All the songs have their own purpose, whether it be the nostalgic ‘OK Or Not’ or the spacey R&B-pop of ‘Moon & Back’, the latter proving 2PM’s versatility to hop on recent trends without sounding too try-hard. There are hardly any lacklustre pickings on ‘Must’. K, Wooyoung and Junho have long proven they’ve got the pipes, but here, even the group’s rap line – Nichkhun, Taec and Chansung – get a chance to show off their vocal chops. ![]() It’s easy to forget that behind the group’s very strong dance-focused image, they’re also actually skillful singers. Ballads ‘Two Of Us’ and ‘Hold You’, meanwhile, tie the entire record together, both fine displays of the group’s vocal capabilities. It’s hardly an earworm like those two tracks but it provides the right amount of goofy fun you’d expect from a 2PM record. While nothing on ‘Must’ is in the similar vein as 2PM’s signature party bangers like ‘Hands Up’ and ‘Go Crazy’, the twinkling electro rap ‘Champagne’, which Taecyeon had a co-writing credit on, comes close. It’s the kind of flirty charm that 2PM has successfully mastered over the years and are able to pull off with a touch of class. Thirty seconds in and the song’s saucy pre-chorus reels you in and never lets go, with a sultry drawl on the chorus ( “I gotta gotta gotta / Say something now / I gotta gotta gottta / Come up with something”) that will no doubt get stuck in heads. Thankfully, ‘Make It’, the title track of their seventh studio album ‘Must’, does the trick. But finally, five years after their last album, 2016’s ‘Gentlemen’s Game’, 2PM have reunited to remind everyone that they’re still around. Then came the inevitable military service enlistment, which put the boyband on hiatus for nearly half a decade. READ MORE: Yugyeom – ‘Point Of View: U’ review: a triumphant introduction to his artistic independenceĪs the band grew older and the attention of the K-pop world turned towards shiny new young artists from the third and fourth generation of idols, 2PM seemed bound to lose a bit of their spark.In 2011, they even earned the fifth spot in Forbes’ Korea Power Celebrity list, just behind fellow K-pop titans Girls’ Generation and Lee Seunggi. They were in dozens of commercials and played international shows, including hosting concerts at the coveted Tokyo Dome. The group stood out, thanks to their dynamic, acrobatic choreography and hyper masculine image, which cemented them as K-pop’s OG “beast idols”. ![]() K, Nichkhun, Taecyeon, Wooyoung, Junho and Chansung – were the poster boys for the new Korean wave, or hallyu 2.0. At the peak of their career in the early 2010s, the idol group – comprising members Jun. Not too long ago, 2PM were one of the hottest K-pop acts around.
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