Artist: Ito Yuna (伊藤由奈)
Album: DREAM
Release Date: May 27, 2008

1. love you
“love you” is a cute percussion-based opening with a bit of those wooden xylophones to add a bit of an “island”-like feeling. I personally like the percussion the most out of this song, although some of the rhythms seem a little bit clutterd at times, and the rhythms seem a little bit unstable at times, even if they keep the tempo together; I’m just not to fond of how the percussion fits within the song at times. Yuna’s singing, however, is a little bit TOO over the top at times and ends up oversinging a bit on this track, to the point where sometimes her looses her nice tone. She focuses a bit too much on projecting, and not enough on her own song, because her delivery is just very forced and unmusical during most of the song.

2. 今でも会いたいよ．．． feat. Spontania
Like a lot of Spontania-esque songs, this has that kind of trance-like feel to the song from the dreamy sounds of the piano and the constant beat. Again, Ito tends to force her voice a bit too much when she belts where it becomes more like shouting than actually singing, but generally, she sings well on this track. I quite like how Spontania’s voices are put into the track, as well as the background vocals (that Yuna sing). They add a nice dimension to the vocals on the track. This is a very good track, and Spontania added to the track very nicely with their singing/rapping in the track.

3. Brand New World
“Brand New World” is a sort of happy poppy dance track, with random English exclamations like “Happiness!” at points of the melody, which is probably the most amusing thing part of the song. Her singing is generally quite solid, although at certain ranges, she struggles a little bit, especially the really low notes end up a bit too airy. Some of the quick, English lines also end up a bit airy and not as well-supported as the other lines in the song. The song itself is pretty repetitive, but Ito keeps the interest well-enough despite the song not being particularly interesting. The adlibbing at the end ends up being pretty over-the-top as well…

4. 恋はgroovy×2
Work it, girl! 恋はgroovy×2 was definitely my favourite single from Yuna prior to this album, and becomes an total diva on this track. Unlike some of the belting so far on the album, she brings a fuller tone rather than just shouting, and it works well on this track. The song has a catchy melody and I love the piano chord accompaniment in the background. The brass add a nice effect with the syncopated lines in the background of the song. Again, the stupid adlibbing near the end feels out of place at times, especially the really out-of-key “Heyyyyyyyyy!” thing she pulls out at the end. Yeah no, Yuna. It’s a highly danceable song, and a really fun one to listen to!

5. trust you
Welcome to that single that I ignored after listening to it twice. In any case, the track, although seems a bit ballad-like at first actually is done is a bit of a bouncy manner with the accented notes in the background over the legato strings. It’s evident when Yuna comes in with the melody as well that the focus is more on the harder-hit notes, and personally I don’t care for the verse melody at all. It’s basically the same sequence over and over again, and Yuna kind of speeds through all the lines by accenting every single syllable. The chorus pulls itself out of the mess much better with the smoother melody that catches my attention a bit more than the verse. Yuna’s singing isn’t as good as what I’ve heard in the past as well. Again, she’s trying too hard to belt throughout this song that sometimes she looses that nice tone that she has, and her voice kind of wobbles a bit when delivering those notes that she force a bit too much. While I like that this ballad sounds different from what she’s done so far, she’s delivered (in terms of singing) much better ballads in the past.

6. BAILA BAILA
The next to tracks consist of my favourite (read: most amusing) part of the album. This song totally screams “LET’S GO TO HAWAII!!!111one”, and it’s totally catchy, albeit extremely cheesy. It has a cute steel drum accompaniment and brass in the background, which I totally love to death. Yuna doesn’t push her voice on this track, which means her singing is a lot more stable than most of the singing so far on the album. It probably doesn’t help that the chorus is basically “BAILA BAILA! HIYA HIYA!”, which basically reduces me to giggles throughout this track. Amusing.

