I know what you guys are thinking . He is doing an AKB48 song he must like them little tiny girls .No I like music and I will review all the Asian music no matter what size the girls are. Ha Ha Akb48 traditionally designed for Male Gamer nerds Had a Single out at the beginning of this month. I know I will get to the review I just thought I would have a nice small introduction. Okay here it goes.
Music
G-dragon come to me in my dreams!
I guess when the Mother is pouring in the Dog food that is suppose to be part of the song, Immediately starting out you have a surfer style drum. Then it goes into a regular Drum.The Intro Snares do not even match the Fill in that ends up being the drum snares for the song a good indication that they probably used a computer to make the drums. I could be wrong . Maybe a Drum loop for the Intro and then a regular drummer I doubt it.It is like they said lets have a surfer intro Loop and switch to a regular Acoustic loop.I think AKB48 is letting us know that Summer is on its way. Immediately I heard this tune I was taken back and thought of the seventies and if you look at the lyrics that is exactly what they are trying for here. So I should give them an A plus for succeeding in what they were trying to aim for. I really do I think of an Older Idol Song played in the old days this is a tribute to summer Idol Songs. Is it summer yet? Yes AKB48 says it is.There is really nothing special here musically. there is about 4 stanzas and then Maybe some Orchestra Hits and then a Slow down stanza and then a Long hold vocal Chorus and a sound of Summer sort of thing. I am disappointed because after songs like Give me five and River I really want something like that. The music is kind of boring and sad and I really do not think that is what they meant for the opening of Summer. It should be happy and jumpy and making me want to run to the beach not run away from the beach and cry.
Video
It does not taste like Dog
Okay starting out we have a mother pouring the dog food. The Dog Food Pouring into the bowl wakes the AKb48 member who I guess is a Part Time dog I don't know I am not a dog person. At the beginning of this video I question that I am in Japan. The mom does not look japanese to me. There is a coffee maker on the side.I am not used to that in Japan . I am used to maybe the usual tea Kettle and tiny refrigerator. There is a large Refrigerator and this house looks like a suburb in here in America. I had to second guess if I was watching an AKB48 video.So the dog food pouring sounds a lot like High hat cymbals. The cymbals stop we have a clue that the music is coming and a Title pops up and it says Labrador Retriever. Hey that is the title of our song. A dog is outside okay! Now we have girls in Bikinis. The girls are innocent looking and are there to show us that they are having innocent fun which is what little girls do. Immediately the problem with not having matching outfits or just to me the choreography really starts out sloppy. It could be that they are not wearing matching outfits. It feels sloppy the whole choreography does even as the song progresses. The girls eating Hot dogs, and the girls in the back of the pick up truck and then the one girl being buried in the sand is a great reminder it is summer and we are having fun cool. We have girls playing Frisbee, Playing with water and eating Ice cream. At about 1:30 you can see some bad Choreography again not good at that point. Later we find that the dog has a locket just like our girl who is sleeping and the dog food that Mother is feeding girl has the girl's picture on it. I guess we are to assume she is dreaming that she is a dog and all these bikini clad friends are in the dream as well. I guess. Later we will see Ice Cream Girls sharing Ice cream with the dogs forget that! Now we have girls sharing Ice cream with dogs I am not kissing you after that I do not care who you are. There is one scene where we see fully clothed girls meet bikini clad women and that is a weird scene because it looks like a fight is about to break out but later we find that clothed chicks are dogs and they turn into dogs and run to bikini clad chicks.
Lyrics
Pure white parasol
Reserved seat of your summer
Beachside
The 70's bikini
That's a favorite of the year
I have to say these lyrics paints a vivid picture.The girls match the lyrics to the letter. So good for the songwriter. The songwriter is obviously experienced and I think he wanted to capture the old Idol feel like many of us grew up with but I don't really think it did well for me musically. If he was looking for an exact feel He might forget drums that were computer looped or just try to pick one set of drums that were computer looped. I would gone with a more sixties feel. The seventies really to me never capture the summer unless you had your van and you're cruising the beach for chicks. I would have a Plated guitar sound for a riff for the verse and then maybe a mama And Papas type chorus I think the members of AkB48 could pull it off. So musically I really did not like this song. Lyrically it is a perfect summer song here you check the lyrics out. Some of this is not the best Translation but really not a bad song lyrically.
I just Felt the love!
Pure white parasol
Reserved seat of your summer
Beachside
The 70's bikini
That's a favorite of the year
The earlier than mom and dad
Did you come to vacation ? (Oh Yeah!)
The time over last year
Of love ( of love ) continued ( continued)
The sun is waiting
The running Labrador
To beach
While splash spray
Invites us
The chase on the sand
As of that day
And stripped off his sandals
( Laughing )
Have you seen this girl!?
First-time
Could you kiss ?
Oh Ma Cherie
Mineral water of one
I only drink Turn 2 people
Pure Heart
My heart is pounding to
And because I love really
Once the season is over
Not nobody but (Oh Yeah!)
Until said to love to you
My ( my ) summer ( summer )
Does not end still
See I am The Dog Get it!
Labrador Come
I finally tame
With all one's might in this arm
'll Hug
Memories at any time
Kuiganokoru thing
You do not let go this time around
( Kimi so )
Awaited
Could you kiss ?
The love of our
The impatient much
I was watching me for years
From a young age
Friends that came grew up with
Ally
Labrador
They won't give me another one!
The running Labrador
To beach
While splash spray
Invites us
The chase on the sand
As of that day
And stripped off his sandals
( Laughing )
First-time
Could you kiss ?
I believe the Songwriter had a Labrador and he or she had memories in the summertime of this Labrador. I really feel that animal connection in the song. Overall not a song I am going to listen to again but cute video. I think young girls would like the video.I just feel like a dirty old man watching it. I am joking! There you have it let me know what you think Peace!
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