CD
CD + DVD
1) dance with me.
2) Good Life
3) Friday
4) (I'm fine)
5) Silver & Gold
6) Odori Tsudzukeyou
7) Range Rover
8) Beautiful
9) alone Feat SALU
10) Rainbow
The release of WHITE comes about a year since Shota's last album FLY . Singles Good Life & Friday are included in the new album .
All songs in WHITE were written , composed & arranged by Shota . Some of the vocal recordings were done at his own home .
2 of WHITE album tracks had various form of promo to a certain extent . Beautiful was used as the ending theme for NTV's PON! in July .
alone is the only song in WHITE that's a collaboration with SALU . A video was made for alone but it's not included in the DVD tracklist of WHITE .
Shota Shimizu celebrates the 10th anniversary of being in the music industry as he enters a new phase of music with the release of his latest album WHITE .
In all my years of writing album reviews since I 1st started my music blog , this's possibly the shortest review I've written on an album & for that it's not a good sign and it explains why it took me so long to finally decide to write my opinion towards WHITE .
I thought Shota's past albums ENCORE & FLY were bad as it was autotune overload for both releases and I was really hoping that will not be the case for WHITE but sadly I was wrong .
Beautiful is the only album track I genuinely can say I like as unlike the other album tracks , it's almost auto tune free & it showcases what Shota is good at to begin with .
Likewise , Range Rover had a lot of potential but it was too short & the last part ruined it for me .
Seeing that this year's Shota's 10th anniversary in the business , I would have preferred he release a proper best album to mark this milestone . Honestly , he should not have put out ALL SINGLES BEST 3 years ago as that release came out way too early .
Shota has been overusing auto tune since 2015 and I do hope he will eventually stop as he's not a terrible singer to begin with & some of his best songs have little if not auto tune in them .
I hope it wouldn't come to a situation where I stop supporting Shota completely as that will be a real pity . But for now , I will just go back and relisten to his past but still awesome albums like COLOURS & ENCORE .