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Wtf happened here?

Whatever they did, they need to not do it again. Besides the subjectivity of general taste of genres, the mixing is objectively terrible for half of this songs. For artists of their callibre this is simply unaccepable, what are BELIFT/HYBE doing? I heard they used Big Hit's producers this time? But even then TXT's music is produced amazingly so what's the issue?

Post Coachella this should've been their Armageddon level of quality and growth moment but instead we get a forgettable attempt that meets expectations I guess ... but does not put up much of a fight against the innovative music we're hearing this year so far.

Perhaps there's a confusion over their musical identity whilst their visual identity has made a return to form. Idk but their A&R needs to do better.

I'm extra harsh and annoyed because of how much I love Enhypen and how I was really looking forward to it just to get ... this.

Where are their vocals too? They were really beginning to showcase their growth. In my mind I feel like the only song they like judging from their delivery is Too Close but we'll never know the truth.

Until next one, it's a nah for me dawg.

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Lauren

I couldn’t agree more, I was so disappointed, especially as someone who thinks enhypen have one of the best discography’s in kpop, this was a massive let down and just so mediocre

Shay

cant say I was a huge fan of the album either. BUT I will say I do love the english version for bad desire... its been on repeat lol. the mixture of heeseungs desperate vocals mixed with jakes whiney tone in the prechorus is what sold it for me. you might recognize bad desire from mirrors by justin timberlake! they are SUPER similar sounds, pretty sure they sampled from it.

Amy ✨️

As a very avid listener of Enypen I completely agree. Bad desire had the potential but those vocal effects or whatever they are nearly ruins the song for me. I don't mind when it's used artistically or a little (for example firework by Ateez) but using it throughout the entire song makes no sense. Like just let me hear their vocals I beg. Despite that I do really like helium! But yeah the other songs do fall flat I'm afraid :/

srngtae

jay wrote and produced helium

Koko3op

I should've listened to the english version I always avoid those lol. Yes everyone on tiktok and even on my discord has pointed out the mirror thing which I didn't catch. The other song was more obvious to me i guess lool

moo

Micah omfg! I also heard “i just died in your arms tonight” but everyone called me crazy. I’m glad you agree lol

Shay

eng versions are SUCH a hit or miss. I think the only ones I really like are sweet venom and bad desire XD

xikerssfile

I don’t HATE the album, but I agree with almost everything you said. Overall, it’s js not my taste. And I’m not an engene or anything but I sometimes enjoy listening to their music because it’s pretty good. But this album? Not so much..😭 I heard Jay was a producer for Helium tho so I think that’s pretty cool!

Koko3op

HAHAHA yaay!! I completely missed Mirror

♥︎

micah thank you so much for your reaction! i personally enjoyed the album, however, i figured that it was going to be a miss for many. i think the main issue with this album (for me personally) is that it’s not as cohesive as their previous albums. when i first listened to it i thought it was a bit all over the place but after listening to the songs again… i have to admit i really enjoy them. another thing that bothers me a lot is the song length, bad desire for instance needed a bridge. the english version also clears! tysm again💗

Henrieta Hruštíkova

I appreciate how you are always honest and bring different perspectives that I didn't have before and even though I like this album as a whole and I love the title track!! I like that in your case it is always an objective criticism that has its basis.

nichaaas

I have to agree. When the track preview dropped I was so confused lmaojdhf. I normally give songs, especially k-pop, a couple of listens before judging them, but man this album had some of the very first songs I just could not get into for the life of me 😭. Idk maybe with all the concept imagery they’ve been releasing, I was expecting something of that realm like kinda dark blood-esque but oh well. It’s such a shame that a comeback with such strong concepts and build up came crashing down by its main feature the frickin music😃. Despite that, Bad desire I actually enjoyed quite a lot disregarding the excessive voice effects and its CRIMINALLY short length. (maybe it’s cuz I love mirrors so bad lol)

Koko3op

Thank you. Yeah cos above all else, I want to enjoy what I'm listening to.

alyssa

omg the way i thought i was crazy abt the mixing😭😭 i’m very easy to please when it comes to music so i liked this album for the most part but i kept thinking something was so off abt the production and the vocals???? whoever mixed most of the bsides must’ve been having a bad day bc how do you release it like that😭😭

Amanda Bernström

I like the English version of both Loose and Bad Desire more lol

Britney

This is petty but I reeeeally hate that blonde (any blonde tbh) on Niki. It washes him out something awful.

cami C.

