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![Iain Mew: My first reaction to “Closer” was delight that someone was taking up the baton offered by “Angel of My Dreams” and that it made sense for it to be another singer from a group formed through a TV competition. The more I listen, the more I realise that the song lacks any of the same substance and instead become impressed by the aesthetic illusion that got it to that first impression. Jeon Somi, with or without heavily applied vocal filters, gives a sense of not all being right, backed up by the bit taken straight from the middle eight of “Paparazzi” (the Lady Gaga one, not the Girls’ Generation one), the shoutout to Blackout, the freaky decay of the video, the way “you and I oh” in the interpolation is used to transmit the word “suicidal” while never saying it. It’s all filled with so many skillfully arranged indicators of lurking darkness that it somewhat disguises that the song underneath is too blank to provide anything for them all to attach to.
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