Music Assessment: NCT Want – Boy Meets Lady

Music covers might be tough. Do too little to vary the unique and the entire train would possibly really feel pointless. Do too a lot and it’s certain to polarize opinion. TRF’s 90s hit Boy Meets Lady has already been lined dozens of instances, partly as a result of it’s an Avex normal alongside different oft-covered classics like Get Wild and Wow Conflict Tonight. Boy Meets Lady additionally occurs to be certainly one of my favourite J-pop songs of the 90s. I first wrote about it right here and now I get an opportunity to revisit it via the lens of SM’s NCT Want.

Masking a private favourite tune is additionally tough. I really like this Boy Meets Lady as a result of I really like the unique Boy Meets Lady. The melodies stay timeless and the manufacturing on this cowl isn’t all that totally different from the surging euphoria of TRF’s model. So, the query turns into: was this mandatory? Do Want convey something new to the recipe? I suppose male vocals convey a special taste and there are advert libs right here and there which might be new. The instrumental has a contemporary crispness that’s good to listen to and I very a lot admire how the producers didn’t fiddle an excessive amount of with the tune’s pure momentum.

This model of Boy Meets Lady largely distinguishes itself via a brief however snappy outro that provides a bit of additional anthemic gas to the observe. It’s additionally over a minute shorter than the unique, so if immediate bang-for-your-buck gratification is your intention, it will work. I can’t say it’s extra fascinating than any of the opposite covers of this tune which have come earlier than it and I’ll at all times return to the unique, however in case you’ve by no means heard Boy Meets Lady earlier than I think about this will probably be one thing of a revelation. I can’t justify giving it a “10” the way in which I might the unique, however I can also’t image a world the place any iteration of this tune is decrease than a “9.”

Grade: A-