Come Play (song)

On September 12, 2024, Arcane announced the track listing for its second season's soundtrack album, which South Korean boy band Stray Kids, Puerto Rican rapper and singer Young Miko, and American guitarist Tom Morello performed the track titled "Come Play".^[1] In the press release, Stray Kids revealed that the song "has a dynamic taste to it, bringing all sorts of voices and languages together."^[2] A snippet of the song was first previewed on October 14,^[3] and the full-length was released as a second single from the soundtrack two days later, alongside the trailer that featured the song.^[4] The extended edition of the album included the Kordhell remix of "Come Play".^[5]

A pop-rock track^[6] blending K-pop, hip-hop and rock styles,^[7] "Come Play" is described by Remezcla's Jeanette Hernandez as a "strong guitar-driven song with K-pop elements and [...] incomparable flow," highlighting "Stay Kids' energy and raps, Morello's guitar riffs, and Young Miko's signature rap cadence."^[8] Gregory Adams of Revolver called the song a mixing of "pop-world digi-beats" and Morello's "tone-warped guitar rhythms" with "multilingual, attitude-heavy bars from Young Miko and a few Stray Kids members".^[6]

• Stray Kids – vocals
• Young Miko – vocals, writer
• Tom Morello – guitar, writer, producer
• Diego López Crespo – writer
• Dave Emerson Dahlquist – writer
• Ashley Fulton – writer
• Kami Kehoe – writer
• Kill Dave – producer
• Sebastien Najand – additional producer
• Tom Norris – mixing
• Joe LaPorta – mastering