This song is so dope. The song is so Korean because it was made for the 2018 LoL World Championship which took place in South Korea, plus LoL is huge in SK from what i know of. Also the characters are actually playable champions from the game Soyeon: Akali , Miyeon: Ahri aka washing machine girl, Jaira Burns: Kai'sa and Madison Beer: Evelynn aka villainous glasses girl

“Oh she killed her, *_n i c e_* “

Kda needs to make more music TBH. They got a huge following

This song IS produced by riot lmao. Riot actually produces all their songs and their animations are usually made by separate companies even though they have they're own animation team

everyone fell in love with soyeon cuz of this, literally 90% of the comments on the video are about her

PD: Perverts because they went through her thighs. Also PD: That thigh gap tho.. 😂😂

"She looks straight up VILLAINOUS" seeing the future is a skill

"The chick with the sunglasses and red hair looks villainous" I mean being a literal demon of lust does make you villainous, no?

There is a live version where they performed it at the LOL World Championships in SK which has a little twist, definitely worth a quick reaction. Also Riot doesn't claim reactions like Korean broadcasting stations do if your worried about getting strikes from a live. A little added bonus is Ahri the character on the washing machine has a lot of links to SNSD, her dance and one of her recall animations are SNSD choreos but also she has a popstar skin which is the outfit from Genie and if you look closely you can see that's what she's getting washed in the scene she's first shown in.

"Madison Beer? I only like liquor" LMAO

"Such a cool transitions but they're perverts bc they went through her thighs!.....that thigh gap tho" 😂😂😂😂

If you notice the "camera" continuously zoomed out in every single shot till the video stopped. It never went towards the girls, truly popstars, always unreachable in a sense.

The whole background was that the League of Legends World Championship Finals were held in Korea, and with every championship Riot releases song, G-idle were rapping and singing in Korean because they were held in Korea and in the lore of Lol, the character are koreans, Soyeon is Akali and Miyeon is Ahri. This wasn't a random collab, Riot games produced the whole thing, they even had and "interview" with the characters and there was a performance with live CGI during the finals.

This music video literally made me play LOL. It completely blew me away.

First minute of content: "RIOT is not behind this..." Oh, mate, you have no idea... lol...They have a full department just for dev sound and music content to address new champs, games, and events.

How you dare talk that much during Soyeons rap

"she looks straight up villainous !" well, that comment aged extremely well😂

How do you not recognise Miyeon? That bridge was EVERYTHING.

"The chick with the red hair and sunglasses looks like a villainess." Evelynn today: I'm a straight up villain.

“They’re also perverts, they went through her thighs” “That thigh gap though”

"The one with the red hair and the sunglasses she looks straight up Villainous." Wow he really be predicting "Villain" now.

Ahri (Miyeon): Leader, Main Vocalist, Visual Akali (Soyeon): Main Rapper, Lead Dancer, Vocalist, Maknae Evelynn (Madison): Lead Vocalist, Lead Rapper Kai'sa (Jaira Burns): Main Dancer, Vocalist

"straight up villain" if only he knew

"...she looks VILLAINOUS..." 2020 Evelynn Solo approves I just watch this now, and really great review on the MV.

I absolutely love this song!!!! And the music video is awesome :D

I LOVE LEAGUE SO MUCH ! so seeing kpop and league come together was a surprise

The thing is this song not only attract kpop fans but also gamers and anime lovers. A song for all 😍 I remember that I keep retweeting and sharing all K/DA fanarts on all of my socmed for at least the first 2 weeks after this song dropped 😂😂😂

The live performance is absolutely outrageous, with the holograms and stuff

The animation was done by a French company out of Paris, song and other things done by Riot Games. Jaira Burns was singing the chorus and most of the high background notes. Madison Beer's character was the one with the glasses like you figured.

I CAN'T EVEN BREATHE IM SO HAPPY I FINALLY GET TO SEE YOIR REACTION TO KDAS VIDEO. I wish you saw the live , the live performance is AMAZING. Hopefully you check it out

On your own time if you want I think you'd really like to see the RISE cinematic for LoL or the new Awaken one too! Some of my favourite music comes from LoL cinematics 😄

I'm not sure, but I assume it _was_ Riot who put it together, since the whole thing was basically an advert for their new popstar skins. And yeah, Miyeon was Ahri, the fox-girl, Madison was Evelynn, with the claws, and Jaira was Kai'sa, with the wings.

