As with too a lot of their new-gen friends’ discographies, it’s onerous to foretell how a brand new RIIZE single may sound. Previously, there have been Ok-pop teams I knew I may depend on to ship the products every time, and this was often as a result of they labored with a decent workforce of producers and developed a signature sound. In distinction, RIIZE’s releases have seesawed in high quality. Once they’re nice, they’re excellent. However most of the time recently, their greatest work has been relegated to b-sides.

This may stay true with Do Your Dance, because the previews for the b-sides all sound nice. When describing this music, the members known as it “fashionable,” which in trendy Ok-pop parlance I’ve taken to imply “gimmicky” and even “disposable”. Certainly, Do Your Dance is a TikTok thought in want of a music to again it up. The fellows spend a lot of the operating time rattling off physique components that can be utilized for dancing. Very unique, proper? This hook was teased incessantly earlier than the music’s launch and each time I heard it I prayed there was extra to Do Your Dance than drained repetition. On first hear, a dynamic opening verse gave me hope. No less than the power is excessive and among the group’s trademark vocals poke by way of.

Sadly, Do Your Dance‘s attraction lasts about eighty-five seconds earlier than the monitor devolves into boring speak over a beat that by no means appears to know what it needs to be. At one level, they sing “We be browsing this melody” and I’m like… “what melody?” Repeating “head, hips, shoulders, toes” in probably the most monotonous speech conceivable will not be a music. You possibly can truly hear the second the producers ran out of concepts. I don’t want to devolve into reviewing songs with memes, however Do Your Dance‘s swan-dive-off-a-cliff nature is the aural epitome of this standard meme:

Sigh. Why couldn’t they’ve simply developed the killer sounds of Get A Guitar or Unimaginable so we may hear some musical progress and continuity?

Grade: D+