Song Review:: &TEAM: We on Fire- We on Fire

• Release date: 2026 April 13

• Album tracklist: We on Fire, Bewitched, HOTLINE, Sakura-iro Yell, We on Fire (Korean ver.), Bewitched (Korean ver.)

• Album runtime: 17 minutes

 The cold continues to kick my butt. However, &TEAM dropped a new song and I've recently been sniffing around the group trying to decide if I want to listen to them more, so this is actually a pretty strong sign I should. And while I'm pretty sure that this is a Japanese release, they added the Korean version to the album, so here we are. The funny thing is that they're not even the first HYBE group to drop something this month. ILLIT dropped an OST last week. They also won't be the last because almost every group under HYBE has music expected to be released this month. Which means that we can also expect unpleasantly short songs from all of them because HYBE is the way it is right now and seems to think that shorter songs are better. Case in point: this one is barely over two-and-a-half minutes. 

I'm going to be wandering between the Japanese version and the Korean version for the vocals, but I'll give the actual title track the streams for the music video since the instrumental version is not available. We've got the skittering beat that I'm often on the fence about because so often it feels like songs rely on that to be the instrumental rather than allowing it to be the beat and the backbone of the song while other things are going on. Good news is that the instrumental does have something of a melody going on, but it's mostly buried underneath the beat. If it gets slotted into the playlist for the year, it won't be on the grounds of the instrumental.

Vocally though, they've got some good stuff going on. It's too short to let the energy ebb and flow, because even when the instrumental softens, vocally, it doesn't actually slow down. You just get the appearance of it because of how the elements work together for that. We do get some harmonies going on, and that has piqued my interest, but it feels a little bit like the song is trying to play it safe and smooth any possible rough edges. Judging by the title, there should be more, but it sounds really good, and that might be the problem.

So the wolf boys are fighting a giant, apocalyptic wolf. The branding works, which means I assume the lore is loring. There's also an extra minute and a half to the music video that isn't with the song, which means that's all storyline. I'm all about that. I love the transition from the live action to animated, but there's something about the music video itself that has me squinting at it a little. Not through the entire thing. Just in parts. I still like this though. Especially the animated section.