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Song Review:: Wonho (Monsta X): Syndrome- If You Wanna

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Release date: 2025 October 31 Album tracklist: Fun, If You Wanna , DND, Scissors, At The Time, Beautiful, On Top of the World, Good Liar , Maniac, Better Than Me Album runtime: 27 minutes   He’s giving us a proper album, y’all. Love that. The average length of the song is around 2:45, maybe a little less than that, but I’m slightly alarmed by that (especially because this title track is less than two-and-a-half minutes, which I am not about). But because almost all of the songs are quite a bit shorter than I’d like, that also means that there are going to songs that are of a good length. However, because I did the pre-release, I knew I had to get this one done. There are a couple of others that their title tracks have finally dropped that I need to do, but I’ll get this one done. Because it needs to be done.  \Okay, so that’s a heavy beat. That’s one of those beats that I’d be feeling in my bones during a concert and being grateful for my earplugs and a little concerned for my...

Song Review:: DKZ: TASTY- Replay My Anthem

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Release date: 2025 October 31 Album tracklist: Appetite, Replay My Anthem , Love Game, Best Friends, Kick Down, Eyes On You Album runtime: 20 minutes   Frankly, I’m a little surprised by the fact that the mini album is called TASTY and the title track is not “Appetite”, which is the name of one of the other songs on the album. It would have been pretty thematically appropriate. I’ve actually been seeing the challenges a lot, not that I’ve actually been watching them because I didn’t want the challenge to influence my thoughts, but I really hope that, if I’m seeing their challenges, they’ll go viral for this song even if I haven’t heard it yet. The group needs it. Also, the average is longer than three minutes, and the title track itself is three minutes long. Barely, but it counts.  This is one of those sleek and shiny instrumentals that would do well in a nightclub in some dystopian science fiction. It isn’t particularly big or bold, but it’s not soft. There’s a pretty f...

Song Review:: WEi: Wonderland- Home

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Release date: 2025 October 29 Album tracklist: HOME , DOMINO, One In A Million, Gravity, Everglow Album runtime: 16 minutes  You know what I miss most about K-Pop groups? Official fandom colors. Seventeen with their rose quartz and serenity. SHINee with their Pearl Aqua. NU'EST with bright pink and deep teal. (I'm expecting TWS to get fandom colors as well, judging by Pledis's past boy groups and they are ostensibly still independently functioning...). I also love it when we get as specific as a Pantone color, which WEi has three of: 297C, 281C, and 7679C. I got on to check ages just to make sure. I figured, because of the 2020 debut, but that just decreases the odds, you know?  Oh, this is a pretty song. I've heard a few similar songs recently that are a bit more energetic vocally, because with the combination of the acoustic guitar and the percussion that could be on the calmer side of instrumentals, it's actually pretty versatile. We got the calm song this time t...