2026 has seen many debuts of teams from mid-to-small businesses, however few of those acts have had a lot to say. Debuts supply the prospect for brand new sounds and concepts, or possibly even a glance again at a mode we haven’t heard in awhile. It shouldn’t be yet one more excuse to hawk the identical sounds clogging up an already overstuffed business.

TUNEXX arrive from IST Leisure and boasts members from final 12 months’s Boys II Planet. This comes after the company unceremoniously dumped their final boy group ATBO. I’m unsure what makes TUNEXX suppose they’ll garner any extra loyalty, however right here we’re with I’m Alive (내가 살아있다는 증거). And actually, we would as nicely not have gotten the music in any respect. There’s no motive for this to exist. It utterly lacks an identification of its personal, repainting tons of of different chant-heavy boy group tracks with new faces.

At its greatest, a brand new Ok-pop music is usually a thrilling expertise. Being a longtime fan makes these moments extra uncommon since you’ve merely skilled extra music and the novelty has pale. Nevertheless, this sort of post-post-submit-NCT music makes me surprise if Ok-pop merely hasn’t developed prior to now ten years. I can’t consider we’re nonetheless promoting this model of hookless slop and anticipating anybody to be enthusiastic about it. It’s wholly unremarkable in each means.

Grade: D