Morse code is also used in aeronautical navigation systems. Morse code is still popular among enthusiasts in the field of amateur radios. –.-.-Īlthough Morse code is not used as much as the past anymore, it still has its own applications. Try to write your name in Morse code for practice.Įlectropeak =. Imagine the dot as a unit of time, then the dash is three units of time, the distance between the parts of a letter is a unit of time, the distance between two consecutive letters is three units of time, and the distance between the words is seven units of time.įor instance the word SOS, the worldwide standard for requesting help is … - … in Morse code. But overall, I understand that TXT trying to go for a vibe of casual joy, but it’s a little underbaked and neatly slots into the mediocre “boba shop genre” playlist I’m building.Morse code can be transmitted in different ways: originally as electrical pulses along a telegraph wire, but also as an audio tone, a radio signal, light, body language, frequency and more. I also adore how the bridge has a satellite call signal, which is a underused metaphor and something I haven’t really heard besides ORANGE RANGE’s *Asterisk and TWICE’s Signal. Unfortunately, the vocal melodies are all woefully underpowered to accompany such a bright and rich soundscape, and the lack of fulfilled potential ends up reminding me of other incredibly safe K-Pop boy group songs. There’s a sense of the song being passed back and forth between the singers, due to the interplay of the drums and fizzy and spunked out synths. Iris Xie: Sounds like Namie Amuro’s “Golden Touch” but with the production turned up to maximalism, softened, and given more dimension. And are they imitating Migos in those verses? More’s the pity.Īlfred Soto: This new boy band’s vocals chops are no big deal even massed, but when they gather ’round to echo the synth string melody with whoa-oh-ohs I get the goose pimples anyway. The precision works in its favor, but a rapped second verse with 808 hits and au courant as-libs (“skrrr!”) coincides with a threatened full-on Phil Collins turn towards maximal AOR-bop that never arrives. The contours are carefully delineated and the energy apportioned accordingly. Jonathan Bradley: Indulgent synths splashing around the careful boyband arrangement had me confused “Crown” sounds on first listen more like classic J-pop. It makes the song slightly less pristine: a definite plus. It spells out the title, which is cute, but it could’ve spelled out anything and been a delight to hear. This would go firmly into the “well-crafted but ultimately generic” category of K-pop singles if it weren’t for the bizarre inclusion of the dissonant, morse code beeping in the bridge. Joshua Minsoo Kim: The pre-chorus is a nice moment of serenity in an otherwise busy song - the vocal melodies in the chorus, for example, are much livelier than they would seem on paper - but it’s all a bit too perfect. So I sure do still love it, just as “Crown” loudly declares itself.
Crown might not be groundbreaking, but it leans so much into the charms of the bright boy band sound that it’s hard to be too picky about the ways it might feel generic otherwise. TXT gleefully embrace the pitfalls of young love, but the joys of it too. But if they’ve got more tunes up their sleeve that remind me there is still brightness in the world, I will be excited to hear what they come up with next.Īnna Suiter: TXT are nothing like their seniors BTS, not even at their most sentimental. I find myself comparing TXT so far to other bands - vocalists that sound like BTS’s Jungkook, the spangle of Wanna One’s “Energetic” - which doesn’t give me a solid idea of who TXT are themselves. It’s really grown on me though the chorus has been stuck in my head for a couple of days, which is a sign that it’s doing something right. I wasn’t sure if I liked it at first, as there’s something about it that struck me as potentially basic for Big Hit’s first big launch post-BTS success.
We’re heading towards spring - it’s finally nice enough for me to run outside again without freezing my ass off - and “Crown” hits me like a sudden patch of sunshine. This is pure candy-pop unlikely to impress anyone over 25 it’s not bad, just inoffensive and unoriginal.Īlex Clifton: The first word that comes to mind is “cute,” and I want to stress that I don’t mean that as an insult. Thomas Inskeep: Big Hit’s newest boy band isn’t out to make great art, that’s for sure.