i’m so proud of minho. i listen to this album – a completely solid, cohesive, well-done body of work of a mature artist – and i wonder if rookie minho would have ever seen himself grow into someone like that. he was put into such a box, they all were, he is the main rapper of shinee and despite shinee stretching the limits of contemporary pop, for the first years minho was exactly that: he was the main rapper of the group. he didn’t sing like that. obviously, in a group with jinki and jonghyun (and kibum and taemin) it’s impossible to not become a proper vocalist, but as a baritone, as the rapper of shinee, the energetic one, the burning one. would he have ever seen himself become a fully-formed artist like this? delivering us a very well-rounded r&b ep? and how you can hear it all in here is just tugging at my heartstrings; there’s taemin in chase, traces of jonghyun all over those vocal stylings, and songs like prove it remind me so much of kibum (and jjong), and the soundscape of the entire album is like dice’s gloomy brother. their artistic visions are so inherently them and yet so aligned, and i have never seen a group manage that the same way shinee has. their strength is being in shinee. it is not a hindrance to their solo endeavors, it’s the engine of their work. and isn’t that a privilege harnessed to perfection?
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