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A huge shoutout to Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein for making one of the most iconic theme songs in history.
All of their music for the show is amazing, but it was the opening credits theme that first got me hooked.
I'd even go so far as to say that the music was a big part of the reason I fell in love with the show in the first place.
When it started playing in the S4 finale after Will felt that all-too-familiar presence, I shouted!!
The opening theme crossing over into the show itself felt so meta, especially in the final episode of the penultimate season, just as the Upside Down is literally crossing over into Hawkins. It felt like everything in the series has been leading up to this final showdown all along.
It's the Neverending Story effect, too, like we as the audience are suddenly conscious of ourselves and our own experiences with the show as the theme we all know and recognize becomes part of the show itself.
What a track. To this day, I never fast-forward through the opening credits.
Cheers, guys!
#i don't think the full st4 version that continues on with more orchestration appears in the album#i'll have to listen again and check#it was so cool#it's like it added another dimension to the song we already knew#much like tbe show is now starting to unveil more layers and dimensions to the characters and places we thought we knew....#(and will byers being centered when the track starts playing is SO)#aaaahhhh#anyway :))#st music#stranger things ost#stranger things music#stranger things theme#st analysis#stranger things analysis#st meta#stranger things meta#stranger things
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The Stranger Things OST is something we haven't been paying nearly enough attention to, because I think I've just found something monumental.
We all know these two scenes feature the same music:
But what we haven't been talking about is how the tracks in these four scenes all share the exact same melody-
Or that the tracks from these two scenes sync up perfectly to create an entirely new piece of music
But what if I told you this is only the very tip of the iceberg, because I've been sifting through evidence for quite a while now, and we are far past the point of this all just being a coincidence?
ahem.
Welcome to Soundtrackgate.
(AKA: The wild, wacky world where connections go way, way deeper than you could've possibly imagined, and it all still manages to lead back to byler in the end)
So, just by themselves, those three instances of matching soundtracks creating parallels between different scenes are pretty cool, and worthy of analysis. That's all well and good. But it gets a whole lot more complicated when I tell you that across those three examples, all the songs from those eight scenes I've pointed out match with each other too. The music playing during the J/ancy kiss syncs with the music from the R/ockie scene at the gun shop. The M/ileven kiss has music that syncs with the "It was a seven" scene. R/ockie making sandwiches has music in the background that syncs with the Byler van scene. They're all in the same key, B flat major.
I can prove that I'm not making this up in the form of some amazing mashups between four important OST songs. But before I show you those, let me take a step back and introduce you to the songs individually: Being Different, The First Lie, The First I love You, and Kids.
(I slowed them down so they're all the same speed). And I thought to myself, golly, these all sound pretty similar, they all have a pretty consistent pattern of eight quarter notes that get repeated over and over. (Listen closely, can you hear it?) I sure bet it would sound nice if someone combined them. So. I figured out how to edit audio and I did it myself XD
When I said they synced, I wasn't kidding. When I did my initial little experiment, I was not expecting the songs to, in no uncertain terms, match up perfectly, as if they were all variations of the same track, because the only thing I'd done was change the tempo a little bit between each of them. No splicing, no extra editing, no looping, no nothing. And they sound beautiful together!!! Here are my three favorites:
Putting all four together pushes my limits a bit and it comes out a tad messy, but I love it anyways. It's overwhelmingly clear that these four songs are meant to fit together.
So... what does this mean? The tracks are undeniably connected, and some of the scenes in which they occur are clearly parallels too. I mean, we've been ENDLESSLY analyzing parallels between R/ockie, Byler, and J/ancy, and this discovery lends more credit to the theory that those aren't just coincidences. But especially for major motifs like Kids, there are a lot more scenes where these songs play!! It's not just the few I mentioned at the beginning of the post that are pretty obvious in how they're similar to one another. Haha, but wouldn't it be crazy if ALL the scenes that these songs (and their variations) appear in followed the exact same narrative pattern; a pattern which would just so happen to offer extremely compelling evidence to the fact that Byler has been endgame since season 1?
Ha ha... ha... um.
They do.
All of them.
I'm not fucking joking. Out of the 22 scenes I've been able to track down which feature any of these four songs or variations of them, I've identified a pattern which every single one follows. Some definitely better than others... but it is un-fucking-deniable that this pattern exists and it has to be deliberate, because all of this being a coincidence must be some sort of statistical impossibility with the sheer amount of evidence I've amassed.
