nymph/XXXY_c
Artist: CAELUS
Genre: BIG BEAT
7KEYS:
- NORMAL 4
- HYPER 9
- ANOTHER 11

Last year, Qga recommended me Out Loud by the Boom Boom Satellites when I was asking around for albums to listen to, and since then I've wanted to try making big beat with a focus on sampled instruments. A team themed around orchestral and breakbeats was a good chance to try that out. For now the production is still a little rough, but I'd like to dabble in this style more in the future.
The genre, key and chords ended up kind of similar to a certain other BMS song I like very much, but if I changed the chords I felt it ruined the mood I was going for. I think the songs are different enough in intent that there shouldn't be problems at least.

This time I made a "character theme BMS" of sorts for Glen, the androgyne (sexless) nymph from certain previous BGIs. The portrayal here is a lot darker though. Glen is an outwardly gentle person with inwardly dour thoughts, so I think that contrast is OK.
I'm choosing to skip out on explaining what's going on in the song and BGA this time. There was a short story in my head, but if I try to write it out it seems too cringeworthy, so I don't really want to do it. I don't know how well the BGA conveys anything either. I really would like to go in the hyperbolic time chamber until I'm able to consistently produce BMS work I'm happy with but it's regrettably impossible. I'm pretty happy with the colorfulness of the BGA though.
Overall the BMS' mood is intimate, psychedelic and threatening all at once. I don't know how that comes off to people. If I can evoke the image of a dejected person who is conflicted about their own misanthropy then that's good. Whatever, it's too hard to talk about anything without sounding pretentious.

The charts are scratch-heavy this time. There's a bonus 5KEYS pattern by MITCH DOWNVELL, too. This time it's deliberately gimmicky. If you like those kinds of patterns then I recommend playing it over the 7KEYS one as the song to begin with as it fits the nature of the song more.

It looks like this is going to be my last BMS of the year, so I hope people enjoy it. I'm not really sure how it will be received since the themes are a little ero and ill-conceived. Well, if I wanted to make something actually erotic I would have just made another bikini girl BGA. Incidentally if I was competent enough to be drawing BMS BGA characters in swimsuits all the time I'd probably be a lot more content with my life.