THE GREAT ESCAPE
2.5
BAD GIRL
3.5
I’m In Love With The HERO
2.5
Let It Rain
3.5
Beautiful Stranger
2.5
You-Aholic
2.5
BORN TO BE A LADY
3.5
thoughts. B-.
I am floored that this is their best-selling Japanese album. I’m not saying that it’s a bad album (after a few listens I like it a lot more than I did back when I first heard it years ago), but it’s nowhere near million-selling good. GIRLS’ GENERATION is their debut Japanese album and like most first releases most of the tracks are Japanese covers of their Korean songs, but I focus mainly on the original material. I did not like this album at all when I first heard it, in fact I think I only liked Bad Girl, Let It Rain and BORN TO BE A LADY. The rest aren’t too bad though, they’re pretty decent listens once you give them a chance to grow on you. Their other two follow up Japanese albums after this one are better in my opinion, but this wasn’t a bad start to their Japanese career—especially considering it sold over a million copies.
- favorite track – Bad Girl
least favorite track – You-Aholic
guilty pleasure track – BORN TO BE A LADY
under-rated track – Let It Rain
