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What made TRICK so weak during the release was the fact that Kumi herself was leaking the whole albums weeks before the release. I remember that only three songs were left to the actual HQ leak, and those were the weak songs.
TRICK was a weird era, overall. The tracklist almost everyone thought it was fake, "there is no way she has a song called Driving / This is not a love song / Hurry Up! HAHA I call it fake.", but the album actually has some songs that are really strong - Introduction, Driving, show girl, JUST THE WAY YOU ARE, TABOO, and the presentation is flawfree (awesome booklet, covers, pamphlet).
The only album that I can't enjoy as much as the rest is grow into one. It has some cool songs, but the album simply just doesn't go nowhere for me, it keeps going on and on, and nothing spectacular happens. Some tracks stand out, but those aren't that great neither: Teaser, real Emotion, one, BOYFRIEND?, m.a.z.e, Pearl Moon, To be one and love across the ocean. I learned to enjoy the album because of those songs, but I'm always skipping the others.
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I think the new best will be around 45k.
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