I saw it already~ No Yurina's "kanata" = sucks. Okay, I'm just kidding. But Yurina's kanata pwns Risako and Miyabi's!!
I don't know who/what T_N is, so Yay for daigong!
Berryz Koubou: Nanchu Koi wo Yatteru You Know? —Piccolo Town, whatever that is (June 8th)Let me preface this by stating that in principle, I can live with Morning Musume and most of the pre-teen "Hello! Project" army. Most of their songs are catchy enough that you can overlook the weak vocals. This new Berryz Koubou group, on the other hand, is completely unbearable. "Nanchu Koi" matches horribly unbalanced vocals with one of the most generic arrangements I've heard this year. It sounds like freaking Mega Man music (for the original Nintendo). And what on earth is that wail at the end of the chorus?Now, take a moment and prepare yourself.The B-Side of this single is my early nominee for several awards: worst song of the year, worse mixing of the year, and worst arrangement of the decade. For the first two, take what I said above and magnify it a few times. The arrangement... well, it's so bad that I need to single out Shoichiro Hirata, the mastermind behind many a Beatmania CD, for creating a song that barely makes it from verse to verse and has a bridge that honestly sounds like he got halfway through and said, "Aw, geez, I have to fill up another 20 seconds. I know! Let's do scales! And when they get too high, we'll just start from the bottom again!" If you want to scare your friends away from J-Pop, this will do the trick.
Lol. Music reviewers are always bitter people who think their opinion is law. I stopped listening to them ages ago.
It's not just that ANN's music reviewer is bitter, but he's an Avex zombie who worships almost everything the label does (I speak from experience here). That includes being a j-pop snob who bashes idol groups, and most anyone else outside of Avex, just because their music actually has, I dunno, an actual style or personality.