K-Pop (General Discussion)
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The chorus on Dilemma? Perfect. That second verse though? It just throws the whole vibe off — it's disjointed for the sake of being and its inclusion doesn't particularly add much to the plate other than many thoughts of putting this perfectly icy, detached chorus into something more straightforward. BEP kinda overstretched the limit of frankensteining a song with this one but we're still streaming because if there's anything they can do, it's a chorus!
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I listened to the two releases of the day.
INVU
The song is so fucking smooth and even though I'm a bit tired of that sound, Taeyeon's vocal chops and the clean production of it elevates the song a lot. Also that fucking music video?????? Incredible, showstopping, ART.
As for Dilemma... I want to like it because I've eaten up everything Apink has released since their Apinkification but I don't think the song is there? The vocal production threw me off from the start, and if you're going to make a song disjointed commit to it. It's not jarring enough to excuse it so it just kinda... flops around dddddd And I don't think the chorus is strong enough to compensate for it. Oh well. I'm happy they are back, though, even if the song isn't it for me.
INVU
The song is so fucking smooth and even though I'm a bit tired of that sound, Taeyeon's vocal chops and the clean production of it elevates the song a lot. Also that fucking music video?????? Incredible, showstopping, ART.
As for Dilemma... I want to like it because I've eaten up everything Apink has released since their Apinkification but I don't think the song is there? The vocal production threw me off from the start, and if you're going to make a song disjointed commit to it. It's not jarring enough to excuse it so it just kinda... flops around dddddd And I don't think the chorus is strong enough to compensate for it. Oh well. I'm happy they are back, though, even if the song isn't it for me.
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I honestly (and sadly) haven’t really been here for a single STAYC release yet (talented girls, but their music just hasn’t done it for me!), but I would be very excited if this comeback changes things. Sounds like a smash.
Irrationally excited for this now. Wow
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Dilemma is a pretty great track but I'm enjoying a lot of these B-Sides even more! Truly a great day for K-Pop with two excellent releases.
I'm shaking discovering I get to catch up on some ICONIC KPOP releases today?
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HOLD ME!
truly her best MV, her best looks, the song is a bop!
I couldn't start listening to the album after 1 hour later because I were too stucked with the MV and single iconic! Her voice sounds incredible in the song all the backing vocals too eugh I just love it so much. My fave single of Taeyeon and it seems the album too
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fff I'm glad someone said this, I couldn't agree more! None of us are strangers to thumb-twiddling verses at this point, but slapping that interminable, half-time slog between the best choruses humanity's ever known? Truly not it.
But yes, still gonna stream 100000x and just do some breathing exercises or something to pass the time!
It’s really weird cause the live performance with Namjoo & Chorong taking over Naeun’s second verse kinda remedies the flow issue for me. It’s exactly the same but the way it’s produced in the performance feels less jarring and I hate saying that cause I love Naeun.
Guest vocalist Spritzee is prolific (at 0:09)
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Guest vocalist Spritzee is prolific (at 0:09)
Oh that reminds me, I don't think we'd clocked this one previously:
That's right, it's SprITZY!
(also these were all produced by Alawn, in case there was any remaining doubt fhjdsh)
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Dilemma is uniquely good but there's some parts of the song that sound exactly like the chorus of this song (0:35) and it really throws me off ddd
