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Originally Posted by pimenta
So it became the best selling album of the year and it's not even good? lol
I know ARASHI is extremely popular and all, but sometimes I just don't get it...
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Considering that I've been a long time fan of them , Japonism was a step down to me as I feel their past 2 albums were better
To cut a long story short , what suffered for Japonism was the length (it's almost 1 1/2 hours long if you include all the bonus tracks in all 3 editions) & also the album tracks were a big disappointment
Only the 1st 1/2 of Japonism is good as the tracks had a really good strong Oriental sound . The 2nd 1/2 is just rubbish
It sucks cos the lead album track Kokoro no Sora is a masterpiece & when you're talking about Hotei Tomoyasu , he's a big heavyweight & for him to fly all the way back home to Japan in order to shoot the PV with ARASHI (as he's based in London now , let alone he wrote & composed Kokoro no Sora for them) , it means something
Doesn't mean that I've been a fan of them for so long I don't know what works & doesn't work for them