[a simple review] Let's talk about BOKUSATSU HERO from DEZERT! +translations

I’ll do this as a test. Depending of the feedback ~if it exists~ I continue.

Let’s talk about bokusatsu HERO from DEZERT!

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撲殺HERO (Bokusatsu HERO) [2017.10.25] 

 

1.	幸福のメロディー (koufuku no merody) (MV)	Translation	Tradução	Kanji
2.	ヘドロママ (hedoromama)	Translation	Tradução	Kanji
3.	Hello (MV)	Translation	Tradução	Kanji
4.	遭難 (sounan) -piano ver-	Translation	Tradução	Kanji

“撲殺HERO” can be translated like “annihilator hero”. Bokusatsu is written with the kanjis of 撲(hit) 殺(kill) more literally something like “the hero who beats until killing”.

This is a light single, with good lyrics and pleasant to hear. What escapes from their standard, who usually to have more critic lyrics and heavy songs.

The single comes in the classical progression from high to low. On the whole it's a good single, makes it clear that they are experimenting with new things and trying not to lose their essence.

The track two of this single deserves a special look, ヘドロママ (hedoromama) comes with an electronic element what they usually don’t use on their compositions. And it was a good bet, the music brings something like an internal dialog, a great mental confusion, demands a rhythm that has been totally supplied by the instrumental. Has been faster as it needed to be, to transmit how is the feel of the insecurity inside the mind of who lives it.

Talking about “hello”, it surprised me during the translation process, not exactly because of the content of the lyric, but because how it was said. Something that, maybe, just reading directly of Japanese makes sense: that is the uncertainty it expresses, I have already saw this in another songs, but, the way he expresses sounds me very personal, something that can easily bring a sense of identification to the listener.

幸福のメロディー (koufuku no merody) is a easy to understand criticism, reinforces the theme of the single that looks to be “incertainties", something of the perpective of a jealous one, that everything he wanted was to be happy. The MV emphatizes the envy very well, envy which seems to have come from not knowing what to prioritize.

The last track of the single, 遭難 (sounan), which is the re-recording of the re-recording, as it came from another release, is a slightly dense one, in this version came only with vocal and piano, which marries very well with the lyrics music which is very sad.

And you? What you think about the single?