Song Review:: Tempest: RE: Full of Youth- Unfreeze

  • Release date: 2025 March 31

  • Album tracklist: WE ARE THE YOUNG, Unfreeze, Destiny, ONLY U CAN, COME BACK HOME

  • Album runtime: 16 minutes

 Hey, so remember back in March, how Tempest dropped a mini album and I didn't review it? I don't currently have my list of recent reviews I haven't covered with me right now, so given that it's the weekend and we have fewer songs releasing, I went into my drafts list (there are 90 drafts, some of which are for templates for me to copy so I don't have to type it out every single time, and some BBS and GH posts that are being prepped, so they aren't all groups and soloists I haven't gotten to yet) to find one while I have a moment to write reviews. But guess what! This is my soothing balm for the moment because the average song length isn't even just three minutes. It's over three minutes. Thank you, TEMPEST. And thank you, whatever company you're at.

It's got a really danceable beat, that, even when the song softens, remains through the entire thing. The song feels like it's pretty high-pitched, so the fact that the instrumetnal is so strong provides the group with a solid base for those vocals and the performance. Other than the small, brief changes to soften the song, the instrumental is also very stable with very little variation, which does unfortunately meant that I can't listen to this song focusing on the instrumental too long. I will say that the science fiction skittering, not warbling like usual, is a welcome break, but it only shows up once.

As I just mentioned, the song is very high. They actually spend a lot of time up in the falsetto region, or one or two of them do, but that just means that when the rapping is happening, it feels a lot lower than it is. Not that I'm complaining. I was listening to some country music yesterday and specifically Why Don't We Just Dance by Josh Turner (as a side note, did that song really come out fifteen years ago? Really? Ooph.) and hearing the deep rumble he's got made me realize how high the kpop boy groups sing. I knew they were high, but the contrast was stark with that. So I'm really and specifically pleased with the contrast provided by the rapping in this song.

First of all, we've got a storyline, which I'm all about. Yes, please, and thank you. But also, this is actually just a sweet love song, and I'm kind of all about that. This music video is recommended.

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