Song Review:: Seventeen: SPILL THE FEELS- Eyes on You

- October 21, 2024

Release date: 2024 October 14
Album tracklist: Eyes on You, Love, Fame, Money (feat. DJ Khalid), 1 to 13, Candy, Rain, Water
Album runtime: 18 minutes

As excited as I am to see them in about two weeks, I really wish their schedule wasn't as packed as it currently is so they could give some time to their second promoted track. Well, and so they could properly promote their first title track, but I think I've accepted that part of the unfortunate circumstance. Hopefully they get a little bit of a break at the start of the year. I don't remember if I said this on LFM's review, but I had to round out to get to the 18 minutes. Some of these songs are worryingly short. I'd really like Woozi and Bumzu to not be following that specific trend.

There's a specific b-side from NU'EST that honestly was the first thing I thought of when I first heard this song when it came out, because while this is very reminiscent of early NU'EST, it's actually BLACK from their second album, Romanticize, that this reminds me of. As much as this song is a love song, it's also a dance song (there are actually a lot of other similarities with BLACK, including some very similar lines, but as much as I would like to focus on the similarities, that's not something that I'm doing right now). Eyes on You is synthy, it's drummy, and it's energetic. I can 100% imagine them doing choreography to this song. I really like the whistling whoops that pop occasionally through the first half of the song. And then in the second half (I know technically, it should count as vocals, but I'm not sure that they're ever going to be sung by the members), we get some adorable "beep" vocalizations within the instrumentals. It's cute.

With a song with this kind of back track, the kind of music I would have expected would be more like FML. Instead, we got a love song. Am I utterly unsurprised by this and the timing? Yes. They're the immediate dongsaeng group to NU'EST after all.

Okay, look. My eyes know this is a Seventeen album. My ears know those are Seventeen's voices. But my heart does not care. It feels like a NU'EST song, and that makes me sad knowing this is the closest I will get to a new one. Vernon is the only reason my heart can remember that this is Seventeen. It's fine. I'm only in mourning for a group I didn't even get to know when they were active, and Seventeen hasn't helped that this year between singing FACE during the Maestro comeback special of Going Seventeen and singing Hello during Caratland. It's fine.

Now that that's off my chest and my apologies for that brief detour, the intensity of their vocals is definitely on the mellower side, though given the lyrics, I'm kind of grateful for that. Bur honestly, this is one of those songs that I could easily just toss on repeat and sleep to it. Their voices are soothing and calm and, it's a little bit of a dissonance with the instrumentals, but not enough that it's an issue.

If this was a drama, I'd be sobbing every episode for the poor characters. Oh, my gosh. Seventeen is rescuing each other. Whether it's physical trauma or emotional trauma, they're taking care of each other in whatever way is needed. And not that I'm trying to read too much into it, but the fact that The8, who is one of the ones who will not be enlisting, is the one to retrieve Jeonghan. Watching it again, the pairing up of members is a little precious. None of the ones who will be staying are paired up with another member who is staying. It's fine. It is all fine. They need hugs.