❃ BoA - The Discography Rate (Part 2) ❃ - Final Stats

odyism

odyism

The Face and Made In Twenty have some gems that I love, but more than any album they feel like big interchangeable playlists that don't neccesarily make a statement as a body of work. It's very Avex pumping out consecutive releases to keep hitting while the iron is hot, but I find that this had the opposite effect because the music didn't have time to grow with the audience.

I have some favorites from the english album, but unfortunately it was dated on arrival by chasing trends. And the facelessness that evilsin mentioned is especially true in how much the songs flattened BoA's voice to the point that a casual listener would think she was a strong dancer who relied on autotune. Some people might even say that BoA used to be guilty of *oversinging*, so the sudden monotony of the English songs was a quick way to alienate preexisting international fans.
I'm not saying that BoA is Whitney-Mariah-Aretha levels of singing and it was hidden, but she definitely has so much more to offer as a vocalist when you compare her vocal performance between The Face, BoA, Identity, and then Hurricane Venus.
 
mi|kshake

mi|kshake

evilsin said:
Honestly, the only criticism I have for the English album is that it's a bit faceless. Other than that it's pretty good pop/dance record with some very high highs.
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I've never actually heard the album in full but my feeling was, like you said, faceless/not very BoA! Interested to hear it!

Starting rating today and my copy of The Greatest arrived. Aiming to finish on the 23rd!
 
RUNAWAY

RUNAWAY

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Slice of Life said:
The English album is also not available here in the Philippines.

And since I’m here, lemme beg the good unnie @Crisp X for an extension FFFFFFF!! Pleek unnie!! Have mercy on my late ass!
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ohdenny said:
Cries in Australia.
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Ugh I'm so sorry you two!! Is it available through the Best&USA stream? The second disc was the English album, but only the first disc appears on US Spotify (for obvious reasons).

 
Crisp X

Crisp X

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RUNAWAY said:
It's...on Spotify?

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It's not available either in my country... this album's haters won!
Slice of Life said:
The English album is also not available here in the Philippines.

And since I’m here, lemme beg the good unnie @Crisp X for an extension FFFFFFF!! Pleek unnie!! Have mercy on my late ass!
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No worries, an extension will be announced #soon... I'm going to post an album write-up first.

Please keep rating and voting unnies!
 
nanapop99

nanapop99

Just finished writing down my scores & commentaries for all 5 albums! I'll probably do the extras this weekend. It took longer than expected since I'm not used to reviewing music. If I like a song, I would usually just say that it's really cool and a lot of fun but I obviously couldn't write that for every songs on this rate. English is also not my first language so I had to pull several muscle brains in order to properly articulate my thoughts and opinions. But we got there in the end so yay! Anyways, thank you @Crisp X for the extension.
 
Crisp X

Crisp X

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nanapop99 said:
Just finished writing down my scores & commentaries for all 5 albums! I'll probably do the extras this weekend. It took longer than expected since I'm not used to reviewing music. If I like a song, I would usually just say that it's really cool and a lot of fun but I obviously couldn't write that for every songs on this rate. English is also not my first language so I had to pull several muscle brains in order to properly articulate my thoughts and opinions. But we got there in the end so yay! Anyways, thank you @Crisp X for the extension.
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That means a lot, thank you for participating! I totally relate to the bolded part, I mean there are only so many ways I can drag someone's scores in the upcoming song write-ups until I run out of my limited English vocabulary hehe.

Also, I was thinking about the extension and I would now love to have your votes by


09th July 2022 @ 12:00 AM GMT​


I have received two ballots so far, and I'm hoping two more weeks will be enough for everyone else x​
 
odyism

odyism

Thanks so much for the extension!
I will definitely participate as I have a score for every song.
At this point I will just see if I need to shift any scores, because it can get so difficult to parse the differences between 6s, 7s, and 8s. I also would love to do commentary for each song, but I am so bad at conscise descriptions lol
 
Kaz D'Oerba

Kaz D'Oerba

I’m still doing this by the way! I’ll have my scores submitted in time, might be cutting it a bit close though. I’ve had less down time on holiday than I thought haha
 
Kaz D'Oerba

Kaz D'Oerba

Just submitted my scores! Here’s how things turned out:

Girls on Top: 7.19
Highest Score: 10 (x1)
Lowest Score: 3 (x1)

Outgrow: 6.71
Highest Score: 10 (x1)
Lowest Score: 4 (x1)

Made in Twenty (20): 7.29
Highest Score: 10 (x2)
Lowest Score: 4.75 (x1)

The Face: 7.33
Highest Score: 10 (x1)
Lowest Score: 4.5 (x1)

BoA: 8.27
Highest Score: 10 (x4)
Lowest Score: 5 (x1)

Extras: 6.72
Highest Score: 10 (x3)
Lowest Score: 1 (x1)

I think overall these albums are much more consistent than the first few albums. However, they’re all just consistently decent, which is the roughest part about this era of BoA for me. There’s not a lot that’s really standout, but at least there’s nothing abysmally awful (save for one or two songs) in this set either. It’s all very…fine. However, I will say that the Japanese albums all kinda sound the same. I wouldn’t be able to place which album a lot of the songs would be on if I didn’t know by heart.
 
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