P Nation’s first lady group Child DONT Cry made their pre-debut final week with the predictable however nice Wager You’ll Remorse It. Now, it’s time for them to unleash their title monitor. As with a lot of the promotion surrounding them to date, F Woman‘s provocative title is certain to boost eyebrows. The company’s objective is clearly to titillate with out really doing something controversial.
I choose my titillation to exist throughout the music itself, and F Woman doesn’t get there. The music opens with promise, delivering a bouncy new wave beat that gives loads of vitality. The verses aren’t notably notable, however the manufacturing buoys them with sufficient momentum that you just’ll hardly even discover what the ladies are doing or saying. However sadly, F Woman simply can’t resist plunging headfirst into novelty for its spell-it-out refrain. Discuss a buzzkill! The producers appear to be going for a Chappell Roan type “Sizzling To Go” chant (one other refrain I personally discover annoying), however what works in a colourful indie pop sphere isn’t as well-suited to Ok-pop.
Talking of producers, one look below the hood of F Woman reveals the explanation the music isn’t clicking for me. Like its predecessor, that is the brainchild of i-dle’s Soyeon. Her songwriting has not often appealed to me and we’re now at a degree the place she’s delivered sufficient clunkers to develop into a kind of persona non grata in my very own music library. I simply discover her work so juvenile and tryhard, sabotaging its greatest instincts with cloying catchphrases that pressure for cleverness and pretend edginess. Such is the case with F Woman, and Child DONT Cry aren’t but established sufficient to crawl out from this “Jr. i-dle” sound they’ve been gifted.
| Hooks | 6 |
| Manufacturing | 8 |
| Longevity | 7 |
| Bias | 7 |
| RATING | 7 |
Grade: C-
