AG Mashups, kid group edition!
A previous post indicated that this mashup would have used Karate Man instead of ZYX, but the composition differences between the two songs turned out to be insurmountable.
One Step Closer goes from G minor to G major, changing at the pre-chorus. Rainy is classic Tsunku fuckery. It goes from C minor (relative to Eflat major) to Eflat minor, changing at the chorus. Iku ZYX Fly High is just Eflat minor throughout.
So yeah, it's not like ZYX and OSC are that synergistic in composition, either, but I went through with it because it's actually a combo going all the way back to the first years of my idol fandom. Before I learned any fanwork software (video, image, audio), I had the idea that these two songs carried similar vibes (disco stabs in a club production, performed by kid groups, released a little over a year from each other), and was determined to make a video mashup demonstrating as such.
It's a really good thing I never went through with that idea, because whoo, the structural differences lol. ZYX really out here doing 34-measure verses. Meanwhile, S Club Junior really out here doing 6 measure pre-chorus 2.5 years before Since U Been Gone.