#ATSV soundtrack
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Leitmotifs in Across The Spiderverse.
Let's talk about how the music of Across The Spiderverse tells us more than what might be obvious. Spoilers for both movies from here on out: you've been warned.
EDIT: added in one more very important instance.
For those who don't know or need a reminder, a leitmotif is a musical signature associated with a character, an idea, a situation, or some or all of those things together. And for the first Spiderverse movie, Daniel Pemberton made excellent use of at least two big ones.
To see what I mean, check out this video. If you haven't already. It highlights how music helped tell the story of Into The Spiderverse.
While this video exclusively covers the leitmotifs in the soundtrack of ITSV, once you know what they sound like, you can hear their inclusion in ATSV.
For instance, Miles' personal leitmotif (that ties together the themes that makeup Miles-as-a-person's journey) shows up both times he attempts to tell his mother that he's Spider-Man.
But the Spider-Person theme, in particular, is all over the place in ATSV. This is fitting, considering it features so many Spideys. Not only is it front and center in Peter B.'s theme and is hiding out in Gwen's, Pavitr's, and Hobie's themes, it demonstrates how Miles-as-Spider-Man has developed between movies: playing throughout My Name is Miles Morales. It's one of the first things we hear when we see the young hero again.
This is an evolution from before, as for most of the first film, the Spider-Person motif plays incessantly for the other Spiders but sparingly for Miles. Whenever it was used for him, it was to show he'd reached a new station in his learning and growth. It plays for him when he first thwips away from Doc Ock and intertwines with his personal theme during his leap of faith to show that he's finally become Spider-Man.
So to have multiple iterations of the Spider-Person leitmotif jammed into the song that plays when we first see Miles again shows how much he's grown.
However....the other places it plays in the movie can give us clues about the nature of the conflict between Miguel's Spider Society and the newly formed Spider-Band. To illustrate this, I want to talk about three specific moments where it's prominent in the soundtrack.
During Nueva York Train Chase, Miguel busts out of the train like a horror movie monster and calls after the younger Spider: "Who do you think you are? Really!?"
Miles answers: "My name...is Miles Morales. I was bitten by a radioactive spider. I'm pretty sure you know the rest, jerk!" He then proceeds to drop, kick Miguel in the face, and then nail him with a ball of webbing.
This is around 2:05 of Nueva York Train Chase on the official ATSV soundtrack by Daniel Pemberton. What do we hear after Miles declares this and then (temporarily) eludes 2099?
The Spider-Person leitmotif.
It's not much later that we hear it again. When? At about 2:25 in the track The Go Home Machine. When Margo Kess, Spider-Byte, decides not to interfere with the titular machine and keep Miles in Nueva York.
This moment is critical. Miguel is trying to stop Miles. Even if the machine doesn't take him home, it gets Miles out of the older Spider's clutches and gives him a chance. And when he gets away, what plays? The Spider-Person leitmotif. The music tells us that at this moment, in trying to escape and save his father and not halting his escape, Miles and Margo are acting like Spider-People.
The music is on Miles' side. The music tells us that Miles is acting like Spider-Man by resisting the Spider-Society. He's doing the right thing.
And on top of that, what do we hear after 2:35 of Start a Band? The moment where Peter B. looks outside and sees Gwen waiting for him? The Spider-Person leitmotif. It tells us that in taking Hobie's watch and gathering her band together, Gwen's acting like Spider-Woman.
It then plays over and over again until the credits role. The music is telling us that the Spider-Band's mission marks them as Spider-People. They are living up to the title. They are doing the right thing.
I don't think the music is the only thing in the movie that points the audience to that conclusion. There's also a lot of subtext, meta, and suspiciously little information about how Cannon Events and the multiverse generally work. But this is one of the simplest ways the movie tells us that Miles and the Spider-Band are in the right.
