After a wait of over two months, we finally get a PV for Masayume Chasing!
I really like the song, as the instrumental reminds me of the 90s and 00s J-pop songs I loved back in the day with a smidge of modern pop. It's okay, take your time Japan. You'll catch up to 2014 pop in 2044. I think this is the double-edged sword that is J-pop. Composers like Komuro Tetsuya developed a distinct sound for J-pop, and while it was good during its heyday, there has been very little evolution since the 90s. So this song may be great for oldfags like me who listened to a lot of J-pop in the early 2000s, but I can understand how people who got into Asian music through K-pop around 2010 (or later) wouldn't like this song. It has many of the tropes of old J-pop: a stock beat with a good melody but boring progression and an over-reliance on vocals.
There was one thing I disliked and it was the shoe-horned rap right before the bridge. I hated that in Kara's Step (despite loving the song overall) and I hate it here.
Going to the MV, BoA looks great. She had been showing off a sexier image through her recent photoshoots, so this youthful image is a welcome change.
Credit of the gifs belongs to yunboa-love, the only one who made decent gifs at the time of the writing of this post.
fuck she is looking fine as fuck. i like the song too. definitely brings me back to 2002 high school japanese class
ReplyDeleteand her rap wasnt that bad surprisingly
DeleteI didn't actually mind the rap that much. As far a shoe-horned, song-wrecking raps go this is probably one of the better ones. I don't listen to much BoA but the stuff I have heard from her seems really solid.
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ReplyDeletea japanese pop song that doesn't instantly cure insomnia? What is this black magic?
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