Y’know what? Fuck you. *Plays an acoustic guitar version of your leitmotif to show you still have tenderness and care in your heart, and compassion for others*
yeah? well fuck YOU *plays a music box version of your leitmotif to show that this is your home and its comfortable and nostalgic here*
No, piss off! *plays your leitmotif with immense reverb and a toned-down synth sound to show that nostalgia can also be about loss of what never truly was, a reflection of a reflection and a false memory of a false memory*
ok, boomer. *plays your leitmotif using discordant synth bass to display your spiral into villainy after you discover that your memories were a fabricated illusion that were created just to keep you complacent, and how that information is destroying you*
How many times do I have to teach you this lesson, old man? *plays your leitmotif in harmony with my own, intensity of both changing as our climactic battle’s balance shifts back and forth, eventually leaving only one with long, low pauses to musically represent our mutual struggle to overtake the other, yet not being able to exist in full without them.*
oh, you’re going to regret that! *plays your leitmotif on piano in short, soft notes to show that you’re being worn down, and that your energy is at a low, but with a steadily rising bassline that foreshadows your upcoming second form*
Long after this fight is over and after the past has been buried, long after the conflict has resolved, as I’m walking home from my job to greet my living family *whistling your leitmotif to hint that I’m still thinking of you*
Just bought the Cats (2019) soundtrack and it is a completely different version from the movie like it’s counting itself against the Original Cast Recording instead of the stage show
To its detriment! The movie was decidedly not cast with first-run Broadway singers!
also these versions of The Old Gumbie Cat and Old Deuteronomy have their sun-speckled Victorian bourgeois intros sounding a lot more 90s Squaresoft than the stage, that’s something
I 150% support KUSC in their like, quaternary mission of showing how this classical romantic tradition survived the German loss in WWII and the modernist composers to reoccur in Hollywood soundtracks and especially JRPGs
seriously do you know how much shit I realized the Squaresoft greats didn’t come up with
but Nino Rota needs so much annotation, like each 8 measures I need notes on who he stole shit from or who stole it from him
