Song Review:: Jay Chang (ONE PACT): NEIGHBORHOOD- What You Need

• Release date: 2024 November 22

• Album tracklist: Paper Cut, LaSalle Ave, Four Seasons, What You Need (feat. TAG)

• Album runtime: 13 minutes

 I was not expecting a second music video to come out of this, but I'm okay with it being the song he did with his groupmate. Although, after seeing Bitsaeon with his group for the single, I'm a little concerned for B.D.U, not going to lie, and more concerned upon learning that Jay is doing a solo thing across the US. I know it's not a permanent group, but I really like them. Don't mind me. I'm worried and a little sulky.

Hello, funky guitar. This is certainly a fun song, and I suspect one that will be well suited for car dancing. It's got brief patches of respirator percussion and whistling, but the fun and flirty synth added in during the quieter sections of the instrumentals does a lot to keep the energy going. They're not overly ambitious, but very satisfactorily support the vocals and provide enough contrast to prevent the song from sounding monophonic.

 Jay's vocal runs are a thing of beauty. He's got brief little flirtations with them over the course of the song, but when he stretches and goes for it, it's so satisfyingly Jay that I'm just content. Tag does a good job of complimenting Jay's vocals with his rapping, and unless I'm mistaken, there may be small sections where Jay is actually accompanying Tag. 

Jay has a lot of personality that he seems to be able to show easily, which will help his solo career, and it's on full display for this music video. It's a little weird, but it's fun and goofy, and Jay spends basically the entire time getting beat up by this, that, or the other. I still don't know how I feel about him being blond like this because now he looks like Chan from Stray Kids. But it's cute. There's a storyline going on in there, I think, and it has everything to do with running into everything like it