Goodbye cute, welcome lady-like A Pink!
On September 26th 2016, A Pink released their newest
album called Pink Revolution. This
is A Pink’s third full album in five years of their career.
For Pink Revolution, A Pink chooses Only One as their title track. Through Only One, A Pink promises to showcase their mature side. This is
interesting because ‘mature’ is not a word that often associated with A Pink.
This six-member group is popular with their bubbly and innocent concept such as
No No No and Mr. Chu although they also tried mature theme before with Luv.
So, how does A Pink portray this new side of them with Only One? Check out my review
below………………………………………..
Only One shifts out from A Pink usual hook song. This song starts out calmly and ends in similar
way. There is no catchy refrain part that you often find in previous A Pink
songs. Their vocal sounds delicate, even Eunji’s
powerful voice toned down here. In short, Only
One is something different from A Pink.
Even though the song structure different, A Pink still carries
their signature old school sound. Only
One is dominated by synthesizer sound and strong beat which sounds like it
comes out from 90s era. This added with guitar riff to give an edge in several
parts of the song. I really like the music combination. It’s strong and solid.
Both the singing and music part in Only One is actually an interesting combination. It could
complement each other, resulting a new kind of track for A Pink. Unfortunately,
Only One failed to mix those elements
well.
Only One dynamic sounds messy. There
is no balance between each part of the song. This makes some parts come out
really strong such as the second verse, but the rest comes out flat. The messy
problem also happened to Only One arrangement.
A Pink voices are too soft, so it’s easily overpowered by the strong and varied
music. All of these are a pity because Only
One actually has so much potential as a song.
Not only in the song, the messy part can be seen in Only One music video too. There is
jarring tone in some scenes, which makes it looks like belong to different
music video. Fortunately, the music video part is only a minor problem. The
overall look of Only One music video
still looks gorgeous.
The vibe of Only One music
video tries to represent the song lyrics. Only
One is about how much A Pink love this particular guy. There is shyness and
sweetness in their love, which represents by the light color palette in the
music video. Colors like white and cream dominated the music video. This
accompanied by blurry camera effect just like in the dream scene. It suitable
with the song lyrics too because falling in love makes A Pink feel that they
are in a dream.
Moreover, A Pink styling is also fit Only One music video theme. The girls mostly use simple dresses
without cute design like in previous music videos. Their hair and makeup looks
natural which fits the soft tone in Only
One music video. It’s clear that the girls styling looks more mature, but
they don’t overdoing it.
I also like that A Pink experiments more on their setting. The
usage of setting quite diverse and suits the music video theme again. My
favorite shot would be in the church and park. The cinematography looks great
at those scenes. The choreography scene looks intriguing too although the
cinematography in this scene sometimes make me dizzy.
A Pink keeps their promise in showcasing mature side with Only One. The song and music video shows
A Pink growth while still maintain their sweet side at the same time. However,
the execution is still lacking especially in the song part. It makes Only One hard to stand out among their
previous title track.
Through Only One, A Pink
also seems to convey a certain message about maturity. A Pink tries to tell us
that there is different side of mature. Maturity doesn’t always represent by
something sexy, edgy or dark. Becoming as a lady is a mature process too just
like what A Pink shows in Only One.
Rating: 2.75/5
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