Melody Life

Melody Life

Song Information

Original Version

Melody Life's jacket.

Artist: Noria
Composition/Arrangement: Takayuki Ishikawa
Lyrics/Vocals: Noria
BPM: 172
Length: 2:02
Genre: NEW ACOUSTIC
Movie: yagi-denko
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD
Other Music Game Appearances:

• DanceDanceRevolution X2

Chinese Version

Melody Life (Chinese)'s jacket.

Artist: 张馨予
Composition/Arrangement: Takayuki Ishikawa
Lyrics: Weng Beibei
Vocals: Zhāng Xīnyǔ
BPM: 172
Length: 2:06
Movie: yagi-denko
First Music Game Appearance: DanceDanceRevolution X2
Other Music Game Appearances:

• beatmania IIDX (China)

Lyrics

Japanese

この街のどこかに見上げた ビルの隙間から見る空
キレイと少し思った瞬間に口ずさんだ歌があった
思い出して今スグ歌って It's now ever or never

華やかさで隠れた夜も 真昼の光で照らされるような
この場所だけはアツクて 満たされて時は進む
苦しくても平気だから ねぇ一緒に singing music

Melody! Memory! I believe I can do it 人ゴミに紛れても
星のない空で君は今もずっと輝く
Anyway! Anytime! このココロが
現在を歌い続ける
明日を生きる希望 音になる

Romaji

kono machi no dokoka ni miageta biru no sukima kara miru sora
kirei to sukoshi omotta toki ni kuchizusan da uta ga atta
omoidashite ima sugu uta tte It's now ever or never

hanayakasa de kakureta yoru mo mahiru no hikari de terasareru you na
kono basho dake wa atsuku te mitasarete toki wa susumu
kurushikute mo heiki dakara ne? issho ni singing music

Melody! Memory! I believe I can do it hito gomi ni magirete mo
hoshi no nai sora de kimi wa ima mo zutto kagayaku
Anyway! Anytime! kono kokoro ga
ima wo utai tsuzukeru
asu wo ikiru kibou oto ni naru

Song Connections / Remixes

• A re-arranged long version of Melody Life, titled Melody Life 'eco', appears in BeForU's Red Rocket Rising single.
• A rock arrangement of Melody Life, titled Melody Life in the Rock, appears in BeForU's Get set GO!! 〜BeForU astronauts set〜 single.
• A Chinese version of Melody Life, with the same title but credited to 張馨予, appears in DanceDanceRevolution X2.

Trivia

• Melody Life's BEGINNER chart was removed in beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD.
  • However, Melody Life received a new BEGINNER chart in beatmania IIDX 17 SIRIUS. This chart was removed in beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage.
• The Chinese cover of Melody Life could be played on the DanceDanceRevolution series by playing Melody Life's CHALLENGE chart.
  • As of DanceDanceRevolution A, the Japanese version of Melody Life will be played instead.
• The Chinese version of Melody Life has never been on any CS BEMANI release.
• Melody Life is unlockable in beatmania IIDX INFINITAS (2020) from October 7th, 2020 after purchasing its charts with BITs.
• Melody Life is available in DanceDanceRevolution GRAND PRIX's GRAND PRIX mode from December 19th, 2022, by purchasing the GRAND PRIX music pack vol.12 (グランプリ楽曲パック vol.12).

Song Production Information

Taka

As someone who likes rock and programmed music, this song is exactly positioned between me. It's not well known, but I actually somehow like these kinds of music. I'm sure I can hear insults like "there's no DistorteD anywhere", but please accept that I wanted to make this song at that moment back then.

What I was definitely able to enjoy doing the most in this song is collaborating with musicians. After creating the orchestra base, I recorded the brass, guitar, and vocals in that order, and whenever various people are involved, that person's color, temperature, and soul is instilled in the music, making it feel more lively. Noria, who was present during its entire recording, seemed to feel that part as well, and I think we were able to record a lively song amidst the tense feeling.

