PARANOiA

This page is for the 180 song titled PARANOiA. For other songs of the same title, please see Paranoia (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with PARANOID.

PARANOiA

Song Information

PARANOiA's jacket.

PARANOiA(X-Special)'s jacket.

Artist: 180
Composition/Arrangement: NM SEQUENCE
BPM: 180
Length: 1:40
First Music Game Appearance: DanceDanceRevolution
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

• PARANOiA is the first song of the long-running PARANOiA series.
• PARANOiA shares the "sound!" vocal sample with R壱萬, from beatmania IIDX 4th style.
• A remix of PARANOiA, titled PARANOiA jazzy groove, appears as part of the song medley Non Stop Mix Special 2 in Dance Maniax 2ndMIX.
• Another remix of PARANOiA by TaQ, simply titled paranoia, appears on bounce connected.
• An 8-bit arrangement of PARANOiA appears in DanceDanceRevolution GB.
• PARANOiA is sampled in DDR MEGAMIX, from pop'n music 10.
• PARANOiA is sampled in MAX.(period), from DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME CS (Japan).
• A shorter version of PARANOiA appears in the KONAMI arcade game Step Champ (ステップチャンプ) and the PlayStation game Bishi Bashi Special 3 ~Step Champ~ (ビシバシスペシャル3 〜ステップチャンプ〜).
• At around the 26 second mark, a small sample of the opening few seconds of the Stage 1 music from Castlevania for NES is played. This can easily be heard here: [1].
• The Club London level music of the Xbox exclusive game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x shares most of its background melody with PARANOiA.
• A spiritual sequel of PARANOiA, titled Para-Symptoms, appears in Step Revolution's StepmaniaX dance simulation game.

Trivia

This song has different backgrounds, banners, jackets, or other related images. For more information, please see this page.

• PARANOiA marks Naoki Maeda's debut in BEMANI.
  • According to Naoki, he was forced to make PARANOiA under many restrictions.
• PARANOiA is the first and only KONAMI original introduced in DanceDanceRevolution, available as a EXTRA STAGE song for HARD MODE.
  • The Internet Ranking Version of DanceDanceRevolution introduced two new KONAMI original songs, TRIP MACHINE and MAKE IT BETTER.
• Much like other songs of the PARANOiA series, PARANOiA's artist, 180, is a reference to its BPM.
  • However, PARANOiA's real BPM is not a constant 180 BPM, instead it changes from a minimum of 169.81 to a maximum of 183.67 BPM.
  • According to an interview with Tatsh, Naoki used 180 as the artist name for PARANOiA since it was considered taboo at the time in Japanese video games for a video game composer to use their real name for artist credit. Naoki was later asked by one of the directors about who was 180, and suggested to Naoki to use "NAOKI" as an alias (which was later used starting in DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX with BRILLIANT 2U). (The interview can be seen here, second set of questions).
• The robot in PARANOiA's background and jacket is based on Tetsushin Kongouji (金剛寺鉄心), one of the playable characters from KONAMI's arcade game FIGHTING武術 (FIGHTING BUJUTSU), which Naoki also worked on.
• PARANOiA is Hirotaka Ishikawa's, director of several DanceDanceRevolution CS titles, favorite BEMANI song [2].
• PARANOiA received brand new Single MANIAC and Double ANOTHER charts in DanceDanceRevolution Internet Ranking Version.
• PARANOiA received a Double MANIAC chart in DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX.
• PARANOiA received a unique video in DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME2. This video was carried to the arcade releases in DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA. This video is played full-screen and eliminates any on-screen dancers.
  • A video based on its original DanceDanceRevolution animations is shown when PARANOiA is played from the DDR SELECTION folder.
    • However, PARANOiA's background artwork is replaced by a textless, desaturated version of PARANOiA MAX～DIRTY MIX～'s background, which was previously seen in DanceDanceRevolution 5thMIX's gallery mode.
• PARANOiA's banner was updated in DanceDanceRevolution X.
• PARANOiA(X-Special) is one of the X-Special EXTRA STAGEs in DanceDanceRevolution X, which can be played from February 12th, 2009 by obtaining a AA or better on any song in the DanceDanceRevolution folder before the FINAL STAGE.
  • As of October 1st, 2009, PARANOiA(X-Special) has been unlocked for normal play.
• From DanceDanceRevolution X2 onwards, PARANOiA(X-Special) appears in the DanceDanceRevolution X folder instead of the original DanceDanceRevolution folder.
• In DanceDanceRevolution GB, PARANOiA runs at 175 BPM.
• Since June 1st, 2017 in DanceDanceRevolution A, PARANOiA(X-Special) no longer appears in the song selection screen if the player does not use an e-amusement pass.