*LISTEN* . . . . My standard is low Also he's an Evelynn man. Man of culture indeed

I think you should at least read the description of the M/V because all the information about the producers and direction was there (:

1) who picks either LoL or OW when you can have both!?! 2) shame on you for waiting so long due to your bias this song is gold. 3) ty for being honest and doing a reaction at all. but dont do that, bad! lol

"Oh, she killed her" my brain: uAAHHHHHHHHH nOOOO SHE DIDNT SHE DODGED IT UAHHHHHHHH

Riot made the song. League Of Legends’ music comes from their own artists. They asked these singers to collab on their song for their World Championship of 2018, which was held in Korea. I also think it was their own director with their own artist team. A lot of artists in Riot like kpop (some characters even dance to SNSD (including 1 that appears in the mv). I think they’ve done a lot of research. You may not like LoL as a game but the artist and storyline team always does sooo much research. ALSO: ALL the shots are filmed zooming out. The only one that doesn’t is like 1 second in the tunnel when the car comes towards you, but even then the tunnel pans out. You’re welcome, you can’t unsee that now. :) Some more stuff; there’s a lot of little easter eggs for those who play League Of Legends, obviously. the animation is a mix of 2 and 3D. The explosion near the end is 2D as well as the rockets right before it. The most is 3D tho. Also, the ‘villaines’ girl with the glasses is a shadow lady in game that lures men towards her to kill them. So yeah, she’s pretty evil.

You should react to this song live, they performed it in the League of Legends 2018 championship final, the animated girls, who are LoL’s champs, also appear in that occasion and i find it really incredible because they even have physically possible shadows on stage Greetings from Chile!

Idle's main vocalist Miyeon did the voice for the blond character ... Also not for a reaction but when u have time i recomend u watch the live stage they did its AMAZING

This is one of the most intelligent, thoughtful, and insightful reactions of this video I've seen. You really do a great job bringing in your experience as a producer and director, as well as your knowledge of Korean pop culture, that makes this stand out from the other react videos. Great job!

I'm really sorry, but in animation budget is also a limitation just like in live action

The one with sunglasses is Madison beer and her champion or character that she plays/sings as is Evelynn, a succubus, demon thingy. Jaira on the other hand plays/sings as Kai'sa, dont know much about her character aside from the shell thats growing from her back that shoots rockets or some shit?? Also Kai'sa's position in the group is supposed to be the dancer, but gosh darn it why didn't she get more lines?? Miyeon and Soyeon play Ahri and Akali respectively.

I hope riot does a K/da comeback 🌚 that would be amazing

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS REACTION MY WHOLE LIFE

I miss seeing Jeonghan's frame at the back.

I really like how he is appreciating every aspect of the music video, like the song, rap, singers,the producer, the animators... Everything!! He is my new favorite reactor!!! Honestly Respect man👌🏻

Pd the vocalist of idle is called miyeon pls remember 😂

Out of all the reaction vids, this one was very educational for peeps that are interested in film production and how real music videos are produced. I hope that you’ll do another reaction for their comeback this August 27.

Finally got around to support you on patreon cuz of this, since I couldn't wait :D Love KDA Popstars even as somebody who doesn't play or knows much about League Of Legends. Might be my favourite kpop music video from 2018 and I say this as BLINK who loved Blackpinks Ddu-Du Ddu-Du and the Square Up mini album this year. I think Popstars could be even a Teddy Park / YG production, performed by Blackpink. It is so similar in attitude and style. Maybe that is part of the reason I love it so much. But Miyeon (Ahri) and Soeyon (Akali) are just amazing in this. So the video also got me more attached to G-Idle.

kda posted another mv called more it's so freakin dope

madison is the english with the powerful deeper voice(red hair with glasses and long nails) while jaira is the higher pitch chorus piece(blue hair zippy girl).

Madison Beer is the purple lady with the sunglasses and smoke (Evelynn) Jaria Burns is the girl with long purple hair and the crystal back things that float behind her (Kai'sa) G-IDLE was the blonde cat girl (Ahri voiced by Miyeon) and the red haired rapper (Akali voiced by Soyeon)

-Akali sitting between 2 train tracks ''You could never do that in real life''' *Laughs in graffiti artist*

"The girl with the red hair and sunglasses she looks straight up villainous" HE PREDICTED EVELYNN'S SOLO OMG

The song is actually produced by Riot Games (their in-house studio which also makes all the music for the game and it's character themes). They make really good music overall. You should totally check out their discography! As for the actual music video, it was outsourced by FORTISCHE studios. They did such a splendid job. The dance animations were mocapped by the actual singers too! For clarification on who is voiced by who: Ahri (nine tailed fox): Miyeon (G-Idle) Akali (Masked rapper): Soyeon (G-Idle) Evelynn (Red hair/long nails/round shades): Madison Beer Kaisa (Purple hair with two floaty thingies on each shoulder): Jaira Burns Hope this helps! 😊

KDA started my journey into Kpop...now I'm hooked for life.

"Overwatch for life!!" Ur an adorable dork sksks

Every single shot in the MV is zooming out which I think is honestly so cool :D

It's Riot Music production who did this song, they are really aware of the way of doing a song, they worked with the Skin team and Lore team for skin theme and this theme is kda, they did it because World 2018 take place in South Korea and they always try new things in their way of creating product for Lol, this KDA group have his own story and Lore that exist in LOL Lore. I don't think it's a director that did the production for this song it's the result of multiple brainstroming between the 3 team and with the vision of what they wanted they had given the directory to the Animation Studio to incorporate the song.

