What… hmm that’s the question. What have I truly forgotten? My taste in music? My impartiality in judgement of songs? Why has it become like that? Why the expectations? Isn’t it great that I went back to those times I enjoyed music easily?
This is a good example of this year. Not here to summarise anything, but then recently been listening to Sphere’s new song “Sticking Places” and Mina-chan’s single this weekend and reminded myself of this. That is, I’ve been listening to not weird, but melody-unique songs till date. That’s why I’ve been living in the Japanese music industry listening all these years. And here I’m thinking the new songs are weird…
STICKING PLACES
I thought this song was weird, given its credit to the Anime it’s associated to. But then recently at their 5th anniversary meeting with the reveal of the full song, I finally understood something. I liked this kind of songs, ever since the group started in 2009. There was this time (if you guys knew) in 2010 after their first album where I started hearing… unique songs, like “REALOVE:REALIFE” and “MOON SIGNAL”, and I thought: What kind of nonsense song titles are these? But then end up I listened and liked those songs, even humming them nowadays. Then I tell myself, “Why would I hate the song? It doesn’t sound weird; It’s been as great as is it!” And along with the understanding of lyrics, I actually should be liking the song so much I should be doing the usual brainwashing again. Why? Why the persistence?
If you guys need a listen to how good/bad this song is, here it is, from their meeting:
But with that of course there is effort seen to not destroy the second half of the song, because the front already sounds weird. That’s my stand for now. Haha, really.
PRETTY FEVER REVIEW
I may be doing more of this soon from next year onwards, with the opening of the new site which I will cover it here soon. You want to ask me why Mina-chan and why I think it’s bad? June this year they started her second album set with “Prism” and in the description talked about transition from “MINAKO-Rock” to “MINAKO-Dance-Rock”, which kinda freaked me out. The song back then was okay, I was liking it… but not this time round. This month someone wrote the whole single so different, that I kinda regretted pre-ordering it (which is still not in sight yet, duno what happened) which is not good news. But then again I ask myself why I would think like that. It’s not that I’ve not heard worse songs before, and mind you, it’s kinda driving me to start spamming negative comments on the Anime songs I’ve been listening recently (my way of doing that is drop the songs to 3-stars, off the 4-star average) to vent my anger. I know songs are not produced by me, but times are different, I swear…
If you want a listen, there’s this… not so awesome site (I thought it was great but…) to listen to FULL SONG previews of the single mentioned.
Nevertheless, I somewhat feel that the PV of the single somewhat consoled me and convinced me to like the song, as plenty of surprises come from the lively side of Mina-chan. Oh yeah, you know what I saw in this part of the Sphere PV? (from above)
Haha yesh Aki-chan. 可愛いんじゃない？(Trans: Cute isn’t she?) (Audience: Eh aren’t you talking about…) Oh you thought what?
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That’s all for today. Don’t think I forgot about the Klassic Note Spirit (I forgot that last week) and Entertainment News this week (I almost forgot last week xD), really. I won’t. Promise. Cya guys tomorrow, until then… if you need a song, come find me. I’ve got plenty of introduce, but it depends whether you can absorb them or not…
