It’s a day of pre-releases, as Mamamoo’s Moonbyul joins the fray with a teaser of her new album. She had a really robust slate of 2024 releases, together with a number of standouts in quite a lot of genres. With this as a comparability, ICY BBY is a particular step down and feels rather more indebted to present Okay-pop tendencies.
On the similar time, elements of this tune appear well-calibrated to Moonbyul’s strengths. She will get to fireside off a fast rap verse, the likes of which we haven’t heard from her in awhile (no less than on a title monitor). Nevertheless, the remainder of the monitor is repetitive and boring. The hooks do nothing for me. They’re insistent in an irritating means, circling across the similar easy refrains with out sufficient respiration room to supply respite. The beat stutters out and in, inflicting ICY BBY‘s momentum to really feel piecemeal. Simply as usually because it will get going, it stalls.
ICY BBY‘s hook bears the easy, stuttering construction so widespread with Okay-pop’s lady teams in the meanwhile, leaving little room for melodic improvement. Moderately than surge or glide, the chorus has a stabbing rhythm. Had this been set in opposition to a contrasting instrumental, the strategy may need labored higher. As an alternative, all the monitor is constructed upon this herky-jerky fashion and winds up feeling monotonous.
| Hooks | 6 |
| Manufacturing | 7 |
| Longevity | 8 |
| Bias | 7 |
| RATING | 7 |
Grade: C-
