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Song Review:: Taemin (SHINee): Eternal- Horizon

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  Release date: 2024 August 19 Album tracklist: G.O.A.T,  Sexy in the Air ,  Horizon , The Unknown Sea, Crush, Deja Vu, Say Less Album runtime: 21 minutes Double title track incoming! Dystopia is the theme of the album! Sexy in the Air  is good. It took me a bit to fully warm up to it, and I'm still not sure I'd put it in a regular listening playlist, but I think Horizon  is the superior song. Clocking in at just under three minutes, we have a futuristic, techno vibing song. If Sexy in the Air  is a sleazy dystopia, this is a chromed out dystopia straight from the 1980s. This song is a Blade Runner song. It's a Tron  song. But like...it's also simultaneously a Stranger Things  song. I'm not kidding, if Horizon  showed up in the soundtrack to that show, I'd be so unsurprised by it that I would forget it came out last month instead of forty years ago. Such is the potential brainwashing power of this song. I dig it hardcore. Give me a dance bat...

Song Review:: Taemin (SHINee): Eternal- Sexy in the Air

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Release date: 2024 August 19 Album tracklist: G.O.A.T, Sexy in the Air , Horizon , The Unknown Sea, Crush, Deja Vu, Say Less Album runtime: 21 minutes      As the inaugural review for this new blog, I had to go with Taemin. I know this is a few weeks late, but better late than never and it's at least still in August. Hello, and welcome!      As his first album under the new company, I'm sure most fans approached it with mild or moderate hesitation.       Luckily, I don't necessarily think we need have worried too much.       The song opens with some grindy electric guitar, an element I have to admit I'm a fan of in general. It reminds me of a science fiction dystopia film at night in the rain during a chase, which is a specific image for me that isn't at odds with the music video.      The verses lose that guitar, turning into more of a generic trap sound that unfortunately loses my attention, but turns...