I feel like the blah blahs are very justified in that song considering its all about words forming a prison. And ABA is fed up with it The ABCDEF Go comes very much from left field though.
For Faust's theme, it's a duet. Both sides of his personality, the doctor and the monster are talking to each other. It's an "Alone Infection" because it's an illness of the mind, with Faust capable of understanding his symptoms but not able or willing to cure himself. The "Shit attacking from the other side" is quite literally his other personality that he retreated into as a mass murderer back in Guilty Gear 1 trying to convince him. One side calls for "Destruction "the other for "Reduction", as in don't destroy, and leads to an argument in his head or the "Tower of Babel" or the inability to meaningfully understand his other side. It's most evident with "Messiah" from one side to "Will not come" from the other. "Parallax" is a word meaning to see something from a different point of view, it's follow is "Paradox" or something that is absurd or nonsensical, to "Paradigm will attack" means they need to create a set of rules or code to follow to try and live with each other, or in other words the personalities are saying "Hey, let's try to understand each other" followed by "Impossible, you will not understand me" to "Then let's make a structure so we can at least tolerate each other". The song is heavily using metaphor to show a battle in Faust's mind for control of his soul essentially. "We've got only one sky, Blue, Red, and Black Paranoia" is Faust talking to himself about how much this battle has harmed both personalities, that neither feels safe in this constant fight. "What does it look like to you? No one can see the colors but you." is him attempting to come to an understanding between the two personalities by showing that each of them in this "Alone Infection" are the only ones who can potentially understand each other, like I said, it's a duet he isn't singing to us but within himself. It's even more clear in the slow section with "We see eye to eye", or in otherwards the two sides of his mind are finally coming to a compromise. No one else is understanding him in this moment but himself, as he says, "I told me without you" or I told my other self that without it I couldn't live on, or in other words "No one else can see the colors but you" and he doesn't want to lose that and feel alone in his suffering.
the line "We've got only one sky, blue, red and black paranoia" could also mean the fact that each day passes and he's still in the same state of mind not being able to move on from his past actions "No one can see the colors but you" followed after can also be a reference to the little girl he couldn't save that is now "in the sky" and "can see the colors" meaning that he constantly thinks about her blaming himself for it day by day
Another perspective I’ve heard is that Alone Infection somewhat involves Faust condemning his Dr. Baldhead mentality, and in that light some of the lyrics change. For instance, “I told me without you” could be more discussing how Faust wants to leave behind his insanity, and “no one can see the colors but you” could reference how Faust sees Dr. Baldhead’s insanity, and is calling it out. Of course it’s speculation, but I think it adds and interesting depth and conflict to the song.
Interesting detail about Ram’s theme: The language those vaguely European lyrical are written in is a language called “Esperanto”, which is one of the most well known “constructed languages”, sort of like Angelic from Nier. The implication of its use here, I think, is a reference and reinforcement of the “artificiality” of Ram’s existence. “Built for purpose”, sorta vide. That being said, a large part of why most people think of Esperanto as a failed language is largely attributed to it “having no stories written in it” and other such things that give the language genuine context for its use. Much like Ram herself, trying to find meaning in her existence outside of being a tool for other people’s ends.
Fun fact In an interview, Daisuke Ishiwatari said Necessary Discrepancy is his favorite song in the OST and also, for him, the Main Theme of Guilty Gear itself. (That's why the strive album is also named Necessary Discrepancy)
You pretty much nailed the ending refrain of Zato's theme. It's a message to Millia to either give him the past he thinks there is for him with her or at least give him a chance, and until she does so he'll figuratively and literally carve a path for Millia to live her life.
@mothmanafterdark5924 You the type to wolf down their meal in under a minute over the kitchen sink? Eyes rolling to the back of your head like a shark?
21:01 quick refresher Faust is the best surgeon in the world A terminally ill child died on his operating table and he was so distraught about his failure to save her that he spiralled so hard into nihilistic depression and became a serial killer. He would later discover that the operation was sabotaged as part of a plan to steal research that Faust was conducting that centered on soul resurrection. Learning that the failure of the operation wasnt his fault, Faust became a wandering quack to help as many people as he could but still could not fully reconcile and forgive himself his past deeds. In recent events involving a girl named delilah, he opened a portal gateway to stop a city destroying cataclysm but the effort cost him his his soul or his mind (its not clarified) His body now continues to wander the world trying to help whoever he comes across as his will to save people was so strong that it continues to atone for his sins long after his original self had gone
I’d always thought of the ‘ABCDEF- Go!’ in Alone Infection as a reference to the ABCDE cognitive coaching model. A= Activating event. B = Belief system. C = Emotional Consequences of A and B. D = Disputing irrational thoughts and beliefs. E = Cognitive and Emotional effects of "updated" beliefs. Seeing as Faust is a doctor who went insane due to grief and the ABCDE method is typically used for handling grief, I thought it would fit.
