So today I'm gonna tell a little story...
2003, a new singer debuts with a tie-in to the successful Gundam SEED series. She releases a pop song with fast beats called Believe and immediately gains a fandom.
In 2004 her debut album drops and it's fantastic. There's not a bad song on it. The name Nami Tamaki becomes a minor sensation. She rides the success of Gundam. This is how I found Nami.
Then she released her masterpiece, Make Progress. "Holy **** she managed to surpass greetings, how is that even possible?" I thought. Make Progress is her best album, period, she's never surpassed it in my opinion. I played it so much I ruined my disc, that's how good it was.
Then Specialty came out. It was alright, it had some stellar singles, and some really good album tracks. Didn't surpass Make Progress, but it was still really good. Don't stay followed, and it was alright. Nothing bad by any means, but it's single tracks definitely outshined the album tracks.
Whiiiich brings us to that OTHER album. I recently listened to STEP.
I've never seen an artist's music decay so much. I mean JESUS. How do you go from making songs as amazing as Believe to songs as ****** as every song on this album. My GOD. First of all, there are like eight million ballads. The Nami Tamaki I know didn't have so many ballads, and so many bland generic trashy ballads at that. Hell, we all freaked out when Promise came out, cause it was like her first real ballad.
And the tracks that are actually upbeat have no PUNCH to them. Her old songs used to be really slick and powerful. I'm sorry, but STEP can ****ing step. Give me greetings. Give me Make Progress. Give me Speciality. Give me Don't stay. Keep STEP in the garbage heap where it belongs.
I'm so over you Nami Tamaki. and it REALLY makes me depressed. You were the first Jpop singer I really liked. And yet you decided to make crap like this.
I hope you flop and fizzle out. I'd rather your career die then for you to make **** like this again.