Track Assessment: CORTIS – GO!

It’s at all times thrilling when a brand new group debuts below a serious company, and CORTIS have a giant legacy to dwell as much as. GO! is technically a pre-release, so we will’t name it their official debut but, but it surely presents a glimpse of Massive Hit’s first new boy group since TXT’s debut in 2019. Details about the fellows has highlighted their self-producing method, which incorporates enter on each aspect of their work — from track to music video. Members have already performed a component in previous Massive Hit tracks.

This has been a really sturdy yr for debut boy teams, so GO! has a lot to dwell as much as on that entrance as properly. Inside that context, I’d put GO! all the way in which on the backside of the pack. That is fairly stunning from an company as big and influential as Massive Hit, however the track confirms all the troubles I had as details about CORTIS started to dribble out. I concern this debut could mark the beginning of a kind of “post-Okay-pop” period, as GO! carries completely no hallmarks of the style I first fell in love with. As an alternative, this monitor feels focused particularly to Western markets with its swaggy, slurred supply and absence of any kind of virtuosic efficiency model.

The factor is, self-composing a track doesn’t mechanically make you a “genius,” as many Okay-pop followers like to assert. Anybody can write a track. That doesn’t imply it’ll be a good track! If GO! is a sign of CORTIS’s self-producing model, we might have to return to the drafting board. The instrumental regurgitates dangerous samples we’ve heard 1,000,000 instances earlier than, the vocals are smothered with ugly results and the melody is a flat-line of disengaged nothingness, propped up with incessant posturing that feels totally exhausting. This would possibly all be forgivable with a well-conceived track driving the vibes, however like so many latest tracks GO! has about one-and-a-half concepts repeated again and again with no sense of development or persona.

I suppose this could be what Era MZ is in search of in music and CORTIS could discover a area of interest inside that subset of listeners, however after such an extended wait between Massive Hit debuts, I discover this track borderline insulting and a really worrisome harbinger for his or her profession. It’s definitely the worst “first style” of an artist the company has ever given us.

Grade: F