Seventeen certainly has a lot of musical concepts and colors, but I chose this album because I think it’s the one that marks the midpoint of the group’s career from their debut to today. TEEN, AGE is the third and final chapter of the ‘2017 Seventeen Project’ and the group’s second full album. Its predecessor chapters were Al1 and the individual releases of the unit tracks (vocal, hip hop and performance, plus a special collaboration between the leaders).

Which leads me to start with Change Up. Without a doubt, it was a surprise that I had been waiting for a long time and that I would like to repeat in the future. I think it was anticipated that it would be a song that could incorporate all the salient elements of the 3 units, but it seems to me that they did a more personal job with a sound that S.Coups, Woozi and Hoshi enjoyed and incorporated their personalities into. They made the sound of leaders.

On the other hand, the individual unit releases I can only define as works of art in the literal sense of producing something that captures your creativity and imagination and expresses an emotional concept. Here they bring out their title of self-produced group while taking charge of highlighting the 3 key points of kpop: the performance with the delicate but fierce choreography of Lilili Yabbay, the hip hop piece with an exquisite set of voices in TRAUMA and the vocals impressive with a soft melody in Pinwheel.

It’s also amazing to me how well a full album works with only 3 songs featuring all 13 members. But Seventeen has always known how to take advantage of the strengths of each one and distribute them to create endless collaborations that enrich the variety and open the doors to experiment with all the genres they want.
The new units they presented for Bring It, Flower, ROCKET and Hello were so unexpected that I definitely couldn’t pick any one as my favorite because they all sound absolutely different and there is no point of comparison. They all shine in their own way.