Rap: 25 / 25
T.O.P is one of the industry’s premiere rappers, and even outside that, “Turn It Up” had some nice lines across the board so this serves as a pretty solid follow up, but only with the second half of the song when the tempo starts to really pick up The prechorus and chorus was probably my least favourite part of the song, with all the extended singing notes and all that (the part right before “Doom da da divi da”). I felt none of those parts really blended with the rest of the song. The high usage of English also attributed to the overall awkward feeling on the first listen. But whle we’re here. let’s add to the list of ridiculous English words that you’d never think would show up in Kpop. Please welcome “Shower”, “Sommelier”, “ and last but certainly not least, “Hakuna matata”. I think I should just stop talking about the rap with that. When I listened to the released audio I nearly fell over.
Music Video: 13 / 25
Seems like we say this about nearly every Big Bang video but what is this video even. The monochrome colour scheme definitely reminded me of “Turn It Up”, which was a good track, but the music video was way more tame than this one. There’s like crazy lightning schemes along with the monochrome video, prehistoric apes running around with mics, and zebras and wine. Okay… While “Turn It Up” had a more fun music video, this one for “Doom Dada” wasn’t as easy to follow.
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Overall: 76 / 100
“We’ll see if Taeyang’s teammates in T.O.P and G-Dragon can impress further with their latest releases”. In score and in full, T.O.P certainly does, but “Doom Dada” and “Ringa Linga” are about as far apart as the moon and the sun. Taeyang’s song relied on choreography while “Doom Dada” is very obviously a rap track. The rapping during the latter half of the song was very impressive, and for sure saves the score since the music video was rather…interesting. Anyway, T.O.P definitely kept the rapping standards to par, but dropped the ball on the music video production.
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