7. BREEEEEZIN!!!!!!!
We continue the beachy, summery track with this album surf-like track, and Yuna exclaiming that we should go “to the beach!” and that “we’re going to be breeeezin!!!!!!!!”. It’s full of funky sounds with the guitar playing really catchy lines in the background. The chorus runs into a more poppy sound, that kind of reminds me of… High School Musical music for some reason. Don’t ask. In any case, this track is a strange mix of the surf-music and the guitar-centered pop of the chorus, and I find it immensely amusing. For good measure, Yuna throws in some vocoder in the bridge, so we get a bit of synthpop conventions in here too.

8. miss you
Finally a good ballad. “miss you” the first single from this album is an excellent ballad. Although it’s more typical than “trust you”, Yuna does a much better job at this track. The accompaniment is a smooth string, accordion-sounds (interesting.), and acoustic guitar. Yuna’s tone is much prettier on this track, although I would like a bit more emotion on her part at times. It’s a pretty track. It’s not oh-my-god amazing, but it’s pretty nice nevertheless.

9. LOVE MACHINE GUN
I think I got distracted the first time I heard this song because of the “Why not!” stuff at the beginning, because I started singing “Whyyy noott! Take a crazy chance!”. This is what I get for reviewing Hilary Duff yesterday. In any case, this is a fun song that has a much grungier sound from the guitars. Yuna does a fabulous job on the vocals on this track as she uses her chest voice with control and in terms of style, she pulls it off perfectly with all the accents and rock stylings. I’m kind of surprised she hadn’t tried something like this beforehand, because she does it quite well.

10. No one else
“No one else” dives into the acoustic ballad, and Yuna’s tone at the beginning is very pretty, and she delivers the mid to lower range very beautifully with a lot of musicality. When she pulls in the higher notes, it’s not done as smoothly, but it’s done decently. The first verse is very well done from Yuna and I’m quite impressed with what she did with it. The arrangement comes off as bland throughout the track, but this is definitely the best ballad singing on this album.

11. Body
Yuna Ito tries to be sexy on this next track, but it’s not without her typical Engrish lyrics like the one about her “reflection sparkling in [his...her?] eyes”. In any case, I actually like the hand clapping a lot on this track. The rhythm really ends up pulling the song forward quite a bit. There’s soft strings playing short notes as well in a similar rhythm. I quite like what they did with the speaking part of the song, where Yuna kind of speaks in lower tones, and they add her singing in higher tones over parts of what she says.

12. groovyx2 (Christine Ito) -Hidden track-
This album wouldn’t be complete without our bb Christine showing up at the end with her red-rimmed glasses and that creepy dude in the PV (not that we can hear him, but we all know he’s probably in the background dancing away). In any case, diva Christine works it out with this English version of 恋はgroovy×2, and she does a fantastic job of it. The arrangement is basically the same, no nothing new except for Yuna Christine singing in English. Oh, and the dancey ending which DOESN’T have Christine ablibbing poorly. Thanks Christine!

Overall -
Favourite Track: groovyx2, LOVE MACHINE GUN
DREAM is a much better album as a package, and it comes together a lot better than her past few albums. Although there are one or two tracks that I didn’t particularly care for, the rest of the album were of good quality and Yuna has come a long way from her inability to sing upbeat tracks of her first album to this album which is primarily upbeat tracks. Granted, I’m a bit dissapointed that the ballad tracks on this album weren’t as well done as some of the ballads in the past, they were of decent quality. I’m a bit concerned about Yuna’s singing and her tendency to push her voice a bit too hard that she looses any sense of tone and musicality. Otherwise, she has a few vocal surprises such as her Diva singing in 恋はgroovy×2 and her rock singing in LOVE MACHINE GUN. Although very few of the tracks I found to be ~amazing~, the album still shows a solid effort from Yuna. Yay for DLEAM!

