Of all the K-pop agencies, SM Entertainment boasts the largest legacy in the Japanese market. J-pop discographies from BoA, TVXQ, Girls Generation and SHINee match or eclipse their Korean counterparts, as the company invested in Japan early. However, the past few years have seen a more scattershot approach. New releases are infrequent — especially from SM’s newer groups. RIIZE hasn’t released an original Japanese single since 2024 and new track All Of You seems to be getting a rather hesitant push.
Listening to the song, that might be for the best. SM has struggled to give RIIZE their own sound, but when the material’s great it tends to be excellent. For me, their weakest songs have been Japanese (the less said about Be My Next, the better). 2024’s Lucky was fun but lightweight. All Of You is also lightweight but far less fun. The song doesn’t quite know what it wants to be, shifting between energies too frequently to gain a foothold. At one moment, it’s a party. The next, it dips into an overlong breakdown that squanders momentum. At its heart is a chanted hook. Maybe they’re trying to replicate the success of Love 119‘s chorus, but the reason why that song (eventually) worked was due to every other awesome part around its chorus.
There are brushes of awesomeness to be found here. The brassy opening delivers a welcome shot of fanfare before the actual song kicks off. The shuffling percussion has potential but feels as if it should be underpinning something totally different. RIIZE remain confident, engaging performers. However, All Of You is too fitful and too short to amount to anything worth returning to often. The song needs a much stronger centerpiece to help keep everything else in check.
| Hooks | 7 |
| Production | 7 |
| Longevity | 8 |
| Bias | 7 |
| RATING | 7.25 |
Grade: C
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I personally think it’s idiosyncratic charming and quirky. A little rough, but somehow manages to come together at the end.
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Was a bit messy for me at first but the chorus is so propulsive that I grew to like it. Flashlight as the b-side is fantastic though, taps right into the emotional pop that RIIZE does so well.
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so chaotic it had me taken aback at first but it has sunk in since. Flashlight is a great b-side however.
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How am I supposed to move to this? The song construction completely obscures suggestions of movement, and once one thinks they have a groove, it shifts. If I have to know the song to know how the song goes, it isn’t working. Its also not clever or nerdy enough to be a conceptual song that one listens to to.
*sigh* why can’t people compose on real instruments, standing up, swaying and shifting. Its all computer boop boop and mouse movements with at best head bobbing.
Prince … PRINCE … you can’t play 1999 without shifting your shoulders and booty in time, even if you didn’t know how the band all moved in sync in spangly frilly outfits.
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man i swear reading all your recent reviews make you seem so depressed in my head……as if you’re one disappointing TWS comeback away from giving up on K-pop forever and packing for the Himalayas ;-;
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Haha this too shall pass. 🙂
I’m curious… do you feel differently about the music that’s come out over the past few weeks? Unfortunately, I can only work with what I’m given…
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Just wait until late March. Its going to be crazy around here. (she says with nervous caution)
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I’m cautiously optimistic. I put on a 2025 youtube selection of kpop performance videos a little bit ago (because as we know nothing is really being released right now) and was shocked at how much I loved hearing some of the songs I slept on or hadn’t had time to gel with me yet.
Personally, I tend to think most years are better after the fact than I thought they were as they were happening.
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Recently my musical taste has become really ….pliable for some reason and I’m starting to like songs that I generally never would. I have played the CORTIS debut album so many times atp and I still cannot say anything objectively nice about any of the songs…..but I still listen to them a lot. I confuse myself.
The last few months have seen me play Riize’s Fame, Cortis’ Fashion and Go, TWS’ Overdrive and weirdly Lose My Mind from F1 like twenty times a month EACH which is pretty crazy considering I rarely ever repeat listen to songs, so actually i don’t particularly mind the current state of K-pop – because the only 2026 songs that even made it to my playlist was ATEEZ’s NASA and Adrenaline(both songs purely because of the choreo), TNX’s Call Me Back and KiiKii’s 404…….and that’s about it lol
So it’s not that I think the current state of Kpop is any better than you do, somehow I just failed to notice until writing out this comment and now I’m depressed too 🫠🫠
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The downward spiral that this comment has with each successive paragraph 😅😅
(and I totally get it)
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Funny, the messiness of it is actually some form of solace from whatever the hell people are trying to do with these ultra clean, AI-like (sometimes literally AI) works. I do agree with MaGoogle that some genuine instrumentation would help this a lot. And maybe some more melodic dynamics, I don’t think any of them sing above an E4 (with the high note being an A4, which still feels anticlimactic) for the most part. I would note this as innovative if things were stretched further, because the potential is there, but with the way it is, it’s just potential, not fully reached.
7 (6,8,7,7), it’s like that meme with the guy poking a stick at something saying “c’mon…” Even if you have something with, again, some potential.
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For me, it’s too damn short…like SM you could do so much better but a 2:40 track as an A-side over something nice like Flashlight…bruh…
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huh I don’t really hear Love 119 anywhere in here. 119’s hook was melodically stagnant but this hook has a solid melody imo. I just wish the song kept the brassy energy from the intro!
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we just need a good song to cheer Nick up…pls..
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disappointing that it started off with a banger trumpet/brass instrumental, only to genre shift into a dnb song reminiscent of zb1. but the song grew on me a lot – its chaotic messiness and relentless energy feels fitting for a kpop group’s japanese release. the cheesy flirtatious vocal delivery also elevates it lol, it fits the concept. overall, i’m satisfied but desperate for a longer song and crazier symphonic instrumention…
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