Song Review:: Park Je Up (IMFACT): Again,Star #3- Aftereffect

• Release date: 2024 November 03

• Album tracklist: Aftereffect, Aftereffect (inst.)

• Album runtime: 7 minutes

 Grim Reaper boy from Build Up! Their performance of Pray lives in my head rent free. Also, I shouldn't call him that because he is technically two years older than I am, but if I ever meet him, I'll be more respectful. Until then, he gets that nickname. 

I love his voice. Yowza.

Also, that is what we call a proper song length.

I'm very happy that I can listen to just the instrumentals on their own because I have a feeling that I'll be thoroughly distracted by his voice once I listen to the song as a whole. And honestly, this is so cinematic that I can almost picture the movie it came from. Starting off with the mellowness of the piano and whatever the hollower instrument is gives the song a melancholy air, but when the percussion and the strings enter the scene, the swell of music turns the melancholy into determination. There is a sorrow to it still, but the build up continues on (pun partially intended) with the brief introduction of the guitar that just as quickly leaves. But the change in energy comes when the violin switches to the staccato notes rather than the gliding legato they have been and the melody shifts a little. I'd almost wonder if there was a key change here, but if there is, I think it would be a temporary one. But that ending with the violin in the lower notes and the piano quietly continuing the melody its had the entire time is settling in a beautiful way.

He's keeping his voice soft until it's time for the chorus, and then he takes the restraints off. But nothing compares to the bridge and the addition of the ad libs. The main vocalist energy in this man is real. I know he's the main vocalist of IMFACT, but that's not the point. I love it as much as I expected to, which is a whole heck of a lot. The vibrato he's got going on is simply incredible. I just love it. I love his voice so much. And he even raps a little.

The music video is less a music video and more a recording video. But I'm very much intrigued by the other things we see there. And taking a brief look at IMFACT's discography, I discovered they had a single called Lie, which is also the word we see written on the staticky TV. But the number of members of that group we see are more than IMFACT has. AH! I get it! This is a remake of ZE:A's song Aftermath! I missed the word that I recognize as "original artist" even though I don't actually know if that's what that word means. Okay. So it's a remake. Things make a lot more sense, but I'm also still positive that this is also tied to IMFACT in some way. I just don't know IMFACT well enough to know if I'm right.