I’m not going to assessment this tune 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 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 tune had been launched right now amidst our present musical traits?
The reply is predictably sorrowful. Moderately than solid Mister inside a sequence of blazing, high-energy synths, BLINGONE reinvent it with the herky jerky drum-and-bass rhythms at the moment flooding the market. The tune turns into virtually unrecognizable, its iconic, triumphant melodies diminished to a sequence of chirps and squiggles. Because the instrumental continues to drop out, the tune 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 tune. And talking of full songs, the runtime for this new model has been reduce by over thirty seconds, which is superb as a result of BLINGONE’s model feels about ten occasions as lengthy.
Once more, it’s simply a captivating case examine.