When deciding which music off ILLIT’s latest album to function as a “buried treasure,” I waffled between Oops and Jellyous. I’m glad I selected the previous as a result of now I get to put in writing concerning the newly-promoted Jellyous as effectively. That is additionally one other probability to wax poetic about how a lot Do The Dance has grown on me over the previous few weeks. It’s by far my favourite ILLIT title monitor at this level.
Jellyous can be enjoyable, although not as uniquely ear-catching. At its worst, the music conforms to the muted sing-song method I’ve grown so bored with in Okay-pop, however a number of components raise it past these overused tendencies. A retro — virtually chiptunes — thread of percussion helps the majority of the monitor, including to ILLIT’s mystical lady conceit. Then, we get a pleasant post-chorus that lets the herky-jerky phrasing of the melodies lastly stretch into one thing extra sturdy. These are the melodic moments ILLIT want extra of. These refrains flesh out the monitor and push it past pure novelty.
Finally, Jellyous is just too repetitive and flat to fully win me over in the way in which Do The Dance did, nevertheless it makes for a pleasant b-side and a good promotional follow-up. My hope is that the group proceed to tease out the extra thrilling components of their songs and finally find yourself in a sonic panorama nearer to a senior artist like Lovelyz (whose musical touches poke out right here and there throughout ILLIT’s album in promising methods).
| Hooks | 8 |
| Manufacturing | 8 |
| Longevity | 8 |
| Bias | 8 |
| RATING | 8 |
Grade: B-
