A pre-release that called back someone from twenty years ago — M.C the MAX's 'Go, Go!'

A starting line is nothing but a line. White paint drawn on the ground.

Yet standing in front of it, a body changes. The line itself does nothing — the person who knows what it means is what changes.

The title of the song that came out this evening is what you say in front of it.

What arrived today

Item	Detail
Artist	M.C the MAX
Song	'Go, Go!'
Release	August 12, 6 p.m.
Position	Pre-release from the 10th full album
Composer	DAVINK
Tracks	'Go, Go!' · instrumental

A music video came out with the track. The tenth album's formal title hasn't been announced.

Calling back someone from before

DAVINK composed it. He made 'A Boy From The Moon' and 'Someday' back when the group was Moon Child, and worked on M.C the MAX's 'Returns', 'Hope', 'Listen', 'Far Away' and 'Fever'.

He joined this record at Lee Soo's suggestion, after a long while.

Calling back a long-time collaborator looks like a safe choice. Each knows the other's method. But safe is also predictable. Working with someone who fits reduces failure and reduces surprise too.

So what to watch in a reunion like this isn't 'how much is it like back then' but 'what changed since then'. If the same two people meet twenty years later and make the same thing, that's reproduction; if they make something else, that's renewal.

Rewriting the 1990s

The song is described as reinterpreting the bright, positive energy and sound particular to the 1990s with today's sensibility, carrying a view of society inside a light rhythm.

Rewriting the 1990s is common now. But it turns out differently when done by someone who passed through it and someone who learned it from material.

The former is retrieving a memory; the latter is quoting. Memory is inexact but attached to the body; a quotation is exact but outside. Which is better can't be settled, but which one it is can usually be heard.

Tonight, try it like this

Play the song first. Better to forget the title is 'Go, Go!' — a title that sounds like a cheer defines the song as a cheer in advance.

Then read the lyrics. It was said to carry a view of society inside a bright rhythm, so there will be a point where those two collide. A song that says dark things in a bright sound fails if either side wins and works if both hold.

Finally, think about the tenth album. A pre-release is the door, not the house. You can't judge a house by its door, but you can tell which way the door opens.

A starting line does nothing. Only the person standing at it changes. That can be called this. 'Go, Go!'.