[hightea_xx]

i think the whole j-pop genre is about jumping from several music types, and never staying the same. This isn't always true, because there are artists who stick to mainly the same type of music (example: Nakashima Mika is mostly a ballads and jazzy artist, in my opinion). I like Carols because it's something new and refreshing, and it will make her next album more interesting than having just rock style j-pop and "loud" songs. About You looks rock style, and loud is refering to Inspire, but in no way does the word "loud" imply a negative meaning in this case. If we look at other artists, we can see the same sort of trend, jumping from song styles to song styles. H!P artists do a mix of everything, ballads, rb-esque, rock-ish, hyper cutey songs. I think that Carols is a welcomed addition to the singles released so far, and I think it is more ballad than Moments. What do we classify Moments, anyways? Ballad?