Song Review:: MODYSSEY: 1.Got Hooked : An Addictive Symphony- HOOK {Debut}

• Release date: 2026 April 13

• Album tracklist: HOOK, REVENANT, HOOK Chinese ver., HOOK Inst.

• Album runtime: 12 minutes

 MY OTHER BOY STORY BOY GOT TO DEBUT THIS TIME! YOU GO, LI ZIHAO! Sorry for the capitals. Ahem. Let me try that again. MODYSSEY is the boy group consisting of the Planet C members from Boys Planet 2, the paired group to Alpha Drive One. As should have happened originally, but I digress. Our maknae turned 20 this year, so we're completely fine on that end, and I'm actually really pleased about this line-up. A lot of the ones I wanted that shot at debuting managed to this time around. And, very cool for them, Stray Kids's 3Racha wrote the this song, so I'm anticipating this to sound a lot like a Stray Kids song. And it turns out that Li Zihao, who is at JYP with Stray Kids and 3Racha while in Boy Story, said that this was intended to be a Stray Kids song, according to I.N.

If there were a Stray Kids instrumental that this was going to sound like, it would be Back Door. It's got a very similar guitar thing going on and if this were a book, the two plots would be the same plot with different details like this song's specific sound effects. Like how Harry Potter and Star Wars are basically the same story, but with different details to the archetypes, you know? It's also that same flavor of swagger that you find in a lot of Stray Kids songs. Some people might be upset about that, but you then need to remember that 3Racha are the primary force behind most of their songs and that if this one didn't sound like a Stray Kids song, then there would be questioning if they really wrote this one. "A Memory of Light and Mistborn are really similar!" "Well, they have the same author and they were written around the same time." "I know! How dare that author have an identifiable voice across series!" I've actually heard that conversation in real life at a writing convention, paraphrased to highlight the absurdity of the outrage and for length because that man ranted for a couple of minutes. In most instances, an author who can demonstrate flexibility in being able to write in different genres, but still come across as undeniably them, is a good author. There's no reason why that shouldn't be the same for music. Mild frustration aside, there really are some very interesting points to this song in this instrumental.

This really does sound like a Stray Kids song. Oh, that's amazing. I'll need to take a listen to the other song on this single after this to see what the group sounds like without the 3Racha influence. You know what? I'm not even mildly peeved over the repetition of the word "hook", because it stabilizes the song against the combination of the strong instrumental and the occasional discord between vocals and instrumental. But we've also got such a magnificent range in what's going on that I'm beyond satisfied. Strong falsetto and vocal fry in the same song? I feel spoiled.

The music video leans heavily into the slice of life genre, but the sense of the absurd is strong. Wait, is this the same genre as Hundred Years of Solitude, the only assigned book in high school I didn't actually read because I couldn't make heads or tails of it? (I do recommend reading it though; the little bit I actually read before I gave up because I couldn't keep the characters straight (and I did read the last few chapters, but I understood the ending a lot better than the middle) was very interesting. It's got a good plot). Huh. Well. Regardless, I enjoy the music video because it's quite weird but it also pretends like it's normal before it does something completely out of left field. I like it.