guerrilla… guerrilla.
my favourite ateez title is inception. it has been for two whole years and nothing they’ve released has touched inception. upon first listening of the instrumental alone, i knew it was my choice because that song sounds like literal sparkles. like the heavens had allowed just a trickle of its holiness and blessed inception and her bridge. it’s been on my spotify on repeat playlist for two years because it’s that good of a song. nothing and i mean NOTHING could top it. not 불놀이야, not déjà vu, not eternal sunshine, not the real. their past titles don’t compare to the superiority of inception.
then. then guerrilla hit.
i’m an ex-emo kid that still loves the music and plays it occasionally when i’m in the mood. groups like green day, bring me the horizon, sleeping with sirens, all time low, they are my ride or die. these groups have made some of my all time favourite songs that kpop can hardly touch.
until now.
because guerrilla has the nostalgia of my pop-punk-rock phase but modernised to a catchy kpop dance track. it took the elements of my genuine favourite music and created something that takes inspiration from it, and then further developed it into something… spectacular. it’s vocals, it’s rock elements, even screamo elements. it has managed to mesh my worlds together when i thought such a thing couldn’t exist and for that… i truly don’t know what could beat, not just guerrilla, but this album as a whole. my expectations have soared sky high, i have never been this fidgety about an album and looking forward to listening to it. not even with their previous albums because i won’t lie, those didn’t nearly bring the sheer excitement that movement pt. 1 is about to bring.
this comeback is one for the history books. my history books. i want it to drop as soon as possible </3