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Originally Posted by hell's_belle
To me, it sounds like stomping, it makes me think of someone marching. For me, this is not an image the song otherwise conjours so the constant pulse is jarring. Counting the time wouldn't be bad if the emphasis was on 2 and 4, or even on 1 and 3, instead of being on all four beats of the measure. even a different pitch or volume would do wonders for the song.
A pulse would make sense to me if this were a dance song, but it's not.
Also, listen to most music, and you'll here emphasis on the off beats, it's become a standard since the blues music of the 20s and 30s
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Pulse is entrained not only in dance music, but in all music of the Western tradition which includes pop. If there was no segments of constant pulse in music, then there is no closure when the pulse does get broken.
What you're talking about emphasis on the 2 and 4 is a form of syncopation, which does give music the need to move forward. Emphasis on 1 and 3 is because of either durational, or interonset durational accents. Love song is clearly not influenced by rhythm and blues music, as far as I can try to put them together. Maybe Ayu didn't want the sense of thwarted beats in her song.
I would tend to correlate the stateliness of the drum beats to the sections of the lyrics Ayu poses multiple questions. If one wanted someone to clearly hear their question, would they simply rush through the speech of it?