Leaty wrote:TheHivemind wrote:Did I really spend money on the "soundtrack" to Shadows of the Empire when I was younger?
Counterpoint: I owned
this. Even as a little girl listening to that album, I was like "what exactly the fuck is going on here?" The nineties were so
weird.
OH MAN THAT FUCKING ALBUM. I did not own that but the kid across the street
definitely did. I'm also pretty sure we only ever just listened to the one song.
You know the one.
I like to give characters little theme songs when I write them (I'm pretty sure I've mentioned that most of Emi's character grew out of
one song in particular which wasn't even released when I started writing the damn path (but when I re-wrote the path the final time, it was on basically 90% of the time), with
another track basically soundtracking the entirety of the bad end. Bounce between those bands enough and you eventually get to what makes Emi tick, or at least what was in my head whenever I wrote her (I very nearly said "whenever I write her," but I don't write her anymore, do I? I daresay she'd be unrecognizable at this point if I did).
As a dude who definitely put a lot of thought into his own wrestling intro music (how the fuck did I never wind up in the hospital as a dumbass teen?), I can definitely understand the urge to give everyone a theme song. It's fortunate that in this case, themes and the like are quite warranted--and add something that is worth slowing down a bit to enjoy (also drugged out mixes of familiar tracks, when the occasion calls for it).