IT’S OUT! Let’s take a listen to the new tracks in SNSD 1st Japanese Album~
Let It Rain
Born to be a Lady
Beautiful Stranger
I’m in Love with the HERO
Bad Girl
you-aholic
THE GREAT ESCAPE
Hoot (Japanese ver.)
Just a reminder, the other tracks in the album are MR.TAXI, Japanese version of Gee, Genie, and Run Devil Run.
I personally loooove all the tracks on this album. The new tracks are awesome, albeit different from their usual sound. Shoujo Jidai’s 1st Album sounds more electropop than any of their previous Korean releases. It’s very refreshing.
I guess it’s a good thing that Shoujo Jidai is considered as the “cool” group in Japan, unlike the “cute” Sonyuh Shidae in Korea. However, after listening to the whole album made me feel that this album lacks of variety compared to the Korean albums… I’m not complaining, though. I mean, I love the bubblegum-pop!SNSD but I definitely won’t mind if they’re also heading to this direction on their next Korean releases!
That’s being said, I’ll continue jamming to this album~ I have no favorite yet, but which track is yours?
Support the girls, buy their 1st Japanese album if you haven’t!
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You forgot the Japanese version of Hoot!
That’s not the only thing I forgot.
omg you’re right, my bad… updating the post right now. ><
OMG the songs are tooo GOOD!!!!! SONES FOREVER!!!
Hahah is it intentional to put Let It Rain and Born To Be A Lady on the very top!? I don’t blame you at all, these two are the best, I love Soshi ballads! That said, this album is of extremely high quality, all the songs get you hooked with addictive beats right off the bat and they really draw you in as they progress. UMJ and SM have done a great job, most albums usually have some “filler” songs but I seriously cannot say there’s one single filler I’m this album! They all sound great and can become big hits! Hope they sell a ton and get to Oricon #1 as well as putting on a great show tonight!
haha yes, it’s intentional, I loooove Soshi ballads too! ^^ I know right?! This is one high-quality album… I’m loving all the new tracks, not to mention that this album has Gee, Genie, RDR, and Mr. Taxi too!
wow, these are in high quality unlike the ones posted all allkpop! Let it rain is seriously so good that it makes me wanna curl :3
wow! that is some crazy sh@t there! these are just too good!
Gosh ALL these songs are awesome!!! Really great! DX
I don’t care what people say, Japan is the best thing that happened to SNSD 0_0
I can’t wait to have the album to make my ears bleed from eargasms!
And the Japanese stylists just do wonders on our girls!
I don’t know how not to love all of this!
I love them in Korea of course, but their sound and image in Japan is really different; less cuteness, more maturity, I like!!
Our girls are women now!! 😀
Just sharing a mashup of GENIE and MR. TAXI with Taeng’s “Tokyo Seoul London New York”‘s vocals. It’s a chilled remix.
Ooohhh I like this remix! \o/ Thanks for sharing Aun~
LKJAHGLKASDJHGSNHG~~~ OMO
cant get enough!!! already crying with ‘Let It Rain’
all so great (^O^)/
but have to say Let it Rain & I’m in Love With a Hero & Born To Be A Lady are probs favs! 😀
idk but from the sounds of it the new songs are just reminding me of RDR again, apart from the ones above ^(favs) you-alcoholic, bad girl, beautiful stranger and the great escape just make me think of KKANGPAE SHIDAE! getting up to no good and then going into jail o:<….. but the making a 'DAEBAK' escape
maybe shedding Gee and Oh! image for something a little more mature, sophisticated and sexy i reckon, hmm something like Genie and RDR coupled together…
all in all luvin' new album ❤
KKANGPAE SHIDAE~ lmao so The Great Escape is them escaping from jail? XD Beautiful Stranger is so especially badass imo! lol I can’t wait for the lyric translations… oh, I think I hear “you’re the gin inside my tonic” in you-aholic? XD
OHMYGOODNESS! I totally cried hearing LET IT RAIN!
I have waited for so long to hear this song, and good gracious @_@
It did not disappoint me nor the thought of being disappointed never came.
Their Japanese songs gave me goosebumps, oh how I envy JapSONEs for hearing SoShi siing it live
on the JapConcert Series. SNSD’s songs always has this nice rhythm. ALWAYS! I LOVE YOU SNSD!
