Sing My Song For You
Dec. 13th, 2014 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akinoame"Sing My Song For You" from Movie Wars: Full Throttle is good, but there's one problem.
The actors' singing is impossible to distinguish. You've got Kouta and Kaito, who are fantastic singers; Mai, who's a professional singer; Shinnosuke and Kiriko, where it's their first song for the series (and given the way Rider girls get no songs anymore, I was so excited about hearing Mai and Kiriko); and I didn't even realize that Chase, Heart, and Brain sang this!
They all fade into background singers for Mitsuru Matsuoka. This isn't exaggerations--it's exactly what happens. Why bring all of them in when you very easily could have just used the rest of Earnest-Drive or even reunite Sophia instead of getting our hopes up about the actors? And he's a great singer, but I feel like it's Eternal syndrome all over again--where suddenly, the movies at the end got this sense of "Oh my god, Eternal was the GREATEST RIDER EVER and totally a good guy all along, you just didn't UNDERSTAND him, Shotaro and Philip."
I like the song. It's really nice. But it's still kind of a letdown, and I think I have a new running gag about Eternal taking over everything.
The actors' singing is impossible to distinguish. You've got Kouta and Kaito, who are fantastic singers; Mai, who's a professional singer; Shinnosuke and Kiriko, where it's their first song for the series (and given the way Rider girls get no songs anymore, I was so excited about hearing Mai and Kiriko); and I didn't even realize that Chase, Heart, and Brain sang this!
They all fade into background singers for Mitsuru Matsuoka. This isn't exaggerations--it's exactly what happens. Why bring all of them in when you very easily could have just used the rest of Earnest-Drive or even reunite Sophia instead of getting our hopes up about the actors? And he's a great singer, but I feel like it's Eternal syndrome all over again--where suddenly, the movies at the end got this sense of "Oh my god, Eternal was the GREATEST RIDER EVER and totally a good guy all along, you just didn't UNDERSTAND him, Shotaro and Philip."
I like the song. It's really nice. But it's still kind of a letdown, and I think I have a new running gag about Eternal taking over everything.