Song Review:: Song (iKON): It's CALL!- It's call {Debut}

• Release date: 2024 March 06

• Album tracklist: It's call, I.I.L (I'm In Love) (feat. Bobby), Miss You, This is what I live for, FIGHTING - Band Version

• Album runtime: 5 minutes

 Well, Song is in the military, and I want to fluff out the March releases a little more since I've got a moment. I'm also very clearly avoiding another member of the 95z who is currently enlisted and released a single in March of this year, but with the amount of cheer in this fabulous love song, I think this would be a good time to use it to try to combat seasonal depression for those of us who have it to go with the plants and the vitamin D, since I know those things can also help. Plus, it's a debut. And I love those. I also love trot. Hilariously though, with as much as I've listened to it this year, it didn't make my top 100 on Spotify. 

This song isn't the serious unseriousness of Super Tuna or God of Light Music topic-wise, seeing that it is a love of a person rather than, say, a fish or...trot music itself, but the instrumentals have the same grand goofiness to it like those other songs that people may be more familiar with. It's call has such big band energy, as is normal with the (limited) trot songs I've encountered, that I have to love it for that, but then there's a demanding electric guitar during the chorus that modernizes the sound into something that takes into something much more akin to a rock band. This isn't the kind of song that asks for extensive, difficult dancing. Instead, it feels like it would work best with what I affectionately call "car dancing", the wiggling and movements you can do while seated in a moving vehicle. That chorus really does not have to go as hard as it does though. It's very dramatic.

If I didn't know Song was part of iKON, which is not a group one thinks of when one thinks of trot music, I'm not sure I'd believe it, and now part of me kind of wants to see what the group could do with something like trot music. Now that they aren't at YGE, I think it might be a little more possibility. He has pitched his tone and timbre to perfectly be for trot. It's one of the things I love best about when members of K-Pop groups debut as soloists: we get to see what music they like. And apparently Song is at least somewhat into trot, which again makes me laugh regarding what music he's been doing for most of his career with the group. His voice matches well with it.

Apparently this song also has a performance video attached to it. Which is one of the funniest things, because the choreography for Call is so unbelievably dorky. I love that for him though. The dorkier the better. There's not much with regards to a storyline here, except toward the ending where we finally got the play on words I expected to happen as I thought he was saying "Korea". It's a fun, goofy music video with choreography that makes me smile and also roll my eyes. It's precious is what it is. Also, there are four or five different outfits that he wears in this.