B.B.B (Big Baby Baby)

"B.B.B" runs on a rolling, bouncy groove that feels assembled from the most agreeable parts of 1980s funk and early-2000s bubblegum pop — the bass line is round and insistent, the synths carry a slight vintage shimmer, and the drum programming has a lightness to it that keeps everything from getting too heavy to dance to. Dal★Shabet's delivery here is collectively playful and bright, the performance pitched in a register of easy, uncomplicated fun — the kind of music that doesn't ask anything of the listener except physical responsiveness. There is a call-and-response quality to the arrangement, melodic phrases that feel like they're waiting for you to complete them, which gives the song a participatory energy well-suited to live stages. The lyrical content stays in the territory of youthful romantic obsession delivered without psychological weight — attraction as simple fact, not complicated experience. Dal★Shabet operated at a slight remove from the top tier of the mid-2010s idol landscape, which perhaps freed them for a kind of unself-conscious commercial pop that groups under heavier scrutiny might have second-guessed. "B.B.B" is a workout playlist song, a commute song, a track for when you want music that asks nothing of your attention except that you keep moving.