Artist: 伊藤由奈 (Ito Yuna)
Album: stuck on you
Release Date: August 8, 2006

1. stuck on you
This is probably one of the most hilarious songs Ito Yuna has ever decided to sing (and one of my personal favourites, amusingly). This song is ridiculously catchy, and Ito sings the chorus with a lot of energy, although there are points where her voice is underwhelming with the low notes, and she goes a bit flat. The verses are a little underwhelming though and she’s not really supporting her voice that much. She seems to struggle with the lower notes here for some reason. The best part of this song is definitely the accompaniment of this song. Despite some of Ito’s lack of vocal skill on this song, the percussion, brass and just everything in the background keeps the song going well. I especially enjoy the bridge. If I was watching the PV at the same time, it would be even more amusing (especially her dancing, the umbrellas, and the extras holding the brass instruments incorrectly). The telephone conversations are hilarious, too. This song is just a lot of amusement.

2. These boots are made for walkin’
Of course, they just had to put this cover on this single. The song itself is pretty amusing already, but to put Ito Yuna in this equation amuses me. Ito sings well in this song, but I personally would like a bit more of sassiness to her singing. She seems to sing this song straight without much accent or emphasis in her delivery. I love the big band arrangement of this song, though. Yuna’s interpretation falls a little bit flat though.

3. These boots are made for walkin’ -STUDIO APARTMENT Impulse Groove-
This remix is kind of interesting, but kind of ruins the point of the song. Anyways! The arrangement is quite nice with the bongos and piano. If we took out the lyrics, it would be quite a pretty song. I really don’t think this particular arrangement works with the song at all. However, the instrumentation is quite pretty by itself.

Overall -
Favourite Track: stuck on you
stuck on you was a single-only song and never appeared on Ito Yuna’s albums. It’s kind of a shame, because the title track amuses me tremendously. It’s probably the funniest song and PV Yuna’s ever released, and it’s ridiculously catchy at that. Despite my constant complaints about Yuna’s singing on this single, it’s a rather enjoyable and amusing release.

Artist: REIRA starring YUNA ITO
Album: Truth
Release Date: December 6, 2006

1. Truth
The song starts nicely with a soft acoustic and strings accompaniment. I like Ito’s soft singing at the beginning, but her overall delivery is a bit choppy and robotic. Nevertheless, she sings fairly well throughout the song. I really like the overall composition of the song as it’s a bit slow, but it has an epic feeling in the song. Ito sings well technically in this song, but her delivery, especially in the chorus, is really dull. There are even parts where she loses her phrasing and decides to breathe in the middle of a phrase (and it’s very noticeable). The bridge is much better in comparison in emotion, and she develops it well from there.

2. Take me Away
This next song follows more of what one would expect to be a TRAPNEST song, instead of Ito’s usual full pop song. Her vocals are still rather underwhelming in this song as they never really bring an extra edge or power to the overall song. I enjoy the song itself, but Ito’s vocals are less than impressive in this song. She just isn’t even enough energy into her vocals. It certainly doesn’t get my attention with the lack of development, and Ito’s singing style in this song just doesn’t complement the gritty guitars in the background. It probably doesn’t help that the song feels like it goes on forever.

3. ENDLESS STORY -Little Big Bee Lovespell Remix-
I’m kind of cynical about this remix. The opening sounds nice with the long notes in the background with the dance beat over top of it. The introduction is rather catchy, yet subdued. There’s some nice piano added into the introduction. Regardless of how nice the accompaniment is, the song sounds really odd with a dance beat. It’s not a terrible remix at first, but a bit of the emotional connection is lost. The remix loses my sympathy when the piano chords come in the chorus. They clash terribly with the melody and sound horrible. Follow the chord progression of the melody, people. :x I have no idea what they were thinking in the chorus. The verses are much better arranged.

4. Truth -Instrumental-

Overall -
Favourite Track: Truth
While Truth is certainly no ENDLESS STORY, it’s still a pretty song on its own right. While Ito’s technique is strong, her singing on the single, as a whole, fell to a more robotic manner. Where’s the Yuna from ENDLESS STORY? Certainly not here. The single as a whole was disappointing, but better than a lot of what Yuna released before this.

