User blog comment:Snacks Killer/Music in Aikatsu Friends: what do you think?/@comment-34942882-20190329222032

I understand your sentiment, but I think the decline in "perceived" quality of songs applied to all established idol franchises (Love Live, Idol Master, PriPara), not just Aikatsu. A lot of good composers and writers have became expensive, or have moved on to better things, or simply because they cannot put out good stuffs all the time.

Still, while the average has declined, there are still good songs coming out of Aikatsu from time to time.

My top 5 "solo" are: 1. Identity 2. Otona Mode (Mikuru) 3. Emerald no Mahou 4. Kouya no Kiseki 5. Ibara no Joou

My number 1 is from Digz, and none of those songs are from MONACA or agehaspring. onetrap is still heavily involved in almost every song so they are not going anywhere. Digz also did "Believe it", which is one of my favorites, so they are pretty alright in my book. "Have a Dream", which is probably the worse song in Friends, has nothing to do with Digz, and was written by onetrap. Really, Digz is not any worse than MONACA or agehaspring.

On your points, for point 1 and 2, I can see where you are coming from, but I think there are people who feel the same way for many songs from both OG and Stars as well, so these issues are not exclusive to Friends. Point 3 makes zero sense to me because the label of "K-pop" or "J-pop" simply mean the country of origin, they say nothing about variety. In term of composition variety, I would say they are about the same across all series, but the OG has an edge simply because it has so many more songs.

On Friends season 2, it's too early to tell, and I actually like "Be star" so far.

I think what Friends needs the most right now is actually a better cameraman. Every anime performance so far has a varying degree of badness, so I really hope they replace the cameraman, or improve it somehow.