Bold&Delicious/Pride (SINGLE+DVD)(Japan Version) DVD Region 2

Hamasaki Ayumi

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Shiso
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January 23, 2006

PVs... Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10

"Bold&Delicious" - The funny thing is - I only like this song when it's performed LIVE. I also love to sing it on karaoke... "Pride" is a really nice ballad with great lyrics. The DVD contains PVs for both songs. The PVs are horrible... and the DVD is now worthless as we have them on the "(miss)understood" DVD. A really strange idea of avex to only put two PVs on the DVD without even a "photo gallery" (like in "HEAVEN" and "fairyland").

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yukitora
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December 9, 2005

1 people found the following helpful

Bold & Delicious? DEFINATELY!! Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10

This single (despite many people's views on it) is definately a treasure in my books! This single is quite special for two reasons. One, that this single was produces to experiment on how the Japanese would view this new Ayu (as commented by Ayu in a magazine) and two, because the composer (GEO from SWEETBOX) is very different to Ayu's usual composers ^_^ Bold & Delicious is a wonderful track which WILL scare purist Ayu fans as it is SO different to any other Ayu-release ever. Very unique and very catchy :) The song is just that, prompting the listener to be Bold & Delicious. A song of courage and inspiration! Pride on the other hand, is in complete contrast. I love this song too and the vocals are perfect! The only problem with it for me is the composistion and arrangement. I tend to like rock/pop moreso than this. Also, the cover and booklet pictures are wonderful!!

Both of the remixes are great and the PVs both very refreshing :) They were both shot in NY and are very pretty. My only problem with the release of this album is that it was released too close to the album, making the sales very poor compared to other singles and ayu haters and lover thinking that it sold poorly due to the quality of the song :(

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JMC
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December 4, 2005

2 people found the following helpful

BOLD &......UNIQUE !!!! Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10

Well, over all Bold and Delicious is very unique song that has pieces of "pop" "hip hop" and "gospel" all blended into one. In my opinion its a great song that deserves 10 out of 10. The PV is also AMAZING and adds more life to the song. With out watching the PV the song Bold and Delicious may not be so impressive. Pride is the BEST track on this CD. It has a beautiful melody that evokes a very creepy feeling and it is sung in a way that gives the song a sad depressing sound. While some people say that PRIDE is dry, I dont know what they're listening to because it is sung full of emotion. Over all this is a GREAT single and I highly recommend it. I would buy the CD+DVD because neither song would be too impressive with out first viewing the PV.....Especially Pride,,,,just listening to PRIDE may not be so impressive unless the PV is viewed because I must admit that until I saw the PV I was not at all impressed with PRIDE. SO LIKE I SAID THIS IS A GREAT SINGLE AND I HIGHLY RECOMEND THIS>>>>>GO AYU!!!!!!!!!! I CANT WAIT TO GET HER NEW ALBUM : D

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Not The Mamma!
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November 30, 2005

3 people found the following helpful

Very good. Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10

There's a lot of people bashing Bold and Delicious just cuz they hate change...well get over it. Are there only like 14 people who like it? anywayz, heres a review of each song.
Bold and Delicious: this song is very cool. its got the fun of Humming 7/4 mixed with a gospel choir. i really like it.
Pride: this is a ballad song. I LOVE THIS ONE!!! the chorus makes yu wanna sway back an forth. The verses gt kinda boring though.
HEAVEN House Mix: i dont really like this song. it ruined HEAVEN for me.
Will Wall5 Mix: This is a very cool mix. Its very strange...like some of H/\L's mixes. it has some parts of the original song as well
Bold and Delicious (Instrumental): ehh...they should have cut the choir out and tha yayayayagagagagadadadadawowowowo part out. theres too much vocal
Pride (instrumental): Very haunting. the backup choir sounds very mystic in this song. Its great if you didnt like the original song.

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tcwgirl
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November 29, 2005

3 people found the following helpful

Good--but not Amazing Customer Review Rated Bad 5 - 5 out of 10

Hamasaki Ayumi has hit her fan audience back-to-back singles this year that either really appealing in originality ("STEP you/is this LOVE?") or the same original fodder ("fairyland" and "HEAVEN"). This following single "Bold&Delicious/Pride" doesn't really lend to either of those categories. Ayu's voice is infused with the power of a gospel choir for the chorus of "Bold&Delicious" in which she sings, "Get a little bit more free!", but still falls short of being mesmerizingly strong because the verses lack a certain umph that an R&B/Pop number like this require. A few bars sound as if she's trying to impersonate a man singing her song, the others are musically "just ok" and not much else. The rhthym is reminiscent of Japanese rock from the 1980s and American R&B/Pop hits from the 1990s. This single might be as controversial as her "STEP you" single, but certainly not as endearing. The music video is also a let-down because it's simply Ayu on the back of a video truck taking very "college filmmaker"-esque video shots and cues. She's dressed gorgeously in a cute, pink chiffon dress with a lovely neutral fur coat; her hair is dark and luxuriously curly. But the video begs for more ingenuity. The cover to this single is misleading, and the DVD's music video concept is a completely different one from the single cover art. I wish the video had been more like the single cover art, actually. "Pride" is an all right single, it's very Ayumi-ish, if anything. It's a strong song with a medium tempo, strong drum and rock feeling without ever going fast. It could, at best, be called a rock ballad. There is little creativity besides occasional moments when the guitar and back-up choir add flavor to this song. Fans of all the "MY STORY" album's rock-infused songs might like this slower rock ballad. Overall, the theme for "Bold&Delicious/Pride" seems to be strength and choir vocals. I must say that I enjoyed Ayumi without the latter...

