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94st
Game: Prey
Title: Everything is Going to Be Ok
Composer: Mick Gordon
Nominator: @Snake5555555555
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TRdx2tbUFI

i can be very picky about synthwave actually (especially due to its recent extreme prominence, there's so much of it everywhere now that something has to really stand out to catch my attention). I'm picky about it mostly because the things I like about the 80s in sound demand tight era-authenticity, which synthwave usually ignores. This song doesn't hit any of those authentic areas AT ALL but I still love it anyways!!!!!

this isn't what i think of when i think of [music snake 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 likes] at all. and it's interesting that Snake5555555555 sorta made the mistake of NOT nominating enough ""weird horror ambience"" for me as he's infamous for doing in other people's topics, because that kinda stuff is totally my thing, but this exception? it's always been a favorite of mine! so you nailed it here! it's so opposite of the stuff i think of as the obvious mutual me/snake overlap, it's the antithesis of gritty and the antithesis of dark, but it's still 100% perfect to me!!

those synth chords this begins with are so lush and big...! the harmonies are ""interesting"" musically, but i don't just like complex harmonies ""because they're complex"" I like them because they feel FUTURISTIC and often punch me with ICE (chill) and shiny holograms and glass force-fields. any individual note in the chord is coupled with movement of other notes in the chords that are too hard to parse all at once and something about that just screams HOLOGRAM COMPUTER SCREEN. tbh my extreme obsession with ""future"" i had when i was younger is absolutely the foundation of my current taste in harmony, even if i lean toward total opposite settings now, everything about that {inside a computer[microproocessor]} identity still informed the basis of my compositional preferences (why my favorite songs these days are are things along the lines of the less electronic PSO2 songs i guess: retaining the futuristic composition while evoking non-futuristic things)

one other thing i like about that chord loop, before the drums come in, it almost feels like the whole thing abruptly cuts off in one frame, every time it loops, and that gives it this neat PUNCH that gives it a driving 80s feel before the drums even come in. actually in general my favorite parts of this are the parts without drums, because it allows me to focus on the cool synth timbres and harmonies a lot better, but i also really like how those bits don't even feel calmer or slower, they still feel 'driving' and retrofuture 80s future vision [night driving] atmosphere and i love all those tropes

i like things that feel ""cyberpunk"" and synthwave is a good way to hit that zone, this certainly succeeds at being that! i guess this game isn't actually cyberpunk (i don't know much about it), but it hits a retrofuture sci-fi vibe at least that i really dig. reminds me of the feelings of moments watching vhs tapes of movies about a 80s/90s visions of a dystopian future, but you know, the song title still shines through. It EXACTLY hits ""this dark future is bad but we can fix it"", i see polluted skies and rows of depressing buildings, but the futuristic glow of stereotypical 80s retrofuture neon shines through and tells me they're going to make things less bad. looking more about the game, i can see that's not the context at all hahaha, but its interesting how much it sounds to me like the song title shallowly anyways. my life is not good right now and it's heavily due to thinking about the relationship i as a person have to an outside world that I feel is distinctly unfair and cruel to me in specific: but this song makes me hopeful, literally, just through its musicality, without even remembering what the song title is. it somehow nails it so well haha.
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