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B.D.,

This is an awesome song and production. An amazing tour de force of music & technology.

So well done!

Bob

I can’t imagine this level of production! So impressive!

BDT, I think you are getting the hang of this. Great overall production. I have found several things about stem separation. First is that they are not created equal. When dealing with just the vocal stem, different separators sound very different in relation to artifacts. Also the amount of processing on the vocals is not readily apparent but if you deverb it and use a filter it becomes quite evident that you can start dry and sculpt it somewhat. You are correct in that it is actually more time consuming than most people would think. Great work on this one.

This is a "wow" song, from the get go. It's sounds contemporary, which is something I am unable to create. Anyway, darn, darn, darn good. What a production. My head is spinning.

This is really fracking good song, B.D.! Absolutely on every level. I was only part way through the listen when I realised you must have put a heck of a lot of work into it and only later did I read your blurb about it. In this song and previous ones you have a magic knack - though it's through hard work as well as talent - of making AI vocals sound 100% real, when nearly everything else I hear sounds fake and instantly loses my interest. This song just sounds 100% professional, though you'll soon have stop using the "no fans" part of your YT blurb!

Re the lyrics, I totally relate to and agree with them, though from a different perspective. In my early teens I began asking all of the 'big' questions - I wanted to know why there was life - and I was 19 when I first experienced the Divine--in-All and in the following 55 years- in which I've studied virtually all spiritual traditions, various psychological models and a lot more besides - I've had more profound spiritual experiences than all of the truly spiritual persons I've ever met put together. So I class myself as a lower case 'g' gnostic (a knower) and in 2007 when I first started using social media (the Yahoo 360° site and then Multiply and others before they all vanished - FB and others came years later - I created my own Way for me, Waoism, which I class as something not serious which I take seriously, and equally something very serious which I don't take seriously. It's what I call a "genuine and authorised Act of Controlled Folly"! In simple terms I define Waoism in my YT 'about', and a part of the Controlled Folly is that Waoism being my Way for me makes me equally the most evolved, mediocre and dumbest Waoist sage ever, as well as the best, most mediocre and dumbest student there is as there can never be another Waoist. I have 5 Waoist videos on YT which are only ever seen by a very few FB contacts, but I wouldn't want to post then here with BiaB music as the wordage and the images are more important than the soundtrack, plus I wouldn't want to offend anyone. But risking that, my Waoist Adage #59: is "Believing is the booby prize." Though not believing is just believing the opposite, thus Adage #85 is "Knowing that you don't know keeps you on the path of knowledge." I'll quote a quote from Ibn 'Arabi, a 14th Century Sufi who eventually refereed to himself as a gnostic, which I left on one of Beth's recent posts:
"My heart has become capable of every form: it is a pasture for gazelles and a convent for Christian monks, and a temple for idols and the pilgrim's Ka'aba and the tables of the Tora and the book of the Qur'an. / I follow the religion of Love: whatever way Love's camels take, that is my religion and faith."

B.D.,

This is an incredible piece.
You must be a genius to be able to create a piece of such high standard.
And of course you're a hard worker.
The melody, lyrics, performance, and vocals are all top notch.
By the way, Japanese people generally do not believe in any particular religion.
We visit ancient shrines at New Year's, have Western church-style weddings, and funerals at Buddhist temples.
It's rare that anyone would say anything about the religion.
So these lyrics were quite stimulating for me.
Enjoyed my listen a lot.

Best regards.

Shigeki Adachi

Excellent composition, B.D.
Dynamic galore. Lyrics great.

Vic

Hi B.D.,

Boy you sure put a lot of effort into this song!

Excellent song, lyrics, backing and mixing with lots of nice light and shade.

Excellent work.

Best Regards
Nigel

B.D.

That was an amazing listen! Regardless of lyrical message, I try to listen from a neutral position. The technical achievements you've incorporated here are beyond my pay grade and knowledge. This is a song that's nearly impossible to not listen to all the way to the end. It's captivating and draws the listener in.

Your unending pursuit for the perfect sound you'd imagined is noteworthy. I'm in awe of what you've achieved here. Great song and great performance.

Impressive accomplishment! Loved it!

Alan

Calling out the hypocrites leads us to self examination. That can be a good thing. Nice work.

Hi B.D.

I was just going to comment on the lyrics, but then I had to open up another device to hear this because everyone had such strong things to say about it. Glad I did. Wow, the message is so incredibly powerful and epic...in a word, fantastic! I grew up Catholic, by the way, and have been just about everything else since then at one time or another. The journey taught me to recognize the essence of our inherent goodness...your song provides the shortcut!

I'd love to hear Pink singing this.

Man, you know how I'm amazed at how good this production is, Brain, and I'm glad everyone here agrees. Also, glad about the comments here. Did I mention to you that I, like Chay, have studied religions of the world for several years. Came to same conclusion as you here. Whether you're a good person cuz you want to get into heaven or want to improve our species and the world in which we live, the result is the same. This song and your production is really outstanding, my friend.