Nine Muses Come Back With Some "Drama"...

The divine nine are now divine eight with the departure of Sera, Eunji and Lee Sem and the addition of Nasty Nasty's Sojin and trainee Keumjo. They also become the latest K-Pop group to ditch flawless production collective Sweetune in favour of the guy who produced some song on their Prima Donna LP (I couldn't find his name so...)

While it does have some elements of the that is characteristically Nine Muses: a strong Erin rap, a sub-par Sungah rap (sorry Sungah lovers), underrated kween Hyemi parts and a chorus as catchy as an STD, there are a few things that Star Empire should have done just a little different...
1.There is a lot of Kyungri. Seriously. I mean Kyungri is pretty, don't get me wrong, but if your a new fan of the group (or a fan who has yet to learn all of their names), having one member front and center for more than 50% of the video is a turn-off (for some).

2.Attempting to make nugu Keumjo the vocal center. Arguably, Sera was the voice of the Dolls during her tenure, but rather than slowly transitioning Keumjo into the next main vocal, they give her a large portion of the lines and expect the fans to eat the cake. Vocally, she sounds almost identical to Sera, she kinda even looks like her to be honest, but there's only one Sera and Keumjo is not ha .

3.Production is missing something and song ends too abruptly. Past Muses singles like Dolls, News, Figaro and Ticket all had an instantaneous likability ear grabbing, life changing element about them that continue to stand the test of time. This is definitely in part because of Sweetune, who knew what did and didn't work for the group. While I do understand why they decided not to work with Sweetune this time, there's the old saying: if it ain't broken don't fix it. I'd rather have a bombastic bop with replay value that I can add to my best of list at the end of the year, rather than a ok song that I get tired of after a week.

It's doing decently on the real time charts, so hopefully it does give them their first top 20 hit AND hopefully we get another year of multiple comebacks AND Sweetune comes back and gives them a true wig-snatching title track. #justiceforsweetune