Debuting around this time last year, rookie girl group Candy Shop has had a hard time making their mark on the industry. With vaunted producer Brave Brothers at the helm, they should be releasing banger after banger. Sadly, their music thus far has felt like “reheated nachos” — and not in the good way.
New single Tip Toe directly references a classic Brave Brothers hit — 2011’s Ma Boy. The song aims for a similarly carefree groove but lacks the indelible hooks to make this style work. Instead, Tip Toe is a pleasant diversion. It’s enjoyable enough while listening, but difficult to recall once you move on to something else. I blame this on both an inert pace and unremarkable melodies. The chorus, which should be a song’s centerpiece, swirls aimlessly around. The girls perform it well enough but are unable to uncover moments of personality that might compensate for Tip Toe‘s flatness. For a new group with only a few songs under their belt, Candy Shop really need to be establishing a sound that makes them unique and vital. Tip Toe is about as far from that as you could imagine.
| Hooks | 7 |
| Production | 7 |
| Longevity | 7 |
| Bias | 7 |
| RATING | 7 |
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A Brave Brothers and a Black Eyed Pilseung drop on the same day! I’m glad I didn’t know in advance and had this day marked on my calendar, because suffice it to say I’d have been sorely disappointed.
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This weekend hubby was playing his vinyl records on his nice vintage Thorens, and it was running slowly. In theory 33rpm, in practice something in the 20’s. I don’t know how he can’t hear it. Paul McCartney and Neil Tennant and a few others all sounding like baritones. We spent the better part of the hour discussing it, me bringing up the original on youtube while he tried another out. Even set to 45rpm, it was still not going 33rpm.
This song here, it sounds slow like a vinyl record on the wrong speed, meaning both too low in pitch for these girls and too slow. Its sounds like it is slogging through molasses. Bumping up to 1.15x or 1.2x is mandatory.
… so the conclusion. He finally believed me, pulled out one his other record players (he has several), lifted up lids, tinkered a bit and it wasn’t the belt on the Thorens, it was the motor itself was just dyyyiiiiiing a very slooooooooow death. Alas. At the high end AV shop in town, the ones who sell the fancy full room theaters and serious audio with serious cables, the owner takes pity on the serious vinyl collectors like hubby and has one of his old guys fix them up for a fair price.
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I think they probably shouldn’t have placed the Ma Boy chords front and center.
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I thought candy shop was gonna continuation of brave girls or at least inspired by them. Unfortunately the music is pretty lackluster; they’ve only released one song I’ve listened to after release day. I want to be in the room when these groups are conceived, so I can know what the hell these companies are thinking with the moves they make
I like the reference but it just makes me want to listen to “ma boy”. 7 is about right, this is painfully pleasant
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