The pattern I'm referring to is a collection of four themes:
A misassumption / some form of dishonesty
Love. Often romantic, but sometimes platonic or familial
A subversion of expectations
An atypical relationship between two people
Often in that order.
So basically, we have a collection of scenes throughout all four seasons that are very strongly linked to each other, through both the music that plays during them, and the narrative pattern they follow. And theoretically, if we now know for a fact that each of these scenes follows the same pattern, we can use it to support our interpretations of moments like the van scene or "It was a seven"! (A pattern which, I'll remind you, will fall perfectly in line with Byler endgame)
Okay. So here, we get to the main chunk of the analysis. The hard data. I've gone through every relevant scene and listed how each of them fit the pattern, to prove that it's legit, and to use it to demonstrate how this discovery supports our theories! I've also added whether I think the scene matches well (â
), moderately well (đ¤) , or poorly (â) with the interpretation. (Keep in mind that even the ones that match poorly still relate to the themes in some way!) I sorted everything by motif, then into individual music pieces, then into scenes that feature that music. So scenes that have the same track playing in the background are grouped together.
Obviously, it's pretty long. I did my best to organize it well and make it as concise as possible. But that's why I'm adding a star (âď¸) next to all the scenes that explicitly support the Byler agenda, in case you want to scroll past the rest and only focus on what you came here for!
Without further ado, let's start out with...
The First Lie motif
The dominating melody in these tracks is: D D# D A# C F A# C
Track 1: The First Lie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S5-J7BLoIY)
Scene A: Jonathan And Nancy get together (S2E6) This scene matches well! â
⢠Misassumption/Dishonesty: Both of them are denying their feelings for each other ⢠Love: And those feelings are romantic in nature ⢠Subversion of expectations: They discover that their feelings are requited! ⢠Atypical Relationship: Nancy, a popular and conventionally attractive character, ends up with Jonathan, the outcast
Track 2: The First I love You (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y68LnSZ_j3M)
Scene A: Robin and Steve talk in the Bathroom (S4E7) This scene matches well! â
⢠Misassumption/Dishonesty: Steve believes he has a chance with Robin, Robin hasnât told him the whole truth about her sexuality ⢠Love: Steve has feelings for her, she has feelings for Tammy, the two of them love each other as best friends ⢠Subversion of expectations: Robin wants to kiss girls!!! And Steve is surprised, but wholly accepts her, even as a straight guy in the 80s ⢠Atypical Relationship: Platonic soulmates <3
âď¸ Scene B: El Tells Mike she loves him and says goodbye (S4E8) This scene matches well! â
⢠Misassumption/Dishonesty: Their relationship had been damaged by the fact that Mike lied in order to avoid seeing her / getting into trouble with Hopper ⢠Love: El forgives Mike, says that she loves him, and tries to repair their relationship ⢠Subversion of expectations: El admits to having heard Mike when he said that he loved her, back in episode 6 ⢠Atypical Relationship: It wouldnât be very atypical for a straight guy to get back with his straight girlfriend after a brief break-up, would it? So maybe this relationship isn't as hetero as it- [gunshots]
Scene C: Joyce and Hopper Kiss (S4E9) This scene matches well! â
⢠Misassumption/Dishonesty: Up until this moment theyâve been dancing around each other since season 1, not quite being honest or upfront about how they feel ⢠Love: But now they finally have their moment and make it official! ⢠Subversion of expectations: Weâve seen it coming for years, sure, but considering where they started, their relationship was an unlikely one ⢠Atypical Relationship: Joyce, the high-strung, divorced, single mom, and Hopper, the troubled, divorced, adoptive dad, certainly make a unique pair together
Kids motif
The dominating melody in these tracks is: G A# F A# G A# F A#, and/or F G F D C A# C A#
Track 1: Kids (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha2OcL_0gtM)
âď¸ Scene A: The party finishes up their D&D game, âIt was a sevenâ (S1E1) This scene matches well! â
