What are your thoughts?
Koreaboo
Recently, MUVE podcast held an episode reviewing new music and revealed their one-line reviews of girl groups.
In particular, the reviews for girl groups NMIXX and Hearts2Hearts garnered much attention online.
“Blue Valentine
NMIXX
4 Stars: A new standard for a well-made K-Pop album.
3.5 Stars: With most certainty, the best K-Pop album this year.
3.5 Stars: NMIXX has finally completed the group’s identity.”
“FOCUS
Hearts2Hearts
2 Stars: Between popularity and lack of individuality, succession is a double-edged sword.
3 Stars: I truly wonder if this plan was for the new group.
3 Stars: The potential of new talent is being buried by SM’s legacy.”
With this, netizens expressed divided reactions regarding the albums.
- “Hearts2Hearts doesn’t have anything new to show. At least ‘Focus’ is a bit better. I hope they continue this style. ‘Style’ didn’t feel like something that a big agency made.”
- “NMIXX’s album was so good I listened to the whole thing…so good.”
- “SM really needs Lee Soo Man…”
- “NMIXX’s album was good up until ‘Dash’, and the songs these days are disappointing. But it seems like they won’t be doing that type of music anymore…”
- “As soon as I listened to NMIXX’s album, it looked like they were aiming towards the masses with the catchy melody. Hearts2Hearts takes some time to get used to…but they need a catchy song to survive this music industry.”
- “I thought NMIXX’s new album had good songs, except just one or two.”
- “I liked Hearts2Hearts songs better…”
- “I enjoyed Hearts2Hearts more…”