Review | Review: Tomorrow X Together’s new single LO$ER=LO♡ER is a pop-rock anthem for a generation facing a world in chaos
- K-pop boy band Tomorrow X Together’s new track is a song for a generation looking for love but knowing they can’t have happiness without money
- ‘Lover with a dollar sign is a loser,’ they sing on the pop-punk-rock number from The Chaos Chapter: Fight of Escape, their new and extended album
To exist is a struggle, and in their latest release, K-pop group Tomorrow X Together, known as TXT, sing about dealing with chaos either by fighting it or escaping it.
Out on Tuesday, The Chaos Chapter: Fight or Escape is an extended, repackaged version of the album they released in May, The Chaos Chapter: Freeze. The new version features two new songs that express TXT’s world view: the single Lo$er=Lo♡er evokes punkish anxiety over the need for financial security even while wanting to find love and happiness, while MOA Diary (Dubaddu Wari Wari) is bright, exuberant and overflowing with love for TXT’s fans.
Like Lovesong, Lo$er=Lo♡er positions the five members of TXT as pop rockers, and as young men facing reality and wrestling with the feeling their only options are to fight reality or to escape it through love.
Over off-kilter trap and rock instrumentals they sing explosively about facing an empty bank account, dashing and dining on a date, arguing with a parent who doesn’t support your dream, feeling like a loser who is just looking for love and happiness but recognises the inability to do that without money, and act them out in the accompanying music video. “Lover with a dollar sign is a loser,” they sing.