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Tomboy THOUGHTS
Mar. 22nd, 2022 03:41 pmno one:
me: people want to know what I, a person generally known only as a once on the internet, thought about the latest (g)i-dle comeback
A little known fact about me is that I was a hardcore gidle stan in mid 2019 to early 2020, so much so that I had tickets to see them, by myself, in... May of 2020 RIP. Even though I'll never get the chance to see soojin in person ever again, I still casually like gidle, even thought I'm not hardcore like I used to be. My fave comeback was HANN and the releases after that were good, not great. Still enjoyed them though.
ANYWAY, gidle kind of faded to the background for me until fuckin now. Tomboy has kicked down the door of my relaxed casual stanning for most girl groups, goddammit. Here are my thoughts.
CONCEPT/VIDEO
Truly enjoyed every second of the music video, though (i literally hate to be this person but I'm going to do it for reasons) I could have used more Shuhua. Like the barbie doll murder scene was great, but it also robbed us of her whole postchorus dance break in the MV, and she looks so good doing it on music shows. But yes, like everyone looked so good that I could ignore the lyrics lmao.
BUT I am not one to beat a dead line distribution horse, and things were excellent. Miyeon always sounds good, but she sounded very very good in the prechoruses.
MUSIC
The song is a BANGER and you're lying if it's not. I love love love the punk pop Avril Lavigne vibes, the whistle throughout, the song structure is also a banger imo? I think a lot of folks have rightly criticized title tracks of gidle to be weirdly short, or feel like they're purely playing up replay value by ending way too soon (Senorita I'm looking at you). Like many of them could have used another chorus or literally an ending coda or SOMETHING to finish the song off.
Tomboy suffers no such ailments. I think the song itself is perfect in length, the bridge section, the outro the build up of choruses all to NEITHER MAN NOR WOMAN is actually so fucking good. I don't have a ton to say on the dance, but the dance in THIS section is sooooo good and perfect for the lyrics and for Yuqi?? (I also sound like a pure Yuqi stan right now despite Minnie being my actual top bias and I'm sorry. I have nothing to defend myself with.)
LYRICS
This...is where they lost me for a minute. And I mean a literal minute, since that's how long those random English verses felt tbh. Some of it was well placed, I mean "I'm fuckin tomboy" is iconic. BUT. Can anyone out there explain what does "look at my toe" mean?? I feel like I can infer most of what Soyeon means in the rap part, though it's also a little...eh. But I hate the my girl Minnie has such an incomprehensible verse tbh. And I just can't with more Coke product placement, I truly cannot.
HOWEVER. Neither man no woman, just me Idle??? The best line of the song. And that section, I mean, you know already. I just feel like I have to shut off my comprehension for the first verse and the rap and pretend it's just music.
STYLING
Everyone looked amazing, but we need to acknowledge Miyeon's bloody pearl necklace moment, as a society. That is all.
Oh wait, Yuqi's spiky beret in The Show stage. God she's so cute.
the GIRLS
Soojin's untimely departure really didn't hurt me that much due to the fact that I have a fairly strong Minnie/Yuqi bias line. And I can appreciate a good Soyeon rap moment too, but I once cried because I saw Yuqi doing the Likey choreography and it was so cute that I shed tears. Like she has that kind of grip on me. (I am very bi). Plus I do feel like I must stan Shuhua for Taiwanese solidarity.
THEREFORE, this comeback exactly my cup of tea in terms of Minnie, Yuqi, and even Shuhua getting to shine (esp Shuhua let's be real). Minnie looks amazing and i want to see her say fuck but hey this will do! Yuqi is the MVP of this whole comeback imo (if you can't tell by my ranting lmao), but Shuhua gets a gold star for improvement. And I know that sounds really backhanded, but she is really serving looks these days. I think she's even more eye catching than Miyeon on stage now in terms of stage presence and performing. There's just something about Shuhua.
Soyeon is just so consistent and good that it's hard to say anything about her you know? Like you know she's going to be giving us everything of the sort, so you expect it? And Miyeon... she's not giving me nothing so that's good. Is it the things we need for this comeback? No imo, but she is trying I just feel like her vibe is not super suited to this concept and that's okay.
