I think this is my favorite K-Pop I’ve listened to so far, though I admit that the sample size is still very small. It’s still got what I feel like is, to me, an increasingly core issue regarding the organization of the music; there are albums and eps and rereleases and singles and remixes and Japanese versions and on and on, it’s a huge hassle to listen to everything without repeating songs or getting terribly confused. Is it so much to ask that artists release one thing one time? Part of me can believe this is a superficial issue, but part of me stands by the notion that it’s genuinely problematic. It makes the music, I feel, far less accessible. Aside from that, I rather enjoy it. It’s good pop, it’s fun, it’s a good time. I don’t really have more to say about it than that. It has the same issues for me that other K-Pop does, because those are systemic issues and K-Pop is very much a system (as any industry is, yes, but K-Pop is more industrialized than most music. Or rather, the industry of K-Pop is more strict? I’m not sure. That might be entirely the wrong direction in which to field my complaints, besides.)
All that to say, this was very enjoyable, good stuff. I can boogie wif it, A-
ENHYPEN complete, now listening to: Kenshi Yonezu