08-13-2010, 02:52 PM
I wanted to make this thread, as a more serious thread. Not a bad one. Simply one where people can share their emotional connections to certain songs. Simply put your explanation, your emotion, and your interpretation. 
To many of us, most likely all of us, music has captured our emotions and made us excited, depressed, frustrated, content, relaxed, even confused. Not because of the lyrics, but simply the way the music is presented. The way we hear it. The way our emotions relate to every note, every vocal. Even if we don't understand the actual lyrics. It's simply our perspective put into it.
The more I listen to "PIANO DUET", the more I think about frustration. The song begins slow, very sad, even a bit... shy. Like he's trying to avoid confrontation. Chorus starts, the pitch changes. The emotion heightens. More into a "Why can't you hear me out?" sort of way. But it ends with a very soft vocal. Like being shy again. Then the song starts again with a verse, more courageous in the vocals. The chorus starts a second time, only this time, the "shy vocal" changes to a high note. A depressed note. The instrumental makes me think of time passing when you keep quiet for a long time. When you hold emotions in to move on. But you can't. The instrumental stops, and suddenly the chorus BLASTS again this time. Into an emotional WRECK, with vocals scratching miserably, the "shy note" is high again, but it's an infuriated high note. Then at "kedo", the way it's said towards the end, right before "arigatou", is a desperate vocal. In a way, depressed, hopeless. Knowing you can't reach out to anything. Like you're giving up.
To many of us, most likely all of us, music has captured our emotions and made us excited, depressed, frustrated, content, relaxed, even confused. Not because of the lyrics, but simply the way the music is presented. The way we hear it. The way our emotions relate to every note, every vocal. Even if we don't understand the actual lyrics. It's simply our perspective put into it.
The more I listen to "PIANO DUET", the more I think about frustration. The song begins slow, very sad, even a bit... shy. Like he's trying to avoid confrontation. Chorus starts, the pitch changes. The emotion heightens. More into a "Why can't you hear me out?" sort of way. But it ends with a very soft vocal. Like being shy again. Then the song starts again with a verse, more courageous in the vocals. The chorus starts a second time, only this time, the "shy vocal" changes to a high note. A depressed note. The instrumental makes me think of time passing when you keep quiet for a long time. When you hold emotions in to move on. But you can't. The instrumental stops, and suddenly the chorus BLASTS again this time. Into an emotional WRECK, with vocals scratching miserably, the "shy note" is high again, but it's an infuriated high note. Then at "kedo", the way it's said towards the end, right before "arigatou", is a desperate vocal. In a way, depressed, hopeless. Knowing you can't reach out to anything. Like you're giving up.
but need more time to make up my mind... I think it will be an interesting thread 
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