Song Review:: 2AM: Moment

• Release Date: 2025 March 30

• Album tracklist: Moment, Moment - Instrumental

• Album runtime: 8 minutes

 The group hasn't been exceptionally active the last few years, although they did release quite a few singles last year. Still, a series of singles does not an album make. On the other hand, I can generally rely on them to be beasts, much like their twin group is. Speaking of 2PM, I want them to release a new album too. It's been too long since we've been graced with an album from either group. Let's have the powerhouses have a full comeback this year. Both sets.

I'd be absolutely ecstatic and over the moon if that happened.

The amount of soft acoustic guitar throughout the song gives me life. The beat is slow and soft. And you know what this song has that I love when it shows up in music of any kind? The violin. Violins for some reason instantly make any song about 80% more dramatic and cinematic, but this one has an electric guitar to bellow alongside the acoustic and the violin. It's so pretty. Like, I'd be happy with just the instrumental on its own without any of what I know are going to be stunning vocals. The graceful swells of sound that soften into plaintive, thoughtful valleys control the energy of the song with surgical precision. And there's a key change! I could cry. It's got nearly everything I love in a song.

If this is your first time reading any of these reviews, hello and welcome! I have a slight obsession with vibratos, mostly because I don't think I have much of one myself, which is a trial I must face every day. So when confronted with professional singers, I expect vibrato. I recognize that the style of music often limits the amount of vibrato that can be shown, but I also have a wild conspiracy theory that the kpop companies largely train the vibrato out of their idols' voices these days because most of the time when you run across them, they're from older idols or groups and prevent them from properly letting loose to show off those voices. Why? I don't know. Like I said, it's a wild conspiracy theory. And if you're currently listening to this song, you'll understand why I just spent so much time harping on and on about vibratos. I may have to use this song as a mental reset for when I get frustrated by the lack. And then my second favorite thing, harmonies, shows up as well. And then the thing that I've missed the most from recent kpop releases: key change. So many of the songs are too short these days to even pretend to have something as complex as a key change, but clocking in at over four minutes, this one is definitely long enough.

Top song of the year in terms of new releases. I'm calling it now. It'll be top ten for me.

So they don't have a music video per se, but they do have a live clip. And it's just the four of them sitting and singing their hearts out. Their voices are so good. Oof.