Random Shuffle Evaluation: B1A4 – Child Good Evening

With over 5,000 songs on my iPhone’s “Okay-Pop Singles” playlist, I believed it could be enjoyable so as to add a little bit of unpredictability to my tune evaluate posts. So consequently, we now have the “Random Shuffle Evaluation” characteristic.

The foundations are easy. I hearth up my playlist, press “shuffle,” and no matter tune performs first will get the complete Bias Checklist therapy!

Yr Launched: 2012

It’s a disgrace {that a} group like B1A4 doesn’t exist anymore in Okay-pop. Earlier than you all bounce down my throat, I’m properly conscious that B1A4 themselves are nonetheless selling, albeit with a brand new configuration. However for the aim of this write-up, I’m particularly speaking about 2011-2017 B1A4 earlier than two members left and the sound of Okay-pop modified fairly drastically. Previous to that, this group managed to discover a pathway that skirted between established boy group tropes to forge a sound all their very own. That’s partially because of the members’ participation in songwriting/manufacturing, but it surely’s additionally a product of an period that was nonetheless curious sufficient to permit for risk-taking creativity.

If you concentrate on it, B1A4 by no means match completely into any established idea. They by no means did “darkish,” “brooding” or “shouty,” and even when their songs have been vivid and bubbly (as they typically have been), the music by no means felt cookie-cutter. A tune like 2012’s Child Good Evening exemplifies the distinctive contact they all the time gave their music. It’s upbeat and enjoyable however nonetheless a little bit bizarre. From its boring electrical thump to the swirling melodies that forge the refrain, the observe spawns countless vitality whereas preserving issues oddly sedate. It’s a catchy-as-hell pop tune with an off-kilter rhythm and nearly cartoonish efficiency. In different phrases, the tune is only a ton of contradictions thrown collectively. It’s definitely “pop,” however defies simple idol group classification. These qualities make it timeless. Taking part in Child Good Evening as we speak feels simply as contemporary and charming because it did 13 years in the past. This tends to occur when artists don’t slavishly comply with traits and readily conform to market-proven templates.

Grade: A