I’m not going to evaluate this music as a result of I don’t wish to be unnecessarily imply, however listening to rookie group BLINGONE’s re-creation of KARA’s immortal Mister makes for a captivating case examine and comparability between Ok-pop generations. It solutions the query no one had however all people needs to know: What if a basic second-gen music had been launched right now amidst our present musical developments?
The reply is predictably sorrowful. Slightly than solid Mister inside a collection of blazing, high-energy synths, BLINGONE reinvent it with the herky jerky drum-and-bass rhythms at present flooding the market. The music turns into nearly unrecognizable, its iconic, triumphant melodies decreased to a collection of chirps and squiggles. Because the instrumental continues to drop out, the music loses all momentum, making its slower moments drag and sooner moments really feel hopelessly misplaced. It’s disjointed and tough to bop to, extra obsessive about creating three-second spotlight clips than fleshing out a full music. And talking of full songs, the runtime for this new model has been minimize by over thirty seconds, which is superb as a result of BLINGONE’s model feels about ten instances as lengthy.
Once more, it’s simply a captivating case examine.