Track Assessment: RIIZE – Do Your Dance

As with too a lot of their new-gen friends’ discographies, it’s exhausting to foretell how a brand new RIIZE single would possibly sound. Previously, there have been Okay-pop teams I knew I may rely on to ship the products every time, and this was normally as a result of they labored with a good group of producers and developed a signature sound. In distinction, RIIZE’s releases have seesawed in high quality. After they’re nice, they’re excellent. However most of the time currently, their finest work has been relegated to b-sides.

This can stay true with Do Your Dance, because the previews for the b-sides all sound nice. When describing this tune, the members known as it “fashionable,” which in trendy Okay-pop parlance I’ve taken to imply “gimmicky” and even “disposable”. Certainly, Do Your Dance is a TikTok concept in want of a tune to again it up. The fellows spend a lot of the operating time rattling off physique components that can be utilized for dancing. Very unique, proper? This hook was teased incessantly earlier than the tune’s launch and each time I heard it I prayed there was extra to Do Your Dance than drained repetition. On first hear, a dynamic opening verse gave me hope. At the least the power is excessive and a few of the group’s trademark vocals poke by means of.

Sadly, Do Your Dance‘s appeal lasts about eighty-five seconds earlier than the observe devolves into boring speak over a beat that by no means appears to know what it desires to be. At one level, they sing “We be browsing this melody” and I’m like… “what melody?” Repeating “head, hips, shoulders, toes” in probably the most monotonous speech conceivable just isn’t a tune. You’ll be able to truly hear the second the producers ran out of concepts. I don’t want to devolve into reviewing songs with memes, however Do Your Dance‘s swan-dive-off-a-cliff nature is the aural epitome of this well-liked meme:

Sigh. Why couldn’t they’ve simply developed the killer sounds of Get A Guitar or Not possible so we may hear some musical development and continuity?

Grade: D+