Music Talk: Aqours

A brief introduction:

I was first introduced to the world of Love Live! through the second series idol group, Aqours. I had no idea what any of this "Love Live!" business was, but decided to go to some live concert experience at the cinema (a friend suggested I get out and try and meet people with similar interests. I quickly found idol otaku are not that). Anyways, after that, I went back to the beginning and watched the original series. It was great fun. So then I watched season 1 of the sequel, Love Live! Sunshine!! - I think season 2 had just started airing, perhaps? Anyways, my takeaway at the time was that Sunshine!! was the better show, but the original show had better music. I think on rewatch, my opinion of the shows reversed, so let's see what happens with the music - because if this is worse than μ's, I'm in for a hell of a day...

My collection is only their singles from 2015 to the end of 2017. Which is still 50 songs, surprisingly...

Maybe I'm just in a better mood today? Because so far, this is a barrel of fun! Like, it's all still cheesy and some songs are typical IDOL is SHiT, but I find their voices less annoying than μ's (sorry, Pile). I think what maybe swayed me earlier was that the good songs by μ's and SUPER good, whereas the good songs by Aqours are just mostly good. Except for the Opening/Closing songs - particularly 勇気はどこに？君の胸に！, which is actually amazeballs - I would really just say these songs are harmless fun pop songs. So where μ's have far more peaks, Aqours just kinds of hover around the middle.

I will probably be keeping half of these songs. Sure, I still won't listen to them around the house in fear of divorce, but when I need harmless total upbeat vibes, this could be a good go-to. Like, if I could delete the bad songs now, I'd probably give this all a re-listen on shuffle right about now.

Crazy times.

There are 4 more years of Aqours songs out there. And another 2 Love Live! series' that I haven't seen. I'm not quite sure I'm ready for that...