Review Of A COMPLETE ~ALL SINGLES~ In Singapore's The Strait Times's Life ! papers
 

this's in today's papers & it's on page 5 for S'poreans who're interested .

It's only a few paragraphs or so & the reviewer Samuel Lee reviewed A COMPLETE alongside with S.H.E's FM & Seiko Matsuda's MY PURE MELODY albums .

As such I will just type the parts with regards to what he said about A COMPLETE .

"More pleasing to the eye (especially if you're a sucker for design & packaging) than to the ear is the box set of Jpop diva Ayumi Hamasaki's singles , which comes in a collectible triple CD & one DVD package .

Charting through her early singles (For My Dear ... , Boys & Girls and monochrome) on Disc 1 , you'd wince from time to time from her unsteady , whiny singing . If you survive it and progress to Discs 2 & 3 which gets better and bolder , you realise that her repertoire was skilfully shaped along the way to suit her pipes .

Her musical metamorphosis is accompanied by a gazillion visually arresting image changes which rival Madonna's (all of which are artfully captured in the box itself and the companion booklets) .

Rating - 3/5 "

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Hmm just curious, how did FM fared? =p

Generally nice review, the author even compared her with Madonna X) and AC should've gotten like 4/5 D:

FM's rating's 3.5/5 & yeah I think 3/5 is too low , at most it should have gotten 3.5

i really liked Ayu's high pitched voice. i don't think it sounded whiny at all. D:

i think the rating is too low as well. XD

3/5..tsk tsk...that person is just...tsk tsk
well it's just that person's opinion about ayu's earlier songs~ i like them :D

How exactly does one review a single collection? The review sounds more like something you'd find on an online blog than anything professional.

*nods* & besides it was only a few paragraphs to begin with which frankly it's lame

+ Samuel Lee lumped that together with 2 albums so in a way it's not fair & not justified

I'm not sure why the reviewer focuses on the voice and made that the basis of what makes a disc good or not. Although I do agree that I like the lower-pitch voice much better, I would not base my judgements on that at all.

I doubt he listened to all the songs from the collection.

I dont think you can even give a rating to this album. its a compilation and whats the point of criticizing her old voice :\
I guess whoever rated this didnt know her till' these recent years.
I wouldve rated it 4.5/5

That's the worst review ever, PERIOD. What's his problem!? 3/5 >_> That's dumb. He didn't even mention about Who... (Chinese Version).

What. The. Fish? WHAT IS HIS PROBLEM!? Whiny!? To hell with him man.

If you survive it and progress to Discs 2 & 3


:mini

3/5 is too little!!!should be 5/5!!

that's the part which I find it really mean on Samuel's part :eviltongu

he didnt mention the contents of the dvd wor ._." not 'a complete' review.. and did he mention its ayu celebrating her 10th anni? nahhh . nvr research.. bad review! lets rate the content of the review 1/5 =DD

no to everything that you mentioned on here :laugh

I seen Samuel Lee's past reviews on jpop stuff & this's 1 of the worst I have seen coming from him so far

I agree with the 3/5 because it's a lazy release, but that person has horrible writing ability for a journalist.

its definitely at least 3.5/5 plz..its a freakin COMPILATION...wad on erth