In this paper, we study the bilinear Littlewood-Paley square function introduced by M. Lacey. We give an easy proof of its boundedness from L p (R d) × L q (R d) into L r (R d), d ≥ 1, for all possible values of exponents p, q, r, i.e. for 2 ≤ p, q ≤ ∞, 1 ≤ r ≤ ∞ satisfying 1 p + 1 q = 1 r. We also prove analogous results for bilinear square functions on the torus group T d .