PLATONIC-XXX

Song Information

Artist: platoniX (RB Style)
Composition: NAOKI MAEDA
Arrangement/Lyrics: platoniX
Vocals: Junko Hirata
BPM: 98
Length: 1:47
Genre: RB
Movie: VJ GYO
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 10th style
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

Japanese

退屈なEveryday(Everyday) いつも悩んで(Night&day)
明日の行方を一人で探し求めて

昨日と同じなら涙なんていらない
きっと笑う事も出来ないままでいるから

強がる言葉と裏腹に淋しさを紛らわせた

分かって欲しいの  気付いて欲しいの  本当の私だけを見つめてよ
13回も重ねたKISSもただ隙間を埋めただけ?

Romaji

taikutsu na Everyday (Everyday) itsumo nayan de (Night&day)
ashita no yukue wo hitori de sagashimotomete

kinou to onaji nara namida nante iranai
kitto warau koto mo dekinai mama de irukara

tsuyogaru kotoba to urahara ni sabishisa wo magirawaseta

wakatte hoshii no kizuite hoshii no hontou no watashi dake wo mitsumete yo 
juusankai mo kasaneta KISS mo tada sukima wo umeta dake?

Song Connections / Remixes

PLATONIC-XXX is a Japanese cover of Secret Rendez-vous, from DDRMAX2 -DanceDanceRevolution 7thMIX-.

Trivia

Along with CARRY ON NIGHT (English version) from the same game, PLATONIC-XXX marks Tatsuya Shimizu's debut in BEMANI.
PLATONIC-XXX was first performed by NAOKI, Junko Hirata, MIHO, and Sota Fujimori at the Extreme! Dance Live ~in velfarre~ event in 2003.
- On the event, the song title was misspelled as pratonic-XXX.
On the beatmania IIDX 10th style ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK album, PLATONIC-XXX's title is capitalized as platonic-XXX.
- However, in the lyrics section of the original soundtrack booklet, the title is shown as PLATONIC-XXX instead.
PLATONIC-XXX was absent from the location tests of beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD. However, it reappeared in the final release.

Song Production Information

NAOKI MAEDA

This is an arranged, Japanese cover of Secret Rendez-vous.
Is R&B somehow a difficult sound to recognize in this world?? But I think R&B is a major sound in the world in contrast to EURO & TRANCE, and is one genre which I want to challenge by experience.

The short version used in 10th style is arranged by TATSH, who added extra detail in the song.
Secret Rendez-vous was reborn as PLATONIC-XXX, which is one variation of the main sound platoniX strives to aim for in the future.

Video Production Information

VJ GYO

There are high expectations for this new star, platoniX.
They've brilliantly sublimated and shown sounds with very different styles such as R&B and EUROBEAT in the beginning, and I have high expectations for them in the future.

Although high-speed dance music, such as TRANCE, TECHNO, and EUROBEAT, has recently become mainstream in the IIDX series, it wasn't like that in the beginning, right? It also feels like R&B and SOUL were more prominent.
When I listened and played this song, there's something which felt nostalgic and fresh about it.
I think they have the power to revive these genres in the future!

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated 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
Game	BEGINNER	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts	143	418	552	747	-	443	583	996	-
beatmania IIDX 10th style→11 IIDX RED	-	4	6	N/A	-	5	7	N/A	-
beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY→14 GOLD	-	4	6	8	-	5	↑8	10	-
beatmania IIDX 10th style CS	1	4	6	N/A	-	5	7	N/A	-