With over 4,000 songs on my iPhone’s “Okay-Pop Singles” playlist, I assumed it might be enjoyable so as to add a little bit of unpredictability to my track overview posts. So because of this, now we have the “Random Shuffle Evaluation” characteristic.

The foundations are easy. I hearth up my playlist, press “shuffle,” and no matter track performs first will get the total Bias Listing remedy!

Yr Launched: 2010

This week, I went again and watched the 2012 MBC Gayo Daejun for the primary time in lots of, a few years. It was such a rush seeing so many basic songs carried out again to again, and made me notice as soon as once more simply how a lot the sound of Okay-pop has modified previously decade. One side that caught out most was how powerfully virtually each artist sang. Songs have been constructed round a gradual stream of sturdy melodies and prolonged, show-stopping notes. I miss this type of singing — not solely in Okay-pop, however in pop music extra globally.

This brings me to right now’s random shuffle overview. Nothing Lasts Endlessly precedes 2012 by two years however would have felt proper at residence throughout that Gayo Daejun (the group carried out their even higher Don’t Neglect Me, btw). Earlier than Woman’s Day discovered a signature sound, they dipped their toes in a couple of disparate genres. Nothing Lasts Endlessly stands as a novel level of their discography and the track is downright excellent.

Endlessly‘s frantic, electro-edged verses share a lot in frequent with the then-dominant 2NE1 and in addition really feel oddly much like right now’s sing-talk type. However as quickly as we hit the refrain, the track reveals itself because the form of belt-it-out stunner that goes down in historical past. I like the sheer energy of this straightforward chorus, permitting the women to put every little thing on the road.

Pretty much as good as that is, it’s Nothing Final Endlessly‘s last minute that ensures the track’s legendary standing. Think about a 2024 model of this monitor, defiantly slicing off on the two-and-a-half minute mark and robbing us of the swirling fantasia of epic vocal concord and ascending synth that follows. Endlessly transforms utterly throughout this section, providing its catchiest vocal hook and most dramatic manufacturing. Discuss ending on a excessive! You possibly can virtually really feel the producers’ pleasure upon reaching this turning level. All the things in regards to the track was constructed to climax on this cathartic finale, making for a satisfyingly full storyline that sounds as gorgeous right now because it did fourteen years in the past.

Grade: A+