birds

Song Information

 
birds' pop'n music banner.

Artist: Sana
Composition/Arrangement/Lyrics: Seiya Murai
Vocals: Sana
Chorus: Yoichi Hayashi
BPM: 147
Length: 1:36
pop'n music Genre: AMBIENT (アンビエント)
pop'n music Character: SANAE♥chan [4]
pop'n CG designer: いぬ千代
First Music Game Appearance: pop'n music 4
Other Music Game Appearances:

Lyrics

Game Size

Cracked cup and sooty pot
Sweet'n sweety coffee and tepid pie
Tickless clock show four AM
Silly TV says a pack of lies

Hungry cat and withered plant
Crumpled shirt and strained pants
Mailbox eats many junky foods
Neighbors quarrel about there border line

Don't be suffer alone I'll tell you what to do
Fly high...
I know what you're afraid about

Straighten up arms and keep on flapping like birds
Fly high...
To the place you have never ever seen before

Long Version


Cracked cup and sooty pot
Sweet'n sweety coffee and tepid pie
Tickless clock show four AM
Silly TV says a pack of lies

Hungry cat and withered plant
Crumpled shirt and strained pants
Mailbox eats many junky foods
Neighbors quarrel about there border line

Don't be suffer alone I'll tell you what to do
Fly high...
I know what you're afraid about

Straighten up arms and keep on flapping like birds
Fly high...
To the place you have never ever seen before

Slicker's lip and clumsy kiss
Tedious song and childish game
Many ants aim at candy box
Gold fish is swimming around up side down

Faithful dog and naughty kid
Rousty bike and ragged shoes
Noisy PC gives up tiny works
Bookmark is keeping up the end of page

Now, the time has come, don't throw away your memories
Fly high...
You should take courage and fly

Straighten up arms and keep on flapping like birds
Fly high...
To the place you have never ever seen before

Song Connections / Remixes

  • A long version of birds appears in Sana's first album, Sana-mode.
  • A remix of birds by 伸也 from AMETHYSTGRP, titled Birds -AMETHYST mix-, appeared in the Sana♪フル mini-album, downloadable via the KONAMI♪MUSICフル service. It was later included in the KONAMI♪MUSICフル ALBUM compilation album.
  • A sequenced rendition of birds appears in ダンスダンスレボリューション ふぁみマット.

Trivia

  • birds marks Sanae Shintani's first arcade pop'n music song where she is the lead vocalist that is not composed by Hiroshi Takeyasu.
    • birds, along with other Kiyoshi Murai's pop'n music songs being crossed over to ダンスダンスレボリューション ふぁみマット, also marks his first appearance in the DanceDanceRevolution series.
  • The text in birds' background reads as "i could have sung like A bird if wished".
  • birds received 5-Buttons, 9-Buttons HYPER, and Battle NORMAL charts in pop'n music 7.
  • An unused 3P palette for SANAE-chan can be found in the pop'n music data, planned for scrapped URA charts for birds.
  • birds was supposed to appear in the cancelled game カラオケレボリューション BEMANIシリーズセレクション.
  • birds is available in pop'n music Lively as part of the Start Up Selection Music Pack vol.1 (スタートアップセレクション 楽曲パック vol.1).

Music Comment

How do you escape from a boring life? The answer is here... in Sana's new song.

Song Production Information

Seiya Murai

Master Hiro adviced me "we need to include at least one Sana song here, after all", so I included a song that fits Sana's image so far. I also wrote English lyrics for this song. When Sana listened to the demo tape, she loved it, and with the addition of her own singing tone during the recording, it turned out very stylish.
It might be very difficult to listen to this song with the explosive sounds from an arcade, but when the soundtrack releases, I hope you can carefully listen to it in a quiet room.

Character Information

Birthplace: Japan
Hobbies: Guitar, singing
Likes: Her guitar, Shiro!
Dislikes: She doesn't like smokers.

RIE♥chan created another cute outfit for her. She's happy that it also perfectly matches with her favorite beret.

INUCHIYO

I decided on SANAE♥chan and RIE♥chan while discussing it with the female designers. I tried to make her have calmer colors than RIE♥chan, and her animations eventually turned out like this after worrying for several days, because her previous movements didn't really suit her. I also tried to revive her energetic pose.

Difficulty & Notecounts

DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 5 in ダンスダンスレボリューション ふぁみマット.
pop'n music difficulty rated from 1 to 43 through pop'n music 20 fantasia, and 1 to 50 from Sunny Park onwards. (Ratings obtained from both the official Konami sites and Pop'n Music Fever.)

DanceDanceRevolution

Game Single Double
Beginner Basic Difficult Expert Challenge Basic Difficult Expert Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows - / - 45 / 0 105 / 0 - / - - / - / - - / - - / - - / - - / - / -
ダンスダンスレボリューション ふぁみマット - 1 4 - - - - - -

pop'n music

Game Normal Mode Battle Mode
5-Buttons NORMAL HYPER EX NORMAL HYPER
Notecounts 96 204 367 - 367 -
pop'n music 4→5 - 12 - - - -
pop'n music 7 9 ↓10 18 - 10 -
pop'n music 9 ↓7 10 ↑22 - ↓9 -
pop'n music 10→20 fantasia ↓5 10 22 - 9 -
pop'n music Sunny Park→Present - 16 ↑29 - 9 -
pop'n music 4 CS - 12 - - - -
pop'n music 7 CS 9 10 18 - 10 -
pop'n music Best Hits! 7 10 22 - - -
pop'n music Lively - 16 29 - - -

Other charts not shown on the above table:

  • pop'n music 4 CS's BEGINNER chart: Lv.: 7, total notes: 119.