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True Happiness (Jin-Yuta's Theme)
WILL THEORY:
Before we even...try to tackle the match itself, we gotta talk about Yuta's entrance. I mean they're always pretty over the top but -
JACE MADDOX:
But this was ridiculous.
WILL THEORY:
So first off, they've flown in Atsushi Tomohiro to do, you know, to do the introduction.
JACE MADDOX:
Well you gotta have Tomohiro intro him, nobody else hits that N in "Jin" like he does.
WILL THEORY:
Yeah that like...whammy'd N.
JACE MADDOX:
JINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN YUUUUUUUUUTA! Well I can't do it but, you all know how it sounds.
WILL THEORY:
But yeah so Tomohiro does his thing, listing off all of Yuta's accolades, introduces him, and while that's happening you've got like this...new-agey video playing on the big screen of like, these grand vista shots of Japan, and a few of them have Yuta's silhouette in the foreground, and before he actually comes out you get this other, kinda...celebratory, electronic music, very grandiose, very over the top, standard Yuta stuff, and then all these dancers get out onto the stage.
JACE MADDOX:
Has he used dancers before?
WILL THEORY:
That I don't know, it's the first time I've seen them but I don't see as much Global Legend as I probably should so I don't know all of what he did for entrances over there. But right...so these dancers come out into the stage and they're all kind of dressed in like...these kind of fancy looking dress outfits, and they all got the black sun over their eyes like Yuta does.
JACE MADDOX:
And can talk about, like...it's all white squirrels.
WILL THEORY:
Right, they're all white squirrels.
JACE MADDOX:
Like let's just - you gotta find that many white squirrels who are either already in the state or willing to travel, who are all adept at pop-and-lock dancing and can do it in sync with each other. Like forget the rest of this entrance for a minute, the logistics of...just that part of it are insane to me.
WILL THEORY:
So the dancers do their dance, very impressive by the way...they all freeze in place, then the lights go out except for a few on the stage, and you hear this wind sound effect for a bit...and then there's a bit of a jump scare when the music comes in like...
JACE MADDOX:
Dun-Dun-Dun-DUNNNNNNNNN
WILL THEORY:
Right it kind of comes out of nowhere, then the stage lights go out. and slowly you see this like...this screen illuminating up on the stage, like it's being backlit and the shape of Yuta's silhouette slowly starts to come into view, you can see the tail, the cane, no doubt it's him, and -
JACE MADDOX:
And can I just say, you know, this is where it started to feel 'real' and I don't just mean when you see the shadow, but like when you hear that sound effect, it's on all of his recent themes like that...do-da-da, do-da-da, do-da-da...that kind of echo-y thing. Because you know, obviously they've been telling us for weeks, you're getting Yuta-Zane III, Yuta's coming, but...it sounds weird, like I didn't think they were lying but you almost feel like it's gonna somehow be this fake out, or that it's gonna fall through and that it's not gonna happen, like it's too good to be true, and when you hear that sound effect, that Yuta-Sound I've seen people call it, that's when it really hit me like, oh shit, this is really happening.
WILL THEORY:
No yeah, I kind of felt the same way like when you hear that sound it's like, oh shit, he's here.
JACE MADDOX:
At one point Ed Essex on commentary even says "he's here" all like, solemnly.
WILL THEORY:
Right that's like, HIS sound. Like you kind of imagine that sound just follows him into a store when he goes in to buy a pop or something.
JACE MADDOX:
Hahaha, yeah.
WILL THEORY:
So...then the music comes in, and it's like an...altered or modified version of his True Happiness theme that he's been using for a while now.
JACE MADDOX:
This wasn't wrestling music, this was just straight up final boss music.
WILL THEORY:
And what was cool about it was, there was this like...this flute that comes in, and it's playing the same tune, or the same riff as the guitar riff from his very first theme back when he was Hero Yuta, doing like the throwback rockstar gimmick. Only while it sounded like 80's metal or J-Rock in that first theme, here it just sounds all...dramatic and epic and final battle-y.
JACE MADDOX:
Right, like we've come full circle. Kind of paying homage to the entire history of the...now legend that is Yuta, in his ultimate form.
WILL THEORY:
Yeah that's a good way to put it actually...and then at some point you get that like...I don't know what it is, I've heard it before, that like...deow-neow-neow-neow-neow thing.
JACE MADDOX:
That sitar?
WILL THEORY:
Is that what it is?
JACE MADDOX:
Think so, something like that.
WILL THEORY:
Well anyway, as that part comes in the screen starts to rise, and finally after all of these theatrics and all of this...pageantry and everything, we finally see Yuta being revealed. And they actually did a really good job setting up this moment because in the entire buildup to this, even with the match graphic and promo videos, they never really clearly showed Yuta, he was either very shadowed or had his back to the viewer.
JACE MADDOX:
Right, I feel like that's part of what almost made it feel like a bait and switch because they made a point of never completely showing him for, like, that entire build. You pretty much only saw him in archival footage of their previous matches, and they even edited those to be so quick and fleeting.
WILL THEORY:
And it's funny because like, this is one of the biggest wrestling stars on the planet, arguably the biggest depending on who you ask or where you live, and like we all know who he is, you can just go online and look him up and yet somehow by doing the build like this, it added this extra aura of mystery around him, so as silly as it sort of was I have to kind of give them credit for it because I really think it was sort of effective, especially when that screen finally lifts and you see him, in the fur and flesh, for the first time.
JACE MADDOX:
And then of course it's Yuta so he takes eleven years to get down to the ring.
