mibuokami on 05 December 2009
| binary solo said: I dunno about anyone else but the clip I get when I click on Leona Lewis is some gawd awful RnB electronic thing by Jason Derulo. The Japanese one sounds rather insipid to me, I only managed to listen to half of it. Musically I find My Hands to be far superior. As is Leona Lewis' vocals, her range and emotion is incomparable to the Japanese singer's. Lyrically the song is completely wrong, and in the end if one can comprehend the language it completely detracts from all the other qualities that would make the song entirely appropriate for the game. I'm not a RnB fan and I don't like the vocal gymnastics that every RnB singer throws into their songs. But at least this song doesn't have too much of it, and it isn't pure RnB either. If they take out the opening verse it would make it a little less ridiculous, though if they show Lightning in the shower while the song is playing... Ultimately it isn't the song that will sell the game and that's a good thing. |
Exactly my point, understanding the lyric makes the music ten times worst! And I already dislike it to start with. The Jpop singer is like most other Jpop singer but at least I can listen to the music and pretend she is singing something poignent about the game.
FFVIII had a fantastic theme song from Wong Faye that had decent tune, GOOD lyric and wonderful if generic melody. I wish all game music could be given as much thought as that!
