Song Review: idntt – Yes We Are | The Bias List // K-Pop Reviews & Discussion

idntt’s Pretty Boy Swag has grown on me a bit, yet still feels like a missed opportunity to do something more melodically ambitious. The rest of the album is quite strong as well. I already featured b-side Rage Problem as a buried treasure and now the guys are promoting Yes We Are with a music video.

This is another track I enjoy from the album and takes their sound in a more club-ready dance direction. It has a glossy, airy atmosphere that’s very popular right now. It’s as if the producers purposefully flatten any potentially interesting elements within the song. However, this airiness also makes the track feel quite sleek. Its chorus bops along with ease, getting under your skin even if it never really grabs you by the collar. The verses are a bit more boisterous, though also come across as less memorable.

Overall, I have similar feelings about idntt as I do about tripleS. Having this many members participate in a group is very exciting and deserves much more ambitious music. I know their concept/configuration involves sub-units, but why not have dozens of performers on the stage at once with an equally humongous sounding song? Maybe that’s just not the appetite of K-pop fans right now. Yes We Are is unlikely to polarize any opinion because it’s so safe. I’m ready for these guys to deliver their Rising Sun — something so undeniably huge that it stops you in your tracks.

Hooks	8
Production	8
Longevity	8
Bias	8
RATING	8

Grade: B-

3 thoughts on “Song Review: idntt – Yes We Are”

I do enjoy the dance sound of both Yes We Are and Rage Problem and it makes me wonder: is Modhaus planning to give each subunit a distinct musical identity? It’s too early to tell but it’ll be pretty cool if it turns out that unevermet is the hip-hop-focused subunit, yesweare is dance-focused, while itsnotover is something else. And then the whole group might draw from all of these these styles, or perhaps it might have a distinct identity of its own? I guess we’re going to get an answer to at least some of these questions later this year, after the final subunit debuts too.

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This would be a good song for interval training. Now we go fast … now we go slow … fast again … … slow again … … that’s just how we are.

It’s fine.

I had to look it up, they will eventually be 24 members. I was never a fan of the multi NCT subgroups. I couldn’t tell most of the sounds apart. For a while NCT127 was distinct, as was WayV, but possibly debut era Dream because they skewed young. After a while the only ones I could pick out were Taeyong, Ten, and the vocal lines. They made pots of money anyway so I guess it doesn’t matter what I think.

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