Ranking All 10 WJSN Title Tracks

I am so excited that WJSN are dropping their new mini-album, Unnatural, at the end of the month, and as such, I’m  planning on writing a few articles leading up to my album review when it releases. So, without further ado, let’s enter Ujung mode.

10. Happy

Happy is a really fun song, with a great upbeat energy, it lives up to its name. That said, for me, this is the least interesting of the WJSN title tracks, I feel like other groups could have pulled it off with the same feeling, which is sad because WJSN can pull off a lot that others can’t. I do love in particular Luda’s short little sections, she doesn’t get much, but she owns it like nobody else could. Dawon also stood out to me a lot when this song was getting promoted, not really sure why that is to be honest.

9. I Wish

I have two main critiques on this song, the first, is that the chorus comes out fairly abruptly to start the song, the second is that this is a pretty poor utilization of Exy in my opinion. That said, this song is fun and whimsical, the video might be the only one in kpop to feature a Nintendo DS too, so that’s always an upside. I think the choreo in the chorus is really pleasant to watch being done by such a large group as well.

8. Secret

I think for a lot of WJSN fans, this is the song that caught our attention, it was certainly the first one that got mine, it’s top tier. If I had to list my favorite kpop songs from 2016, this would be in the top 5 today, although at the time I didn’t value it as highly. I view this as a better version of I Wish in a lot of ways, a case of the original being better than the sequel. This is actually one of the first songs that had a dance practice I actually watched multiple times too, it was interesting to watch how a group with 13 members arranged everything. I feel like Mei Qi really stands out here too, she really rocks the blonde hair.

7. Butterfly

As noted in my Neverland review, I really like this song, that shows how compact this list really is for me. The styling here is so simple but so beautiful, everybody looks absolutely amazing, Dayoung and Yeoreum short hair, Seola with the red, and Bona and Luda are built for this simple elegance. Some things I want to note that I like in particular, Dayoung’s hair flips, she hits them as hard as she can for some reason, and the way Yeoreum says “butterfly,” she has a fantastic and fairly unusual voice, and it just clicks with this word. Exy’s “byeolge” at the start of her rap is also great, and the other members had so much fun copying it, which was nice to see. There’s just a lot of good parts to this song which come together fantastically.

6. MoMoMo

Before committing to having WJSN as my favorite group and becoming a Ujung last year, I would have put this song in last, but man, there’s just something so addictive about it. The chorus just gets drilled into your brain, and then you keep wanting to listen to it more. I also like the choreo where it all fans out from the center in a V shape, it looks cool. This doesn’t really break any molds, but it’s too much fun and far too catchy to be denied this spot.

5. Dreams Come True

You may have noticed that both the 2017 releases are in the bottom back-to-back, I really fell off of WJSN after secret with those songs, but Dreams Come True brought me back. The blue filter is actually awesome for the video, instantly brings you into the magical feeling of the song, and speaking of blue, Luda’s blue hair rules, she really caught my eye and has been one of my favorite members ever since. Cheng Xiao also really shines here, getting the most lines she basically ever had, and the C-line as a whole was great, but sadly, this was the last full-group comeback. The expanding running circle around Bona is also a really cool choreography moment. Musically a lot of people say this reminds them of an anime, and I can totally see where they’re coming from, I actually don’t watch much anime, maybe one or two a year, but this could totally fit the bill, but it also stands alone to me as well.

4. La La Love

This is really the song that started my WJSN addiction, I had been a fan of it, but when my wife and I visited Korea a few months after its release in 2019, I decided to buy one version of the album when we were in a kpop store because it looked really beautiful in the merch preview. Needless to say, as of writing this article, two years later, and I have every version of every album, the photobooks, the last two season’s greetings, the light stick, and one of my Neverland copies is Yeonjung signed, it’s been my favorite journey with a kpop group since I got into the genre, and it’s all thanks to this song. Shoutout to my wife for being really cool about helping me in my collection efforts too, I became well addicted and she has always supported me anyways. I really like the oddly threatening talking section “boy… stay… forever” it’s just really unintentionally ominous and makes me laugh a little every time. Otherwise, the verses are fire, the chorus likewise, the rap, it’s all great.

3. Save Me, Save You

I don’t know if anybody else experienced this, but this song didn’t have an impact for me at all, and then a year later, boom, it just clicked. They really amp the magical concept up into the mainstream appeal of the magical school concept, and they own it. This dance is the thing that really sticks out through it all to me, it’s really different looking visually, it’s beautiful and odd at the same time, one of the more interesting girl group dances of all time to me. Musically this song feels like a gradual build up from the start until the chorus hits, it builds up anticipation subtly, not getting you so expectant that the chorus doesn’t deliver, but setting it up to strike you in just the right way. The combination of soft, whispered sections, almost spoken sections, and the fully sung chorus really keep things feeling fresh throughout too, your brain never gets bored and loses the thread, it draws you in and keeps you there.

2. Boogie Up

So, my biggest critique of Happy, was that it felt like another group could pull off the concept similarly, and that’s true of Boogie Up too with one group in particular. That group is, of course, WJSN’s older sister group, Sistar, the queens of summer. Since the Sistar disbandment, summer hasn’t been the same in kpop, but Starship wasn’t ready to give up on the season, and they had WJSN remind us just how much fun summer can be. This isn’t some deep song that requires analysis, it’s catchy, it’s fun, it’s silly, the styling is on point for the season, and you can just sit back and have a genuinely good time. That’s what Boogie Up is, a lighthearted break to the day, and one worthy of the queens of summer title (but please Starship, give us another summer song this year, we only had one comeback in 2020, we can definitely squeeze a second one in this year by July, right? Right?)

1. As You Wish

My WJSN collection addiction started with La La Love, but As You Wish made me a Ujung. I ended up watching the video because of pink-haired Bona catching my eye, and I was enchanted, the music, the choreo, the video, the styling, it was just perfect, and I was hooked. The chorus dance is so visually simple, but it suits perfectly, the positivity of the vocals and instrumental really make you want to listen again and again too.

It’s also worth noting that As You Wish has risen to be THE New Year song in Korea this year, hitting number 1 in every single chart in the country at the start of 2021, resulting in WJSN actually going onto music shows for it again. It sounds cheesy, but this song represents hope for a bright future, and I think it’s really cool that it can fill that role for people, it’s an absolute masterpiece of a pop song, and I love seeing music touch people’s hearts, because it’s always been something I’ve held dear in mine.



And that’s all the title tracks, I really didn’t mean to end sappy, but As You Wish’s rise to the top was really cool, and I really love what music can mean to people. How does my ranking compare to yours, I know I’ve definitely got some unusual opinions with a particularly low Secret, and a fairly high La La Love and MoMomo. I have a few more groups coming for this article format that I’ve already finished doing the rankings for, but WJSN was the hardest, I love it all so much that it was tough to evaluate just how to place it all. Teaser: Loona was the second hardest because I counted solos and subunits too, there’s just so much to work through, 21 songs is a TON, and that article will end up being pretty long.

That said expect another WJSN article, an Iz*one title track ranking due to the end of their activities, or a Purple Kiss album review next in terms of music, and actually, shoot me a tweet letting me know what you’d like to see, I want to let you have some say in what comes next too.