Artist: 伊藤由奈 (Ito Yuna)
Album: WISH
Release Date: February 20, 2008

1. Power of Love
With all the Celine Dion stuff, I thought this was another cover. In any case, I really like how this songs starts off: it has Ito singing strongly in a bit of a mysterious tone. The change into a poppier song is a little odd, but I guess it works. I don’t particularly like the sound at first, but it takes a little bit getting used to. The combination of the pop beat under the darker verse is interesting, though. I really like the quicker moving passages of the chorus (“just one place…” etc). The song is a little empty sounding and doesn’t seem to have much substance, but at least Ito sings well throughout the song with a well supported tone for the majority of the song.

2. alone again
Tsuki loves this song and made me listen to it after I stopped listening to the album the first time I heard the first track. I don’t share the level of enthusiasm as my fellow reviewer, but it is a very pretty song. I enjoy Ito’s tone when she sings softly in this song, although nothing spectacular in my opinion. The prettiness of this song is in the accompaniment for me, especially some of the string lines, and the added background vocals. I personally find the melody too repetitive in the verse, but the chorus is a bit better with the variation of the rhythm.

3. あなたがいる限り ～A WORLD TO BELIEVE IN～ (伊藤由奈 x Celine Dion)
I actually really enjoy this duet, and it’s nice to hear Ito sing with the amount of support she has in her vocals. Even if she sounds a bit thin next to Dion at first, she regains a fuller sound once she gets into the chorus bits. I really love the harmonies throughout the song; they’re all very well done, and the voice complement one another. I really enjoy the bit before the key change near when they hold a long note. Both voices are well supported and they actually blend well together. In addition, Ito ends the song beautifully with a well-controlled vocal.

4. Urban Mermaid
This song always confused me. It starts off with a nice, subdued opening with nice, soothing vocals from Ito over the pickings of the guitar. Then suddenly, she bursts into song out of nowhere. The chorus is just appears for no apparent reason and just sounds really awkward. The song itself has a nice pulse to the song; however, I can’t get past the chorus. It probably confuses me even more that the song it named Urban Mermaid, and Ito is wailing Beautiful Mermaid in the chorus. This song is just a giant mass of confusion for me. At least the chorus’ lyrics are amusing: “I’M A BEAUTIFUL MERMAID”?! Oh really, Yuna.

5. HEARTBEAT
There’s something really awkward about Ito’s vocals in this song. It just doesn’t fit into the song all that well. While I like the dance beats in the background, and the contrast with the soft vocals is nice. However, there’s something unsure about how Ito sings this song. At times, it seems a bit mechanical, other times, it seems like she far too cautious in her vocals. While I enjoy the bass in this particular song, something about the vocals that just doesn’t sound right. As a result, the song just loses my attention after awhile.

6. Colorful
The next song has a rather interesting accompaniment with a jazz-like piano sound in the background. However, some of the accompaniment just sounds kind of messy overall, especially in th verse where things just come in and go out, and I have no idea what’s going on with the instruments. It’s different, but it confuses me. This is another song that just lets my mind drift to other, more interesting things.

7. Unite as One
This next song is almost 7 minutes, and it’s a typical ballad. There’s something mechanical about Ito’s delivery of this song at the beginning. It just sounds like she’s bored at parts of this song, and her tone doesn’t shine in this song at all. The melody itself drags from the beginning, and there’s absolutely no appeal in this song at all. By the second minute into this song, I’m wondering when this song is going to end, but alas, Ito repeats the same monotone melody again. And again. And again. Honestly, whoever wrote this song has no concept of keeping these kinds of song shorter than seven minutes. Then Ito comes in with the bridge and sounds awful. There’s something pinched about her tone, and it just doesn’t sound good at all. WHEN DOES THIS END?! T_T

8. Mahaloha (with Micro of Def Tech)
Mahaloha is certainly one of the only singles I’ve liked from her since her HEART album. I enjoy the acoustic guitar sound in the background; it creates a nice, light sound to the overall song. While the vocals themselves aren’t at all excellent, the two vocalists work nicely together, especially in the chorus. Ito sounds a bit thin throughout the song, which is kind of annoying at times. However, the overall result of the song is a bright, cheerful song. It doesn’t completely cure me from the total boredom I experienced in the previous track, but it’s a well-needed change.

