Song Review:: Tomorrow x Together: The Star Chapter: Sanctuary- Over The Moon

- November 05, 2024

Release date: 2024 November 04

Album tracklist: Heaven, Over The Moon, Danger, Resist (Not Gonna Run Away), Forty One Winks, Higher Than Heaven

Album runtime: 15 minutes

Ah, yes. One of my March debuts. They're also one of my groups that I worry about due to potential overworking, and Hueningkai's recent health issues at the concert hasn't helped that. They've been all over the place this year, which is sort of good because that means more fans can see them, but also worrisome. They need to be better taken care of.

Oh, good heavens. What is that album length? That was rounded up, which makes it an average song length of less than two and a half minutes. Apparently, the producers took "mini" album a bit too literally. What happened to the days of three minute songs? I'd like an average length of four, but I fear that's too much to ask. Has shrinkflation affected song lengths as well? None of the members have even a writing credit on Over The Moon, so they're absolved for that song, but Hitman Bang does have a producing credit, and so he's the one I get to eye in annoyance.

The instrumentals are relatively minimal, and rather safe, lacking any punch that could make them truly memorable though they are pleasant enough to listen to and rather comfortable. But that also means that they just wash over you in a haze, and the song is so short that it never gets a chance to really prove itself. Which means this is the second Hitman Bang produced song since I started writing this that has frustrated me through its seeming lack of ambition. Lovely and pleasant, it is. But there's nothing to the instrumentals that make me react like Minhyuk on Kingdom listening to Jongho's high note. They're nice. And then the song just ends.

This sounds like American 90s boybands mixed with BTOB. The vocal layering is very impressive. I'm not kidding. They spend more time harmonizing above the melody, rather than below it, which is an interesting choice, but the amount that they harmonize in the song gives it an airy, hypnotic quality that I really like, but I'm not sure it's necessarily the strongest choice for a title track. The members did an excellent job with the song. They sound incredible, and even the fact that they remind me of BTOB is one of the highest compliments I can give.

Do TxT have a mythos? Does water factor into it in some way? Because that's a lot of water and I'm trying to figure out if I'm missing something. Although I'm not sure how I feel about them running in a church. It's a gorgeous music video, and they look incredible, especially in the pastel blue and white. Yeonjun's hair made me smile a little when I saw it, or at least I assume it's Yeonjun with the red hair considering that's what he had for his mixtape. The little shock of color was cute. And they way they were laying down at the end in the shape of the TxT "x" was very cool.