2026 has seen many debuts of teams from mid-to-small businesses, however few of those acts have had a lot to say. Debuts provide the possibility for brand new sounds and concepts, or perhaps even a glance again at a method we haven’t heard in awhile. It shouldn’t be yet one more excuse to hawk the identical sounds clogging up an already overstuffed business.
TUNEXX arrive from IST Leisure and boasts members from final yr’s Boys II Planet. This comes after the company unceremoniously dumped their final boy group ATBO. I’m undecided what makes TUNEXX assume they’ll garner any extra loyalty, however right here we’re with I’m Alive (내가 살아있다는 증거). And actually, we’d as nicely not have gotten the track in any respect. There’s no purpose for this to exist. It utterly lacks an id of its personal, repainting tons of of different chant-heavy boy group tracks with new faces.
At its greatest, a brand new Ok-pop track generally is a thrilling expertise. Being a longtime fan makes these moments extra uncommon since you’ve merely skilled extra music and the novelty has light. Nonetheless, this sort of post-post-submit-NCT track makes me marvel if Ok-pop merely hasn’t developed up to now ten years. I can’t imagine we’re nonetheless promoting this model of hookless slop and anticipating anybody to be enthusiastic about it. It’s wholly unremarkable in each method.
| Hooks | 6 |
| Manufacturing | 7 |
| Longevity | 6 |
| Bias | 6 |
| RATING | 6.25 |
Grade: D