Album Review: Girls Generation - Holiday Night
By: RJ (@rga_02)
The future of K-Pop group Girls Generation is bleak with Tiffany, Sooyoung and Seohyun not renewing their contracts last October. For the time being the group is stuck in limbo, but that doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate their last album.
Holiday Night was released just in time for the groups tenth anniversary – with an apt title as well since it seems like the group is going on holiday forever. There is nothing new with this album that you haven’t seen before. It’s the same Girls Generation you fell in love with the moment you heard “GEE GEE GEE BABY BABY” on YouTube years ago.
The album starts off with something you’d play at your friend’s K-pop party. All Night and Holiday are probably the two songs you would spend your time mostly listen too. The former has a catchy hook that you could probably find yourself singing in the shower while the latter would be a song that you and your friends would be singing that “Ho-Ho-Holiday Ho-Ho-Holiday heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee” hook awkwardly in random places.
Towards the middle of the album songs such as Fan and Only One seems to be a throwback to their older material in a way. Holiday Night, in general, is a very poppy album with EDM and electronic influence but songs like Fan tones down it down quite a bit and is a quintessential Pop song.
Towards the end of the album, the tone starts to shift again with Jazz and soft-pop influences popping up. Love is Bitter is something that you could find in a noir-inspired film – or a Broadway play.
Regardless of the future of the group, don’t be sad about the situation, be happy. Most K-pop group never last beyond five years. Tiffany, Sunny and co. has lasted for 10.
So, let them have their holiday.