# Übermensch (album)
**Übermensch** (위버맨쉬) is the third studio album by the South Korean rapper and singer-songwriter G-Dragon, released on February 25, 2025, by Galaxy Corporation and EMPIRE.[1](https://news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPagePrintPopup.do?news_id=N1007970238) • [2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/%C3%BCbermensch/1794882375) It is his first full-length album since *Coup d'Etat* in September 2013, a gap of 11 years and 5 months, and contains eight songs with a total running time of 25 minutes.[1](https://news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPagePrintPopup.do?news_id=N1007970238) • [2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/%C3%BCbermensch/1794882375) The title and concept come from the [Übermensch](https://www.edgepedia.org/ubermensch), the ideal human figure that the philosopher [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://www.edgepedia.org/friedrich-nietzsche) presented as the goal of life in *Thus Spoke Zarathustra* (1883).[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/%C3%BCbermensch/1794882375) • [1](https://news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPagePrintPopup.do?news_id=N1007970238)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Artist | G-DRAGON (Kwon Ji-yong, 권지용), member of BIGBANG and solo artist often called the "King of K-Pop"[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/%C3%BCbermensch/1794882375) |
| Release | February 25, 2025; Galaxy Corporation / EMPIRE; 8 songs, 25 minutes[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/%C3%BCbermensch/1794882375) |
| Position in catalog | Third solo studio album, first since *Coup d'Etat* (September 2013), 11 years and 5 months later[1](https://news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPagePrintPopup.do?news_id=N1007970238) |
| Concept | Nietzsche's Übermensch from *Thus Spoke Zarathustra* (1883), framed as presenting a stronger and more resilient version of oneself[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/%C3%BCbermensch/1794882375) • [3](https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/g-dragon-ubermensch-review-3841389) |
| Guests | TAEYANG and DAESUNG ("HOME SWEET HOME"), Anderson .Paak ("TOO BAD"), Nile Rodgers (guitar on "TAKE ME"), LunchMoney Lewis ("GYRO-DROP")[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/%C3%BCbermensch/1794882375) • [4](https://musicbrainz.org/release/236baa4a-f61a-485c-b491-eaec898756df) |
| Lead singles | "Too Bad" and "Power"; Karina of aespa appears in the "Too Bad" music video[5](https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?Seq_Code=102965&lang=g) |
| Tour | Übermensch World Tour: 17 cities in 12 countries over 39 shows, ending in December with 825,000 attendees[6](https://kcultureradar.com/en/music/ubermensch/) |
## Announcement and release
G-DRAGON announced the album on February 4, 2025, posting a teaser video on his official fan social media account that revealed the February 25 release date for his third full-length album.[1](https://news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPagePrintPopup.do?news_id=N1007970238) The teaser opens with two silhouettes of the artist walking toward each other through colorful, dreamlike lighting, and the two figures merge into the Ü logo of the album title, a mark that had also appeared at the start of the "POWER" music video.[1](https://news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPagePrintPopup.do?news_id=N1007970238) A concept film for the album followed on YouTube on February 14, 2025.[7](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OBRdR-F88Y)
The album arrived on February 25, 2025, credited to Galaxy Corporation and EMPIRE.[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/%C3%BCbermensch/1794882375) Korean release listings identify Kakao Entertainment as the distributor and Galaxy Corporation as the planning company.[8](https://www.genie.co.kr/detail/albumInfo?axnm=86026747)
## Music and collaborators
The eight-track album opens with "HOME SWEET HOME," a raucous pop-rock track featuring G-DRAGON's BIGBANG co-members TAEYANG and DAESUNG and dedicated to the group's fans.[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/%C3%BCbermensch/1794882375) The guest list reaches beyond K-pop: [Anderson .Paak](https://www.edgepedia.org/anderson-paak) co-performs on "TOO BAD," disco guitarist [Nile Rodgers](https://www.edgepedia.org/nile-rodgers) plays guest guitar on "TAKE ME," and LunchMoney Lewis contributes additional vocals to "GYRO-DROP."[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/%C3%BCbermensch/1794882375) • [4](https://musicbrainz.org/release/236baa4a-f61a-485c-b491-eaec898756df) Writing and production credits include the German producer [Boys Noize](https://www.edgepedia.org/boys-noize) (Alexander Ridha) on "IBELONGIIU," "TAKE ME," and "GYRO-DROP," and the American songwriter Diane Warren as a co-writer of "DRAMA."[4](https://musicbrainz.org/release/236baa4a-f61a-485c-b491-eaec898756df)
