#tldr i'd listen to from shadows in my free time and i'd insta-skip lionize

[unofficialadamtaurus]

actually worth asking anyway, does from shadows and lionize pass the adam vibe check?

Confession time: I don't really listen to the RWBY soundtrack. The songs have always been somewhere on the spectrum from "sure" to "meh" for me.

From Shadows hovers around the "sure" mark. Overall I'd say it's a pass on the vibe check, but it's close. There's the nostalgia factor to note - this ask was an excuse for me to rewatch the Black trailer - and I do like the energy once the song gets going, but the lyrics are just so on the nose. It fits Adam because it was, in part, quite literally made for him.

Lionize, which was also made for him, is a "meh" and does not pass the vibe check for me. I love myself some heavy guitar, so that part is a good vibe. But the lyrics and delivery, man...I can't do it. It's all too high and too desperate for how I see Adam. I strongly dislike how things awkwardly slow down for the chorus and how the high-pitched delivery coupled with the excessively angsty lyrics makes most of the song come off with the same sound sound as a preteen boy screaming at the cafeteria volunteer for telling him not to run indoors. That's not even getting into the lyrics, which twist Adam into this power-hungry mold they put forward in V4 and V5. Not a fan.