Pentagon just released “Sha La La”! I don’t really know what to say (in the positive sense), so I’ll just leave it here.

@hades

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    Positive….Yanan’s back?
    I’ve only listened to this but was hoping I’d love it as the last album wasnt a favorite either.
    The weird thing is in this song the vocals sound boring. Pentagon has amazing and distinctive vocals so not sure why that happened.

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      I’m sorry you didn’t like it. I wasn’t a big fan of “Naughty Boy”, but I loved all the side tracks on the last album.
      I think it might be because there is no space for the vocals to really shine? The chorus is full of different sounds (including background vocals), so the vocals don’t stand out that much.

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        I think this songs problem is that I don’t get the Pentagon feel I’ve come to know and love which is strange because there are groups like Stray Kids and NCT–more the former than the latter–that are able to change up their styles but still be them. I think a really big positive for me was Yanan got brief moments to “shine.” Yay for Yanan.

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          I think I get what you mean. I suppose Hui felt the need to try something different after “Naughty Boy” which wasn’t as successful as “Shine”. They’re doing their best to hit it big, but sometimes it just doesn’t work out…
          I am really happy for Yanan, his voice got a chance to shine. Too bad Kino can’t dance this comeback (he hurt his ankle).

          Anyways, I hope you give a listen to the rest of the album. There’s a rock song (written by Kino) called “Spring Snow” about the good times of the Shine era (it snowed on the day they shot the Shine MV). And the last song – “Round 1” is a diss track. 😂 It still sounds so cute though… The members are dissing each other and it’s hilarious.

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            I’ll add the EP to my list this weekend. The album art looks interesting though. Is that a nod to E’Dawn?

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            @hades
            Do you mean the album cover? I think it’s both keeping with the name of the album (Genie:us, therefore the “G”) and also showing that someone’s missing now (so a nod to E’Dawn, yes).

            Pentagon even changed their official logo on social networks after E’Dawn left. It’s still a pentagon, but there were dots in it before symbolising the members…

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            re: logo, makes sense. thx!

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