One advantage of an enormous group configuration is which you could break into an nearly limitless variety of solos and sub-units to advertise whereas different members are on hiatus. Such is the case with Seventeen. They haven’t launched a full-group observe in a 12 months however have debuted a number of pairs of members with various sounds and ideas. Subsequent up is Vernon and The 8, working beneath the title V8 (not the vegetable juice model). So, what occurs when a member of the hip-hop group meets a member of the efficiency group?

Debut single singasong embraces Ok-pop’s ongoing dance development, current on the longtail of Charli XCX’s Brat that has hit the business like a delayed hurricane. As standard, I’m grateful to listen to club-influenced vitality inject some bounce again into Ok-pop, however songs like this really feel extra like sketches than fully-fleshed out works. Vernon and The 8 are diminished to yet one more a part of the manufacturing as their closely processed vocals are sometimes buried within the combine. Melodically, singasong exhausts one thought again and again, inflicting it to really feel slight with none actual peaks or valleys.

Whereas I benefit from the online game aesthetic of the instrumental, it additionally feels needlesssly small and compressed. It’s as if the tune was designed for tinny telephone audio system because the backdrop to a meme or app. I’ve at all times most well-liked my pop music to be as widescreen as doable, so a jingle like singasong simply wasn’t designed for me. I can hear its attraction and I admire its strategy and there’s no denying how catchy its incessant hook is, however on the finish of the day the tune doesn’t make me really feel something.

Grade: C+