Youngjae made his solo comeback last week with his first studio album and title track, both of which are titled Do It. Since his last review on the blog (2022’s SUGAR), Youngjae has gone a tour with following his 2022 mini-album that Sugar is featured on, released a digital single Err Day earlier this year (which is featured on the new album), and has been active in a musical and on his radio show.

Youngjae’s Do It is a simple and melodic pop track. It is simple to the point where there isn’t too much to say about the song, which can either be a good or bad observation. Since I am a fan of Youngjae’s, I will admit I lean towards the “good”. Do It is straight forward, easy to get into and feels like an extension of Youngjae’s bubbly and ‘boy next door’ personality that I have grown to associate with the artist. The instrumental was warm and inviting, featuring a slight groove that makes the background enjoyable. Youngjae, himself, offers a lightness to Do It via his vocals and melodies that makes it a pleasant and easy-on-the-ears listen (as already mentioned). The flow of Do It is also quite good. While everything I have mention points towards Do It being a very lovely song to listen to, I do find Do It to be quite quite reserved and safe. It barely strays away from how it starts. I wish Youngjae offered something with a bit more flair, especially since I do think that Youngjae has the potential to offer something else that isn’t too straight forward and simple. But nonetheless, Do It is still an enjoyable song.

While Do It is pretty safe and simple, the music video is much more than that. In the music video for Do It, we see Youngjae develop a crush on a waitress at the diner. He follows her out of the diner when she goes out to throw out the trash, but he is met with no one outside and a truck crashes into him shortly after. From there, we see Youngjae wake up in his bed (very much alive) and the calendar flip backwards, suggesting a Groundhog Day type of scenario. Throughout the subsequent scenes, we see Youngjae pursue the waitress in what looks to be romantic scenes (e.g., the infamous Tobey McGuire Spiderman catching his crush/lunch tray of food scene; putting headphones on his crush’s head like in that one romantic movie; shooting a zombie to save his crush from being bitten etc.). But they all end horribly in some form (e.g., Youngjae fails at catching the food and causes a mess for his crush to clean up/looks uncool; rocks up to the party with headphones in hand but finds crush is embracing someone else; crush was already bitten, turned into a zombie and ends up biting Youngjae), which all result in Youngjae waking up at the start of the same day. The only way out is to successfully catch the waitress’ attention. And in the end, we don’t really know if he was successful – though the ending is open ended. Other than that, the video shows off the bubbly and fun side of Youngjae, exploring different concepts and looks that all look great on Youngjae.

Every time I watch the performance for Do It, I found myself smiling. That bubbly (recurring word of the post!) and fun nature comes through the choreography, and Youngjae’s interaction with the dancers adds to that directly. I really like the set of moves at the start of the chorus (up until and including the body wave) – this sequence pretty serves as the key dance point of the routine.

Song – 8/10
Music Video – 9/10
Performance – 8.5/10
Overall Rating – 8.4/10