Song Reviews
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SOB: CLOSE YOUR EYES Turned an Awards Stage Into a Nightclub Evacuation Drill
CLOSE YOUR EYES took a track called “SOB,” invited Grammy-winning producer Imanbek onto an awards stage, added forty-two dancers, and behaved as if rookie…
MONO: i-dle Put the World in Black and White, Then Miyeon Turned the Color Back On
“Mono” is i-dle making a song about escaping binaries, then deliberately trapping almost the entire video inside one. The song is smooth, political without…
BETTER THAN ME: TREASURE Made Jealousy Sound Like a 2000s Boy-Band Emergency
TREASURE gave a soft English-language B-side a full sentimental film for the group’s 2,000th day, then put Jihoon in the middle of a romantic…
I Got Your Back: ILLIT and HANA Built a Magical-Girl School Play and Forgot the Bridge
RaeRae Reacts I Got Your Back: ILLIT and HANA Built a Magical-Girl School Play and Forgot the Bridge ILLIT brought a school play, a…
KATSEYE’s “Animal” Put the Male Gaze in an Observation Room
Animal KATSEYE auditioned for five male versions of themselves, got their headshots shredded, and called Demi Moore when the wardrobe crisis became a spiritual…
JENNIE’s “Less than a Lover” Is Pretty, Complicated, and Annoyingly Addictive
Less than a Lover JENNIE gave me a gorgeous little summer movie about two people making terrible emotional decisions in beautiful lighting. I respect…
HUNGRY (Side A): Three Rookies Walked In Like the Stage Owed Them Lunch
RAERAE REACTS · OURBIRTHDAY · MUSIC VIDEO HUNGRY (Side A): Three Rookies Walked In Like the Stage Owed Them Lunch OurBirthday did not introduce…
WET: J.Y. Park made a Waterbomb theme song and called himself JYPapi before the internet could
RaeRae Reacts WET: J.Y. Park made a Waterbomb theme song and called himself JYPapi before the internet could Reggaeton heat, red walls, a grown-man…
The World Cup Halftime Show Was a Global Group Project, and BTS Understood the Assignment
RAERAE REACTS The 2026 World Cup Final Halftime Show The first World Cup final halftime show tried to fit the entire planet into eleven…
CHAT: GIRLSET Turned the Comment Section Into a Camera Crew
GIRLSET · RaeRae Reacts CHAT: GIRLSET Turned the Comment Section Into a Camera Crew Four girls, one phone, and an entire internet being invited…
kawa: Doeun and Jiana Made the Side Quest Feel Like the Main Save File
YOUNG POSSE · RaeRae Reacts kawa: Doeun and Jiana Made the Side Quest Feel Like the Main Save File A breakup spiral filmed by…
Mister 2026: YOUNG POSSE Borrowed KARA’s Butt Dance and Returned It With Nightcore
YOUNG POSSE · RaeRae Reacts Mister 2026: YOUNG POSSE Borrowed KARA’s Butt Dance and Returned It With Nightcore Not a museum remake. More like…
In my hands: MEOVV made self-confidence sound like a private group chat
MEOVV · BITE NOW In my hands: MEOVV made self-confidence sound like a private group chat This is not a love song begging somebody…
Gimme Dat Love: i-dle brought the heat, then left before the final chorus
i-dle · We made Gimme Dat Love: i-dle brought the heat, then left before the final chorus A sweaty, low-lit summer flirtation with a…
I LIKE IT — BABYMONSTER Finally Opened a Window and Let the Vocals Breathe
BABYMONSTER · RaeRae Reacts I LIKE IT BABYMONSTER gets off the giant soundstage, steals a yacht, catches feelings, and discovers that being adorable does…
RUN IT: Stray Kids built a victory march out of every version of themselves
Stray Kids · THIS & THAT RUN IT: Stray Kids built a victory march out of every version of themselves Brass, strings, marching feet,…
