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Friday, August 25, 2006

Disturbing/annoying
Pierrot's song "Paranoia" and the song "When Worlds Collide" by Powerman 5000 sound almost exactly the same in parts (excepting that their languages are different). It's disturbing and annoying, because I highly doubt Aiji (who wrote the music for Paranoia) would ever copy someone else's music, but to think two totally different people thought up and wrote music that sounds almost identical...

In "When Worlds Collide" (for those of you who know the song):
Are you ready to go? Cause I'm ready to go. What you gonna do, baby, baby? Are you going with me, 'cause I'm going with you, that's the end of our time.

In "Paranoia", there's a guitar part at the beginning similar to the way that stanza of the song is sung, then later, Kirito sings:
ganjigarame no wazuka na jiyuu?
maru de kodoku no ba-gen se-ru
nagusameatte dakishimeatte kizu nameatte
genjitsu touhi
(Translation from centigrade-j:
is your freedom restricted and inconsequential?
it's like a bargain sale on loneliness.
comforting and holding each other,
licking one another's wounds,
trying to escape reality.)

I much prefer Kirito's words, but it's just disturbing that they're sung almost exactly the same, with the emphasis on the same syllables and everything... For those who have never heard When Worlds Collide OR Paranoia, this post means nothing to you, except for the irony of a song by an American band and a song by a Japanese band sounding very similar.

[There are other songs by other bands that have certain things in them that sound the same, but nothing stood out this much to me before.]

~SJ
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