[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

I agree that the song isn't as "full" as her older stuff. I love me some guitars and was thinking about their disappearance from most major Jpop acts in the recent years. Early 2000's were very often guitar based.

I started thinking about that after listening to Hitomi's cover of Anytime smokin' cigarette. I love the use of guitar in it. I don't know if it's digital or an actual guitar, but just having it there made me miss it.

Some of my absolute favorite songs have guitar as a prominent instrument. One in particular is July 1st. That intro is just...perfect.

She still uses a lot of piano and violin, heck she uses organs....but it's still not the same.

However, I'm still able to enjoy her music. Perhaps I just don't care so deeply about it...or it's just not something that interferes with my enjoying a song.

For me, more than instrumentation, it's the melody(?). For example... I don't know the technical term...but like, Marionette is a song I continue to hate. Because it just feels so heavy and "down" sounding. It's the not instrument choices, it's the very negative sounding overall "blah" feeling that it gives me.

Yeah it's sad. Even fairlyland has the guitar playing a prominent role throughout the entire song.