The Greatest in the 32nd thread!!
 

Just wanted to kick this thread since it seems BoA is releasing a new best album on 5/30, "The Greatest".

nice!!!

That was unexpected but exciting news! Looking forward to this campaign!

She will do self-covers for 10 weeks starting with AGGRESSIVE (next week?)

I thought she was done with Japan, so this is surprising news

And I'm glad she's innovating and not releasing just a lazy best-of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPvNW_dTkJM

Here's AGGRESSIVE (The Greatest Ver.)

Its not very different tho. I think i don't prefer it over the origial.

Yeah, it's not particularly a reimagined version and for me it didn't improve from the original in anything, sadly :( I was expecting "The Greatest" to be like "Unchained" but I guess I should keep my expectations very low from now on ahahaha

The new version of Aggressive is enjoyable enough although I think I still prefer the original. I'll form a proper opinion on it when I get the album!

^yeah same. It can't be worse since it is basically the same and AGGRESSIVE was always a great song.

I enjoyed Make A Secret and although Dakishimeru doesn't come close to the original (which is hard) this is shaping up to be a solid release so far!

AGGRESSIVE was never a favorite of mine, so maybe that explains it, but I like the new version. It’s more club-driven, moody, thumping, gritty. The original AGGRESSIVE is kind of circus-y. This one is sexy, steady, cool and mature.

The original is one of my favs and I always thought one of her more mature tracks to begin with. I don’t really dig any of the three so far, neither good nor bad - just a different version and I guess I can appreciate that. I wish she would chose lesser known songs tho. Aggressive was a nice surprise.

Dakushineru is my fav single by her. I guess I had higher expectations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp169AiaMBM

コノヨノシルシ／KONOYONOSHIRUSHI (The Greatest Version)

Not bad. Very relaxing. I kind of like it.

That was an unexpected song choice for me but I like it! As you say, it has a relaxing feel. I am enjoying seeing which song will be released each week!

Still deciding which edition I should buy of The Greatest. Every Heart was enjoyable enough. Think I might make a playlist of the original songs to go alongside with it.

after QUINCY which was really good, LOVE LETTER is up next, which was expected.

QUINCY is my favourite so far, making it "disco" really took it to a new level!

LOVE LETTER had a nice grand feel to it.
I‘m still confused about the best-of that will be out soon. Will it just have these 10 tracks + that one new dance tune or will she remake all of the included songs?


She certainly did a better job than Kumi so far tho.

When we'll have covers!