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Old 18th December 2006, 12:21 PM
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[2006] What genre is ourselves?
May I ask what Genre this song falls under. Listening to the Instrumental over and over it confuses me more and more.
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Old 18th December 2006, 03:53 PM
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i believe it's a pop~dance pop probably..
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Old 18th December 2006, 05:59 PM
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Scary Pop.
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Old 18th December 2006, 10:02 PM
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HAHA scary pop...

i think it's like pop..but a bit of grunge rock laced around. like a chocolate sundae. it's still sweet (haha i know that's sorta lame...but i just randomely thought of that)
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Old 18th December 2006, 11:09 PM
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what the Lol you make it sound yummy....I want a sundae now
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Old 19th December 2006, 05:20 AM
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It has alot of sounds in it. It's almost jazzy in the chorus, structure-wise. Not to mention the rock, pop, dance, and almost hip-hop sorta influences in it.

Songs like "ourselves" are why I'm starting to really hate genre labels. WAY too confusing.
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Old 19th December 2006, 05:37 AM
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I was never able to categorize this song either. It always, just kind of, stood alone by itself...One of my favorites by Ayu, and definitely one of my favorite things about her.

But then, I can't categorize alot of her music, especially those from 2002-2003, this is what I consider "Ayu's sound" one of the unique things about her. I refuse to label it as anything else. It's sort of impossible sometimes, especially with songs like this one.
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Old 19th December 2006, 06:30 AM
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no clue haha
it's a weird mix
i think the song's okay, i'm not a huge fan of it
just never really appealed to me
but it's definitely different
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Old 19th December 2006, 07:02 AM
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Very tough call. Pop with hip-hop and R&B mixed in sounds closest, but... I dunno. A lot of her songs are hard to categorize properly. What in the hell are songs like Free & Easy, Bold & Delicious, STEP you, or NEVER EVER, just to name a few?
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Old 19th December 2006, 02:32 PM
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What in the hell are songs like Free & Easy, Bold & Delicious, STEP you, or NEVER EVER, just to name a few?
Free & Easy: Ballady at the begninning, pop with a bit of rock in the chorus, back to ballady

B&D: really odd gospel-rock-pop-thingy

STEP you: like mad said: electro-pop

NEVER EVER: pop with rock guitars in the background. so yea
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Old 24th December 2006, 02:10 AM
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Free & Easy: Ballady at the begninning, pop with a bit of rock in the chorus, back to ballady
In what corner of the world is that considered a genre?
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Old 24th December 2006, 03:25 AM
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In what corner of the world is that considered a genre?
Hahaha! The Misclasifiction corner. ;D

NEVER EVER is my favorite kind of pop song. Its like a mash of the west and the east. It has a nice Jpop flavor to it. It's like Jpop-rock.
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Old 19th December 2006, 08:39 AM
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The arrangements are very much influenced by Hip-Hop and R&B, while thr melody is that of a rockish popsong.. so.. yea.. tough call..

as for STEP you; that's easy.. electro pop
Bold & Delicious; experimental gospel-pop
Never ever; pop... nothing more; nothing less
Free & Easy; together with Daybreak it kind of has it's own CREA-genre. Pretty hippie-like.
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Old 19th December 2006, 08:41 AM
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Pop R&B.
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Old 19th December 2006, 02:58 PM
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Personally, I classify it as World Music.

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Free & Easy: Ballady at the begninning, pop with a bit of rock in the chorus, back to ballady
If that's a genre, Ayumi is a guy.

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Never ever; pop... nothing more; nothing less
I strongly disagree, the chorus is pure rock, coupled with the distorted bridge.

Maybe all of those are fusions and crossovers?
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Old 19th December 2006, 03:01 PM
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Old 19th December 2006, 05:58 PM
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ourselves has a lot of rock pop influences.
STEP you has a lot of electronica rock/pop influences.
Bold & Delicious has a lot of gospel/choir themed influences.
Free & Easy is like...a church-organ/gospel rock.
NEVER EVER is pop rock.


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Old 19th December 2006, 06:54 PM
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What's with the horror/scary pop comments? Honestly, Ourselves doesn't even have a scary element until you've seen the video.
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Old 19th December 2006, 07:11 PM
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I think the melody is already scary, coz it was..like...Bang Bang Bang bass banging and there goes the rhyming chant on the chorus....
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Old 22nd December 2006, 11:04 PM
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Couldn't we classify it as "dark" or shall we not really consider that an official genre?
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