The "Room wothought the sky" line in Ram's is a metaphor for limiting everyone for an easier life. The Valentine wanted to change humanity into perfect, predictable beings who would do no wrong-putting them into a room without a sky. Of course, locking away humanties potential to do anything would lead to know one striving to do the impossible, ie the metaphor of 'reaching for the sky,' thus dooming humanity to a dead tomorrow l.
1:03:00 if we take it in a more literal sense: a room without a sky is the backyard, the place where valentines originated from, birthed by happy chaos... A literal blank, white, featureless place... "Perfection" in Ram original ideology. Then came her understanding of emotions, discrepancies and individuality, in there she understood that her "perfect" backyard life meant death to this world and all the beautifull and precious things in this world: it would mean a dead tomorrow. In the end she understood that the most important thing wasnt the perfection or discrepancy or whats right and wrong: its heart, just heart and heart
Yay, more Guilty Gear soundtrack reactions! Glad to see more of these! Please check out the works of Thorgi's Arcade in the near future! I remember you mentioning interest in his BlazBlue Retrospective , but any of his series(Build the Roster, Fighting Game Retrospectives, Let's Make a Sequel) are top-notch! I'd love if you checked out some, if not all, of them! You're gonna get absolutely hooked!
I don’t know how you all feel about links so just in case I’m not gonna post one, but when you were asking about what “subhuman self” even means, I got reminded of some tidbits from an interview with Daisuke where he mentions that he thinks he’s the first person to come up with that phrase which I just love that so much. The tweet comes from JiyunaJP and it was on May 25 2022 if you want to check it out because that alongside a couple of other funny things from the interview were translated there.
Oh and before I forget, WTFproductions already mentioned it but you two interpreted Zato’s theme quite well but in a lot of Zato theme reactions, people almost always spread this lie that the female singer’s voice that you can briefly hear at the end is Millia’s VA’s voice but that is just not the case. It’s not too dissimilar to the whole “A.B.A.’s hair oxidized and that’s why it’s green” rumor in that it has been passed around for long enough that people take it as truth.
The language being sung at the beginning is Esperanto, a failed constructed language (it was an attempt to make a universe langauge that anyone could learn) much like how Ramlethal herself is a failed construct, at least that is how she somewhat views herself given she failed to do her duty for the Universal Will. Though as you noted, the song very much is her coming to term with the beautiful world she finds herself in, and that it isn't worth the destruction she was born to do, and instead chooses to now protect it.
I don't mind Cloud Drops lyrics, I think his Dizzy theme upload is actually more accurate than Bookers cuz Booker got an important line in the end wrong that changes the meaning of the song a lot, but yeah. Cloud Drops videos are best for people who are brand new to the series to react to but y'all are in the thick of it so CapnBooker is chill. Potemkin has fallen down my list of themes but it is really a sleeper top tier. An absolutely scathing commentary of society as he sees it, but also you see Potemkins humility, even though he knows things are wrong, actually figuring out how to fix it is easier said than done, but he'll use the power he has to fight for the people he's sworn to protect. "Cruel inequality paves way for the future. A black and grey system always dressed to impress", what a fuckin line. The light instruments are great, I think it's highly likely that Potemkin is quite religious and probably takes part in meditation so those instruments fit I feel. The heavier instruments really do perfectly emphasize his power, absolutely brutal, and then on a dime it switches to the softer bits, such a complicated and good mixture just like Potemkin. And oh God those final lines make me wanna scream them at the top of my lungs with tears in my eyes. I'm tearing up writing this lmao Potemkin the goat 😭😭😭 Fausts theme is equally as unintelligible as Faust himself in this game. I like how it doesn't resolve in quite the same way as the other themes in this game, Faust isn't quite at the end of his path yet, he gets that moment of dreamy retrospection but his song mostly ends how it began. I really don't know what to say about most of the lyrics, they're just super abstract but this is one of my favorite themes in the game, it's criminally underrated. "Blue red and black paranoia", is kinda interesting, that's like ALMOST the colors for a barber shop pole, barbers back in the day also playing the role of doctors sometimes. I've also seen people compare the colors to times of day in the context of this song. Also Faust is indeed going to play a big part in the DLC story you'll see soon 👀 it's peak you'll love it, it explains why he is the way he is now, so you'll also get to see normal-ish Faust for probably the last time there. Also man I've somehow never made the Queen connection with this song but you are so right. Love the Subhuman Self is so different from Aisha's other songs in this game and from her style in general, it's really surprising but one of her best performances, and definently fitting for Millia, super dark. Jamison Boazs backing vocals are absolutely iconic too, he needs more vocal roles in these songs fr. The song is about reconciling with her self-hatred for what she became and finding a way to live with it. She used to put basically zero value on her life and thought herself deserving of death for what she's done, but she learned to not take her life for granted, and to live it out all the way to the end. If you think about what Zato said to Leo in the story mode about seeking forgiveness, there's a bit of that in here too I think. Zatos theme belongs in a museum. It's the first song in the game