Though I would prefer to fall in love with every song I ever hear, sometimes it’s fun to have songs you hate as well. It’s like an arch-nemesis designed to irk you at every turn. In a strange way, I have a special fondness for music that ranks below a “5” rating on this blog. That doesn’t mean I ever want to listen to it again, but I can admire its sheer stank from a safe distance.
Today, Fifty Fifty’s Skittlez joins this illustrious club. The song has been available for a few days now and I assumed I’d simply be able to ignore it as a b-side. However, the agency has deemed it notable enough for a music video, so here I am writing about this mess. Honestly, from the spelling of the title alone I could have told you Skittlez would not be for me. I love Skittles with an “s” (the blue bag is my favorite), but I do not need a song about them — not that “skittlez” isn’t just a creepy euphemism for… something else.
Skittlez knows my weaknesses well. It frames itself around an irritating sing-song, nursery rhyme hook and throws a lifeless beat behind it with muted carnival house synths that sound like demented clown whistles. (Fun fact: my fingers subconsciously typed the word “shit” instead of “whistles.” I can’t imagine how that might have happened…) By the time Skittlez wraps up with a lethargic “la la la” chant I’m convinced Fifty Fifty are just pointing and laughing at us all. Silly K-pop fans, you will just lap up any old thing we give you, won’t you?
| Hooks | 3 |
| Production | 5 |
| Longevity | 4 |
| Bias | 2 |
| RATING | 3.5 |
The Bias List // K-Pop Reviews & Discussion 
look man i had to suffer through two reneditions of benson boone’s THESE BEYEWTIFULL THEENGS THAT EYE GOT during karaoke at anime pasadena so i fully relate to having arch-nemeses in your music taste
that said, even though this song is horseshit something about how its designed to push ones buttons and make you cringe and frown fascinates me as well
so this song can have an A for that effort but an F as an actual song
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Jfc, we really are getting at LEAST one song in the 4s and below in this blog since July 😭 not to mention, we even surpassed 2017 for having the most songs in the 3s or below in a year 🥴
But anyways, I don’t have a strong aversion to nursery chants like you do, but damn does it sound so Kidz Bop like, the beat’s super lethargic and it sounds like something Melanie Martinez would have dropped (not a compliment)
4.5 (4, 5, 5, 4) for me. 2 more songs and we might as well have enough for a re-evaluation for the 3s-and-below-rated songs next year or maybe even 2027 if this year decides to give us a break from putting up with these abominations 🥴
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………anyways lets go stream some Real fucking kpop!!!!!! https://youtu.be/j-lxGi4pOj8?si=m1PUJQEd-KAk_eNa
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waittttt it didnt embed the first time
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Thank you, Nick! I wasn’t entirely sure about that title too…
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can you eat my skittles it’s the sweetest in the middle
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what does this even mean 😭😭
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It’s a lyric from Beyoncé’s song “Blow”.
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oh wow am I that old… it’s a line from Blow by Beyoncé.
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the way it convinced me to add it into my playlist lol
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How does this make the album bro 😂 it’s genuinely painful to listen to
did the team that decides which songs are on the album really listen through their options, hear Skittlez and say “ohhhh now this is the one! This makes the final cut!”
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this didn’t deserve a music video. Unfortunately, I think the video is a lot better than that for eeny meeny miny moe
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Sweet baby hey zeus.
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Oh. Oh no. My curiosity about the low rating has now been satisfied, but at what cost???
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lowest rated songs revisited part 2 when?
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Because of massive age difference between my kids, I’ve been raising ages between infant to early elementary age kids for about a decade straight now. While I would prefer this song to actual nursery rhyme songs, I don’t really see a need for it. While I don’t have issues with the kpop nursery rhyme thing if done well, I’ve found that kids will jam to regular fantastic music if you just play that for them instead, especially songs with memorable melodies.
This gets a 5,5,5,5 = 5.
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May I recommend Bluey “Dance Mode” remix album. It is actually pretty good.
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I’m never one to turn down recommendations. Let’s see what we got here…
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Sounds like if Avicii wrote for Bluey or other kids shows haha. “So wake me up when naptimes over… “
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Strangely I find this about as (un)appealing as all the other garbage that 2025 has offered up.
Are Rich Man, Spaghetti or XOXZ honestly better than this? I don’t know anymore.
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I actually like Spaghetti a lot, though! It reminds me of the kind of quirky sounds we got in older K-pop generations. It makes me laugh and never devolves into nursery rhyme melodies.
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Yeah, I suppose I agree…
After mulling it over a bit this song is definitely worse.
Spaghetti has a bit of heart and soul to it.
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oh my God.
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I can’t stop laughing at the review and some of the comments😂😂😂. Thank you!!!
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Combinind strained sexual metaphors with nursery rhymes feels… ill-advised somehow. Why are nursery rhyme-based songs so common nowadays anyway?
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Not sure what it says about their agency that every single release after the group’s re-emergence needs to have a song with sexual innuendo… Love Tune had Push Your Love, Day & Night had Midnight Special, now this.
Anyway I know it’s not eligible for a review here because it’s Western Artist feat. K-pop Group, and also it’s not a proper music video, but the most interesting Fifty Fifty release of the last few days was this one:
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“Demented clown shit” is soooo funny lol
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Ngl I think this is the natural evolution from Pookie.
And while Miss Suzy is well known in America, I’m not sure the Korean public is aware of its tune, meaning that it’s actually novel without any of the baggage that we have here.
Idk I think it’s actually easier to accept than Eeny-Meeny is, especially because it doesn’t sound exactly like another recent Kpop song.
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When I heard the teaser for this song, I was displeased. I like Fifty Fifty as a group, so I didn’t want them to put out a wonky sounding song about toddler interests. But now I feel fine about it because I like the performance and charisma of the members. I gotta say I’m a fan of whoever is in charge of their music videos. I liked the Midnight Special one a lot, too.
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I’m still waiting for ablume to come back.
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