I decided that I would leave this until we accumilated news and previews of the songs as well as pics so here goes.


1 雨の降らない星では愛せないだろう? (Ame no Furanai Hoshi Dewa Aisenai Darou)
2 ＳＯＮＧＳ
3 リゾナント　ブルー (Resonant Blue)
4 Ｔａｋｅ　ｏｆｆ　ｉｓ　ｎｏｗ！
5 みかん (Mikan)
6 私の魅力に気付かない鈍感な人 (Watashi no Miryoku ni Kiduka nu Donkan na Hito)
7 グルグルＪＵＭＰ (guru guru jump)
8 情熱のキスを一つ (Jounetsu no Kiss o Hitotsu)
9 Ｉｔ’ｓ　Ｙｏｕ
10 女に　幸あれ (Onna ni Sachi Are)
11 片思いの終りに (Kataomoi no Owari ni)
12 悲しみトワイライト (Kanashimi Twilight)
13 泣いちゃうかも (Naichau Kamo)

Release date: 18th March 2009

so this post is kind of to break my lack of posts recently and also to spam about the girls, so here goes my rankings of the 9 girls.

#1: Niigaki Risa

So ye probably new this was coming no suprises there. I just love this girl, she is everything you would want in an idol, a great singer, awesome personality, funny, good looking, good dancer and an all round entertainer. She caught my attention when on music fighter promoting osaka koi no uta which was also ishikawa's grad special and her talk on the buildings had the exact same effect on me as it did on miki, yup I laughed till tears streamed down my face. So since then she has been my favourite member no member coming close to how much I love her :)

#2: Kamei Eri

So the reason why I like Eri is a lot like the reasons I like why I like Risa. Eri is a good singer (except for when she does her quavering sheep impressions) and insanely funny, when her and Risa get together one or both of the girls cracks up usually ending with me laughing too. She is weird and I absolutly love that about her, she isn't afraid to act goofy.

#3: Takahashi Ai & Michishige Sayum

Yup berryz have a new single coming out soon and I am here to tell you why its awesome!! Oh before I start, the pv part of this review is mainly eyecandy, plus the girls move so fast and the camera changes so much its hard to cap.

so pv part:

there are 3 main parts to this pv, sexy close ups, great dancing and random bits.

sexy close up bits...... main part of the pv review, mainly because I think the girls look awesome.

Risako, main singer...but she is in my opinion the least good looking in this pv. just doesn't do anything for me.

Saki went back to her high king days and is pimping again. I love saki's hair in this vid. Tne hat is a bit mank though.

I love momo, she's awesome, but in this vid, they didn't seem to do much with her.

Maasa looks great with her hair to the side. do it more often love.

Oh my darling Yuri, doesn't she look amazing. never seen her with curly hair before and it suits her quite well.

Miyabi's hat is friggen sekushy and with the new do, she looks amazing.

CHINAMI owns all in this pv, she looms friggen fantastic and is the only one who's whole outfit I like. She looks so sophisticated!

DANCE BIT:

at the start, before all of the crazy dancing we see them in the dark doing the 'hands swiping over the eyes' move.

"Put your hands up for detro...um tokyo" this is actually part of a dance move where the girls puch the air. Ads a nice touch of power to the pv.

Then comes the "boob bounce thing" move...which risako seems to love, and keeps doing until..

...she starts to get chest pains. seriously though she is quite good at it and it fits in well with the song.


After all the 'pumping' they get tired and give themselves a hug for all the hard work.

RANDOM:


After the dark hand in front of face dance move, a disco ball pops up with the girls faces on it, which then jump off it and into your face. 'do you think it was an accident that momo,miya and risako got the big spaces'

The other random bits were these things. every so often one of the girls would put up in front of some trippy backdrop and multiply while doing a weird dance moove. It REALLY doesn't fir the song.

BEST BIT:

Sexy yuri bit. If you dont like the pv/song at least watch it for this bit, its the best bit in the whole pv, that and chi's close ups.

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THE SONG:

simple put..its great, a great techno/dance style song. great beat. ok I really need to go now, my brain has stopped working and I cant type anymore. This post turned out a lot worse than I thought it would haha!!

on the 28th of this month, C-ute released their 4th album. the following are my thoughts on the songs themselves, then my overall impression of the album. Please enjoy it ^^.

Aishiteru Aishiteru (Kanna & Saki): Opening reminds me of Ame no furanai hoshi de waaisenai darou. I really liked the girls opening lines, especially Kanna's little interjections. This a nice cute song, omg omg who is that.... the solo lines delivered by Kanna were amazing, the best I have heard her in a long time. I have really started to appreciate Saki's voice more after Disco queen. So far this album is off to an awesome start.

Akogare My STAR: Not a big fan of the opening, reminds me too much of Natsu lipstick. "Bye Bye!" love that line delivered by Mai & Saki. Ya not really liking the tempo, or overall sound of the song. A bad choice of song to name the album after.

Big dreams: up until the chorus there aint much that grabs my attention enough to say anything about it. Its a nice song though, just not enough impact.

Edo no Temari Uta II: I quite like this song. It was the 1st proper single with even line distribution. Insanely short song at under 2 and a half mins. Brilliant lines delivered by Okai and Erika as well as Airi.

