Dream of love
dream of love
Song Information
Artist: Kaori Nishina
Composition/Arrangement/Lyrics: Yasuhiro Abe
Vocals: Kaori Nishina
BPM: 114
Length: 1:46
First Music Game Appearance: DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2
Other Music Game Appearances: None.
Lyrics
Dream of love, for you and me I can see it in your eyes blessed with the moonlight You and I form a dream of love And you'll be you and me Fly away From a lot of memories In this place we once said goodbye Do you still love me? Can you prove it in your own way I'm still there finding a way out of it Too late, too late I just cannot let it go off of my mind But I'm gonna give it a try Dream of love, for you and me I can see it in your eyes blessed with the moonlight Truth of love, for you and me I can see it in your eyes so full of tears (You and I form a dream of love) Wanna be with you I found myself I'm still in love (And you'll be you and me) A dream of love We can't end this thing now
Song Connections / Remixes
None.
Trivia
- Both dream of love and volcano mark Yasuhiro Abe's debut in the DanceDanceRevolution series.
- dream of love also marks Kaori Nishina's first original song in the DanceDanceRevolution series.
- dream of love appears as downloadable content for DanceDanceRevolution S+, in the DDR SuperNOVA 2 Pack.
- dream of love is currently the only song sung by Kaori Nishina still present in any BEMANI arcade series.
Song Production Information
Yasuhiro Abe
For this song, I took a specific approach to create its fusion sound. I combined a "dance" beat with a "Koto", which is a Japanese traditional instrument, and used them as the key sounds. In addition, I contrived its melody to have a feeling of oriental melancholy. I also use repetitive, catchy, phrases so the song definitely lends itself to dancing! The R&B sound has become much more popular among the Japanese music scene and has often been used in games. In the DDR series, we usually polish and arrange the sounds in a way that satisfies the desires of the user and makes the song more familiar for the product.
As an example, for this song I strengthened each of the five snares and adjusted their attack time in order to make the sound thicker and heavier. Plus, I used an Access Virus, a plug-in for ProTools, to emphasize the bass part of the attack and to add more volume to the song as a whole. If I have a chance to make a full version of this track, I would accentuate the Koto part by arranging it with other Japanese instruments. This would be my dream and I'm hoping to release it someday in the future.
Difficulty & Notecounts
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 10 from DDRMAX2 to SuperNOVA2, and 1 to 20 from X onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)
| Game | Single | Double | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | |
| Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows | 64 / 0 | 84 / 0 | 184 / 8 | 199 / 37 | - / - / - | 132 / 8 | 179 / 12 | 228 / 2 | - / - / - |
| DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | — | 3 | 5 | 7 | — |
| DanceDanceRevolution X→Present | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | — | 5 | 7 | 8 | — |
| DanceDanceRevolution / Dancing Stage SuperNOVA2 CS | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | — | 3 | 5 | 7 | — |
| DanceDanceRevolution S+ | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — |