be released as singles. Unlike the previous debut album from the girls, He Say She Say takes on a more Hip Hop and Contemporary R&B with the K-pop genre they are known for. With topics based around being young, dumb and in love and even to the struggles of being young, dumb and famous, the album's writing by the girl group as a whole along with the duo Rum & Coke stepping up collaboratively to write and compose for the group as Airemese Smith and Nina Tarantino. There were no official singles released from the album just yet, but there are 2 songs released to the general that are well known so far. Take It Off being the first, it was "leaked" by the rapper of the group Miki (Mi Kyung Lee), serving as an erlier studo version of the song, it has been confirmed that the album's version of Take It Off has been edited and rewritten since then. The second song Until I Feel it in the Floor (#UIFIITF) was released as a promotion single and is also the opening track of the album.

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After the success of their debut album In Our Youth, the girls were sent on the typical promotional tour, most of their events being held in Korea, their hometown which the girls have all openly admitted to be homesick over. There were rumors, speculation and plenty of hype around the talk of a world tour from the girl group but plans never surfaced and as far as the GA knows, there was never one being planned to begin with. Not long after the follow EP for the album was pulled from it's release in May 2014, angering fans, specially those in America who were denied a tour. Busy promoting the In Our Youth era, even months later there was no sign of a new album coming from the girls, having been said to be "overworked" and "unhappy" and that they weren't sure if they even wanted to continue making music. Eventually there were reports of music in the makes, but due to the doubt that they would even release anything successfully, it is said that the girls went through about 50 songs both written for and by them, scrapping up to 2 full albums right as they began recording. Frustrating their whole team, including their management and record label, the time for releasing a new album before people completely forgot who Mi•Mi were was winding down quick and the stubbornness of the 4 girls made the team desperate. Feeling pressured to get them to write, record, and release an album quickly before it was too late, they called up the 2 people who were known for successfully making and releasing albums at a quick pace, Rum & Coke. Airemese Smith serving as the main songwriter and Nina Tarantino serving as the producer and occasional songwriter, the duo worked with the fragile group to begin official work on the album though there was still considerable confusion among music journalists and fans as Mi•Mi avoided discussing the album or its release.

Until I Feel it in the Floor was the earliest song written on the album, though it was one of the last actually included. Written for a completely different collaborative project and once I was scrapped, so was the song until stumbled upon in a listening session. Written by the rapper of the group Miki (Mi Kyung Lee) in late August of 2014, with a catchy hook, slick vocals and a blaring bass, it played as an interaction between a performer and it's crowd, showcasing Mi•Mi's desire to be on the road.

ABCs was the second song confirmed for the album, written by Airemese Smith for the girl group Fifth Harmony in September 2014 before being turned down and given to Mi•Mi. It was taken and edited by the girl group, wanting the song to be the first of many more "racy" songs by the group after deciding they wanted to be more mature the second time around. A song about being inexperienced but not letting that stop them, ABCs was announced as the lead single with it's bouncy beat and it's innocent giggly approach, the idea of releasing it as a single was soon scrapped. The song as a whole was scrapped from the project after while, and ended up being rewritten using an idea of the lyrics given by Smith. The song was transformed a slow paced piano ballad based on the flip side of a later track What You Like. From the perspective of a celebrity who used someone close to them to get them where they were and now need them back in their life,

Play With Me was the third song written for the album. After also being written by Airemese Smith in October of 2014, it was soon enough chosen as the lead single due to it's empowering lyrics about moving on, finding yourself and not focusing on a man that has deliberately put you through hell, obviously declaring a new era for the girls. Compared to the likes of Ciara, the song was noted for it's Crunk&B vibes that made it perfect for the clubs.

Serving as the first song heard from the album after Miki "leaked" it onto the internet, Take It Off was the fourth track decided to be on the album. Previously a throwaway track recorded by Rum & Coke for Perks of Fame, Mi•Mi rerecorded it as a demo in November of 2014 after listening to it and completely relating to it, falling in love with the message and the melody. A soulful R&B song with a native influence that compliments the savage lyrics, it opens up about the self-restraint endured when one begins to doubt the credibility and longevity of their own career.
"It completely changed our lives and the way that we looked at ourselves and at our career, realizing this was the exact way that we were treating each other, holding back our own talents out of letting the things people said about us molding us into cowards." Miki told interviewers when asked why she leaked the song. "We wanted others to hear it so they would know exactly why it took us so long to make the album and at the same time so that they knew the album was coming."