I liked the tracks (Outside is my fav track lol) but it did throw me that it’s not cohesive and we did all this dark concept building for the songs to not match :/ I’m still engene downnn so it’s not a miss for me edit: I did notice helium is mixed horribly for that to be jay’s baby I’m like 😫

Koko3op

REALLY!! I get your point but i like the colour tbh

Kay

Im obsessed with the bad desire and I loved it even more after they preformed it live with their raw vocals… i didn’t like the besides i was confused 😭 but helium and too close were good

Kay

Flashover feels like an intro to me rather then a solid song. Outside personally not my taste but i know it will grow on me after i see them perform it. helium my favorite beside on the album.. it have great moments.. enha performed it on the showcase and it’s definitely gonna be amazing on concerts .. Too close cute love it but didn’t have the chuck hold that bills/ orange flower had on me Loose eng ver > loose korean ver - that’s all im gonna say lolz

Candice Blair

I'm not familiar with technical details, so I enjoyed the album and liked the title track. It's not cohesive like the Dark Blood album, but it didn't bother me. They have been performing it with no backtrack. My favorite B-side is "Too Close".

Britney

Idk what it isss. Sharpens his features maybe

Spooks

The title track sounds like Mirror by Justin Timberlake and my brain can't stop hearing mirror 😂😂

Erin Jones

I agree. Enhypen is my ult group, but this is the first time an album release of theirs has disappointed me. Hopefully they’ll recover from this by next comeback. I do kind of like bad desire, I just wish a bridge or something could’ve been added to make it feel more dynamic. I also enjoy listening to the English version of Loose. That’s about it.

mia

I cannot lie Im and engene and this was my first comeback stanning enhypen so I was soooo excited I even waited until 12am for the album to drop and I literally thought I was crazy and just to tired at 12am so I said ill listen again in the morning and I was still like smth is off here. Ngl I love bad desire (w or w out you) although the autotune is soo much I still rlly like the melody and stuff. Hopefully there next comeback eats this up. 🙏🙏 Im begging belift LET THEM SINGGG!!!

Aqsa Hussain

I knew you wouldn’t like it 😭 Personally I don’t think the album is cohesive at all and I was expecting something more on theme but I still really love all the songs individually, I’ve especially been obsessed with Bad Desire and Helium.

coy soy

I knew u wouldn’t like it but GAHHH DAMN😭

coy soy

Personally, even though this album is quite short and isn’t as complex as their others .. I still really love it 😭I thought it was a good and new unique sound for enha to use compared to their usual

Mica Ferguson

Omg, I'm so glad it's not just me who has no idea what happened with this album. I did have some tracks I enjoyed listening to from the album, but this overall was definitely a let down and I did not like the title track. I was so disappointed. Bad Desire is just such a weak song and the MV was super annoying to me because it feels like Hybe/Belift was expecting people to just be wowed by the fancy MV but I honestly disliked it. It's kind of the gripe I've been having with XG's MVs lately in that the songs feel like they're taking a backseat to all the fancy effects and visuals they're putting into their MVs. I wish they would put more of that effort into the music too... I was so enamored by the teaser period for this comeback and I was really looking forward to this. I expected them to lean more into the sensuality of things given the sexy teasers, give us something a bit more carnal. But all they did was come out with this flatline of an album... Enhypen is so much better than this. I'm not sure what's going on with Hybe, because the music coming from their artists just feels so uninspired these days. The visuals and teasers are great and fascinating and draw me in, but then the songs drop and some of them are barely 2 minutes with the songs getting hacked and slashed with bridges removed or barely even there. You have no time to digest the songs and when you start possibly getting into the groove of the song it's over. Then the songs are so dissonant and monotonous... There's nothing interesting going on in them either. Like where's the harmonies, where's the adlibs, spice it up a little please... It's really disappointing when you consider what BTS, TXT, Seventeen, and even Enhypen themselves were putting out years ago... I feel the same way about Le Sserafim and Illit's trajectories too and I feel like Hybe needs to make some changes to the music for the artists under them, but I have a feeling they won't be incentivized to do it when fans just eat it up anyway. :(

