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BLACKPINK: THE SHOW [Online Concert Review]

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BLACKPINK had their online concert THE SHOW via a Youtube Livestream on 01/31/2021 which I was very happy with as it made it extremely easy to stream the concert to my TV and enjoy from the concert from my own home.  I had personally never seen BLACKPINK perform live before and I really hope that one day in the future I'll be able to because this concert just proves how stellar BLACKPINK are as performers. It was a mix of both live and pre-recorded stages, and I definitely preferred the live stages even though the pre-recorded stages sounded more polished, there's just something special about hearing a performer sing live and really feeling the effort that they put into the performance.  If you didn't get a chance to watch it, the performance of Pretty Savage that was aired on The Late Late Show with James Corden was actually the exact same version of the performance that streamed in the concert. Definitely give it a look below if you haven't seen it yet!  The majority ...

Itzy - Not Shy [Review]

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After their last song  Wannabe , Itzy is back at it again in their signature girl power, girl crush theme with Not Shy . My initial thoughts after listening to Not Shy the first time was how did the song go again? There was no catchy hooks like in their previous releases and the song was trying to rely more on its instrumentals rather than having coherent melodies.   After more listens I did come to enjoy the song more -- especially after watching the dance performance which elevated the song because the dance is amazing and Itzy really killed this choreography. However so far this is my least favorite song of their title tracks. I'm not a huge fan of talk-singing which they do in a lot of their songs, this song took it up a notch where like 70% of the song is talk-singing (not quite rapping, not quite singing, honestly that's the best way I can describe it). One of the other major issues that I have with this song is that there was no climax. When Chaeryeong said "Let t...