Aikawa Nanase's "R.U.O.K ?!"

Artist: Aikawa Nanase (Japan)
Album: R.U.O.K. ?! (released 11.19.2005)

I think the only reason I even have this album is because one of my favorite guitarists, Pata, is featured on it. Well, let's see how it is.

Foolish 555, huh... Please don't disappoint me.
Oh hey, the guitar is pretty cool, the drums are good, it sounds pretty cool. Ooh, a female vocalist. That's refreshing. Her voice is a bit too cutesey for my taste, and the chorus sounds a bit boring, but HEY! It's pretty okay!
Sounds a lot like Dope HEADz, and I'm not saying that just because Pata was in that, too. Well, maybe I am.

Let's move on to R.U.O.K ?!
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(siiiiigh) I'm disappointed now. This is one of the most stale songs I've heard for a long time. It doesn't stand out from any other alternative song in existence. Pata, stop this madness!!

Okay, I can't handle that anymore. Fly to Rainbow Ray is track three.
I'm getting the feeling that all these songs are blending together as one mediocre, alternative mass. I don't like this. I can't even come up with any witty commentary, this is so devoid of originality that it is sucking the life out of me.

Track four is Rock Star's Steady. I literally can't remember what the last songs even sounded like and I just heard them a few seconds ago. That's how... un-unique this is. Yes, un-unique. It is taking away all my vocabulary, apparently.

Red Wheel sounds like it's going to be some kind of ballad. As much as ballads such as these bore me, at least it's some damn variety. And yes, it's boring. It sounds kind of like Do As Infinity, a band I liked when I was first getting into music. Shows how quality it is... (Don't get me wrong. DAI have some good material.)

Snowfall is nothing special. Again, it reminds me of Do As Infinity, except that Aikawa has a much more typical J-pop voice that I tend to detest. DAI's vocalist had somewhat of a smokey quality that's interesting to listen to. This isn't interesting to listen to.

The last track on the album should be good. It probably won't be, but it should be. And no, it isn't. These all sound exactly the same, am I supposed to be able to tell these songs apart?!

Now I'm all in a frenzy. Pata, why are you doing this?

1 1/2 out of 5.

I don't even know. The instruments are good enough, and the vocals aren't bad, the whole album is just so incredibly dull. Next band.