is this song really a Bop or is it a glorified Dalla Dalla 3.0? Hi, welcome! my name is
Angelina and today I'm gonna be offering you my honest thoughts on Itzy''s come
back with Wannabe! if you wanna be my.. is it everything? is it repetitive? did they
rip off our Lord and saviors 2NE1? you will never know unless you make it to the
10-minute mark of this video! and when you do make sure you click on another
one of my videos because you wouldn't want to give your view to one of these
third gen kpop youtubers now, would you? can you imagine!
Kevin would be very displeased with that! you also might as well subscribe and
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Rosé like thatÉ also, who is part of the Gang Gang cockatoo squad? I need to know,
for science! so let's start off by talking about the most buzzing topic
surrounding this comeback and that is the song itself I've seen a lot of
people talk about repetitiveness and there are indeed some aspects of
repetitiveness that I can recognize within the song itself that being a
repetitive sound among their title tracks in my video predicting Itzy's
comeback, which you should check out after this one, I did indeed say that I would
be damned if there was not a chanting like chorus and a lot of people in the
comments were saying that they were expecting you know, this type of ''I love
myself'' vibes from the song and that is very much the case for ''wannabe'' and
Dalla dalla and Icy! and though they vary quite slightly I do think the overall
messages in all of them remain quite similar in the sense that authenticity
should be valued over everything else but please keep in mind that this isn't
something that is inherently wrong however I do recognize how this could
rub some people the wrong way having come back after come back be very
similar in nature and this was indeed quite similar criticism for kill this
love because a lot of people said it's just too similar to ddu-du ddu-du
personally don't mind a very strong sense of familiarity when it comes to
comebacks from a group that I like and Itzy has effectively
created a certain vibe, created a certain sound and has consistently maintained
those elements across every single one of their title tracks, songs that talk
about being authentic, sounds that stylistically sounds similar with the
chanting elements, songs that are familiar and evokes the sense of
familiarity among their fans! and for the most part a lot of people say that Itzy
songs are quite off-putting when you first listen to them but I found this
was quite the opposite, I found you know unlike I see when I first heard this
song I was actually really blown away by it and I actually really liked it, it
honestly evokes early two-thousands vibes to me I think I don't really know how to
put my finger on it but it definitely gives me this old-time feelin vibe
especially when they call themselves bad it gives me you know Willa Ford ''I'm gonna
be bad'' vibes there are just some lines in the song but I feel like they could
kind of be in an early 2000s movie but back to like this recurring sense of
familiarity, this recurring sense of.... familiarity! there was no -there
was no synonym that I had in my mind! this obviously isn't something that is
exclusive to the song now I definitely see a lot of elements within the
choreography that are quite familiar as well and I appreciate that they do have
a certain dance style that screams Itzy but I have to say that for this comeback
in particular the choreography wasn't really my cup of tea
Icy in particular was just so hard-hitting and I was in love with that
choreography, don't get me wrong there's definitely some cool elements however I
do find that the choreography lacks how should I say it, a kind of iconic killing
part, for Icy we had that element of the chorus which was just so full of
energy and then we had this amazing dance break
but for wannabe I feel like the chorus doesn't hit as hard but also like the
movements just- they don't stick in my head, it's not something that I'm going
to really remember and quite honestly as of now the only thing that really sticks
out to me among the entire choreography like a move that I was like ''oh I really
like that that's cool'' is the beginning of their dance break I thought that move
was really cool! moving on to the outfits which is honestly one of my favorite
parts of a comeback, I am over the moon excited to see what kind of stage outfits
they come up with for this era and that's what's
really exciting about Itzy personally compared to twice, I did a twice outfit
ranking video with kpop shake you can go check it out and what I noticed what
twice is that for a lot of eras their styling just kind of meshes together
which in my opinion in my brain makes it a lot harder to kind of pinpoint certain
era whereas with it see from the beginning
