Of course I can’t forget to mention the bridge, which isn’t anything special, just over-processed chanting coupled with the song’s basal instrumental. If this is true, then congratulations SM for making two of the more distinguishable voices in Super Junior unrecognizable * slow clap*. I genuinely can not distinguish any of the voices during the verses. Apparently the first couple of alternating lines are uttered by Sungmin and Donghae, lines 1 and 3 are growled by Sungmin, and lines 2 and 4 are burped by Donghae. It’s not as if the verses weren’t poorly structured enough, and that the members weren’t sing-talking ridiculously enough, but they needed to add an unnecessary and headache inducing layer of vocal processing on top of it. The vocal processing during the verses, oh dear, just, oh dear. Three seconds in and I knew I couldn’t possibly take this song seriously, it’s too loud, too congested, and clearly Super Junior aren’t taking it very seriously either if the ‘vocals’ are anything to go by. A-cha’s instrumental consists of randomly placed loud staccatos of static which are overlayed with some strange kind of talk-chanting-voice-deformation. There’s no sophisticated instrumental, no flurry of vocals, just nothing. Because no, essentially nothing is going on. No more compromising myself in order to give any song a chance, so basically I’m just going to discuss A-Cha for what it truly is. If it was released a few months prior to now, I may have given it a 3.2+ simply because ‘it’s going to be a hit’ or ‘it’s fun’ or ‘it’s catchy’, but I’m done with fluffing over SM’s mediocre releases by consoling myself with the fact they’d gain mainstream appeal. To put it delicately, A-Cha (the lead single) is an atrocity. So keeping all that in mind, let’s talk about A-Cha shall we? Nothing spectacular, but it shows Hitchhiker is at his prime when he gives up the electro wannabe-ness and goes back to his roots. Ironically one of his better tracks is found on the B-Side of Super Junior’s Mr. I don’t mind if a composer sticks to one style, but in Hitchhiker’s case, his style is frankly consistently unimpressive and unprofound (see: Ice Cream, Visual Dreams, Show Show Show). He got it right somehow with Brown Eyed Girl’s Abracadabra, which is probably the one song where all his random elements come together to create an interesting and engaging pop song, but other than that everything hes done has been uninteresting, monotonous, and uninspired. I don’t like Hitchhiker, simply because he doesn’t impress me. Firstly, let’s discuss the lead single and get it out of the way and then never come back to it.Īctually no, first, let’s discuss the mastermind behind the lead single. Okay, since this was a pretty big release this month, and it is from one of my favourite boybands, I feel obliged to talk about it.
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