[Review] 2PM - Come Back When You Hear This Song

Vocals: 8 / 10

I’m very impressed. For a song that didn’t offer too much variety or have interesting happenings, 2PM sound really synchronized for the first time in a long time. It’s surprising, since essentially all the vocalists are in the relative range of the others, you’d expect more songs to have a similar synchronous sound like U-Kiss, but the last song that I felt this sort of harmony dates back to “Again & Again” when Jaebeom was still part of the group. I wanted more of Junsu (I refuse to call him Minjun or Jun.K or whatever name he uses now) but still pretty good.

Appearance: 8 / 10

Junsu looks awesome and Junho looks awesome. They’re easily the best looking members of 2PM. Wooyoung and Nichkhun can look good too but these hairstyles don’t really do them any justice. Chansung and Taecyeon will never look good without short hair. That’s basically a fact. Everyone’s got fairly standard outfits so nothing is too obnoxious, and nothing obnoxious is a godsend from those horrid outfits of “I’ll Be Back”…

Dance: 6 / 10

For the first time in basically forever, I felt that this dance simply didn’t match the song or instrumentals at all. It just seemed weird watching the dance with the vocals. Maybe it was partly from the awkward movements, or the seemingly random individual headbanging / rocking, but everything about this choreography just didn’t seem right. Ehh, I didn’t want something as energetic or crazy as “Hands Up”, and certainly not something as stupid as “I’ll Be Back”, but something was just off about the dance, and it makes it weird to watch.

Rap: 6 / 10

This was one of the forgettable moments for Taecyeon. His voice is too high for it to be enjoyable in any means, JYP should utilize his lower register more. Oh well. The super serious words at the end “I’m sorry, and I love you” were not only random but out of place, too. The rest of the rap is fast paced and building but the spoken words just cut through any momentum. Standard Taecyeon is standard. At the very least, he was the only one rapping this time.

Music Video: 9 / 10

I enjoyed this music video. The use of the seven deadly sins did a good job of painting the overall picture of the MV / story, even though I didn’t even notice “pride” at the beginning on the necklace and thought the video was gonna get racywith Chansung and “lust”. It was neat to see the sins intertwined with the members and them being active in “fixing the past” per se. Speaking of lust, what about that one girl sharing six guys hmm? Oh well. Cute and ordinary sets, and the solo shots were actually directly linked to the other scenes which I liked. It’s a good MV fitting the song (read: not the dance).

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Overall: 74 / 100

Holy crap, 2013 is turning into the year of incredibly long (English) song titles… “Gone Not Around Any Longer”, “Come Back When You Hear This Song”, “The Reason We Broke Up”, etc. and don’t forget the other 2PM title track “All Day I Think Of You”, a song that got abbreviated for Youtube. All in all it’s a good song but lacks that sort of edge other big comeback names have like “Venus” or “Keep Your Head Down”. It’s good work by JYP / 2PM but I think something bigger could have been possible.