Rating Kpop Debut Songs: Aespa Black Mamba

8.25 for me

To be honest, if the chorus of the song was much more strong hitting, it would be a 10/10.

Just my personal preference

Quote from ArmyBlink0

Disclaimer: I am not an expert!! I will simply be viewing this in my point of view

So I am going to try to be as unbiased as I can since I stan Aespa so wish me luck.

So here are the three main categories I am going to be rating it for: The song itself, the music video, the dance.

Category #1: The Song

I enjoyed the song very much and it was a bop for me. I was also pretty catchy for me too, and especially loved NingNing's high note. As for the lyrics, " wander this Kwangya" was questionable but the rest of lyrics were good but I did it was little hard to know exactly the message sent. I think the message was related to their connection with their AI selves. The only thing I did not like about it is that I did not really hear a significant rap.

So my rating for the song category is: 8.5/10 (one point off for the rap, half point off for lyrics)

Category #2: The Music Video

SM did a wonderful job with the settings of the music video. The Black Mamba representations was done well too. I like how they changed the subway scenery to a neon/black theme after the second chorus. Now the costumes, the pink mask backup "dancers" . I did not really like the pink masks. Then Winter's yellow outfit, I felt like it could have been better. Then there are the outfits that show up around 6 and 12 seconds of the music video. ( that scene where Karina wears a purple dress, NingNing a velvet pink dress, Winter rainbow shorts and pink top, Giselle rainbow top and purple pants )I did not really like them either same for the backup dancers. Then the lack of appearance of the avatars.

So my rating for the music video is 7.5/10 (half point off for Winter outfit, half point off for the other outfits and 1 for pink mask, half off for lack of appearance)

Category #3: The Dance

The choreo looked really great and the girls killed it! They were synchronized and it fit together perfectly. The moves were not unnecessarily repeated. I honestly could not find anything bad about it.

10/10 (like I said I really liked I couldn't find anything to wrong)

So I just realized I don't know how to add up all the points (if you know how help me). So I am going to take a guess using my own grading system

Overall rating: 8.5/10

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6.45

10 /10 amazing vocals dance visuals

It is still stuck in my head now! The bassline is so recognisable, and it was one of the strongest debuts in recent memory for me.

The lyrics are hard to understand because there are so many terms related to their lore. I also sometimes forget the meaning of some terms.

But Kwangya is an actual korean word, iirc it means wilderness or something.

But yes, it is a bop and i'm excited what else they could offer for their comeback.

Yayyy I love it, such detail and accuracy We love it boo

Honestly, I rate it a 9 out of 10! It’s a really catchy song, and I always find myself sing the “m-m-m-mamba” part randomly lol-

I love it. I had really high expectations for smngg and they surpassed it. I get bored of songs easily but I still listen to bm. I like good mv's and bm was really cool. So 10/10 for me.

I don't agree with any rating that's not 10/10

7 for the song + 1.5 for Ningning and Winter's vocals = 8.5

Quote from ArmyBlink0

So I just realized I don't know how to add up all the points (if you know how help me).

lol really? Just add up the three scores then divide by 3. Unless you give different weights to each category.

Black Mamba is a 9/10 for me, the second part of the chorus is soooo good and I really like the instrumental and the vocals, if they release something as good on their next cb I'm stanning.

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Honestly, I rate it a 9 out of 10! It’s a really catchy song, and I always find myself sing the “m-m-m-mamba” part randomly lol-

Omg sameeeee. I still randomly just sing Ma ma ma mambaaaa or I try singing winter's bridge part hint ' I am the new member '

BM getting love after everyone hated her during debut era "it's what she deserves" - in my Kim k voice