Crow: i-dle turned bad luck into a five-woman warning
i-dle · We made Crow: i-dle turned bad luck into a five-woman warning A cypher disguised as an apocalypse, with an army of frantic…
“ICONIC BY MISTAKE” Put Three Girl Groups in One Getaway Car—and Somehow It Worked
ICONIC BY MISTAKE Three girl groups walk into the same disaster, steal the evidence, set something on fire, and somehow make the police look…
SUGAR HONEY ICE TEA: BABYMONSTER Made One Rude Acronym Do Two Videos’ Worth of Work
BABYMONSTER · RaeRae Reacts SUGAR HONEY ICE TEA BABYMONSTER spells out exactly what they think they are, pours it over a bass line, and…
IF I: TREASURE Asked One Question and Kicked Down Ten Doors
TREASURE · RaeRae Reacts IF I TREASURE opened a new hip-hop chapter by asking one tiny question and answering it like ten men had…
OKay: xikers Walked Into a Haunted House and Told Every Nightmare to Deal With It
xikers · ROUTE ZERO : The ORA · May 19, 2026 xikers walked into a haunted house, found ten different nightmares waiting, and answered…
Suddenly: I.O.I waited nine years, then made the reunion feel like one breath
Suddenly: I.O.I waited nine years, then made the reunion feel like one breath I.O.I came back after nine years and somehow made “suddenly” sound…
Motto — ITZY Built a Museum to Themselves and Then Danced Out of It
RaeRae Reacts Motto — ITZY Built a Museum to Themselves and Then Danced Out of It A three-minute K-pop song with an actual bridge,…
TOP 5: ZEROBASEONE Turned a Love List Into a Five-Man Reintroduction
RaeRae Reacts TOP 5: ZEROBASEONE Turned a Love List Into a Five-Man Reintroduction On paper, this is a flirt song about somebody whose lips,…
WDA: aespa Became a Whole Different Animal and Then Edited G-DRAGON Out of the Performance
aespa · LEMONADE · May 11, 2026 aespa called itself a whole different animal, invited G-DRAGON to narrate the zoo, then made a performance…
CHOOM Performance Video — Thirty Dancers Finally Explain the Song
BABYMONSTER · RaeRae Reacts 춤 (CHOOM) — Performance Video The music video said “dance.” The performance video brings thirty dancers, removes every possible excuse,…
CHOOM — BABYMONSTER Turned One Korean Word Into a Full-Contact Sport
BABYMONSTER · RaeRae Reacts 춤 (CHOOM) BABYMONSTER says the word for dance until resistance becomes embarrassing, then brings enough bass, fabric, bodies and attitude…
KATSEYE’s “PINKY UP” Throws a Fancy End-of-the-World Party for Five
KATSEYE’s “PINKY UP” Throws a Fancy End-of-the-World Party for Five Civilization is ending, the tea service is immaculate, and the girls have decided manners…
we don’t go to bed tonight — YOUNG POSSE Put the Stems on the Table and Told Everybody to Make a Mess
RaeRae Reacts we don’t go to bed tonight — YOUNG POSSE Put the Stems on the Table and Told Everybody to Make a Mess…
Backseat: Somin Took the Wheel After Four Debuts and Fourteen Years of Waiting
RaeRae Reacts Backseat: Somin Took the Wheel After Four Debuts and Fourteen Years of Waiting Puretty. KARA Project. APRIL. KARD. Then 350 demos, three…
Tweak — GIRLSET Flipped SWV’s “Weak,” Fired the Stupid Boy, and Kept the Good Hair
RaeRae Reacts Tweak — GIRLSET Flipped SWV’s “Weak,” Fired the Stupid Boy, and Kept the Good Hair A late-’90s R&B sample, one boundary-testing man,…
GO — BLACKPINK Built a Korean Myth Machine and Then Let AI Touch the Controls
RaeRae Reacts GO — BLACKPINK Built a Korean Myth Machine and Then Let AI Touch the Controls Industrial bass, a Coldplay bridge hiding in…