After gaining confidence in their new album when they received the track ABCs, the group decided to continue writing similar songs, expanding on the topic in a writing session, coming up with the fifth track for the album, Genesis in December of 2014. The whole group had a hand in writing the song, including Airemese Smith. A synthpop song that could easily remind one of Michael Jackson's Thriller with it's sliding bassline, the song takes the listener through the experience of 2 virgins trying to talk each other out of their nervousness, it's electrical approach displaying the roller coaster of feeling's losing something so special can be.

More Than Love was written by the whole group in a hotel, mid-December 2014. While in the middle of a sleepover between the girls and friends, they were dreaming about collaborating with some of their favorite artists, one of those being the iconic boy band Weekend. Once they began to listen to a few of their classics, they began to come up with their own melody, adding lyrics to it and performing it out of fun, impersonating the members of Weekend. This soon enough became the sixth song to make it onto the album after extensive editing and Weekend officially joined them on the song. Talking on trying to save what seems to be a toxic relationship to not leave all the good times in vein because of the bad ones, the lovers tell each other that it's not exactly hate, that it's just it's "more" than love. The track is a "hesitant" ballad, built around a looped piano/music box and pulsating tribal drums.

Feeling the need to write more upbeat songs after almost immediately writing a good batch of the strong slower songs for the album, Chairs happened, the seventh track to make it onto the list. Inspired by a dance practice full of laughs and horseplay in December of 2014, the girls were trying to find a way to make lap dances more "cute" and less "smutty", practicing their stripper moves to find a way to introduce to the K-pop world while telling each other to "Sit on Mi•Mi lap" and rolling over in laughter.
"We just kept saying it all week to literally anyone who we could sexually harass and get away with, and it just stuck [laughs]" Says Dae Na on the making of the song.
The phrase of course got more aggressive when they finally got it to the studio and by then, the whole song was less "cute" and more mature with it's funky, soulful instrumental and lyrics about proving your skills to an unfaithful man with the wonders of undeniable moves and a lap dance.

I Choose You, Pikachu was another one of the funner songs to come up with, being the eighth on the album. The idea of the song started off with just the lyrics, "Don't know your name, but I like your face!/I choose you, you just don't know it yet" written in the middle of a lunch full of girl talk between the girls based off of Mi•Mi's experiences of seeing cute boys on the road who had unforgettable faces and would never know that they noticed. Written in January of 2015, this song soon spiraled into a song about having a crush on the new kid in school and getting to him first in an explosive pop song.

The ninth track, Bubblegum, was written in March of 2015 and is a K-pop/EDM track about giving up on an intense relationship for a lighter, more meaningless arrangement of just having fun and enjoying each other's company, the song and it's vibes built around clubbing. Written by Misu (Mi Sun Kim) and Airemese Smith, it originated in one of the last studio sessions between Mi•Mi and Rum & Coke as they began to wrap up the album.

Written on the same day, Kick It was another K-pop/EDM song based around clubbing, this time leaning more towards the lyrics of I Choose You, Pikachu with a touch of ABCs as they talk on seeing an attractive guy in the club and immediately engaging. Written by Nina Tarantino and Miki (Mi Kyung Lee), the tenth song for the album also incorporates elements of electropop and dancehall and has been noted as one of the favorites of the album by the group.

What You Like was the eleventh track written for the album and was at first believed to be the last. A song that subtly followed in the footsteps of Take It Off, What You Like was written in March 2015 about the pressure of once being famous and the struggle of trying to garner the strength to build that back up again, only this time with "encouragement" from a gold-digger they've fallen deeply in love with.
"There's just a point in your life where you have to sit back and really make sure that you're doing it for yourself." says Mae Na on the whole concept of writing the song with Misu and Airemese Smith. "You shouldn't put yourself through hell and back simply because it's what they like."
After playing the unfinished song in a listening session with friends, Drew Westbrook (who's a close friend with Mi•Mi and Misu's twin brother Dae Ho Park) was one of the friends who heard the song and immediately demanded to be on it. An artist well known for going through the same writer's block Mi•Mi went through, Drew was more than perfect for the part.

The last song written for He Say She Say, Teach Me, was written in March 2015. With lyrics about trying to find yourself through someone else's love, the song has a mesmerizing shimmery beat, that reminds you of stargazing as the production pulls you in and out of a twinkly trance. The melody stuck into the girls' heads and made it onto the album just in time. Happy that it did, the girls also notes this as one of their favorites.