Music Assessment: Fifty Fifty – Eeny Meeny Miny Moe

I’ll be sincere: a shiver runs down my backbone after I see a track title like “Eenie Meeny Miny Moe.” Nursery rhymes have been part of pop music for many years, however Ok-pop likes to go overboard with the strategy, using their sing-song melodies for the premise of a complete track. Fifty Fifty’s quirky Pookie loved average success in Korea earlier this yr, and judging by this new track title I feared their company discovered all of the unsuitable classes from that.

Happily, Eeny Meeny Miny Moe (가위바위보) isn’t all sing-song nonsense. In truth, the nursery rhyme is relegated to temporary moments throughout the pre-chorus. I’d somewhat not have it in any respect, however the surrounding segments are fairly pleasant — if bland — pop. The refrain exists in an extended lineage of cute, melodic lady group tracks. Spice it up with extra attention-grabbing manufacturing and also you may even have the premise for a Lovelyz or Oh My Lady track. As an alternative, a lot of Eeny Meeny Miny Moe opts for a beige palette, comfortable and unassuming when it must be pushing bolder and weirder.

When it comes right down to it, the track’s strengths aren’t charming sufficient to compensate for the irritating sing-talk that forces its manner into the monitor. For a nursery rhyme type to work for me, a track should both recontextualize it or encompass its offending moments with materials so thrilling that I’m prepared to gloss over the sing-song nature. Eeny Meeny Miny Moe is just too well mannered to do both of these issues.

Grade: C+