9. A Long Walk
The opening sound of this next song is rather different and interesting. It has some really strange sounds going on that mixes an acoustic guitar something something really odd. The beat itself starts itself nicely into the song. I enjoy the syncopated percussion in this song. Too bad the accompaniment of this song is ridiculously deceptive, but the melody of the song is just really boring. The contrast between the melody and the beat is interesting, but the repetitiveness of it after awhile just makes me lose interest in the song. I do, however, enjoy the synths at the end of the song.

10. Moon Rabbit
I enjoy the overall sound of this song. It has a lovely driving bass, the cymbal percussion, and an acoustic guitar. I quite enjoy the introduction of the song. However, once it gets more into the dance sound of the song, it becomes a bit more catchy. However, I find Ito’s vocals a little bit too light for this song. Her vocals just feel out of place, and I personally think she could use less legato and more accents in her vocal lines. It just kind of feels like the accompaniment drowns her out, and the song just feels like a blur to me after I listen to it.

11. I’m Here
I’ve always found this single kind of catchy. I really enjoy the dramatic strings in this song that drive this song forward. However, Ito’s vocals are horrible in this song. She totally decides to throw any sense of resonance in her vocals and decides to more or less screech through this song. Her voice sounds tight and unsupported. The dramatic feel of this song would have succeeded if Ito supported her vocals better in this song.

12. Wish
This is the first time in the album where I’m impressed with her new material. This ballad is very well sung and performed. It opens with Ito’s gorgeous tone over a piano. This is what I’m talking about when I say I know she can sing well. Her voice is just delicious to listen to throughout this song, and she uses her vibrato well. I absolutely love some of the fuller sounds of her voice in this song. The more accompaniment contain the same amount of musical sensitivity Ito has throughout the song. Absolutely beautiful, albeit a bit predictable in composition.

13. Tokyo Days
The next song has a gospel feel, and I really love the choir that opens the song, but it feels kind of awkward when Ito comes in afterward. However, once she gets into the chorus, she more or less catches my attention. I really like how Ito sings out in this song. I really like the chorus of this song with the choir replying to some of Ito’s lines. Parts of the song sound a bit awkward, especially some of the note leaps she does as she’s suddenly loud. Some of the harmonies in the choir seems a little off though, and the higher singers seem to have a really screechy tone. They just don’t blend all that well together. The song itself is catchy, but it gets really repetitive after awhile.

14. MY HEART WILL GO ON
I’ve already commented on this song before in my Celine Dion Tribute review, but again, I enjoy Ito’s work in this song, especially at the beginning of the song. She still sounds harsh when she comes in for the second verse, and I really like her belting at the end, except for some of the trills she decides to do, which end up being a bit out awkward sounding.

Overall -
Favourite Track: Wish
If there’s one thing this album does better than in the previous album, is that Ito Yuna has a much more consistently strong vocal. The material itself is actually quite decent throughout the album, and it is much more interesting and memorable than in the previous album. However, the tracks on the album are still kind of boring throughout the album, and there’s a big hole of snore-worthy material in the middle of the album starting from HEARTBEAT until Unite as One. I would just avoid that general area of the album altogether, especially “Unite As One” because it’s just torture. The obvious filler tracks aside, the album isn’t bad, but it isn’t great either (despite being a massive improvement from the previous album).

Artist: Various Artists
Album: Tribute to Celine Dion
Release Date: September 26, 2007

1. Ito Yuna – MY HEART WILL GO ON
Sometimes I wished Ito would sing more like this in more of her songs instead of that thin, breathy voice she usually sings in. The starts off nicely in this song with a breathy, but well-supported sound. I particularly like her voice in the chorus where she sings somewhere in between the breathy tone and a nice chest voice. Vocally it’s a bit weird when she comes in for the second verse as she sounds a bit too harsh. I particularly like her voice when she comes to her fuller chest voice near the near, albeit a few sloppy notes here and there at times. She does the dynamic crescendo decently throughout the song, although there’s still much to improve on as she sounds a bit mechanical throughout the song.

