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Crystar - Revenger

Match-up analysis:

A rather weak match if we compare it to yesterday's. Even then, having a select group of 16 songs really makes me go further and say: "Alright. We have these scenarios. Let's pay even more attention to these songs, since there's a reason they're so far into the contest". Also, it's fun; I can truly appreciate them more upon closer examination.

Chloe is a nice song and all, but it lacks an engaging factor. I don't know how to describe its particular tempo, but I'm gonna take a wild guess and say it's 5/5 (mostly composed by 2/5's and 3/5's; is this correct?). Either way, Chloe does a fine job at building a solid melody with a rather unusual tempo, which is already an accomplishment in itself. The instrumentation is great, and as a flute player myself, I can only imagine the hours of dedication for such a talented musician to make this song sound as good as it does (seriously, there are sections where you can clearly hear 16 different notes within a 1 whole-note space [which would be roughly 16 notes in a single second]; how on Earth does he/she do that?!)

But that's the problem. It can only sound "good", and not extraordinary. I'm gonna take another wild guess and say this is a Celtic composition. For an extraordinary song that shares this style, please refer to another retiree, DORCHADAS. However, as much as I admire its particular performance and harmony behind it, this is just a matter of taste since, as I also said yesterday, there's nothing "wrong" with this one, but that's just not enough.

As far as Revenger is concerned, the song engages you from the very beginning. It's like it's trying to tell a very dramatic story, beginning with a slight "scare" in the first half-second of the song as if some danger just showed up and you have to be prepared to face it, but proceeding with extreme stealth. The thing I love most about this song, superficially speaking, would be by far the bit starting at 0:41 and when it later shows up again in a more complete way (really, a song has to sound good in order to be good, righr?); however, the thing I admire the most, in comparison with Chloe, is the sense of passion behind it in every section of the song, of which it covers lots as well (for example, starting at 1:28, everything sounds like it's covering a very important situation in a lab or giant corporation; then it just goes on telling a story with every note and instrument for a good chunk of the song). I also really like how the song is never affraid to show itself how it is; it shows and performs beautiness here and there, throughout the entire composition, like a dancer that's not a single bit affraid of their performance, and thus it makes it stand out even more.

And if a song manages to not only sound good, but also convey you an emotion while making you imagine a story behind it, then it's art in its greatest expression.

Conveyed Emotions and Story Imagining (with a seemingly hungover guy in a mansion at 10:00 a.m. as its cover) >> Chlo Grace Moretz (a.k.a. not DORCHADAS)
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