Tracks:

1. Luna

2. No pain, no gain

3. Diggin’ on you

4. Luna (Instrumental)

5. No pain, No gain (Instrumental)

Beni Arashiro’s Luna was released on February 28th, 2007. It’s her 8th and charted at #77 on the Oricon Weekly Chart, selling a total of 1,558 copies. The title track was used as the theme for the drama Warui Yatsura.

Luna is so amazingly pretty. D: It’s a ballad with akind of R&B twist. Beni’s vocals are wonderful and are probably at their best. At some points she sounds little choppy, but it straightens out and is good almost throughout the whole song. In the end, this song is actually pretty dramatic.

When No pain, no gain starts out, it sounds alright, but as soon as she starts singing in that lower pitched tone… I wanted to hit next. It makes her voice sound really bad, almost like she’s forcing herself to sing. it also makes it sound choppy and weird. The music is a little more aggressive, and isn’t all that bad, it would ust be ten times better if she didn’t sing the way she did.

I was really bored with the cover of TLC’s 1994 track, Diggin’ on you. The verses and the bridge weren’t all that great, because Beni sounded dead. I like the chorus though, her voice picks up and just sounds a lot better. The music is really laid back and has some clapping beats, and a little acoustic guitar.

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