Release Date: October 23, 2024
- Visual Virtue
- Hit The Floor
- Choom
- Eclair
- Love Soseol
- Atmosphere (VV Version)
- 12 Rings
- Vision
- Bionic Power
- Visionary Vision
Review
Vision@ry Vision (a.k.a. tripleS VV) is the ninth tripleS sub-unit formed from a June 2024 gravity to create a dance-oriented group. MODHAUS selected two members to join the group before the start of the gravity, Yubin and Lynn. The remaining ten members were voted in via the COSMO app.
The twelve members of Vison@ry Vision are:
- Yooyeon
- Xinyu
- Nakyoung
- Sohyun
- Nien
- Jiyeon
- Kotone
- Yubin
- Kaede
- Lynn
- Hyerin
- Yeonji
Vison@ry Vision made its debut on October 23, 2024, with its full-length album Performante featuring Hit The Floor as its title track.
Hit The Floor sees tripleS take on music that is a bit harder than their typical sound. Going by the instrumental, one could easily mistake this as something from a boy band if they didn’t know it was a tripleS song.
Whether this type of music is a fit for tripleS is going to be subjective. If you look at it from a performance perspective, then yes, it’s an excellent fit for a performance-oriented sub-unit. Hit The Floor checks the boxes for a song that brings the hype and allows the members of VV to wild out a bit.
Otherwise, it is a bit of an outlier among the tripleS title tracks musically, and how much it appeals to you will be entirely up to your tastes and whether you like tripleS colouring outside the lines sometimes.
The rest of Performante mainly falls closer to what would be expected from tripleS.
Choom is the coupling promotional track from this album. Unlike the Hip-Hoppy title track, this is uptempo pop with a touch of rock thanks to the crunchy guitar work and is a nice contrast to Hit The Floor‘s intensity. The similarity with the title track lies in this being another performance-friendly type of song.
Regarding the album cuts/b-sides, the ones that stood out the most to me were in the album’s back half. 12 Rings, particularly, had me hitting the replay button. It’s the one vibey or chill song amongst a sea of varying dance tracks.
When I heard it, it sounded like something Bruno Mars would do. Like a mix of That’s What I Like and Please Me. There’s no way tripleS would get to get all explicit, but the R&B-ish instrumental and breathy, sweet vocals give a feeling similar to those kinds of songs.
The follow-up song Vision is the other that caught my ear. It’s more of a conventional tripleS song, but its catchy funkiness puts it over the top for me.
After absorbing all of Performante, I didn’t feel the same sort of elation I got from listening to previous tripleS releases. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad album; it’s far from that. For me, it didn’t leave as much of a lasting impact after repeated listens compared to the group’s past works.
Yet, despite that, Performante is still a solid entry into the tripleS discography that is worth checking out whether you are a hardcore tripleS head or a casual listener.
