BABYMONSTER Makes A Debut-Comeback With “SHEESH” And VVUP Debut With “Locked On”

Sadly I am unable to discover something constructive to say about “SHEESH”. Every little thing on this comeback/debut screams Blackpink and never in probably the most flattering approach. Every little thing type music composition, to stylistic decisions, wardrobe, MV, picture, idea and many others tries to repeat Blackpink and fails. Like they took all of the dangerous factors of all Blackpink’s title tracks and put them multi function track. Atrocious, repetitive refrain: examine, non-sensical lyrics: examine, utterly incoherent raps: triple examine, pseudo hype-inducing chant-ending: in fact examine. Though Teddy wasn’t concerned (presumably), that is the Teddy-est track I’ve ever heard. Like whoever produced it used an AI to create a brand new track based mostly on Blackpink’s final 4 title tracks. 

This track was additionally positively written for Blackpink and a 4 member group. You possibly can truly pay attention which half was meant for which Blackpink member. And since Blackpink is a 4-member group whereas Babymonster now has seven, they moved all the additional members to the rap components. And on prime of that the raps have been terrible with lyrics like “Vroom vroom’, “pump pump pop” and “Click on clack click on”. They have been actually rapping sounds. As a result of that is what these phrases are: onomatopoeia.

Concerning the music video itself, once more every thing appears “stolen” from earlier Blackpink’s music movies. Backgrounds, costumes, digicam work and angles. Even the choreography was simply merely there, for the women to simply to maneuver and there was nothing unique and even spectacular.

YG has misplaced nearly every thing up to now six months. They misplaced their big-shot producer Teddy, all members of Blackpink and all members of BigBang. So I used to be anticipating to provide their greatest to get one thing again with Babymonster. As an alternative they changed Blackpink with with some new faces, which though they’re very proficient, they’re nonetheless very younger and lack the presence to personal this idea, which is “I’m the perfect and I’ve the costlier bling”. As an alternative of giving them their very own id they promote them as replacement-Blackpink, giving them Blackpink rejects and leftovers. I truthfully really feel sorry for these ladies. No one turned profitable by merely coping others. And this isn’t the women’ fault.

I admit I had very excessive expectations for this launch as a result of for YG it was now or by no means, nevertheless it appears they do not need to change. I actually needed to power myself to hearken to this track a second time and I’ve no need to hearken to it once more. Mainly it is the refrain makes it unlistenable however total it a large number. Even when I had by no means heard of Blackpink earlier than, I would not like this track. It feels so faux, like a patchwork of concepts, prefer it was created by a gaggle of firm executives that each one wished their pitched concepts to be included within the last model of the track, however no person keen to do the precise manufacturing. And the saddest factor is that the album has a tremendous track in it, “Like That”, which is not going to be promoted as a result of it’s the solely track that was not written by YG. This observe produced by Charlie Puth and was given to Babymonster as a present.

VVUP (비비업) – Locked On (락던) 

VVUP is a four-member multi-national woman group underneath EgoENT. The group lastly made its debut as we speak on April 1, 2024 with their digital single “Locked On” and the same-titled observe because the album’s title observe. The group has already pre-released “Doo Doom Chit” on March 13, 2024. 

At first their picture put me off, as a result of they’re clearly copying the so-called NewJeans-image. 4 contemporary, younger ladies, with lengthy black hair and toned-down make-up who cannot be bothered to bounce correctly as a result of they’re too cool for it and may simply do it effortlessly. However then I listened the track and it was superb. It catches you from the primary word and it will get higher and higher. because it goes on The women exude actual confidence with out pretending to be one thing they aren’t. The tempo adjustments continuously and the melodies come one after one other however the vitality stays. Chances are you’ll assume that may make the track incoherent, however each single half is so memorable and catchy that it feels stable in the long run. The women additionally praise one another expertly and that makes them appear extra like veterans as an alternative of the rookies they’re. I’ve to confess I do not know something about their firm however the manufacturing of the track is ideal and that could be a large plus. This debut was an surprising however nice shock!