K-Pop A-Z Review: GFriend – Better Me (Sowon & Umji)

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Better Me (Sowon & Umji) (from Walpurgis Night – 2020)

For their final album, the group recorded tracks as units. Better Me sees Sowon and Umji taking a much more hip-hop influenced approach, which is cool but also a strange fit for a GFriend song. I don’t dislike this, but it sounds as if it could have come from many of their peers. The production is a bit dull apart from some cool filtered background vocals and the melodies don’t hit as hard as I’d like them to. Sowon and Umji’s vocals blend very well, though.

 Hooks
7

 Production
8

 Longevity
7

 Bias
7

 RATING
7.25

Grade: C

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