Day 105: OH! by SHISHAMO // 4

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GENRE: J-rock
spaghetti & edamame
It's been so long since I've listened to SHISHAMO in a long time, and it's partly because their music on Spotify is literally is in Schrodinger's box because sometimes it's on there and sometimes it's not. Today I checked, this is literally their only song on Spotify, even though I know for a fact that they've had their whole discography on it at one point.

Anyway, to the song. The reason why I said "partly" earlier is because there is a larger, more fleeting reason behind why I don't really follow them as much. Their songs, although enjoyable to come extent, seem like they are cut from the same cloth. If I were to run all their previous songs to train a model that would procedurally generate newer songs, it would generate something like this. It feels like there's no heart in these songs anymore, like their written by corporate puppet masters. Now, that's not to criticize the band members themselves, because they all seem great and they look they're having fun. They definitely cater to their specific audience very well, and maybe that's just the scale they want to stay at. Who knows? That's not always a bad thing. Some small bands like it so.

Rating: 4/10


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