The new track serves as the lead single off Blanco’s upcoming album.
Benny Blanco is famous for working with pop music all-stars like Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Kesha and more — but his newest track may be his most epic collaboration yet. On Friday (Aug. 5) at midnight, the 34-year-old super producer dropped “Bad Decisions,” the lead single off his upcoming album, and an accompanying music video featuring two of the world’s biggest names: BTS‘ Jin, Jimin, V and Jung Kook and Snoop Dogg.
The guys first began teasing the new track in July, releasing a string of hilarious videos in which Blanco tries his best to fit in with BTS. In one, he video chats Jin, Jimin, V and Jung Kook and flat out asks them if he can join the band. “No,” the BTS members immediately say in unison, before Jimin offers a compromise: “But we can make a song together.”
“Let’s make the best song in the entire world,” Blanco replies. “Let’s go!”
The guys also released a short trailer for the “Bad Decisions” music video prior to its release, featuring the “Eastside” artist identifying himself as a second Jimin in an effort to make his boy band dreams come true. “This year, they’re back,” says a dramatic voice over, stumbling a bit when the trailer cuts to Blanco pretending to be Jimin. “Jin, V, Jung Kook, Jimin — Jimin? — Snoop. ‘Bad Decisions.’”
Though official promotions for the new song only began in recent weeks, Snoop Dogg has been promising a collaboration between him and BTS for months. In January, the rapper revealed on a podcast that BTS had reached out to him with the hopes of working together, and in March, he said their partnership was “official like a referee with a whistle.”
“I make good music. They make good music,” Snoop said of the K-Pop phenomenon at the time. “And we end up doing this. This is what it’s always about, bringing our worlds together.”