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ayaka×Kobukuro – WINDING ROAD

WINDING ROAD is a collaborative single between ayaka and Kobukuro. It is ayaka’s official 5th single. The title track was featured in the Nissan Cube CM. It was released February 28, 2007 and was sold in a low price of ¥555. It reached #2 in the charts and has now sold a total of 352,790 copies making it the 11th best-selling single of that year.

tracklist:
1. WINDING ROAD
2. WINDING ROAD (Instrumental)

Winding Road is probably one of the best collaborations I heard so far. It’s just so good that it can beat all the songs from double’s BEST COLLABORATIONS album. I don’t know what’s up with me comparing this song to an RnB artist but, who cares? They’re both songs. :] Anyway, as I have said a little while ago, it’s one of the best collaboration songs I heard so far. Wanna know why? It’s because of the “natural” feel this song has. well, To tell you honestly, I wasn’t a big fan of ayaka’s music before but, after hearing her Start to 0 ~love~ song, I automatically fell in love with her “natural” style. I know some of you guys doesn’t know what I’m talking about when I say “natural” so, I’ll be glad to explain it. When I say natural, I’m referring to some songs that doesn’t use too much enhance thing-a-ma-jigs. Get what I mean? anyway, going back to the song… I absolutely adored this song for the way it opens and ends in a calm way! It begins with ayaka and KOBOKURO singing in acapella for the first 27 seconds then everything suddenly comes in. It’s energetic for a long time but, it ends calmly like the way it opened… except it’s in an opposite direction. The last 26 seconds of it was for acapella. Another reason why I loved this song is because of the combination of the voices of the 3 people singing in this song (wow! used a lot of “of the” lol!). They had the perfect voices for the theme of the song… “natural-ity”. Overall, a truly enjoyable song and will definitely get the attention of J-muzic fans out there.

Favorite Track:
WINDING ROAD

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A+