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UZA as a song still sucks pretty hard. The hook seriously blows chunks. Some of the rest of the composition had potential, but the sledge-hammer-to-the-head arrangement should be burned. People who complain about Nicki Minaj's "Starships" as worthless have not heard UZA.
This is irrelevant in the face of how AWESOME the video is visually.
The obvious solution, then, is to swap out the song. And since Joseph Khan directed the UZA music video...
EDIT: Stupid banhammers. Watch the mashup here.
Improved over 1000x by the Max Martin factor. I may never watch the original UZA MV ever again. /narcissist
Oh, and go to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200. Freaking Puppy, man. (And lol, whenever watching the Jurina spams on tumblr I can't call her anything but Puppy. Everything she does is not in boom!pregnant mode is just pure puppy. Also, anyone want to lol with me over Anninaga? "Fiery fist," *snort*)
EDIT: The current arrangement clearly isn't by someone who usually does modern dance music, but someone who was instructed to make it sound like a jock jam. So we get a composition that wants to soar, especially that chorus, but is instead made to stomp the ground in chains. Some of the rhythmic layers (or as I dub them for every song, the "sparklies," even if they're more beeps and boops than wind chimes or glock) during the verse and pre-chorus will probably sound quite good in full quality. But as soon as the more noisy synths come in, combined with the autontune, things get fuzzy and obnoxious. Maybe this is also a fault of the LQ sound, but the screechy lead synths could be tempered by a round bass sound, which I can't hear in the current version. Really, the arrangement needed less club and more pop, less sharp piercing and more round bouncing.
Mayhaps STY or HIRO could had made the balance of floaty beats work, based on their stellar outings in You-a-holic and Great Escape, and which Bad Girl had inklings of. Then again, the ethereal quality in those songs were largely from SNSD's vocals, whereas with 48fam it the opposite, the arrangement buoying the sharp voices.
Oddly enough, I feel like the song also could have worked with a H!P arrangement, especially that Daichi/Yuichi/Hirata sound. But that's getting ahead of myself. Oh well, the next post is about the R&B, not the disco and dance, anyways. So have some Tsunku, Daichi, Yuichi, and Hirata to see what I mean about tempering screechy synths and needing more pop. Or disco.
(This song's instrumental is seriously one of my favorite things. When the UZA single comes out I may do a mashup.)
(In terms of tone, this basically is the Morning Musume UZA. There are closer sound equivalents, some of them linked below, but in terms of the forward-fierce tone this is pretty much UZA to a T, executed better aurally.)
This is irrelevant in the face of how AWESOME the video is visually.
The obvious solution, then, is to swap out the song. And since Joseph Khan directed the UZA music video...
EDIT: Stupid banhammers. Watch the mashup here.
Improved over 1000x by the Max Martin factor. I may never watch the original UZA MV ever again. /narcissist
Oh, and go to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200. Freaking Puppy, man. (And lol, whenever watching the Jurina spams on tumblr I can't call her anything but Puppy. Everything she does is not in boom!pregnant mode is just pure puppy. Also, anyone want to lol with me over Anninaga? "Fiery fist," *snort*)
EDIT: The current arrangement clearly isn't by someone who usually does modern dance music, but someone who was instructed to make it sound like a jock jam. So we get a composition that wants to soar, especially that chorus, but is instead made to stomp the ground in chains. Some of the rhythmic layers (or as I dub them for every song, the "sparklies," even if they're more beeps and boops than wind chimes or glock) during the verse and pre-chorus will probably sound quite good in full quality. But as soon as the more noisy synths come in, combined with the autontune, things get fuzzy and obnoxious. Maybe this is also a fault of the LQ sound, but the screechy lead synths could be tempered by a round bass sound, which I can't hear in the current version. Really, the arrangement needed less club and more pop, less sharp piercing and more round bouncing.
Mayhaps STY or HIRO could had made the balance of floaty beats work, based on their stellar outings in You-a-holic and Great Escape, and which Bad Girl had inklings of. Then again, the ethereal quality in those songs were largely from SNSD's vocals, whereas with 48fam it the opposite, the arrangement buoying the sharp voices.
Oddly enough, I feel like the song also could have worked with a H!P arrangement, especially that Daichi/Yuichi/Hirata sound. But that's getting ahead of myself. Oh well, the next post is about the R&B, not the disco and dance, anyways. So have some Tsunku, Daichi, Yuichi, and Hirata to see what I mean about tempering screechy synths and needing more pop. Or disco.
Click to view(This song's instrumental is seriously one of my favorite things. When the UZA single comes out I may do a mashup.)
(In terms of tone, this basically is the Morning Musume UZA. There are closer sound equivalents, some of them linked below, but in terms of the forward-fierce tone this is pretty much UZA to a T, executed better aurally.)