Tune Evaluation: TRENDZ – Chameleon

TRENDZ have develop into one among my largest frustrations in Okay-pop. They’d such factor going with final yr’s mega-banger Go Up, however a piecemeal strategy to collaborators has resulted in music that feels haphazard and incongruous. new single Chameleon (카멜레온) may as properly have come from a completely totally different group than Go Up or Vagabond or My Means.

In a manner, I suppose the phrase “chameleon” describes this completely! The track is one more transformation for the group, depositing them on the earth of old-school hip-hop. It’s a well-trodden path for Okay-pop’s boy teams. We’ve heard a ton of this sound prior to now few weeks alone. And like a damaged file, I’ll say as soon as once more that any style might be revitalized if the basic components of songwriting (melody, chords, beat) are robust.

Fairly than intention for a fully-realized manufacturing, Chameleon feels extra centered on turning into an earworm. Its chanted hook is repeated early and infrequently to the purpose that it begins to grate even earlier than the monitor has completed. It’s catchy, however “catchy” isn’t all the time a praise. I discover the refrain an obnoxious hear, which dampens every part else swirling round it. There are some fascinating concepts embedded inside the verses (that corrugated synth is cool), however total that is a simple skip.

Grade: C-