[Review] Hey! Say! JUMP's Debut Album Lives up to its Name

Trust me, this was the better of two covers...


1. DREAMER
2. INFINITY
3. Hitomi no Screen (瞳のスクリーン)
4. Shinku (真紅)
5. Ganbaletsgo! (ガンバレッツゴー!)
6. Jounetsu JUMP (情熱 JUMP)
7. Smile Song (すまいるそんぐ)
8. Memories
9. Dreams come true
10. Time
11. Score
12. Your Seed
13. I☆Scream (アイ☆スクリーム)
14. Mayonaka no Shadow Boy (真夜中のシャドーボーイ)
15. Dash!!
16. Ultra Music Power
17. Thank You ~Bokutachi Kara Kimi e~ (Thank You ～僕たちから君へ～)

Hey! Say! Wanna know what I think of Male-AKB48’s latest album? Well, you’ll know after the JUMP!

The Sound of Music

        

About a week ago I was listening to the latest episode of the J-Pop review podcast, Gaijin Kanpai. This particular episode featured a roundtable between the hosts about “What makes an Artist”. After debating the relative creative merits of many quasi-singers such as PERFUME and vocaloid super star Hatsune Miku as actual musicians, the conversation turned to one of the hosts’ biggest pet peeves: when anime fans only recognize a band for the one theme song they contributed to an anime series. Co-host Zer0 remarked that “not that many people really like music… for most people, it’s just noise. People go to work and turn on the classic rock station, but they don’t actually listen to it- they just let it play in the background.”