Kim Wooseok - 'Sugar' Relay Dance + Album Listening Post

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

Tasty: This is fun but falls apart at the chorus. It sounds like what would happen if Touch had a nightmare. It's just slightly off... like dissonant but not in a cool way. If it's supposed to make me feel uneasy, it succeeded

Sugar (Music Video Post)

Better: A bit generic, a little too high

Holiday: I like this sooo much more than I thought I would when I heard it in the highlight medley. The second verse is my favorite. Also "ayyyy" makes a triumphant return lol

What Are You Up To Tonight? I like this more than I thought I would, too, probably just from seeing the performances.

Next: Yeah this is much different from the rest of the album and I understand why it's last. It's so dramatic lol but I'm also dramatic so I like it. I wish it could be a little longer! I think I understand the story of this album now.



If I could rearrange the tracks (not in order of preference, just so that the album flows better), I would put them like this:

1. What Are You Up To Tonight?
2. Tasty
3. Sugar
4. Better
5. Holiday
6. Next

Sources: M2 | TOP MEDIA | KIM WOO SEOK 김우석 Official 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Comments

[giriboy.livejournal.com]

i wanted to like this album more than i do :( i don't think it's bad but it's, like, unremarkable. holiday & next are definitely my faves! wooseok (probably) has a very good mini using both of them as a tracklist but i'm not counting that as a plus either... would love if he has no more forgettable slow songs on the next one

the relay dance was so cute 🥰 i esp loved all the ending pose outtakes!

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

Exactly, like

I know the best way to experience an album is to treat it as its own work, but I really can't help comparing this to Greed. Greed is so good and coherent (except I always skip Sinphony because I hate that song lol). Tasty doesn't have the same... power. And like that's okay on some level, not every mini has to be that strong, sometimes you just want to chill! But if that was the case I would have preferred Tasty to have more songs like Holiday and What Are You Up To Tonight. That's the frustrating thing because Tasty and Better could be better, they are just so overproduced. Like they're trying to be Somebody Like You and Do U Like, they just need to be dialed back just a bit.

PLUS if Greed, Tasty and 3rd Desire are meant to be listened to together, I can see this getting lost in the middle of a 20-song album, but I need to wait on 3rd Desire to make that call

Anyway! I still like and I'm gonna listen but yeah, Greed is better.

[reader17.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed it, I liked all of the songs, one or two stand out more then the rest. Better and Sugar for me.

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

Sugar gets stuck in my head all the time! I still think the chorus is a little too high but I get why this is the promoted song

I'll admit I like Better more after seeing the showcase performance, I'm tough on fan songs sometimes lol I can't help comparing it to Beautiful, though.