⢠Misassumption/dishonesty: Lucas urges Will to lie to Mike about his roll ⢠Love: Little Will cares about his friendship with Mike too much to lie to him ⢠Subversion of expectations: Heâs honest, and admits that he only rolled a seven, even if it means he lost the campaign ⢠Atypical relationship: Oh, you know. :)
Scene B: The kids disguise El so she can go out in public (S1E5) This scene doesnât match very well â ⢠Misassumption/dishonesty: The kids are disguising Elâs true identity so they can bring her to their school ⢠Love: The four of them are beginning to trust one another; the boys trust El to help them find Will, they're bonding as friends ⢠Subversion of expectations: The boys (but Mike specifically) are surprised with the degree of El's glowup ⢠Atypical relationship: Mike thinks El is pretty, even though the rest of the party is still a little apprehensive towards her
Scene C: Mike, Lucas, and El make up after their fight in the previous episode (S1E7) This scene matches moderately well đ¤ ⢠Misassumption/dishonesty: El had been misleading the boys to keep them away from the lab ⢠Love: The friends are all sorry for what they did, and care too much about each other to stay mad ⢠Subversion of expectations: Theyâre able to reconcile ⢠Atypical relationship: Even after a pretty serious fight, the friends are back together again, stronger than ever
Scene D: The party finally gets to play D&D again at the end of season 1 (S1E8) This scene doesnât match very well â (But, itâs excusable because the main purpose it serves here is to parallel the first scene from episode 1- matching this narrative pattern is probably a secondary concern) ⢠Misassumption/dishonesty: The campaign is over too soon, the kids feel like itâs not a truthful finale; there are loose ends left to be resolved in the story ⢠Love: The friends are finally back together again, having fun, enjoying each othersâ company, healing ⢠Subversion of expectations: Will is able to defeat the monster this time ⢠Atypical relationship: Even after everything they went through, they made it out OK and are still the best of friends
Scene E: Dustin reminds Mike to look for some change before going to the arcade (S2E1) This scene matches well! â
⢠Misassumption/dishonesty: Mike avoids Dustinâs questions of why heâs on an unusual channel on the walkie talkie, and why he hasnât been looking for quarters to bring to the arcade ⢠Love: Mike is still grieving El ⢠Subversion of expectations: He hadnât been looking for quarters because he was busy trying to contact her ⢠Atypical relationship: He still feels guilty for having lost her, more so than the rest of his friends. He believes sheâs out there, even after a year has passed
Scene F: The kids work together to assemble Cerebro (S3E1) This scene matches well! â
⢠Misassumption/dishonesty: The kids donât quite believe Dustin is being honest about actually having a girlfriend ⢠Love: But he does! He actually is in a relationship ⢠Subversion of expectations: Suzie doesnât answer ⢠Atypical relationship: A nerdy mormon and an agnostic with no collarbone; an unlikely pair!
Track 2: Kids Two (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PydvdEdGwE)
Scene A: El and Max spy on the boys (S3E3) This scene matches well! â
⢠Misassumption/dishonesty: The girls are secretly spying on the guys ⢠Love: Theyâre talking about their relationship troubles ⢠Subversion of expectations: Theyâre doing a terrible job of trying to win El and Max back; putting all the blame on the girls, talking about how they're a "different species", all while eating chips and generally being gross ⢠Atypical relationship: Elmax bonds over having dumb ex-boyfriends, even after their friendship's rocky start in the previous season :3
Scene B: Robin sees Vickie at Warzone (S1E8) This scene matches well! â
⢠Misassumption/dishonesty: Robin thinks she has a chance with Vickie ⢠Love: Sheâs about to make a move and talk to her crush⌠⢠Subversion of expectations: âŚbut Vickie has a boyfriend. ⢠Atypical relationship: Queerness!! And the fact that Vickie gets distracted by Robin, probably has a bit of a crush on her too, even though she's currently in a relationship
Scene C: Robin & Vickie make sandwiches (S4E9) This scene matches well! â
⢠Misassumption/dishonesty: Robin is initially fairly certain now that she DOESNâT have a chance with Vickie ⢠Love: But unbeknownst to her, they're almost definitely endgame ⢠Subversion of expectations: Vickie admits that she ended things with her boyfriend ⢠Atypical relationship: Imminent 80s Lesbians!!!!!!!!
