After releasing two singles in late 2014 and releasing their first mini album earlier this year, Red Velvet is back with a full length album. Red Velvet has always experimented with different genres. Happiness was Pop while Be Natural was R&B. Their mini Album Ice Cream Cake was a mix of Pop, R&B, and Electro Pop. This album is pretty much that and even more.
The title song Dumb Dumb is really good. Its a pop and hiphop fusion that blends so well. Its a little reminiscent of Bang Bang by Jessi J but not too much. I was dancing and bumbing to it by the 2 minute mark. Red Velvet continue to slay their title songs. They are always good and refreshing because their style is so different and it works so well. The only downfall or quirk that doesn't work, is the rap. I felt as if it wasn't needed. It was out of place but some how managed to still be pretty decent.
The second song on the album keeps you pumped with its upbeat tempo. Huff n Puff could have been released alongside Dumb Dumb because how reminiscent they are of each other. The pace of the album is slowed a bit with Campfire. Campfire is about being snuggled up with the person you like by the Campfire. Its a pretty sweet song but the album speeds up with Red Dress. Red Dress is a really good song. It has a positive message of feeling good and being pretty in your own way. Besides that it makes me want to dance my ass off. The chorus is really good with the bet slowing but still maintain an upbeat feel. The Hip Hop feel on this song is real and done well.
Oh Boy and Lady's Room are slowed down and are a bit more mellow. Oh Boy is about how the boy makes the feel all fluffy inside and makes them notice new feelings they didn't know they had. Lady's Room is about a party for the girls. No Boys allowed. Is a really fun song that even though I'm a boy I can really enjoy. The album ends off with Cool World after the more dance track Don't U Wait No More, the R&B song Time Slip, and the soothing song Day 1. Cool World is about being about you. Enjoying the World the way you would without a care of what others think. Its just you in your own world.
I really enjoy this Album. I give it a rating of 8.5/10. Red Velvet are still experimenting with their sound but even so it feels so natural. They are able to take different genres of music, mix them, and make them their own. This album was more charismatic in that it had more dance tracks the their previous mini album Ice Cream Cake. Red Velvet and SM did a great job at making a great debut full length album. I can't wait for Red Velvet to evolve more in the future.
The title song Dumb Dumb is really good. Its a pop and hiphop fusion that blends so well. Its a little reminiscent of Bang Bang by Jessi J but not too much. I was dancing and bumbing to it by the 2 minute mark. Red Velvet continue to slay their title songs. They are always good and refreshing because their style is so different and it works so well. The only downfall or quirk that doesn't work, is the rap. I felt as if it wasn't needed. It was out of place but some how managed to still be pretty decent.
The second song on the album keeps you pumped with its upbeat tempo. Huff n Puff could have been released alongside Dumb Dumb because how reminiscent they are of each other. The pace of the album is slowed a bit with Campfire. Campfire is about being snuggled up with the person you like by the Campfire. Its a pretty sweet song but the album speeds up with Red Dress. Red Dress is a really good song. It has a positive message of feeling good and being pretty in your own way. Besides that it makes me want to dance my ass off. The chorus is really good with the bet slowing but still maintain an upbeat feel. The Hip Hop feel on this song is real and done well.
Oh Boy and Lady's Room are slowed down and are a bit more mellow. Oh Boy is about how the boy makes the feel all fluffy inside and makes them notice new feelings they didn't know they had. Lady's Room is about a party for the girls. No Boys allowed. Is a really fun song that even though I'm a boy I can really enjoy. The album ends off with Cool World after the more dance track Don't U Wait No More, the R&B song Time Slip, and the soothing song Day 1. Cool World is about being about you. Enjoying the World the way you would without a care of what others think. Its just you in your own world.
I really enjoy this Album. I give it a rating of 8.5/10. Red Velvet are still experimenting with their sound but even so it feels so natural. They are able to take different genres of music, mix them, and make them their own. This album was more charismatic in that it had more dance tracks the their previous mini album Ice Cream Cake. Red Velvet and SM did a great job at making a great debut full length album. I can't wait for Red Velvet to evolve more in the future.
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I really used to love kpop, and then I became "woke" and realized that it was really just one big appropriation machine and that antiblackness I hella rampant on the Asian peninsula. Even watching anime makes me feel some type of way, but I can't give up the anime lol. That being said, I run across kpop from time to time and Red Velvel's Dumb Dumb was too addictive to dismis. The rapping was really bad though. I dont know why every kpop song needs a rap verse and about 85% of them are absolute gatbage. The rapping took away from the song tbh, as well as the live performance, none of the members had any personality or magnetism to go with the track. Their album overall was really solid. Lady's Room was my other fave track. They have another song called Automatic thats really good as well and the choreo for it in the video is insanely sexy and amazing and complicated, also didn't translate well live. They're like F(x) w/o the personality or a decent rapper like Amber. They all have pleasant voices though so I'll give them that, and their producer is talented whoever they are. I'll only get back into kpop is Bom, GD and TOP form a permanent trio, which will probs never happen but I'll pop back in if they do another single.
ReplyDeleteThe standard that every group needs a rapper is so horrible and like you said, a lot of it is bad. I would not say that Korean Pop or Korean music in general is Anti Black because that implies that they hate black people. I would just go with appropriation or the racist comments here and there.
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