Song Review:: Park Je Up (IMFACT): MELLIFLUOUS- RESET

•  Release date: 2024 November 29

• Album tracklist: Destiny, RESET, Because of you, Sleepless Night, Destiny - Acoustic Version, Destiny - Instrumental, RESET - Instrumental

• Album runtime: 24 minutes

 So, I didn't check which one was the title track for the album. Good news, my review of Destiny is basically done. All I have to do is do the music video section when it gets that, as I assume it will since it's a double title track. Going by the tracklist, you can see why I was mistaken. Bad news, I saved time for future me, but that doesn't change the fact that I still have to do the actual title track. It's fine. I'm an acknowledged dingus. As an obviously unrelated side note that clearly has nothing with the mix-up, you should totally listen to Destiny because it's definitely getting a review, and I love it. It's gorgeous. Also, mellifluous? That's an expensive vocabulary word right there and so wholly fitting to this album that I'm just pleased.

Ah, this is the ballad I was expecting from him. Piano, mournful electric guitar, slow percussion. Soft rock ballad strolled all up in here and built piece by piece perfectly until that bombastic climax. The total energy drop at the very end, which serves as a return to the beginning of the song, is designed to make the audience feel emptier after the swell. It's one of my favorite audio design techniques. Usually, it's to make sounds sound louder by having silence right before it, but in this case, the opposite is being used. The silence is louder because of the amount of sound beforehand. How many times can I use that word in a paragraph before it ceases to have meaning and stops looking like a real word? 

His voice was legitimately made for ballads. There's this gorgeous vulnerability to it, underscored by the way his vibrato comes out, and the combination of it and his timbre makes this song so plaintive and heartfelt. I haven't looked at the lyrics yet, but I'll be surprised if this isn't a super sad song. And that belt! All is right with the world. The vocal ad-libs in the background in the latter part of the song match the electric guitar so well that the only way I could tell there were ad-libs there for a brief section was because his vibrato broke the matching sounds. As far as I'm concerned, being able to mimic an electric guitar like that and make it sound good is a flex.

My cat (not the demon, but the one who is allergic to tap water (this is a joke...but considering he has to have expensive special food because the lovely child doesn't consider the less expensive special food to be food and went on a hunger strike the last emergency vet trip he had to take that cost us more money because he doesn't recognize wet food as food and they wouldn't let him go home until he was eating...) and likes early BTS and B.A.P and doesn't generally care for the ballads) was curled up next to me sleeping while I was working on Destiny, but woke up and stretched out closer to the speaker when I started playing RESET. I bolded the actual sentence for reader ease. I try to avoid doing too many parentheses because they can get complicated what with trying to keep track of closing them and parentheses inside of parentheses. 

Anyway, long story short, this song is Purring PJ Approved.

He and San from ATEEZ look so much alike, it's a little scary. It's almost a Minhyuk/Soobin situation, with a similar height difference. The minimalistic music video works well for the song. I saw a comment once that any music video with water on the floor and rain was going to accompany a banger of a song, and it still holds true for this one. It's emotional. It's beautiful. It's simple. Not a lot of elements or moving parts went into this music video, but wow is it effective all the same.