[Radio] Mayonaka no Harley & Race


53:00～
Doudou Heiwa Sengen

^ I think that song is going to be fun live. I don't know how many times I could just listen to it, it's like it hurts my brain, but it's kind of addictive.

The girls rapping always makes me laugh, Kanako's "MC's .... introduction..." at 00:35 was too much :))

I'm not a rap person but I usually like idol rap.
And THIS is perfect. So energetic. So refreshing after a long homework day. I will go to sleep smiling.
The first few seconds (I guess it's the chorus?) stay so easily in mind.

I prefer it to 5 THE POWER, in which the chorus breaks a little the rhythm of the song.

Each of the girls has her own very recognizable voice and rapping enhances their different vocals. Maybe because it's between singing and speaking, I don't know. Especially here, Kanako's Engrish, Shiorin's dynamism, Momoka's diction, Aarin's cuteness, Reni's smiling tone (I always thought her voice reflects her egao character), all put next to each other make this rap song very suprising. You don't know what you are going to hear next.

I love it.

Aarin is turning into a rap monster. I don't care for her rapping on Akarin's old parts, but recently she is getting very good at rap/scat singing. She's toning down a bit of her cutesy style that gets annoying after repeated listenings.

^ I like the contrast GOUNN=Fire Naitemo Iindayo=Water.

^ Now we can start to theorize again about symbolism. The 5th Dimension pentagram:



This has always made me recall what I know about witches and how each corner represents an element. I looked it up (http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usma&c=basics&id=2875)and found that these elements are:

EARTH: represents stability and physical endurance.
FIRE: represents courage and daring.
WATER: represents emotions and intuition.
AIR: represents intelligence and the arts.
SPIRIT: represents the All and the Divine.

So we had Fire (GOUNN) and now water (Naitemo Iindayo). Maybe we can even consider that 5th dimension was Spirit. So that leave us Earth and Air for next releases, it would be interesting to see if they continue this pattern.

And I remembered they had pentagrams on the Kokuritsu merchandise as well:

momomofu said:

PEACHSOUL袋（PEACHSOUL Fukuro）
http://smooch-mcz.jp/category/ALL/MOM192006.html

so the new single will be released under king records' new label?
http://evilline.com/momoclo/

i love these 'occult' related themes in momoclo, looking at evil line's other artists, seems like momoclo does fit in well

MrAchiKochi said:

Each member is associated with an element.

Funny, I always thought Shiorin was supposed to be air and Momoka was supposed to be earth. From those banners, it also looks like maybe air and lightning will be considered separate elements?

If they do make a sort of "elements" cycle of singles, I wonder if each one will have a prominent solo section with that element's member, like Kanako at the beginning of Gounn.

listed for bought later xD