The upcoming soundtrack to F1® The Film (which is totally outdoors my wheelhouse – pun meant) guarantees to be a star-studded affair. And in 2025, meaning a little bit of Ok-pop illustration — even when it’s tangential. Rosé has actually leapfrogged over the classification of “Ok-pop,” and songs like Messy push her additional into the Western pop market.

To be trustworthy, I don’t have a ton to say about Messy and that’s as a result of the music performs issues so down the center. It has a plodding sense of anthemic catharsis that has been retread numerous instances over the previous twenty years. It’s primarily a ballad, however trussed up with a pounding thud. Melody winds its approach between this overwhelming manufacturing however by no means quantities to a lot. Melodic vary is kind of slender on this case, which solely provides to the music’s formulaic, lockstep construction. Rosé makes an odd match for Messy‘s booming instrumental. Her voice is delicate, expressive and fairly however doesn’t provide the gravitas wanted to make this system work. If nothing else, Messy will sound high-quality taking part in over the tip credit of the film. That’s most likely the extent of its ambition anyway.

Grade: C