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BLACKPINK: The Album - Album Review

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Okay this could go badly so let’s get going!

How You Like That - I’m more tolerant of this song now but EVERYONE knows how I feel about it 😂. As usual I’ve linked to my original post so you can read the full one there but yeah this just builds you up with that lovely watery sound to let you down with some generic trap and bad lyrics. REALLY not a good start to an album 😂.

Ice Cream (ft. Selena Gomez) - Considering the standard... this one’s good 😂. IDK WHY I JUST THINK IT’S CUTE it’s nothing brilliant or revolutionary it’s just a simple song which makes me feel a bit giddy 😂.

Pretty Savage - Yeah I never had high hopes for this one 😂. It was pretty much what I expected 😂. It started with a bit of a creepy vibe which was promising, but as soon as that weird mouth sound hit I knew where it was going to go 😂. It’s overall a bit Luigi’s Mansion 😂. With some random acoustic guitar to give it “depth” 😂. COS THAT’S HOW IT WORKS APPARENTLY 😂. But yeah it sounds exactly like you’d think it would, a lot of speak-singing and odd sounds 😂. Oh and that ending as if it wasn’t bad enough that ending dragged it down even more 😂.

Bet You Wanna (ft. Cardi B) - Again, never had high hopes for this song 😂. HONESTLY... not as bad as I thought it was gonna be 😂. It was like a more modern and kind of shitter version of Rumor by 9Muses with the bass background music and stuff but, again, it was westernised 😂. Again, not as bad as I thought, one of the better songs honestly 😂.

Lovesick Girls - OKAY WE ALL KNOW THIS WAS THE BEST SONG SO DO I EVEN NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT OKAY.

Crazy Over You - This was the biggest disappointment honestly 😂. With the title it gave me some kind of Ladies’ Code Make Me Go Crazy thoughts but yeah it was nowhere near that 😂. It started with some kind of cowboy stand off music which was repeated throughout, but WHAT WAS THE SQUEAKY TOY SOUND 😂. What I hated was that it was SO empty, I HATE the empty song trend and this was that in its entirety. Every section seemed to change musical sound, not in a good way but they completely changed the music for each section, there was no consistency. I just don’t know what it was trying to be, sometimes it sounded wild west, sometimes it sounded bath time, sometimes it sounded fucking James Bond opening, I just don’t know what it wanted to be 😭. Definitely the worst song IMO.

Love To Hate Me - This HONESTLY surprised me. After the last one I had very low hopes, but apart from the empty section of the first part of the chorus this was actually pretty good!! It was quite low concept wise, it sort of felt very earthy and the chord progression always stayed lower, it was great 😂. And again, the empty section was pretty bad but apart from that it ALWAYS had some substance and strong sound to it. PRETTY GOOD 😂.

You Never Know - Omg this was gorgeous who would have thought the ballad would be one of my favourites ONLY WITH BLACKPINK 😂. It just had such nice vibey sounds but actually built up musical elements for the chorus it was so sweet 😂. The base was this kind of vibey piano sound, but when the chorus hit there was some almost drum sounds added (100% certain they were computer drums) and some other stuff in the background. But they STUCK TO THAT. They didn’t try and add any more, they didn’t change it completely at all, they just for the most part kept it the same concept musically. Towards the end they added in a stringy sound but it wasn’t a complete change. This was just so good 😭. It kind of reminded me of something Emma Blackery would release?? Idk why, it sounds like a ballad she would write haha 😂. Maybe similar to Forever 😂.

SO OVERALL THOUGHTS half was pretty good, half was utterly disappointing 😂. HOWEVER... Lovesick Girls and You Never Know absolutely saved it so I’M GONNA STICK WITH BLACKPINK 😂. Honestly this album was the deciding factor into whether I was going to bother with their new releases anymore but it turns out there’s still some gold left in them 😂. The second half was definitely better than the first, like I thought initially, but overall it did feel a lot like a western pop album rather than a K-pop album. Maybe it’s all the western artists that worked on this, I don’t know, but there was a lot of non-Blackpink sounding stuff on here? At least in my opinion 😂. Idk, it definitely caters to some people but I think I’ll just take the songs I like from this rather than listening to it as an album again 😂.