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Old 2016.03.24, 09:43 PM   #11
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Sounds exactly how you'd think it would sound.

Zero effort evident.
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Old 2016.03.24, 10:32 PM   #12
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Didn't expect that hilarious compose from Ringo. The troll-like singing makes me wanna laugh.
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Old 2016.03.25, 12:31 AM   #13
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Ringo describes the song as a spell you say in the mirror that basically translates as "Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?".
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Old 2016.03.25, 04:06 AM   #14
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The lyrics according to google translate:

my cherie, my cherie
huh tell me who I am? who I am?
for you are my mirror
very pretty, pretty, pretty
huh tell me you love me? you love Me?
oh, I am your mirror, my cherie

That melody isn't original but could be nice in something faster and upbeat, I can almost imagine it on the demo tapes as a rock song. The lyrics would pass as subversive in that context... but in a beauty product commercial... nope
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Old 2016.03.25, 04:11 AM   #15
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Her French has improved. Except for "tu m'aimes", there's a syllable in there she's pulled out of nowhere.
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Old 2016.03.25, 08:47 AM   #16
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It's certainly nothing new or exciting, but at risk of being a troll, I kinda liked it. French Ringo has always worked well for me. I'd like to see what she would do with it live. And, though it may be a commercial, there's nothing there that sounds like it *isn't* Ringo - unlike Nagaku Mijikai Matsuri or especially NIPPON, where you could practically see her checking off each item in the spec.
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Old 2016.03.25, 09:45 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by zeroryouko View Post
It's certainly nothing new or exciting, but at risk of being a troll, I kinda liked it.
Eh, the song's inoffensive. I think it would be a bigger reach to say you dislike it than like it since there's not much there to hate apart from an abstract notion of her "phoning it in."

I don't care either way, but I do like the harp in the 30s clip more than in Carnation.
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