With ALLDAY PROJECT’s huge success last year, I expect we’ll see more co-ed groups debuting in K-pop. Of course, it takes a very long preparation period to train and debut a group, and versions of ChoCo Family (also known as “ChoCo1 X ChoCo2”) have been promoting all the way back to 2023. However, their four-member rebranding arrives at an opportune time to capitalize on their mixed-gender configuration. If only they could find a better (and less-confusing) name. Writing about “ChoCo Family” makes me feel like I’m discussing a cereal mascot or something.
While I’m at it, ChoCo Family needs a stronger song as well. Gimme wants to be a banger but ends up becoming more grating than thrilling. The hip-hop verses are charming in short bursts and I like the seesawing synth strings that underline this segment. At its best, the production has a chintzy 2000s quality that could have been built upon further. Unfortunately, Gimme‘s hyper-repetitive chorus arrives to instantly sacrifice any goodwill the track had been building up.
This is the rare case where I’m thankful a song has a short runtime. I’m not sure I could have endured any more “Gimmes.” Even at just over two minutes, Gimme exhausts its ideas. I imagine a world where this cacophonous hook works in spite of itself. If I’m being very generous, it reminds me of something from M.I.A.’s seminal 2007 album Kala. But without a specific point of view, Gimme becomes yet another K-pop track trying to be harder than it is. That impression isn’t helped by an opening lyric in verse one that I hope I’m just hearing wrong. Otherwise, ChoCo Family will find themselves mired in controversy right off the bat.
| Hooks | 6 |
| Production | 8 |
| Longevity | 7 |
| Bias | 6 |
| RATING | 6.75 |
Grade: D+
The Bias List // K-Pop Reviews & Discussion 
FYI, the boys here are the underdogs ya pointed out from your B2P episode 1 post – the one who did HIP 🙂
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I mean, M.I.A still managed to make repetitive hooks sound good cause she doesn’t take them that seriously (me who has Bamboo Banga and Come Around as her guilty pleasure), this one here postures too hard and they all try to sound tough and mature, which is funny cause all of them are still children and the girls here sound too young (now I feel old and I won’t even be 20 until the next 6 months 💔)
6.5 (5, 8, 7, 6) for me only cause the hooks sounds even more grating with the girls’ voices
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Everything EXCEPT the chorus is solid, but I feel like choruses should be the main element of any song, it is supposed to be the part that everyone remembers right?? What is going on these days… (6.25 tbh)
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I won’t listen to this because I don’t care but on a side note slayyyter album sounds like a real treat😍‼️
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CRANK IT!!!!
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Well that was an experience.
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Trying to wrap my head around this getting the same grade as Adrenaline and NASA.
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I actually think I like it? Very easy to see how it’s grating, but it’s straddling the line for me. Glad to see yechan and taejo too
but that verse line? They say neighbors but it’s very clear what’s being aluded to. They’re wrong for that, but we all knew that
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ANOTHER SONG RATED BELOW A 7??? WHAT IS THIS CURSED YEAR.
if anyone can, does anyone have a count of how many rated 6 songs we have gotten so far in 2026
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With today’s release of this song, that’s 10 songs rated 6 this year.
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that’s actually depressing. and I don’t think there’s even 20 songs that have a rating of 8 or above yet.
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not even joking, if the chorus was completely different, this would actually be very good. But omg my head hurts. Also why am I getting hit in the head with a frying pan from time to time.
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“All my neighbors wanna know,” are they STUPID 😭‼️⁉️
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These poor, poor kids…the fact that they got saddled with this song makes me feel almost as queasy as the strings in the chorus.
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“Otherwise, ChoCo Family will find themselves mired in controversy right off the bat.” theyre already under that. Apprantley, in the first verse, one of the members straight up drops the n word. I listened to it and could not verify if it was true but if it is that is incredibly shitty.
also, their ceo is apprantley linked towards defrauding block b and topp dogg and has even went to jail for that. take that if you will
song sucks as well. chorus is awful
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……yeah that kid definitely said the n word 💀💀💀💀
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this song is horrible and he VERY clearly said the n word these nugus aren’t making it
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does anybody know the name of the sample repeated throughout the instrumental? one example is it at this time stamp 1:56. It sound so so so familiar but I don’t remember what it is
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we all heard exactly what that word was let’s be real, there’s no way you’re mixing up “g” and “b” sounds ffs
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After a closer listen, Yechan definitely said the n word.
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