#a song built off beatdown because even tho showtime is definitely a john song and aggrieve is arguably as much a rose song as its a roxy one | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

telaraneas · 3 years ago

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the leitmotifs in homestuck frustrate me so much because of how ambiguous they are sometimes, which is kinda natural given the music was a massive collaborative effort with relatively little direction etc but jus sometimes. sometimes i think about how touhou music is one of the main melodies in heir of grief and i just get the tiniest bit sad. sometimes i just wish there had been a bit more consistency to what melodies are tied to what characters and themes, because when they hit as intended its The Best Musical Moments Of Homestuck

#sushi original #this may or may not have been brought on by me thinking on how time on my side was written as a dave battle theme and like the #artist commentary has so many notes on how they played with the concept of time travel sonically in the actual music like #theres so much attention to detail and such #but then it got used for a dirk centric flash instead and as a matter of fact i would argue that this actually fits better for #a song built off beatdown because even tho showtime is definitely a john song and aggrieve is arguably as much a rose song as its a roxy one #i do actually think beatdown has been repeatedly better established as bros theme and thus tying it to dirk makes a lot more sense #since their strife sequence feels a lot more one sided than the previous two which means that songs first appearance is bro kickin daves ass #which always left me feeling more that daves leitmotif was upwards movement and not beatdown. reinforced by descent starting on #upwards movement/sburban jungle as dave tries to enter the game and beatdown only kicks in when it zooms to bro on the meteor etc #so to me beatdown always made more sense as dirks theme than daves #but time on my side is explicitly composed and arranged as a dave song! and yet used in a dirk scene which yes makes sense because #the jake half of that scene literally parallels the dave strife but look #i just wish the leitmotifs were a tad bit more clean cut!!!#it pains me also when some melodies are introduced and then rarely actually used again #like eg courser got drilled into my memory forever after umbral ultimatum. but how many songs actually ever call back to that melody?

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