C-ute 6th Album "Chou Wonderful! 6" Review

It's been awhile since I've done an album review (last one was Fantasy ga Hajimaru Juuichi, right?)
Anyway I'm here with C-ute's new album.

1. Chou Wonderful!

Chou Wonderful is probably your typical C-ute song. It's energetic, powerful and cute. I really love it, but I have some problems with it.
It sounds more like a Buono song. I haven't got anything Buono but I think that this song would of fitted Buono's image more than C-ute's.
The instrumental kind of bores me. I'm not a big fan of the instrumental for several reasons, it has a lot of guitar which reminds me of a rock song, and I hate a lot of rock songs (not all). It doesn't really fit their voices. Even though it's supposed to be pop rock song, I think they turned it into more of a rock song and gave the pop to the singing.
Apart from that it's an overall awesome song

7/10

2. Midnight Temptation

The first time I heard this I was wondering why everyone loved the song, and now I see why. The instrumental sounds so cool and their voices blend quite well with the song. That's about it. I don't dislike anything, even though I used to dislike it

9/10

3. Iza, Susume! Steady Go!

I don't like it for unknown reasons. Mai's voice sounds bad but it has improved over years. Also it sounds like they just repeated every line 1000x

3/10

4. Rururururu

I don't really find this song that good. They're voices sound really beautiful in it, but I just find myself falling asleep. It was supposed to be a lullaby song then I would loved but assuming it's supposed to be a ballad it just doesn't really do it for me. Which is quite disappointing because I was looking forward to hearing a new C-ute ballad

5/10

5. Wakaretakunai...

I like this song...sorta. I really like the sound of instrumental and their voices, but after awhile it gets really boring. Their voices start to sound exactly the same, even Nakky's sounds the same and in my opinion that's hard to imagine. Besides that I like it but it's not their best

6/10

6. Circle

I absolutely love this song. Even though I don't find Maimai's voice that good, it definitely fitted this song so much. Her cute voice mixed with an almost cute and genki instrumental definitely sounds awesome. The other members sounded awesome but Maimi and Maimi definitely sounded the best in this song.

10/10 <----- Pretty rare to see this

7. 3ban Houmu 3 Ryou Me

Ok this has to be my favourite song on the album. Not because Maimi gets quite a lot of lines because of the Summer feel of the song. It sounds so awesome, the instrumental definitely fits every single one of their voices. Even though the song drags on for a long time I still find myself swaying to their beautiful voices and summer instrumental. Definitely the best song on the album

10/10

Overall the album has some blunders and some ups. But I must admit that it is much better than Shocking 5 but still I wouldn't say it's their best album of all time

Overall Rating: 50/70
Overall Song Ranking:

1. 3ban Houmu 3 Ryou Me
2. Circle
3. Midnight Temptation
4. Chou Wonderful!
5. Wakaretakunai...
6. Rururururu
7. Iza, Susume! Steady Go!

Overall Album Ranking:
1. (4) Akogare My Star
2. (2) mini ~Ikiru to Iu Chikara~
3. 3rd ~Love Escalation~
4. Cutie Queen Vol 1
5. Chou Wonderful! 6
6. Shocking 5

S/mileage 6th Single "Koi ni Booing Buu!" PV Review

The PV for S/mileage's 6th Single "Koi ni Booing Buu! was released a couple of days ago and at first I was really excited to see this PV, then I watched it and that feeling kind of went away fast.

Since this review is probably going to have me hate on this PV so much let's start with the good things of the PV.

Good Thing #1:
The PV was so cute and energetic, which made me happy since when I think of S/mileage I think of childish and cute. Which in my opinion fits them the most.

Good Thing #2:
The song is awesome. At first I didn't really find the song that great but after a couple listens it actually isn't that bad. All their voices sound great, especially Dawa and Sakichy's.

And that's the end of the good things (yeah there's only two things)

Now on to the bad things

Bad Thing #1:
The pig. The pig just wrecks the PV so much. I wouldn't mind it if it was just in the corner nowhere to be seen, but instead it's in every single scene. It's gets quite annoying seeing a pig with too make-up on and that looks like a hooker just popping up every killing S/mileage's spotlight. I'm pretty sure that the group name was S/mileage, not Hooker Pig ft S/mileage.

Bad Thing #2:
The fact that the song is related to pigs. I know H!P doesn't make that great of songs and that they're not as popular as they used to years ago, but seriously making a song related to pigs must be the worst thing ever. I love pigs but making a song of it isn't the best thing in my books. Maybe cats, dogs or even a turtle would be better.

Bad Thing #3:
Flying S/mileage Pigs. It's random and I don't like it, that's about it

Bad Thing #4:
S/mileage in the black outfits. I love the black outfits they look awesome, but when they were put in the PV they kinda wrecked the cute image of the PV. There depressed looking faces were not cute.

Bad Thing #5:
The pig...oh wait I already said this. Who cares I hate the pig.

And yeah that's about it

Rating

PV - 5/10
Song - 8/10
S/mileage Cuteness - 100/10
Pig - -1000000000000000000000/10

If you haven't seen the PV, here it is

H!P Poll #5

Kinda late with this but still, here are the results of the poll I posted a month ago

Seishun no Serenade - 1 vote
Shortcut - 0 votes
Kiss Me Aishiteru - 3 votes
Heroine ni Narou ka - 3 votes
Maji Desuka SUKA - 5 votes

It wasn't that surprising to see MM's song win since it's Momusu and it was different and refreshing from previous Momusu songs. If I remember right, I voted for Heroine or was it Kiss Me? I don't know, but I'm glad they came 2nd. Kinda disappointing to see S/mileage get no votes but still it wasn't there best song

Next poll - Favourite song on AKB's "Sakura no Ki ni Narou"