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Old 21st March 2016, 12:06 AM
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^ It might've been compared to Pride, too. Tbh this comparison would've made a little more sense to me. But it was more overwhelmingly compared to marionette. Here are just a few examples:

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Originally Posted by Kirshwasser View Post
Petal reminds me of marionette, but it has different atmosphere like darker.
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Originally Posted by relmy View Post
Petal is a nice, but it does feel like the light mid-tempo soft version of tracks like Marionette, which is a bit disappointing.
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Originally Posted by Heavenly View Post
petal : it's a really good surprise ! It's like they took all the interlude of Love songs and turned them into a full song. I got that Marionette vibe, bittersweet feeling.
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Originally Posted by marty View Post
Like, I kept comparing petal to Marionette, and SAKURA to forgiveness, and Bye bye darling to identity, just like in FIVE I kept comparing Why... to It Was.
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Originally Posted by Zeke. View Post
petal is her cheapest sounding song to date. For me, it is just terrible. It is like a reject version of Marionette. The arrangement is seriously so unfortunate.
There's even this poll

And those were just some of the posts I found, there were more, but I don't want to make the post too long. I only found 4 posts comparing it to Pride, and two of them were by the same person (and 3 of them also compared it to Marionette)

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