Early Access: BABYMONSTER - Forever (MV)
Added 2024-07-05 00:32:21 +0000 UTCHere's our reaction to BABYMONSTER's Forever! :D
Good start. Good start indeed.
Enjoy <3
Comments
I'm yet to click with Babymonster; they're all clearly hugely talented as individuals, but as per your thoughts about whether the song will stand up on a second listen, for me personally, I don't think all those different talents have been synthesized into a successful whole yet. This is compounded by the fact that (again, IMO) they're struggling to find a consistent aesthetic or identity that works for them, and I think a big part of why is because of the age spread - the members are currently 22, 18 (x2), 17, 16 and 15 (x2), which means you've got three who can carry a more elegant concept like this reasonably comfortably, one on the cusp, and three who feel wildly too young for it, like kids playing dress-up. It's like YG wants to promote them as young and playful (especially with the name) on the one hand, but also wants to slide right by the reality of them actually *being* young on the other, and so you end up with songs that are sort of... lyrically and conceptually shallow, I guess? Like they're trying to mesh the confidence and desirability of Blackpink with the younger, more bubbly innocence of NewJeans, but can't fully lean into either without it becoming nakedly contradictory, so instead of having a range that encompasses those two extremes, they're occupying a sort of amorphous middle ground, and for me, it doesn't really work.
sysrae
2024-07-07 20:13:18 +0000 UTCBABYMONSTER are definitely monsters in their field :D ! Until now I never listened to their song without saying "I'm going to put it on my playlist" afterwards. I was recently obsessed with their song "Like That" if you want to check it out! :)
lucylikes
2024-07-06 11:04:03 +0000 UTCOoo, ive never listened to them before
Kwestleo
2024-07-05 00:33:21 +0000 UTC
