To be honest, the title “Charizzma” sends a shiver down my spine. Naming your song “Charisma” would be cheesy enough since this is a quality you should be showing rather than telling, but adding the “Z’s” (a la the cringey slang “rizz”) practically makes the song collapse in on itself before even starting. HITGS already have a dubious musical track record, though last month’s Gross grew on me a bit due to its sheer silliness.
I don’t see the same trajectory for Charizzma. The song makes almost every musical choice I find irritating in 2025. It’s hopelessly muted, bopping along the same herky jerky garage-inspired production we’ve heard from every other girl group over the past year or two. At this point, I actively hate this production. The plonky percussion is flat, the walls of weepy synth are sonically deflating and the herky jerky arrangement makes it impossible to engage with the song for more than five seconds because it keeps pulling the rug from underneath you.
Add a bunch of instantly forgettable sing-talk, spelled out words and affected catchphrases and you’ve got a perfect storm of bad 2025 trends. I hate to take this out on a group as seemingly innocent as HITGS, but there comes a time when enough is enough and a wholly forgettable song like this becomes more annoying than legitimately bad songs that at least try to do something different.
| Hooks | 6 |
| Production | 6 |
| Longevity | 6 |
| Bias | 5 |
| RATING | 5.75 |
Grade: F
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Take this shi back😭
I don’t accept this form a bunch of baby girls☠️(I’m an 08 but still! )
6/10😍😜
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omg! a fellow 08!!
but yea, the only thing THEY are gonna do when they pull up is prob throw a tantrum or smth, smh (¬_¬”)
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Omg another 08!
Im crying laughing at your response 😭😭
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Everyone and their mother released music today all just to be mediocre and disappointing. Why do we companies put resources into bad music? Then is it any surprise that so many groups disband?
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It isn’t that bad to warrant a 5.75 😭 Boring? Yes. Bad? Not really. (Though I understand that the current gg trends frustrates you, so there’s that too)
But anyways, this is cute? A bit too juvenile you can say, I feel it’s more fitting for tweens so I’m basically 6-7 years too old for this. The little shift in dynamics towards the second half of the song also sounds promising, though it barely does anything. It’s cute, plays things too safe, not something I wanna seek on my own.
6.75 (7, 7, 7, 6) for me.
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Also, Rizz (a whole fucking album!) by Soojin, The Rizzness by Taemin, Rizz by ADYA and now Charizzma by HITGS, pick your fighter!
(Seriously, how long will it take before companies start using skibidi, gyatt and all that brainrot these gen alpha kids are into? My ‘06 ass shudders at that thought, I’m clearly too old for this…)
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You forgot Rizz by Plave and Got The Rizz by LUN8. The Rizzness is the only one I’ll forgive in that list, and no, that’s not my shawol brain talking.
If you want to count lyrics, there’s also:
“You baddie, rizz me tonight” – TTYL, Loossemble
“Let’s rizz up all night” – Nice Guy, BoyNextDoor
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“You baddie rizz me tonight” is the only acceptable one for me, it managed to pass because the rest of the song was a work of art.
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I’ll talk to you laytaaaaaa…
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Sometimes a song earns an “F” because it’s so bad on its own. Sometimes it’s just unlucky to be the song that breaks the camel’s back and suffers my ire. Such is the fate of HITGS in this moment.
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The struggle is real.
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… adding – in the past Nick might have even just quietly skipped a song like this from a smaller group, but all the comment sections this year seem to be active with a “hey Nick have you heard ….” for every single song, that he may as well just go ahead and review them.
(I don’t even know who HITGS are, but I am pronouncing it “HIT-GISS”)
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I liked Sourpatch. I listened to it several times, enjoying it enough, though it could’ve been more. Somebody in the mv comments said it sounded like more of a cb from an experienced group rather than a debut, which I personally disagree with, but I decided to support the group and become part of the fandom (which isn’t really a grand honor since I’m literally in like 75+ different fandoms). Then there was Gross. I listened to it a total of 2 times, and that was just to see how much it would grow on me. Definitely a downgrade from Sourpatch. Can’t imagine listening to it on the regular. But this, this is the worst of them all. It makes me cringe. I’m sorry. It’s like how I like fiftyfifty but can’t listen to pookie because it kinda makes me cringe but 100x worse. Why, just why are you having these young girls spell out rizz? The thing is, that specific piece of slang isn’t even as big as it was in like 2023-2024, I can possibly like understand, not understand but like see small reasoning behind releasing it then (tho they weren’t debuted yet but ykwim) and rizz is still a popular term I suppose (very unfortunately) but like why? And it would be basic and mid, but the rizz thing makes it so, so, so much worse. I don’t even want to talk about this song and end up saying too much bad stuff atp. Their releases get worse every time for them having one like every month, meanwhile poor Wooah, I’m sure they’re happy for their juniors but give them a cb too?? Blush is what got me into them, I still listen to blush and their other songs on the regular, unlike how I ever will with this, blush is peak fs, give them more peak, give hitgs… Not this. Ratings the same or maybe even lower, idk. holy yapatron-
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Honestly, this is one of those rare songs that probably could’ve benefited from being a 2-minute song, for once. Could have done without the “bridge” and been a perfectly acceptable album track, and the unnecessary jungle-style drums were becoming annoying after the first time they were introduced. Less is more. This reminds me of a group I saw tremendous potential in: MIXX. It’s very Red Velvet-lite, early 2000s R&B, and that’s the part I love the most about it: had they kept it simple and sweet, this song would’ve jumped directly on my playlist, but I fear I’m going to get to the 2-minute mark, then skip the rest of the song. It’s a D at best.
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