Upside Down Kiss

Jul 24, 2025

3 min read

Updated: 1 day ago

⋆ Genre [Source: Naver/Big Hit]: Pop (Hip hop & New Jack Swing influence)

⋆ Producing Credits: FnZ, Slush Puppy, Slow Rabbit, "hitman bang"

⋆ Writing/Composing Credits: Slow Rabbit, "hitman" bang, Anthony Watts, Feli Ferraro, FNZ, Gino The Ghost, JBACH, Marcus Lomax, Slush Puppy, Misha, danke, BHM, Yeonjun, sokodomo, Zaya, YIYIJIN, Lee Eun Hwa, Lee Aeng Du, Kim Chae Ah, Ellie Suh, Choi Bo Ra

ABOUT/MEANING: “Upside Down Kiss” uses surreal, inverted imagery to explore a relationship that remains meaningful even when everything surrounding it becomes unstable. As the world turns upside down, the kiss at the centre of that chaos becomes an act of trust: rather than waiting for life to become predictable again, the boy chooses to embrace the connection he shares with “you.”

This marks an important change in how uncertainty functions within TXT’s story. Where chaos once contributed to isolation and the desire to escape somewhere safer, the world no longer needs to be corrected before connection becomes possible. Love does not restore everything to its proper orientation; it gives the boy someone he trusts enough to experience that disorder beside. What keeps him grounded is not certainty about what will happen next, but certainty in the connection he has chosen.

As the opening track of The Star Chapter: TOGETHER, “Upside Down Kiss” consequently introduces a more resilient form of devotion. Having found one another again, the challenge is now to sustain that bond through whatever changes come next. Even if their world turns upside down again, they can learn how to exist within it together.

LYRICS - ENGLISH TRANSLATION (translations by @translatingTXT)

https://youtu.be/XWKVfHOV-_4

In your gaze my face reflects upside down

Keep your eyes on my (ah-ah-ah)

Baby don't freeze

Something completely opposite

My instincts instantly knew

Heated skin (ah-ah-ah)

No on but you, shh

(Uh) Our two feet

Even if they're tied to different worlds and can't meet

That's what I like

A difficult game

Defying the orbit

CONNECTION: This may recall “Dear Sputnik,” where meeting “you” is described through two orbits finally crossing paths. “Upside Down Kiss” makes the celestial imagery more defiant: rather than simply following an established orbit, the pair are “defying” it. Within a song about remaining connected despite apparently incompatible worlds and opposing forces, the image emphasises their willingness to resist whatever would ordinarily keep them apart.

I don't give a shit

Baby girl let's get freaky

Laughing at gravity

Our lips just shy of touching

We're freer than ever

Baby I'll make it easy

Just as it's flipped

My lower lip

Meets your upper lip (our lips)

Upside down, upside down (Kiss kiss)

Hey, hey

Your lips overlapping mine (Your lips!)

On top of that, swing groove (Groovin'!)

Like North and South poles (Like that!)

We're perfectly stuck

Can't pull away

CONNECTION: This recalls “Blue Orangeade,” where the boy compares himself and “you” to “S and N magnets” - opposites whose differences make them naturally attracted to one another. “Upside Down Kiss” returns to the same magnetic principle through the North and South poles: despite existing under different “gravities” and orientations, the pair are “perfectly stuck” together. Their differences do not prevent connection; like opposite magnetic poles, they become part of what draws them towards one another.

Our bodies just go with the flow

All five senses filled with you

Is that why everything we do feels unlike the rest?

Sip it like an affogato

CONTEXT/EXPLANATION: An affogato is an Italian dessert typically made by pouring hot espresso over cold gelato or ice cream. Its combination of contrasting elements - hot and cold, bitter and sweet - fits the song's wider imagery of opposites coming together.

That's who we crave each other, yeah

(Uh) It feels like a movie

Two people under different gravities

Just a more dramatic twist

It's no surprise

Don't need no changes

I'll kiss you the way I am