Namida no Iro: oooh salsa, opens with a promising sound. "GO JOE" lol sorry. Sexy song, but Maimi's voice really doesn't fit the song. Chorus could have a little more kick but its ok. Outfits from this song were amazing, well for Airi and Maimi anyway.

One's LIFE (Umeda, Okai, Hagiwara): Okai and Erika are good singer so hoping for good things. I knew they would do it......give mai all the solo's. Um aint Okai way better than her, vocally. I dont get it. The wrapping is weird, doesn't really fit the song. The solo is quite nice, but I can only listen to so much of mai's nasally solo's (yes I did say I loved disco queen).

Seishun Song (Maimi): Opening....awesome. I dont think Maimi's voice is the best, but I loved that opening. This song doesn't really have a lot of range which is good as Maimi isn't great at range transitions. Loving the beat, easily my favourite song of the album, which is weird as Maimi is one of my least favourite members of the group.

SHINES: The start kinda sounds like a football song. Good vocals & beat, it would be good for a rakuten eagles song. Hard to say whether the song is an upbeat song or a ballad...maybe an upbeat ballad :/

Yakusoku wa tokuni shinai wa: aw sweet vocals at the start. Man this albumm is stuffed with mai aint it. Yay Airi, it feels like I have hardly heard her in this album all day. Ya no major changes throughout the song, but it is a good ballad, really nice.

Yes! All my family (Suzuki Airi): Thank god she got a solo song, I was getting really worried as there was very little airiness in the other group songs. Her voice is awesome so before I started the song I knew she would sound great...and she does. Its a nice upbeat song with some electric guitar in there = win. Its lovely when she sings "Yes! All my family" kyaa. Overall a great song.

OVERALL: I dunno, this is tough, as you can see I used a lot of "nice" throughout, no awesomes or holy craps. The songs weren't very energetic, they were ...well nice. Winning song for me has to be Seishun song. Maybe C-ute are going for a more mature type of sound. I personally prefer genki songs, but these songs were good and are lovely to listen to. I give it a 3.2/5 lol

Shame on me for not writing this sooner, but better late than never eh? So the pv was released a week ago or so and there have been mixed views on it....and here is mine. I wont do a whole shot by shot review, instead I will do a quick random shot review of the its I though deserved to be capped.



1st thoughts...OMFG sexy jackets. lol I think the girls look awesome in them..... I know a certain someone who thinks they look like hookers ¬.¬ NO! just no. After a few quick dance steps we finally get a glimpse of one of the eagerly awaited raining scenes. After a series of dance to rain sequences.... I am already hooked. You can already tell this is a pv of substance.

Reina with the 1st solo line...not really shocked by this, it was going to happen eventually.

Ai followed. And instead of trying to give us cutsey poses, we see a sad, deep Ai in a cool shot of her behind glass that is being covered in rain. Love this shot.

Ai again, but in this dance shot she looks super schmexy!!

Speaking of sexy, JunJun suddenly makes one of her brief performances...kinda looks like she is holding her um...chest, while holding her hair back...mmmmm *drool*

Then during the 1st chorus we (yes we!!) are delighted to see this vision of lovelyness popping up. The blurred shiney things are nice arent they?

Then from shiney and nice & sexy JunJun, we are shown a shot of Ai balling. Someone please give her a hug.

Ah!! sexy JunJun attack. Dont be decieved, she aint in this much, mainly just fly-by's in the dance shot and 2 0r 3 rain close ups.

Thought I should put this in for Aika and koharu fans. These 2 aren't featured that much either. Aika's hair is awesome in this pv.

Eri gives a good performance on her solo line, we get a nice close up and a dance shot of her touching her face....mmmmmm

The 1st preoper appearance of LinLin and she too looks so sad, and scraggly. She genuinly looks a bit sad.....

....whereas Aika..well she doesn't really convince me at all. Its like a face a little girl would pull to tey and convince her mother to let her have a lollipop before dinner.....ineffective and a bit silly.

This would be one of the parts I wasn't happy with. I just dont get this double look move with the sticky out elbow.


Gotta praise the cameraman for this shot. loving the fishnets.

Now this is how Reina thinks, a really sad and crying person should look like, scrumpled up chin, curled in lips, and frowning eyebrows. Does it do the job? notch at all.

This is how its done. Soaking wet flowing black hair (yes when girls cry their hair turns black) , slightly open mougth, heavy breathing, and eyes that are filled with melancholy. Reina! take notes.

There she is. Sayu does well vocally in this song, yet you dont get to see her much. The shots she is in though are awesome.

During a music interlude, they do this weird hoola thing. Its not that out of place, but you just wouldn't expect it in a pv like this. One thing for the next Alo hello..... Holla dancing please.

Koharu now doesn't look too bad when wet and dry during the dance shot, but in the up close crying shots her hair is really weird and it reminds me of something from the 70's.

Brilliant clip from Eri here. She hangs her head and shakes it. Its like the guy is trying to give excuses, but she wont listen while trying to hold back her tears.

This shot is funny though. Its like she is grabbing ...er, um...something and going "oooh"

During the last Kamo! Kamo! Kamo! Kamo! bit, LinLin shows up with this thing on her head. Its laughable, its just so random, her hair looks awesome though.

Ending!! Grrrr GakiKame are hidden behind Ai and Koharu (WTF is she doing in front!)