Hotshot - Watch Out (MV Review)

Slick & Stylish!

          I've always said that Hotshot was a group to watch out for and now they're saying it themselves. With their fantastic pre-release single, Midnight Sun, being such a departure from the style of their debut (and a delightful show of impressive stylistic flexibility), I wasn't sure what sort of song we were going to be graced with for their comeback. Watch Out is a throw back into the rap ring, but it's a style that sits neatly between the folds of their other promotional tracks. It has more smooth vocals than Take a Shot and more nitty-gritty rap segments than Midnight Sun, blending together into a fluid, dynamic track that moves well and evolves over the course of the song. With a minimalist instrumental, thoroughly imbued with energy, the vocals have the attention they deserve and the smooth vocal swoops mesh neatly with the raps and the track flips flawlessly between sections.
           The MV is slick, utilizing clever camera tricks and intriguing editing techniques to make the relatively inexpensive shoot feel anything but cheap. The styling is gorgeous, though fairly standard for the genre. The choreography, or at least what's shown of it in the MV, is also fairly mainstream, but it's intense and interesting and it suits the song perfectly. The set aesthetics are gorgeous and suit the song just as brilliantly as the choreo does. 
           I'm fabulously impressed with this release.

I give it an 8/10: Fabulous!