Before I go further in the post, I'd like to apologize for it (the very first one!) being late. Although I had some good plans for the night, my son didn't like that they didn't include him. So I got to go to bed an hour earlier to help him get to sleep. Hooray.
Now to the music!
As a whole, I wasn't a huge fan of this single. I mean, I'm not not a huge fan, either, but....well, it's really just not my style of music. I really loved the A-side: "The Answer" is a really good song, even for not being my style. It hits the sweet-spot on the catchiness scale: it's catchy enough that it would make a good dancing song because you can remember it well, but it doesn't turn into a "the winter fairy is melting the snowman" (Kimura Kaela) or "Telephone" (Lady Gaga) when you close your eyes at night. I can actually see myself listening to this again, which is really a feat for a hip-hop song.
The B-sides on the other hand...meh. "Gotta Make You Mine" has some pretty annoying electronic elements, but it's another otherwise okay song. Very catchy. I caught myself singing it to my son while I was feeding him dinner and right before bedtime. Ouch. The third track, "Human Nature," I just find totally annoying. I'm actually listening to it now as I write, and I just want to get the paragraph over with so that I can turn it off. ("Why? Why? Tell them that it's human nature..." *barf*)
I think that this might be a good single for someone who likes hip hop, but that's just not me. "The Answer" has some serious re-play value, but the other two songs fall short.
Before I go, I have another bit of news. As I may have mentioned during one of my other posts, I translate and write articles for Gaijin Kanpai. I like to listen to what the Jaylee, Zer0, and Loki are listening to while I'm writing so that I can actually have an opinion during the uStream broadcast on Tuesdays. Therefore, I'll be folding that listening into the listening I already do here to give you three reviews on Mondays. (You can call it "Magical Mondays" if you want - catchy names ftw?) First up are TESTSUYA's album "COME ON!" and MiChi's "LOVE is." Which are due for me to write about today. Hooray!
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