Song Review:: itsnotover (isn't): itsnotover- Kids Room

• Release date: 2026 July 13

• Album tracklist: Twenty, Kids Return, Run It Up, Lovestruck, Trainspotting , It's Not Over, Boys Gonna Dive

• Album runtime: 18 minutes

 Okay, the next subunit for this group has debuted, but because the groups current overall maknae is currently fifteen (debuted at fifteen, turns sixteen next month as of writing this), I will have to check every subunit until he turns eighteen in 2028. The maknae of this particular subunit is seventeen, turning eighteen in a few months. He's also the leader and while I'll accept the maknae debuting at seventeen, I did have to check for the second thing that would qualify a group, or in this case a subunit, for Underage Protocol, which is the number of underage members. There are only two in total of the five, which is within acceptable limits percentage wise, and they both turn eighteen before Joshua and V turn thirty-one. And, best part, is that even though there are some short songs lurking amongst the b-sides, this one is three minutes long. 

 This reminds me a lot of the nineties for some reason. There's nothing concrete that I can pinpoint what is promoting that feeling, which is fine, but it's got a vibe that I wasn't expecting. We've got a little bit of a swagger from the rhythm of the one set of percussion instruments, and it does a pretty good job of using the absence of the instruments to create a sense of variation and rhythm across the song rather than just on the micro level and rather than changing the instruments entirely. I wish there was more variation and that it was stronger, but what we have isn't a glaring problem.

There's one spot in the chorus that reminds me a lot of Kingdom Come by The Boyz and also 2YA2YAO! by Super Junior, which is a good association for me to have to start the subunit off with. We don't get a lot of big vocals, but the range across the subunit makes it well balanced and I'm going to take a listen to the rest of this album to see if we get what I'm hoping they can give to us. They've got a really good blend here between the rapping and the singing both in terms of time and prominence so that neither feels like they overpower the song. And there are some very nice slides going on with the vocals and some of those notes, so I'm pleased to be hearing that.

I appreciate the flashing lights warning. I don't need them, but I appreciate it all the same. So fun fact, at :07, there are the already-debuted fifteen members of idntt, and then the new five burst through them. That's really cool. I don't know what it is about them, but they have such strong band-with-instruments vibes in this music video. It's got that slightly feral, just hanging out vibe that we're getting from the boy group debuts these days, like with KickFlip and Cortis and such.