Track 3: Teens (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3JICAZAEBs)
Scene A: Suzie changes Dustinâs Latin grade (S4E1) This scene matches well! â
⢠Misassumption/dishonesty: Suzie and Dustin are cheating his Latin grade by hacking into the schoolâs computer system ⢠Love: The two of them are still together :3 ⢠Subversion of expectations: Suzie decides that her relationship with Dustin is worth more than being entirely morally virtuous, so she changes the grade for him ⢠Atypical relationship: The unlikely pair of the mormon and the agnostic strike again!
Track 4: In The Closet (At Rink O Mania) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwl-HPNQFLc)
âď¸ Scene A: Mike and Will argue at the roller rink (S4E1) This scene matches well! â
⢠Misassumption/dishonesty: Mikeâs upset that Will and El havenât been honest about the bullying ⢠Love: Will just misses his best friend and is upset that their relationship / communication over the past year has been strained. And heâs in love. ⢠Subversion of expectations: âWeâre friends! Weâre friends.â(AKA, Mike has been struggling with his feelings just as much as Will has) ⢠Atypical relationship: Queerness!! We can be fairly certain now that they totally feel the same way about each other, even if neither will admit it. Â
Scene B: âŚbut also El hides in the closet at the roller rink (S4E1) This scene matches moderately well đ¤ ⢠Misassumption/dishonesty: El had been hiding the fact that she was being bullied ⢠Love: This lie has has driven a wedge even deeper between her and her boyfriend ⢠Subversion of expectations: She decides to go confront Angela ⢠Atypical relationship: El, the humiliated victim, decides to stand up to her bully, Angela, instead of letting her get the final word
Track 5: Home (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdcV1u6RUh4)
Scene A: Hopper takes El in (S2E3) This scene matches moderately well đ¤ ⢠Misassumption/dishonesty: Hopper wants to give El a place to stay where she can hide from the people looking for her / Hopper discreetly puts away a box labeled âSarahâ, hinting at a more personal reason for taking her in than he lets on ⢠Love: He cares about El like heâd care for his own daughter ⢠Subversion of expectations: Even though he's a supposedly hardened and lazy police chief, he cares about El enough to go through the effort of fixing up the cabin to give her a place to stay ⢠Atypical relationship: Found family :â)
Scene B: This song also plays during the scene where Robin sees Vickie at Warzone (S4E8) This scene matches well! â
⢠[See Kids Two, scene B]
Track 6: Whatâs The Internet? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqx4idF4ObE)
Scene A: The Hellfire Club and Lucasâ team celebrate their victories (S4E1) This scene matches moderately well đ¤ ⢠Misassumption/dishonesty: The basketball team and the Hellfire club both thought they were screwed ⢠Love: Despite the looming potential for failure, everyoneâs having fun and feeling included within their groups, they love their hobbies and their friends ⢠Subversion of expectations: Both teams won their respective games despite the odds! ⢠Atypical relationship: Lucas still hangs in the balance between the two teams, feeling unsure about which of his friend groups he should prioritize
Track 7: [Unreleased song, but the Kids motif is faintly audible towards the end]
âď¸ Scene A: El and Mike argue over Mike not being able to say âI love youâ (S4E2) This scene matches well! â
⢠Misassumption/dishonesty: Mikeâs refusing to acknowledge that he canât say the words, heâs lying about how he really feels ⢠Love: Their relationship as boyfriend/girlfriend is finally starting to show cracks, as its fundamental flaws are presented front and center ⢠Subversion of expectations: Their relationship isnât as perfect as weâd been led to believe ⢠Atypical relationship: Theyâre on the verge of a breakup, but that's really what's best for the two of them
and finally...
