Song Review:: JinJin (ASTRO): JIN LAB Project 8. [Runaway]

• Release date: 2024 November 30

• Album tracklist: Runaway

• Album runtime: 3 minutes

 Ooh, he dropped another surprise single. He's been a busy bee this year. I don't know if this was actually a surprise, and I'm sure people in the fandom could tell me if it was or wasn't, but it was a surprise to me. What a way to round off the month than with another entry into his singles series.

I'd be more upset about the run time, but these are his pet projects, and he can be as experimental as he wants for them. 

These instrumentals remind me of country music, which is the primary genre I listened to up until fairly recently. The vocal styling is not, but the instrumentals themselves feel familiar. This is lovely and a bit of a hug, but ultimately the instrumentals don't change too much. The only variation we get is at about the two minute mark, which means that the instrumentals are meant to take the back burner for the vocals. 

I don't know what the words mean, but there's a line in here that's the same as in xikers's Witch. So I'm proud of myself for at least recognizing that. JinJin's got a rapper rasp to his voice that isn't as prominent as it could be, but still gives the song as a whole a nice texture to it. I think he's got what my mother would call a boyfriend voice. The amount of repetition plus his warm, a little-raspy voice is very much a good, soothing sound that makes me want to go to sleep. 

No music video, as per usual.