SONEs AND SoShi Fighting!
oh luvin’ the remix too @ruraldaze d(^O^)b
@This post.
For a casual fan who isn’t going to purchase the recently released JPN album for obvious reasons and got his hopes up when he heard “The Great Escape” in a previous post, this post got me ecstatic and shot my expectations through the roof, literally (kind of unprecedented, but then again, it always is because SNSD never really ceases to amaze me majority of the time). It’s kind of like a godsend not only to listen to brand new songs (when all I’ve been doing is listen to “B2ST’s Fiction” nonstop), but to relive all of those awesome memories when, as a JPN anime fan, they used to give you an adrenaline rush like AKFG and such.
Couple SNSD with anything that positively stimulated you as a kid (like anime), and you have a recipe for instant gratification.
@Ruraldaze.
This is my opinion and you shouldn’t really take it for anything important.
The remix sounded a little monotonous at first, and I wasn’t fond of the repetitive lyrics throughout the entire video. I was expecting the “Tokyo, Seoul London New York” to occur at like, a pivotal segment of the remix to achieve maximum cinematic impact with viewers, but was fairly underwhelmed when all I could hear from my speakers was pretty much the same thing. Not to mention, I had some difficulty differentiating the GENIE beat from the MR.TAXI beat and Taeyeon’s repetition of the same sentence.
Of course, the purpose of remixes is to provide infectious beats which you can groove to in a night club and gets even the most jaded of K-Pop fans hooked onto the genre again (that’s how contagious and addictive it is) and perhaps discovering some more fantastic remixes by other artists. But… I’m not feeling anything at the moment and was relatively disappointed with this one. One may consider it cool, but the other considers it not, sorry man.
Nah it’s cool. It just had the same feel as Armin Van Buuren.
Instant gratification? Hahah aye. With a bowl of SamYang and a bottle of Lipton Iced Lemon Tea, that is.
i totally love bad girl 🙂 omg, let it rain is super awesome too ^^
My favourites: Just let it Rain, Hoot, Born to be a Lady ;).
In truth, I LOVE all 12 tracks on the CD 😀 !!!
OMIGOD I LOVE BORN TO BE THE LADY THE MOST!!! My favourite song in the album 🙂
Ohh and they delivered the album and poster and photobook to my house this morning and I’ve been holding on to them the whole day.
And SUNNNNYYYYYYYYY ❤
wow, this totally exceeded my expectations. i don’t know about you, but I think this is their BEST album so far!! great job, girls! and omg, as expected, im COMPLETELY in love with Let It Rain 🙂
OMG! SO GOOD! SPAZZING!! XP so far let it rain is the best one for me and all the others r also really good as well! cnt wait till the ALBUM comes out!
OMG! ALL OF THE SONGS SOUND SO GOOD! SNSD JJANG! ❤
I love Born to be a Lady the most. I just thought that it gave a proper closure to the the whole album. After all the running around showing new sides of themselves, they remind us that they are still the Soshi we love.
Can’t wait the album sent to my house… And also see fancam japanese tour…
droning rants on the new songs:
you-aholic
Everything about this song is J-pop. This along with THE GREAT ESCAPE and BAD GIRL would be good songs for jamming. I reckon it has the same style as Capsule; heavy beats with Audrey Gallagher-like vocals (except that it’s nicely autotuned lol)
One good example of dance club shidae.
BAD GIRL
I have to agree with some of the comments: apart from the nice build-up to the end of the chorus, the song sounds like Hurricane Venus. Nothing special, but regardless, I like it.
Beautiful Stranger
Although being short (no pun intended), the guitar riffs are what makes this song so badass. I think that’s the song’s main selling point. Not even ‘super pokerface’ can touch that.
I’m In Love With The HERO
I have to comment on the synths. It sounds intricate, which is always a pleasant surprise. But tbh, the song started sounding better at the 1:00 minute mark. Decent chorus, but the part that I like best was the break at 1:40 onwards. Short but sweet.
Let It Rain
R&B ballads are no-brainers for an album. Good song for remixes (Robotaki!). Though the only memorable part, sadly, is the chorus. However, I reckon one day that this song will be promoted one way or another since it has that feel (and It’s been used for Lipton’s CM).
