April is coming to an end once more, with one last Weekend Warrior right before that. It's not one like many others either- we're finally going across the second of the Taiko de Time Travel original song project that was announced during the 20th Anniversary livestream!
Thus, together with the usual Twitter reveal bearing its YouTube preview available above these very lines, we also have a companion blog entry to talk about the newcoming song in greater detail, a trend that is intended by the Taiko Team to continue for all the upcoming Taiko de Time Travel tracks as well. See you after the jump for that!
Nijiiro ver. New Track: April 24th, 2021
Key: red = series debut; blue = arcade debut
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Parallel Lollipop Taiko de Time Travel 10's / Sho Okada パラレルロリポップ / 太鼓 de タイムトラベル10's / Sho Okada |
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Appearing with a bit of internal jet lag in mind from April Fools Day shenanigans, Taiko Team leader Etou steps in for his 765th blog appearance (or the "first one in 200 billion years", as stated by the man himself) in order to summon and have a chat with the artists involved into the new song's creation and charting, both of which being Bandai Namco staffers for this quirky tune.
First in line is Sho Okada (岡田祥), Parallel Lollipop's composer as well
as one of the latest recruits for Bandai Namco's inhouse musician unit,
renamed to BNS Sounds last year.
When thinking back to 2010s, Japan's predominant music trend on the Internet was the wave of Kawaii Future Bass, with the sound-cutifying quirk on the surge during that very decade being the deciding factor over its representative song's direction. The 2010s being the birthing place of the Vaporwave genre was also paid homage by the composer in his Namco Original debut the same, with a 'screw-resembling' portion (read: music track delay, right in the middle) peppered with quintuplets to witness with both your ears and your bachi-holding hands. Sho Okada himself also revealed that he sampled some illustrious Namco Original of the past for the few vocal bits in the song, so have fun figuring out with other song is melded together to wave the 10's goodbye!
A little later in the blog post, Etou himself steps in to fill in the younger blog readers on the bit of music glossary
that was mentioned right above, the quintuplets (or '〇plets' more in general) used to punctually describe its rhythmical structure. As opposed to single beats, '〇plets' can be compared to syllable pronounciation of words of a certain length, a similitude that Etou puts to work with a food analogy. If triplets -3 beats- can be compared to 'Cod roe' (たらこ) pasta ('Co-du-roe', as broke down in Japanese reading), quintuplets can be associated to Mentaiko (めんたいこ) pasta for a similar line of reasoning ('Me-nu-Ta-i-ko', or 5 beats).
Parallel Lollipop's notecharter is the Synchronica veteran SueP (すえP), recommending good performers of this song to capture their own performance to better appreaciate their splendid job on a song with such 'messed up' beats! The charter's drive for this chart set, you see, was to convey to its players the unusual feeling of unknowingly executing a complex rhythm while enjoying their stay with the track's performance, as to suddendly make players realize in the aftermath something in the likes of "Holy cow, I just aced that quintuplet rhythm while I was so absorbed in playing!".
Tune in during May's latter half for the next Taiko de Time Travel stop, featuring the iconic duo of Vocaloid music and cosmo@BouSouP!