Song Production Information

None.

Difficulty & Notecounts

DanceDanceRevolution difficulty from the original game to 2ndMIX rated from 1 to 8, 2ndMIX CLUB through 5thMIX (and the Solo games) rated from 1 to 9, 1 to 10 from DDRMAX2 to SuperNOVA2, and 1 to 20 from X onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

DanceDanceRevolution

Original Charts

Game	Single					Double
	Beginner	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows	138 / 0	264 / 0	275 / 0	319 / 0	- / - / -	254 / 0	309 / 0	382 / 0	- / - / -
DanceDanceRevolution	-	6	7	-	-	7	-	-	-
DanceDanceRevolution Internet Ranking Ver.→3rdMIX PLUS	-	6	7	8	-	7	8	-	-
Dancing Stage→1.5	-	6	7	8	-	7	8	-	-
DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX→4thMIX PLUS	-	6	7	8	-	7	8	9	-
DDRMAX2 location test	-	↓5	↓6	↓6	-	↓6	↓7	9	-
DDRMAX2	-	↑6	↑7	↑8	-	↑7	↑8	9	-
DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME→SuperNOVA2	2	6	7	8	-	7	8	9	-
DanceDanceRevolution X→Present	4	8	9	11	-	8	13	11	-
DanceDanceRevolution JP CS	-	6	7	8	-	7	8	-	-
DanceDanceRevolution 2ndReMIX	-	6	7	8	-	7	8	-	-
DanceDanceRevolution GB	-	6	7	8	-	-	-	-	-
DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX CS	-	6	7	8	-	7	8	-	-
DanceDanceRevolution BEST HITS	※1	6	7	8	-	7	8	9	-
DanceDanceRevolution US CS	※1	6	7	8	-	7	8	9	-
Dancing Stage EuroMIX CS	※1	6	7	8	-	7	8	9	-
DanceDanceRevolution KONAMIX / Dancing Stage PARTY EDiTiON	-	6	7	8	-	7	8	9	-
DanceDanceRevolution (PC)	-	6	7	8	-	7	8	9	-
DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME JP CS	2	6	7	8	-	7	8	9	-
DanceDanceRevolution Party Collection	2	6	7	8	-	7	8	9	-
DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME2 / Dancing Stage Max	2	6	7	8	-	7	8	9	-
DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2 JP CS	2	6	7	8	-	7	8	9	-
DanceDanceRevolution S+	4	8	9	11	-	-	-	-	-
DanceDanceRevolution (PS3) / New Moves DLC	3	6	7	8	-	-	-	-	-
DanceDanceRevolution DANCE WARS	4	8	9	11	-	-	-	-	-

※ This chart is different from the later BEGINNER chart (total notes: 106).

X-Special Charts

Game	Single					Double
	Beginner	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows	- / -	- / -	- / -	- / -	371 / 12 / 0	- / -	- / -	- / -	352 / 42 / 0
DanceDanceRevolution X	-	-	-	-	12	-	-	-	12
DanceDanceRevolution X2→Present	-	-	-	-	↑13	-	-	-	↑14

DanceDanceRevolution Solo

Game	6 Panels
	Basic	Trick	Maniac
Notecounts	264	275	319
DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX Solo→4thMIX PLUS Solo	6	7	8
DanceDanceRevolution KONAMIX / Dancing Stage PARTY EDiTiON	6	7	8
DanceDanceRevolution (PC)	6	7	8