Here’s the thing about Cortis: I really want to like their music. I think REDRED is genuinely fantastic and what I’ve seen of the members filling in for host duties on weekly music shows has been very charming. I like the idea of young creators coming in to offer something a bit different than the norm. However, I just don’t think the music has been good so far. It tends to be either mind-numbingly obnoxious or a big, boring nothingburger. I think I prefer the former to the latter (even though my ratings don’t always reflect that), but neither is a great space to be.
Blue Lips fits squarely into the “big, boring nothingburger” territory — though I’d strike the “big” from that description. It’s a short song, it’s an atmospheric song, and it’s ultimately a song that goes nowhere. If you enjoy the sounds of artists mumble-singing over muted keys meant to evoke the idea of a “serious artistic statement”, you’ll probably take a liking to this. But without any real songcraft or variety, this barely feels like a song at all. It’s an extended interlude at best, consisting of about one idea. The melodies — such as they are — are flat and repetitive and the track dissipates before it even gets going. If Big Hit didn’t insist on promoting these songs with music videos I probably wouldn’t have written about this at all. After all, there’s barely enough content in Blue Lips to cover!
| Hooks | 4 |
| Production | 7 |
| Longevity | 5 |
| Bias | 5 |
| RATING | 5.25 |
Grade: F
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The production lowkey sounds like something some kid at school would have created on those Yamaha keyboards for the morning assemblies or a function 😭
But yeah, it’s boring. Man, I could have done something more productive and interesting with those 2 minutes, like procrastinate for my finals and doomscroll on twitter dot com.
Anyways, 5 (4, 6, 5, 5) for me. And I hope we get an MV for YCC, but mostly cause I’d sell my kidney to see the review :9
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i closed the vidoe after hearing the first line.
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I’ve never listened to the album so this is my first time listening to it and nothingburger is correct. I like the members but the music is just bottom of the barrel (with the sole exception of REDRED).
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istg redred really saved the album 😭😭
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Even that song sucks so much.
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thoughts on these “pick me” songs?
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I know Nick reviewed Nekkoya, but he didn’t review the original Pick Me, so I too am curious to see if his thoughts have changed on Nekkoya since his initial review, and what his thoughts were on the first ever Pick Me theme song.
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He talked about the original Pick Me in the Top 50 songs of 2016. He didn’t like it at first, but it became a huge grower for him.
https://thebiaslist.com/2016/12/15/the-top-50-best-k-pop-songs-of-2016-day-four-20-11/
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TNT and Wassup are the only songs I like in this album. You didn’t like TNT though so I don’t think you’ll like Wassup? I personally didn’t like RedRed but I can admit it’s somewhat a catchy song. The other songs are just atrocious.
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ok, Cortiguins 🐧, we get it, you have angelic vocals, now turn off the autotune
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Is this even a song?
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U’re right. Its too obvious who is Hybe new golden child right now. Just how many music videos they made for them so far versus how much they allocate for other groups? Txt only got 1 this comeback.
They keep shoving their suck ass music to people and people with no music taste eat it thinking it was good.
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they are doing the NewJeans visual album approach that brought the group so much success.
TXT’s debut EP all had music videos (even though Our Summer was just a self-filmed video), and they used to release short films during the first three(?) years of their career. I think at this point in their careers they’ve moved past that since those take so much time to film, and they have busy schedules. though I have noticed that their team has been fucking up minor stuff (nothing egregious so far), so there’s definitely some truth to that “no longer the favorite child” thing.
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There are a lot of good songs written by teenagers. This is not one of them.
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