Kana Nishino – Aitakute Aitakute (a J!-ENT World Groove CD Single Review)

July 2, 2010 by Dennis Amith 

Kana Nishino’s eleventh single showcases the young R&B artist with a smooth R&B ballad and two more upbeat tracks.  A solid single overall!

ARTIST: Kana Nishino

CD SINGLE: Aitakute Aitakute

LABEL: SME Records

CATALOG #: SECL 864

DURATION: 11:56

RELEASE DATE: May 19, 2010

Since Kana Nishino’s debut in 2007, the young Sony Music Entertainment R&B artist has been doing quite well in the Japanese music charts.

Her eleventh single “Aitakute Aitakute” (I Miss You, I Miss You) is produced by Giorgio Cancemi and features a smooth R&B ballad.  The song beautifully combines piano with cool beats for an R&B sound.   A passionate track which debuted at #1 on the RIAJ Digital Track Chart (her fourth single to achieve #1) and #2 on the Oricon Charts.  The song was used in the commercial campaign for jewelry company GemCerey.

The coupling track “Love Is Blind” features an upbeat club track produced by Hiro and is used on the Yukina Kinoshita Aeon commercial in Japan.  Truthfully, this track could have been a double A-sided single.  Very catchy, upbeat and a very cool song!

As for the final track, “Grab Bag”, I personally would have named it “Mixed Bag” because of it’s unusual music arrangement, especially during the chorus which it seems it didn’t match at all.  I dig the beats by DJ Mass but the music around the chorus just seems off.  The song is presented primarily in English.

The CD insert comes with a booklet with photos of Kana Nishino, lyrics, production credits, a sticker sheet featuring Kana Nishino and a small insert with her concert information for “Kanayan Tour 2010 ~Autumn~”.

Overall, the “Aitakute Aitakute” single has two solid tracks and shows how Nishino can easily take on the R&B and club-style of music tracks.  The third track was OK but its arrangement during the chorus was not all that.  But overall, another solid single from Kana Nishino.