page_title: Game (Perfume album)
section_title: Composition and language
hierarchical_section_title: Game (Perfume album) / Composition and language
caption_attribution_description: Español: Yasutaka Nakata en Flash!!! Party en Julio del año 2013
context_page_description: Game is the debut studio album by Japanese girl group Perfume. It was released on April 16, 2008 by Tokuma Japan Communications. Game marks Perfume's first studio album to be fully produced by Japanese producer and Capsule member Yasutaka Nakata, while Perfume contributes to the album as the lead and background vocalists.
  Game was recorded and mixed by Nakata in Shibuya, Tokyo. Four different formats were released to promote the album; a standalone CD, a limited CD and DVD bundle, and a digital release. It was re-released in February 2016 as a 12-inch LP, featured in both Perfume's 2016 box set Perfume Complete LP Box and a limited singular release. Two different artworks were issued for the album's cover sleeve; one has Perfume inside a small room with synthetic grass, while the second has Perfume holding LED lamps in a dark room.
  Upon the album's release, it was met with mixed to favorable reviews from music critics. Several critics highlighted the commercial appeal, composition, and noted it as a resurgence of the techno-pop genre. However, some critics were ambivalent towards the album's lack of personality and polished production.
context_section_description: Game is an electronic dance album that borrows numerous musical elements including technopop and J-pop. Ian Martin from AllMusic stated, "Perfume are not like other Japanese manufactured idol groups is evident from the trio's popularity among not only traditional pop fans but also large numbers of indie and electronic music fans." A staff member from CD Journal identified that the album's strongest musical genre was technopop; several other reviewers and editors, such as a staff reviewer from Amazon.com and Zac Bentz from Japanator.com, also had similar hypothesises. Retrospectively, a staff member from MTV Iggy felt that the Japanese club and electronic culture had influenced all of Perfume's studio albums, including Game. In an interview with Nakata, he stated that he was particularly interested in re-inventing the term technopop for the Japanese music scene; a term that was recognized in the 1980s in Western culture. Technopop was first introduced to Japanese culture in the 1980s by Japanese band Yellow Magic Orchestra, who employed the genre in their studio album Naughty Boys (1983). Alongside this, Nakata incorporated his post-Shibuya-kei sound which he had initially used for the songs produced with Perfume during their time as an indies idol group, into the tracks from Game.
  Perfume admitted that they didn't know of the techno genre prior to Game; A-Chan stated in an interview with Bomb magazine "Well, we have just gotten to the point where we got to like techno music. But we are on the level that we ‘like’ it, and we don’t know the depth of it beyond that. I don’t think it is good to go to the next step without learning anything. So I want to know techno to the full first. It may be hard but I want to try at least." Nocchi felt that techno music, at the time of the release of Game, represented Perfume. Game is Perfume's first album to feature an English language song; the track "Take me Take me".
caption: Perfume's music has been handled by Japanese producer Yasutaka Nakata ever since their debut (pictured).
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