It’s been too long since we last heard from ifeye, especially given their status as rookies needing to get their name out there. Their summer single R U OK? was a slow-burn hit for me, growing more addictive as the season went on and building expectations for what they might return with on future comebacks. With Hazy (Daisy), they’ve sadly sipped from the overflowing well of muted drum-and-bass girl group trends of the last four years.
Yes, you read that right. These trends have persisted in one form or another since about the middle of 2022, which is an incredibly long time for K-pop to latch onto a specific sound palette. No wonder I’m so sick of the sound! Hazy (Daisy) does nothing to convince me of this style’s durability. The song is mostly comprised of cutesy sing-talk. Hazy daisy mazy wazy… something like that.
Sonically, Hazy fulfills the meaning of its title. It’s as if the producers placed a heavy gauze over the entire track, smothering it and preventing any element from venturing too far from a flat line. When it comes to energy, segments are barely identifiable from each other. Even when the girls move from talking to singing, the melodies droop and melt into each other. It’s all quite boring and mundane.
| Hooks | 7 |
| Production | 7 |
| Longevity | 7 |
| Bias | 7 |
| RATING | 7 |
Grade: C-
The Bias List // K-Pop Reviews & Discussion 
something to describe this song is 2ne1’s “I don’t care”
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I’m usually a lurker but I had to leave a comment because this release HURT. They had such a distinctive identity with ‘r u ok?’.
Now with their new production team + creative director, it seems like they’re trying to force them into one of the generic GG molds. I can’t help but think they are going to suffer the same fate as CSR…
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I think this song is the weakest in the whole album, their B-sides are much better. I hope one of them can be your ‘buried treasure’.
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NOOOO ifeye, this is honestly the last sound i would’ve expected them to take on. i kinda like padam padam from the album, sounds like it could be a cherry bullet b side, but overall this cb is a big let down
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sweet tang was awesome asf what the hell happened… i guess their new creative director really changed a lot because i don’t even like any of the b-sides enough to warrant replays 😦 except maybe for padam padam i guess? but even that’s a stretch
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ifeye, Rescene and h1-key are all facing the problem of releasing the same song again and again… I love these girls, and these songs are easy listening, but it is not enough.
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I’m not gonna lie, I’ve always been a drum & and bass and UK garage enjoyer. It’s one of the trends I actually enjoyed being overused just because it was so much of my taste. But at this point, and especially after NewJeans popularized that style in K-pop, producers really need to step up; we need better melodies, and more interesting production choices.
Regardless I will take this any day over that tropical pop / tropical house phase the genre had in the late 2010s. That was an era I don’t wanna live again in K-pop.
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kpop songwriters seem like they have a pattern for garage/2-step music, that is these songs must be dreamy, fresh and girly vibe. twice’s Rainbow is a uk garage song from EP Feel Special, it just sounds nothing different from the breakbeat songs after new jeans.
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