Anastasia

You should have uploaded the full video on YouTube so that someone from HYBE, especially their producers, could watch it and take the notes lmao

Purplepizza L

the fact that the longest song on the album was a pre-release and only song above 3 minutes was already no for me💔 enhypen deserves better than this

BZ

Too Close is my favorite song on this album. Maybe it is because I can hear their vocals, and they aren’t all distorted. It also sounds like an ENHYPEN song, unlike some others on this album. I really am struggling with both Outside and Helium. I so wanted to love Helium, since Jay is such a big part of the making of this song. However, neither of these songs sound like ENHYPEN or even a progression of ENHYPEN. I do like the song Bad Desire, and it has grown on me the more I hear it. I prefer their live performances of the song where their voices are less distorted. Also, I like the choreography for Bad Desire. I kept wondering, if my lack of enthusiasm for some of the songs was because my anticipation was so high for this album, and the hope that they would really have a banner year with this album. Unfortunately, the reality is that this album is not cohesive, their voices are way too processed (I’m not sure processed is the right word but it’s all I can think of right now), and the mixing of some songs was terrible. I don’t always agree with your assessments, but I think this time, we are in total agreement.

lay!!

I think what I’ve noticed recently with enhypen is it feels like they’re always in a rush? And so they keep producing mediocre music. It’s so weird because I felt this way with Romance:Untold but felt like they were getting their groove back with No Doubt and Daydream. Additionally, Enha is almost a 5yr old group and they’re still releasing experimental music like they don’t understand their sound identity at all. Which makes me question what their music directing team is doing LOLL. We’ve seen time and time again what they work best with and sound good in. Hip-hop, rnb, like dark trap beats? Which is why some of their best, most cohesive albums are the Border & Blood series. All that being said I actually do like this album and Bad Desire is my fav title track to date HAHA. But I agree the mixing was horrible & they gave us no substance w the songs considering they’re only 2 minutes long like myyyy godddd lol. Don’t know how Im gonna spread my stop the 2 minutes songs and let enhypen sing agenda to hybe but I’m gonna get it done!!!

Koko3op

That’s cos I love them so much hdhshdhsh

Koko3op

The sound isn’t the only issue it’s the actual mixing of the album that’s subpar. Like surely you heard the different when I played the other songs? It’s sooo weirdly cheap sounding lol

Koko3op

HA if only. They’re set in their ways I’m sure

nani_skyy

I don’t know if it’s because they lost their main producer since debut (wonderkid) or he is taking a break but I really hope he comes back because I miss albums that are cohesive all throughout. Overall I enjoyed the album, it doesn’t top my favorite but it’s still good. Thank you for your reaction! Hopefully in the next album they elevate their music production.

nana

i will say personally the album grew on me second listen i can agree it’s not the most cohesive album (outside is such an unserious song lmfao it felt kinda outta place) only thing the kinda confuses me the most is belift/hybe can tell dark concepts suit enhypen better but seem too scared to fully commit to the bit lately? but it also feels like that label doesn’t know rlly what they’re doing with anybody tbh 💀 but personally i liked this title track more than xo but romance:untold had stronger bsides. tho i do really like the fav tis coachella did bring more confidence to enhypen bc most of their stages they have been for the most part have been singing live which many (if not most) of the members did not do

syd

this is my least favorite enhypen album. it feels like a huge step backwards. the mixing is terrible

Koko3op

All of the above. 5 years IN!!!

Koko3op

Like we need more songs like Daydream and Lucifer!!

nana

heavily agree this is one of my fave title tracks of theirs 🙂‍↕️ but it rlly does feel like they picked the bsides from a hat (i adore too close tho)

zayn

here i was thinking they'd give them one of their best albums to date due to how well they did in coachella and their concert is coming up but they did ANYTHING but that... Maybe too short of a time to try and make a good album? but their last album (romance untold) came out July 2024, so they had SOO much time to develop their music .. i really don't know what they were thinking. now besides that, i actually enjoyed some of the songs! i can't exactly remember all of them, but I somehow enjoy the english ver of bad desire more than the original! and you are so right, going from things like daydream (i love that song SOOO much) and no doubt to just... this? idk what they're thinking LOL

Verner Cole

Although our musical tastes don't always align, I agree with you 100% on this album. I love Enhypen, but it doesn't mean they get a free pass. On all their previous albums there's been enough I've really liked for me never to have been disappointed, even if there were some songs that missed (and there always were). They were so good at Coachella I was really hoping this release was going to build on that. This just sounds to me like it was thrown together in a couple of weeks for the sake of releasing something. Having said that a lot of people seem to like it and I heard the early sales numbers were even higher that Romance: Untold so perhaps its just me who has bad taste.

