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[shatmonster]

the way tommy uses music in his streams is so cool and heres why:

so im sure pretty most everyone can recognize the way music can influence the atmosphere or mood of a scene during a stream, but one of the key reasons it can do that is because of a musical term called ‘themes.’ this basically refers to a certain song or musical piece that represents a recurring idea or character as a whole (think Imperial March representing The Empire). tommy utilizes themes by playing a certain, well-known song within his streams, to represent something his character is feeling or doing. 

for example, Able Sisters. this is tommys theme. it represents him and his character. if he were to utilize the full potential of this theme, he could use it in moments where his character is doing something important for himself or doing important character work, but listen, these are twitch streams, not fully edited tv episodes so ill cut him some slack. but the point is, whenever you hear able sisters you think of tommy and what he represents as the current protagonist/hero and thats pretty cool for a bunch of notes in a specific order. 

but he uses other themes such as Super Mario World’s Castle to represent his character feeling trepidation or fear or monkaW, if you will. even if the scene isnt necessarily eerie yet, as soon as he puts that song on the audience knows what they should be feeling: uneasy and cautious. its such an easy way of connecting the audience to whats happening on screen without explicit exposition and its very pog. 

some more examples of this, because its cool to talk about it, is: Super Mario Bro’s Airship 1 and Deltarune’s Rude Buster to represent intense and energetic moments or the heat of battle! or maybe the music from Animal Crossing: New Leaf to represent fun easy light-hearted silliness. when this music is playing the audience doesnt need to expect intense roleplaying or serious lore and can enjoy an easygoing stream... for the time being. 

some very important and interesting things are also his opening and closing theme: Luvbird’s Recollections and the Wii Shop Music respectively. when you join tommys stream and youre immediately hit with his opening theme, you think, “yay tommyinnit stream its starting this is gonna be great its tommyinnit,” which is the point. and when you hear his closing theme ur like “oh look the stream is ending its been great cant wait to see the next one.” tommy doesnt even have to tell you these things, because the music tells you and i just think that is so very cool

Edit: can’t believe I forgot the prime music. Here y’all go, you get it by now.