Song Review:: ILLIT: I'LL LIKE YOU- Tick-Tack

  • Release date: 2024 October 21
  • Album tracklist: I'll Like You, Cherish (My Love), IYKYK (If You Know You Know), Pimple, Tick-Tack

  • Album runtime: 12 minutes

 There are some things I just have to put up with as someone who isn't a fan, and not knowing when B-side music videos drop is one of them. But because this wasn't an immediate release and I'm also not actively a fan, I put it on the backburner a little until I was ready for it. But I'm good now! I'm ready! Let's do it!

A two-minute song. I forgot that this album doesn't have a song over three minutes.

I love the ringing at the very start of the song. It's so brief. It's barely a second long, if that, but it really sets the tone for the rest of the song. The instrumentals for this song are basically straight out of a 8-bit Nintendo video game. We're talking the early Mario or Sonic games. It was a little disconcerting on the first listen, but subsequent ones make it a lot less so as I adjusted to it. It's dreamy, but it's not very pastel. It's more of a rose pink. 

This song is such a second gen throw back. I mean, the first time I heard it, I was almost positive that I'd heard this before from a second gen group. Also, it's very much in line with the second gen "nonsense" songs. As such, I don't exactly expect a lot in terms of the vocals, especially when they are so autotuned. But it's fun, it's catchy, and it's a good example of the kind of song that this is.

The music video is almost a full minute longer than the song itself. Okay, so I play tennis, right? I've played it for almost 5/6 of my life. For a few seconds, I forgot I was watching a music video. And I one hundred percent jumped when that ball went right at the camera. I know what that feels like, and I had phantom pains! Anyway, this is genuinely just a cute song. It's a cute music video. It feels unserious in the best way. And boy, do I also understand the feeling of being into one of the other athletes. Divorcing the song from the music video, I get it so well. I also did stupid things. Stupid, stupid things. But it was a cute time, even if I was a stupid teenager, and this music video encapsulates those feelings well.



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