TRENDZ have develop into one in every of my greatest frustrations in Ok-pop. That they had such a superb factor going with final 12 months’s mega-banger Go Up, however a piecemeal method to collaborators has resulted in music that feels haphazard and incongruous. new single Chameleon (카멜레온) may as nicely have come from a very totally different group than Go Up or Vagabond or My Manner.
In a approach, I assume the phrase “chameleon” describes this completely! The track is yet one more transformation for the group, depositing them on the earth of old-school hip-hop. It’s a well-trodden path for Ok-pop’s boy teams. We’ve heard a ton of this sound prior to now few weeks alone. And like a damaged report, I’ll say as soon as once more that any style may be revitalized if the traditional parts of songwriting (melody, chords, beat) are robust.
Reasonably than intention for a fully-realized manufacturing, Chameleon feels extra targeted on changing into an earworm. Its chanted hook is repeated early and sometimes to the purpose that it begins to grate even earlier than the observe has completed. It’s catchy, however “catchy” isn’t all the time a praise. I discover the refrain an obnoxious hear, which dampens all the pieces else swirling round it. There are some attention-grabbing concepts embedded throughout the verses (that corrugated synth is cool), however total that is a straightforward skip.
| Hooks | 6 |
| Manufacturing | 8 |
| Longevity | 7 |
| Bias | 7 |
| RATING | 7 |
Grade: C-