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Old 26th January 2014, 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Zeke. View Post
It doesn't have a very exciting progression. It's the same mood and feeling the entire song through. No epic breaking point from verse to chorus. Very bland to me. It's just sooooo flat.

I would love for it to get a good remix as the arrangement is what is really lacking. Driving Hit's made masterpieces out of songs I thought were utter shit, like Heat, Bling Bling Bling, Poppin Love Cocktail, KOSOKOSOKO, and vastly improved on songs like Hey Baby!, Slow, Hot Stuff and Teaser.
Mhhh... all of this is very true, but do you think it was done on purpose? Because that makes the difference for me: if a song has a particular trait, it's important to know if it was meant to be that way or if they were just lazy (every reference to half od LOVEagain is purely intended, lol). Imo, TOUCHDOWN is just like that for choice, it has this "lazy" and monotonous feeling, but I think they created it deliberately.
I'm really trying to understand more about the work behind a song, about mixing and composing and editing, 'cause I really want to know if something was badly done and where. Of course if you don't like a song, you just don't like and that's it! XD I digress...

Thanks a lot for translating that, tenshi no hane!
Umh... As much as I respect her for saying a lot of truths in this interview, I have to say it: it's since Black Cherry that I don't see a different Kuu. Nothing she gave us for this album till now feels "new" in my eyes...
Kuu, babe, what do you mean?
Edit: I just read some answers before mine and maybe I understand a little more, lol. I need to watch JAPONESQUE tour.
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