THE GREAT ESCAPE
What can I say? Definitely much better than Boys Like Girls. Jessica’s and Sunny’s vocals suit this song. It also has certain elements to the song that gets better each time one discovers them with each play. Another great example of dance club shidae.
HOOT
Jessica’s voice was cute (it’s just that I had the impression that she’s shown lots of aegyo since 2007. Ice Princess janai? Definitely a stark contrast) It felt as awkward as when Hyori danced to “So Hot” in Family Outing. Also, I think the song has lost most, if not all, of its meaning lyrically in Japanese. Still a good listen, though I think it was a good thing this wasn’t promoted as a single.
BORN TO BE A LADY
I mentioned that Sunny’s and Jessica’s high pitched voices go hand-in-hand with Japanese or J-pop. But the bit gets better when coupled with lower vocals from Taeyeon, Seohyun and Tiffany. My favourite of the two R&B ballads in this album.
It’d be great if Japan can acknowledge Shoujo Jidai as a “deviation from Hello! Project music”. Overall, I like the direction these girls are heading to. I’m pretty convinced the price is justified solely for the music.
If you’ve read from start till here, I’m sorry.
I’d like to add that Taeyeon’s verse sounded like “Rape Me Now~” @1:51 in HOOT. Fany’s gonna shoot eye-smiles if she noticed. Buffalax ftw!
Sounds more like “Raking earthhhhhh”. Big job that 😛
Really? I Thought It Sounded Like *Breaking Up* Or? LOL
Quick comment about the ballads, I wouldn’t necessarily call them “R&B” ballads, when I hear R&B I think of songs like Hot Times from SM The Ballad or Before U Go from TVXQ, and neither Let It Rain or Born to be a Lady sounds like they belong in the same genre as the aforementioned R&B songs. I don’t know what to call them, Pop Ballds maybe? Both of them have significant beats and synths that differentiates it from a pure ballad like Star Star Star or Complete, which means the production elements will slightly drown out the vocals, and the girls did not have a song to fully show off vocal prowess. But no matter, they sound awesome and are worthy ballads.
I have especially taken notice to Let It Rain because it opens so grand and so epically that doesn’t sound like any other ballad I’ve heard. While the versus may sound “boring” to some, I actually really like the “dual personality” of this song, because the versus make them sound bad ass girls and as soon as the choruses kick in they turn into sweet girls – love it! Born to be A Lady sounds closer to a true ballad but it’s a little pale in comparison to Let It Rain, I think Let It Rain has a better chorus but I love how Born to be a Lady’s middle 8 builds up to the climax, in that regard better than Let it Rain, the entire song sounds smooth and honey, I really like Sunny and Jessica’s vocals on this song.
As for the faster songs I really like The Great Escape. That along with Let It Rain and Born to be a Lady are my initial favorites. But seriously I listened to this thing front to back like 5 times now and I didn’t feel compelled to skip any song because none were bad.
Actually, good point. I can’t put a finger on which genre they fall in either. I only get the impression that the new songs were a bit risky, but they get to you on the first listen. They seem to be doing better than the remade numbers, imo.
I can’t stop listening to Let It Rain, so much so that I haven’t even checked out the other tracks yet. IT IS SO GOOD YA!
awesome songs! but Bad Girl sounded a bit like BoA’s Hurricane Venus. But overall, loved them! ^_^
this album is PERFECTION…no words, no words!
fan accounts said that they saw this HUGE diamond like structure and everyone’s like “WTF?” when it opened up, SNSD was in it sitting like goddesses and everyone went crazy 🙂
I love all the songs, so happy that I bought the album!!
loveee the album 😀 the japanese ver of ‘hoot’ sounds uberr catchy. i second mr. p; i’m happy that i bought the album too haha
i love the album , i love all snsd’s songs . .
u can DL the audio (mp3) in mediafire
http://www.mediafire.com/?d76yig8k11sbc
I think ima call that let it rain is gona be a OST for One Piece i can just feel it.
OMG! I Wish That’s True:) I Totally Love One Piece.. And With Our Girls Singing An OST For One Piece… BRILLIANT!!!
Omg I love this album so much. The songs are super catchy and amazing! The only crituique I have is that these songs are electro-pop to the max and sometimes songs that are super auto-tuned or have a ton of special effects don’t have as much pull or emotion are songs that are more “natural”. But I like that I can still distinguish the girls’ voices from each other. Also I get that this type of style is what’s currently in the music industry in Japan so of course these songs were made for what Japanese ears want to hear. And no doubt about it, this album is gonna be super successful!
