Well I was just joking when I said it's not about taste. That's ok.. but just to fish some more, you're saying a song has to be technically interesting, as craft, as a construction? You can't get enjoyment out of emotion, atmosphere, vaguer parameters? Is music simply an intellectual excercise?
The song is heavily tied to the chord progression, and that greatly hinders the feeling to me. You can play off a repetitive chord progression in interesting ways, and in fact funk/soul music often does so off only two alternating chords. This song doesn't do that, it holds very closely to the very boring outline it gives itself and sets the whole of the production up front together rather than highlighting the strengths, so it's not easy to set aside.
While music theory does allow a person to explain what is going on, it's not an intellectual thing, all it is doing is explaining mechanics of why something may feel right and why not. As I said, this song
feels like I'm walking in a square. Music theory can show that it's because that is the exact correlation to what is happening musically. My problem is the feeling, not the description of why that is the feeling.
I don't know precisely what it is that makes something interesting, but I have noticed that things I enjoy always
go somewhere with what they are doing. That expression feels accurate, but what do I mean? Maybe that is chord progression, maybe that is melodic range, maybe it is interaction between layers, maybe it is simply a weight that doesn't remain the same through the entirety. I don't know.
However, one thing I do know is that I don't feel like this song goes anywhere. Whatever you are feeling so majestically, I am not at all. Whatever you feel it breaking through a mind-numbing kpop veil with surpassing emotion, I feel is playing by the numbers in a very prescribed manner. Want an example of something I like? I don't even need something professional or new.
http://youtu.be/WO4LMaxxp0Y
That is simple, and she sucks at playing piano and it affects her singing, and the song is way played out... but her tone and stress, the "ebb and flow" as you put it, the places she takes the melody and the nuance with which she does so with grace and power precisely where is needed, the genuine feeling of the emotion, it's all very good. She's even somewhat indecisive as she goes along because she's distracted by the piano playing, but it doesn't matter.
These all seem to be things you feel are in the Sistar19 song. I don't feel them, and as far as I can tell it's because of the heavy handed chord progression pressing everything through its mold. Lots of country and alt rock songs use that same chord progression but they play off of it very powerfully. Brave Bros chose not to or failed at trying. I am not seduced.
