Aespa: Illusion

Illusion

A promotional release by Aespa, was released on June 1, 2022 as the second track from their album Girls. The song was written by Lee Thor (lalala Studio). Composition and arrangement by G’Hara “Pk” Degeddingseze, and Patricica Battani with Steve Octave also taking part in the arrangement of the song. It had been a total of 163 days since their last release of Dreams Come True in December 2021.

Illusion features members Giselle, Karina, Ningning, and Winter at the average age of 21.3 years old.

Illusion had a total of 283 words with 49.5% (140 words) in Korean versus 50.5% (143 words) in English. 24 words (8.5%) of the song was sung in unison while 259 words (91.5%) were split between the members. The average was 80.8 words with a standard deviation of 6.2 words with a margin of error of 3.1 words. Member winter had the highest number of words while member Giselle had the least.

Rank

1. Winter - 88 words
2. Ningning - 85 words
3. Karina - 78 words
4. Giselle - 72 words

Winter - Highest Word Count

Illusion had a track time of 3 minutes and 15 seconds with a total singing time of 2 minutes and 42 seconds which is only 83.1% of the track time taken up by vocals. 12 seconds (7.4%) were sung by all members in unison while 150 seconds (92.6%) were split between the members. The average was 50 seconds with a standard deviation of 6.6 seconds and a margin of error of 3.3 seconds. Member Ningning had the highest amount of time while member Giselle had the least.

Rank

1. Ningning - 56 seconds
2. Winter - 54 seconds
3. Karina - 51 seconds
4. Giselle - 39 seconds

Ningning - Highest Time Count 

Illusion earned one nomination for Aespa, with the song charting on seven different charts with the song peaking at #14 on the South Korea Circle charts, and in the top 20 on Singapore Top Regional (#15) and South Korea monthly (#16). The Song did well with critics, placing on 10 different end of year kpop lists, peaking at #4 on MTV’s The 22 best Kpop b-sides of 2022.

Illusion by Aespa earned a total of 1,504 points and earned a grade of A for both time and word distribution.

Points Breakdown

• Standard Deviation: 187.2 points
• Margin of Error: 193.6 points
• Music Show: 0 points
• Awards: 777 points
• Charts: 347 points