that really takes advantage of length. The ballad section at the end is practically an Easter egg with how you're almost guaranteed to never be able to have a match last long enough to get to it, but if that ever happened holy Lord that Zato becomes unbeatable. Fausts theme is a lot shorter, I have a friend who played Faust for a long time and we still only heard the end a few times. It is so interesting the range of emotions in this song for a person whose emotions are so muddy and hard to navigate. He does express joy in Sins arcade mode, and jealousy in Slayers, and of course when he's around Millia everything seems to come back, and that's pretty much what that whole ending section is all about. Such a beautiful ending, definently another one I wanna scream with tears in my eyes lmao, absolutely iconic in the community. If they sing this during the next concert the audience is gonna blow the ceiling off. Fun fact, Daisuke considers Necessary Discrepancy to be a secondary main theme to Strive. In fact, the album for the Strive OST shares the same name. That's just how important Ram is, it's pretty cool. Also the other language used in Aisha's parts is Esperanto, an auxiliary language that's meant as sort of a proposed universal human language, it's very Latin based and is at least a little understandable to speakers of many languages just by default, pretty fitting for an artificial being like Ramlethal. Also this is the first and only Aisha and Naoki duet on the soundtrack! Imo we NEED more, this one is great but it was only a duet for a little bit I want more... Also I swear every music expert I've seen react to this song has gotten so blown away by the changing time signatures and has tried to count them out and just gotten more confused, it's very funny. Honestly, these lyrics have always been hard for me to grasp so I dunno how much justice I can really do them, the song and the sentiments are really pretty tho. I just looked on Genius and someone did a really good job on there analyzing it, so if you wanna dive into it you should check there. But yeah the jist I got from their analysis is that the song represents her progression from a tool for mother to a living thinking feeling person learning about the world and becoming a part of it, a protector of it even. I love Ram. This part of the OST is definently a doozy lol. I think the next part should be fun but then eventually, once we reach around to I-No and beyond, it's gonna be off the deep end with no return lol, it'll be great.
Faust's theme is him singing to his other personality about his mental illness, or "Alone Infection". The song is the two personalities of Faust, the doctor and the serial killer, arguing about what they want and should do and how this conflict in his mind has worn away at the both of them. After they argue they agree they don't understand each other, or the "Tower of Babel" and so they start bargaining with each other in the Parallex, Paradox, Paradigm section. It ends with the personalities telling each other that they need each other, that no one else sees the world in the same way as their other half, and neither wants to suffer alone. It's quite a beautiful song honestly, even if it uses a bunch of metaphor and cultural words like Tower of Babel or Messiah.
The cool part about Potemkin's theme using those Indian motifs is that Zepp is based on India, the same way the characters with a heavy Japanese identity use Japanese instruments in their themes. The OST really shines when even the instruments get to tell a story.
“ABCDEFG GO!” Is not only funny, but could speak to how Faust is trying to repeat words and sounds to regain his sanity. He’s trying to find his way back, but only has a few tools to use. So in a sense, he’s trying to “increase words”
For the longest time I had no idea about Guilty Gear. But around the time Strive came out, I started seeing covers of the characters' songs pop up on the channel of FamilyJules. And I thought "huh, neat." Then I was watching a streamer, The8BitDrummer, and he occasionally drummed along to some of the songs, this made me enjoy it more. But I still don't have the game because it's EXPENSIVE
I never played a fighting game before guilty gear strive, but once I got into it I loved every second of it. Highly recommend picking it up on sale! The base game itself is good enough unless you're interested in a specific character.
@@RuzPav Let's be real... fighting game nerds don't "like" anything, they'll always find something to whine about. You just keep playing what gives you the good brain tingles mate.
From what I remember about Faust's lore (still not too familiar with Strive overall so I might get stuff wrong): He was originally a surgeon named Dr Baldhead (yes, really) who went mad after accidentally killing an important patient and became a serial killer. His ending in GG1 was him finding out that Zato was actually the one who killed his patient, and his murderous tendencies became less pronounced. He adopted the Faust persona to help people despite still being crazy. Before Strive, he tapped into some form of forbidden power to prevent a catastrophe, causing the Faust persona to basically merge with Baldhead's madness, turning him into the weird, monstrous hero he is in Strive.
Faust is man of two personae, one is his kinda caring doctor pesonality, the other a vengeful disappointed serial killer. He has many voices and ideas screaming into his head all at once. The song is kinda him going through a manic disassociated episode where everything is a chaotic mess in his mind where nothing makes sense, because well, he's not mentally well, so he seems some meaning in things but it's all jumbled. The quiet moment where he talks about escaping the storm and finding a more peaceful life is where all his voices and madness have a moment of lucidity and clarity where he can actually say a feel the things he actually says and feels before the next barrage of insanity hits him. Its a sad song about a man lost in his own mind and his struggle to find tranquility in the chaos. At least that's how I interpret it.
