It’s been a long musical hiatus for dance diva Chungha, during which her contract with MNH Entertainment expired and she moved to Jay Park’s label More Vision. Eenie Meenie is the first taste of this new era, and she’s brought along a familiar face to kick things off.
Eenie Meenie features ATEEZ’s Hongjoong, instantly raising expectations for a more hip-hop informed style. As predicted, the song eschews the propulsive dance pop of her past for a sinewy groove and spoken word hook. Your impressions of the track will depend on how much sway this sound has over you. To me, it just doesn’t capture what makes Chungha such a great artist. She can sell anything, but the song’s limp hook offers no chance to harness her innate charisma. Mumbling “eenie, meenie, minie, moe” is hardly an inspired choice.
Luckily, Eenie Meenie finds an engaging groove to support this lyrical nonsense. Its combination of resonant bass and strummed guitar make for a fun, off-kilter mix and there’s some cool vocal effects happening in the background toward the track’s finale. Hongjoong injects an interesting flow during his verse, but it doesn’t do much to elevate the song. In fact, Eenie Meenie is at its strongest when it breaks free of its constraints to deliver a layered, melodic pre-chorus.
| Hooks | 6 |
| Production | 8 |
| Longevity | 8 |
| Bias | 7 |
| RATING | 7.25 |
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what do you think of Im Ready?
That should be the comeback song, very Chungha tbh
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Definitely. I much prefer this sound for her.
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This didn’t really connect with me from the start unlike her previous title tracks. I wish I’m Ready was the title track, although it is repetitive, it has all the bones and concept to make a killer song and reintroduce her brand again after the hiatus.
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This kinda reminds me of Demigod a little, but minus the appeal that Demigod actually has.
7.75 for now (7, 8, 8, 8), but will most likely not age well.
Wish I’m Ready was the title track. It’s easily in high-8s at least and 9 at most for me.
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i imagine the blackpink orphans are gonna love this!
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LOL truly
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lol wait what do you mean?
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the structure is a copy-and-paste of Teddy’s material for BLACKPINK (or just Teddy’s recent stuff in general) basically. verse > pre-chorus > empty hook > repeat > and a breakdown for the final chorus.
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Yep, I heard it too. The structure and content is bang on BP sans the bratty affectations and noisy noise sounds. I mean, before the rap hits at 1:02, you just knew it was was going to hit right then.
I could also be a kinder gentler Jessi style song. Softer voice and dialed down, where Jessi would lean in AF and dial it up to 11.
For Chungha, it is fine, but she is quite selling it fully, like she doesn’t believe the song herself. She doesn’t own it. I would give it a mid-7, perhaps.
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this is terrible. great production but I’m not gagging over the arrangement at all. I’m Ready on the other hand is fantastic, I am glad it’s a full 3-minute song and not a 1-minute intro that was teased.
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This song is okay, just okay, nothing special. For the first minute I couldn’t figure out why the background sounded so familiar. It reminded me of Deep Cover by Big Pun and Fat Joe (now i’m aging myself).
Hongjoong’s appearance didn’t add anything or take anything away from the track. In my opinion, he was just there.
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When I heard her teaser of “I’m Ready” I wanted it to be the title track SO BAD. The smallest section of Eenie Meenie that they teased at the end of the video was an automatic no for me. I’m Ready is about to be on repeat.
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Why isn’t I’m Ready not a TT? I was tricked into believing this was a TT lol. I guess Chungha wanted to try a new sound, not stick to that one style but I’m Ready easily overshadows Eenie Meenie
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Is it just me who really likes this song? I usually tend to like these types of songs and I guess I can kinda see what people do and don’t like about this song. Even from the teaser, I knew I was gonna like it
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The verse and production is remain a 8.0 for me… until the chorus. For me, the production can’t even save the empty chorus song-talking-ish style nonsense lyrics, instant drop to a 6.0.
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This song is really swaggy, an 8 for me
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I was sure this is gonna be at least 8. But it’s barely 6.5. I prefer “I’m Ready”
Kpop these days… I’m tired.
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Much prefer I’m Ready, but Chungha is still Chungha.
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Honestly all I needed was a chorus. Something in Korean that I could sing a long with because the groove and verses had me. But eenie meanie mo will never be cool.
I forgive it when jimin drops it in both Elvis and oh boy and tiny -g. Weird marks on great songs
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