Thoughts on Blue Bird?

[*Petit*]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

I've already explained how yes, composition wise those songs are quite similar. Doesn't mean I think they are bad, just repetitive and that she is capable of creating more original tracks that would still have the "summery" feeling.

Really, it's not (except for the use of electroonics). Let's look at fairyland. Yes the intro starts out with increasing volume, but she starts singing right on. The melody is obiously not the same at all as blue bird' verse (the melody is very diffrent throughout the song). THen the bridge. THen the these two are repeated again before the chorus. there's a instumental thing before verse + bridge + chorus i repeated again. Then there's a long "break" in the song which lasts a bit too long IMO. Afterwords bass drum picks up and there's a guitar solo and the chorus is repeated with less percussion, before the final two chorus' are sung with the same music as in the first chorus', short instrumental and finish.

BLUE BIRD starts with a cute instrumental part where a melody is played. SHe then sings the verse once the bridge once and the chorus once. Also the percussion comes in later (in the chorus) than i fairyland (second part of the first chorus/bridge part). Also the added lalas after the chorus is different (although it's kind of a part of the instrumental part). After this the verse + bridge + chorus is repeated then there's a break like in fairyland, but much shorter luckily, the bridge is repeated more mellowly (not like the chorus like in fairyland), then the chorus is repeated twice. The use of instruments is also somewhat different. The more "old school" sounding "drum (I don't know its name in english =P) is used in BB in fairyland there's a more mellow use of everything.

Fairyland is more than a minute longer than BLUE BIRD. I always thought fairyland was too long.

How the melodies are really different shows f.ex in the chorus where in fairyland the first almost same passages are repeated the first two 8 beats then another passage which lasts for 16 beats in which the two first four are quite the same. Then it all is repeated. BLUE BIRD has a different structure: its melody in the chorus can be splitted up in two parts, the first 8 beats (let's call them A) and the second 8 beats (it's B). The structure of the chorus is like this: A B A B B. So the same stuff is not repeated like in fairyland.

Stil though, this type of composition isen't uncommon, but it's not like fairyland. I understand well how they can "sound" the same, but really, they're not more alike than any two of her rock songs.

I very unsure of which part of the ayu discography this song reminds me of. It hasen't got the "creepy" and dark parts most of the songs from RAINBOW has, I thought of the old stuff from f.ex duty and LOVEppears, but obiously it has a more modern and fuller sound, though I must admit this is a bit hard to make out from a LQ version. ALthough I think it's hard to place it, the songs that I think it sounds alike are AUDIENCE and Angel's song. I really woulden't know about BTB, because I thought the song was quite unlistenable, so it's hard for me to compare (I coulden't take the loud BOOOOORN to be FREEE! screaming).