2. K (feat. Aki) – TO LOVE YOU MORE
The next song starts off with a bit of an R&B beat. K comes in with a bit of an echoey sound, but he sounds really breathy from the beginning, and it doesn’t sound all that good in my opinion. I really like the harmonies aki adds in the second time around the first verse. The harmonies are really gorgeous throughout the chorus. I don’t particularly like K in this song at all as he sounds very hesitant due to all the breaks in between each line of the melody. The echo effect added to the song makes them sound distant. K sounds much better when he starts singing out in the bridge though.

3. JUJU – THE POWER OF LOVE
This acoustic guitar version of the power of love is quite nice. I don’t know who JUJU is, but she starts off really nicely with a subtle sound. Her tone is rich and quite nice, and pulls off the chorus quite well. While JUJU sings very well throughout the song, I personally would like a bit more vocal variety in this song the song quickly becomes quite dull as she does the same thing for all the chorus. We’ve heard what she can do the first time around, so the next time around it’s not as impressive.

4. SOULHEAD – BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
The SOULHEAD duo pulls off this classic song wonderfully. The harmonies are excellently executed through the chorus, and the verses are really well done. I quite like the change of sound following the first chorus in terms of arrangement as I find it quite pretty. I think they should have changed their vocal style the second time around as well though.

5. Fukuhara Miho – BECAUSE YOU LOVED ME
Who is this? She’s actually really good, as well as having really good English, aside from random moments in the song when she changes back to a Japanese pronunciation which kind of puzzles me. Anyways, as uninteresting this song is musically, Fukuhara is amazing throughout this song and just pull it along simply with her vocal performance in this song.

6. Hoshimura Mai – IT’S ALL COMING BACK TO ME NOW
The next song starts off with an organ sound before the song starts. Hoshimura has a really unclear english and possibly the most unclear pronunciation thus far in this album. Vocally though, Hoshimura does a decent job with the vocals. It’s nothing really impressive though, but then again the song itself isn’t very interesting. I do like the little piano interlude halfway through the song.

7. Lyrico – IMMORTALITY
I love Lyrico :D. However, I don’t like the echo sound added to her voice, and the song itself is a little awkward melody-wise. It’s a little dull until she comes in half way through and actually starts to sing out a bit more. The song iself is possibly one of the dullest songs on the album and I’m unimpressed with it.

8. LISA – BE THE MAN
The next song is an acoustic guitar song and LISA pulls it off well with her voice. She sings well with emotion and makes the song quite pleasant to listen to. Her voice mostly spot-on throughout the song, and the melody is sung with sensibility and makes it one of the best songs off the album.

9. Kato Miliyah & Shota Shimizu – I’M YOUR ANGEL
This is a nice duet, although nothing compared to the original. Maybe it’s because I really liked the original and it was probably one of the songs of Dion that I put on repeat. XD Both Kato and Shota can be uncomprehensible at time, but they have nice tone, especially Kato. However, the both of them are an absolute snore throughout the song.

10. Hirahara Ayaka – THE PRAYER
Hirahara’s version of this song is kind of boring as it drags on and on through the song. Hirahara doesn’t really show off vocally in this song either. The arrangement of this song is just dull and doesn’t go anywhere.

Overall -
Favourite Track: BE THE MAN
The tribute album isn’t a bad one. Many of the vocalists performed quite well throughout the songs. However, I felt like a lot of the accompaniments for the songs were really dull and lifeless and didn’t really help the song. Not something I would listen to again, aside for a few tracks though.

