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New MV aespa 'Next Level' MV (1 Viewer)

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I like it and I think it'll be a grower as well, bcs that next level is DEFINITELY gonna get stuck in my head!
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Not gonna say I'm disappointed. MV is ethereal, SM really knows what they are doing when it comes to visual. Song sounds like an unfinished demo for some reason. Especially the pre-chorus and the chorus. The bridge that was introduced instead of the second chorus was unexpected but it's the best part of the song. Nice hommage to I Got A Boy with genre switching.
 

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I liked it except for the sudden random transition IGAB style or Rising Sun style.
The verses are pretty catchy, I can't say I love it just yet but pretty solid. Best of the 3 songs released today.

Black Mamba is now among my favorites, Idk if this song will surpass it but I'm gonna add it to my playlist.
 
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The sudden random genre switching shifted the song from i dont understand to more my taste, so at least i could fathom the later parts of it. The beginning put me off at first listen but now i might be used to it. Need to process the different parts/vibes as its not cohesive a whole for me. Overall i love the latter part, still need time for the beginning/whole. Positive reaction overall from me.
 

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Song feels very disconnected and not cohesive, but the hook is really catchy and the girls did the best with what they had.
I do like it as a better version of SM's other songs that feel like they have 5 different acts but not a great one regardless
 
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The jarring transitions of the beats, the lack of cohesiveness in the structure of the song, the weird lyrics....
Yea not a fan at all....
please Dear God let Exo have a good song.. I have no faith in SM at all
 
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On a positive note, the girls are gorgeous and Winter's vocals are just *chef's kiss*
 

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Song feels very disconnected and not cohesive, but the hook is really catchy and the girls did the best with what they had.
I do like it as a better version of SM's other songs that feel like they have 5 different acts but not a great one regardless
The jarring transitions of the beats, the lack of cohesiveness in the structure of the song, the weird lyrics....
Yea not a fan at all....
please Dear God let Exo have a good song.. I have no faith in SM at all
After Suju's House Party and now this, it looks like SM/Yoo Youngjin is going all in for random breakdowns during songs :jisoosmh:
NCT Dream Hot Sauce was messy af too, Idk what's up with SM's general direction lately.
 

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Next Level is a real disappointment of a song that only doesn't completely break all the faith I have in aespa because of it being a remake even if SM said they injected aespas colour into it.

Some of the parts were so jarring to me that I couldn't even really enjoy the very very few parts that I thought were nice and not just noisy and I don't see me ever listening to this again.
 
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After Suju's House Party and now this, it looks like SM/Yoo Youngjin is going all in for random breakdowns during songs :jisoosmh:
NCT Dream Hot Sauce was messy af too, Idk what's up with SM's general direction lately.
Future's looking bleaker by the moment for my favs
 

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It's not bad. But like everyone else has said already, the song is all over the place. Not sure why it's structure as such and tbh the whole "remake" from an OST is strange.

Hopefully with aespa's rumoured full album SM can actually put effort into establishing aespa's sound and deliver original songs for them.

'Next Level' is a grower I guess and I'm sure I'll like it more with more listens after I get used to each vibe/part of the song lmao.
 

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it's ok.... I actually really liked the beat drop lmao
but the energy level just felt flat throughout
it sometimes feels like a waste of their abilities to be hard carrying the smcu lore without having barely anything of their own
 

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SM is doing them so dirty
 

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Not gonna say I'm disappointed. MV is ethereal, SM really knows what they are doing when it comes to visual.
I agree, the MV is gorgeous.

Song sounds like an unfinished demo for some reason. Especially the pre-chorus and the chorus.
My first impression was that the song was really a long intro to the Aespa universe. Almost like a movie teaser/trailer. It felt unfinished (as you said) possibly because there's more to come.
 

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I think it's okay. A typical filler song, so fans don't have to wait so long until their first album
 

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