Song Review:: Cravity: Jelly Bean

  • Release date: 2025 February 10

  • Album tracklist: Jelly Bean

  • Album runtime: 3 minutes

 You know, this is likely a contributing factor to why Allen and Taeyoung weren't on ASC this last week. Huh. I'm glad that I have an explanation now, even if it's not the correct one. I don't like not knowing things.

I love things like whistles in songs. They bring me a lot of joy because they add an element of audience participation to the songs, and I love places where that occurs. And, honestly, I'd slotted this song into being representative of the genre, despite those lovely whistles, but then the big, dramatic bursts of instrumental happened. That's exactly the kind of music I particularly like, even though I know that not all music can and should be like that because diversity and variation is good in any ecosystem. But that part is so much in my wheelhouse that I was immediately reevaluating. So there is quite a bit of bias here. 

We've got some interesting vocal layers and what I strongly suspect to be parts that take advantage of a stereo audio system but I don't have my headphones at the moment to verify that. But we've definitely at least got some harmonizing happening, which also gets a yes from me.  There are shades to the vocal melody that remind me of Levitating by Dua Lipa, which then by default also reminds me of The Barbie Movie. So that's where I've settled with this song. 

No music video for this, but that's okay. If it gets one, I'll update this. And also apparently this is in Japanese? Wow. Okay. All I had to do was look at the lyrics. It's fine. I'm fine. 



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