Being Different Motif
The dominating melody in these tracks is: A# D F D A# D D# D, and/or A# D F A# D F A F
Track 1: Being Different (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o29YLtS_NA)
âď¸ Scene A: Mike and Will talk in the van (S4E8) This scene matches well! â
⢠Misassumption/Dishonesty: Will lies, using Elâs name to hide his own feelings ⢠Love: And those feelings are his love for Mike :â( ⢠Subversion of expectations: Itâs now overwhelmingly clear that Will is canonically gay and in love with Mike ⢠Atypical Relationship: Well, it doesnât sound all that atypical for the sad gay boy to have fallen for his straight best friend (who is obviously straight because heâs in a relationship with a girl), so what if Mike- [gunshots]
Track 2: I Like Presents Too (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trSjkqM0VT4) (Iâm not positive about this one, but I swear I hear similarities between Being Different and this song? Especially between 1:52 - 2:05 in Being Different, and 0:38 - 1:00 in this song)
âď¸Scene A: This song also plays during the scene where El Tells Mike she loves him and says goodbye (S4E8) This scene matches well! â
⢠[See The First I love You, scene B]
Okay. And that's all of them! I hope I've made my point. The fact that every single one of these 11 songs and the 22 scenes they appear in are connected both musically and thematically cannot be a coincidence. And by simply tracing the pattern, it's pretty easy to see that these connections hint at the fact that there's something more that we're not explicitly seeing between Mike, El, and Will's relationships, which has no other explanation besides Byler endgame. Let's review- by applying what we know about the pattern to Byler and M/ileven scenes, we can infer that:
When El kisses Mike at the end of season 3, it isn't meant to be taken at face-value. There's something atypical about their relationship, and it's the fact that despite saying the words, it doesn't change the fact that neither of them are in love with each other, not romantically, even if they think they should be.
When Will tells Mike he rolled a seven and lost the battle in the first episode of season 1, it's more than just Will being a good friend. There's a deeper connection- something atypical compared to Will's relationships with his other friends, because this is Will being in love with Mike before he even understood what those feelings meant.
During their fight at Rink O Mania in season 4, they're not just arguing about Will being dishonest or Mike not staying in touch. There's something deeper under the surface that they're dancing around, unaddressed feelings on both ends, something more atypical than just two friends who drifted apart. At the root of their frustration is the fact that they both believe the other doesn't feel the same.
Mike said it himself- when he and El argue over the fact that he can't say "I love you" to her, this was a fight they can't come back from. Because it's been made clear to them that their relationship isn't romantic anymore, it's atypical in the sense that they realize this whole thing between them has just been a heteronormative charade they were pressured into, rather than something they really wanted or needed.
When Will delivers his veiled love confession in the back of the van in season 4, we're led to believe that this is him ripping off the bandaid, because Mike is supposedly happiest with El and he'll never see Will the way Will sees him. But this interpretation is incorrect, because there's something very very atypical about the way Mike stares longingly into Will's eyes, completely mesmerized, in a way that he's never looked at his own girlfriend despite allegedly being so in love with her. Mike is in love, but there's no denying anymore that the love he feels is for Will, not El.
Of course, none of these interpretations of these scenes are new or anything. But the fact that we now have solid proof that all of them are actually intentionally connected? They all share linked music and follow the same pattern?? That, I think, is revolutionary.
But of course we're not done yet.
Because as lengthy as it is, this isn't a finished analysis. Now, if you've made it this far into my mad and delusional (yet strongly supported by evidence) rantings and ravings, you're probably just as excited about this breakthrough as I am. So if you're thinking about exploring the theory yourself, I have a few suggestions on where to start, because there's a good number of things that I haven't fully looked into yet! Most notably, there are several tracks that sound like they almost fit with the ones I already identified as being part of soundtrackgate, or they have similar vibes, but just aren't similar enough to make it into the list. Some of them I've tried to mix with The First Lie, Kids, etc, but came up empty-handed. There songs are:
Journalistic Instinct
Boys and Girls
Feel Safe
First Kiss
Presumptuous
My BOOBS Hurt
A Kiss
I wouldn't remember me either
Eight Fifteen
Walkin in Hawkins (i really really really hate this song for no justifiable reason please don't make me listen to it any more than I had to this is my one exception)
This Isn't You
Blank Makes You Crazy
Weirdly enough, out of these twelve, there are exactly three tracks from each season. Does that mean anything? No clue. Odd, though.
For all you eightfifteengate truthers, I tried really, really hard to mix the track Eight Fifteen with any of the established songs... but all I got was a pretty resounding muddy mess of a failure. Which sucks, because it sounds like it should work! Unfortunately, I don't think Eight Fifteen is part of soundtrackgate. However! I did notice that it sounds very very similar to the track Presumptuous, which is interesting. Here's the best I got, for what it's worth:
If you want to take another look at these songs and try to prove me wrong, please do!! Maybe there's a pattern within them that I didn't catch. And if you ask, I'll be happy to try my hand at combining any tracks you think would work together!
