[K-POP Review] (G)I-DLE(여자아이들] TOMBOY "confident and creative deal"

(G)I-DLE TOMBOY
(Screenshot the music video)

For a long time I thought TOMBOY was a pencil maker.

There are many pencil lovers in the world, but I personally do not prefer pencils.

I thought about it carefully, and it was concluded that "pencils are very honest writing instruments."

If you write with a pencil, you will get a ‘perfectly’ ugly handwriting. Ha ha!

It looks like a well-polished mirror.

I like the feeling of slipping on paper like oil, so I have a lot of time holding a fountain pen in my hand these days.

Let's go back to the beginning.

When I was in elementary school, like other children, there were a few pencils and a large eraser in my pencil case.

Whenever my father went on a business trip abroad, he turned a blind eye to all the good items (such as Nintendo) and always brought school supplies, a few dozen pencils were the most common items.

I don't know which company made it, but yellow American pencils were the most common, sometimes black Japanese pencils.

I preferred this black Japanese pencil. The reason is that a cute dragonfly was engraved on the pencil.

I could barely figure out that the brand of this pencil was TOMBOY, and I suddenly thought, "TOMBOY means dragonfly!"

But this story had a twist in the future.

First of all, the brand of this pencil was not TOMBOY, but TOMBOW.

The last W was mistaken for Y, but if I had to make an excuse, this W was an image unlike other alphabets.

Then why TOMBOW? This is because tonbo(トンボ) means dragonfly in Japanese. So the English word TOMBOW doesn't exist.

So it wasn't until later that I found out that TOMBOY was a tomboy, not a dragonfly or a boy named Tom.

(G)I-DLE's TOMBOY has been firmly at the top of the Melon chart for weeks. It is "seriously" competing for the first and third place positions with IV's "LOVE DIVE" and PSY's "That That."

(G)I-DLE's TOMBOY is 'Strong'. The lyrics as well as the music video are full of energy.

There are two "sand bogs" in this song, and once your foot falls out, it is instantly sucked into your neck.

(G)I-DLE TOMBOY
(Screenshot the music video)

The first one is a very strong base line.

The movement of the bass following "Yeah, I'm fu(beep) tomboy" makes the heart run into a quadruple. It moves as if it is glued to the bottom of the melody.

The second sand bog is the "la-la-la" part, which has a slightly short staccato-like treatment. My mind tickles as I relax.

(G)I-DLE presents femme fatale images, but strangely does not feel neutral. A third sex that does not exist in the world is revealed.

To briefly express how I feel about I-DLE TOMBOY, it is a "confident and creative deal." 

The reason why this is a deal is because I don't feel the pressure to "give it to me because I want it." This sophisticated deal is fairly confident, but it's hard to reject. Here lies their creativity.

(G)I-DLE TOMBOY has a difficult part to express. In terms of formula, it is 'Strong Sister + Confident + Alpha'. It is entirely up to the researchers (listeners) to uncover this "alpha".

Wouldn't you get the answer if you listen to it 50 times in a row?