HYPNOTIZE: XG Made House Music Feel Like a Seven-Woman Mind Trick
XG did not make a love song. They made a very stylish threat with piano keys. “HYPNOTIZE” is the moment the crush stops being…
KNIFE: ENHYPEN Put Dopamine-Addicted Vampires in a Barbershop and Called It Escape
“Knife” is ENHYPEN turning a vampire escape into a hip-hop dare. The couple is already running, the hunters are already close, and apparently the…
MEDUSA: Tarzzan Built a Rage-Rap Temple and Forgot to Invite a Second Flow
MEDUSA ALLDAY PROJECT gave Tarzzan the keys, turned the bass into construction equipment, and built a video so expensive-looking that I almost forgot the…
LOSE YOUR SHXT: YOUNG POSSE and BENZO Turned a Burger Shift Into a Three-Country Bass Emergency
LOSE YOUR SHXT YOUNG POSSE clocked into a burger restaurant, invited Chinese rapper BENZO, and used the international collaboration budget to destroy everybody’s indoor…
KATSEYE’s “Internet Girl” Knows the Feed Loves You Most When You’re Unwell
KATSEYE’s “Internet Girl” Knows the Feed Loves You Most When You’re Unwell The internet wants authenticity, but only if it is hot, captioned, correctly…
SUPA DUPA LUV — BABYMONSTER Put a Giant Crush Inside a Snow Globe
BABYMONSTER · RaeRae Reacts SUPA DUPA LUV BABYMONSTER walks into a snowstorm, catches the kind of crush that makes monsters shy, and gives one…
Perdsakard: 4EVE Turned First Class Into Thai Dance Floor Arson
RaeRae Reacts Perdsakard 4EVE took a Thai joke about looking “first class,” strapped it to a local dance beat, and made persistence sound like…
LOOK AT ME: ALLDAY PROJECT Put a Nursery Rhyme in Designer Chains
RaeRae Reacts LOOK AT ME ALLDAY PROJECT built a song around the musical logic of a playground chant, then filled the verses with investment…
PSYCHO Performance Video — BABYMONSTER Put the Nightmare in a Red Room
BABYMONSTER · RaeRae Reacts PSYCHO — Performance Video The music video chased BABYMONSTER through a nightmare. The performance video locks the nightmare inside a…
Accept the End: 4EVE Did the Breakup Labor He Would Not
RaeRae Reacts Accept the End He wanted out, refused to use words, and left her to perform the breakup, process the grief, and probably…
PSYCHO — BABYMONSTER Turned the Accusation Into a Crime Scene
BABYMONSTER · RaeRae Reacts PSYCHO BABYMONSTER takes the insult people use when a girl is too loud, too strange or too sure of herself,…
Heart Drop: RESCENE Made 90s House Feel Like Perfume in a Haunted Ice Level
“Heart Drop” is what happens when a perfume commercial finds a 90s-house bassline and decides it has feelings. RESCENE keeps the softness that made…
Freak: BM Checked Into a Hotel and Immediately Lost the Plot
BM · featuring B.I · RaeRae Reacts Freak: BM Checked Into a Hotel and Immediately Lost the Plot Amapiano, flute, red lighting, one extremely…
WE GO UP Performance Video — BABYMONSTER Built an Army on a Runway
BABYMONSTER · RaeRae Reacts WE GO UP — Exclusive Performance Video The action movie hid the choreography on purpose. Four days later, BABYMONSTER brought…
WE GO UP — BABYMONSTER Brought Six Action Movies to One Brass Fight
BABYMONSTER · RaeRae Reacts WE GO UP BABYMONSTER says this is not a game, then spends three minutes proving it with swords, rifles, wire…
ICONIK: ZEROBASEONE Put Their Expiration Date Through Airport Security and Walked Through Anyway
RAERAE REACTS ICONIK ZEROBASEONE put their expiration date through airport security, grabbed the microphone anyway, and made one of their best title tracks. The…
