Kobukuro - Blue Bird - Fly away....please

"Blue Bird" has proven to essentially be just as ugly as the Yuzu album. Blugh. The title track is so sweet it seems to drip with molasses, but lacks any kind of feeling or emotion (like Korean music!). (I hate Korean music.) It also uses cheap production tricks that make it seems even more flat: the "meaningful closing echo," the "repeat the same music with different words" string....Yuck. The instrumental isn't any better - it sounds like the ending theme to a late-90s drama. Then there's "Kimi he no Shudaika," which has this combination of harp, strings, and electric guitar that sounds like it belongs in an 80's Fourth of July celebration. The song itself isn't too bad, but when those guitars come in I just want to listen to anything else - even "Blue Bird" is better than those guitars! Even Yuzu is better than those guitars! "Love Letter" is the only thing on the single that's passable: it has an interesting combination of slightly scratchy audio, acoustic, and whistling that is pretty chill. Unless you're listening to "Love Letter," PASS, PASS, PASS.