Potential Breakup Song is Ami Suzuki’s 28th overall single, and her 14th under the avex trax label. It debuted at #16 on the Oricon charts, with a weekly rank of #34. It sold a total of 5,956 copies and was released on the 28th of November, 2007.

Track Listing
1. Potential Breakup Song (AMI SUZUKI joins Aly & AJ)
2. feel the beat (AMI SUZUKI joins SUGIURUMN)
3. Potential Breakup Song (sugiurumn remix) (AMI SUZUKI joins Aly & AJ)
4. Potential Breakup Song (Instrumental) (AMI SUZUKI joins Aly & AJ)

While FREE FREE was the song that got me into Ami Suzuki, Potential Breakup Song is the one that ensured me it wasn’t a fluke. I absolutely LOATHE Aly & AJ, so at first, I was (apparently) turned off by their inclusion, or by Ami doing a cover of their song. Maybe both. Anyway, while theirs was a crappy pop song, THIS is club music at its best. It opens with a fast club sound to it, and it never lets up. The jungle sounds at the beginning are sort of out of place, but when it gets into the verses, it gets good. Ami can sing fast and never really mess up, as this song proves. Her voice is perfect for this music too, and there’s no digitalization at all in this song. The chorus is perfect too, Ami doesn’t try to be eclectic like Aly and AJ did. Actually, I think they do some of the back-up vocals, but anyway… It’s a top notch song.

feel the beat also starts with a heavy club beat, more reminiscent to SUPER MUSIC MAKER or FREE FREE extended than PBS, before mixing with the main beat of the song. This lasts for about a minute, until it goes to the usual analog-ish beeps that start the radio edit. It’s a very simple song, club heavy, more focused on music that you can dance to, when compared to the previous song. It consists of very few lyrics, mainly “I feel the beat, I feel the music” and other similar lines. I personally LOVE the background music for feel the beat, especially the section just before Ami sings. It would’ve been great if this was a more lyric-heavy song, but unfortunately, it isn’t. Sad, really, cause it just seems to drag on without any real lyrics, making it sort of boring.

The Sugiurumn remix of Potential Breakup Song starts with a different club feel to it when compared to the normal version, but later on, there isn’t much of a notable difference to it. They also slowed down Ami’s vocals for this version, which just removes the feel of the first one somehow. It just seems to work better than the slower version of it. It’s also longer than the actual version, but that’s mainly because of the instrumental parts at the beginning and the end, maybe sometimes between verses and chorus. It’s not radically different, but it drags on. I kinda fail to see the point, it’s too similar.

Overall Score
C+

Favorite Track
Potential Breakup Song

I personally love Potential Breakup Song, and feel the beat had its moments, but the Sugiurumn remix of PBS just seems pointless in and of itself. It’s not different enough to make you keep listening to it, unless you really enjoyed the music in it.