Hmm... I don't think anybody called for this one yet, so it might be a bit of a shocker.
#36
"Trouble, trouble like a miscode
It's a state of emergency
It's a bu-buffering
I’m on that glitch mode"
Glitch Mode ♡ NCT DREAM
Team Flame · From KPJ Charts
7.4
7.3571
Highest Scores:
10 (
@Slice of Life,
@ohdenny,
@ohnostalgia,
@Wills)
9.5 (
@boom bazooka joe,
@KimLippington)
9 (
@leedlelee...,
@chrisjche,
@soratami)
Lowest Scores:
5.5 (
@Attis) /
5 (
@TéléDex,
@Christopher,
@nikkysan) /
3 (
@ysev )
My Score:
7.5
Leaderboard Evolution:
23 ⬂ 35 ⇨ 35 ⬂ 36
Hmm… I feel like I’ve already “cracked the code” for what to expect from modern
NCT DREAM title tracks. It’s always a shouty, chant-y chorus with varying degrees of pots and pans in the production filtered through different genre flavors. It clearly works for them, they are a massively successful boy group, but it’s not really my style in particular, though I enjoy them in small doses.
Glitch Mode is on the lower end of the DREAM title tracks ranking for me, but it's fine! It’s very catchy, I just wish it had a bit of a stronger centerpiece, but I guess the scattered approach works with the concept.
What does stand out for me, as is often the case with DREAM, is some of the vocalists: they bring much needed freshness and airiness to a track that could feel a bit too leaden otherwise. And while watching the super fun MV, I found out that my favorite vocal other than Haechan was that super pretty guy with dark hair among the flowers? OK, consider me a Renjun stan now! I also forgot it had an ice/frost theme and I put the song on Team Flame but it wouldn't really have worked on Tears.
@Salami (6) compliments the quirky choreography and everyone's favorite dance studio:
“First off I like the dancing, and on that subject, I'm grateful for Studio Choom so I can just see groups dancing without zooming in or a pointless scene in an MV that adds nothing. The song…eh, I can take it or leave it. I think the only bit I like is when they say the title.” @Christopher (5) on the other hand can’t stand that bit:
“I don't hate this...until the chorus hits. I cannot abide glitch music.” You really said fuck Kwon Eunbi! Taking issue with a different section of the song we have
@Macsun (7.75):
“This always grows on me…they I’m reminded of the awful bridge.” Girl, what? That’s almost always the best part in any given SM song, and this is no exception!
@enjoy (6) agrees:
“There are couple parts that i enjoyed from this mainly the bridge and the ending.. but good god, no.”
OK, enough dissecting the song structure! I’m not sure if
@boom bazooka joe (9.5) is spilling:
“Glitch Mode is to Beatbox as Hot Sauce is to Hello Future. Meaning, it's superior but it's treated by most to be inferior.” Controversial! I find Hot Sauce very cute, but Hello Future is just gorgeous!
Mark parts aside. @MmmDani (9) stans
“I can get behind utter nonsense when it slaps, and this does.”, as does
@chrisjche (9):
“This song has grown on me so much - it's weird and noisy but also kind of addictive.” That’s a good way to sum it up!
@Wills (10) is even more succinct:
“Their best song idc”
