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박혜진 Park Hye Jin “Let’s Sing Let’s Dance”

“Let’s Sing, Let’s Dance” is built around a piano part that conveys an ambiguous feeling – from some angles it’s diluted melancholy, from others it’s more like diluted joy. The chords signal the calculated elegance of a hotel piano bar, but the actual tone is obviously synthetic and likely the output of a cheap keyboard. Park Hye Jin embraces the neither-here-nor-there quality of this part, essentially making it a neutral state that the rest of the song is trying to either nudge into something else with beats and bass, or escape through the proposal of the title – to sing, to dance. The composition never moves beyond this vibe but as an album opener of a dance record it’s very promising. It sets the scene for more ecstatic music to come while presenting a very recognizable empty but yearning feeling.

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