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andurilis probably one of the most depressing song ever. The first time I heard, I cried. All that without even understanding the lyrics fully! The second time I heard, tears is welling in my eyes. Then, I have to stopped. And I listen to it in better quality, yup, I cried.
I think there's a work of genius behind this song. It's the way it was arranged so beautifully that it played with your emotion. The way the note tilted that you can't help but soar and then, you have to go down back to Earth because the lyrics are so depressing. Dark and depressing.
And it really helps that you have someone like Fukuyama Masaharu singing it. This man is singing from experience, singing about his first true love at the age of fourty, where, according to society's expectation, he should be raising a family by now. He's singing about forbidden love, about the lost time and about his own dark desire. All this can be heard in this voice. I can't imagine anyone else singing it.
I finally realise why people said each singer has its own interpretation. Why each song only works for that particular singer. Why it was every songwriter's dream to have the right person to sing their song. And I think he's just made for this. If someone else were to sing this song, it won't sound as dark. Browsing through the Japanese blog, it seems I'm not the only one who thinks so. More than one person called this Ballad of the Century and more than one person also decided they're not gonna get this single because it's too sad.
This is a special song for me. Not due to the lyrics content. It was more due to the intense emotion it raised in me. And looking back, I believe I will always remember it, remember the first time you hears in your speaker, in a bad quality radio transmission and in a way you feel so unsettled about it that you don't know how to feel. I was so unsettled that I can't sleep that night. It was that intense.
And I'll be lying if I say I will play this song everyday. Nope. This is not the song that you should play everyday. This is the song that you play as a reminder on what could have been. And do not make the same mistake again.
I think there's a work of genius behind this song. It's the way it was arranged so beautifully that it played with your emotion. The way the note tilted that you can't help but soar and then, you have to go down back to Earth because the lyrics are so depressing. Dark and depressing.
And it really helps that you have someone like Fukuyama Masaharu singing it. This man is singing from experience, singing about his first true love at the age of fourty, where, according to society's expectation, he should be raising a family by now. He's singing about forbidden love, about the lost time and about his own dark desire. All this can be heard in this voice. I can't imagine anyone else singing it.
I finally realise why people said each singer has its own interpretation. Why each song only works for that particular singer. Why it was every songwriter's dream to have the right person to sing their song. And I think he's just made for this. If someone else were to sing this song, it won't sound as dark. Browsing through the Japanese blog, it seems I'm not the only one who thinks so. More than one person called this Ballad of the Century and more than one person also decided they're not gonna get this single because it's too sad.
This is a special song for me. Not due to the lyrics content. It was more due to the intense emotion it raised in me. And looking back, I believe I will always remember it, remember the first time you hears in your speaker, in a bad quality radio transmission and in a way you feel so unsettled about it that you don't know how to feel. I was so unsettled that I can't sleep that night. It was that intense.
And I'll be lying if I say I will play this song everyday. Nope. This is not the song that you should play everyday. This is the song that you play as a reminder on what could have been. And do not make the same mistake again.