★ Shinhwa (album) (MVs)

[e7erlasting]

Welcome back, Shinhwa. I dreaded having to write this post because I know things become a mess of rambles and rants when it comes to anything I care about. Having had 2.5 days to fully digest this album, I'm determined to finish this post today. On the whole, I think Shinhwa picked songs with great potential (for them) and they worked very hard to inject Shinhwa's personality into each track. They truly know each others vocals so well that I'm not surprised how good the execution is. Unfortunately I then went through the credits trying to figure out who exactly to blame for the vocal editing/engineering/mastering/whatever. Because there were moments when I wanted to strangle someone (WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ___'S VOICE?!?!?!), and I don't care if the members are the ones responsible, because why you would edit and filter and mess with the vocals to that extent is beyond me. I also firmly believe that MORE is not BETTER. The songs that didn't work for me... I just imagine removing several layers of "noise and mess". So I my main issue was inconsistency. There were many moments of pure brilliance and great music, and some moments of absolute mess, when they lost the direction in trying to retain the musical essence of Shinhwa and using current Kpop sounds. I'm not saying there has to be an inevitable clash or this combination can't work, but it didn't always work in some songs. More or less what I had anticipated, I could feel confusion and I don't blame (nor excuse) them when Kpop is so limited and narrow. You can't just bury a song and vocals in electro-mess and expect it to make the cut. Ria is reminding me to be nice in this post, because the more I love them, the harsher I am. If I'm a fan, I already know full well their potential and I tend to tear their music to shreds because "being a fan" doesn't equate to "love by default". I might get misunderstood, so I'd better be nice as Ria warned me, because I still scored this album well. As I mentioned, there were many moments of brilliance and in those moments of perfection, everything else seems irrelevant. This album is far from boring, and anyone who has heard Shinhwa before can easily feel how much personality Shinhwa has put into each track. When things fall into place, the vocals are amazing, the rap perfect and the instrumental awesome. I'm incredibly proud of how much heart and soul is in this album and there are few artists I respect as much as I do Shinhwa. I'm incredibly grateful for this album and these are all just my honest opinions. =] Both MVs are GOMTV HD versions. Thanks so much to Ria for going through friends in Korea and bending over backwards to get the dance version for me. *cries*


[ALBUM] Shinhwa - The Return (Mar 23 2012)
01 On The Road
02 Hurts
03 Venus
04 Red Carpet
05 Move With Me
06 Let It Go
07 Stay
08 Welcome
09 Be my Love
10 Re-love
11 Breathin'
★ (320kbps) MEDIAFIRE.rar ★ RAPIDSHARE.rar ★ SENDSPACE.rar




[MV] Shinhwa - Venus *GOMTV HD*
★ (1920x1080) JUMBOFILES.avi ★ RAPIDSHARE.avi




[MV] Shinhwa - Venus (Dance Version) *GOMTV HD*
★ (1920x1080) JUMBOFILES.avi ★ SENDSPACE.avi

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