31 July 2024 - Rolling Quartz x AleXa - Pink Drop

This song is maybe the most compelling reason why we're starting to post covers here.  You see, yesterday, I talked about my favorite album of 2023 - and my favorite song on that album.

My favorite SONG of 2023 was this one.  And I wrote about it in December of 2023 on Totally Covered. It never felt like it belonged there, at all.  Mashups are weird - the band took two songs and shoved them together and made something that was strangely better than the two were apart.  I did such a good job writing that, and so few of you read it, that the rest of this post is quoting HEAVILY what I said in December.

And, when I opned the post with, "I'm not going to lie.  Today's feature was SUPPOSED to be the other blog", it was a Rolling Quartz original song that just was not as good as this one.  

As you know, as part of my wiring process, I look for live performances of a featured song.  And, I found one.  I was looking for a second and I found a full performace by the band.... which I decided to watch.

This mashup cover of "Pink Venom" by BLACKPINK (I wrote the "Pink Venom" post two days after this one, because I needed the contaxt, but this is SO much better!) and "MIC Drop" by BTS was featured in that performance.   It blew me away.  

So, I started looking for the cover individually.... and I found it.... not realizing that it was not just a live thing, but something the band ACTUALLY did, with AleXa coming in to share vocals with Jayoung.  AleXa is a Korean-based performer from Oklahoma, and is best known as the winner of the NBC competition series American Song Contest.

Of course, AleXa has her own career and can't tour with Rolling Quartz all the time, despite being unofficially called the band's 6th member.  Jayoung, however, is perfectly capable of shouldering the vocals herself.

And no, this is not the same live performance I used before.   This is one where Jayoung is not doing an AleXa impersonation during her part.

By the way, this was the full performance, and it is spectacular - "Pink Drop" starts around 9:20.