"BAD apple!!" IS AMAZING!!!!!!
....just....woah......
So yeah, today we'll be analyzing a song...something Ive never done before in my life... Oh well, might as well give it my best shot.
Ok so first off, a little background; "BAD apple!!" is a song originally made in 1998 by Jun'ya Ota also known to the public as "ZUN". The song was composed for the 3rd stage theme of the fourth "Touhou Project" game "Lotus Land Story" and made using FM Synthesis, which ZUN is very fond of.
According to ZUN himself, he said that he tried to make the song sound like some thing he created a long time ago. He went on record saying "This song feels like my older songs. Well, since it started turning out weird. I did try to make it at least sound like something I might have written long ago... It's nice to have something this rhythmical (?). And, it's very 3rd-stage-ish (??)".
"BAD apple!!" has become a very popular song in the fanbase, more so than most of its PC-98 counterparts. This is thanks to the Bad Apple!! video by Shadow Art, which would call a second McRoll, attracting thousands of western fans to Touhou. In relation to this, Elly has also quite notably grown in popularity, gaining fans who are technologically incapable of playing the game she's in. There are also those who don't have a clue who Elly is when they see her near the end of the video. Also because of this video, a number of Touhou fans will sometimes get confused whether or not "Bad Apple!!" is Elly's theme due to arrangements associating Elly with it. Many long time Touhou fans find Bad Apple!! a massive sore point and get irritated if somebody thinks the video and Touhou itself is an anime or asks if it is.
But The version I think is truly the best is the english version sung by youtubers "Ashestotheashesjc" and "Rockleeist". And by god this song is just a masterpiece!! Seriously though this song is just candy for your ears if your a fan of video game sound tracks or synthesizers!! The music is hypnotic as all hell and both singers do an incredible job, their voices weren't very much (at least to my knowledge). Everyone did an amazing job and it shows with the views, at the time of this pages creation the song has over 2,000,000 views!! This is Ash's first video to break a million and its worthy of having that honor.
So to sum it up; This song is perfect, download it, listen to it forever, make others do the same. Goodnight!
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