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2012.01.26, 08:28 AM | #81 |
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You know what I find hilarious? The idea that the supposedly edgy, 'rock chick' SR forced her fandom to listen to showtunes.
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2012.01.26, 09:52 AM | #82 |
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Nobody is forcing anyone into anything. And Shiina's been doing "showtune"-y stuff since MM.
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2012.01.26, 03:21 PM | #83 |
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I see her as a kind of actress who assumes many different personas.
On one song she's an edgy rock chick, and on another song an actress in a Broadway play, or a television producer, or numerous other roles. |
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There's several examples of a rock song becoming a showtune song (Sid to Hakuchūmu) or vice-versa (Yattsuke Shigoto album version versus the PV version). All based on the arrangement and instrumentations. It's all in how the songs are produced and arranged as to what genre they fall into. I really enjoy it because I have pretty broad taste in music that happen to overlap with 98% of the body of work that Ringo has put out. |
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2012.01.26, 06:39 PM | #85 |
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Remember that Ringo was learnt classical piano and ballet in her childhood. She is very fond of her childhood. I don't see why she can't create showtunes. Plus, her dad listened to ALLLLL THE TYPES OF MUSIC!!! *MEME-IMPLIED*
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2012.01.27, 05:03 AM | #86 | |
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Even seeing SR's old music as 'rock' simplifies things, but I imagine that there's loads of people who enjoyed her work in that sense only (and that's why I think the show tune thing is funny, because it's at the opposite end of the spectrum) I like SR's sound in whatever form it packages itself (which is why I'm still not bored of SG, compared to most of the Jihen work), and when I am disappointed it's only because the song is sloppy, not because it falls into a particular genre. I wish she'd go further with the show-tunes. Last edited by Scribble R : 2012.01.27 at 05:07 AM. |
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2012.01.27, 06:26 AM | #87 |
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I wish she'd make a song like Between Today and Tomorrow. Oh wait, she did.
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2012.01.27, 07:02 AM | #88 | |
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Oh, so I guess I sorta just typed my review. So I'll give scores or whatever: Track 1 - 5 (great song... I only really noticed the forced piano part after other people talked about it, so I don't pay it much mind) Track 2 - 2 (listenable, but not too great. Definitely could have used Ringo's voice. Izawa's isn't horrible, per se, but for their final EP we didn't need to hear this experiment) Track 3 - 3 (good I guess, but boring. Maybe because I don't know what she's singing about) Track 4 - 4.5 (one of my favorites, but could have used more variety in the way the vocals were sung... seems a little repetitive, but that may be the point. What am I saying.. I can't complain about this song. I really like it) Track 5 - 4 (great song, Hata's vocals are awesome, shouldn't have been the closer. Otherwise it's a 4.5) Last edited by fluffiethesock : 2012.01.27 at 07:08 AM. |
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2012.01.27, 01:34 PM | #89 |
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Sorry, Jihad, I still don't like Hata's song.
I warmed up to it though, I don't hate it. EDIT: Okay, I'm going to rant now. It really annoys me that you guys continue to say "showtunes" as if it is 1) a genre of music and 2) somehow an inherently bad genre of music. Way back in the golden age of Broadway (1930's to 1950's), the songs written were meant to follow the current musical tradition. Most of what you say is "showtunes" are just SWING OR BIG BAND MUSIC (which are based off jazz). Why would you derisively call "Onna no..." a "showtune" but not "The Lady Is a Tramp"? FACT: "The Lady Is a Tramp" is an ACTUAL SHOWTUNE (as in, a song written for a Broadway musical) and "Onna no..." isn't. It's just ridiculous to use "showtune" as a way of dismissing a song, because "showtune" is not a genre ("showtunes" can differ between jazz, swing, big band, basically ANY GENRE that was popular in the 30's to 50's) and guess what? What we consider "big band" and "traditional pop" classics are mostly SHOWTUNES. So stop using "showtune" as a way of saying something is bad, and stop acting like something being a "showtune" automatically makes it bad. Last edited by TurtleFu : 2012.01.27 at 05:15 PM. |
2012.01.28, 06:20 AM | #90 |
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I must say, I'm really surprised about Color Bars.
Actually, if this is where TJ's fifth album would've went, I'm sad it never came into being, even if it does feel more like 5 independent artists working together on a single release... this attitude might also be the major reason for their breaking up anyway. Nevertheless I like the all-in-all dark and gloomy tone, this whole CD has to me and I've got hooked like crazy on sa_i_ta!! One of TJ phase 2's best songs, imho. I'd kill to see them do honto no tokoro live, with Ringo taking over the drums, so Hata can pull off his bad-ass vocals!!! Last edited by MBF : 2012.01.28 at 08:06 AM. |
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