In the first guilty gear when Faust was still doctor baldhead people called him Messiah and after hearing people say that he gained back his sanity, so when the lyrics say Messiah will not come it's Faust trying his best to deny the baldhead personality from coming back
1:03:00 if we take it in a more literal sense: a room without a sky is the backyard, the place where valentines originated from, birthed by happy chaos... A literal blank, white, featureless place... "Perfection" in Ram original ideology. Then came her understanding of emotions, discrepancies and individuality, in there she understood that her "perfect" backyard life meant death to this world and all the beautifull and precious things in this world: it would mean a dead tomorrow. In the end she understood that the most important thing wasnt the perfection or discrepancy or whats right and wrong: its heart, just heart and heart
So Rams theme, I think it's generally agreed is her going through the process of actually experiencing the world that was opened up her through collective actions of Sin/Sol/Berman. Her being utterly co fused and going through a crisis of self in the process before finally coming to the conclusion that she really won't understand the world in it's entirety, that the whole thing is a chaotic mess, and because of that, it's something worth being part of and protecting despite what she was created to do, I.E. destroy the world. Also for the sake of the gooners, the brief moment where her song screams BANGING could totally be taken as her doing a little "experimenting" during her journey just to see what the big deal behind that is. You are welcome for that mental image.
A white page (a page filled with only good things) is a blank page, and a black page (filled with only bad things) is a blank page. Both are exactly the same in the end - flat, boring, lifeless. Only a page with both white and black is worth anything - a necessary discrepancy.
Estonteco, not estoneco. Estonteco means future in esperanto but in necessary discrepancy lyric videos it gets miswritten as estoneco which isn't an actual word, though google translate will give you "estonian" which isn't correct either (that'd be "estona")
1:04:34 I actually heard this before as "It can hurt me / It can hurt you" and I actually thought that was even more poignant, because reaching out to others means accepting the possibility of hurting someone else or being hurt. It's part of the complexity of social existence. We can't hope for a perfect scene where it's idyllic and nothing bad happens ever because perfection is stillness and effective death, the room without the sky.
Millia's lyric could be about her actions and Zato, since she stabbed him in the back (and I think she is the one that killed him) edit: Also, I think that end in Zato music is actually Eddie's side of view
its kinda funny that zatos theme is the only time the theme name is dropped at the end not in the middle or beginning like most songs i can be wrong tho
There are lyrics on spotify. Kind of makes less sense for some songs because well, ingrish spoken by japanese people but it's the official acrsys albums so i would assume they got their own lyrics right. But really most of these vids came up way before that stuff was released.
Nice Lineup. I hope you do the Themes of Goldlewis, Bedman?, Happy Chaos, I-No & Asuka next. I also hope you react to my BlazBlue Opening Playlist at some point.
so does cloud drop? baiken's lyrics are STILL wrong to this day even though we've known the correct ones for two damn years by now and he just guesses them all for the songs in season 2, 3 and 4
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"ABCDEF GO!" and "Blah blah blah blah blah blah BLAH BLAH BLAH!" is peak lyrics in all of music
Don’t forget ‘yeah, baby right right right right right right right right right right’
I feel like the blah blahs are very justified in that song considering its all about words forming a prison. And ABA is fed up with it
The ABCDEF Go comes very much from left field though.
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For Faust's theme, it's a duet. Both sides of his personality, the doctor and the monster are talking to each other. It's an "Alone Infection" because it's an illness of the mind, with Faust capable of understanding his symptoms but not able or willing to cure himself. The "Shit attacking from the other side" is quite literally his other personality that he retreated into as a mass murderer back in Guilty Gear 1 trying to convince him. One side calls for "Destruction "the other for "Reduction", as in don't destroy, and leads to an argument in his head or the "Tower of Babel" or the inability to meaningfully understand his other side. It's most evident with "Messiah" from one side to "Will not come" from the other.
"Parallax" is a word meaning to see something from a different point of view, it's follow is "Paradox" or something that is absurd or nonsensical, to "Paradigm will attack" means they need to create a set of rules or code to follow to try and live with each other, or in other words the personalities are saying "Hey, let's try to understand each other" followed by "Impossible, you will not understand me" to "Then let's make a structure so we can at least tolerate each other".
The song is heavily using metaphor to show a battle in Faust's mind for control of his soul essentially. "We've got only one sky, Blue, Red, and Black Paranoia" is Faust talking to himself about how much this battle has harmed both personalities, that neither feels safe in this constant fight. "What does it look like to you? No one can see the colors but you." is him attempting to come to an understanding between the two personalities by showing that each of them in this "Alone Infection" are the only ones who can potentially understand each other, like I said, it's a duet he isn't singing to us but within himself.
