2. LALALILALA - APRIL
3. Why Not? - LOONA
4. Feel Good (Secret Code) - fromis_9
5. COOL - Weki Meki
Good job InSomniacs! The lil K-rock/metal KPJ faves Dreamcatcher snatch first place with their comeback
Scream, the title track of their debut studio album "Dystopia: The Tree Of Language" from last year's February.
Scream is good! It's definitely excellently produced, and has all the elements to make it feel like a *big* comeback moment that just pops sonically and visually. It's a great equal opposite to the more synthpoppy & dreamy 80s sound a lot of the major groups opted for this year. My favourite part is that lil refrain part of the song where Sua & Siyeon sings. Ah.. underrated vocalists methinks.
In second place is APRIL's
LALALILALA, which follows them doing the very popular synthpop sound from 2020. Ah.. it's gorgeous, unnies! This is definitely one of the best comebacks of the year, and yet it still feels underrated dddd. There isn't too much to say.. the song slaps, it's well-produced, the girls sound great. And it's definitely on par
or better than a similar soundscape song like
Dumhdurum but y'all ain't ready for that conversation..
LOONA's
Why Not? comes third, and wow, what a moment. The chorus is very brain-melting (in a good way) which would block it from being the true best comeback of the year unfortunately :(. But yeah everything about this song is a complete serve and it's definitely one of their best songs for the sheer ambition of it alone
Feel Good (Secret Code) is another excellently-produced song that dips into the dance-y/dreamy/synthpop sound, but it still has that sense of
cuteness that a lot of fromis_9's songs manage to have. I'm very excited to see f9 go down this path more!!! My Little Society is one of my fave minis of the year, and
Weather is like one of my most played songs of the year dd.
And in fifth place is Weki Meki's
COOL which is a fucking serve. The production and beat of this is like... absolutely god tier. It's the
perfect fusion of classic dancepop girl crush and that synthpop sound from 2020.
Now.... is it controversial if I admit that I actually like the English version
100 FACTS more? It just.. hits way differently nn. Even the "ay-ay-ay-ay" pops off more for me. It's just so like..ultimate bhaddie girly-movie-fight-scene-in-a-giant-nightclub-music teas. I'lI never forget speeding down the empty motorway at 3am in my friend's car with this BLASTING with the bass turned all the way fuck up
right after xum's ddalala came on... y'all should try that out!
All in all, all of these songs were definitely top tier releases overall AND top tier songs from their respective groups as well, so we really got spoiled this year, didn't we?