Spaghetti
by Le Sserafim (featuring J-Hope)

Album: Spaghetti (2025)
Charted: 46 50
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Songfacts®:

  • "Spaghetti" is an alternative funk pop song with culinary metaphors throughout. The song uses food as an extended metaphor, comparing Le Sserafim to spaghetti stuck between one's teeth that cannot be removed or forgotten. It's a bit of "American Pie" meets "Peaches" by Justin Bieber - less about dessert or pastry and more about the kind of pop confidence you could twirl on a fork.
  • The idea for "Spaghetti" came after their earlier single "Hot" won four music show trophies in South Korea. "We thought, maybe like food stuck between your teeth, we've gotten into the public's heads," Le Sserafim's Huh Yunjin said in a Q&A about the song's release.
  • Speaking with Billboard Philippines, Le Sserafim's Sakura shared insights into the making of "Spaghetti." The song "expresses Le Sserafim's charm that you just can't get away from, like spaghetti that's stuck in your teeth," she said. "The part where we sing 'eat it up' over and over is the highlight, and since each of us members delivers it in our own styles, it adds even more playfulness to the song."
  • BTS's J-Hope delivers a rap verse, his first-ever feature on a K-pop girl group track.
  • "Spaghetti" was co-written and produced by 13 (Score and Megatone), "Hitman" Bang, Federico Vindver, Gian Stone, Tobias Wincorn, and an assortment of musical sous-chefs also helped pen the track, including Anika Bennett, Elle Campbell, JBach, Phil Leigh, Alex Crofton Ball, Matt Holmes, and Park Woo-hyun, plus J-Hope and Sserafim's Huh Yunjin and Sakura.
  • Directed by Wontae Ko, the music video depicts Le Sserafim preparing spaghetti for an eager audience, representing how they entertain people through their music. The choreography emphasizes wagging fingers and bouncing shoulders, with members dancing on oversized dinner plates to visualize the lyric about "spaghetti stuck in your teeth." J-Hope appears in a contrasting aesthetic, performing on a more minimalist, Matrix-inspired set.

    The video also features South Korean drag performers Nana Youngrong Kim, Kyam, and RingRing.
  • Released on October 24, 2025, alongside its B-side "Pearlies (My Oyster Is the World)," "Spaghetti" became Le Sserafim's first single to crack the Billboard Hot 100 Top 50, debuting at #50.

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