Baby Cruising Love / Macaroni [Pefume - 11th Single]

Baby Cruising Love / Macaroni is Perfume’s 11th single overall, while being their 6th under a major label. It debuted at #3 on the Oricon charts, with its weekly rank also being #3. It has sold a total of 64,252 copies and was released on the 16th of January, 2008. ( Coincidentally, one day after my birthday. xD;; )

Track Listing
1. Baby Cruising Love
2. Macaroni
3. Baby Cruising Love (Instrumental)
4. Macaroni (Instrumental)

I’ve gotta admit, the digitized voices that open Baby Cruising Love annoy the hell out of me. I love the BGM that follows the opening, though. Which, of course, stays for the whole song. The vocals are just a big gripe for me in this song, as they never really change throughout the whole song. It’s a nice song, once again heavy on the synth and digital voices, nothing you haven’t heard from Perfume before. It’s not a great song, and it surprised me when I found out it was their highest selling single. It all depends on what degrees of digital sound you can take, really.

Macaroni is a lot easier on the ears. To be totally honest, I can’t tell if this song has drums in it, or just synth that resembles drums. Also, the girls voices are barely digitized in this sing, if at all, which was a great change from their previous works during the GAME era. It’s a simple song, much slower than any songs on their previous singles. It has a much more natural sound, which I was excited to hear. If they make more songs like this in the future, I’ll be happy. There’s at least one more like it on GAME, so that’s always good.

Overall Score
B-

Favorite Track
Macaroni

As strange as it might sound, Baby Cruising Love actually dragged this single down for me. Macaroni was the highlight this time around, but that might be easier to understand this time since they’re both A-sides. They’ve definitely released better material in the past, but hopefully Macaroni is a sign of new thing to come from the girls.