Long time no post- Gotta say, my interest in Jpop is waning. I still check on it, every once in a while, see what’s new, check Hello!Online, blogs, etc… Mostly in my *very* spare time. As I dabble more and more into much more beautiful music, move on with the next phase of my life, little spazzy Japanese chicks don’t really find much of a place in my life, anymore.
But I simply had to post about this.
Because I am heartily disappointed.
I didn’t realize how many people hadn’t, because I really liked Mikan. A fresh, bright song with just a little too much Koharu, cute, bright, eyecatching CG (which this girl really does not mind), nifty costumes, good amounts of screentime for everyone, lines split fairly well…
It didn’t sell well, poo. I really wonder why the fuck not, maybe it was poor marketing. Regardless, they went back to their old shit… And this is the worst I’ve seen since Ambitious.
GROSS.
The song itself is passable. It’s been said in various places on the ‘net (in various groupings and combinations of the following) that Resonant Blue sounds much like Egao YES Nude, Summer Night Town, Memory Seishun no Hikari, and I certainly agree with all of these. It doesn’t need to be said that T-man’s running out of ideas- Hell, he ran out of ideas like, four years ago. It really doesn’t need to be said anymore than it already has been, out there.
It’s cheap. It’s a SPEED ripoff. It’s a ripoff of his other songs of this genre. Did I mention it’s cheap?
At least it has a nice tune- An awful instrumental bridge, though.
Now though, moving onto the PV- Perhaps this is a Manpower, with first the Dance Shot released, then another… Not sure yet. All I can say is I’m, again, heartily disappointed, looking at the black set and seeing the girls in black, with only the girls with any solo lines at all in black with large poofs of white to really pop out.
That’s exactly what they’re doing.
This is a Reina and Ai duet, with splurts of Koharu here and there. (Hence, Koharu has some white, but the least amount of the three.) It was nice to see Sayumi at least ONCE – It was really refreshing, after bearing the overdone sight of the three camhogs. After watching this video, my eyes hurt from straining so much to see any other girl- Looking to see Aika, who I didn’t even see ONCE the entire time, nor did I see JunJun, I saw Linlin for maybe 1.5 seconds at the VERY fucking end, tiny bits of Risa and Eri which were often in Koharu’s shadow, and…
Arms. That’s it.
Behind Ai and Reina, of course.
And then they have some ridiculous seizures.
I hate this.
I hate this.
I fucking hate this.
Seing Sayumi’s face at least once, for the short time it was allotted, was like an oasis in a scorching desert. I almost think it’s cruel, to put the other girls in black on a fucking BLACK SET, stick them BEHIND the 3 ‘main’ girls like a fucking SHADOW, give them close to NO screentime, NO closeup shots, nearly NO solo lines, quite frankly, I’m DAMN pissed, so let down, and really freaking disappointed.
I really hope there’s another PV coming out. =[
Tags: Hello!Project, Morning Musume, resonant blue
