Song Appreciation: BEST OF THE BEST Special Edition, No. 4

[ohgacktwedidit]

We move onto another song from our very own BEST GACKT SONGS countdown!

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[raiu_9]

Being an impatient person, this song was one I didn't give a chance to right away because of the slow intro. -.- What convinced me to finally listen to it was a review that someone posted on LJ (either here or in the DEARS community) that described the shift in the song as the sound of "a nightingale hitting a turbine". I thought, "O.O", so I went to listen to it again.

I was floored. In-fuk-ing-credible. The first 2 minutes 43 seconds (using the live version) are very well balanced, but what makes this song is the transition. It completely catches you off guard when you listen to it, then captures you and takes you away among the violins, guitars, and drums. It's chaotic, wonderful, and full of longing. The genius part of this whole thing is GACKT's vocals, because he's singing against the chaos in the song. I'm rusty in my music theory so I have no idea if he's singing in another time signature, which I doubt. While the drums and the strings are maintaining their fast momentum, his vocals are akin to the first part of the song, uniting both aspects and creating a sphere of absolute wonderfulness. I sometimes want be in the song and wrap myself with it like a everlasting blanket of awesome. That being said, it's currently in my top 3 GACKT songs. xD

My personal favorite part of this songs is all of it the drums, because in the live version, the drummer adds a beat long 16th note drum-kick roll to the song that isn't there in the recording. It's at 4:05 in the video posted here. It makes me (“⌒∇⌒”).

[zeldaindisguise]

the drummer adds a beat long 16th note drum-kick roll to the song that isn't there in the recording. It's at 4:05 in the video posted here. It makes me (“⌒∇⌒”)
I never noticed that part! I'll be smiling now every time I hear it. ^^

For me, it's the syncopation at 4:20- 4:37 that makes me smile. (｡^‿^｡)
legato string note+drum beat against piano accent beat---->drum accent against strings+piano---->back to strings+drum against piano accent.