🔥🌶 Hot debateIZM rated this year's kpop and honestly nobody walked out alive

3.5 for Surfin' Boy and they called it bringing the harmonies back. IZM finally said something correct. I'm framing it

IZM handing out stars like a strict hagwon teacher handing back test papers. Red Velvet gets the only gold sticker

The shortform line is the best sentence in the whole list. Half these songs are built to be 15 seconds of a dance challenge, that's not a mean take, it's just a description

Honestly critics are allowed to be harsh. A site that gives everything 3 stars would be useless. 1.5 for EXO stings but they wrote a reason, that's their job

BIGBANG getting 'members other than GD have too little presence' hurts because I've been saying it at family dinners since 2016 and nobody listens to me either

IZM ratings and chart numbers have never had much to do with each other. A 2-star song can still sit on Melon for months. Different games

2 stars for CELEBRATION is fine. 2.5 for It's Me with 'a win for marketing' is the cruellest line here and nobody's talking about it

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IZM은 원래 그래요 ㅋㅋ (IZM's always like this lol)

IZM has been around a long time and the star fight is basically a yearly ritual on Korean sites. Nobody's fave survives

Hearts2Hearts getting 3 for "the taste you know" is actually good criticism. Familiar done really well is a skill

aespa 2 stars, I'm going back to lurking

Japanese critics do this too, but the shortform line hits different when every comeback now starts on TikTok

Surfin' Boy surfing straight to the top of the list. I'll see myself out

IZM's whole job is being the one person at the party who didn't like the movie. Mission accomplished

Jisoo 3 stars and EXO 1.5. The universe is unbalanced and I've accepted it

1.5 stars for Crown with that line. Somebody at IZM sat down and chose violence

CELEBRATION 2 stars. They're not wrong about the 15 seconds and I'm still mad

BLACKPINK at 2.5 and "a new direction that fits their status"... as a BLINK I hate that I nodded

IZM rated my dad jokes too. Half a star. "Buried even their past glory"

Imagine your song getting 1.5 stars and then reading the sentence. The sentence is worse

1.5 stars with "buried even their past glory"... I'm crying for every EXO-L who read that at lunch

IZM is the final boss of K-pop and nobody has a save file

was there any boy group that got above 3?

Do IZM reviewers explain how they rate somewhere? 1.5 vs 2 feels random without knowing the scale

As someone who loves BIGBANG, "other members have too little presence" hurt my feelings, and I still nodded

Each rating comes with a short review, so the reasoning is there. The scale itself is just their taste, like any critic

As a cover dancer I don't care what IZM says about CELEBRATION, the choreo is fun and that's my whole review

I'd get 0.5 stars and the review would just say "she tried"

The taste you already know is the most dangerous. Hearts2Hearts got a compliment that sounds like a threat

"A win for marketing, not music" is going to be quoted in every fan war for the next five years