Sword Art Online Movie "Ordinal Scale" (YK on music)

It's not a trick, George. She didn't listen to the Life goes on refrain and decided to Kalafinafy it. She already said that when it happens it's not intentional. It's bad that it happens, it's just not on purpose.
 
In greek Kalafinafy sounds even funnier as the "-fy" part sounds like "φάει" meaning "to eat" so its like saying "to eat Kalafina" :XD:
 
Longing sounds like TTB it's painful, I admit I'm little addicted to Delete, like others mentioned it has little bit of Yami no Uta vibe which is one of my top Kalafina songs, I haven't even started SAO but I still have the generic OST anyway because (Spoiler alert : Kajiura)
 
Apparently Sayaka Kanda (Yuna CV) is more active as a singer and stage actress so maybe she performed the whole songs (chorus included) by herself?
 
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Yes, she is. I asked the guy who uploaded the video on youtube for musicians and chorus singer if it's provided in the booklet but he only replied that Sayaka Kanda did all the vocals in CD2. Not sure if chorus included or not.

I listened to some of the songs and only sampled others (someone has kindly uploaded them to youtube) and the only track I kinda like is 'you have won', I think. Nothing stands out, nothing worth re-listen to.
 
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After watching the world premiere with other enthusiastic fans yesterday, I agree with the most here that only the character songs are the most likeable among the tracks she composed here, especially since this involved another artist singing them. I loved those TTB-ish and Yami no uta-ish vibes I got from those, especially the kajiurago.
 
Nightmare said:
Rebellion's plot was somehow based from Magia according to Urobuchi. Now Sword Art Online:"The Lazy Musical"( 5 insert songs omg. I like the first battle insert song though haha) Yuna was created because the author wanted to emphasize(?) Kajiura's music in this movie.

That's my point. I didn't say Singers/Bards/whatever are rare in rpg. I played a lot of games, ok?
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The author of SAO said in an interview that he added Yuna because he wanted to have an "idol" in his story. (Read that from a Thai translation posted by the movie distributor in Thailand, so I can't cite a Japanese or English source for you.) I doubt that Kajiura's music has much thing to do with an 'idol' character. It's more like when it comes to music, they asked Kajiura (who composes the OST) to do it.

Sayaka Kanda's voice is nice though. I guess that she also sang many chorus and Kajiurago part. I still wait for watching it in a theater... The premier is available in Bangkok. Hope that the regular ones will be available in my city..TT.

From the comments in this topic, I feel that the OST for that Chinese movie (which I've watched already.) should be better. And we get the stand alone OST for SAO, but not that one...:rain:
 
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Kagaribi no Hanabira said:
The author of SAO said in an interview that he added Yuna because he wanted to have an "idol" in his story. (Read that from a Thai translation posted by the movie distributor in Thailand, so I can't cite a Japanese or English source for you.) I doubt that Kajiura's music has much thing to do with an 'idol' character. It's more like when it comes to music, they asked Kajiura (who composes the OST) to do it.
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https://forum.canta-per-me.net/thre...nal-scale-yk-on-music.7913/page-7#post-294107

Its from Kawahara's twitter, someone traslated the japanese text. There's also a Lisani interview of kajiura im interested in :)

ritardando said:
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I listened to some of the songs and only sampled others (someone has kindly uploaded them to youtube) and the only track I kinda like is 'you have won', I think. Nothing stands out, nothing worth re-listen to.
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try back ground music 1 (track 5), its probably the best track :) "welcome to ordinal scale" and "the place we should have reached" (lirica-ish) also have vocals
 
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george1234 said:
https://forum.canta-per-me.net/thre...nal-scale-yk-on-music.7913/page-7#post-294107

Its from Kawahara's twitter, someone traslated the japanese text. There's also a Lisani interview of kajiura im interested in :)
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I see... so Nightmare's comment was based on that translation. I guess that it may be a lost in translation or sth. like that because the Thai translation directly stated that Kawahara wanted to have a character of 'an idol singer' in the movie instead of 'the songtress-type character'. It's interesting to know that Kajiura's music did have such influence even on the author himself.
 
Lmao yes, as much a failure-like it was, its better than ordinal scale's.

I think someone said that the movie is released, but no OST
 
Finally listened to the whole ost.

In the digital world is just random sfx, a promise and Augma are like an intro for a song that kajiura decided to cut off, story of the past started with literally similar melody and sfx to maybe tomorrow and evolves into swordland, bgm no.1 is nice, welcome to ordinal scale is also okay, I like the guitar riff. Some tracks after that is random sfx, she has a luminous sword is luminous sword instrumental, and then random sfx tracks again, her dream starts quite nicely and then become random sfx again lmao. Random and more sfx tracks again. I will fight to regain her memory is decent, I guess. It's just only a game is a variation of i will fight, the rest of the bunch is KnK style strings and synth tracks...some decent, some not so much. You have won, like what i've said, is okay.

What a very boring and forgettable soundtrack.
 
If i were her i would feel bad for handing to the studio a soundtrack that cannot in no way be listened standalone, as its supposed to be as its released that way. This was the laziest OST she has e-v-e-r made hands down. Im sad and kinda angry on why she doesnt realise the situation. :(

We were whining for her not releasing standalone OSTs for anime and when it finally happens we get this....
also wtf would she perform on the Hollwood concert from this OST ? lol the bgm # 1 ?
 
Rather than bad, I consider this soundtrack to be really empty because 80% of the tracks are basically nothing. But in a way, the emptiness means that it's bad lol

I actually don't really mind kajiura doesn't release a standalone soundtrack anymore because almost all of her recent stuff are nothing special...the only soundtrack i kinda liked after KnK is Madomagi and after a while it does get a standalone release though.
 
posting for a friend
two years worth of uninspired compositions made a glopping sound as it poured into this mess of a franchise
 
I decided to write down my thoughts on this, and let the hate begin. I don't mind.

I can actually understand Kajiura about being unable to draw any decent inspiration from the generic shounen she seems to be getting lately. Her music is based on feeling and empathy, and there's not much one can get from such works.

It's also possible that she got criticised for writing music that stands out too much. I recently re-watched .hack//Sign with my fiancé. This time around, I couldn't help listening to the Japanese audio while reading the subtitles. Most people would agree with me that the music in .hack//Sign is wonderful. Let me tell you something: IT'S DISTRACTING. I couldn't focus on the dialogs! Based on some recent tweet/interview/whatever where she talked about Bokumachi, I believe she's doing it consciously.

Next: recycling music. I think any other composer would be excused for doing that after having written as much as she has and with such incompatible source material. Somehow she isn't. OK, whatever.

And something that not many people seem to have noticed: Starting around the age of After Eden, her music started having more emotional stability. In the FOTW album it was so strong that I was impressed. But of course, all her recent work is crap, right?

Good, I finally spoke about it. Now let the hate begin. As I said, I don't mind. Of course I'm sad that her recent OSTs don't seem to have many beautiful tracks to listen to, but meh.
 
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