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23th
Game: Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne *Remix
Title: Fiend
Composer: Kenichi Tsuchiya, clipping., turdl3 [SiIvaGunner Rip]
Nominator: @DoctorJimmy133
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwq6YgRYaRA

since this is a mashup, for reference point, here are the two things it is combining:

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne - Fiend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1WeimmTGF4

clipping. - Story 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbU9UUwxBxA

this is pretty funny to me how almost accidentally it winds up lining up even more to my tastes than either the original smt track or original clipping track do. and i already quite loved both!!! as of recent times in particular: i like rapping (i used to not). and i obviously like odd time, so i've always been a pretty big fan of clipping's forays into that combo (definitely one of my favorite artists in the category)! But this mashup adds the own flavor of coolness of smt3's production to a track i really really liked all layers of already! and adds tonal elements that are really engaging and feel like a dramatic video game. and honestly it fits just as well with the lyrics as the original in another way as well. I do wish that the balance of this mashup let me hear each layer a bit more evenly though, but the humor comes from the fact that you're taking an smt song that already has some rhythmically similar elements to the clipping track. both play quite a bit with the way groups of 2 or 3 would feel layered in different combos, and stuff like that. so when moments like :51 hit (even if edited), it REALLY works so well.

honestly, i legit get chills from this, this isn't just "funny" it's like, taking two very serious tracks, and layering them, in ways that maybe make me smile in terms of "heh, that works", but in terms of emotion, it's like the ramped up emotion that each song had already given me doubled! i feel the intensity of the 'story' and it's a lot more deeply alarming when it's this level of tension and drama in it, maybe unfittingly intensely so? maybe. but i think i'm seeing it almost as an alternate universe where the lyrics are told from a different type of mind. the backing of the original story2, makes me feel that it is told from a normally more chill, and now panicked guy, who's panicked now for good reason. this smt version of story2, makes me feel instead that this story is told from the mind of someone who's always a ball of anxiety and constantly comes up with delusional horrible worst-case-scenarios that never happen. except this one happens, and validates all their worst fears

one thing i wil lsay is the timesig change map of this song is actually a bit different than what i would write for the original clipping example itself. this is like 3/8 -> 2/4 -> 5/8 -> 6/8 -> 7/8 -> 4/4 -> 3/4(with triplets) -> 4/4(with triplets) -> 5/4(with layered 5/8 vocals) -> 3/8 -> 7/8. basically, because of the multilayered /constant/ 3 vs 2 or triplets in the smt layer of this, it means you dont' really have a reason to interpret a sharp tempo change when the big moment comes in at 1:28

this reminds me of when my friend made me make 'mashups of Death Grips with random sega genesis songs and they were very silly