And now, prepare to be crushed by a gigantic slab of pink concrete.

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Rebecca A. Gowns: A Japanese-Mexican drummer pop singer model idol? With a song called “Love Corrida”? This is cute and fun and I like it!!
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Patrick St. Michel: Like other Japanese pop acts promoted because they play drums, Shishido Kavka’s schtick really only works in a live setting where she can show off her skill. The percussion on “Love Corrida” definitely isn’t hidden, and it even features a rock breakdown and brief clap-along, but it also stays in the back most of the time. Rather, Kavka is following in the footsteps of Shiina Ringo and Kaela Kimura of Japanese artists finding a middle-ground between rock backgrounds and pop accessibility (that’s what the video is all about) without becoming boring. The whole thing is bouncy, but the key is the chorus which starts off not sounding that hooky – it’s just static-ey drivel, but that pivots into a really charming “darling!” and something a bit more commercial friendly (and she’s been popping up a bit more on TV as of late). It isn’t the math-rock idol unit I’m sure someone dreamed of — the idea is still open, claim it while you can! — but it’s probably better than that too. 
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Brad Shoup: Bright and blaring. I know about sugar crashes, but I’ve got a sugar hangover.
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Iain Mew: I love the guitar squeals, I love the playful squeak in Shishido Kavka’s voice as she breaks into the burble at the start of the chorus, and I love the delight in “baby” and “darling,” which I hear as mocking. The only thing holding me back is that there is SO MUCH of “Love Corrida,” not in length as much as density of stuff happening, everything colourfully saturated. At the wrong moment it’s a little exhausting, but at the right one it’s a delight.
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Anthony Easton: I am beginning to find myself old enough to be incompetent at reading the signals here; I cannot process the song by itself to see how the massive piling up works as part of a collective whole, but I sense that it does. 
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Jonathan Bogart: As much as the video — and breathless hypegaze copywriters — would like to insist on a stark duality between Serious Rock Drummer and Colorful Pop Star, there’s not enough space there to build a credible distinction. From Ringo Starr and Keith Moon to Rick Allen and Dave Grohl, drummers have long been the most colorful, iconic, anarchic, pop members of rock bands. Which is all to the good, because down that road lies Babymetal. Shishido is a pop singer with a slightly more pronounced rhythmic edge than normal — any hook’s a good one in the cutthroat J-Pop marketplace — and the dry edge to the drums’ recording, the production quality of insisting that they’re being played live, is if anything a failure of pop’s ecumenical spirit. Luckily, the na-na-na-na-na hook is there to paper over such lapses.
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Alfred Soto: The spritz of 2004-era Gwen Stefani (who we know loved the sound of this stuff) but the verses and chorus don’t cohere. 
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Edward Okulicz: With a couple of completely different things shoehorned together where the joins don’t just show, they sparkle and gleam, “Love Corrida” is almost a spiritual successor to Girls Aloud’s What Will The Neighbours Say? — and I don’t mean any one track in particular, I mean seven or eight of them at the same time. That means it rocks.
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