Other than that, there are a few interesting little details I noticed while perusing the OST. Maybe they mean something, maybe they don't, but I thought they were worth mentioning! Feel free to investigate if any of these pique your interest:
Like I mentioned earlier, Eight Fifteen and Presumptuous both contain the same melody
Blank Makes You Crazy and I Need You to Trust Me are both songs tied to scenes where we see evidence of the stained relationship between Mike and El, and theyâre both in the same key; F Major
Not Kids Anymore plays during the Byler rain fight in s3, AND when Dustin and Mike refuse to go to Lucasâ game in s4
As far as I can tell, the song Destroying The Castle only plays one time other than when Will takes a bat to Castle Byers- it also plays in S4E9 when Hopper is about to use himself as bait for the demodogs, but assures Joyce that heâll be alrightÂ
On The Bus almost definitely does not match with any of the other songs, but I feel like this particular track is important and worth looking into regardless, so Iâm mentioning it here.
Youâre The Heart does not sound similar, mix well with, or parallel Being Different, let alone ANY of the established soundtrackgate songs. I just donât hear it, sorry.
Eulogy and Letter to Willy sound very very similar
Journalistic Instinct and Boys and Girls sound very very similar
Still Pretty, the song that plays in season 1 when Mike reassures El that she looks pretty without the wig, also plays in season 4 while they talk in the pizza shop, right before they get interrupted by Argyle.
Okay. I think that covers it, for now. Thank you so much for reading, seriously, I poured my soul into this so it means a lot!!! I hope it all made enough sense. MASSIVE shoutout to what-song.com for its list of all the songs that appear in each ST episode, in order, complete with listing what minute each song appears in, providing a 30-second sample of each song, and a description of the scene that occurs during it. It SAVED MY LIFE no joke. Also big shoutout to bilibili.tv, my platform of choice for sailing the seven seas of content of questionable legality; I used it liberally to pull up all the scenes I had to analyze lol
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Thank you so much, Iain, for pointing this out!
#stranger things#so weird disney#disney so weird#so weird#rebecca#so weird rebecca#mackenzie phillips#molly phillips#michael stein#kyle dixon#stranger things kids#stranger things ost#twitter
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you don't know how much i'm attached to this specific song. like you don't even imagine how much it makes me emotional
#the power of music is magniful#stranger things ost#stranger things soundtrack#stranger things 3#cosmorom's spotify#spotify
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I'm not surprised that there's a church involved, with all of S4's Hellfire scare and the above song.
(And of course, the lore of Henry/Henward Creel supposedly being exorcised by a Catholic priest before the Creel murders happened, according to the newspaper Robin and Nancy found)
RELIGIOUS TRAUMA FINAL BOSS SHOWDOWN S5 LET'S GOOOOO
so apparently, one of the season 5 scenes is set in a church. weâre either getting someoneâs funeral or an actual queer catholic guilt breakdown trope. mike wheeler, iâm looking right at you.
#(religious boss music intensifies)#st5 speculation#st5 predictions#st5 theory#st5 leaks#st5 spoilers#stranger things ost#Spotify
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MY ST5 WISHLIST PLAYLIST in case any production members are stalking my page hehe
And a slow-dancey Byler playlist for funsies:
#st5 production#st5 hopes#byler speculation#st5 speculation#st5 predictions#byler playlist#byler songs#byler music#st songs#st playlist#st music#stranger things ost#stranger things 5#stranger things season 5#st5#st writers#stranger writers#duffer brothers#kyle dixon & michael stein
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My favorite pieces of media are Trigun, Monster, Princess Tutu, Strangers From Hell, Link Click, Beyond Evil, the webtoon Guardians of the Videogame and Omniscient Readerâs Viewpoint
Itâs a very elaborated way of saying I choose to make myself depressed and being gay is also a choice
#nobody asked. but there you go#if you notice a pattern then youâre probably right I wonât fight the allegations I will even support them#before Trigun i was deep into the ORV brainrot. the webtoon only though#ORV is also what got me into fanfics so#I was about to start the novel but then Stampede happened and here we are#reading webcomics is my hobby but this fucking series has me in a hostage situation#except Iâm not a hostage and I broke into the house and decided I would live there#I also like sk8 but all things considered that should be a given really#trigun#trigun stampede#trigun maximum#omniscient reader's viewpoint#orv#monster anime#strangers from hell#link click#shiguang daili ren#beyond evil#guardians of the video game#important to mention all the series have banger OST#BIBI is in beyond evil which +1000 Strangers from Hell has The Rose and Stampede is fucking great#the 98 adaptation? fucking love the nonsense and rock#link click outro was on loop for hours for weeks when I first heard it#if you havenât seen one of these I highly recommend them they are genuinely such great stories#lenssi rambles
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You could even say it's-
Season 2 Mike said, âheâs quiet today.â He really said, âhey, I know that somethingâs wrong,â without a single hint from Will that anything was wrong.