DYNAMITE: BTS Turned Pandemic Panic Into a Disco Ball and Refused to Apologize
RAERAE REACTS DYNAMITE BTS released a fully English disco-pop song in the middle of a pandemic, dressed it like a sugar rush at a…
r u ok? ifeye Turned a Check-In Text Into a Sugar-Rush Interrogation
ifeye · RaeRae Reacts r u ok? ifeye turned a concerned little text message into a hurricane warning, invited a sheep, set the editing…
HOT SAUCE — BABYMONSTER Made YG History Taste Like a Jalapeño
BABYMONSTER · RaeRae Reacts HOT SAUCE BABYMONSTER raided an old-school hip-hop color cabinet, borrowed a piece of YG family history, and turned confidence into…
KATSEYE’s “M.I.A.” Is What Happens When Disappearing Becomes Self-Care
KATSEYE’s “M.I.A.” Is What Happens When Disappearing Becomes Self-Care Sometimes healing is communication. Sometimes healing is putting the phone face down, leaving the location…
KATSEYE’s “Gameboy” Makes Emotional Unavailability Look Like a Loading Screen
KATSEYE’s “Gameboy” Makes Emotional Unavailability Look Like a Loading Screen The man is inconsistent, the interface is cute, and apparently the correct response is…
KATSEYE’s “Mean Girls” Refuses to Make Cruelty Look Aspirational
KATSEYE’s “Mean Girls” Refuses to Make Cruelty Look Aspirational Pop usually gives the mean girl the best outfit, the best entrance, and half the…
KATSEYE’s “Gabriela” Brought Telenovela Warfare to the Group Chat
KATSEYE’s “Gabriela” Brought Telenovela Warfare to the Group Chat A dramatic rival, forbidden attraction, betrayal faces, Spanish dialogue, and choreography performed like somebody’s inheritance…
TAKE TWO: BTS Wrote ARMY a Love Letter Without Pretending the Future Was Certain
RAERAE REACTS TAKE TWO BTS looked at ten years with ARMY, called it the first chapter, and somehow made an anniversary song feel less…
KATSEYE’s “Gnarly” Is Annoying, Brilliant, and Fully Aware of Both
KATSEYE’s “Gnarly” Is Annoying, Brilliant, and Fully Aware of Both My first response was “what is this?” My second was also “what is this?”…
YET TO COME: BTS Built a Desert Museum, Then Refused to Live Inside It
RAERAE REACTS YET TO COME BTS parked the furniture from their old music videos in a desert, looked directly at their own legend, and…
CLIK CLAK Performance Videos — Swagger Without the Sweating
BABYMONSTER · RaeRae Reacts CLIK CLAK — The Two Performance Videos The first film keeps the MV’s black-and-white street mood and shows the choreography’s…
DRIP Performance Videos — Color, Smoke, and the Jacket Meeting
BABYMONSTER · RaeRae Reacts DRIP — The Two Performance Videos One version arrives in bright sportswear and lets the choreography bounce. The other puts…
DRIP — BABYMONSTER Kidnapped an Ice-Cream Truck and the Entire Last Chorus
BABYMONSTER · RaeRae Reacts DRIP BABYMONSTER takes a word for effortless style, throws it into an EDM bass machine, ties up the ice-cream-truck driver,…
CLIK CLAK — BABYMONSTER Put All Seven Members on Rap Duty
BABYMONSTER · RaeRae Reacts CLIK CLAK BABYMONSTER puts all seven members on rap duty, drains every color from the room, walks through jewelers and…
“Tonight I Might” Is the Moment KATSEYE Stops Asking to Be Good
“Tonight I Might” Is the Moment KATSEYE Stops Asking to Be Good SIS spends a lot of time establishing the girls as polished, ambitious,…
KATSEYE’s “I’m Pretty” Turns Self-Confidence Into Group Chat Evidence
KATSEYE’s “I’m Pretty” Turns Self-Confidence Into Group Chat Evidence This is not a philosophical investigation into beauty. It is six girls hyping themselves and…
“My Way” Is KATSEYE’s First Real Look at the Girls Behind the Product