It's even more clear in the slow section with "We see eye to eye", or in otherwards the two sides of his mind are finally coming to a compromise. No one else is understanding him in this moment but himself, as he says, "I told me without you" or I told my other self that without it I couldn't live on, or in other words "No one else can see the colors but you" and he doesn't want to lose that and feel alone in his suffering.
Blue, red and black are hospital emergency codes as well.
the line "We've got only one sky, blue, red and black paranoia" could also mean the fact that each day passes and he's still in the same state of mind not being able to move on from his past actions "No one can see the colors but you" followed after can also be a reference to the little girl he couldn't save that is now "in the sky" and "can see the colors" meaning that he constantly thinks about her blaming himself for it day by day
Another perspective I’ve heard is that Alone Infection somewhat involves Faust condemning his Dr. Baldhead mentality, and in that light some of the lyrics change.
For instance, “I told me without you” could be more discussing how Faust wants to leave behind his insanity, and “no one can see the colors but you” could reference how Faust sees Dr. Baldhead’s insanity, and is calling it out.
Of course it’s speculation, but I think it adds and interesting depth and conflict to the song.
Interesting detail about Ram’s theme:
The language those vaguely European lyrical are written in is a language called “Esperanto”, which is one of the most well known “constructed languages”, sort of like Angelic from Nier.
The implication of its use here, I think, is a reference and reinforcement of the “artificiality” of Ram’s existence. “Built for purpose”, sorta vide.
That being said, a large part of why most people think of Esperanto as a failed language is largely attributed to it “having no stories written in it” and other such things that give the language genuine context for its use.
Much like Ram herself, trying to find meaning in her existence outside of being a tool for other people’s ends.
Fun fact
In an interview, Daisuke Ishiwatari said Necessary Discrepancy is his favorite song in the OST and also, for him, the Main Theme of Guilty Gear itself. (That's why the strive album is also named Necessary Discrepancy)
You pretty much nailed the ending refrain of Zato's theme. It's a message to Millia to either give him the past he thinks there is for him with her or at least give him a chance, and until she does so he'll figuratively and literally carve a path for Millia to live her life.
My head cannon: Ram's theme is what went through her head when she ate the borger, and she finally understood humanity.
Damn. Took her 6 minutes to eat a burger
@mothmanafterdark5924 You the type to wolf down their meal in under a minute over the kitchen sink? Eyes rolling to the back of your head like a shark?
@@uhbuhbhbuhbuhbu im not saying I am but, there's a reason I'm more then a few pounds overweight
@mothmanafterdark5924 I'm a big guy because I enjoy the food, haha.
Also, the name of Ramlethal's theme is the name of the album. It's apparently Daisuke's favorite piece from the game.
That kinda makes sense actually. Ram's theme does fit with the whole plot of Guilty Gear Strive as a whole.
21:01 quick refresher
Faust is the best surgeon in the world
A terminally ill child died on his operating table and he was so distraught about his failure to save her that he spiralled so hard into nihilistic depression and became a serial killer. He would later discover that the operation was sabotaged as part of a plan to steal research that Faust was conducting that centered on soul resurrection. Learning that the failure of the operation wasnt his fault, Faust became a wandering quack to help as many people as he could but still could not fully reconcile and forgive himself his past deeds.
In recent events involving a girl named delilah, he opened a portal gateway to stop a city destroying cataclysm but the effort cost him his his soul or his mind (its not clarified)
His body now continues to wander the world trying to help whoever he comes across as his will to save people was so strong that it continues to atone for his sins long after his original self had gone
I’d always thought of the ‘ABCDEF- Go!’ in Alone Infection as a reference to the ABCDE cognitive coaching model.
A= Activating event.
B = Belief system.
C = Emotional Consequences of A and B.
D = Disputing irrational thoughts and beliefs.
E = Cognitive and Emotional effects of "updated"
beliefs.
Seeing as Faust is a doctor who went insane due to grief and the ABCDE method is typically used for handling grief, I thought it would fit.
The "Room wothought the sky" line in Ram's is a metaphor for limiting everyone for an easier life.
The Valentine wanted to change humanity into perfect, predictable beings who would do no wrong-putting them into a room without a sky.
Of course, locking away humanties potential to do anything would lead to know one striving to do the impossible, ie the metaphor of 'reaching for the sky,' thus dooming humanity to a dead tomorrow l.
1:03:00 if we take it in a more literal sense: a room without a sky is the backyard, the place where valentines originated from, birthed by happy chaos... A literal blank, white, featureless place... "Perfection" in Ram original ideology.
Then came her understanding of emotions, discrepancies and individuality, in there she understood that her "perfect" backyard life meant death to this world and all the beautifull and precious things in this world: it would mean a dead tomorrow.