Noelle Robinson

i can understand everyones views. I personally love it. the more i listen the more nostalgia i feel. It is possible that they rushed it. they have been on tour non stop along with everything else. heeseung produced or directed this album. i saw it on YouTube they just didnt credit him on it. i think one thing is they make each album have something for everyone. but i always appreciate their hard work and talents along with appreciating that they cant take a break at all. This is a great album for me.

cyd

I haven't watched your reaction but from reading the description, i agree 100%! I'm also annoyed that the songs are getting shorter and shorter...like bring back bridges PLEASE. I love the boys dearly and I just feel like they deserve so much better than whatever this mini was :( I also think belift needs to cool it on the touring bc they don't really have time to invest into the music from what it seems... side note though: their live vocals have definitely gotten more confident post-Coachella which is nice to see (you can really hear it in their most recent performance on bogum's cantabile b/c there's essentially no backing track from what I remember when listening)

Koko3op

I really think there had SOOO much else to do in that time I guess

Koko3op

Yesss I saw the pre orders were over 2 million. I'm sure a million of those will end up in the bin as per lol but yeah

jelleeeee

Sunoo said they made the album at their busiest, coachella season, so maybe that’s why it’s a lacklustre cause it was rushed. Hybe always gets to this phase where I feel they just rush and churn out music just to get out a comeback, instead of taking time to keep up enhypen’s usual quality.

jelleeeee

Also, I am so mad about their new era of short songs still. All the 2 minute songs actually make me SO MAD at the producers because their bridges used to be the best, but the producers are getting lazy and rushing so this is the result sadly.

Tricia

Hybe really have this issue of once a group reaches a certain level of seniority, they send them out on these long ass tours with a very tight schedule which ultimately ends up impacting the time and energy that goes into the music side of things bc they have to rush album production between concerts, festivals and whatnot. I fear this is what is happening here…

Tricia

I swear belift might be the worst of all sub labels 😭 someone has to fire the tech bros and bring back the creative minds I’m so tired 😪

Marii

this definitely isn’t my favorite enhypen album, but if i said i hated it, i would be lying 🤷🏻‍♀️ one thing i have to say, this album, the members seem to have much more involvement in with all the songs….which…idk all ik is when asked what their favorite song on the album was, they all said loose, helium, & sunghoon said flashover. like. LMAO.

Po

Helium and too close are my favs

Koko3op

LOOOL LOOSE?!?!??!! That feels like a forced answer

Liza

I actually really liked this one!

Patricia

OMG I thought i was the only one tripping about the mixing. it sucks that I was not interested in these songs whatsoever. I still praise them with a song like too close but the others were not good for me. The title track for me felt like the chorus was the pre-chorus and it never progressed from there. So honestly i didn't enjoy it. I can appreciate a empty chorus only SOMeTIMES but it didn't work for me here. Jungwon during the dance is, I will always say, the best performer in the group. The way he captivates me to only look at him is kind of insane. Nonetheless, the album didn't hit for me.

Katara S

Everytime the prechorus in Bad Desire starts, all I I hear is "It's line you're my mirror. My mirror staring bad at me". And I don't like Justin Timberlake - Mirrors all that much. It might be painting the song for me. Also, Too Close sounds to me like a Max song. It gives 1st cousin of "Blueberry Eyes".

Jesse

Will we be getting the RIIZE album reaction?

Sephora Jocelyn

This album feels safe like they put something together but they weren’t inspired

Koko3op

Girl listen to the podcast episode 1 lol

Koko3op

This. It lacks so much inspiration

Susan Harper

Alittle different opinion, I love bad desire english version, Too close, and Helium. I like loose english version. I don't like outside or flashover. Bad desire maybe my favorite title track.

Leelee

I said the sameee thing about Flashover sounding royalty free🤣 But the only good song from this album is Bad Desire