Track Listing
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Swear
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Beauty
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Swear (Instrumental)
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Beauty (Instrumental)
1. Swear
I’m so happy that Swear isn’t a ballad. I was starting to lose faith in alan after her last single, but hearing a more poppish style from her is a great idea. Even though her voice isn’t extravagant as most people would say in songs like “Gunjou no Tani” or “Sora Uta”, she isn’t doing too bad here. It’s a lighthearted pop tune and honestly it doesn’t exactly fit in her releases, but it’s a nice song either way.
2. Beauty
The B-side however reminds me of one of her older B-sides, “Sakura Modern”. It starts with a melody that makes it sound Chinese, but at the same time Beauty has this mix of winter and spring with its flowing arrangement and alan’s pretty single. I’d say this is one of the best B-sides I’ve heard from alan in a while (then again, when was the last B-side? Oh yeah. “Namida” from “Megumi no Ame”)
alan ends off the “my life” era with a pretty nice single. It’s nice that we finally get a new B-side rather than a rearranged version or other things. Swear’s pop side shows off alan in a cute way while Beauty does show off her Chinese side of her like her early B-sides and I liked it. I’d say this is the best single of the era.
