Song Review: ALLDAY PROJECT – Talk

The floodgates are about to re-open for K-pop in a week’s time, but before that we have another dry week of mainly pre-releases and unpromoted fare. On the bright side, pre-releases are often stronger than K-pop’s title tracks and follow-ups. Understandably, artists want to lead with their best material. Hopefully that’s not the case with ALLDAY PROJECT because Talk is incredibly disappointing. Once you’ve released a song as great as One More Time, you’ve set yourself a precedent. Alas, ALLDAY PROJECT’s music continues to be more concerned with posturing and chanting than the big, bold melodies that should be their bread and butter. If ever there was a group primed to revitalize the silly/stupid early-2010s Black Eyed Peas-esque EDM, it’s them. Unfortunately, K-pop listeners aren’t allowed to have fun in 2026. We must be admonished about how great and awesome artists are and how anyone who says otherwise is a hater. It’s tiresome. It’s stale. And quite frankly, it’s astoundingly immature. My thoughts about Talk might be different if the song itself did anything interesting. After all, great music tends to paint over any lyrical banalities. Sadly, the song’s ideas begin and end with...