![]() ![]() It also entered at number three on Billboard's World Digital Songs chart at number eight, while becoming the unit's second entry on the New Zealand Hot Singles chart. Commercially, the song became their first top-thirty entry on Gaon Digital Chart, as well as the unit's first top-ten entry on the Billboard K-Pop Hot 100, peaking at number nine. Music critics noted the song's "darkness" and "anthemic" return, in contrast to their previous singles, and believed it contributed to the group's musical diversity. An accompanying martial arts-themed music video premiered two days prior. Described as a "high-energy" song with "inspirational lyrics" that portrays the group's musical identity, it was released as the lead single from their second studio album Neo Zone on Maby SM Entertainment. It was written by songwriters Wutan, Rick Bridges and danke of lalala Studio, while production was handled by Dem Jointz, Deez, Mayila Jones, Chikk, Ryan S. Hero) is a song recorded by South Korean boy band NCT 127. "Kick It" (Korean: 영웅 Hanja: 英雄 RR: Yeong-ung MR: Yǒngung lit.The dance break already looks amazing and very powerful. I wouldn’t be surprise if it did feature some martial arts in it. From what I can see in the music video, the performance plays on textures to match the more melodic vocal moments and the intense hip-hop moments. They managed to give it a modern twist and the members stand out accordingly.ĭon’t think there is a live performance for this comeback yet. The music video also has this Asian concept, which I thought was very cool. Bruce Lee is well known for his yellow and black jumpsuit, an image of Bruce Lee that everyone probably knows of. The music video featured a fair amount of martial arts and the infamous yellow and black combo. For those who may not know who Bruce Lee is, he is actor who was very well known for the martial arts movies he starred in. There is no doubt the music video is paying homage to Bruce Lee. Going I had expected a little less shouting and something more refined, but this was pretty good as it is. It does remind me of some of their earlier works, which I didn’t enjoy at the time of review (but they have grown on me considerably). At this stage however, I am looking more positively at the track and think it is pretty decent. ![]() At the same time, however, it causes a great mismatch in sound and (obviously) cuts whatever flow the song potentially had. Part of them is glad for this, as a full 4 minutes of the shouting and noisy chorus would have been a little too much. Thank god that the song has some relief moments, where the vocals are brought in. It honestly could go either way depending on my mood when I am listening to the track. And while I do enjoy the Bruce Lee homage and the ‘ new thang‘ to be suitable for this hip-hop direction, the other part of me finds it annoying and ‘too loud’. Part of me finds it pretty good and sees potential in it to become an addictive section of the part. The first is the very shouting-heavy and noisy hook of the track. In my personal opinion, NCT 127 manages to Kick It up a notch with their new track. It also marks the return of Jungwoo, who sat out of NCT 127 promotions since August of last year for health reasons. Kick It features on Neo Zone, the group’s second studio album. And we will probably see the same thing for NCT 127 in the near future. Since their May 2019 comeback, the group went on to promote Superhuman, along with other tracks, in the US and achieved a worldwide reach. The group has returned with Kick It, 9 months after the release of Superhuman last year. But I take a moment to review a new release from NCT 127. And this should continue into the rest of the weekend (with some album reviews). I spent the start of the week revisiting tracks that I have yet to write reviews for. ![]()
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