With that feeling, this song was filled with a human groove by the many live performers.
By all means, please play it while shaking your body.

Noria

It's been a while, hello!
This time, I participated in a solo song after a long time, and of course, it was with dj TAKA.

It was delivered to everyone as early as the location test, and finally, it's available across Japan!!!
How was it? Was everyone able to play it??

And somehow, I received many requests by fan mail
Thanks to your support, I was able to "appear in this movie"♪♪♪

I'm thankful that it was smoothly decided, from the song to Noria's inclusion, and since I wanted to appear in the movie by all means, this song made me really happy.
And this time, I was also able to write the lyrics, but I somehow realized once again that lyrics are important, and I discussed about the "image" of TAKA's sound, so I wonder if it contains a bit of such feelings~??? That's what I thought about.

And this movie was created by GYO, who takes care of me every time, and someone who made movies such as KI・SE・KI and I am.

On the day we filmed this video, the sky was really beautiful without a single cloud, and I was moved by the deep blue sky which appeared many times.
By all means, please also look at that.

Although it was a relatively warm day, Noria, whose sensitive to the cold, was cold since the early morning, and had wrinkles between her eyebrows 【was it around the first verse? (laughs)】
Conversely, the sun was so bright that I couldn't open my eyes 【was it around the chorus? (laughs)】

Even though I'm not a model, I thought it was difficult~ for models to be in locations for magazines, regardless of seasons, but since we were filming on location, I was able to do many things and had a really lovely day!
I'm really looking forward to its completion, and above all, since it's a solo song, it'd be great if was released with a Noria-like atmosphere.

I can't really watch this video myself, so everyone please play it.
But it's embarrassing, so please don't get angry if I grin and look from behind.
Please forgive my suspiciousness.

You can even listen to Melody Life as a ringtone, so I'm sorry for troubling you, but please also support it there.

Thank you very much to TAKA and all the 2DX staff for everything.
And thank you very much to the players playing across Japan for your support.
I'm really grateful that Noria can sing these kinds of songs, since everyone is playing them.
Noria will also do her best to get a slightly better score with her own songs (laughs).

I'm really happy to sing again. Thank you very much!!!

Please surely find your Melody somewhere and play it.

Video Production Information

yagi-denko

I connected the image born from the sound with Noria's image & lyrics, thought "well, I only have this", and ran straight with a sprinting feeling.
I can't deny the feeling that I'm too direct, but after all, this video only suits this sound! And I was able to make it with my original intention.
I tried to aim for a standard video using blue connotations, coercive techniques, and Noria's enormous expressive power as weapons.
I'm thankful to GOLI and GYO for their cooperation during filming.

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 20 from X onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd and Textage.cc.)

beatmania IIDX

Game	SP Difficulty					DP Difficulty
	BEGINNER	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts	211	397	673	933	-	399	643	-	-
beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD	※1	4	6	9	-	4	6	-	-
beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD→16 EMPRESS	-	4	6	9	-	4	6	-	-
beatmania IIDX 17 SIRIUS→25 CANNON BALLERS	2	4	6	9	-	4	6	-	-
beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage→27 HEROIC VERSE	-	4	6	9	-	4	6	-	-
beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD CS	※2	4	6	9	-	4	6	-	-
beatmania IIDX ULTIMATE MOBILE	-	4	6	9	-	-	-	-	-
beatmania IIDX INFINITAS (2020)	-	4	6	9	-	4	6	-	-

※ Denotes chart is different from the later BEGINNER chart (total notes: 137).

DanceDanceRevolution

Game	Single					Double
	Beginner	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows	94 / 4	198 / 12	287 / 10	366 / 10	328 / 10 / 42	196 / 8	286 / 8	370 / 8	340 / 8 / 36
DanceDanceRevolution X2→Present	2	5	7	10	11	5	7	11	12
DanceDanceRevolution GRAND PRIX	2	5	7	10	11	5	7	11	12