'Amazing Saturday' Hip Song Dictation: High-Difficulty Lyric Inference Process Taking 2 Hours for a Single Question

In the tvN variety program 'Amazing Saturday', the cast members were shown engaging in a fierce debate for a long time to guess the lyrics of a single song.

Difficulties in Lyric Interpretation: The Gap Between the Grammar of 'Hip Song' and Actual Lyrics

According to the video, the cast faced a dictation question for BEAST's song 'Hip Song'. The lyrics in the question contain the content: "When I go ahead, people tend to follow / Of course, they say I cannot designate it as I please." However, the cast members experienced confusion between the grammatical structure of the lyrics and the genre characteristics of a 'hip-hop song'.

The cast members explored the direction of the lyrics, offering opinions such as "These are not lyrics that would appear in a hip song" or "The interpretation is not hip enough." In particular, various combinations of sentences such as "They also say I am such a charming person" and "There is no man like me, it's possible" were presented, continuing the inference toward the correct answer. According to the subtitles in the video and the cast's remarks, the part of the lyrics "they say I cannot designate it" sounded like various forms such as "they say I cannot designate it" or "cannot designate," adding difficulty to finding the correct answer.

Repeated Use of Hints and Strategic Choices

To solve the problem, the cast members utilized various hints. In the video, '70% listening' and 'initial consonant hints' were used. Once the initial consonant hints were revealed, the cast members showed attempts to approach the correct answer by deriving words like 'charm' or 'magic power'. Especially when the word 'magic power' was mentioned, the cast members tested the possibility of the correct answer by linking it to the key keyword of the lyrics.

To solve the problem, the cast members repeatedly established strategies such as "We must focus more on the preceding lyrics" or the process of reconstructing sentences based on specific words. In this process, situations were created that required high concentration to match the sounds heard with the context, such as presenting sentence combinations like "I always go ahead."

Long-lasting Inference and a Twist in the Result

According to the mentions in the video, the question recorded a high level of difficulty, enough for the cast members to agonize over it for about 2 hours. The cast members expressed their embarrassment, saying, "Just because you hear it once doesn't mean you can write the correct answer immediately." Especially in a situation where the latter part of the lyrics was not clearly heard, attempts to complete the sentence by considering the connectivity with the preceding sentence continued.

Eventually, final sentence combinations to get the correct answer were presented, but the cast members showed signs of not being certain of the correct answer. In the final part of the video, a scene was captured where the cast members simultaneously revealed tension and regret ahead of the announcement of the correct answer.