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Originally Posted by Yoake
Thanks for your insight, Linoa. 
I also think that she had the full power on this album.
I'm not fond of this album too. SINGING IN THE RAIN is the only song I truly like. The others are just OK song. Nothing bad but they barely succeeded to keep my attention. Just like a background music. |
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Originally Posted by maddy1111
thanks for all the information, Linoa!
By reading all the articles, I am even more confused about how this album turned out to be, to be honest.
If she was fully involved in the production, I just can't even understand how Delete Reset Grow and Like a Star might be such different albums in terms of both concept and quality. The one (DRG) with beautiful melodies and a concept, and the other one (LaS) lacking any kind of concept with mostly mediocre tracks. Taking into account, it has been only ONE YEAR difference between those albums ... I just cannot imagine what she was really thinking and trying to achieve when making Like a Star.
Even that transition into "dancing singer" isn't really there, as she is saying. I was expecting a big change in her music after BAD LADY was released, but Like a Star simply didn't deliver even that. It is definitely not "dance" album since it is lacking upbeat tracks.
Except BAD LADY, there is no other track that is truly trying something different/new for Rainie. Girls with Cyndi Wang is pretty basic cute-pop track, she used to sing back in her first albums, Like a Star, and Singing in the Rain are ballads she used to sing a lot before (Singing in the Rain has that kind of jazzy/soul-y vibe, but that's it .. not saying it is bad track, just saying it is not that different). Perfect Match and Cuz of U are ordinary mid-tempo tracks. So I wouldn't definitely call this a dance record or that Rainie took any kind of "dancing singer" route.
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Indeed... LIKE A STAR is nice as everyone said as background music or when you take the songs separately.
As a whole album though, Delete Reset Grow was way way better...
Let's hope if she keeps this style for the next album that she will improve and learn from LIKE A STAR (1st week of physical sales were quite bad on 5music, and that's a bad sign considering that it's mostly fans who are buying physical copies nowadays...).
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Love is Love Dance Practice
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Indulging MV
This song is the one produced by Starr Chen. Rainie said that usually it's not the kind of song she would choose, but since LIKE A STAR was a bold challenge to attempt a different style, she decided to take it.
Even though there are only 10 seconds of modern dance, Rainie praticed it very seriously and still had bruised knees on the day of filming.
The director asked her to imagine she was Zendaya in Euphoria for the club scene, since Rainie does not dance outside of stage.