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NMIXX - Blue Valentine
- BLUE VALENTINE: The 1950's married the 2050's. Weird & fun.
- SPINNIN' ON IT: Goes hard. Forgetting the weird innuendo of the title, the MV, and even their summer collab, this is really good.
- PHOENIX: Better and better as it goes along. Cool harmonies. Feels short, just when I was strapped in for the ride it ended.
- REALITY HURTS: Spicy expensive club banger.
- RICO: So much went into the blender here, and the super-slinky bass line is great.
- GAME FACE: A super-tasty futuristic Taylor Swift song. NMIXX has massive balls, that's for sure. Better than anything Taylor's new album, too. Can picture Taylor listening to this and instantly realizing she needs to work harder.
- PODIUM: The only song I can imagine another group doing (XG or Aespa, maybe). Most 'normal' song here, imo.
- CRUSH ON YOU: Sweet and breezy with halting acoustic guitar rhythms. TWICE wishes they could.
- ADORE U: An NMIXX tribute to Avril. Dude, you wanna crash the mall? Hell ya!
- SHAPE OF LOVE: Pretty faster-paced cousin to the lovely Love Is Lonely.
- O.O Part 1 (Balla): Decent.
- O.O Part 2 (Superhero): Dig the Batman TV show "Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na". Eminem used it, too. Always fun. Nice, loose rendition, like their live 3rd Anniversary version.
NMIXX is a prestige group.
Big publishing houses fight to sign elite writers, not because they'll sell a lot -- they won't -- but because they are the best.
JK Rowling and Stephen King generate $$$, but Cormac McCarthy, Margret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro bring immeasurable prestige.
Same with NMIXX.
JYP has the best singers in kpop releasing the most boundary-pushing songs, and while they'll never get NewJeans numbers, they're doing something no one else can do.
Inspiring seeing the most avant-garde pop group double-down and say, "Oh, you thought we were crazy before?"
Blue Valentine is the kind of flex you can only make when you're so elite you essentially have no competitors.
Use your best headphones.
5/5
