2PM - Don't Stop Can't Stop

Tracklist:

1. Don't Stop Can't Stop | 2. Without U | 3. 마자 | 4. 목숨을 건다 | 5. Without U (Explorer Mix)
6. Space 마자

Release date: 19 April, 2010

Hmm, the cover is ok, kinda cool. It's just stupid that Chansung and Taec just aren't fully on it. They could have put those little arm parts on it. lol

☆★☆

The first track Don't Stop Can't Stop is FIERCE. I love the hard beats and synths in the background. I thought the track was kinda addictive in a way too. Actually, the whole song was fierce, including the lyrics. At first I didn't really liked it, but after a couple of listens I started liking it. This is the best song on the single imo.

Without U starts with a simple piano and rain in the background as a simple beat is being added with Taecyeon starting to rap too. Overall the song is just okay and kind of addictive, but for some reason it's pretty similar to Heartbeat for me, especially the structure. The difference is that heartbeat was way better, lol. I think they would be better off with Don't Stop Can't Stop as the promotion track. But they started performing that one live too anyway, lol.

마자 has a mysterious synth you keep hearing almost throughout the whole track. I thought the verses were pretty nice, it has a cool feeling to it by adding that piano as a sort of beat, but in the chorus it's just the typical '2pm sound' again and that makes it kind of boring.

The next track is pretty similar to 마자, it's like a slower version. 목숨을 건다 has a similar beat to the previous track, but with an other instrumental. Atleast the arrangement is pretty, it features piano and  some pretty synths. This song is pretty boring to me and my least fav of this single.

The next 2 tracks are remixes of Without U and 마자. In Without U (Explorer Mix) the piano that you hear a lot in the original is completely gone and this song has a faster and more agressive beat also. I prefer the original since it's much more fit to the lyrics. Space 마자 has (like the title says) a more 'space-like' feel to it. The piano that was in the original is gone here also and it now has a bas in it back that gives a cool effect. I think I prefer this one over the original, since it has more variety.

Overall, the single is pretty okay, it's just typical '2PM sound', so it's all just nothing new. I hope they will do something more new and varied next time. Atleast their vocals are improving more and more and they give consistency in their singles & albums.

☆★☆

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