The King of K-pop has graced us with two new music videos on the day he returns with his first solo album since 2017. We’ve already heard the funky Power and nostalgic Home Sweet Home, and today’s stark Drama offered another nuance in his artistic palette. For the Anderson .Paak-featuring Too Bad, it seems all G-Dragon really wants to do is let loose and have fun. I can’t say I blame him!
In some ways, this is the track that most encapsulates GD’s solo debut era. From its spoken intro to the fun, colorful verses, there’s an ease and lightness to this song that feels like an artist simply playing around in the studio. It’s the slightest track of the four that have been promoted thus far, but may also have the widest mainstream appeal. Most of G-Dragon’s more idiosyncratic vocal tics are smoothed over, leaving the hook to .Paak. In fact, Too Bad kind of sounds as if it could have been part of an Anderson .Paak album rather than the other way around.
Me being a massive G-Dragon fan, I’m a bit greedy with his musical time and not overly interested in him ceding hooks to anyone else (unless they happen to be a member of Bigbang, of course!). Too Bad is boppy and bright and features a delightful video, but it doesn’t feel like a definitive piece of his discography. At two and a half minutes, the song is also over before you know it — never given the necessary time to develop into the funk floorburner it could have been.
| Hooks | 8 |
| Production | 8 |
| Longevity | 8 |
| Bias | 8 |
| RATING | 8 |
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I like this one! The funk instrumental, although pretty toned down and could have been bumped to a 10, shows promise and is pretty addictive either way. The verses are good, though the hooks fall a bit short. The build-up in the end showed a promising outro or idk, an explosive GD rap before a more explosive chorus, sucks it ended so abruptly. But so far, I like this one.
8.5 (8, 9, 8, 9) for me.
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it’s fun.
8.5/10 for me (8, 9, 9, 8)
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I like it, its fun, but I wish it had more GD signature punch. Also the flow is a rather dull triplets and quarter notes.
Yanno for a long while, many of us here were thinking that Teddy was sorely missing GD as cowriter. Perhaps, here, GD is missing Teddy.
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I could see this getting some radio play but probably not a keeper.
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GD can do better than this.
It’s not making any playlists.
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I thought I’d like this more than I did. It has so little actual GDragon that I actually doublechecked if it was listed as his song or if he was a feature.
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I keep hearing, “Toot that ass for me,” which I find distracting, what with my immature sense of humor.
This is the type of song where if it comes on I wouldn’t skip it, but I won’t be searching for it.
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completely undeveloped song… it’s like they had a good start but just went back to the start over and over again and then it was over. GD can do much better than this…
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