Song Review:: EVNNE: LOVE ANECDOTE(S)- How Can I Do
- Release date: 2025 August 04
- Album tracklist: dirtybop, How Can I Do, Mako, love chat, PUT IT ON ME, Newest
- Album runtime: 17 minutes
It's a little surprising that there were so few releases on a Friday, but that works for me because that means I get to work through some of my backlog. So since they got a music show win last week and they also got one this week, I'll hit this one now. Congrats, EVNNE! I'm not super please by the runtime, which would be a lot higher if we didn't have two songs hovering around two-and-a-half minutes, though, critically, both are technically over two and a half minutes if barely. And fully half of the songs are three minutes or longer, though, again, barely. So it could be worse. And the title track is one of the ones that is over three minutes.
The song has a really good beat to it with a chill and relaxed groove to it. There's a little bit too much unpredictable bite (though not enough to draw blood) to the instrumentals that keep it from being easy-listening, even though the energy level never shifts or really alters in anyway. But it's also not something that is wall-of-sound or a frantic race to the end of the song. It's a casual saunter of a song with purpose.
I wish the song had ad-libs. We don't get a lot of variation vocally and ad-libs would have been a great way to move the song out of the almost rut it seems to in. The pathway of the song feels very well-worn and well-traversed and ad-libs would have let the song change the rhythm a little bit, even it was just some wordless vocalizations to match what's going on in the instrumentals at the end.
I was waffling on if this was a vibes and visuals music video or more of a performance video type while I was watching this. I think I ended up landing on the vibes and visuals side, though I may change that opinion tomorrow, or in an hour. They spend a lot of time on the visuals (which are impressive) and also the choreography (which looks cool), but not a lot else. It's a good-looking music video just in general.
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