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Song Review:: AB6IX: UPSIDE DOWN- STUPID

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Release date: 2025 August 25 Album tracklist: Square Up, STUPID , Friday Trouble, A Million Dreams, Plan for You Album runtime: 15 minutes  So what's kind of funny is I've been watching the survival show B:MY BOYS (which has been about 1000% more pleasant than Boys Planet 2, by the way, not in a small part because there have been at most four people going home so far) and their rounds are centered around a specific idol group, members of which come on and are the judges for the performances, which I actually adore as a concept. One of the rounds, former Wanna One members came on (which was simultaneously also funny because of who the Planet Master is over on Boys Planet 2), including two of the members of this group, Lee Daehwi and Park Woojin. And look at how long the album and the title track are. This'll do. Wow, okay. I'm loving the amount of rock, or rock-adjacent, songs coming out as title tracks recently. I will likely get a little antsy in looking for a differen...

Song Review:: AB6IX: BORN LIKE THIS- NVKED

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  Release date: 2024 October 10 Album tracklist: In My Vein, NVKED , Forever Young, Hurt Me, Butterfly Effect Album runtime: 16 minutes So, hilariously, I just started re-watching Produce 101 S2 today. I'm seeing a lot of faces I recognize from other groups that debuted later, so it's been a much more enjoyable experience this time around. And then I see that AB6IX dropped their ninth mini album as well today! That's a good coincidence right there. This is some groovy funk going on. I was trying to decide if it was disco, because this is very clearly dance music, or jazz, because of the lovely saxophone. And then I remembered that funk exists. There's a saxophone in these instrumentals, which given that the perception of that particular instrument is one of the sexier ones, matches the lyrics well. The saxophone is a great addition to what otherwise would be a fairly standard addition to the recent trend of music to come out of the younger boy groups especially. Not tha...