I have ordered the album. Wondering when will it reach my house. *** Heart beating fast ***
“Mr. Taxi” in many ways (imo) perfectly exemplifies the current mainstream K-pop style, using the familiar distorted bass synth, claps, and catchy chorus formula but done to perfection and executed masterfully (…yes, I really like the song). However, by contrast the other new songs have a different style and feel which I am at a loss to accurately classify. The terms “electronic dance pop” or “techno pop” come to mind but I’m hesitant to simply label this new material as such, and really that’s insignificant to the point I want to make. Overall, the thing I really like about these new songs is they don’t sound like anyone else currently in the industry. (Heck, production-wise they don’t even sound like SNSD!) But I love that they didn’t just “play it safe” and put out “cookie cutter” pop. For example, instead of following more standard drum patterns, songs like “you-aholic” and “The Great Escape” has musical elements that hit off beat. And “Let It Rain” begins with a dramatic edgy feel before yielding to a softer ballad type chorus. Even “Born To Be A Lady”, the slow song of the group, starts with a heavy beat and includes an electric guitar riff. I won’t go as far as to say this is cutting edge innovative production but it is non-standard for K-pop and SNSD. (I’m curious to know if this is indeed a result of Japanese production.) Thinking ahead, I can’t help but wonder if this is the evolution of their style (the New SNSD) or simply the Japanese phase of their career. I don’t think that will be truly answered until their next full Korean album is made. Either way, I’ll look forward to it.
Oh, and one final observation. Although the Girls look beautiful of course, I don’t think the album cover photo fits the overall feel of this album. This to me is perhaps the least innovative aspect of this new album.
Yeah, it was definitely different. I’m still waiting until the day SNSD does rock. That will make my day!
Does anyone here speak Japanese? If so, do any of the songs come across as being sung by non-native Japanese speakers? In theory, the diction should be perfect as its a studio album that can be recorded just right. But I was just wondering if a Japanese ear can spot any telltale signs now that we have a wealth of songs in different styles to listen to, first on the new album, and now from live concert fancams.
If you recall SNSD’s Santa Baby, it was very easy to spot the very good (American) English diction of JeTi, Taeyeon and Seohyun (the perfectionist). But that was a live one-shot so you can’t really expect too much of the other girls.
Beautiful Stranger is really the best!! That song is just sooooo HOT. It’s my favorite song in this album. I’m so happy about this album, hearing each new track would really make you want to buy it! I hope that this album will receive a lot of love from all SONEs and soon to be SONEs 🙂
SNSD.
PERFECTION.
LOVE EVERY SINGLE TRACK!!!
by-far THIS IS THE BEST POST EVER!!!
why is all snsd songs good? they are the best girl group in the world I love you girls
i just realized it now.. after I repeated all the tracks of their new album,…
that Beautiful Stranger’s intro is the same as Ashley Tisdale’s song ‘Masquerade’. omo.
it may be just a coincidence since beats are usually somehow the same with other songs.anywhoo.
love their new album. totally buying it. :))
MAN I’M SPA ZZING OVER THIS. BUT MY FAV FROM THE ALBUM : JAP HOOT, LET IT RAIN AND BORN TO BE A LADY. MANNNN AN ALL NIGHTER DANCING TO SOSHI SONGS ❤ Doing covers of these songs with "BITTERSWEET" 🙂
I’ve listened to this album 7 times straight (I counted ^^’) and I have to say the “Let It Rain” is my favorite song. Then next would be “The Great Escape” and “Born To Be A Lady”. I don’t know why, but “Let It Rain” just has a calming sense over me, and it sounds so beautiful. That’s probably why my new favorite CF from SNSD is the Extra Shot Lipton CF, because the girls look so mature and sophisticated, and “Let It Rain” is playing as BGM. ^^ ❤ all in all, this album seems more… idk… grown-up I guess. Even the electric songs sound like they are sung by women, not girls. This album is definitely me favorite now. SNSD Fighting!!
wer can i download dis songs??
By using your eyes. If you don’t know how to, use google.
This songs were AMAZING. I was like *O* Totally shocked when I saw this songs. Their japanese were AWESOME~! SNSD ROCKS!