{"id":75864,"date":"2020-04-08T23:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selective-hearing.com\/?p=75864"},"modified":"2023-09-21T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T22:36:00","slug":"itzy-itz-me-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.selective-hearing.com\/?p=75864","title":{"rendered":"ITZY &#8211; IT&#8217;z ME Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-75866\" src=\"https:\/\/selective-hearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ITZY-ITz-ME-COVER.jpg\" alt=\"ITZY IT'z ME COVER\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Release Date: March 9, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Track Listing<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>WANNABE<\/li>\n<li>TING TING TING with Oliver Heldens<\/li>\n<li>THAT&#8217;S A NO NO<\/li>\n<li>NOBODY LIKE YOU<\/li>\n<li>YOU MAKE ME<\/li>\n<li>I DON&#8217;T WANNA DANCE<\/li>\n<li>24HRS<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JYP Entertainment&#8217;s ITZY have returned with their first release of 2020 titled <strong>IT&#8217;z ME<\/strong>. This 7-track EP features the song <em>WANNABE<\/em>, a track that follows the group&#8217;s pattern of dropping high energy dance-pop with the themes of self-love and empowerment.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ITZY &quot;WANNABE&quot; M\/V @ITZY\" width=\"1320\" height=\"743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fE2h3lGlOsk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video for <em>WANNABE<\/em> features the group in bias wrecking mode. If you thought you had a favourite member, you might end up changing allegiances after watching this. Ryujin, in particular, could end up with more peeps hopping on her bandwagon.<\/p>\n<p><em>WANNABE <\/em>also\u00a0sets the tone for the remainder of the EP as the songs that follow it are mostly similar in musical feel and lyrical themes. The dance music intensity continues with the club-friendly collaboration with electronic music producer Oliver Heldens (<em>TING TING TING)<\/em>, and <em>THAT&#8217;S A NO NO<\/em>. Both songs are further examples of ITZY working well within their comfort zone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75867 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/selective-hearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ITZY-ITz-ME-PROMO-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"ITZY IT'z ME PROMO\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While it would be easy for them to coast on goodwill, there are some changes to their musical template present on this EP. The first is <em>NOBODY LIKE YOU<\/em>, a track that strips away the pop polish and firmly places ITZY in a gritty drum and guitar-driven soundscape. Second is <em>24HRS<\/em>, another simple production that allows the group to drop some attitude by chanting over some heavy synth bass. One could think of it as the bratty counterpart to <strong>IT&#8217;z ICY<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>CHERRY<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have followed this group from the start, you will figure out that ITZY has not strayed too far from what they are good at after listening to this album. Despite it being mostly more of the same, one cannot deny that <strong>WANNABE<\/strong> is a quality EP.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; background: transparent;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/us\/album\/itz-me\/1501233592?app=music&amp;at=1010lxtp\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT&#8217;z ME is ITZY&#8217;s second mini-album, and it features the single WANNABE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":79294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[1582,52,34],"class_list":["post-75864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-reviews","tag-itzy","tag-k-pop","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.selective-hearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.selective-hearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.selective-hearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.selective-hearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.selective-hearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.selective-hearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79295,"href":"https:\/\/test.selective-hearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75864\/revisions\/79295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.selective-hearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.selective-hearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.selective-hearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.selective-hearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}