I’m not going to assessment this track as a result of I don’t need to be unnecessarily imply, however listening to rookie group BLINGONE’s re-creation of KARA’s immortal Mister makes for an enchanting case research and comparability between Ok-pop generations. It solutions the query no person had however all people needs to know: What if a traditional second-gen track had been launched at present amidst our present musical tendencies?
The reply is predictably sorrowful. Somewhat than forged Mister inside a sequence of blazing, high-energy synths, BLINGONE reinvent it with the herky jerky drum-and-bass rhythms presently flooding the market. The track turns into virtually unrecognizable, its iconic, triumphant melodies lowered to a sequence of chirps and squiggles. Because the instrumental continues to drop out, the track loses all momentum, making its slower moments drag and sooner moments really feel hopelessly misplaced. It’s disjointed and troublesome to bop to, extra obsessive about creating three-second spotlight clips than fleshing out a full track. And talking of full songs, the runtime for this new model has been lower by over thirty seconds, which is wonderful as a result of BLINGONE’s model feels about ten instances as lengthy.
Once more, it’s simply an enchanting case research.