In the end she understood that the most important thing wasnt the perfection or discrepancy or whats right and wrong: its heart, just heart and heart
Hey, May’s theme has enough of a tempo for a workout! It’s good if you want to deadlift an anchor or race a dolphin
Thinking about it, it would actually make for a great jogging song xD
I know of someone who has a Lazytown song on his workout mix, so it's possible!
Yay, more Guilty Gear soundtrack reactions! Glad to see more of these!
Please check out the works of Thorgi's Arcade in the near future!
I remember you mentioning interest in his BlazBlue Retrospective , but any of his series(Build the Roster, Fighting Game Retrospectives, Let's Make a Sequel) are top-notch! I'd love if you checked out some, if not all, of them! You're gonna get absolutely hooked!
I don’t know how you all feel about links so just in case I’m not gonna post one, but when you were asking about what “subhuman self” even means, I got reminded of some tidbits from an interview with Daisuke where he mentions that he thinks he’s the first person to come up with that phrase which I just love that so much. The tweet comes from JiyunaJP and it was on May 25 2022 if you want to check it out because that alongside a couple of other funny things from the interview were translated there.
Oh and before I forget, WTFproductions already mentioned it but you two interpreted Zato’s theme quite well but in a lot of Zato theme reactions, people almost always spread this lie that the female singer’s voice that you can briefly hear at the end is Millia’s VA’s voice but that is just not the case. It’s not too dissimilar to the whole “A.B.A.’s hair oxidized and that’s why it’s green” rumor in that it has been passed around for long enough that people take it as truth.
Wooooooo more guilty gear music videos! Can't wait for happy chaos
The language being sung at the beginning is Esperanto, a failed constructed language (it was an attempt to make a universe langauge that anyone could learn) much like how Ramlethal herself is a failed construct, at least that is how she somewhat views herself given she failed to do her duty for the Universal Will.
Though as you noted, the song very much is her coming to term with the beautiful world she finds herself in, and that it isn't worth the destruction she was born to do, and instead chooses to now protect it.
So glad to see you react to more of the OST. This series has been wonderful
Please do more of these bc the songs just keep getting better
I don't mind Cloud Drops lyrics, I think his Dizzy theme upload is actually more accurate than Bookers cuz Booker got an important line in the end wrong that changes the meaning of the song a lot, but yeah. Cloud Drops videos are best for people who are brand new to the series to react to but y'all are in the thick of it so CapnBooker is chill.
Potemkin has fallen down my list of themes but it is really a sleeper top tier. An absolutely scathing commentary of society as he sees it, but also you see Potemkins humility, even though he knows things are wrong, actually figuring out how to fix it is easier said than done, but he'll use the power he has to fight for the people he's sworn to protect. "Cruel inequality paves way for the future. A black and grey system always dressed to impress", what a fuckin line. The light instruments are great, I think it's highly likely that Potemkin is quite religious and probably takes part in meditation so those instruments fit I feel. The heavier instruments really do perfectly emphasize his power, absolutely brutal, and then on a dime it switches to the softer bits, such a complicated and good mixture just like Potemkin. And oh God those final lines make me wanna scream them at the top of my lungs with tears in my eyes. I'm tearing up writing this lmao Potemkin the goat 😭😭😭
Fausts theme is equally as unintelligible as Faust himself in this game. I like how it doesn't resolve in quite the same way as the other themes in this game, Faust isn't quite at the end of his path yet, he gets that moment of dreamy retrospection but his song mostly ends how it began. I really don't know what to say about most of the lyrics, they're just super abstract but this is one of my favorite themes in the game, it's criminally underrated. "Blue red and black paranoia", is kinda interesting, that's like ALMOST the colors for a barber shop pole, barbers back in the day also playing the role of doctors sometimes. I've also seen people compare the colors to times of day in the context of this song. Also Faust is indeed going to play a big part in the DLC story you'll see soon 👀 it's peak you'll love it, it explains why he is the way he is now, so you'll also get to see normal-ish Faust for probably the last time there. Also man I've somehow never made the Queen connection with this song but you are so right.
Love the Subhuman Self is so different from Aisha's other songs in this game and from her style in general, it's really surprising but one of her best performances, and definently fitting for Millia, super dark. Jamison Boazs backing vocals are absolutely iconic too, he needs more vocal roles in these songs fr. The song is about reconciling with her self-hatred for what she became and finding a way to live with it. She used to put basically zero value on her life and thought herself deserving of death for what she's done, but she learned to not take her life for granted, and to live it out all the way to the end. If you think about what Zato said to Leo in the story mode about seeking forgiveness, there's a bit of that in here too I think.
