Ok first off this will be the last song analysis of part one of Spring Waltz. Also, note to those who are curious the next chapter of Spring Waltz is not the final chapter. It's just the beginning chapter of part 2. Don't ask how many chapters are in part 2. Still trying to figure that out myself xD
Right so this song analysis will be more spoiler-y since a lot has been revealed since chapter 9. So brace yourself for those who haven't gotten past chapter 9 and up yet! Or how about you go read it first and come back to this blog post :P
Chapter 9
Chapter 9 had a cute little ending didn't it? So what better way to have a cute ending then with a cute little song. So, I chose One More Time by Tree Bicycles. Another foreign song but I love love love the lyrics. It can fit into the story several ways I think.
The lyrics focus on like loving your special person once again despite everything and what not. Fits because Roxas is all talking about how he'll come back for her and such. So despite the distance he wants their relationship to give it a go even after he's been gone so long.
Another way it fits, for those who've finished up to chapter 12, it's because well despite the past that Roxas had with Namine he still wants to risk everything, even lying and wants the bad memories to go away, so they can be with one another and love each other once more. See how that works? It's cohesive! Had it all planned in my little head. Just took awhile to get it out to you guys xD
Chapter 10
I sort of already did an analysis for the chapter 10 song but I'll give a short briefing of it. The song was Draw of the Song by Joo Ji Hoon. This is actually a Korean singer doing a French cover of the song which was originally Korean called I Only Know Love by Shim So Bong. Although that version is a bit too old fashioned for my taste.
Anyway, so the song fit the criteria of a serenade type for Roxas to sing to Namine. I imagined at the beginning of the story of him serenading to her but I didn't want it to be just plain old serenading. I wanted it to have more feeling. So if you read the lyrics and understood it like Namine, he basically confessed his love to her. Cute right? *sigh* someone find me a guy like Roxas xD
I've put up the translation of this song twice now but I want to look at a particular part of the lyrics.
Yesterday I cried,
but because of you today,
I’ll be happy tomorrow.
This part also connects with the story as whole as well. Yesterday representing their past and how it was rather saddening for both parties. Today, being the present they have a future to look forward to to be happy with one another...although with recent developments that future is a bit foggy right now xD
Chapter 11
Immaterial White by FreeTEMPO was the song that occured during Namine's little shopping trip. Where she goes around the city and explores. It had a nice upbeat to it that kinda fits with a scene where you see someone going around a new place.
The second song used for this chapter was Chaconne 2 by Yiruma. It's called 2 because the original is just a piano version. I liked the guitar version. I don't know it makes it seem a bit more dreamy and playful? Which matches with the small flashback Namine has of 'Ventus' which we all know by now was really Roxas.
Which I would like to note that even though we know it's Roxas in all those flashbacks, it still mentions various times of her dating the other brother and it even connects Namine and Ventus as dating on the character chart that came with the mini FST. That'll be explained as well in part 2 of the story.
Chapter 12
Our Same Word (Orchestra Version) by Yiruma is the last song used for part one. The orchestra version just fits so perfectly with the interaction that Namine and Roxas have once he catches up with her and kisses her. The stringed instruments give it that sense of sadness the two are now dealing with but the piano gave it a hopeful mood. Plus the title Our Same Word fits with how their promises are still being kept and the same one is basically being remade.
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