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This is essentially a super group of female artists from the different K-Pop "generations" at SM Records: 1st: BoA 2nd: Taeyeon and Hyoyeon (Girls' Generation) 3rd: Seulgi and Wendy (Red Velvet) 4th: Karina and Winter (aespa)
The single is one of those divisive SM songs, and it's not hard to see why. Produced by Dem Jointz who worked with Kanye, Dr. Dre, Anderson .Paak, and a lot of other artists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dem_Jointz), and it follows that formula that SM has been kind of infamous for lately: somewhat odd beat during the verses, a beat switch or two, insert a really melodic bridge, and return to previous beat. The two singles for this group in particular have had very distinct repetitive vocal samples in them. The first one has a Gregorian chant, and this new single's sample is apparently (?) from an Arabic song ("Stamp on It": https://youtu.be/likYKQXBLbw), although it sounds like it might be the vocal sample re-sung by them.
The song's lyrics don't make any sense, I dislike the second beat comes in, and there are a lot of other things that feel too goofy to work, but I find myself oddly coming back and listening to it. The bridge is fairly short, but I'm a sucker for these kind of melodic bridges, and the sequencing from Wendy -> Taeyeon -> BoA sounds great. Definitely not a song I would use to introduce anyone to K-Pop unless it's for the novelty, however.
The rest of the album mostly has that girl crush sound that has been popular the last few years. My favorite on the album is probably "Alter Ego" (https://youtu.be/k-M45W_iWMs), but the other songs have some some elements I enjoy too.
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