[MUSIC REVIEW] m-flo loves BONNIE PINK “Love Song” CD Single

A fantastic collaboration between singer/songwriter BONNIE PINK and m-flo for m-flo’s 21st CD single “Love Song”.

The duo m-flo featuring producer/DJ Takahashi Taku and MC Verbal have attracted fans to their music since their debut with singer LISA back in 1999 with “the tripod e.p.”.

Known for their style of music that fused Japanese hip hop and dance music, the duo has been known for experimentation and trying things different.

With original member LISA leaving the group to pursue a solo career, m-flo who has had collaborations in the past with a number of artists began to incorporate the monicker “m-flo loves…” with it’s 2003 release “REEEWIND!” featuring m-flo loves CRYSTAL KAY.

This marked the duo’s work with other artists from other labels such as CRYSTAL KAY, melody, EMYLI, Wada Akiko, Hinouchi Emi and many more.

As for BONNIE PINK, she is the free spirit performer that creates the music that she wants to do. (see our J!-ENT interview)

May it be rock-based or pop, she has a large fan following and a respect from fans because of her creativity as a singer and as a song writer who takes chances.

I have always enjoyed the music that came from both m-flo and BONNIE PINK and to find out that the two collaborated for “Love Song” was surreal.

The pairing between the two is something that is out of left field and I never would have imagined such a collaboration to ever happen. And the result is very very cool and very fresh!

“Love Song” is an upbeat song featuring a head bopping, addictive dance beat. The hip hop from Verbal and BONNIE PINK’s vocals are just smooth and beautiful.

The second track “she loves the CREAM” featuring m-flo loves DOPING PANDA is the theme song for “Global Astroliner”, an anime short on the Avex anime project “Amazing Nuts!”

The song is very frenetic going from disco to mind-numbing beat with Verbal’s MC’ing and then a churging of the electric guitar suddenly comes and changes the pace of the song. And for fans of DOPING PANDA, change is very good.
DOPING PANDA known for infusing disco, rock and digital sounds into their music and collaborating with m-flo definitely brings something different than what we are typically used to hearing from m-flo.

The third track “Lotta Love ~yasutaka nakata capsule mix~ features m-flo loves MINMI.

MINMI known for her style of Japanese reggae, like BONNIE PINK has ventured into a variety of different genres of music and in this case, her collaboration with m-flo features a a danceable, groovy pop song that showcases her talent beyond the reggae music she is known for.

The fourth and fifth tracks are instrumental tracks for the first two songs.

I found m-flo’s 21st CD single “Love Song” quite ambitious with the artists utilized for this CD single.

Not only do we get three collaborations with three talented artists that have their own different style of music compared to the music we often hear from m-flo, just to listen to these artists work with the duo create great music is too awesome.

I look forward to what m-flo will be doing next.

— DENNIS A. AMITH

Catalog #: RZCD-45454 / Dur. 32:11
Release date: November 8, 2006

1. Love Song - m-flo LOVES BONNIE PINK
2. she loves the CREAM - m-flo LOVES DOPING PANDA
3. Lotta Love -yasutaka nakata capsule
mix- m-flo LOVES MINMI
4. Love Song - instrumental-
5. she loves the CREAM - instrumental-

NOTE: Track 2 (she loves the CREAM) can be found also on the “AMAZING NUTS!” soundtrack. Song was used as theme song for anime short on “AMAZING NUTS!”

Click here to read our interview 2005 J!-ENT interview with BONNIE PINK here:

http://www.nt2099.com/INTERVIEWS/bonniepink/bonniepink.pdf