And when Mike learned that things were going wrong, he said, âif weâre both going crazy, weâll go crazy together, right?â He really said, âhey, Iâm here for you. No matter how rough it gets, Iâm not going anywhere,â even in the face of this new, terrifying, bad force.
And after Mike made that promise, he stayed by Willâs side and said, âwe wonât let him.â He really said, âIâm sticking to my word and we will overcome this,â even as the Mind Flayer was actively taking Will over.
And throughout this whole horrific ordeal, as Will got worse and worse, Mike said, âwhatâs wrong?â Multiple times, at that. He really said, âI want to help you no matter what. Tell me what you see. Let me help you,â and he never, ever feared Will or doubted him.
And after Mike figured out the Mind Flayerâs plan, after it possessed Will completely, after everything he knew, he said to Will,
âYou remember the first day that we met? It was the first day of kindergarten. I knew nobody. I had no friends. I just felt so alone. And so scared. But I saw you on the swings, and you were alone, too. You were just swinging by yourself, and I just walked up to you, and I asked. I asked if you wanted to be my friend. You said, âyes.â You said, âyes.â It was the best thing Iâve ever done.â
And⌠do I even need to elaborate on how sweet that is?
The more and more Will was taken from him, the more and more Mike gave to him. It didnât matter to Mike that Will was almost gone, he poured everything out to him to reach him.
Thatâs not just love. Itâs not even just unconditional love that looks past bad circumstances, thatâs dedicated love that actively works in the face of hardship.
Season 2 Mike loved Will so much that it hurt. And he was only 13.
#mike wheeler analysis#mike wheeler appreciation#mike wheeler#mike wheeler loves will byers#byler endgame#miwi#byler analysis#byler#byler is endgame#stranger things ost#byler songs#byler music#unambiguous true love#Spotify
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Caught A Body At The Munsen Trailer
So, as we know, the TFS website changed Alan Munson���s name from Allen Munson to Alan Munson (and also changed Claudia Henderson to Claudia Young and Father Newby to Principal Newby):
But where else have they changed a name related to Alan?
In the soundtrack.
Look at the title of this ST OST track:
âCaught a Body at the Munsen Trailerâ- Munson is spelt as Munsen, itâs like Allen vs Alan.
And itâs not just that the titles are added by some Spotify employee whoâs never seen Stranger Things- because all of the other ST OST titles all have weird custom capitalization and punctuation quirks that donât align with the typical Spotify capitalization:
This fits right in with this post and this post and the whole Brantley vs Bradley thing and names being spelt slightly differently & that being connected to timeline weirdness.
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Theme for the secret boss fight with Floor, Baby! at the bottom of Bee's Stinky-Meat Hole in Void Stranger. Bandcamp OST link
#void stranger#System Erasure#Floormaster#Floor Baby!#Dancion Basement#Void Stranger Spoilers#Bee's Stinky Hole#Bee's Stinky Meat Hole#void stranger OST#Nothing said here is a misleading statement or inaccurate. Void Stranger is a genuine work of art and also it lets me say things like this#when talking about it
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Risking sounding like a broken record player here (what else is new anyway) but I still just. love this song so goddamn much.
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In both versions.
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I do have a preference for the 16-bit arrangement overall. The in-game version has absolutely amazing oomph though. They're both perfect.
You know when people are like "i'm microwaving the blorbo" that's me with the drakenhold combat music. This thing has such a grip on me.
