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Hella Hot or Hella Not?
If you haven't figured it yet each week new singles in Japan are released. Since we're always on top of our game and we always want to deliver the hot news and let you know which song is hot and which is not we now have a featured song review section. Every week we will pick a song by an artist before it's released and we will review it for you. 

Past Archives

8/21: Maki Goto - Yaruki! It's Easy
Next Week: Garnet Crow - Spiral 
This Week: Janna Da Arc - Shining Ray

Shining ray / Janne Da ArcSo our rock across Japan continues and this week we have Janne Da Arc on the program! *Konichiwa!* Next week we got Garnet Crow but we'll break into some pop with Maki Goto and her crew 2 weeks from now. But before we start with Janne Da Arc we had one note to DAI from last week... Tomiko Van you are freaking gorgeous with those dark blue finger nails! We love ya! ^_^  Now it's down to business. We can't really remember when the last time Janne Da Arc dropped a single on us but it was pretty good. They're only real rock group from AVEX and they get the pleasure to compete against the likes of Glay. Hahaha... well we do gotta admit that they release nice songs :)

Shining Ray is not anything new from their previous singles. Kinda like "Feel the Wind". It's basically guitar music with a high beat and a repeat of the title in their chorus. In this case it would be "Shining Ray, Shining Ray". We usually like the beats of their music more then their singing but this time it sounds like a whole recycled song! Seriously take "Feel the Wind" and replace it with "Shining Ray"! At least with other rock bands like Glay we have creativity and new tunes every time but I think this song is far from being creative for Janne Da Arc.

Hella Hot or Hella NOT!?!?! Ok so the bold might have killed our essence of surprise but nonetheless we are quite disappointed in them. We're a big fan of Janne Da Arc so don't get us wrong but we do expect things from our artist and we wanted better! Oh well. What could you do? Anywayz if you're a fan of Janne Da Arc you might like the single but take it from us, it isn't anything to go bonkers about. 

Next week we got Garnet Crow!!! One of out all-time favorite rock groups!!! Can't wait! ^_^

Track List
1. Shining Ray
2. Mother Brain

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