Dream of love

dream of love

Song Information

dream of love's jacket.

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	—	—	—	—	—