>>31923870as a musician and producer, camellia basically has the education of a middle schooler and the attitude to match. he boasts of his prolific use of "non-diatonic" chords in the song, seemingly unaware that from a music theory perspective one would expect him to instead describe what kind of harmonic gestures he was using, not which ones he wasn't. ultimately, the kinds of harmonic gestures he uses in the song are the kind you hear from 10- and 11-year old musicians trying to do some sort of wild, random experimentation, i guess not knowing that in the early 20th century people had explored them all in art music, and by the 1970s they had trickled into popular music and been beaten into the ground. from this we unfortunately have to conclude that camellia is not just ignorant as a composer, but equally ignorant even as a listener of popular music.
worse, he seems unaware of those who came before and figured out ways to put these "dissonant" harmonic gestures together into structures, driving them forward as the composer explores something through them. in camellia's composition, instead of driving forward toward some destination, he just kind of swerves from chord to chord like a child behind the wheel. in the arrangement, one gets the impression he's trying to make some sort of childish "anti-music" (again, seemingly unaware of the well-trodden road of deconstructive compositional forms in the 20th century), as he seems to have consciously disposed not only of harmonic structure but likewise abandons any coherent rhythmic structure in the song.
when he gets to the mix, that's where he descends from merely incompetent down to openly defamatory. of course, his mindless limit-and-clip production style erases any opportunity for dynamic structure in the song, turning the entire thing into something that looks like it came out the ass end of a pulse-width modulator. but here he also mindlessly and indiscriminately piles effects plugins onto the featured vocalists, erasing everything distinctive about them and leaving them all sounding like the same kind of buzzing noise. he seems not to care about whether he provides a flattering presentation of his clients' performances, instead seeing his clients' commission as an opportunity to indulge himself in random button-mashing and experimenting with harmonies over which he surely knows he lacks meaningful command. one imagines camellia literally wanking and smirking as he shits out the turd of a track to turn it in.
in the end there is basically nothing that unifies the song other than a thread connecting each of camellia's incompetencies to the next. i wonder whether he does this merely because he's an idiot gassed up on his own hype, or whether he does this consciously out of spite toward hololive like some sort of jaded machiavellian caricature. neither one satisfies as an explanation if the question is whether one should hire him, but i have a hard time deciding which option would make him more despicable.
