Tuesday, January 1, 2013 @ 11:25 PM |
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So the wait is over! Expectations were soaring high this time around with SNSD's 4th album. I was a little late to find out that it was coming out at 5 KST, which meant that while I was stuck on the screen of my computer at 1am yesterday, constantly refreshing my youtube dash and SMTOWN FB, it was actually coming out 15 hours later. I waited the whole day, getting fidgety after lunch, then it finally was released.Just a summary of what I think of the song itself, just so, you know, I make my point well clear. I'd rather call this a little medley mashup of about 5-6 songs in one. Why? BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY MELODIES STUCK IN EVERYWHERE, IT'S LIKE, FOR GOD'S SAKES MAKE UP YOUR MIND. Whoever that composed this song must be ambitious with what they've got. It sounds like they had worked on a couple of melodies in the past, and somehow or rather ran out of time to fully work on one, so they just decided to stick them all together (I know they ran out of time because that's what happened to my IGCSE music composition and it sounds as confused as this piece. heh.) Another big dissapoint this time was the fact that Hyoyeon didn't get her usual dance solo. The girl can dance like the world's ending and you give her some rap duel with Yoona? Thoroughly dissapointed in you SM, well and truly dissapointed. You're not using your assets well enough.
Sooyoung starts off with a rap with melody number one with Yuri. Then Tiffany struts in with her english skills, no surprise there; still sounds relatively good. Taeyeon is next up with a continuation of melody number 2 from Tiffany's intro, followed by Seohyun. Melody number 3 and 4 is used multiple times at various parts of the music with the help of Jessica and Tiffany's sudden "Stop right there; take it back to another lane, something something 140". To be frank, it's a mess. No flow at all.
Having said that, I actually do like the individual melodies. It's just a shame that they decided to mush it all up into one song.
On to the other songs.
First song is Promise:
It's a nice slow ballad, showcasing the lead and main vocals quite neatly. The melody is sort of sweet I guess, but it's nothing amazing and doesn't really appeal to me that much. Good song to listen to while doing Maths though.
Next up is Express 999:
Funky composition that reminds me of some disco era song. This song also has a dual melody to it, but it has a far better transition than IGAB fortunately enough.
Third song is Lost in Love:
This, my dear readers, is a product of TaeNy. Taeyeon and Tiffany is only featured in this song. I found that the song was very lyrical, and spoke out to listeners. The slow quirky sounds in the background at the start reminded me of those clips of MR removed you can find on youtube to see if your bias is really lip syncing or not. After a while, it fades away, and a nice beat accompanies their voices. Lovely song indeed.
Up next is XYZ:
I don't really know what to think of this song. It's a fuse of what I term the "latest" rage with music. A lot of those techno things, but not too hardcore. It's bearable, and somewhat to a certain extent quite catchy.
Look at me is 5th on the list:
A cute-sy rap greets us, with a melody that has a hint of Indian-ness to it. Again this reminds me of a song from the disco era, but this time with some mystery vibe in the middle with some funky guitar playing in what I think would be the climax. You look at me, I look at you.
I'm not sure what Romantic St. is suppose to read, but it's the next song:
This may be one of the more favourable songs in this album for me. There's such a nice piano melody in the beginning, and IT HAS FLOW. Something IGAB totally lacks. It does however have some hints of a song from TaeTiSeo's Twinkle album in it as well as a song from their The Boys album? Is it just me? I don't know, it just sounds really familiar to me. But still, this song gets on the good list.
The next song is apparently a Korean version of Pixie Lott's What you do, called Baby Maybe:
Still meh. Is it me, or are they just having korean versions of english released songs? SM needs to hire better composers.
If you haven't already watched their version of Duffy's Mercy which was shot during their Gee days, you can watch it now:
Nothing to shout about, it's the same melody and everything. It's just that it's in korean and rather than belting out "something something begging you for mercy" it's now " something something dancing" and then somewhere down the line would be queen or dancing queen together. I do feel though, that this has a slight "whole-ness" feel to it, but I figured that's only because there's 9 of them singing the song, whereas Duffy only had herself.
That's it for this album. Overall, it was quite a dissapointment. I loved the melodies in IGAB, but it was just too much in one. The other songs were just mediocre, and didn't really appeal to me as much as the songs from the Twinkle album. Just waiting for their live stages, to see the overall performance.
-Naz
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