#it's goddamn criminal how much people did just not talk about the music of that game#like this thing dropped one of the biggest banger osts in the past years of video gaming#and people are like âthe music was ok but it wasnt pringle strategyâ mate are we listening to the same thing??#(for clarification âpeopleâ means one single person on the internet said that but the statement marked me)#(because i had coincidentally just listened to the pringle strategy ost like some days prior.#and it was one of the most mindnumbingly boring things ive ever heard in my life. so you see this random stranger's opinion traumatized me)#thanks for coming to my tag-talk
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@magentamee bro can you imagine if they had already filmed it?? Since they had this track on the S4 playlist and it didn't show up, since there is a lot of evidence that they filmed more scenes we didn't see, the fact that Noah made that tweet about shipping Byler after Vol 2 and then we didn't get Byler......I know we're mostly in agreement that the kiss would be late in the season, but........IDK MAN WHY WAS THIS TRACK ON THE S4 SOUNDTRACK
#brainrot o'clock#byler kiss#tinfoil time#s5 dreams#st5 speculation#st5 hopes#st5 predictions#byler s5#byler songs#byler music#st music#stranger things ost#byler tumblr#byler
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I just wanna talk about something.
Do you know how many musicians and singers and song writters there are in the Stranger Things cast ? Because I do.
And I demand a musical episode.
#gimme Jamie Campbell Bower singing angry emo shit at the darkening sky of Hawkins while still burning and bleeding from Ronance and Stevie#commando attack and Gaten Matarazzo screaming his pain on the saddest ost we ever heard in memories of the bestfriend he lost#and Joe Keery playing Eddie's guitar for one last solo before taking down Vecna for good#DO YOU SEE THE POTENTIAL ?!#And Maya and Finn and EVERYONE can sing or play an instrument god damnit#I am giving the Duffer Brothers this idea for free#i miss musical episodes in series like in Buffy the Vampire Slayer#steve harrington#eddie munson#stranger things#dustin henderson#mike wheeler#vecna#jamie campbell bower#maya hawke#joe keery#joseph quinn#gaten matarazzo#finn wolfhard#stranger queues
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Album name:Â Dead by Daylight
Song name:Â Stranger Things Menu Music
#dead by daylight#dead by daylight stranger things#stranger things#game#ost#dead by daylight x stranger things#the demogorgon#steve harrington#nancy wheeler
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Always nice to have a reminder that ST has been setting up The First Lie SPECIFICALLY FOR BYLER since S2.
Okay so I was listening to some Stranger Things ost when I realized something that just blew my mind.
This OST in from season 2, it's called "The First Lie" and it played when Nancy and Jonathan kiss then make out in season 2, at Murray's. Why is it called like that? Because they both lied about their attraction towards one another and see how the L of "Lie" is in capital? It means it was a real LIE.
And this OST which I already talked about, is called "The First I love You" and it played when El kisses Mike before leaving for California. The L isn't capital, so it is not love as in romantic, but love atleast as in platonic.
But why am I talking about two Canon ships? Well, if you listen to "The First Lie" you'll see it has the same build as "The First I love You." What do I mean by that? I mean, it has the same structure, same instruments, same music but one is just faster and the other one slower with other sounds. But it has the same structure. But why? So here it is: they have the same structure (so the same similarities, it's like the same soundtrack but reworked for the other one) because when Mike yelled to everyone because of an argument with Max and he said "So can we please come up with another plan because I love her and I can't lose her again!" and everyone was in shock because they thought he Loved her, he lied about loving her that way, as in romantic way. So it counts as a lie, a lie about loving someone romantically when he doesn't love her that way. He do loves her, but only platonically. The "L" isn't capital, cause it isn't considered as romantic.
The L isn't capital, he doesn't love her that way. And it is the same as the OST from season 2, because it was the first lie he ever said about loving El that way.
People probably already noticed, I'm probably late, but ah who cares? #byler.
#will's painting#st analysis#byler analysis#byler endgame#the first lie#st ost#stranger things ost#st music
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I'm curious
#ronance#robin buckley#nancy wheeler#ronance brainrot#st poll#st polls#byler polls#byler poll#stranger things polls#stranger things poll#ronance analysis#st music#st soundtrack#stranger things ost#stranger things original soundtrack#tammy thompson#you're a fighter#st3 rewatch#st4 rewatch#stranger things#st theory
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