Reviews coming soon!

Hi everyone, I am sorry for my lack of updates as of late but rest assured I will be doing more reviews soon and below is a list of some of the albums I will be reviewing within the next two months!

Ayumi Hamasaki Loveppears: http://jpopobsessed.blogspot.com/2011/05/album-review-ayumi-hamasaki-loveppears.html
 Ayumi Hamasaki Rainbow,
Ayumi Hamasaki Memorial Address,
Ayumi Hamasaki Love Songs,
Namie Amuro Past Future,      
BoA Identity!
Plus more!


Keep checking back as I should be starting soon and if you one want to see when one of these albums is reviewed keep checking this page as I will update it when I have reviewed one.
Thank you to everyone who has read my blog so far and don't forget to leave a comment^_^

Single review: BoA I See Me

I See Me was a single released on December 6th last year, it was released as a digital single only. After the hit/miss of Woo Weekend (see here: http://jpopobsessed.blogspot.com/2011/04/single-review-boa-woo-weekend.html) I was interested to see if I See Me would prove to be a good single or a simple cash in for Christmas. Read my review below^_^

The song starts off with the sound of a piano playing before BoA begins to sing over a mid-tempo beat. Her vocals during the verses and not loud but are present and they sound well polished (much better than her vocals on No dance, no life). Once the chorus kicks in BoA's voice becomes a little quicker and the beat turns into a soft but faster beating sound. Personally I believe her vocals sound better in the verse than the chorus but overall she sounds better on this than anything on Woo Weekend. The lyrics talk about how the way she thought her life would be in her childhood haven't come out as she would have hoped. Unfortunately the song didn't recieve a PV.

"I see myself in the faraway scenery. I see me, I see me"



Overall I find this single to be weak, besides her great vocals the song drags on and halfway through you forget the song even is on, it becomes just background music. The chorus doesn't live up to expectations, when the chorus starts it sounds more like a pre-chorus and doesn't hit as high as I would have liked/thought. I wouldn't recommend buying this single.

Single review: BoA Woo Weekend

Woo Weekend is BoA's 30th single and was released on July 21st last year. Now I wouldn't call myself a BoA stan, rather a casual listener so when I heard BoA had a new single I was interested to see what it sounded like. I was surprised from what I heard below you will understand why^_^
The title track of the single starts off with BoA singing "Just can't get enough, Woo Wee", as she sings this electro/jazz sounds are heard in the background. The verses instrumental sound like people thumping their feet but once the pre-chorus and chorus kicks in we are thrown an explosion of dance, jazz and electro which give us an happy and danceable tune. The hook "Just can't get enough, Woo Wee" is insanely catchy and I even found myself humming/singing it months after I first heard the tune. Her vocals mould well into the song and she atleast sounds like she can be bothered to sing the song (which I can't say for the next song). The PV was ok,  BoA look tired and bored and it felt very forced which seems to be the general concensus of her career currently, especially in Japan. I found myself surprised with this song because whilst I wasn't overly thrilled when I first heard it I ended up enjoying and buying it.

"Take me to the top (Woo Wee)"

Next up is the b-side to the single, No dance, No life. Now we all know how much of a fan BoA is of Michael Jackson so the obivous Michael Jackson sound of this song isn't a surprise. The song starts off with a dark 80's type tune before BoA sings "I want to dance tonight". This 80s sound is heard throughout the whole pre-chorus before it becomes faster during the chorus. B-sides aren't meant to be amazing but the song was boring, she sounded like she was recording it for the sake of recording a b-side and I don't enjoy her vocals as much on this song. The breakdown is ok but her vocals don't mould well with the beat. Overall I didn't enjoy this b-side, feeling as if it dragged on. However, Woo Weekend is enough to make up for this miss.

"Baby bounce with me tonight"

Overall I find this single to be 50/50. Woo Weekend is enough of a reason to buy the single but No dance, No life is just not an enjoyable track in my opinion. This wasn't the strongest Jpop single released last summer but it for sure wasn't the worse.