New girl group Heart Of Woman have debuted in an unusual way: with a full, thirteen-track album. This used to be a much more common approach in K-pop, but these days single albums (or even digital singles) are much more the norm — especially for new girl groups. This breadth of material offers opportunity to showcase a variety of sounds, and the group opted for a standout with title track Lost In Proof (나를 잃지 않는 방법).
First off, I’d be remiss in not mentioning the obvious audio issues in the music video for this track. Hopefully that gets fixed because the mixing is almost unlistenable in places. For now, I’ll embed the official audio as well.
Onto the song itself, Lost In Proof is a refreshingly straightforward affair, offering plenty of pop melody over a light, new jack swing inspired beat. The pre-chorus has a very familiar structure, almost as if it’s an interpolation of a song I’ve heard before. However, the chorus comes out swinging with enough force to act as a satisfying centerpiece. The production here even boasts a bit of a Max Martin-esque Y2K feel. That punchiness goes a long way toward selling the simple hook. The verses are less inspired, slowing to a crawl over which the ladies deliver fragments of melody and half-baked rap. This all evens out to a solid debut with plenty of room for growth.
| Hooks | 8 |
| Production | 8 |
| Longevity | 9 |
| Bias | 8 |
| RATING | 8.25 |
Grade: B
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It’s so nice to see a group debut with a full album, that doesn’t happen a lot these days. I enjoyed the title track and hope to enjoy the rest of the album as well.
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I did randomly get recommended this on Youtube and I thought it was interesting but I got lost in other things, and here we are. I don’t mind it, it’s a more earnest effort for a certain style than… other songs that came out today.
It fits a lot in 2:34 which I was surprised by (a lot of songs in that album run under 3min and even 2 and a half which is a red flag for me but I digress). It does a good job in filling a whole structure in that time, but like… an outro offramp would have been PERFECT here. Dance break, more adlibs, bring it to completion. Told U So is probably the best one off that album (9,8,8,9). I love triplet tempos.
7 (8,7,7,6). Part of me feels hesitant to go further because what do we have from aespa, KIOF, etc. that doesn’t feel like its being reheated here? Keep in mind the latter practically nuked itself from their own actions, so yeah, they are talented, production’s solid, but I’ll look from the side.
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hey, sorry about that, this was meant to be its own comment, literally refreshed to avoid this, my apologies
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^that was not meant to be a reply, my apologies.
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I really liked this!! the writing is very k-pop which was so nice to hear.
debuting with a full album especially under a nugu company is a huge risk, I wish them great success 🫶
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On a scale of 1 to 10, I give it a “hey, that is a solid debut and let’s see what they do next”. Rating is about right.
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