“My Way” Is KATSEYE’s First Real Look at the Girls Behind the Product The debut singles introduced a machine with six excellent faces. “My…
Sweet Dreams: Ten Years of Red Velvet Folded Into One Scrapbook
RAERAE REACTS · RED VELVET · MUSIC VIDEO Sweet Dreams: Ten Years of Red Velvet Folded Into One Scrapbook This is not a grand…
KATSEYE’s “Touch” Found the Exact Amount of Pop to Be Dangerous
KATSEYE’s “Touch” Found the Exact Amount of Pop to Be Dangerous This is the song that turns “maybe I should learn their names” into…
FOREVER Dance Performance — Keep the Moon, Clear the Runway
BABYMONSTER · RaeRae Reacts FOREVER — Dance Performance The MV packed seven girls into a boutique, hotel, claw machine and fashion fantasy. The dance…
FOREVER — BABYMONSTER Checked Into the Future and Kept the Moon Prop
BABYMONSTER · RaeRae Reacts FOREVER BABYMONSTER checks into a fashion hotel, raids a boutique, traps prizes in a claw machine, floats PHARITA through the…
KATSEYE’s “Debut” Was Less a Hello Than a Controlled Detonation
KATSEYE’s “Debut” Was Less a Hello Than a Controlled Detonation For a song called “Debut,” this has absolutely no interest in politely introducing anyone.…
Cosmic: A Beautiful Love Song Walked Into Midsommar and Asked for Dinner
RAERAE REACTS · RED VELVET · MUSIC VIDEO Cosmic: A Beautiful Love Song Walked Into Midsommar and Asked for Dinner The song is warm…
SHEESH performance video: seven members, one white horizon, and nowhere for the choreography to hide
RaeRae Reacts SHEESH performance video: seven members, one white horizon, and nowhere for the choreography to hide The music video sold the monster house.…
SHEESH: BABYMONSTER finally arrived as seven—and YG turned the entrance into a haunted-house warning
RaeRae Reacts SHEESH: BABYMONSTER finally arrived as seven—and YG turned the entrance into a haunted-house warning The hook is ridiculous on purpose, the vocal…
Stuck In The Middle live stages: the fairy dresses are pretty, but the microphones are the actual plot
RaeRae Reacts Stuck In The Middle live stages: the fairy dresses are pretty, but the microphones are the actual plot Two official stages take…
Stuck In The Middle: BABYMONSTER traded the baseball bats for a Disney heartbreak audition
RaeRae Reacts Stuck In The Middle: BABYMONSTER traded the baseball bats for a Disney heartbreak audition No rap break. No chant. No choreography to…
BATTER UP performance files: BABYMONSTER built a debut stage without ever visiting a music show
RaeRae Reacts BATTER UP performance files: BABYMONSTER built a debut stage without ever visiting a music show The polished debut special, the raw practice…
BATTER UP: BABYMONSTER stepped to the plate before the team was complete
RaeRae Reacts BATTER UP: BABYMONSTER stepped to the plate before the team was complete Six members, one missing center, a chorus built for stadium…
Chill Kill: Five Sisters Turned a Bright Tragedy Into an Escape Plan
RAERAE REACTS · RED VELVET · MUSIC VIDEO Chill Kill: Five Sisters Turned a Bright Tragedy Into an Escape Plan This song keeps changing…
DREAM: BABYMONSTER turned an elimination threat into the group’s emotional origin story
RaeRae Reacts DREAM: BABYMONSTER turned an elimination threat into the group’s emotional origin story Before the haunted mansions, baseball bats and giant dance breaks,…
RUN2U — STAYC Set Off a Synth Emergency and Then Barely Ran Anywhere
RaeRae Reacts RUN2U — STAYC Set Off a Synth Emergency and Then Barely Ran Anywhere Six girls. One absolutely feral synth siren. A love…