You should react on KDA new song called THE BADDEST

Riot produced this. Its a promotional video for their new skins "KDA" of League of Legends characters Ahri, Evelynn, Kai'Sa, and Akali

And 2 yrs later his prediction of Evelynn being a “Villain” is actually made as a song

the villianous girl is evelynn lol ❤️ and she totally isn't scary when she get demon shade

The one with Red Hair is Madison Beer! The character she gave her voice to is one of the jungle champions that League has,Evelynn. She is,in fact, villainous. Evelynn is a demon who seduces men then kills them! Jaira is the one with purple hair, Kai'sa. She's a champion coming from the void. Of course Soyeon was the one eith the purple jacket, Akali. And Myeon is Ahri,the blonde fox. Ahri has another kpop inspired skin, inspired by SNSD's Genie actually! The uniform you see in her first part is her former skin clothing. This was amazingly thought. And Akali's KDA lore is very similar and give hints to how Soyeon became a famous idol after Unpretty Rapstar 3

The studio that did the animation is Fortiche! The 3D/2D mix is very characteristic of the studio, please give them lots of love 😁

“Overwatch for life” hurts even more in 2023

"Overwatch for life!" 😂

Finally! Someone finally gives due recognition to train scene. My favorite shot in this clip, on tie with washmachine/thighs transition and final sequence.

*_”oVeRwAtCh FoH LiFe”_*

The ending scene that zooms out with the color pallet changes is one of my favorite parts in any music video ever made.

My favorite mashup song ever! 🙈 🙏 ♥️

ABOUT TIME!!!! Been waiting for this for...Forevaaaa

“Whoever the one is with the red hair and the sunglasses..she looks straight up villainous.” Me watching 2 years later: Uhhhh “I’m a straight up villain straight up villain”

4:57 “Madison Beer I only like liquor.” IM DECEASEDDDOJDBWK😂😂💀

Honestly one of my faves right now

The thing I really like about the POP/STARS video is the little details you can see even as the camera pans out. The earring in Ahris' left ear moves when she does, it's not fixed. The paint the flings off Akali as she moves her arms around during her rap.

*League of Legends comes on screen* “OVERWATCH FOR LIFE!” omg

The pink hair with glasses is Evelynn in LOL. She is really villainous because she is a Demon who preys on the suffering of men. Also, in the K/DA lore, KDA EVELYNN is the "face" of the group cus she gets into scandals most of the time. She's basically the most popular amongst KDA cus she has a lot of issues.

I am so fucking offended that he didnt recognized Miyeon's beautiful voice..

the power of animation is literally making the impossible happen, thats why i love animations so much.

i believe the washing machine scene is a nod to an inside joke in the lol community of the amount of skins the character has (miyeon's, sorry idk the character or if this is totally true but i think this is the reasoning for this mv in particular) for bts' spring day people theorize it symbolizes the windows of the sewol ferry when it sank. jennie's solo is probably symbolizing a change in character and cleansing herself from the past. as for pristin, i think it was just aesthetic purposes since the weewoo scenes weren't really meant to be interpreted i believe, unless pristin fans have something to add to this?

That's "Overwatch For life!” at the end is so cute 😂

the live stage performance is so much better... should have reacted to it

Whatttt this song was released months ago and i just randomly decided to watch the mv few minutes ago THEN OUT OF NOWHERE U UPLOADED THIS

not sure if you only react to K-pop music videos but if you don't Rise from league of legends is much more story driven. If you would take a look i think that would be pretty awesome. Either way keep up the awesome work.

Was not expecting you to do this song/video!!

Lmao I wonder if he’s still “Overwatch for life” after finding out blizzard is a shill

here for the 'Eowyn' background music in the beginning... I studied to that all last semester.

Usually I can let you slide on not getting to reactions. I am disappointed in you for not catching this sooner because this was literally one of the best songs of 2018, it's top 18 for me.

I appreciate that your video is this size!! I love that i can zoom in without covering any of the video

Sir try to react " True Damage - Giants " its new song from League of Legends

Jaira was Kai'sa (Purple hair) Madison was Evelynn (red hair, the one that you liked. She's literally a demon that uses her sexuality to kill people) Soyeon, obviously Akali (rapper) Miyeon was Ahri (blonde fox lady) This was basically a promo for a new skin line (K/DA) for champions in the game !

Please, react to RISE remix ft. Bobby of iKON as well 🙏

The other member from (G)I-DLE is Miyeon and tbh they both SLAYED in this collab!! Of course Soyeon and her charismatic rapping was one of the highlights, but miyeon’s “keep your eyes on me now” was addicting to some and her visuals well Ari’s visual lol! But the live performance was also good! Miyeon was so elegant and Soyeon is such a QUEEN.

React to Awaken plz from league of legends

I have been waiting for this reaction for ages!!!

soyeon only had 2 lines but she stole the show

First time seeing your channel but 6 seconds in you earned a like for the hoodie.

Bro it took u forever to react to this lmfao

I'm sure it's already been said but unless I'm mistaken Riot's in-house music team actually did write and produce the track.