UAU is technically Dreamcatcher’s first sub-unit, but with the group’s uncertain future after half of the members chose not to renew with their agency, this project may become the most reliable Dreamcatcher content for the foreseeable future. The group’s transformation from super-pop act MINX to J-rock inspired Dreamcatcher is well-known, and 2 Months sounds as if it could have been a MINX single in an alternate universe where that transformation never occurred.
Those hoping for another rock track will be sorely disappointed. Those (like me) who hoped UAU would explore the group’s more synthwave/techno sound will also find themselves coming up short. Instead, 2 Months is a trendy blend of tropical synths and Afrobeats percussion. It’s unlike anything Dreamcatcher ever recorded, which is fine. It’s also not that great.
A wide swath of the K-pop industry is mired in a “less is more” approach, skimping on length, melody and overall effort in song composition. You can usually get away with one of these cardinal sins. For example, a short length doesn’t matter if the song exerts itself and delivers killer hooks. But all three together is a deadly combo, and 2 Months falls into this triple trap. It’s incredibly short, very repetitive and hinges on a spoken-word hook and squeaky instrumental loop that does the girls no favors. They get bonus points for sounding like summer, but overall this is a disappointing unit debut.
| Hooks | 7 |
| Production | 8 |
| Longevity | 7 |
| Bias | 7 |
| RATING | 7.25 |
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As a dreamcatcher ult, this is actually awful. wtf. i didnt necessarily expect UAU to continue with rock/metal, but i didnt expect this? pack it up, take it back to 2016!
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im getting increasingly scared that kpop is going to go back to ‘tropical house’. praying to all the gods that exist this doesnt happen.
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I would actually love more tropical sounds because they fit so well with summer, but the songs themselves need to be great. That’s true with any genre, really.
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Quick listen to the album. Literally every B-side is better than this one. “Sacrifice” in particular would’ve been a great title.
Like I at least mostly understood DCC’s promotional choices with the full group peddling a rock sound and specific concepts, but here there just isn’t that reason.
I don’t actually hate this one (even if it is decidedly mid), I like Dreamcatcher too much to really hate anything they do (except for “Be The Future” lol), but I am baffled by DCC’s choice of this as their title track.
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“Sacrifice” is a great song- if only because it clearly takes “Something About Us” by Daft Punk, which is one of my favorite songs.
https://youtu.be/sOS9aOIXPEk?si=MPZmA1bWafh6Q85F
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Ngl I was surprised to see Ollounder in the song credits because this whole ep sounds like someone’s first musical release
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Good Luck is the most decent track and even that’s mid imo. The only thing that stands out in 2 months is the kazoo in the chorus and it feels awful. Like it straight up sounds like it was made to be obnoxious on purpose to try to farm tiktok views, because otherwise the song’s pretty forgettable.
Also what’s up with the mixing? Tried it on my regular headphones and on akg k240 studio and it sounds off on both. Almost nugu-artist level bad.
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how did u do the bold thing
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Ctrl+b when highlighting the text. It’s in the reply form on desktop tho. I also did that on accident in this particular case, that was not my intention.
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Irrelevant but I was feeling very nostalgic today and I just needed to say this: what do I need to do to bring a sound like Crossroads by Gfriend back to Kpop? I would literally do anything to hear sth like this again. I wasn’t even so enthusiastic about that song when I first heard it, well the joke is on me. How long will I be waiting before this happens
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The way global trends are going, I would be shocked if this happened any time soon, unfortunately. I honestly see it more likely with boy groups than girl groups at the moment.
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The Wind?
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You mean the Wind has songs that sound like Crossroads? Do you have any recs? I don’t know a lot about this group, I have only listened to a couple of songs.
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I don’t keep up with kpop news, because I live in a cave and I can’t be bothered. So when Dreamcatcher popped up on the ipod shuffle last week, both darling daughter and I wondered “are they still around”?
Around in theory, some of them. In practice, this is just not them. Alas. Sigh.
To be more particular, since these three are still with the same agency, the signature Dreamcatcher was the Drama and Story telling they brought to their songcraft, wrapped up in a hard rock overlay over conventional kpop. This song has a different wrapper – what we call “tropical” circa about summer of 2017 or so – but none of the drama and story telling. Its just a song sung by three pleasant voices in a pleasant presentation. I don’t know what the agency is doing here.
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I don’t typically recommend songs to blogs like this, because I know you’re already covering a lot, but did you catch Fairy Mai’s new single “Light Please?” It was just released today and it’s impressed me more than 99% of anything Kpop has put out this year. She was one of the main vocals of the girl group eite (“Independent Woman” was one of my favorites of 2023, and I recall you liking it as well). I’ve been a 5-year Bias List reader, and it struck me as the kind of song you’d likely enjoy!
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Oh wow thank you! I love this and it will be getting a review now (when I have time). I don’t think I would have even heard it if you hadn’t brought it to my attention.
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Listened to it on repeat multiple times, thank you for the recommendation, I liked it a lot too.
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You’d think they’d actually use the vocal talent that these three members have, and what’s with the mixing… I can only hope the other Dreamcatcher subunit/solo projects will be better than this
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I feel like I’m the one of the few liking this song right now lol. Definitely short, would’ve loved a bridge in there (but most artists aren’t giving that to us nowadays in their singles/title tracks so eh). This has that dance-forward beat that I tend to gravitate to in songs so the chorus really clicks with me.
The rest of the album is decent tbh, I think my rankings would go 2 Months, Sacrifice, Good Luck, and then Attitude (for some reason that like steel horn or whatever sound in the chorus turns me off). For sure not like the Dreamcatcher that I’m used to, but an appreciated change in my eyes!
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Easily the weakest song on the album. I like the first half of the chorus okay but between the kazoo and whatever processing they used to make it sound like they clipped the vocals really bad I’ll not being going back to this.
Good Luck however…put that sax straight into my veins. Much more full and layered instrumental, vocal mixing significantly better. Considering both of them are on the credits for this one, if this is what Glen Check normally sounds like I’m going to have to get into them now.
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I actually have trouble believing Ollounder was on credits for this. Sounds like something that never made the cut to any of their album tracklists ended on this EP. I’m honestly pretty disappointed. Wonder how they picked out these songs and when they at the table creating the shortlist they went “this sounds GREAT! Lets add it!”.
Though now I’m speculating that this subunit EP wasn’t meant to reassure long time fans that they are sticking around like VIVIZ but rather its just something they felt like doing once much like their covers they release from time to time
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what do you think of “attitude”?
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I’m still really disappointed that this sucks so much, but I will say it has grown on me a little since its release. Here’s hoping the next DC related thing is a lot better
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