I'm pretty whatever on the song broadly. I think the vocal parts are monotonous rather than the inspirational/anthemic sound they were going for. As I've said a million times to a friend and anyone who cares to ask: the rap line is far and away the best part of the song. It's not even close. I said this to a friend earlier that if the rest of the song brought the energy they did, it could have legitimately become a hall of famer for me.

I'm surprised by how much I like the music video. I like it a lot. Divine was the most recent music video I really liked from them but, before that, I think Lax4 was the last time I was legitimately losing my mind over a Stray Kids video beyond, you know, being someone predisposed to like it because I am a fan. I don't know if it was because it was my 2nd time listening to the song or because I think the music video aids it a lot but, I found myself liking the song WAYYYY more when I watched the music video. I can't remember the last time this has happened for me tbh. It was epic and grand and so fucking cool and they looked so good and I really liked a lot of the editing choices they made for it. The biggest drawback I have is the lighting/colouring of it, it's a little dark and...unsaturated? for my tastes but, it's not enough to majorly take away from my enjoyment of it (could have also been my gifmaker brain bleeding through lol). Maybe it also hit me because I'd been watching music videos I had a viscerally negative reaction to prior (I'm going through a bit of a crisis with Le Sserafim but, that's not what this post is about). I think the music video does a fuck tonne for the song and listening to it with the visuals is an infinitely superior experience. I also found myself having an emotional response to the BinSung outro that I in no way felt despite liking their parts so much when just listening to the song. I had quite the time yesterday lol.