**Tracklist.** The running order is "HOME SWEET HOME" (feat. TAEYANG & DAESUNG, 3:31), "POWER" (2:23), "TOO BAD" with Anderson .Paak (2:34), "DRAMA" (3:55), "IBELONGIIU" (3:13), "TAKE ME" (3:39), "보나마나 (BONAMANA)" (3:16), and "GYRO-DROP" (2:49).[4](https://musicbrainz.org/release/236baa4a-f61a-485c-b491-eaec898756df)
**Sound.** Reviewing for NME, Rhian Daly described the record as leaning into an upbeat pop pocket, from the "instantly infectious," funk-laced "Too Bad" to the blissful, falsetto-filled "IBELONGIIU," while still showcasing the rap skills on "Power" and the stuttering rhythms of "Gyro-Drop." She judged the album firmly on par with G-Dragon's best work.[3](https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/g-dragon-ubermensch-review-3841389) In the press statement accompanying the release, G-Dragon described the record as one that "embodies the idea of presenting a stronger and more resilient version of oneself to the public."[3](https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/g-dragon-ubermensch-review-3841389) "Gyro-Drop," named after the drop tower ride at Seoul's Lotte World theme park, compares a hook-up to amusement park attractions.[3](https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/g-dragon-ubermensch-review-3841389)
[KBS World](https://www.edgepedia.org/kbs-world) identified "Too Bad" and "Power" as the album's lead singles, and noted that Karina of the girl group aespa appears in the "Too Bad" music video.[5](https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?Seq_Code=102965&lang=g)
## The title and its meaning
The album takes its name and inspiration from Nietzsche's Übermensch, the figure presented in *Thus Spoke Zarathustra* (1883) as the goal of life.[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/%C3%BCbermensch/1794882375) • [1](https://news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPagePrintPopup.do?news_id=N1007970238) Apple Music frames the record as G-DRAGON's attempt to transcend his previous efforts as a musical artist.[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/%C3%BCbermensch/1794882375) A Korean art analysis of the concept reads "POWER" as putting Nietzsche's idea of becoming into practice, calling the Übermensch one who surpasses the human through self-overcoming and creation, and reading the song as G-Dragon's declaration of self-affirmation.[9](https://busandabom.net/bofels/BBS_202507090543254131.pdf) An academic Korean discussion places the album in a broader pattern of K-pop artists borrowing concepts from [Western philosophy](https://www.edgepedia.org/western-philosophy), describing the Übermensch of *Thus Spoke Zarathustra* as a being that overturns God-centered values and creates its own.[10](https://dcollection.korea.ac.kr/public_resource/pdf/000000303911_20260422064521.pdf)
On stage, G-Dragon offered a lighter reading of the framing. A review of an early tour date noted that the show dramatized a three-stage transformation into the Übermensch, and quoted him telling the audience that the Nietzsche, ideology, and philosophy of the album title were, in his words, largely for show.[11](https://www.tvdaily.co.kr/read.php3?aid=17433316311746066010&gopc=1)
## Tour and promotion
G-Dragon supported the album with the [Übermensch World Tour](https://www.edgepedia.org/ubermensch-world-tour), which covered 17 cities in 12 countries over 39 shows and ended in December with a reported 825,000 attendees.[6](https://kcultureradar.com/en/music/ubermensch/) His agency framed the record as the artist overcoming himself and returning stronger and bolder, after Nietzsche's Übermensch.[6](https://kcultureradar.com/en/music/ubermensch/)
The album also received a media exhibition, *G-DRAGON MEDIA EXHIBITION: Übermensch*, staged in Seoul and Tokyo and then in Taipei from July 17 to August 11. The exhibition used AI, real-time holograms, VR, and next-generation 3D computer graphics built in [Unreal Engine](https://www.edgepedia.org/unreal-engine) to interpret the core message of the album, and used multiple 5G real-time hologram devices to screen performance footage of "TAKE ME" and "IBELONGIIU."[12](https://welcon.kocca.kr/cmm/fms/CrawlingFileDown.do?atchFileId=FILE_1587ce4c-09ac-4398-9c0d-356e0d1a9172&fileSn=1)