WILL THEORY:
Oh yeah you know he's gonna soak all of that in, and of course by this point the crowd is losing their minds when he steps out onto that stage, you have to think a lot of them were resigned to the idea that they were only ever gonna see him in like, online clips or whatever, certainly not in person.
JACE MADDOX:
Though you have to kind of feel for Zane like, you need to maintain that, you know...that steely-eyed gaze while Yuta's taking the scenic route down the ramp.
WILL THEORY:
So he finally gets to the bottom of the ramp, the music fades out, lights go out again...and when they come back up, he's standing in the ring.
JACE MADDOX:
And he's just like staring out into the crowd.
WILL THEORY:
Right he's turned like, slightly away from Zane, and he's just completely motionless, staring out into the crowd, underneath those big, wrap-around shades of his, and he's like, he's like stone, you can't even see him breathing, just staring out into this one spot.
JACE MADDOX:
And the crowd's going batshit! He's just standing there!
WILL THEORY:
Right he's just standing there and they're chanting like, holy shit, holy shit, and he hasn't done a fuckin' thing. But it's just like, that visual of seeing him standing in that ring, in this company, in that arena, in this country. And so the crowd pops just for him...just standing there, and he stares out into the crowd for what feels like 5 minutes. I mean it probably wasn't that long, but -
JACE MADDOX:
He did it forever! And then after a while, just when the crowd starts to sort of sound like they're calming down, he finally turns his head toward Zane, finally shows some signs of life, and they pop again!
WILL THEORY:
Hah, I know, he turns his head slightly to the left, not even his whole body, just his head, and he gets another massive pop on top of the one he was already getting. I mean...what a god damn star, what else can you say.Jin-Yuta's Entrance Theme.
I'm reasonably satisfied with how it turned out.
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Slower-paced than the other song I commented on! It's pretty good. The cool, collected energy of the song is consistent throughout! I like the panning on the flute. I am also a gremlin who dies for timpani solo sections, so of course my favorite part is when it enters at 2:54. I'm unsure of the electric guitar flourishes are samples or you playing, but they're tied in well regardless. My only nitpick would be that the oscillating synth at 1:27 doesn't fit the tempo of the song, I'd say. Maybe if it slowed down to a full half-speed or double-speed?
Either way, neat to hear it!
Either way, neat to hear it!
Thanks for the feedback, it's a small gesture but is often the highlight of a given day for me.
So first off, this song is inspired by 2 video games tracks - Once again an Akuma theme, specifically his Alpha 2 Gold theme, but also Ogre's theme from Tekken 3 (That one's very obvious when you compare the intro to both songs). I'm pointing out this inspiration for a point I'll make a little further below.
Akuma:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AZ-pOjOz4Y
Ogre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHwfbkxNIx4
Anyway, your favorite part is also my sister's favorite part but for different reasons. She's a sucker for that cliche Asian sound on the flute there so that was an easy win with her.
Both guesses would be sort of correct regarding the guitar. By that I mean, I played all the parts that got used but recorded them as individual note samples for the most part and arranged them later rather than playing live. I actually restrung it immediately before I worked on this so I'd get more resonance out of the power chords. A lot of the weirder sound effects in the beginning and what not were just me running the pick down the strings while my reverb pedal and phaser were set to particularly ridiculous settings. The part at 3:14 is also guitar, speed-playing one fret while giving it a very slow tremolo by hand.
Per the oscillating sitar effect, that was inspired by the sitar sound in the aforementioned Akuma theme, which has a kind of otherworldly tempo and oscillation to it. Mine was made to me longer and more 'wild' I guess you could say, to try to impart a kind of mystical vibe and is meant to not be on tempo and sound a little 'out of control.' Maybe it doesn't work for everyone but I liked how it sounded after testing the effect so I left it as is. I wanted something to portray the Jin-Yuta character as something unlike anything his given opponent has faced before, like he's operating on a completely different plane. Again, like the Nyra character, it's kind of inspired by like secret and/or boss characters from fighting games.
Thanks again for listening and commenting.
So first off, this song is inspired by 2 video games tracks - Once again an Akuma theme, specifically his Alpha 2 Gold theme, but also Ogre's theme from Tekken 3 (That one's very obvious when you compare the intro to both songs). I'm pointing out this inspiration for a point I'll make a little further below.
Akuma:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AZ-pOjOz4Y
Ogre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHwfbkxNIx4
Anyway, your favorite part is also my sister's favorite part but for different reasons. She's a sucker for that cliche Asian sound on the flute there so that was an easy win with her.
Both guesses would be sort of correct regarding the guitar. By that I mean, I played all the parts that got used but recorded them as individual note samples for the most part and arranged them later rather than playing live. I actually restrung it immediately before I worked on this so I'd get more resonance out of the power chords. A lot of the weirder sound effects in the beginning and what not were just me running the pick down the strings while my reverb pedal and phaser were set to particularly ridiculous settings. The part at 3:14 is also guitar, speed-playing one fret while giving it a very slow tremolo by hand.
Per the oscillating sitar effect, that was inspired by the sitar sound in the aforementioned Akuma theme, which has a kind of otherworldly tempo and oscillation to it. Mine was made to me longer and more 'wild' I guess you could say, to try to impart a kind of mystical vibe and is meant to not be on tempo and sound a little 'out of control.' Maybe it doesn't work for everyone but I liked how it sounded after testing the effect so I left it as is. I wanted something to portray the Jin-Yuta character as something unlike anything his given opponent has faced before, like he's operating on a completely different plane. Again, like the Nyra character, it's kind of inspired by like secret and/or boss characters from fighting games.
Thanks again for listening and commenting.
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