LOVE & LETTER REPACKAGE review
LOVE & LETTER REPACKAGE (2016)
The fourth part of my SVT discography review! This track-by-track review was written in the spring of 2023 (sober this time), but my opinions haven't changed much.
Ranking system:
🍇 - 10.0 BNM one of their most iconic slays
🍉 - fantastic song that made me feel something
🍓 - eating, a few flaws that are either easy to overlook or a bit charming
🍊 - good background music but i wouldn't seek it out
🍌 - it does nothing for me but isn't outright offensive
🍐 - does nothing for me and is offensive
🍈 - so bad that it almost wraps back around to good just bc i was laffing so much
(note: tracklists are not in album order. they are very loosely ranked)
🍌?? HEALING
OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH…yeah whatever that was was uncalled for. Oh jeonghan sounds cute good for him. I like the reverb on the percussion but I really need them to stop saying OOH OOH OOH. Second verse it was giving funky. Dino it was giving star power. Dk it was giving gorgeous VOCAL. Jeonghan should do that prechorus for a little longer…for me…like maybe…also yeah this song doesn't suck or anything but it's really scattered seeming to me? Like parts of it are good and parts of it are not good. The outro was kinda gloriously corny but idk if that's /pos…..maybe /lh.
🍌🍈 NO F.U.N.
Um…is this a song about a hot babe who is so vain that she's become toxic and is ruining their life or…also what is WITH the ominous percussion?? TURN THE WOODEN STICKS ON TURN THEM ON! Also Vern's MIA paper planes reference actually made me laugh so that's awesome. The chorus is so scary unironically…the verses are kinda buoyant and stuff but the chorus has this creepy sparse feel that is not helped whatsoever by the instrumental. This song is weird but it entertained me a little so points for that.
🍉 AJU NICE Kpop uptown funk I think like it's just a crowd pleaser…Dino's line is so sassy that I noticed it. Woozi: some people say that dating is only dating and that's it… LMFAO STAND UP! Jeonghan sounds so funny in this song and I always remember his little dance so that's cool. This song is also kinda like…the lyrics are very cutesy but it has a bit of a threatening feeling to it is that just me? Like they got a boner or something. But yeah it's a great song deserves its notoriety.
🍇 SIMPLE
Ooh, woozi solo…it's giving me when I had an existential crisis when I was 15. Like unironically I can tell someone very young wrote this lol but that's /turbopos like do you HEAR the authentic innocence…also woozi can write a damn SONG like hear those melodies he knows wtf is up. Is it instinctual or studied? Or both? He's the Charli XCX of kpop in that he's just stupidly great at crafting hooks. Also I bet he was so happy to get this track on the repackage he was like hey carats…hear this…hear my heart song…and honestly the corny instrumental is doing it for me. It's very 2011 but that's awesome tbh. The keys are lovely…
🍇 SPACE
Yo…is Wonu ok? Those lyrics were kinda…sad…not Vern talking about leaving his crusty layers of makeup on he gets me. Dk is necessary as are those SCARY synth stabs that show up during his part. Love that btw. Mingyu isn't as good at being sad as the rest of them lol. Being followed by Scoups king of misery kinda made his verse flop fngngkggm…also Dk is giving delusional on this track but that SUITS him. Is it just me or is this song kind of…a slay…? Like idk compared to the HHU songs I've heard so far this one is so much better that it's not even funny. It's not just the addition of Dk beautiful voice but their rapping has gotten better, gft.
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