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

[adantatu2]

Definetly she looks better with longer hair, lol.

[Yoake]

Wow That's a surprise. I would never thought that miwa would have a unnatural colour hairstyle one day. I like the CD+DVD cover. The CD edition doesn't look good at all. She looks like a doll or a robot with a wig or something like that.

Edit: Preview


I don't like it.

[Kacku]

Complete tracklist for Update:

CD:
1. アップデート (Update)
2. 3つの約束 (Mittsu no Yakusoku)
3. Live Fast Die Young
4. アップデート (Instrumental)
5. 3つの約束 (Instrumental)
6. Live Fast Die Young (Instrumental)

DVD:
1.アップデート　Music Video
2.アップデート　Music Video Making-of

Anime Edition DVD:
1. アップデート　僕のヒーローアカデミア (Boku no Hero Academia) Ending Non-Credit Movie

Ugh, Update does not sound good, I hope the b-side is better.

[Ryusei]

live fast die young is already out too

[Yoake]

It seems that this new single will be mainly bad to me. One song I don't like, One song that is listenable but forgettable and I don't dare to have high hope for the first b-side.

[adantatu2]

miwa has been like this for a couple of years now.
Her 2 first albums were amazing, now her releases are forgettable. T_T

[Bigtop]

Her new single hasn't come out yet, yet miwa has just announced that she's going release a best album - "miwa THE BEST" - this coming July?

http://www.miwa-web.com/info/archive/?493884
https://natalie.mu/music/news/278885
https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2109902/full/

[Yoake]

As expected the single isn't my thing. Mittsu no Yakusoku has a nice verse but the chorus is kinda boring to me.

I hope the best album'll mark the end of that era and miwa'll bring us a new fresh sound after.

[Bigtop]

miwa misses out of the top ten... (>_<)

#10 - 9,404
#11 (miwa) - 9,242

And based on the initial picture they've given to us regarding miwa's best album...if that's the actual cover, that could be a big turn-off for me.

[adantatu2]

Originally Posted by Yoake

As expected the single isn't my thing. Mittsu no Yakusoku has a nice verse but the chorus is kinda boring to me.

I hope the best album'll mark the end of that era and miwa'll bring us a new fresh sound after.

She started with amazing releases the first 2-3 years. Then idk what happened.

[Yoake]

I suppose this new song'll be on the best album :

miwa To Provide Music For Drama Series "Signal: Choki Mikaiketsu Jiken Sosahan"

miwa To Provide Music For Drama Series

miwa will be providing an insert song for the Fuji TV series "Signal: Choki Mikaiketsu Jiken Sosahan".

The singer's new song is titled "Unchained Love". A release date for it has not been determined at this time.

"The song's message is one that says 'I am thinking of you even when we're not close or have any ties'. The song was written from a mature woman's point of view to match the drama's world view," miwa said.

"Signal: Choki Mikaiketsu Jiken Sosahan" began airing on April 10.
Shared by: Aysohmay

source: http://www.jpopasia.com/feed/23895/m...jiken-sosahan/

[mellody]

Originally Posted by adantatu2

She started with amazing releases the first 2-3 years. Then idk what happened.

She went downhill most likely because of the idol persona.

There were some news about her style as singer-songwriter doesn't appear as a real singer-songwriter, instead, she came out with more idol-like personality. Her collaboration with Momoiro Clover Z maybe has something to do with this, but I'm not sure either.

Also, she's always with NAOKI-T as the arranger since her debut, maybe it's the reason but then again, she always composes her songs by herself so it's her fault as well.

She should switch to another producer or change the music director, perhaps.

Regarding Best Album, well... I'm not sure it will end well for her for this release, since best album is always related to beginning of an end, somehow. Also, miwa clips Vol. 2 will be released along with the best album, what a fraud. I'm waiting for years after buying the Vol. 1 but she's releasing it like... few years late, gurl.

Also also also, she's actually hang out with Sakaguchi Kentaro a lot ever since the movie was released (100kaime no Koi something), and now she's in yet another work for Sakaguchi Kentaro drama, well.. I'm not surprised if they are (or will be) in a relationship.

[Bigtop]

^ Idol persona??? What??? I'm surprised when I heard about this the first time! That...sounds odd. I don't think miwa and idol persona mixes very well for me!

[mellody]

I forgot the source, but it's taken from short news clip and a short article back in 2016. Maybe Nico Nico? Not sure. (Perhaps Girl's Channel or something like that)

miwa gets criticized in general for being more like an 'idol' instead of a singer-songwriter. She was asked about her upcoming birthday plans and she said, 'take a bath.' Her male fans went crazy online going 'so cute!!!' 'a bath huh~~~' People are annoyed because they think she's appealing to her male fans like an idol would. She also uses a 'cutesy' fake talking voice when she speaks, a lot of the comments say she uses it to appeal to male fans.

Then again it's not confirmed or so, but as far as I remember, she got many female audiences, which clearly can be seen during her concerts. I haven't catch up to her recent ones though, maybe more male fans now? I have no idea.

[adantatu2]

Because I've been watching Boku no Hero Academy, Update (the ending) doesn't seem to be that bad, lol.

[Yoake]

^I'm watching it too but I always skip the ending

I only follow miwa's music so I can't really judge her behaviour. If she slip in an idol role, I would say that princess single is what gets closer of an idol persona.

[Yoake]

Unchained Love is out some days ago. Did you listen to it?
I have a mixed feeling about this song. I was pleasantly surprised until the chorus. The deepness of the beginning made me shiver. This song has a good arrangement. Some parts are very unexpected for miwa (violon, "water sound". But the melody(vocal) of the chorus is soooo generic that it drags my enthusiasm down a bit.

[mellody]

I didn't know about the song and straight out to Google already and what a surprise, it's on Spotify! But still can't play it tho, you know country restriction.

Anyway, this is something fresh her! I like the intro, but as the song is progressing, I also have mixed feelings about it. Most likely because I never expect she did something like this after so many lackluster songs, but it's actually not bad after all.

But it has the same problem, most of her songs are no longer catchy at all.

The song is below by the way.

Spoiler:

[Kacku]

Originally Posted by Yoake

Unchained Love is out some days ago. Did you listen to it?
I have a mixed feeling about this song. I was pleasantly surprised until the chorus. The deepness of the beginning made me shiver. This song has a good arrangement. Some parts are very unexpected for miwa (violon, "water sound". But the melody(vocal) of the chorus is soooo generic that it drags my enthusiasm down a bit.

Couldn't have said it better. The arrangement is fabulous, but the chorus melody drags the song from great to just good.

Thanks for sharing the link, mellody, I hadn't been able to download the song when I tried to find it a few days ago.

[adantatu2]

Originally Posted by mellody

I didn't know about the song and straight out to Google already and what a surprise, it's on Spotify! But still can't play it tho, you know country restriction.

Spoiler:

Hahahaha, I can't play the youtube link because it is country restriction too.
I'm going to jpopsuki asap.