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[Album Review] Dal Shabet 'Be Ambitious'

Posted by eumag0 pt Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Dal Shabet

'Be Ambitious' seems to be an attempt to give the K-Pop consumers something a bit memorable by presenting us with what is arguably their most sexually suggestive releases to date. Sex sells, right? So it should be memorable, right? Dal Shabet's attempt at shocking-and-awing K-Pop in this manner might not have been the most successful this year with the likes of groups such as Girl's Day, but it looks like it might have been necessary in order to keep the group going.



"Be Ambitious" revisits the sounds Dal Shabet built their success with. The E-Tribe assisted pop songs don't stray at all from their typical formula, which focuses all the attention to the song's racy lyrics. The song's chorus can be catchy to the right person, namely someone who absolutely loves what Dal Shabet has done in the past. The song's production is great like most of their works.


The next track, "Summer Break", is the requisite attempt at making an upbeat summer track. Despite the chorus sounding like a certain recycled Dal Shabet song— "Mr. Bang Bang"—the combo Top 40 dance track and West Coast rhythm guitar rhythm (kind of?) meshes well with the lyrical expression of the excitement of summer break and all its glory.


"Hey Mr. Chu" is probably the most listenable song on the mini-album on first listen. A moderately driving electro dance track, the chorus is quite catchy. While it's hard to make this style of music interesting because of its inherent repetitious nature, the song suffers from lacking a sense of dynamics. The song almost sounds incomplete when it could have been a much better song.


The last track, "Maybe", is the requisite ballad track of the mini-album. While this is actually quite an upsetting song about the pains of expressing love and the questionable nature of continuing a relationship, the song carries itself as fairly light-hearted. Perhaps more emphasis on the vocal delivery would have made the track more convincing. While I'm sure some will be touched by this song, it's ultimately a very fitting, end to this mini-album. And it couldn't come soon enough.

  1. Dal Shabet
  2. DAL SHABET
  3. BE AMBITIOUS
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