BoA - Lose Your Mind

Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 by Steven

Post Edit: January 8, 2008 to follow new blog standards

Title:
Lose Your Mind
Artist: BoA
Single: Lose Your Mind
Released: December 12, 2007


Review
It's been a really long time since I listened to BoA. Luckily, my faith in her singing has been slightly revived as I listened to her new catchy song Lose Your Mind. However, I made a terrible mistake by watching the music video before listening to the song by itself. For her past few releases, I've been listening to the songs only, so I didn't find much that I enjoyed.

Some Praise...
  1. BoA's English is good. If she continuously said "lose your mind" in terrible English, it would be torturous enough to break prisoners. I'll criticize the way she says "girls," since you have to admit that sounds a tad strange.
  2. The vocals are decent and the song's hook is definitely the chorus. The chorus is addictive and energetic.
  3. The electric guitar solo is a good break from BoA's voice.
  4. BoA looks cute in her music video. She has a few styles, which will keep you occupied as you guess what she'll wear next. You might want to listen to the song first before you decide its quality, or you'll fall into the same deadly trap as me.

Things to get depressed over
  1. With the exception of the guitar solo, the guitar playing is awfully repetitive. Is it really necessary to get someone from DOPING PANDA for this? While it does complement BoA's singing and create a nice atmosphere, a little variation would be nice.
  2. If you remove the chorus, you'll notice that this song has almost no content. I love the chorus, it's well made, but I'm sure you can come up with something else for the other verses.
The verdict: I would definitely recommend this song if you are looking for good BoA songs, but BoA's voice still bothers me too much.
Lyrics
mitame no watashi wo suki datte hontou hoshii mono wa shiranai no
Should do, Be do you wanna betters and cosmetic
Material ja mou mitasarenai

LOSE YOU MIND futton jau gurai
MAKE ME WILD shigeki teki na WILDLY
BABY LOSE YOUR MIND "BOYS KNOW WHAT GIRLS WANT"
motto kimi wo muchuu ni sasetai LOSE YOUR MIND

doushitemo rikai fukanou 24/7 aitai no ni
Should do, Be do your like, music magic and dramatic
kokoro ni iku mono dake ga suki

LOSE YOU MIND amae chau gurai
MAKE ME WILD odorase teyo WILDLY
BABY LOSE YOUR MIND "BOYS KNOW WHAT GIRLS WANT"
nankai datte repeat shiteta LOSE YOU MIND


LOSE YOU MIND futton jau gurai
MAKE ME WILD shigeki teki na WILDLY
BABY LOSE YOUR MIND "BOYS KNOW WHAT GIRLS WANT"
motto kimi wo muchuu ni sasetai LOSE YOUR MIND

LOSE YOU MIND amae chau gurai
MAKE ME WILD odorase teyo WILDLY
BABY LOSE YOUR MIND "BOYS KNOW WHAT GIRLS WANT"
nankai datte repeat shiteta LOSE YOU MIND

Source: http://www.jpopasia.com/play/4797/boa/lose-your-mind-featyutaka-furukawa-from-doping-panda.html

Metadata
Artist: BoA
Release year: 2007
Genre: Pop
Song speed: Fast
Dominant voice: Female
Dominant language: Japanese

2 Responses to "BoA - Lose Your Mind":

Anonymous says:

no ofence and gomen to BoA chun, but what the hell was that song? it sounds like something cheap and crapy that britney spears would sing. boys know what girls want? nada?? BoA chun can diffintly do a heck of a lot better then that!!

Anonymous says:

I thin you mean "BoA Chan" not Chun....

Anyways, this song is good to me, I like it, its a different feeling from the last album. I think that newer fans of BoA probably wont care too much for this song like the older BoA fans. Over all this is a pretty good song, but I must admit, she has done better songs in the past, but at least she didn't pull a Brit-Brit and sing "Gimme More" for majority of the song.