So the reason behind the similarities between the two songs is because the theme of the album. The album is literally called plagiarism and most songs in the album has some elements from other songs, some are their own songs from previous albums. One of them are even just a re-record of their second album. The whole album is telling a story about a thief met a girl playing piano during one of his stealings and fall in love with the girl and music itself then becomes an “thief of music”. Steal patterns of sounds from other famous musicians and became famous himself. His wife died later on and he is kinda broken because of it. This album is sort of his confession.
Yeah!!! I just wanted to add what n-buna says in the description of the MV (source: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F3cXxqgbx9Y.htmlsi=1TW6SXdjtTCjYAo1). "I'm a thief. There are various thieves now and then, but I am a little different from them. It's not about stealing money. I have no interest in antique jewelry or other valuable art. I'm a thief stealing sound. Selling spring [(the original Japanese title 春ひさぎ, directly translating to 'selling spring')] is jargon for prostitution. It functions here as a metaphor for 'music being sold like products.' Don't you think it's sad? It's more silly than real prostitution. To stay alive, we throw away our pride, choose themes to appeal to the masses, and put together pop melodies. Create beautifully verbalized and easy-to-understand works. In this way, I sell myself to you in the form of music. I call it selling spring" The comment above explains the storyline of this album, and again, as they said, this song connects to the other songs in the album such as "Thought Crime" (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ENcnYh79dUY.htmlsi=w4x5_WKUh7roqqlJ) and Plagiarism (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CS4f3jawFxY.htmlsi=KdrOyL3i4F8_Fa7K). The EP they produced after the album, Creativity, is kinda like a response to it, now from his wife's perspective (this include one of their popularest song, Spring Thief: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Sw1Flgub9s8.htmlsi=o1AeuEgpPmzv5Mkh). I hope this helps! Now I am just going to ramble... Yorushika has a big theme of reincarnation, which their second EP was about ("負け犬にアンコールはいらない" ). This EP's story is about a dog, who remembers different lives that the dog experienced: each song corresponds to each life (it includes their most viewed song, "Just a Sunny Day for You"). And in their first and second albums, it was a story about Amy and Elma; Amy was a musician who goes on a journey and dies. He keeps sending letters to Elma, who he met when he was still in Japan... Elma writes a song to his letters and so on (look it up if you want to know more! lol) Their concert "Moonlight" was about this story, and it ends with Amy saying he needs to rebirth and see Elma again. In the concert "Plagiarism," the story about another couple (seemed like a couple in Yorushika's first EP?) was told. People think that these different stories (and couples) are all connected underneath through the reincarnation, which was confirmed by the MV of Bremen (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oy6MDr6I6rM.htmlsi=xDtM98VddZZcQoWc). You can see the legs of a dog, Amy in the MV of Nautilus, the wife in Plagiarism! It is an ongoing story: the plotline in their most recent concert was about a painter, who had seen the foreign sights that he never visited. If you watch the MV of "The first night" or "Moonbath" you can see the similarities with songs from their first Album, Amy and Elma's story. Anyway, you don't have to know all of these. The lyrics and music n-buna writes are just beautiful, and the songs are art. The way music enhances the view and the feeling in the songs are simply amazing! Thank you for those who read up to here! I just wanted to share some info :))
You DEFINITELY should do more Yorushika! The band was formed in 2017 and is composed of suis (vocal) and n-buna (composer). N-buna's musical diversity is just incredible. He not only plays all the instruments in their songs but he also writes, composes and produces the music they make (and sings occasionally like in one of their latest songs "451"). By the way in the last 3 years or so they shifted their style noticeably from "generic j-rock/pop" into more of a mixture of indie-rock-blues/jazz kinda thing in their own way. PS. The lyrics are DEEP.
I love Yorushika, both n-buna (the writer) and suis (the singer) makes a great team. Other songs from them that I love are Itte(say it) and howl at the moon.
Oh yea, and it makes total sense to find out that piano phrase is from Percy Mayfield/Ray Charles since the album is titled "Plagiarism"🤣 A GOATED album with a ton of beautiful jazz and rock fusion inspiration from the greats before. The lyrics in the song "盗作(Plagiarism)" explain n-buna's thoughts wonderfully on the topic (the composer).❤
just to give you a touch of context, the borrowing is no coincidence, the album this song is off is called plagiarism, they borrow both from their own previous works and others works, and the youtube description of this song: "I'm a thief. There are various thieves now and then, but I am a little different from them. It's not about stealing money. I have no interest in antique jewelry or other valuable art. I'm a thief stealing sound."
Need more yorushika music reaction, Great j pop industry and have a ton of story behind the music and connected to each other music with sad devolopment story and melancholic lyrics. such a masterpiece.
Appreciate you continuing your analysis despite probably constantly thinking about the obvious “plagiarism” of legendary musicians (respectable). You should listen to their other songs in the album (I know you love your variety) that pay homages to these musicians whilst sending out a message (n-buna’s a opinion) about the prominence of actual plagiarism seen in modern pop music. My recommendation is Thoughtcrime.
The stars have aligned, all is right with the world. Tony’s been on an absolute roll (no pun intended) with reactions lately, and this is the pinnacle for me🥰 Ps, did I hear you right in one of the last vids you’ve played with Chris Cornell? Or was it Eddie Vedder? Either way max jealous
The best thing about Yorushika is probably the mixing. Like there are so many songs out there where the instrumental is overpowering the voice so much that you can't understand anything but with Yorushika, her voice is always perfectly hearable.
@@NagoyaRR if you mean like that's your opinion, then sure, you're free to think that. but me personally, i can think of many songs that benefit from overbearing instrumentals, mostly experimental songs.
@@saucemaster6452 what he means is that there are some songs where the MAIN part is the voice, and it's so poorly mixed that the instrumental completely engulfs and kills the voice. Obviously there are some genres where the voice is just another instrument or even a PAD, mostly in EDM genres.
Yorushika is a member in j-pop, you need to listen to more of her songs like “spring thief”, “that’s why I gave up on music”, “left right confusion”, “say it” …
The song is about stealing someones art product. If am not mistaking, its written in description of the song. P.S. the whole album (called 盗作 - plagiarism) is about music creators, art and etc. So i think it was on purpose
