Early Access: NewJeans - Super Shy (MV)
Added 2023-07-10 22:27:49 +0000 UTCHere's our reaction to NewJeans' Super Shy!
You know if you know - we LOVE NewJeans, and so it was impossible for us to skip this drop.
Han-C was already told months back from fellow producers that NewJeans' newest album will be featuring UK Garage sound and while this one had only hints of that with a mix of Drum N Bass, we can feel where this album is headed and oh boy, we are insanely excited for this one.
We will be cherishing each track to the fullest!
Hope you'll enjoy this one :)
Much love as always! <3
Comments
It is! Musically, the only complaint I've seen levied hasn't been about the band itself, but rather about the lyrics to Cookie being... overtly suggestive, let's say, given the age of the members, which got more attention in light of Min Heejin's role as their stylist. I don't think she *is* their stylist anymore, although I'm pretty sure she's still with Hybe, but essentially someone noticed that in pics of her studio/workspace that she'd shared on Instagram, the images and references she uses for styling inspiration for girl groups she's worked with, NJ included, were pretty much uniformly, uh... well, there is no other way to say this, but they were all of extremely young girls in sexual/romantic relationships with adult men. Like, I'm talking Nabokov's Lolita (as opposed to Lolita gothic), 12yo Brooke Shields in Pretty Baby and the Calvins ad she did at 15, 12yo Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, that sort of thing. And given that she'd styled NJ in clothes like a babydoll tee that says Pimp Is Yours on it in English, plus the lyrics to Cookie, people - I think quite fairly - worried that there was a clear intent to sexualise the members of a wholly underage group in terms of their marketing and presentation. IIRC, the whole thing blew up enough that she was removed as their stylist, although she was still internally promoted elsewhere within Hybe, but... yeah. Seeing as that whole controversy was pretty much my entry point to hearing about New Jeans, even though I like their music, it made me very hesitant to fully perceive them somehow? Because if that was how they were being exhibited, then I did not want to look. But from the little I've seen of them as people out of the corner of my metaphoric eye, they all seem very happy and well-adjusted, and their concept and styling has chilled out a bit, so I'm sort of dipping a very gentle toe into the waters of knowing that they exist as people, if that makes sense!
sysrae
2023-07-15 03:44:41 +0000 UTCWe feel you haha! Perhaps we are too unaware of what is exactly going on within the company and how they are going about creating the image of NJ, but as far as music is concerned, pretty much 99% of musicians around us are totally on board with NJ stuff as the top of the top at the moment - not surprisingly, that also means that most of casual listeners or k-pop lovers around us are not as into NJ as the producers, musicians, and other artists, at least from our circle. Interesting dynamic we thought!
Handsome Sausages
2023-07-14 17:25:00 +0000 UTCI have mixed feelings about NewJeans - they're inarguably great singers and performers with incredibly addictive songs, but they're all so young that I feel weird knowing much about them individually (while also recognizing that I am not the target demographic here), but also two of them are from Australia/NZ which I am honor-bound to support, but also the Min Heejin stuff is profoundly gross, and so I end up going backwards and forwards over it - but this is a very pretty song, with extremely clean vocals. And aside from all that, I'm genuinely delighted by the waacking/vogueing elements in the choreo, partly on general gay principle, but mostly because it tickles me to know which male kpop artists will run not walk to learn the choreo and/or do a dance challenge about it (Kim Kibum, Choi Yeonjun and Seo Changbin I am looking squarely in your direction).
sysrae
2023-07-11 22:40:40 +0000 UTC
