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B1a4 have joined many of the 2nd gen groups making a comeback with Rewind.

It has a city pop influence
I like the crispy bite of the drums
The vocal performance was ok, a bit over produced felt like it was swimming in the reverb, delays and harmonies.
This track is mixed a bit loud I wanted a bit more space especially with all the elements

I missed Baro, I think a rap could’ve injected some dynamics and different flavour in to the track, the bridge we get where things slow down and the drums disappear was a bit meh, it wasn’t engaging. Jinyoung to a lesser extent, but considering the nostalgic nature of this comeback it was sad not to see and hear all 5 members again.

I really appreciate B1a4 doing something completely different to their usual sound, but couldn’t escape the feeling of them riding the current trends of nostalgia

And, you know, I think we've always gotten along. Similar tastes in music, liked the same horror movies, could talk comics with, we each appreciated interpersonal qualities held by the other, etc.

We never saw too much of each other, but in the past few years my friend got a decent youtube following for his movie review channel. And like, yay! Awesome! I love to see a friend succeeding.

I hate his channel. I haaaaate it so muuuuuch. It's exactly what you'd expect a modern mainstream movie review youtube channel to be;

• How Disney murdered Star Wars... AGAIN!
• The MCU is a JOKE, Captain Marvel BOMBS HARD!
• Joker 2 is going to SUCK!"

Those aren't actual titles, but that's the basic style of them. A title that either inflames or is itself the reactionary take on a thing. I think he's smarter than his audience, but I don't think he's really applying that smartness. Just hating on the stuff that chuds were already going to hate on is buttering his bread, so why dig deeper? Why think more? I don't think my friend is an idiot, but the language of idiots has seeped into his vernacular deeply enough that he'll list 'virtue signalling' as a crime that a film commits. Not like... because they put a five second clip of some background characters demonstrating diversity that can be easily edited out for foreign markets with no consequence to the film as a whole. But because a movie has female leads, and is marketed around that. Does he believe that? That that is what virtue signalling is? That that is why virtue signalling is bad? I don't actually know. Because I know he's smart enough to see when a film studio does some shit, disingenuously, for like, freebie goodwill and extra attention. But I think maybe he's just not bothering to apply it where it applies, because his audience is only going to read 'Hollywood obsessed with body positivity' at a surface level anyway. They wouldn't care what that meant beyond daring to cast a woman with fat or muscle in a movie anyway. And also, they just want to be mad about pop culture using their icons but shifting focus away from the White male nerd in the first place.

I don't watch pretty much any of what he posts, because it's just not worth it. I sometimes leave a comment. Usually one that aims at a point a little beyond the horizon for folks who still can't believe Disney is making BAD Star Wars movies, instead of GOOD ones. Like it's a binary choice and the directors and producers just consistently choose the wrong option because they are dummies. It kind hurts to see a guy I like wading into that cesspool, over and over. But I suppose he's the right kind of guy to be able to do that. I just hope it isn't mutating him into something else.

I suppose if we hung out more than once a half decade, I'd have a better read on him. I'd know if he was actually dipping his head under the surface, and breathing in the White manbaby complainosphere air. But I guess that's the other thing I fear - even the best kinda normie White dudes are so inundated with alt-fascist talking points and pseudo-thought, how would I even know if his fundamental principles and beliefs had shifted for the worse?
I'm really glad this guy loved me enough to save my life once, at great personal expense, when he absolutely did not have to. I just also wish that uh... he didn't cater his film critique to an audience so far below his ability, and so deeply opposed to my very existence that they would've done the opposite in his position - paid as little money as necessary to make me die sooner.