Review Of A COMPLETE ~ALL SINGLES~ In Singapore's The Strait Times's Life ! papers

[KarenPang]

this's in today's papers & it's on page 5 for S'poreans who're interested .

It's only a few paragraphs or so & the reviewer Samuel Lee reviewed A COMPLETE alongside with S.H.E's FM & Seiko Matsuda's MY PURE MELODY albums .

As such I will just type the parts with regards to what he said about A COMPLETE .

"More pleasing to the eye (especially if you're a sucker for design & packaging) than to the ear is the box set of Jpop diva Ayumi Hamasaki's singles , which comes in a collectible triple CD & one DVD package .

Charting through her early singles (For My Dear ... , Boys & Girls and monochrome) on Disc 1 , you'd wince from time to time from her unsteady , whiny singing . If you survive it and progress to Discs 2 & 3 which gets better and bolder , you realise that her repertoire was skilfully shaped along the way to suit her pipes .

Her musical metamorphosis is accompanied by a gazillion visually arresting image changes which rival Madonna's (all of which are artfully captured in the box itself and the companion booklets) .

Rating - 3/5 "

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