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Originally Posted by bluegie
It takes me a second read to understand what you said (I dun study music lol). But I guess you're right. I can't remember what beloved sounds like (it's so forgettable), so can't comment on it. The piano opening of Why... is quite similar to JUJU's song (Ashita ga Kurunara), of course the beats are different. For the verse and chorus, I can't recall similarities with other songs, but the melody sounds familiar.
Anywayz, what attracts me tho is ayu's voice in Why. Her vocal sounds different than her recent stuff, and I love her vocal in Why.  |
Essentially, the composition of Why... is very formulaic. Most lines of the verse and chorus end in a leading tone - tonic - supertonic - tonic movement which is a highly conventional melodic cadence formula, and in terms of scale degrees and whole song is based on the melodic line of 1-2-3-5-2-1-7-1-2-1 (not the song's harmony). There is some tonicization of different keys in the chorus and bridge, but nothing unexpected like how CREA would have randomly modulated to distant keys.
Anyways, asides from that...I agree with how Ayu's vocals in Why... are so nice. For me, it seems to have this soothing R'n'B/Pop ballad quality like Aoyama's in "soba ni iru ne".