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salvator3_d
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November 29, 2005

1 people found the following helpful

Come out with something new? That is sooo Ayu! Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9 out of 10

Bold & Delicious is a rather complex, extraordinary, catchy, infectious song with medium pace beat guaranteed to stuck inside ur' head spinning around and around after listening for even the first time. Like any other of her upbeat songs, it's opened by a jingle which instead of sounding simple like
'lalalala...' in Greatful Days, it oozes 'yayayayagagagagadadadawowowo' which creates a distinct excitement & ambience of the song. Thankfully, the english part that's only Booold and Deliccioouuss is pronounced clearly and thus, making the whole song sounds perfect. On the contrary, Pride is a minor ballad included to merely compliment the single. As for this song, Pride fails to compete with her other ballad songs such as Heaven & Carols due to its plain/flat melody and the decent notes in the chorus part. This asides, Bold & Delicious clips underlines Ayu always-come-out-with-something-new trademark by depicting Ayu singing on the back of a big truck driving around New York. It seems that Ayu wants to relate the idea of the clip with the song title which said Bold & Delicious since it's quite embarassing, scary yet feeling-good at the same time having lots car riders as well as pedestrians staring at her in a puzzled way while performing the song. To be honest, this totally works and I give two thumbs up for the PV director and her! However, I, after watching the entire clip, am somewhat bored with the mostly static manner in shooting her. Despite that, i'm still enjoying the clip as much as the song itself. Lastly, there're just six words that i'm gonna say to Ayu fans out there; BUY IT COZ IT'S GOOD!

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ayumihamasakisan
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November 29, 2005

1 people found the following helpful

excellent! Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10

This single is one of her best yet! Featuring a newer R and B beat and rythym from the US, Ayu perfectly incorporates it into Japanese, giving her an edge over other artists! She still reigns as JPOP queen, now and forever!

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Maxker
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November 28, 2005

Another orginal Single by The Queen of J-pop! Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10

This single is so not Ayu, but so nice...!

I think that Bold&Delicious is a very "funny" song, love the beginning; yayayayagagagagajajajajawowowowo", it's kind of cute ^^ And, it's easy to sing along because of the amount of English. One of my Ayu favs this year, Behind STEP you.

Pride is a deep and sad song, I especially like the opening background music. It's a decent contrast to the wacky Bold&Delicious.

This single is really creative, and very fun indeed and she looked like she had fun doing making of the PV for B&D

It's EXCELLENT!:D

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Danish Ayu-supporter
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November 26, 2005

1 people found the following helpful

Ameriacnish/Broadway Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10

Bold & Delicious- I'm really not fond of this song, it's to american... which is supported by the video ^_^; Maybe it just has to grow on me.. or something

Pride- I loooooooove this song!!! It's like an eerie musical-inspired powerful ballad, maybe a little jazz..? And the lyrics are beautiful ^_^ This is a masterpiece!

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Star Reviewer
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November 26, 2005

1 people found the following helpful

Not My Favorite Ayu Customer Review Rated Bad 7 - 7 out of 10

I love Ayu to death, but this fell short in every way possible. It's not that the songs are horrendous, but Bold&Delicious kind of doesn't fit Ayu well. She has a beautiful voice that tackle any style, but with the "YAYAYA GAGAGA DADADA WOWOWOWOWOOO" when you first hear the song, the booming sounds of a gospal choir shouting "BOLD&DELICIOUS" before Ayu, and then coming in with the chorus along side Ayu, it's funky but not my favorite. I actually like the whole style of the song but it takes some time to find interesting. The PV to Bold&Delicious was shot in NY. I wont give it away, but it's a nice little video inside of a video were you get to see New Yorkers in "awe" at a Japanese woman making a PV in Japanese. If I may add, I think I saw my cousins neighborhood! :O
Pride? I like. It's a nice song, soft & mellow, but I don't like it more than Bold&Delicious.
But my favorite song on the whole single is Will "WALL5Remix", it's great. I think the single is still worth buying, especially for an Ayu fan, no doubt about it.

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