(2009.06.24) Shiina Ringo - Sanmon Gossip [Album]

[Tokyo Jihad]

Who else is in this category?: "Another day, another reason SG isn't shaping up like you had begun to hope"

[Ringo~Bingo]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Jihad

Who else is in this category?

Me

[Scribble R]

Shiina Ringo's a talented woman. She has what, at least forty tracks of hers that are great? You can't just lose that talent. So in the worst case scenario, the album after this one will do it for me. Or the one after that.

She probably just chose the wrong songs just to fit some stupid jazzy theme.

Sanmon Gossip can still be good, but so far =/

(And I don't have a problem with any music genre, and what she wants to make. She just has to make it like she did in the old days)

[Inaudible-Whisper]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Jihad

Who else is in this category?: "Another day, another reason SG isn't shaping up like you had begun to hope"

Depends how much you hyped yourself up. Things could be looking better, but it could be a lot worse. I'm still looking forwards to listening to it which matters most, I guess.

[imkookoo]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Jihad

Who else is in this category?: "Another day, another reason SG isn't shaping up like you had begun to hope"

Well, like I said before.. We can already deduce that SG, taken as an album, will be very underwhelming. The songs are too all-over-the-place. Song-by-song, I'm still hopeful though, especially because we know the album is all-over-the-place -- i.e. not all the songs will sound like Vogue, or really each other. She's bound to hit at least a couple that we'll enjoy like the rock band sounding one.

[Entry№1]

Wow, some people are really getting upset over this music video. It's not like SS videos, but it's still better than most videos we've seen of hers in recent years. I can definitely draw comparisons between this videos and other ones the director has done... they all have a kind of lo-fi look.
I giggled when she tweaked the knobs. And plugged the guitar in. It was pretty over-the-top, but it really fit her sense of humor. It's kind of funny, actually. I personally get more of an adult slumber party vibe than a sex tape vibe. Hahaha.
I reacted badly to the production values at first, but I've since changed my mind a little bit. I think the cinematography is generally great, except for maybe the long, pointless shot at the end. I loved the part where the curtain dropped. The instrument projection looked really cool, especially considering I think it was Ringo who was playing the piano.
I don't know what the device at 1:55 was though. A speaker maybe?

[Osiris12345]

I still think it's too early to tell whether this album is going to be good or bad. If you played me Ishiki and Okonomi de before I heard KSK in its entirety I would have thought the album was shit. So we've heard a ballad, a song she wrote for a children's show, and a low-quality rap song. But I doubt that's the real meat of SG. I mean, come on, has she ever promoted an album with a ballad before? It's probably the stand-out track because it IS a ballad and the others aren't. My guess is that she's saving the big guns for when the album's released. And if I'm wrong, I'll eat my words.

[merman]

Originally Posted by Osiris12345

I mean, come on, has she ever promoted an album with a ballad before?

Shouso Strip?

[riskyfish]

The PV gives me a strange feeling of the aforementioned schizophrenia, as if it's about her trying to get back into her own skin. Like a "playtime's over, now," with all the cats running around, paired with all the things getting projected onto her -- types of music, instruments, objects and images. So I think we're going to get something experimental, yes, but the way I see it, it's like this.
The PV exudes this simplicity that makes me wonder if she's trying to start "clean" again, with none of the Honnou, TJ, TJ phase 2, or Neko business, but it's difficult and/or she needs something new, a new direction, etc (I gather from the supposed guitarsex, after she was lying in bed alone -- does this mean she's taking up her own guitar in a, ahem, whole new way?).

In short, I'm not sure what to think of the impending release. But I'll definitely be preordering it (what's this about a nude photobook, eh?). I sort of like how "Vogue" sounds, even if it is just a reason for me not to buy Maboroshi's album for "Amai Yamai." I'll just see what happens.

Sorry if this post was out of place or meaningless; I just wanted to say something nobody'd seemed to say yet.

[Orenji]

Originally Posted by merman

Shouso Strip?

KZK? (Stem . Yeah the single version was so different from the one featured in the album, but yeah xD.)