My review of Seventeen's new album Face the Sun (warning: some negativity)

Just thought I'd put a warning in the title so I don't kill the vibe for other fans, it's mostly positive though

Overall opinion: Not my favorite album, but nowhere near their worst album. Some tracks I like, some tracks I dislike and others I find average. I don’t think it’s as good as I would hope their first full album in a while would be. I still enjoyed some tracks, but I don’t believe my favorites on this album are equal to my favorites on their other albums. This could also be due to my having too high of expectations, I might rate the album more positively as time passes

Darl+ing – Found this song bland and bad when I first heard it and still find it bland and bad. Why they made this song their first full group English release.. no clue. Especially as it’s not even a song I think would appeal to many western English speakers… regardless, lets move on. Worst song of the album so it only gets better from here

Hot – Pleasantly surprised, I expected to hate this from the highlight medley. Nowhere near my favorite from Seventeen but it’s definitely not at the bottom of their TTs. The cowboy instrumental was awesome, but not a fan of the “hot hot hot” and find it kind of cringy. Love Hoshi’s part, great part of the song and dance. A lot of autotune but considering I’m a GAM3 BO1 and Chilli enthusiast, it definitely wasn’t a problem for me. Awesome music video, 0:20 is cool

Don Quixote – Like some parts, less than happy with other parts. Overall not that into it. Love the “feel the vibes” part of the song though and would lose my mind for an entire song following that sound. But a lot of it is just… not for me

March – Love the guitar, don’t have any complaints here. And are they saying, “like a cowboy”? Extra points. Seventeen and electric guitar is always a combination that works for me

Domino – Fun little song, like the chorus a lot. Don’t really like the beginning but once it picks up, it’s really nice. This will probably get stuck in my head and grow on me

Shadow – Another song I expected to dislike from the highlight medley, but I actually enjoy quite a bit. It sounds very western to me? Always a fan of Dino rap so of course it gets extra points for that. Am I insane or some parts sound like an improved version of Beautiful?

Bout you – I expected to enjoy this song from the highlight medley and I absolutely did. It’s cute a song and makes me happy, will join Snap Shoot and Do Re Mi for me

IF you leave me – Always enjoy a Seventeen ballad and this is no exception… there’s just some type of emotion their ballads always get out of me. I can see this joining Habit, Smile Flower, Don’t Listen in Secret, and Hug

Ash – It was a song and that’s what I know for certain… I can’t take it seriously but I enjoy it in the same way I enjoy Horanghae. Weirdly catchy, and I kinda like it for reasons unknown

Now it's time for me to disappear until Nayeon drops her album

Quote from caratnotcarrot

omg you're back!!!

For today! lmao

I cycle through interests and right now kpop isn't one of them (I always come back eventually though). Twice and Seventeen always remain on my radar regardless and I keep up with their musical releases so I just decided to post my opinions

Quote from dontwannacry04

Omg nice to see you back!!

Also, I appreciate your review.

For me, I can’t place a finger, but a seriously ended up loving all the tracks more than the highlight medley. It almost seems like SVT redebuted.

Agree with you and caratnotcarrot on this... highlight medley did not do the album justice. I get what you're saying about this comeback feeling like a redebut... a bit like DWC in that sense

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Awwwh, even if you don’t post— are you still available on your dms?

Probably not because I don't even log in I'll make sure to visit the Seventeen thread if/when I do log in though!

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Darling - loved this song when it was released, still loved it now, a good opener for propbably the hottest album of the year! 8/10

HOT - Holy sh*t, this is totally a new svt sound! The HOT3x part was catchy as heck, a twerkable song. It's also nice to hear there are melodic parts of the song and not just full on rap so that's a plus. I have my reservations when I heard it in highlight medley but didn't expect to liked it that much. 8.5/10

Don Quixote - fave Bside so far in the album!! 10/10

March - just one word: Cowboy vibes! Love the electric guitar sound through out the song 9/10

Domino - the drop on the chorus? It's like a runway song. 7/10

Shadow - this sooo good!! another great b-side! loving the acoustic guitar in the background 8/10

'bout you - it's a fun song! kinda like snapshoot but lowkey. liking the rap parts and the vocal hormonization at the background. 7.5/10

IF you leave me - vocals!! I'm such a sucker for vocal svt songs and the piano! 7/10

Ash - what a way to end the album! okay this is another song I didn't expect to like based on highlight medley but it's a banger! 8/10

Overall: 8.11/10

Congrats Seventeen for another amazing album!

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I think between this and Attacca, we've learned not to trust highlight medleys lmao

Also it seems like most people love Don Quixote, I'm definitely alone with it being one of my least favorites of the album. Maybe it will grow on me!