DUES review
My ranking
1. Don't U Ever Stop
2. Ai no Hana
3. SMACK
4. Natsu no Basho
5. w/o notice??
6. LOVEJUICE
7. PARASITE
Don't U Ever Stop
Beginning instrumentals, the voice, then the burst of beats that starts the verse gave the feel of She Said... The music to the verse is not bad. But I feel like the first part of the chorus is something I've heard many times before in Korean songs or something. The end part of the chorus is ok...I keep getting reminded how LOUD Kame can be LOL. Overall 3/5. There wasn't anything about it that jumped out and struck me as interesting. But it should make for an intense PV full of dancing sweaty boys. I liked the 'Hell yeah'. Deep and sexy. I'm liking it better with every listen though and after watching MS lol. So rating for this song should slowly increase.
w/o notice??
The only thing interesting about this was his laugh at the beginning. *gasp* I'm insulting a song of Kame!!!!! *breaks out into severe rash* I didn't like the verse melody at the start. Only the part with the more jumpy beats that also started the second verse. That was fine. But the chorus is so...I dunno I don't like this type of song anyway. Out of all of Kame's solos this is closest to 16 seconds...but I still like 16 seconds a bit better...I guess... The type of melody both these songs have just aren't my type though.
LOVEJUICE
It took me only 9 seconds into the song to get 'Justin Timberlake' flashing in my head. The arrangement, the instruments etc. are very JT-esque. I didn't concentrate that much so I'm only guessing when I say I think it was entirely in English? Dirty lyrics I did notice though. I know Jin likes it, but...I dunno? I like dirty lyrics better in Japanese. Maybe it's because I'm much more used to hearing dirty English songs, but LOVEJUICE kinda faded into the background along with all the other songs like this that I've heard before.
Natsu no Basho
The music starts. I was just waiting. No opinion. Then the whole 'woah woah' thing starts and I was like WOAH ARASHI. This ENTIRE song reminds me of Arashi just like LOVEJUICE reminded me of JT. But because the bloody intro music took up half of the preview I had, I didn't get much feel of the song as a whole. With all of these previews I guess, I need to hear the entire song and hear them CLEARLY and then my opinion might change for them all. Maybe...=__=
PARASITE
I don't know if I'm on a let's-look-for-songs-that-sound-like-kt-solos mode on purpose or not, but this was so so so Linkin' Park. I do like Linkin' Park when I'm in that type of mood. Sometimes I'd go on a phase and listen to them for days and then never touch their music for the next few months. The raps were so fast and gibberish in this, or maybe that's because it's a radio rip =___= so I'll have to have another listen. Again, nothing spesh and I like the verse better than the chorus.
Ai no Hana
Now THIS is nice. It should be a lot more beautiful in clear version as well. This is my favourite solo. In the back of my mind I was kinda expecting it to turn out like this because I love Uedaxballad combo. He could've played around more with his melody but it's still nice enough. I tend to listen to songs without paying real attention to the lyrics so I should have another listen. All of these reviews are written based on first listens anyway. Cute how both him and Maru have the whole looking up at the sky thing in their lyrics at some point.
SMACK
The only song out of all the solos and probably including DUES with an exception of AnH that I could listen to without much cringing. This song is not bad...pretty Maru-ppoi as well I feel. Not much else to say...for some reason.
After writing all that I gave up and went to listen to L'Arc instead to cleanse my ears. *omg so gets bricked for blasphemy against KT* Honestly though, if I said I entered this fandom for the music then I'm a biiig liar OHOHOHO...I'm too perverted to be here for music fufufufu.
And was that a failed attempt to make Akame look like they were grinding their hips at each other on MS?? ahahahahaha cute. But then the whole glass breaking thing between Akame at the end?
1. Don't U Ever Stop
2. Ai no Hana
3. SMACK
4. Natsu no Basho
5. w/o notice??
6. LOVEJUICE
7. PARASITE
Don't U Ever Stop
Beginning instrumentals, the voice, then the burst of beats that starts the verse gave the feel of She Said... The music to the verse is not bad. But I feel like the first part of the chorus is something I've heard many times before in Korean songs or something. The end part of the chorus is ok...I keep getting reminded how LOUD Kame can be LOL. Overall 3/5. There wasn't anything about it that jumped out and struck me as interesting. But it should make for an intense PV full of dancing sweaty boys. I liked the 'Hell yeah'. Deep and sexy. I'm liking it better with every listen though and after watching MS lol. So rating for this song should slowly increase.
w/o notice??
The only thing interesting about this was his laugh at the beginning. *gasp* I'm insulting a song of Kame!!!!! *breaks out into severe rash* I didn't like the verse melody at the start. Only the part with the more jumpy beats that also started the second verse. That was fine. But the chorus is so...I dunno I don't like this type of song anyway. Out of all of Kame's solos this is closest to 16 seconds...but I still like 16 seconds a bit better...I guess... The type of melody both these songs have just aren't my type though.
LOVEJUICE
It took me only 9 seconds into the song to get 'Justin Timberlake' flashing in my head. The arrangement, the instruments etc. are very JT-esque. I didn't concentrate that much so I'm only guessing when I say I think it was entirely in English? Dirty lyrics I did notice though. I know Jin likes it, but...I dunno? I like dirty lyrics better in Japanese. Maybe it's because I'm much more used to hearing dirty English songs, but LOVEJUICE kinda faded into the background along with all the other songs like this that I've heard before.
Natsu no Basho
The music starts. I was just waiting. No opinion. Then the whole 'woah woah' thing starts and I was like WOAH ARASHI. This ENTIRE song reminds me of Arashi just like LOVEJUICE reminded me of JT. But because the bloody intro music took up half of the preview I had, I didn't get much feel of the song as a whole. With all of these previews I guess, I need to hear the entire song and hear them CLEARLY and then my opinion might change for them all. Maybe...=__=
PARASITE
I don't know if I'm on a let's-look-for-songs-that-sound-like-kt-solos mode on purpose or not, but this was so so so Linkin' Park. I do like Linkin' Park when I'm in that type of mood. Sometimes I'd go on a phase and listen to them for days and then never touch their music for the next few months. The raps were so fast and gibberish in this, or maybe that's because it's a radio rip =___= so I'll have to have another listen. Again, nothing spesh and I like the verse better than the chorus.
Ai no Hana
Now THIS is nice. It should be a lot more beautiful in clear version as well. This is my favourite solo. In the back of my mind I was kinda expecting it to turn out like this because I love Uedaxballad combo. He could've played around more with his melody but it's still nice enough. I tend to listen to songs without paying real attention to the lyrics so I should have another listen. All of these reviews are written based on first listens anyway. Cute how both him and Maru have the whole looking up at the sky thing in their lyrics at some point.
SMACK
The only song out of all the solos and probably including DUES with an exception of AnH that I could listen to without much cringing. This song is not bad...pretty Maru-ppoi as well I feel. Not much else to say...for some reason.
After writing all that I gave up and went to listen to L'Arc instead to cleanse my ears. *omg so gets bricked for blasphemy against KT* Honestly though, if I said I entered this fandom for the music then I'm a biiig liar OHOHOHO...I'm too perverted to be here for music fufufufu.
And was that a failed attempt to make Akame look like they were grinding their hips at each other on MS?? ahahahahaha cute. But then the whole glass breaking thing between Akame at the end?