![]() While the album-boasting a generous 21 songs lasting an hour in total-melds influences from R&B and EDM to disco and house, Chung Ha ventures most boldly into the sounds of Latin music. K-pop has long been a category that couldn’t be bound by genre, and few releases in 2021 prove this as much as Querencia from soloist Chung Ha. Nowhere is this attitude more obvious than in Waterfall’s final track “Re-Birth,” where the album culminates in the artist’s promise to be born again-likely a metaphor for this new chapter of his career. B.I may have been swept away by his sea of tears, but he’s prepared to build a sandcastle again (as he sings on “illa illa”) he may have “thousands of sorrows hidden behind a mask,” but he’s ready to “peel off all my fake skins” to face them (“Flow Away”). But a message of hope ultimately emerges, because where there are images of loss across the album, there are also opportunities for fresh beginnings. Most gutting are the lyrics in “Help Me,” a clear cry of desperation: “The boy in the empty room is lonely/ I want to run away/ Get me out of this abyss,” B.I sings. Across the 12 tracks written by B.I are aching expressions of pain and sorrow as well as apathy. The rapper, singer and songwriter left boy group iKon in 2019 following allegations that he bought illegal drugs, and this album is his first as a solo artist. Albums Waterfall, B.Iī.I’s Waterfall is as much about reaching the end of the road as it is about starting on a new one. The song’s ferocity is evident from its first line, as Winter scoffs, “Oh my gosh/ Don’t you know I’m a savage?” Then, over trap beats and discordant instrumentation, aespa delivers punchy rap verses spelling out why they’re a threat. You don’t have to understand Kwangya, the fictional universe in which aespa’s virtual counterparts reside, to be fully immersed in “Savage.” While its lyrics are dedicated to the four members syncing with their digital avatars to launch an attack in this imagined land, the explosive track can be thoroughly enjoyed with minimal knowledge of the SM Culture Universe. ![]()
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