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As we enter the following spherical, Produce 48 alum star Jo Yuri arrives to go over the main points of the Class Swap Place Battle. As common throughout this level within the collection, the blokes will concentrate on both rap, dance or vocals and can create the assorted preparations/lyrics/choreo themselves. Thus begins the lengthy course of of selecting their place. In fact, the higher-ranked guys have the sting right here. The songs chosen for this spherical are extra area of interest than I’d have thought and in addition span generations. In fact, the blokes are most excited each time an enormous title (Stray Children! Seventeen!) pops out. The best way these reveals work, they’re in all probability good to need songs by notable artists, however I believe choosing a extra underrated music means that you can make it your individual.
Anyway, the blokes problem one another for the assorted elements and between that and the mission announcement we’re already thirty minutes into this episode. Nothing can ever be fast on this present.
As common, there’s A LOT of behind the scenes prep on this episode. Having watched another survival reveals not too long ago, I’ve determined that one in every of MNET’s largest points is that they don’t stability their behind the scenes materials with sufficient performances sprinkled between. They have an inclination to lump all this uninteresting footage into limitless packages moderately than dole it out in smaller segments interspersed with phases. Totally different enhancing would make this collection way more watchable and much much less repetitive.
Critically, we’re over ninety minutes into this episode earlier than the primary efficiency. That’s simply dangerous TV.
This seems like a considerably random music to have in Boys II Planet, however Younger Posse will need to have some type of MNET connection as a result of they had been at MAMA final yr, too. This stage drew out the cuter elements of the monitor and inside that framework I believe this quartet did a reasonably good job. That they had quite a lot of vitality and had been just about smiling the complete time. I like how the choreo had a lot interaction between the blokes, too. The music is tremendous repetitive, however the staging made it really feel extra various and fascinating. Kudos to the members, who needed to create this routine themselves. One of many guys’ sneakers even fell off on the finish! Fortunately, he was carrying modern socks.
On the subject of factors, member Yun Web optimization (the one who misplaced his shoe) was picked as the favourite.
Now that is an oldie however a goodie. However what’s going to trendy idol rappers do in the event that they’re not simply continually rapping in triplets?
Simply kidding! (Type of)
This music was launched earlier than most (all?) of the Boys II Planet guys had been even born, so it’s no shock that almost all of them didn’t even realize it. Nonetheless, it’s fairly an iconic Okay-pop touchstone. As a part of the rap phases, the boys should write their very own verses, which permits them to show extra character. The collection well subtitled these particular person verses and a few of them had been fairly enjoyable/humorous. I miss this type of lighthearted rap in Okay-pop. This entire stage was very gratifying, truly. It’s good to see the blokes simply having enjoyable with out worrying about intense choreography. Zi Hao’s freewheeling presence caught my consideration.
So far as voting goes, Lee Jeong pulled it out in the long run.
By the very nature of this music and the members concerned, this was destined to be the episode’s most anticipated stage. I like after they get male idols to carry out songs initially accomplished by a feminine artist (and vice versa) as a result of it mechanically provides one thing totally different to the stage. In true badass trend, this efficiency opened with a (bleeped) curse phrase. Soooo edgy, MNET! The choreo on this was tremendous tight, although the digicam work didn’t all the time seize it effectively. I personally discovered the earlier two performances extra gratifying to look at as a viewer, however this one was undoubtedly catered extra towards trendy developments. There have been some good solo moments that virtually beg to be looped as a meme on-line, so the blokes did their job after which some. They even labored the group a bit. Sang Received caught my eye essentially the most.
The voters agreed with me, as Sang Received acquired essentially the most votes.
