Many things about this song are cool. The line "make him whistle like a missile" is not one of those things.
This video was directed by the same guy who made Red Velvet's Dumb Dumb, apparently, and you can really tell.
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I kinda like the intense vocal buildup in the pre-chorus, followed by the surprise drop to the instrumental-heavy chorus. But the chorus itself is confusing and terrible. Jennie does some weird lispy "bah-dum-dum" thing, and that's the whole chorus. Also the bridge is a complete tonal departure from the rest of the song, leading into a much more energetic outro. It's a bit whiplash-inducing, especially as the rest of the song was so laidback.
Overall, though, this is a decent effort vastly improved by some cool instrumental gimmicks. Every member of BLACKPINK seems at least somewhat talented, and they still have a lot of time to grow. I'm looking forward to seeing in what ways YG disappoints them, and us, in the coming years. 4.5/5.
Who sings the beginning of the prechorus and bridge, and does the first part of the verse after the first chorus? She has a lovely soft voice.
ReplyDeleteI like Jennie's more casual rapping, reminds me of T-ara. However, Lisa is next level in every respect, destined for solo promotions and features. She came to play, believe it.
That's Jennie, I think. I like her voice too.
DeleteYeah Lisa is not messing around.
Rosé sings the prechorus and Jennie sings the bridge and verses after the first chorus.
DeleteThere are a couple times the mv looks glitchy, once in the first verse and at the beginning of the second verse, is that just me?
ReplyDeleteNope I'm seeing it too. Must be intentional? YG works in mysterious ways.
DeleteThere's a technique of doing this sort of thing deliberately, called Datamoshing, you just delete tiny snippets of code from a video and because of the way the codec works it doesn't update the image properly and you get some freaky/funky stuff going on
DeleteBut it's only in there twice (0:27 and 1:57). If you're doing it deliberately you'd use it a lot more, and you'd have cleaner transitions
That's pretty cool, thanks for clearing that up!
DeleteIn that case, I agree, they definitely should have committed more to it. :/
'Whistle like a middle' is easily cringe-inducing but I can forgive Lisa because she's pretty damn hot
ReplyDeleteDon't know how my phone changed missile to middle
Deleteits "make it whistle like a missle, bomb bomb" now if I, a South Asian person said that in a flight on United, I'd be thrown in jail
DeleteDarn you nayeon vibrator. Don't post close ups of there lips dude.
ReplyDeleteHey, I wrote this! Blame me for everything.
DeleteLooks like the rookie girls will dominate kpop
ReplyDeleteThis is Ikon girl version i think Lisa is like bobby, she is not showering also cuz its hephap.
ReplyDeleteThis shit instrumental is why I stopped listening to hiphop a few years ago and now YG has to use these shit beats for their yoloswag shit. Well, a lot of dumbasses are eating up, so I can see why Yang Hyun Suk Dicks asks Teddy to produce shit like this.
ReplyDeleteGod I'm so fucking glad someone else feels the same way about these shit debut songs. That 4.5/5 rating is a joke.
DeleteBoth of these songs would have only gotten a 1/5 from me.
Deletewell they can't all fucking shashasha now can they :P
DeletePretty Korean girls goin' all ghetto n shit. Maybe they're tying to become CF queens for OE 800, Colt 45, Hypnotic or some spinner rim company. Ooh, I know - maybe Leon's Ribs or Harold's Chicken from Chicago are going to be launching soon in Seoul and they will be doing the CF work for them - yeah that's it. Laughs and shakes head....
ReplyDeleteTheir songs/vids are well financed crap and can the name get any more obvious - Black (dick) Pink (Korean pussy)....
Isn't all pussy pink?
DeleteI seena yoing lady gagabin thisngroup
ReplyDeleteThe pre-chorus and the bridge are the only parts that weren't a snoozefest to me...it just sounded like a much more intense song at those parts, but i guess it's because the rest of the song is so dull
ReplyDeleteI put these two new songs on a reapeat and after a while this "uuuh" sound in Whistle started to really irritate me. Why not leave this to where it belonged to? Overall they're pretty fun songs, but overhyped.
ReplyDeleteI had no expectations of YG groups and this fucking shit still disappoints me, what an awfully lazy song this is. The only good part is the pre-chorus where there is some actual music and instrumental, the rest is fucking garbage jesus fucking christ.
ReplyDeleteDa fuck can everyone around here love shit like twice and shit on these girls who make music you can actually listen to without cringing.
ReplyDeleteShow any non kpop fan a twice video or song and they'll laugh in ur face.
Okay, UCAAD.
DeleteI did. They liked it. Now suck your own dick UCAAD.
DeleteThey're saying "hwiparam" in the chorus it means whistle in korean
ReplyDeleteReally? Because I'm pretty sure Jennie(??) is saying 'padam, padam, padam' in the chorus which means 'erase' in Malay.
DeletePadam..padam..padam..that is what I hear too..hahahahahha..bahasa melayu
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ReplyDeleteSo what?
ReplyDeleteSo what?
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