Artist: Ito Yuna
Album: HEART
Released: January 24, 2007

1. WORKAHOLIC
The english in the opening line is very wtf. In any case, this is a very catchy song. I really like the string introduction to this song. The piano line adds a nice drive to the overall song. Too bad this song is so repetitive that it gets very annoying. The song is still very wtf, annoying but catchy @_@; XD

2. ENDLESS STORY
I love Yuna cover of this song (the original song was by Dawn Thomas). Of course this is Yuna’s debut single and one of the reasons why she’s so popular now. In general, very good vocals throughout the song and I love love love the orchestral accompaniment for this version. Very lovely.

3. losin’
I’ve always really disliked this song. It’s just very very boring beyond description. I mean, where’s the chorus? The verses? It’s like some really bad attempt at something really artsy and creative but fails terribly. Okay, there’s some cool stuff in this song: I like the string line. It’s still terribly boring.

4. Know-how
The musicbox sounds and the bongos at the beginning are kind of cute. I like the small bits of trumpet pre-chorus. Verses and chorus transistion? What transistion? This song lacks any togetherness and song should have. And it’s boring and it’s a mess in terms of what the composer wanted in this song.

5. Precious
Gorgeous song. Yuna’s vocals are gorgeous especially at the beginning with the minimal accompaniment and with her subtler singing. Very pretty song.

6. Tender is the Night
I love the saxophone at the beginning. Yuna’s vocals at the beginning seem really mechanical though; they seem very choppy. This song doesn’t flow as well as the previous track; although it has the potential to be lovely, it doesn’t quite get there. The saxophone is lovely though.

7. Fragile
I’m liking the string introduction. This song is a bit catchy at parts, but again lacking a bit of organisation and togetherness for the song. A bit too repetitive, so it gets old fast.

8. Nobody Knows
While this song as a nice ongoing beat going on, this song isn’t very exiting other than that. It’s very repetitive and there’s not much else going on in this song other than the base beat, some percussion and occasional piano bits.

9. Faith
This is a lovely song. I especially love the intro to this song. The verses here are kind of mechanical, but I quite like the chorus. Not at good as Precious, but a decent listen.

10. Stay for Love
While I quite like the dance feel of this song, I really don’t think Yuna’s voice works well with this song at all. It’s not energetic enough to pull off a dance song. As a result, this song falls flat and turns out boring.

11. Truth
I don’t quite like this ballad as much as her other ones; her voice in the chorus isn’t very musical and makes the chorus sound lacking in energy. I like the verses a lot though, especially the opening bit. Unfortunately, I find this song quite boring, especially nearing the end of the song. The opening is very nice though.

12. Perfume
Another nice ballad. Yuna’s vocals here are a bit more musical at times, but still a bit mechanical. Although this song isn’t as dramatic as the previous track, it is a nice track but a bit boring nearing the end. The little guitar solo near the end is quite cute, although the overlapping over Yuna’s voice near the end of the little solo is a bit awkward sounding.

13. Precious -wedding extended ver.-
I quite like the choir stuff at the beginning, and I like the changed piano accompaniment that goes with Yuna’s bit. This version has a bit more of a drive to it than the previous version so I find it a bit more enjoyable because it seems a bit faster. Again, Yuna’s vocals in this are very very good. I AM INFATUATED WITH STRINGS, THEREFORE I LIKE THIS VERSION. BUT her last long note is very smelly sounding.

Overall-
Favourite track: Precious
This was my second time listening to this album, and it didn’t seem as boring as my first listen, maybe because I was actually paying attention this time around. As a whole, this album was forgettable. Yes, there were a few songs that are stunning, but there isn’t much that actually stands out on this album. While Yuna began her career with a big “bang” with her cover of that Dawn Thomas song, most of her other material hasn’t really reached that level of quality. I don’t find that Yuna has the voice fit for up-tempo songs; she can’t really emit the amount of energy and enthusiasm needed for a good up-tempo song for most cases. WORKAHOLIC is one exception though, as she pulls off the energy quite nicely in that one… unfortunately that song is just very annoying after awhile. As for her ballads, it’s usually a hit or miss for that depending on how mechanical she decides to sing in them. While she has a lovely tone, sometimes she lacks the musicality needed to pull off a good ballad. Overall, I found this album boring and lacking in standout tracks.