Zatos theme belongs in a museum. It's the first song in the game that really takes advantage of length. The ballad section at the end is practically an Easter egg with how you're almost guaranteed to never be able to have a match last long enough to get to it, but if that ever happened holy Lord that Zato becomes unbeatable. Fausts theme is a lot shorter, I have a friend who played Faust for a long time and we still only heard the end a few times. It is so interesting the range of emotions in this song for a person whose emotions are so muddy and hard to navigate. He does express joy in Sins arcade mode, and jealousy in Slayers, and of course when he's around Millia everything seems to come back, and that's pretty much what that whole ending section is all about. Such a beautiful ending, definently another one I wanna scream with tears in my eyes lmao, absolutely iconic in the community. If they sing this during the next concert the audience is gonna blow the ceiling off.
Fun fact, Daisuke considers Necessary Discrepancy to be a secondary main theme to Strive. In fact, the album for the Strive OST shares the same name. That's just how important Ram is, it's pretty cool. Also the other language used in Aisha's parts is Esperanto, an auxiliary language that's meant as sort of a proposed universal human language, it's very Latin based and is at least a little understandable to speakers of many languages just by default, pretty fitting for an artificial being like Ramlethal. Also this is the first and only Aisha and Naoki duet on the soundtrack! Imo we NEED more, this one is great but it was only a duet for a little bit I want more... Also I swear every music expert I've seen react to this song has gotten so blown away by the changing time signatures and has tried to count them out and just gotten more confused, it's very funny. Honestly, these lyrics have always been hard for me to grasp so I dunno how much justice I can really do them, the song and the sentiments are really pretty tho. I just looked on Genius and someone did a really good job on there analyzing it, so if you wanna dive into it you should check there. But yeah the jist I got from their analysis is that the song represents her progression from a tool for mother to a living thinking feeling person learning about the world and becoming a part of it, a protector of it even. I love Ram.
This part of the OST is definently a doozy lol. I think the next part should be fun but then eventually, once we reach around to I-No and beyond, it's gonna be off the deep end with no return lol, it'll be great.
Faust's theme is him singing to his other personality about his mental illness, or "Alone Infection". The song is the two personalities of Faust, the doctor and the serial killer, arguing about what they want and should do and how this conflict in his mind has worn away at the both of them. After they argue they agree they don't understand each other, or the "Tower of Babel" and so they start bargaining with each other in the Parallex, Paradox, Paradigm section. It ends with the personalities telling each other that they need each other, that no one else sees the world in the same way as their other half, and neither wants to suffer alone. It's quite a beautiful song honestly, even if it uses a bunch of metaphor and cultural words like Tower of Babel or Messiah.
@@chrisbaldwin8570 I thought about mentioning this interpretation but I couldn't remember enough about it to really do it justice, but yeah I like it
The cool part about Potemkin's theme using those Indian motifs is that Zepp is based on India, the same way the characters with a heavy Japanese identity use Japanese instruments in their themes. The OST really shines when even the instruments get to tell a story.
“ABCDEFG GO!” Is not only funny, but could speak to how Faust is trying to repeat words and sounds to regain his sanity. He’s trying to find his way back, but only has a few tools to use. So in a sense, he’s trying to “increase words”
For the longest time I had no idea about Guilty Gear. But around the time Strive came out, I started seeing covers of the characters' songs pop up on the channel of FamilyJules. And I thought "huh, neat." Then I was watching a streamer, The8BitDrummer, and he occasionally drummed along to some of the songs, this made me enjoy it more. But I still don't have the game because it's EXPENSIVE
I never played a fighting game before guilty gear strive, but once I got into it I loved every second of it. Highly recommend picking it up on sale! The base game itself is good enough unless you're interested in a specific character.
Strive and most Guilty Gear games go on sale _a lot._ It might be on sale right now 😂
It's 10 dollars right now...
I enjoy tf out of the game. Shame a lot of fighting game nerds don't like it.
@@RuzPav Let's be real... fighting game nerds don't "like" anything, they'll always find something to whine about.
You just keep playing what gives you the good brain tingles mate.
From what I remember about Faust's lore (still not too familiar with Strive overall so I might get stuff wrong):
He was originally a surgeon named Dr Baldhead (yes, really) who went mad after accidentally killing an important patient and became a serial killer. His ending in GG1 was him finding out that Zato was actually the one who killed his patient, and his murderous tendencies became less pronounced. He adopted the Faust persona to help people despite still being crazy. Before Strive, he tapped into some form of forbidden power to prevent a catastrophe, causing the Faust persona to basically merge with Baldhead's madness, turning him into the weird, monstrous hero he is in Strive.
Faust is man of two personae, one is his kinda caring doctor pesonality, the other a vengeful disappointed serial killer. He has many voices and ideas screaming into his head all at once. The song is kinda him going through a manic disassociated episode where everything is a chaotic mess in his mind where nothing makes sense, because well, he's not mentally well, so he seems some meaning in things but it's all jumbled.
