[10/12] Morning Musume 12th Album "12, Smart"

[Sohee]

12, SMART - 3.9/5
3/5: Kono Ai wo Kasanete, Otome no Timing, Maji Desu ka Ska!
4/5: Give me Love, Only You, Silver no Udedokei, Kaiketsu Positive A, Kono Chikyuu no Heiwa wo Honki de Negatterun da yo!, Kare to Issho ni Omise ga Shitai!, My Way ~Joshikou Hanamichi~
5/5: Suki da na Kimi ga, OK YEAH!

Compared to the other past 2 albums. There's no way there will be an album that beats 10 MY ME any time soon.

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10 MY ME - 4.25/5
3/5: Genki Pikappika!, Ano Hi ni Modoritai, Osaka Umainen
4/5: Onna ga Medatte Naze Ikenai, Nanchatte Renai, Loving you forever
5/5: Moonlight night ~Tsukiyo no Ban da yo~, Kimagure Princess, Namidacchi, Ookii Hitomi, Shouganai Yume Oibito, Ame no Furanai Hoshi de wa Aisenai Darou? (Chinese Ver.)

Fantasy! Juuichi - 3.8/5
3/5: Bravo!, Sungoi My Birthday, Ichi Kara Juu Made Aishite Hoshii, Seishun Collection
4/5: Onna to Otoko no Lullaby Game (AL ver.), Onna Gokoro to Nanto Yara, Ai no Honoo, I'm Lucky girl, Denwa de ne
5/5: Fantasy ga Haijmaru, Itoshiku Kurushii Kono Yoru ni

[SweetBene]

Quick review.

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Give Me Love
I love this song, everyone sound good except Sayu. Her lines made my ears bleed.

Silver no Udedokei
Nothing to say, it is epic. Riho sounds like Maimai a lot.

Suki da na Kimi ga
So Perfume-ish ! Song is good but too long and I begin to be bored of Sayu cute duets.
Also I feel sorry for Fukuchan. She can't show her vocal skills on this type of songs.

Kaiketsu Positive A
I don't like the song but the vocals are amazing (wow @ Eripon !!) except Riho.

Kono Ai wo Kasanete
Boring. I skipped it after 45 seconds.

My Way‹~Joshikou Hanamichi~
Skipped too.

Otome no Timing
Please Tsunku, why are you still giving this kind of songs to Aika ?? On the other hand, Kanon and Eripon sound great.

OK YEAH!
Eurobeat song. So-so. Wtf is this bridge.

Overall impression on Riho : she obviously can sing and put feeling into her singing but she needs some training for high notes (as the sensei said at Maji Desuka Suka recording time) and long notes.

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[Sohee]

Takechaaaaan.
She better be added. Seriously. ):

[MrMoondoggie]

Takechan holding a copy makes me feel compelled to buy more. Damn you pursasive Takechan eyes.

I quite enjoyed this album probably more so than the last 2 Morning Musume albums and most of the songs are listenable without feeling the need to skip tracks, Highpoints for me were "My Way ~Joshikou Hanamichi~" it's just such a good song and has a great drive to it i also liked "Kaiketsu Positive A", "Kono Ai wo Kasanete" and "Otome no Timing". Not too sold on "Suki da na Kimi ga" and "OK YEAH! " i can never get into the whole dance dance Musume sounding tracks i think they sort of kill the mood of the album. They aren't really horrible tracks i'd just prefer them not to be Morning Musume songs.

[321BreakinOut]

I Dunno...The Only Thing that i don't like is the Order of the Tracklist. If it were me i would have made it like this:

1.Give me Love
2.Only you
3.Silver no Udedokei
4. OK YEAH!
5.Otome no Timing
6. Suki da na Kimi ga
7.Kono Chikyuu no Heiwa wo Honki de Negatterun da yo!
8.Kare to Issho ni Omise ga Shitai!
9.Kaiketsu Positive A
10.Maji Desu ka Ska!
11.Kono Ai wo Kasanete
12.My Way ~Joshikou Hanamichi~

[UreChiissa]

Okay so Eripon was the one singing those strong lines that I thought were Zukki's??
AMAZING! <3

[Sohee]

Listening to Give me Love and reading the lyrics almost had me crying. It being part 5am probably has something to do with it.
But damn, it's so sad. ):
Translating tomorrow.

[Pavlova]

i hope we get more color coded lyrics soon ^^