BoA, Crystal Kay and Verbal's debut performance of "Universe"

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BoA, Crystal Kay and Verbal all hit up Music station to give their first performance of "Universe". One of the 3 A-sides to feature on her latest single release. I had big hopes for this single, all of which were dashed with the quickness in one fell swoop of a performance.



What utter bullshit! BoA and Crystal do not sound good together. BoA's voice is too hoarse and Crystal's is too smooth. And I have no idea why Verbal was thrown into the mix. To be completely honest, the main problem is that the song just isn't that good, full stop. And the unecessary guest features made it worse. BoA cannot sing as good as Crystal on her best day, so BoA never should've agreed to letting her feature on the song. Verbal's raps; whilst tight, feel throwaway and unecessary. BoA should've done the song on her own. Or better still, scrapped it. "Eien" makes for a strong enough A-side on its lonesome. So why bog it down with 2 other A-sides that are nothing but fluff and filler!?

The performance also did the song no justice. It was dry. All 3 of them looked like hot messes. Crystal looked like a Gap store threw up all over her, BoA looked like a prostitue ready to turn tricks outside the Music station studio, and Verbal looked like a walking ad for UniQlo's coloured denim and premium down jackets. They didn't look as hip as they thought they did and their swagger was non-existant. Crystal was at least trying, but BoA looked fed up. Surely the bitch could've worked the waist, done a little grinding or something! She weren't to shy to drop, pop and lock it in her "Eien" video.

Overall, "Universe" is a mess. You'd think between BoA, Crystal Kay, Verbal, Bloodshy & Avant and one fifth of The Clutch that the song would've been the hottest thing. But nope. And you'd think the live performance would've been explosive, but nope. Double fail.

BoA shouldn't even be in Japan. Her English language debut releases in the U.S in less than 4 weeks. Shouldn't she be whoring herself out over there about now!? And shouldn't Verbal be over there with her plugging the Teriyaki boyz western debut? Clearly AvexTrax don't give a damn about their US endeavours.