Last year's D-Unit material (incl. "Luv Me") never seemed completely there, though I liked the sound and image the group were going for (colorful-sounding strong girls); but the new "Stay Alive," from the forthcoming Zico-produced alb, is unexpectedly hard, and ends up working thoroughly; the weird, treated sung part creates a genuinely strange contrast.
Though I hate what's been done to Block B, both in the trumped-up Thailand "scandal" and the nonpayment by the record company (I should say "alleged nonpayment," since I don't know the record company's side of the story), Block B's own musical mixture (boyband with virtuoso rap) sounded good only sporadically, though in theory it should have been great. I wonder if Zico might be better off just being Zico, sans band. But I have yet to relisten to his solo alb from a couple of years ago. I remember its devotion to hip-hop making it sound too dry. So I seem to be damning the guy when he does and damning him when he doesn't. But he does have great talent.
Back to Rainbow. "Tell Me Tell Me" isn't necessarily a bad song, but the arrangement brings it to nowhere land. The beats are trying to be strong but aren't, the lightness doesn't fly, the fizziness fizzles. So the track clonks around without figuring out whether to kick or to float, and does neither. Sounds like a Girl's Day song without Girl's Day. It's not really my style anyway, but it's also a botch of what might have been a good example of the style.
You were the one who originally alerted me in 2011 when four members of Kara requested that their contract with DSP be terminated, before they all ended up settling. I gather that part of the complaint was that the label was requiring promotional work without adequately informing Kara of what was going on. So the issue wasn't just who gets what money or who gets exploited, but also alleged confusion and mismanagement.
The writer at Soompi, The Real Cz, thinks that DSP is neglecting Rainbow, though I doubt that an agency would release a song that it didn't expect to do well. I wonder why SweeTune weren't involved. Do you know what SweeTune are up to this year, other than Nine Muses?
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Though I hate what's been done to Block B, both in the trumped-up Thailand "scandal" and the nonpayment by the record company (I should say "alleged nonpayment," since I don't know the record company's side of the story), Block B's own musical mixture (boyband with virtuoso rap) sounded good only sporadically, though in theory it should have been great. I wonder if Zico might be better off just being Zico, sans band. But I have yet to relisten to his solo alb from a couple of years ago. I remember its devotion to hip-hop making it sound too dry. So I seem to be damning the guy when he does and damning him when he doesn't. But he does have great talent.
Back to Rainbow. "Tell Me Tell Me" isn't necessarily a bad song, but the arrangement brings it to nowhere land. The beats are trying to be strong but aren't, the lightness doesn't fly, the fizziness fizzles. So the track clonks around without figuring out whether to kick or to float, and does neither. Sounds like a Girl's Day song without Girl's Day. It's not really my style anyway, but it's also a botch of what might have been a good example of the style.
You were the one who originally alerted me in 2011 when four members of Kara requested that their contract with DSP be terminated, before they all ended up settling. I gather that part of the complaint was that the label was requiring promotional work without adequately informing Kara of what was going on. So the issue wasn't just who gets what money or who gets exploited, but also alleged confusion and mismanagement.
The writer at Soompi, The Real Cz, thinks that DSP is neglecting Rainbow, though I doubt that an agency would release a song that it didn't expect to do well. I wonder why SweeTune weren't involved. Do you know what SweeTune are up to this year, other than Nine Muses?