YG Entertainment’s ‘WHO IS NEXT: WIN’ Episode 7 - A Review by giditopi

Are You Ready for The 2nd Battle of ‘WHO IS NEXT: WIN’?? Uh-oh I heard Team A's Leader Changed?? Who is The Judges for This Battle? Who is The Winner for This Battle?

Ok, Calm down kkk. This episode will answer that question! This is the 2nd Battle that viewers really anticipate. They had 3 Mission for the 2nd battle. First, YG choose a famous song, and both team must re-arranged it into their style. Team A got "Officially Missing You" by Tamia, and Team B got "Baby" by Justin Bieber. The second one is write an original song, but if the team have more vocals in the first song, they can have more rap in this song. The last one is dance, but not choreographing, they can refer to a famous choreographer from overseas. YG really give the boys such a difficult missions, and the time is really limited.

Team A+B featured in GD's Crooked Inkigayo Stage, credit in the picture

Before continue to talking about the battle, let's talk about the boys appearance in GD's Crooked stage in Inkigayo. The boys really anticipated it, and they are practicing very hard for the stage. B.I leads the dance practice, but he couldn't scream as usual to the hyungs in Team A, and Taehyun said "just be , you can scream at us too". In the middle of practice, Mino suddenly falls and he injured his ankle, and doctor said that he must avoid dance for 1 to two weeks. He also couldn't make an appearance in GD's Crooked stage :'( And the worst is, because of that YG Sajangnim said "As an emergency, we will need a new leader" and YG choose Kang Seung Yoon. It's so sad, that after his injury he seemed like falling apart. But, i think he will be the leader again, after his injury recover. Since YG said it's an emergency.

OK, back to the battle. Now, it's their preparation. Team A's concept for the 1st Mission is about missing them self from the past, so they will changed almost the whole song to be Team A's style and each member will write their own lyrics. While writing the lyrics, Seunghoon also cried, because he really missed his old times. Also, Seungyoon hand were bruised because he re-arranged the song all day with his guitar. Akdong Musician also appeared in this episode when they visited Team A and perform their version of "Officially Missing You" and also give them advice. Taehyun and Jinwoo also keep practicing their vocal with such a scary practice i think. Taehyun asked the other member to step on his stomach while he sing. It must be really hurt. 

Team B will make their own twist, cute, fresh and boy-like. The 3 last member that joined Team B,Junhwe, yoonhyung, and Donghyuk, also gave surprise to B.I, Bobby and Jinhwan because they're very thankful t for always helping them. They also wrote a letter and read it. It's really sad and we can see all the members crying, except B.I, but he couldn't hide his sad feeling too. he kept telling sorry  for the members :'( They also didn't have much time to sleep because they have to change the lyrics, due to sajangnim instruction.

Yes, It's The Battle Day! It's also Jinwoo's birthday, which is mean the battle is on 26th of September. The judges are Yoon Jong Shin, JYP and Lee Hyun Do. Team B perform first, the first half of their 'Baby' performance didn't really catch my eyes, because it's still JB's style, but after the rappers perform, their performance become better. Most of the judges gave an awesome score, their total score was 260. Then Team A perform Officially Missing You. I do really1000x love this performance, even for today, i've listened it more than 4 times kkk. It's really good and it's really heartfelt. Their harmony was also really good. The rappers and vocal really did a great job. But, i don't know why, the judge only give them score 254. It maybe because Mino's minor mistake (which i couldn't recognize when I hear it for the first time). And, it also received huge appreciates from the viewers and got realy high ratings, usually WIN's rating is around 1,3 but because of this performance, the ratings become 1,9. And the show just ended like that, I can feel why Team A's fans can't accept this, because it seems like everyone know who is better this time.

If you missed the 7th episode, you can watch it here and it's already subbed :) Or, if you wanna watch the faster subber, you can go to here and here. Don't forget to thank them, and feel free to comment :)

-giditopi-