Song Review:: Hoshi (Seventeen): Fallen Superstar

• Release date: 2025 November 11

• Album tracklist: Fallen Superstar

• Album runtime: 2 minutes

 Woozi: I want you to forget me.

Hoshi: I’ll make sure you won’t be able to.

I love the way the instrumental builds through the song. Starting off the way it does with just the acoustic guitar, then adding the percussion for a beat, then adding another instrument to it to help smooth out the slight disjointedness that is there when it’s only the guitar and the percussion is brilliant. That pattern resets a couple of times, and we get a couple of really nice moments of rest. 

This sounds like something The8 would do, and I kind of love it. Performance unit vibes. Especially with Skyfall. (Also, I forgot to put this on repeat twice because I wasn’t paying attention. First time, the first song after was his English OST. The second was Tiger by The Boyz. It amused me.) I’m not overly fond of the sound of autotune as an artistic choice, which isn’t a Hoshi-specific preference, but I do prefer it to autotune that I can hear but it’s not prominent enough to say that it definitely is an artistic choice. The lyrics are cute, but the song is so short that the amount of repetition present is also not my favorite. However, again, if you like Skyfall, this is the song for you. And we get Hoshi actually singing, so he’s proven his range with the two songs that have come out in his enlistment era so far. Lyrics-wise, this is actually a sweet little love song.

So it's mostly a vibes and visuals music video with a sprinkling of storyline, which is fine. I'm inclined to believe that this may be part of his ongoing "had a bad break-up last year" thing that we've gotten from him since he revealed Latte to us. He's literally trapped in the music, and even when he isn't, she doesn't see or hear him, or maybe she can't. But that's just my theory. Please don't take that as gospel truth.