Tune Evaluate: Twice – This Is For

By means of recognition and persistence, Twice have amassed one of many largest Ok-pop lady group discographies on the market, and that’s set to balloon even additional with the discharge of a brand new album and solo tracks from every member. The album could boast a sturdy monitor listing, however many of the songs’ operating occasions take their cue from our truncated TikTok era of pop music. New title monitor This Is For is a paltry two minutes and eleven seconds. With 9 members to squeeze into that time-frame, is there actually sufficient track to do justice to their potential?

The reply, after all, isn’t any. This Is For appears like a couple of respectable concepts in want of enlargement. It’s fairly uninteresting for the primary forty seconds or so, mining the identical early-Y2K vibes we’ve heard advert nauseum over the previous two years. This sound has lengthy since worn out its welcome and feels reductive for a bunch as achieved as Twice. Nevertheless, issues enhance from right here. The percussion grows extra thrilling and much more attuned to the turn-of-millennium period it seeks to copy. I heard this very same beat in so many pop and R&B tracks again within the day. The factor is, it was virtually all the time paired with stronger melodies than This Is For‘s sing-chant centerpiece.

Structurally, there’s not a lot to hold your hat on right here. Simply because the track is starting to realize its footing, it’s completed. It’s like one lengthy construct with none payoff. Technically, the refrain is repeated 3 times, however as a consequence of its placement in the beginning of the monitor there’s a sketch-like vacancy to This Is For. Every part earlier than the ultimate third of the track is extraneous, which shouldn’t be the case in a track this transient. I might have kicked issues off with the complete groove and grown from there. Because it stands, the musical storytelling feels flat and unsatisfying.

Grade: C