## Other recordings titled Übermensch
The Nietzschean word has been used as an album title several times. The Polish death metal band Lost Soul released *Übermensch (Death of God)* on Osmose Productions; the Metal Archives date the CD to 2002,[13](https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Lost_Soul/%C3%9Cbermensch_%28Death_of_God%29/457569/) while a metal.de review lists a release date of July 1, 2003, 12 songs, and a running time of 36:36.[14](https://www.metal.de/reviews/lost-soul-ubermensch-death-to-god-3317/) A reviewer there later called it one of the best Polish death metal albums ever recorded.[13](https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Lost_Soul/%C3%9Cbermensch_%28Death_of_God%29/457569/) The German band Übermensch, a RAC project founded in 2013 from the band Überzeugungstäter, has released albums including *Naturgewalt*[15](https://punikoff.wordpress.com/2020/10/08/ubermensch-naturgewalt/) and *Heimat*, the latter voted album of the year in a year-end poll by Frontmagazin.[16](https://punikoff.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/ubermensch-heimat-box-und-lp/) The German band Fehlfarben released *Über … Menschen* in 2014, its title playing on the same word; singer [Peter Hein](https://www.edgepedia.org/peter-hein) stated he wanted nothing to do with Nietzsche's Übermensch.[17](https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/neue-alben-in-der-kritik-das-muss-man-gehoert-haben-oder-100.html) The Portuguese black metal band Örök gave the name to a four-track second album,[18](https://toughmagazine.de/cd-reviews/oeroek-uebermensch/) and the Spanish band Crucifuck released a thrash metal debut called *Übermensch*.[19](https://metalcry.com/discos/crucifuck-ubermensch/)
## References
1. [지드래곤, 2월 25일 정규앨범 발매 확정, SBS News](https://news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPagePrintPopup.do?news_id=N1007970238)
2. [Übermensch – Album by G-DRAGON, Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/%C3%BCbermensch/1794882375)
3. [G-Dragon – 'Übermensch' review: the king of K-pop returns triumphant, NME](https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/g-dragon-ubermensch-review-3841389)
4. [Release "Übermensch" by G-DRAGON, MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/release/236baa4a-f61a-485c-b491-eaec898756df)
5. [G-Dragon veröffentlicht drittes Studioalbum "Übermensch", KBS World German](https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?Seq_Code=102965&lang=g)
6. [Übermensch — G-Dragon, K-Culture Radar](https://kcultureradar.com/en/music/ubermensch/)
7. [G-DRAGON – 3RD ALBUM CONCEPT FILM, YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OBRdR-F88Y)
8. [음악, 그리고 설레임 – Übermensch, Genie](https://www.genie.co.kr/detail/albumInfo?axnm=86026747)
9. [부산미술 analysis of the Übermensch concept and "POWER"](https://busandabom.net/bofels/BBS_202507090543254131.pdf)
10. [Korean academic discussion of Übermensch and K-pop concepts, Korea University dcollection](https://dcollection.korea.ac.kr/public_resource/pdf/000000303911_20260422064521.pdf)
11. [지드래곤 월드투어 리뷰, TV Daily](https://www.tvdaily.co.kr/read.php3?aid=17433316311746066010&gopc=1)
12. [G-DRAGON MEDIA EXHIBITION: Übermensch, KOCCA](https://welcon.kocca.kr/cmm/fms/CrawlingFileDown.do?atchFileId=FILE_1587ce4c-09ac-4398-9c0d-356e0d1a9172&fileSn=1)
13. [Lost Soul – Übermensch (Death of God) review, Encyclopaedia Metallum](https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Lost_Soul/%C3%9Cbermensch_%28Death_of_God%29/457569/)
14. [Lost Soul – Ubermensch (Death To God) review, metal.de](https://www.metal.de/reviews/lost-soul-ubermensch-death-to-god-3317/)
15. [Übermensch – Naturgewalt, Punikoff hört rein](https://punikoff.wordpress.com/2020/10/08/ubermensch-naturgewalt/)
16. [Übermensch – Heimat (Box und LP), Punikoff hört rein](https://punikoff.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/ubermensch-heimat-box-und-lp/)
17. [Fehlfarben – "Über … Menschen", Deutschlandfunk Kultur](https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/neue-alben-in-der-kritik-das-muss-man-gehoert-haben-oder-100.html)
18. [Örök – Übermensch, Toughmagazine](https://toughmagazine.de/cd-reviews/oeroek-uebermensch/)
19. [Crucifuck – Übermensch, Metalcry](https://metalcry.com/discos/crucifuck-ubermensch/)
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