BoA - Be the One

By Lieutenant Panda

Be the One

Artist: BoA
Type: Single
Release Date: 02/11/2004
Price: 800 yen

My Rating

Sound Quality: 10/10
Length: 5/10
Transitions: 6/10
Songs: 5/10
Overall Score: 5.5/10

Review

Now, you all may be thinking that my rating is, shall I say, rather harsh. I know, it is a single CD, and of course you don’t really expect much from it to begin with, being that ‘Be the one’ is a very impressive single from Boa, either way. However! When you purchase a single CD, it means that you are very impressed by everything that the very song delivers. Also, you want to be a part of everything else that single is a product of, or you’re just a big fan of anything the artist produces. For example: remixes.

After listening to the single, you are eagerly waiting for the next track. Ok, now let’s get this straight. ‘Be the one’ is a very upbeat and commanding song, which should equal a killer remix, right? A+B=C. Wrong! I was expecting atleast two remixes, however, there is only one. So now you think, ‘Alright, then this must be one killer remix then, right?’ Wrong again! Right from the beginning of the remix, you can already tell that it’s, well...putting it bluntly...really going to suck. This is, basically, the only thing you would assume correctly with this whole ‘package.’

The beginning of the remix, brought to you by K-Muto Grooverz(who has completely no ‘groove’ what so ever), is hardly compelling. The backround music hardly goes, if at all, with BoA’s vocals, or I dare say, with the melody at all. In short, the remix is far too slow. It’s just drags...like road kill that got caught under your car. BoA’s vocal range doesn’t fit the pace at all. Two words: Sloppy and Messy.

The elements presented by the remix are utilized terribly. Horribly in fact. It seems like he looked at a panel of musical elements and effects, and inserted them like sticking macaroni on glue. The result? ugly macaroni art that you give your parents for, oh I don’t know...Valentines, when you’re in the second grade, maybe third? By the time the instrumental came on, I was near the brink of death, it was my shining light in all the darkness that had previously consumed me by the sad excuse of a remix. It’s as if the guy procrastinated and left it till the night before. Either that or he should persue another profession.

When I think single CD, I think, ‘Ayumi Hamasaki’ with her mind boggling remixes, which sometimes add up to five or six, sometimes even seven, more even! And if not, atleast a live track from a previous single, or even a brand new track all in itself, for example: Janne Da Arc’s Gekkouka Single CD, with the track, ‘WING.’ So basically, I wasted 800 yen, buying this little number. Unless you’re a hardcore BoA fan, and you must have everything that is ‘BoA,’ in order to create a shrine of her Godly self in your bedroom, I highly suggest that you do not pick this one up. Why? because it’s no good. When something isn’t good, it really isn’t worth it. Once again, and don’t get me wrong, I love this single, hence why I bought the track, however! the dissapointment I felt after listening to the whole CD (or just the remix) was enough to make me regret buying this over lunch.

Track Listing

1. Be the one
2. Be the one(K-Muto Grooverz Remix)
3. Be the one(instrumental)

Where Can You Buy the CD?

YesAsia

CD Japan

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