The quiet moment where he talks about escaping the storm and finding a more peaceful life is where all his voices and madness have a moment of lucidity and clarity where he can actually say a feel the things he actually says and feels before the next barrage of insanity hits him.
Its a sad song about a man lost in his own mind and his struggle to find tranquility in the chaos.
At least that's how I interpret it.
In the first guilty gear when Faust was still doctor baldhead people called him Messiah and after hearing people say that he gained back his sanity, so when the lyrics say Messiah will not come it's Faust trying his best to deny the baldhead personality from coming back
1:03:00 if we take it in a more literal sense: a room without a sky is the backyard, the place where valentines originated from, birthed by happy chaos... A literal blank, white, featureless place... "Perfection" in Ram original ideology.
Then came her understanding of emotions, discrepancies and individuality, in there she understood that her "perfect" backyard life meant death to this world and all the beautifull and precious things in this world: it would mean a dead tomorrow.
In the end she understood that the most important thing wasnt the perfection or discrepancy or whats right and wrong: its heart, just heart and heart
So Rams theme, I think it's generally agreed is her going through the process of actually experiencing the world that was opened up her through collective actions of Sin/Sol/Berman. Her being utterly co fused and going through a crisis of self in the process before finally coming to the conclusion that she really won't understand the world in it's entirety, that the whole thing is a chaotic mess, and because of that, it's something worth being part of and protecting despite what she was created to do, I.E. destroy the world.
Also for the sake of the gooners, the brief moment where her song screams BANGING could totally be taken as her doing a little "experimenting" during her journey just to see what the big deal behind that is. You are welcome for that mental image.
Zatos, Millia and happy chaos themes are my top 3
Keep up the good reactions guys!
You guys should see the mode arcade of Millia to how her relationship with zato truely is now
A white page (a page filled with only good things) is a blank page, and a black page (filled with only bad things) is a blank page. Both are exactly the same in the end - flat, boring, lifeless. Only a page with both white and black is worth anything - a necessary discrepancy.
Estonteco, not estoneco.
Estonteco means future in esperanto but in necessary discrepancy lyric videos it gets miswritten as estoneco which isn't an actual word, though google translate will give you "estonian" which isn't correct either (that'd be "estona")
1:04:34 I actually heard this before as "It can hurt me / It can hurt you" and I actually thought that was even more poignant, because reaching out to others means accepting the possibility of hurting someone else or being hurt. It's part of the complexity of social existence. We can't hope for a perfect scene where it's idyllic and nothing bad happens ever because perfection is stillness and effective death, the room without the sky.
Millia's lyric could be about her actions and Zato, since she stabbed him in the back (and I think she is the one that killed him)
edit: Also, I think that end in Zato music is actually Eddie's side of view
34:30 She's fine, most of the people complaining are Kapel bots who have no idea how to block a meterless reversal on their own goddamn oki mixup.
its kinda funny that zatos theme is the only time the theme name is dropped at the end not in the middle or beginning like most songs i can be wrong tho
I CANT WAIT HAPPYS THEME IT HIT DIF
The day I see the reaction to Elphelt's Theme is the day I die happily
There are lyrics on spotify. Kind of makes less sense for some songs because well, ingrish spoken by japanese people but it's the official acrsys albums so i would assume they got their own lyrics right. But really most of these vids came up way before that stuff was released.
the lyrics on Spotify are made by fans, not arcsys themself
I-No still has a bit of grappler in her. Her command grab super *is* unreactable like a proper 720 grab super
It feels so good to land that grab xD
The beginning of Millia's theme makes me think of Devil May Cry
I recommend CloudDrop (a RUclipsr) for the character themes in guilty gear next time they're pretty good!
I think I-no's theme is actually the easiest to breakdown
You will need to react to Gekkosquirrel after you are done he has a theme explained series for all these songs
Nice Lineup.
I hope you do the Themes of Goldlewis, Bedman?, Happy Chaos, I-No & Asuka next.
I also hope you react to my BlazBlue Opening Playlist at some point.
@@johanstenfelt1206 they've been doing them just in roster order
@@gatr2897 ah, fair enough.
You gotta work on your pauses man
Buff millia
Hell yeah !
I do prefer Cloud Drops lyrics. Bookerz is chill and all but some songs have wrong lyrics that can change the meaning of the whole song.
Bookerz usually takes the official lyrics tho (when they exist)
@kaialone ya, in the end is Fuzzy English errors can be made.
so does cloud drop? baiken's lyrics are STILL wrong to this day even though we've known the correct ones for two damn years by now and he just guesses them all for the songs in season 2, 3 and 4
At least Capn updates the videos when official lyrics come out
Where blazeblue?
Still in the works! Gotta find time to record it.
@TheLegitWeebs Niiiice
I liked the part where they listen to the music.