Ballerina

Title: "Ballerina"

Artist: OLIVIA

Album: Into the Stars single


Welp, I was thinking about it the other day, and I realized I've had this blog up for a good 3 months now. Might as well start posting some stuff that's really special to me. I'll mention before anything that OLIVIA has remained at a constant number one on my "top solo artists" list. I've never come across any other performing artist that can satisfy my hunger for the weird and the different quite like her. That being said, "Ballerina" was the first song I ever heard from her, so it seems appropriate for it to be up here.

OLIVIA was born in Okinawa, Japan and still lives there today. Her mother is Japanese and her father is German/American, thus results her fluency in both languages. OLIVIA started her singing career in the group D&D, made up of three girls. She was the lead singer. She disbanded from them in 1998 and has been writing her own songs and music ever since. Her style can go from punk-rockish to mellow-ambient. Her first album, Synchronicity, is proof of this. Though all music from OLIVIA is good, and she's had more than 8 singles, there are a few that truely stick out. "Ballerina" is one of them. Since the moment I heard this song back in 2003, it has remained my favorite piece of music ever since. The way she mixes different instruments is amazing. It really captures the mood the song is trying to portray. It's horrifying and sad, dark and haunting, with beautiful and strange cellos and violins. If you listen closely at the end, you can hear an electric guitar, however deformed the sound may be. This was the song that made me fall in love with OLIVIA, and it will always be the song that keeps me in love with her. It is, quite simply, the shit.

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