Song Review:: Wheein (MAMAMOO): Aftertaste

• Release date: 2025 January 09

• Album tracklist: Aftertaste, Aftertaste - Instrumental

• Album runtime: 10 minutes

 Wheein just casually slid a single towards us, and I love that for her. She's probably the member of MAMAMOO that I'm least familiar with, but that just means that there hasn't been good timing for me to get to know her. And this also comes with the instrumental, which makes her my favorite right now. But even if I don't know her as well as some of the other members, she's in MAMAMOO and that tells me everything I need to know about her voice.

Wheein dropped a song that belongs in a fairytale. I'm not even kidding. I'm reminded somewhat of Pinocchio and Cinderella, without anything substantial to explain why I'm connecting those two to this song, but also, this is both soft and sweet, with just a bit of a bite occasionally from the cymbals and the guitar. But we get strings, which are one of my favorite things to be added to music because they create such a cinematic depth to a song. I have absolutely no idea what the song is about, but from the instrumentals, I'm feeling like this is a "You're not alone" song. It's definitely about song of some variety but I'm not sure about the specifics. At least, not yet.

I was wondering which member would be the one to have this timbre. Much like the instrumentals, When's voice is soft and sweet, even when she dips up into belting range. Oh, and her vibrato is gorgeous. My obsession with vibratos continues and likely will not abate, but this song needs the vibrato, otherwise it wouldn't sound nearly as beautiful and soaring. 

She's so pretty. It's another duh because she's in MAMAMOO, but wow. Her stylists need a raise for this MV, which is less an MV and more some sort of special video, but still. Wow.