Seventeen "Attacca" Album Review

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Well I love both album and don’t see attacca as downgrade compared to your choice. Each shows different phase of love and they well put those themes. And only title track has far different but I don’t see much difference in overall. Only thing for me is Hiphop unit needs to work more on finding their own styles. Their songs are appealing enough to me. For both albums.

Anyways, you are not alone lmaooo

tbh I hope I Can't Run Away (+Wonwoo & Mingyu's Bittersweet collab this year) is HHU finding their sound and the kind of music truest to them. All of the members (except Vernon I believe) are ballad lovers and mostly listen to that style of music and other vocal-based songs. And while I'm not sure about the others, Seungcheol was originally set on being a vocalist. I think if they were to do a majority votes on the unit, they would end up doing ballads a la I Can't Run Away from now on

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tbh I hope I Can't Run Away (+Wonwoo & Mingyu's Bittersweet collab this year) is HHU finding their sound and the kind of music truest to them. All of the members (except Vernon I believe) are ballad lovers and mostly listen to that style of music and other vocal-based songs. And while I'm not sure about the others, Seungcheol was originally set on being a vocalist. I think if they were to do a majority votes on the unit, they would end up doing ballads a la I Can't Run Away from now on

Unpopular Opinion related to HHU below while I'm on the topic of them

I always felt like HHU's more heavily rap/"cool hiphop kpop" songs always felt forced and didn't match them well. I've seen fans be upset by their direction the last few albums and wanting something UN HAENG IL CHI from them but I disagree. I think softer music is more representative of the members of the unit and doesn't seem like they're forcing themselves to be some type of way to fit the title they were given (I have trouble taking a lot of their "hard" stuff seriously because it feels forced/unnatural like they're putting on an act even they don't believe)

Ballads/softer rap like this is the best style for them and I hope they keep it up after this album. Maybe throw in the occasional GAM3 BO1 though please

Oh I agree with you on that. Hope them trying soft style in this album gives them more clear picture for future as a unit. I also feel like they are under pressure (just imo) to show their own style compared to other units so that focusing more on hard/hiphop-ish stuff in the past? And Bittersweet just hits different after all

Need more songs like it from them now on!

Quote from rrrrrrapmonster

Oh I agree with you on that. Hope them trying soft style in this album gives them more clear picture for future as a unit. I also feel like they are under pressure (just imo) to show their own style compared to other units so that focusing more on hard/hiphop-ish stuff in the past? And Bittersweet just hits different after all

Need more songs like it from them now on!

Agreed, I think unfortunately labeling the units as vocal/hiphop/performance left HHU in this weird spot. The other 2 units actually perfectly fit what they were labeled as while HHU doesn't naturally fit what most people would expect when they hear "hiphop unit" (though hiphop is a very diverse genre and kpop really limits it to one style/concept when theres so much to it). It's definitely resulted in a struggle finding the right identity for the unit and resulted in a lot of songs that just seem strange for them to me (Ah Yeah, Un Haeng, Lotto, No Flex Zone, etc.)

They've shined the best in songs like If I, Lean on Me, Can't See The End and I Can't Run Away imo. Also feel like Whats Good/GAM3 BO1/Monday to Saturday AKA upbeat fun songs fit them pretty well

not my favorite album to be honest, your choice is still better for me, but rock with you is an amazing title track