Since their debut in 2023, BOYNEXTDOOR has steadily constructed up a big fanbase and this yr they’ve continued to department out to festivals like Lollapalooza. All of the whereas, their music has saved its personal shade, pulling as a lot from very outdated pop genres because it does fashionable developments. New single Hollywood Motion continues this method however flirts too closely with novelty.
The group has developed a penchant for swing music and different sounds of that period. It’s actually distinctive, however threatens to really feel like a schtick with out the fitting tune. Their music is sort of at all times personality-driven and that will get them far even on a monitor like this. It’s onerous to think about one other band having the ability to pull off Hollywood Motion in any respect. I don’t assume even BOYNEXTDOOR make it work, but it surely’s a testomony to their allure that the tune is not less than listenable.
I’ve by no means loved music that sounds an excessive amount of like a industrial jingle, and Hollywood Motion veers onerous into this territory. It’s constructed upon one goofy thought, repeated with out a lot additional flesh on the bone. The monitor facilities round a catchy brass loop, over which the fellows solid off some forgettable sing-talk about “screaming like a thriller” or some nonsense. The manufacturing right here is simply too threadbare to hold a lot pleasure. It appears like a drag-and-drop loop from a pattern pack, unadorned and unexciting. One in all BOYNEXTDOOR’s best belongings is their power, and that’s virtually utterly absent given the constraints of the tune. Sadly, that is their worst single in an in any other case robust discography.
| Hooks | 7 |
| Manufacturing | 7 |
| Longevity | 7 |
| Bias | 8 |
| RATING | 7.25 |
Grade: C