they have had very distinct styles for every single one of their title tracks
which is great in my opinion because though their songs do you evoke the
sense of familiarity though their songs are very similar in nature and perhaps
maybe some people would find them very hard to distinguish at times though all
that may be true their outfits are usually very consistently stunning and
very consistently quite different from one comeback to the next so there's no
way you're going to mix up Icy's outfits with Dalla Dalla's outfits and hopefully
with these new stages that we're going to see and roast in the future it will
be the same case it will have its own flavor and we will be able to
distinguish wannabe from Icy you from Dalla Dalla but yeah back on the subject
of plaid I like how they did a schoolgirl theme
but they didn't pull it twice on us so yes we do have these schoolgirl vibes
but it's not done in a super typical way and I talked a little bit about this with
Gfriend's come back with crossroads that they did this schoolgirl inspired theme
but they went really goth with it and I appreciated that because it was quite
different so I have to give it to Itzy for doing something on that
wavelength but equally as different I mean they didn't go goth but they went a
little bit more high-fashion, digressing! I am going to allow myself to be extra
obnoxious, if that offends you might want to skip to this timecode. I'm not gonna
put a timecode because you can- you won't die! I'm gonna compare the music video to
other things I've seen in kpop before notably second gen kpop even some 3rd
gen kpop don't worry, I got everyone covered! ever since my EXO scandal of
2019 I have kind of put my you know ''why this comeback is so familiar'' series on
the backburner cuz I do recognize how obnoxious it is so um
I decided you know if you guys really don't like that series I'm still gonna
put it in the video but it's gonna be it's not gonna be the focal point of the
video because sometimes I do re-watch those videos I'm like wow, like I know
I'm making jokes but like I also don't make it very clear that I'm making jokes
and then I wonder why people take what I said of context well duh so first of all
the music video did remind me of 2NE1s scream, then there was a haircutting
scene which by the way usually these haircutting scenes are super dramatic
and you know you you cut a lot of hair because it's supposed to symbolize
change and blah blah blah the history literally cuts like an inch of her hair
which is so relatable you have no idea but what I can say is at least
she didn't mess up her hair like V did in danger. And then this scene reminds me of
a scene in Jennie's solo! okay obnoxious hours are over
that's a lie! so the very last thing we're gonna do is check out what you
guys thought of the music video so I asked you guys in my community tab what
you thought of his music video, duh! oh I posted this four hours ago
what is time? I swear I thought I posted it like two seconds ago
does anyone else have like zero concept of time? it's not as hard-hitting
musically but dang they snapped on the choreo and expressions fashion is a tad
bit questionable... fair enough! I love that they still carry the same message even
though this comeback is more of I feel good about myself rather than I don't
care about you vibe I love it so much that I can't wait for the stages. me too!
they had two stages that were re-uploaded from V live and one of the stages
featured the black and white outfits and then the other stage featured... I'm not
gonna lie... they were not my cup of tea! but you know what every era has has its
fair share of bad outfits except for 2NE1's I'm the best, I do not make
the rules! definitely my favorite come back I'm going to buy the album this is
the agents era and you cannot change my mind most comments are saying tired of
the self confidence type songs BTS has been going with love yourself concept
for years no one is bored but Itzy does
for three mini-albums and people are bored ...kpop double-standards part 3? part
2 is flopping by the way please go watch it! the structure of the song itself is a
bit more pleasing and acceptable by the majority of listeners not that type
where you have to listen a thousand times before you love it, very impressive
that's definitely something that I noticed as well like I mentioned before
Icy, I didn't love it at first but this song, I don't know what it is about it
but the vocals everything it just it sounded so aesthetically pleasing
aesthetically?? it sounded so auditorially pleasing to me it was pleasing to the
ear drums it was um it's gonna say orifice that
sounds a bit questionable anyways that is all I had to say leave down the
comments below what you thought of this comeback did you like it were you
underwhelmed if you've made it this far you might as well subscribe to this channel
I will see you guys next time bye