Song Review:: LUN8: Butterfly

• Release date: 2025 February 19

• Album tracklist: Butterfly

• Album runtime: 3 minutes

 I have a random photocard from this group that I don't know where I picked it up from. It's a single photcard of a random member. But I'm pretty sure this is a younger group, which means I need to go take a quick look-see. And we are good on that end. Both the former maknae and the current maknae are adults. Eunseop, I hope your future endeavors go as well as you hope. Welcome to the group, Yuma!

This is the kind of song that you'd do a modern dance showcase with. There's a fluidity to the instrumentals (and a violin which helps) that, while you could do something with sharp angles, it's much more fitting for grace and bonelessness and flowing like water. The only part that would be more appropriate to have be sharper would be during the chorus when the baseline is more active. Also, you'll notice one of my other favorite things in songs. So we have a violin, which is what I want, but there's also audience participation snapping.

Ooh, one of them has a little bit of a low rumble. Hello, there. This song not only has two of my favorite things in the instrumentals, but it also has one of my favorite vocal things. I don't know about anyone else, but it is so very satisfying to have your sequential notes be moving up or down a scale. It always feels, to me, like moving along stairs made of plywood, and it's easy to hit those steps, but it's like a little miniature test to see if you can hit those steps with your foot fully on it without stepping hard enough that you're going to break through the plywood. I hope the members get that same level of satisfaction that I do. The voices are well-supported, even when they're softer, and the ad-libs are good.

Y'all. Okay. So, yes, this is technically more of a performance video than it is a proper music video. But, and I apologize in advance for the tone and dialect shift that is about to happen but I'm not going to try to control this, I ain't even mad, bro. This is legit one of the prettiest and most beautiful things I've seen in ages. The members' visuals are off the charts. The cinematography is beautiful between the lighting and the editing and the angles. That choreography? Bruh. I am sitting here in awe because of how stunning it is. And what really seals the deal for me is the costuming. The strips? Such a tiny, tiny additional detail that adds so much to the choreography and literally everything about this performance. This is gorgeous. 

Fantagio, I'm gonna need you to promote the everlovingness out of this song.