Free Style
Free Style
Song Information
Artist: Shapes
Composition/Arrangement: Tomoyuki Uchida
Lyrics: Masayuki Okazaki
BPM: 132
Length: 1:40
Genre: DANCE POP
VJ: shiro (art by GOLI)
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 6th style
Other Music Game Appearances: None.
Lyrics
Japanese
あくせく働いたら あとは眠りにつくだけ そんな日々、過ごしても ウンザリするほど退屈さ すれ違う他人の目に 映る 景色よりも もっと 思うまんま 生きるのさ かならずイイコトあるだろう どんなツキがオレを照らしてる 胸騒ぎが続くの? 夜を越えて、時間を飛び越え、 この世界を、駆けぬけて行け
Romaji
akuseku hataraitara ato wa nemuri ni tsukudake sonna hibi, sugoshite mo unzari suru hodo taikutsusa surechigau hito no me ni utsuru keshiki yori mo motto omou manma ikiru no sa kanarazu ii koto aru darou donna tsuki ga ore wo terashiteru munasawagi ga tsuzuku no? yoru wo koete, jikan wo tobikoe, kono sekai wo, kakenukete ike
Song Connections / Remixes
- Free Style is a remix of NAME ENTRY, the name entry background music from beatmania IIDX 5th style.
- A remastered version of Free Style, titled Free Style【2020 Re:build】, was uploaded by Tomoyuki Uchida to his YouTube channel.
Trivia
- Free Style marks Masayuki Okazaki's debut in BEMANI. Masayuki is a guitarist, performer, and singer. He was briefly with the popular J-POP group Stardust Revue, a Japanese band who've been performing since 1979. He would later contribute to other BEMANI songs under the Hedel Bendel alias.
- Free Style was (at the time) the first original Tomoyuki Uchida song with vocals.
- It is his only vocal song in beatmania IIDX with vocals not provided by his brother, Hiro.
- According to Tomoyuki Uchida, dj TAKA requested the artist name as a fictional pop group named Shapes.
- Free Style is unlockable in beatmania IIDX INFINITAS from January 9th, 2019, after purchasing its NORMAL, HYPER, and ANOTHER charts with BITs.
Song Production Information
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Video Production Information
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Difficulty & Notecounts
beatmania IIDX difficulty rated 1 to 7+ from 6th through 9th style, 1 to 8 in 10th style, 1 to 8+ in IIDX RED, and from 1 to 12 from HAPPY SKY onwards.(Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEGINNER | NORMAL | HYPER | ANOTHER | LEGGENDARIA | NORMAL | HYPER | ANOTHER | LEGGENDARIA | |
| Notecounts | 303 | 473 | 571 | 664 | - | 473 | 579 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 6th style→11 IIDX RED | - | 5 | 6 | N/A | - | 5 | 6 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY→Present | - | 5 | 6 | 7 | - | ↑6 | 6 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 6th style CS | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | - | 5 | 6 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX INFINITAS | - | 5 | 6 | 7 | - | 6 | 6 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX ULTIMATE MOBILE | - | 5 | 6 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - |