With over 5,000 songs on my iPhone’s “Okay-Pop Singles” playlist, I assumed it will be enjoyable so as to add a little bit of unpredictability to my tune evaluation posts. So consequently, we’ve the “Random Shuffle Overview” characteristic.
The foundations are easy. I fireplace up my playlist, press “shuffle,” and no matter tune performs first will get the total Bias Checklist therapy!
12 months Launched: 2012
Yesterday, I wrote about Boyfriend’s mega-classic I Yah and lamented that such a tune merely doesn’t exist in Okay-pop anymore. My shuffle button appears to suppose it’s time for “half two,” as a result of I might say the very same factor about U-KISS’s DoraDora.
It’s value taking a visit again to April of 2012. If DoraDora have been launched this 12 months, it will certainly be one among my prime songs of 2025. Nonetheless, it didn’t even crack the highest three of that single month. That’s how usually the business was cranking out classics.
To me, a tune like DoraDora is the sound of Okay-pop. It feels distinctive to this musical tradition, mixing style parts right into a model new combine that may’t be discovered anyplace else. From the funky verses with their staccato hooks to that sturdy, rock-influenced refrain, the tune unfolds in sudden methods. The sound of the Korean language has a pure rhythm inside tracks like these and DoraDora takes full benefit of that asset. I really like how the listener has no thought how the tune will unfold based mostly on its first verse alone. It weaves and builds till it’s reworked into one thing new, however all of the whereas its momentum and pleasure proceed to develop. There aren’t any jarring transitions or blustery shouting or tinny percussion. DoraDora is a daring musical assertion from begin to end and that ambition has stood the check of time. That is legitimately fascinating pop music — the sort that Okay-pop used to ship on the common.
| Hooks | 10 |
| Manufacturing | 9 |
| Longevity | 9 |
| Bias | 10 |
| RATING | 9.5 |
Grade: A
