YOU MADE MY DAWN review

03 Mar, 2024

YOU MADE MY DAWN (2019)

The tenth part of my SVT discography review!

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)

🍈 Good to Me
Oh, um…there’s something very deranged and aggressive about that chorus. It’s like they’re obsessed with me omg guys can you take a step back please okay now you’re backing me into the corner and dogpiling onto me. Like is it just me? I think it’s the production on the chorus that does it, cuz the whole song is intense but it just cranks up to 11 when they start talking about you being their everything. It’s kinda funny how crazed they all sound and idk if I’m the only one who hears it. You’ll have to let me know.

🍈🍌 Chilli
Um…well, they really like that autotune, huh? NCT Dream who? This is hot sauce before hot sauce. Something about Vern in the chorus was giving me Drake for a second there. Wonwoo telling me he wants to be like willy caught me off guard I thought he was talking about his dick I was like WHOA harassment jkdfjiohj. I think they thought that whole chili/chilly wordplay was adorable of them and that lowkey irritates me lmfao. It’s like…fine…WOAH WHAT DID MINGYU JUST DO AT THE END THERE!? I SPAT ALL OVER MY LAPTOP

🍊 Hug
Well, DK singing in that beautiful siren voice that he’ll hug me is sorta everything. That Jihan chorus though, that’s a little hard for me to take seriously. It’s cute imagining Jeonghan in the booth recording this EXTREMELY close to the mic, though. Honestly, the instrumentation is extremely spare throughout, so this whole thing relies on their vocals. I think they’re able to pull it off even if there’s a little bit of…cloying…vibes, especially during the particularly honey-voiced bits. It’s also pretty short, which surprised me but I feel like it didn’t need to be longer.

🍉 Shhh
Time to get funky, I’m learning that I can count of PFU to bring me a banger. What’s with their synergy lol it’s kinda awesome. Usually I do NOT like whispers in my kpop cuz I get all queasy with cringe, but I can handle it here. It’s kinda hot, tbh. But then that post-chorus kicks in and the production loses its shit for a little bit…they could’ve toned that part down a bit lol. The whistle, too…lol…that wasn’t necessary. hat fakeout at the end startled me genuinely. It’s still fun, though. Like being at a crazy art school party and you start getting scared.

🍇 Home
I am a huge home stannie…idk, this is where we first start to see the cracks in their ‘relationship’ to their fans, and I’m impressed how well Woozi was able to convey that unease, both in the lyrics and the production. That prechorus is wonderful too, holy shit. The codependency they talk about in Fear is starting to sprout here, but they’re still coping and telling themselves that this is just fine lol. The chorus that starts with Wonu asking what he should do without you is really something…idk, it’s all very well put together. The booseok bridge… These are complicated emotions and they’re articulated in a way that really gets to me.

🍇🍇🍇 Getting Closer
Woozi was on something fuuuuuucked up when he made this. Like I’ve heard people say this is standard 4th gen boy group music, but…listen to it. It’s not. It’s like…really fucking weird. It makes me wanna like…start beating people…and stomping on them…I probably shouldn’t listen to this too much cuz it’ll make me hurt myself and others…but I don’t care…music is my drug……ahahahhahahahhhh…ohhh it’s so cool hearing dk’s gorgeous siren voice cut through the noise….the synths start to sound kinda like buzzing flies and/or whirring machinery and idk why this song reminds me of the h.r. giger exhibition I went to with my friend lol that exhibition also made me a danger to myself and others. I hope listening to this doesn’t send me to psychosis.