Song Review:: from20 (BIGSTAR): Eye Candy

• Release date: 2025 April 11

• Album tracklist: Eye Candy

• Album runtime: 2 minutes

 So, I, uh, saw this for the first time at KCon. Figured I wanted to review it, because goodness. I also don't remember much of the song itself, because my brain short-circuited a little watching him, but since I've seen him perform it live, I thought I should. I'm also going really far back for this one because I would eventually like to get my April wrap-up finished. Also, it turns out that he's one of my 2012 debuts, which honestly tracks more than I'd like to admit, but the group disbanded at the seven year mark. This is a painfully short song though. Interesting thing, I think he was 20 when he debuted with BIGSTAR. Is that where his stage name comes from? Maybe.

So, the song has a lot of repetition in the instrumentals, and sounds pretty science fiction warbly, but if it was science fiction from the 70s with some hip-hop dumped into it. It's got a quiet swagger that is occasionally intrusive but acts more as a punctuation using those brass instruments. I'm not as good with identifying brass instruments by ear as I am with other instruments, but it is definitely a brass doing that. Also, I really love the first three or so seconds of the song where it's just quiet and then we get an elevator ding. It's a blink and you miss it moment, which is intriguing. But you know how the song ends? Another elevator ding. So it functions as the bookends of this very short song.

I accidentally left this on repeat, and I've got to say that having it just be my background music in my ear for like an hour while I did other things definitely made it warm on me a lot more than I was expecting. By the end of that hour, I was vibing. The lyrics are hilariously...I don't know that I can call them suggestive because that seems a bit too tame to describe the lyrics. 

That thumbnail. First of all. And the description makes me laugh a lot as well. Less than thirty seconds into the music video and he's already removing his shirt. I'm laughing so hard. This is top ten music videos of the year for me. Do you know how foul they did us with the tracking? They did not need to call us out like that. I can't say it was wrong. But also. When I'm not distracted by the, well, eye candy on screen, the choreography looks pretty cool, the little bit we get. Also, we've got almost an extra minute of music video compared to the song, I think.