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Originally Posted by isthisLOL?
I disagree completely. I think JEWEL is one of the very few Ayumi songs where the nature of the arrangement is essential for the song to work as a whole. Most of Ayumi's rock songs have an orchestral influence already that could easily be worked with to create a fully orchestrated version that still mirrors the original feeling. It's not like her rock influence is punk or black metal.
But JEWEL is incredibly delicate and I feel like the minimal ticking beat is it's essence. The melody itself is just bland J-Ballad to me.
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Like I said I do agree on that minimal ticking beat, but I do not think the melody is bland. The melody is pretty simple but that is also what makes the song so great - because something so simple turned out to be so perfect. Bland J-Ballad would be almost every Ku ballad and most recent "medium tempo ballads" Ayu has released. JEWEL's melody is anything but bland.
I am aware that most of Ayu's rock works have orchestral influences, and I absolutely love that - but they are there to enhance the feeling of the song as a whole - strip out everything else that those orchestral sounds are there to enhance and it just doesn't sound as epic.