Anyway I'm obsessed thank you for your time.
me: people want to know what I, a person generally known only as a once on the internet, thought about the latest (g)i-dle comeback
A little known fact about me is that I was a hardcore gidle stan in mid 2019 to early 2020, so much so that I had tickets to see them, by myself, in... May of 2020 RIP. Even though I'll never get the chance to see soojin in person ever again, I still casually like gidle, even thought I'm not hardcore like I used to be. My fave comeback was HANN and the releases after that were good, not great. Still enjoyed them though.
ANYWAY, gidle kind of faded to the background for me until fuckin now. Tomboy has kicked down the door of my relaxed casual stanning for most girl groups, goddammit. Here are my thoughts.
CONCEPT/VIDEO
Truly enjoyed every second of the music video, though (i literally hate to be this person but I'm going to do it for reasons) I could have used more Shuhua. Like the barbie doll murder scene was great, but it also robbed us of her whole postchorus dance break in the MV, and she looks so good doing it on music shows. But yes, like everyone looked so good that I could ignore the lyrics lmao.
BUT I am not one to beat a dead line distribution horse, and things were excellent. Miyeon always sounds good, but she sounded very very good in the prechoruses.
MUSIC
The song is a BANGER and you're lying if it's not. I love love love the punk pop Avril Lavigne vibes, the whistle throughout, the song structure is also a banger imo? I think a lot of folks have rightly criticized title tracks of gidle to be weirdly short, or feel like they're purely playing up replay value by ending way too soon (Senorita I'm looking at you). Like many of them could have used another chorus or literally an ending coda or SOMETHING to finish the song off.
Tomboy suffers no such ailments. I think the song itself is perfect in length, the bridge section, the outro the build up of choruses all to NEITHER MAN NOR WOMAN is actually so fucking good. I don't have a ton to say on the dance, but the dance in THIS section is sooooo good and perfect for the lyrics and for Yuqi?? (I also sound like a pure Yuqi stan right now despite Minnie being my actual top bias and I'm sorry. I have nothing to defend myself with.)
LYRICS
This...is where they lost me for a minute. And I mean a literal minute, since that's how long those random English verses felt tbh. Some of it was well placed, I mean "I'm fuckin tomboy" is iconic. BUT. Can anyone out there explain what does "look at my toe" mean?? I feel like I can infer most of what Soyeon means in the rap part, though it's also a little...eh. But I hate the my girl Minnie has such an incomprehensible verse tbh. And I just can't with more Coke product placement, I truly cannot.
HOWEVER. Neither man no woman, just me Idle??? The best line of the song. And that section, I mean, you know already. I just feel like I have to shut off my comprehension for the first verse and the rap and pretend it's just music.
STYLING
Everyone looked amazing, but we need to acknowledge Miyeon's bloody pearl necklace moment, as a society. That is all.
Oh wait, Yuqi's spiky beret in The Show stage. God she's so cute.
the GIRLS
Soojin's untimely departure really didn't hurt me that much due to the fact that I have a fairly strong Minnie/Yuqi bias line. And I can appreciate a good Soyeon rap moment too, but I once cried because I saw Yuqi doing the Likey choreography and it was so cute that I shed tears. Like she has that kind of grip on me. (I am very bi). Plus I do feel like I must stan Shuhua for Taiwanese solidarity.
THEREFORE, this comeback exactly my cup of tea in terms of Minnie, Yuqi, and even Shuhua getting to shine (esp Shuhua let's be real). Minnie looks amazing and i want to see her say fuck but hey this will do! Yuqi is the MVP of this whole comeback imo (if you can't tell by my ranting lmao), but Shuhua gets a gold star for improvement. And I know that sounds really backhanded, but she is really serving looks these days. I think she's even more eye catching than Miyeon on stage now in terms of stage presence and performing. There's just something about Shuhua.
Soyeon is just so consistent and good that it's hard to say anything about her you know? Like you know she's going to be giving us everything of the sort, so you expect it? And Miyeon... she's not giving me nothing so that's good. Is it the things we need for this comeback? No imo, but she is trying I just feel like her vibe is not super suited to this concept and that's okay.
Anyway I'm obsessed thank you for your time.
