“[Hot Summer] kind of actually makes audible sense this time; the biting production tears into your ears as mercilessly as the scorching sun would upon your skin in the most unbearable hours of summer.

Nonetheless,  it still doesn’t escape me that f(x)’s “Hot Summer” remains to be another lazy release from SM Entertainment. While this song is perched two steps above its predecessor, it is still glamorously monotonous. It is still one-note, and clearly not as strong as it could be for f(x) had they been treated with the SM producers who worked on the greater songs of their senior label-buddies.”

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