Postby Kor » September 19th, 2009, 6:39 pm
I listened again to the song in the better version and now it even irrates me more. Everyone is just banging on their instruments for no reason. I've seen this in live shows that the players are sometimes banging on their instruments in order to show some preformance or something like that, but since it's a record of the song, they should have played like humans real players, but no...
plus, my twin brother pointed out to me something about that country music crap in the middle. They are trying to develop the music and make a modulation (after hearing it again, he was correct) and they actually doing it in that no singing part, but when they come back to the singing, instead of staying in the same key which they just developed to, they are going back to the same key which they started in. That is unless my ears are playing tricks on me now, but I can't hear any difference in the singing from before the break and after it. So they probably didn't try to make a modulation after all.
Though if they really wanted to make modulation, it was much easier to repeat the chorus and change the key in one leading chord instead of making an odd country music break which didn't fit the song.
It's so annoying to try to analyze this song since there really isn't anything special about it even though I try to dig in more than what I usually do with J-pop. If there is some special musical element inside this song, they hid it pretty well.
I know j-pop is uaully a simple and easy music which people can like but still...
Though thinking about it from the players' point of view, they play like they are bored and maybe they really are. This music doesn't supply any challenge for any of the players and most of the time they just play the same chords (and just playing chords is really really boring...). If the music was more complicated then maybe the players would play like they care about the song...
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with satou's pic if im not wrong ,Takagi is awesome 
