The Title Is a Role, Not a Person — Out at Six This Evening

In three lines

• DOH KYUNG SOO's fourth mini album 'DOPAMINE' arrived today, September 8, at 6pm. Five tracks.
• The title track is 'Guitarist', built on R&B and soul.
• It is the first album since the full-length 'BLISS', a year and two months ago.

What arrived this evening

Item	Detail
Artist	DOH KYUNG SOO (D.O.)
Album	Fourth mini album 'DOPAMINE' (5 tracks)
Release	September 8, 6pm
Title track	'Guitarist' (third track)
Other tracks	'Sing It Loud' · 'Dancing Party' · "Don't You" · 'Dear'
Lyrics	PENOMECO (title track)
Last album	Full-length 'BLISS' (July 2025)

The title is a job

The title track is called 'Guitarist'. Not a person's name, not the name of a feeling, but the name of someone who plays an instrument.

The one singing named the song after the one playing something else. According to Viva100, the song casts the guitar as a speaker delivering emotion in someone's place. Herald Muse introduced it as "a song that likens the flutter and connection between two people to guitar playing".

The structure is that the guitar says what the singing cannot. That is why the title names the player rather than the singer.

How five songs are arranged

The track order is 'Sing It Loud', 'Dancing Party', 'Guitarist', "Don't You" and 'Dear'. The title track sits third, right in the middle.

'Sing It Loud' is a bright band sound, 'Dancing Party' a rhythmic acoustic guitar, "Don't You" a funky groove, and 'Dear' a lyrical ballad.

The first two open with band and guitar, the title sits in the centre, and the last two close with groove and ballad. It is an arrangement that does not lead with the title but places it in the middle.

A lyricist met again

PENOMECO took part in writing the title track. PENOMECO and DOH KYUNG SOO have worked together before, on 'DUMB' among others.

When the same person writes the words, the speaker's voice carries over. Casting the guitar as the speaker is ultimately something the lyrics do, so the hand that built this song's structure is not an unfamiliar one.

What to check today

Start with the title track. Where the guitar speaks in place of words is the first thing to check.

Then play the five in order. Confirm how an arrangement with the title in the middle sounds.

Last, go through to 'Dear'. How an album that closes on a ballad settles the four songs before it is the last thing to check.

That's the last of the numbers. Now, the music.