Barber's Madness

Composed by Klass E, Barber's Madness debuted as a new song in Pump It Up M and reached the arcade build with PHOENIX 1.04. The piece takes Rossini's The Barber of Seville as its source and reinterprets it at high speed, landing somewhere between festive and unhinged in a way that earns the name. It runs at 195 BPM.

Single mode offers S11, S16, S18, and S22 charts. The S22 is interesting by comparison: while the D23 is weighed down by freeze notes tucked into its closing burst, leading many to call it overrated for its level, the S22 is built on a straightforward note burst with no hold notes, so it reads as fair within level 22.

Double mode has D16, D19, and D23 charts, all designed by BME. Their arrival in PHOENIX finally restored a chart from this author (who has not contributed since XX) and, alongside it, surfaced a Double chart believed to have been produced back in the PIU M era. The D19 is a textbook back-loaded (후살) chart: after wide-moving 8-beat freeze notes, a 16-beat burst drops in where nearly all the difficulty sits. The D23 pushes further: that finale is long and fast, threaded with hold notes that hurt readability, and a single slip sends the gauge plummeting. Its closing run of doubled-note trills and Half patterns keeps you on edge to the end, which is why it is judged overrated within level 23.

The song also includes a Co-op chart. The BGA draws on the track's PIU M eye-catch: the scissors and razor from that artwork were repurposed as BGA material. The animation received a small revision in version 1.05.