[miwa] The 5th Thread ~ The 5th Year ~ Road to 5th Anniversary

[adantatu2]

If she follows YUI steps, I'll be dead, hahhaha. Meet a guy, date that guy, get pregnant by that guy, get married with that guy, announce a hiatus, return to music with a band.

[Kacku]

Title is a pretty nice song, for me it's up there with Live Fast Die Young in the "perfectly enjoyable but not that memorable" tier. I well and truly hate that it's called "Title" though.

The new haircut looks really nice on her!

Originally Posted by adantatu2

If she follows YUI steps, I'll be dead, hahhaha. Meet a guy, date that guy, get pregnant by that guy, get married with that guy, announce a hiatus, return to music with a band.

... return to music with a band, and then make the best music of her career and reach new creative highs with the band? Yes, that'd slay me too.

(I don't know if my view of YUI's career is very popular. )

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By the way, I don't remember this being mentioned earlier, but miwa's new best album is available on Spotify! It's nice to have her singles available for streaming this way. Also, the new song on the album, Acoustic Story, is a really good pop song, one of her best songs in a while! The title is sooo misleading though, that song has never seen anything acoustic in its life.

[mellody]

I think I need to hear the new stuff, I didn't even remember she has a new song inside the best album.

I kinda want to see her newest acoustic lives.

[Yoake]

I would say that miwa's career is based on YUI's since the beginning but her cute era.But if Sony is managing her career from her songs to her hairstyle that's excessive. Even if I know there are able to do that. To me that's how they're killing her creativity. Just for sales.

Title is good but I agree with Kacku not memorable. I like the intro a lot though.

I barely remember Acoustic Story. I know that I didn't dislike it but I can't remember its melody.

What I would like is just 1 song that blow me. She released too many songs that are just ok.

[mellody]

Well, it's kinda obvious that her career is based on YUI, but sadly, as she said during her collaboration live, people are comparing them a lot, being overshadowed etc.

Just listened to Title but yeah, still an okay-ish song for me.

At this point, her 3 first singles are still considered her best song to date for me. Even Little girl (that time I'm not really fond of that song) sounds better than any of her recent singles, at least for me. Something unique like FRiDAY-MA-MAGiC will also nice.

I don't know what's the cause of this, but is she still working with NAOKI-T as arranger or co-composing? If yes, perhaps that's the problem.

[Yoake]

To me it's Sony the problem. She isn't the first artist under that label who suffered from that because they're all about money. I'm always desperate about this because they have the nose to find great artists but they destroyed their originality and creativity when they have some success to keep their sales or increase them.

[mellody]

I'm not sure if it's Sony fault though. Marketing-wise, it may be right, but creative control is more to the management of the singers themselves. Then again, miwa is a singer-songwriter, which means she should have a creative decision about her music, but she just stay in her comfort zone, that's what I thought.

Aimer is under Sony (SME), but I think she has one of the best management teams. She's somehow a singer-songwriter as well because she penned some of her lyrics by herself (not sure about music), but I believe she has this creative decision about where her music is going. Just look at her release from the first album until her best albums, she's somehow challenged herself in every release and she did it well. She works with many composers too. While miwa is still working with the same co-composer and arranger over and over again.

The same thing happened to ayu, she doesn't work with Yuta Nakano all the time to give some refreshments.

[adantatu2]

Wow many months without a post. miwa will release her new single "Reboot" on August 14. More details here https://www.tokyohive.com/article/20...ngle-in-a-year
I was expecting some kind of marriage news honestly, lol.

[Yoake]

I think that most of us lost interest. I'm not really enjoying her music nowadays. She released A Red Ray with SUGIZO last month. The song is slightly different from her discography but nothing memorable.

As Reboot will be used as the theme song of a drama my expectations aren't high. :/

[adantatu2]

I think we can expect a soft ballad

[Yoake]

^Wrong guess.

Finally Reboot is a pop-rock song.


I feel like we're back in 2010 with this song. I'm waiting the full track to have a proper view but it surprised me. Especially the bridge after the introduction. The arrangement is surprisingly good.

The covers are out : http://www.generasia.com/wiki/Reboot_(miwa)

They give me a eighties vibe with the plain background. Immediately I thought about Seiko Matsuda's covers when I saw them. I know the look is different but there is a little something...

[Bigtop]

^ Also, did I realize that SMEJ is starting to take out its geoblocks for newer videos July 2019 onwards (including this above, aside from certain existing ones such as some Nogizaka46, Yoneshi Kenzu, and more lately Aimer)? It's a bit long overdue.

[Yoake]

^Personally, I never got any problem to watch Aimer's video on her official YT channel. Regarding miwa's new video it might me because she attended Japan Expo in Paris. So they understood finally that it'll be profitable to open her videos to oversea fans?

[Kacku]

Wow, Reboot actually sounds good! First time in a while that I'm excited for a miwa release.

Speaking of geoblocking, it seems it has been lifted a little with streaming as well. Most of miwa's discography (all of her albums aside from the ballad collection and several singles) are available on Spotify. The release years are often wrong and more than half of the singles are missing, but it's still something.

[Yoake]

Full pv :



Reboot might not be a hit song, it's better than anything she released the past 5 years.

[Kacku]

^ Agreed!

[Bigtop]

Streamable mirror if you missed the 24-hour window, because at the time of this posting, you only have less than twelve hours remaining to see the full MV on YouTube (but with no geoblocks!)

[adantatu2]

I'm glad to be wrong with my guess.
Her looks and the song are very good. It reminds me YUI again

[mellody]

Holy mother of God, Reboot is something fresh and surprising! I thought she's dead forever

The PV is available worldwide though and soon it will reach 1 million views. Did Sony fire someone else and got a change of heart? Good news anyway.

Speaking of YUI, I personally thought Reboot has the same energy with It's all too much.

[adantatu2]

You're totally right !!
Damn, I haven't heard YUI's music in years