Song Review:: MEOVV: BURNING UP

• Release date: 2025 October 14

• Album tracklist: BURNING UP

• Album runtime: 3 minutes

 Not quite a three minute song, and it does round up, but that’s a little lower than I’m comfortable with usually. Oof. Hi, there. Bet you weren’t expecting this many reviews to be posted today. This is apparently what happens when you trap me in a car in the dark for four-and-a-half hours with nothing else to do and the ability to read in the car and feel completely fine. But I’ll just keep going. I was working on NMIXX’s and Spotify told me that I should listen to this one because it was also a new review. Well, I can’t listen to them because they’re too young. But. I still find it really funny that BABYMONSTER and MEOVV regularly have similar comeback schedules and they’re not from the same company, but I do call The BlackLabel “YGE Lite”. They’re affiliated in a way that makes me consider BABYMONSTER and MEOVV to be sister groups, which is why it’s just funny how often the two groups have releases together. The maknae was fifteen at debut, which means that I have to put them on Underage Protocol, but they get taken off of it next December. Only a year and a bit. It’s really not that long and then I get to dig into their discography like I’ve been wanting to.

So, good news. The song does have a dance break, which i wasn’t going to hope for given the runtime, but at the same time it does mean that the song has a lot more work to do leading up to that dance break to give it the appropriate energy going in. I’m not sure that it meets that, but I’ still qualify it as a pretty strong song. I’m also really intrigued by the wooden percussion going on. I wasn’t expecting it, and it lends the song a particuarly interesting texture.

They’ve got such strong voices. Two more years of training would have been perfect, you know? Also, you can really hear the 2NE1 influence in this groups specifically, but what 2NE1 would sound like as a fifth gen group. There’s a part of the song that will be really strong for concerts and live performances, but I don’t know that it necessarily works just as an audio track. Still, this is one of those songs that if it were to get a win, I’d be fully supportive of that.