especially in how the line’s are distributed and build to chorus. For one thru the first half of the song, it is completely in the blackpink model. I can’t stomach another “ma ma ma ma” in 2023 with an artist that aims at being edgy and interesting.

We already have “Dramarama” by Monsta X using this word with the “ma ma ma ma” and we have “Black Mamba” with the same gimmick.

This one sounds like something that ITZY would do. I didn’t adore “Spicy” but in its style it was OK. Like… for real this song has been a disappointment to me. “Savage”… I absolutely adored it as the production was super cool, and the hook was tongue in cheek with these tsu tsu tsu tsu (and it was a better hook than in “Drama” even without the tsu tsu tsu). but “Unholy”‘s main dish is that chorus and that makes 80% of the song. Someone had the idea of a hyperpop production. “Unholy” is totally camp and has an incredible melody in the hook, whoever came up with that and thought about the choir is a genius to me. I am a massive “Unholy” fan and I adore Aespa “Savage” but this song “Drama” made me cringe so bad I couldn’t go pass the chorus. As is often the case, I just crave more than the same idol group boasts regurgitated over new production. Thankfully, Drama‘s explosive bridge reminds us just how well aespa can sing and its herky-jerky stomp manages to ignite some 2014-era f(x) sparks here and there. I love when K-pop goes larger than life, but this melodrama is at its best with a wink and a nod. There’s not a tongue in cheek to be found, and that’s a shame. The problem is, the song seems deadly serious. If I take off my jaded ‘aging K-pop fan’ hat and ignore Drama‘s vacuous attempts at what passes for “empowering” lyrics, I think I can almost get into the campiness of its repeated incantation. I just wish they’d found a better song to hitch it to. It’s tempered by SM’s penchant for weird, distorted production, and there are moments when this instrumental legitimately slaps. And, there’s no way you can listen to Drama and not hear the BLACKPINK influence. I know some readers hate when I compare artists to other artists, but that’s the name of the game in an industry as insular as this. I’m pretty exhausted with endless “I’m so badass” catchphrasey songwriting and vocal fry posturing, and Drama is largely a lurching exercise in corporate world-building. On the surface, there’s not much here for me. New single Drama leans decisively toward the former, but I’d rather hear aespa just be aespa. However, their sound has been all over the place, as if SM can’t decide whether they want them to be the next BLACKPINK or something closer to breezy, Westernized pop. Infrequent Korean comebacks are interspersed with English and Japanese work, guided them on a global pathway to success. As SM Entertainment’s ascendant girl group, aespa have dipped their toes into a variety of musical endeavors.

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