D

MAX builds "D" on Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, treating it as a rock arrangement rather than a faithful symphonic cover. That sets it apart from the catalog's other Beethoven nods, such as U Got Me Rocking and Accident. The BGA, credited to YSJ, belongs to the so-called "Beethoven collection," a visual series that links Beethoven Virus, D, Latino Virus and V3. The song arrived with Pump It Up 2013 FIESTA 2 and holds 180 BPM from start to finish.

On the Single side, "D" offers S4, S7, S11 and S18. The S11 is defined by a strong twist (heoriteulgi) in its closing stretch; its rating climbed over time, from 9 to 10 in XX and from 10 to 11 in PHOENIX. The S18 opens with sustained 3-notes and grows trickier toward the end as staircases pile up, though it never becomes brutal. On Double there are D14, D19 and D20. The D14 is essentially the S11 "spread" across both pads, with sterner twists late in the chart; it went from 11 to 12 in XX and from 12 to 14 in PHOENIX. The D19 resembles the S18 but drops the early long notes, with a long half-staircase run near the end serving as its break-on point. The D20 lives up to the title by tracing the letter "D" in its patterns throughout the song; it is an expansion of the QN053 chart from FIESTA 2's mission zone and plays a bit gentler than a D18. It sat at 19 before rising to 20 in XX.