>>70324107I want to clarify that I don't think "generic" is inherently "bad" or anything, I just didn't fuck with it personally. Still, I can point to unAlive as the album where I sort of mentally checked out for a bit.
unAlive (as in the song, especially the Japanese version) dips into the territory of kinda generic in a "this feels like some random insert song for some anime I feel I've seen" sort of way.
Lose-Lose Days feels like something I'd hear in an anime in the period between like, 2008 and 2014 or so? It just sounds like a more English version of a bog standard J-Pop song from that time period.
Ouroboros also has that sort of energy, but with more JP in it.
Shinigami Note and Sinderella were better, even if I think Death Sentence is a mid song that falls into the "why do I get the feeling this is a insert song for some Tokusatsu show?" territory.
The One Piece song she did is super mid, and also reminds me of some Kamen Rider-sounding stuff from the late 2010s. The rest of Jikoku 6 was solid imo.
Of course, you could easily say "your problem is that things sound too anime" or something, but nah, that ain't it. I actively don't mind anime-ish stuff cause I'm a fuckin weeb. I just feel like there's a certain kind of J-Pop that is so by the books in a lot of ways that you could play it to some normie and they'd instantly be like "oh what anime is that from?" And that's more or less what I mean.
Of course, all of this probably sounds like super retarded ranting about my music tastes, but idk man unAlive is the thing that made me lose faith in Calli's music until she got better at making stuff that catered to her voice. She still puts out the odd dud, but it's been improving.