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one specific thing I like about the spot's theme is that it sounds like a desperate scream. the sound itself gives off a kind of lovecraftian horror vibe while still having a hint of tragedy in it. like yeah he's a villain but he's also just some poor pathetic dude that got completely mutilated and had his life ruined, who yearns to be respected to no avail, and is sort of losing his grip on sanity. kind of just sounds like the howls of a sad lost stray dog who's kind of also a bit fucked up and evil, which is incredibly accurate to the spot.
#the spot#atsv#spiderverse#across the spiderverse#spot atsv#jonathan ohnn#spot#daniel pemberton#atsv soundtrack#spider verse
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The fact that I can just listen to Hobie talk after hearing a bomb song blows my mind.
#THANK YOU TO THE WRITERS OF THE ATSV SOUNDTRACK#atsv soundtrack#hobie brown#jay and the spiders#shout-out to the time i almost crashed my car because of being so surprised from hearing Hobie
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Listening to the Across the Spider-verse soundtrack is a religious experience I’m telling you
#spiderman#spiderman across the spiderverse#spiderman atsv#atsv#atsv soundtrack#daniel pemberton#you absolute legend#Spotify#my posts
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the atsv sound track has changed by brain chemistry it’s so good
#spider man: across the spider verse#atsv#across the spiderverse#atsv miles#miles molares#atsv gwen#gwen stacy#atsv pavitr#pavitr prabhakar#atsv hobie#hobie brown#atsv soundtrack
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I have a question for y’all’s 🥰 I’m in love with the soundtrack for ATSV. I listen to it everyday. My fav is Nonviolent Communication. What’s your fav track?
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my favorite part of the spiderverse soundtrack by far are the parts where renaissance vulture is just opera singing his fucking heart out
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rules: shuffle your repeat playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten ppl
ty nicky @calkestis for tagging me! <3
1. i think about you all the time by the maine
2. link up by metro boomin
3. through me (the flood) by hozier
4. you're my best friend by queen
5. tomorrow is closed by nothing but thieves
6. sharks by imagine dragons
7. mona lisa by dominic fike
8. thoughts i have while lying in bed by the maine
9. de selby (part 2) by hozier
10. foreign language by nothing but thieves
you can really tell that i usually listen to albums and not curated playlists huh
no pressure tags: @willgaham @dykenadjas @padme-amidala @cobbbvanth @elliewillaims @djarin @michaelsheens and anyone else who wants to do this!
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My job is playing Spiderman Indian's theme from ATSV and it is taking all my self control to be normal right now
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I had a really bad dream last night, no coffee and no nic this morning. So I got the atsv soundtrack in my ears while I walk to school as a treat 😇🙏
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Back to wiling out over ATSV - the soundtrack for ITSV was beautiful and the second soundtrack completely lived up to its predecessor. Every track fits the movie so perfectly…and yet each song can also stand on its own as a banger. It’s like they just cannot miss
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This shit sounds like the moonstone man
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friendly reminder that jessica drew also has a theme in across the spiderverse even though she didn't get a track named after her like the rest :)
"Jessica Drew's (theme) has a lot more attitude to it; she's got this vocal scream that's mixed with heavy guitars." - Daniel Pemberton, composer for across the spiderverse
#spiderverse#spider verse#across the spiderverse#jessica drew#jess drew#spider woman#atsv#atsv soundtrack#atsv jessica#daniel pemberton
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I'm devastated after learning that in the song Hummingbird, from the ATSV soundtrack, James Blake is singing "Stay on with me" and not "Stay young with me. Especially since it's said after the line, "I know it's our time." The entire song sounds like the dying words of a man speaking to his beloved recounting his memories of them together. Asking them to stay young in the moment before he goes. But no we got "stay on with me" instead.
#to me it had such a sentimental meaning to it#even though time has passed we're still those 2 kids who fell in love all those years ago#i keep analyzing the songs and what character they're related to#im not even gonna get into self love#that song is so good#and so sad#atsv soundtrack#hummingbird#james blake#atsv#satsv#soundtrack#tw death#tw dying#spiderman atsv#jay and the spiders
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y'all we are not talking enough about Guggenheim Assemble THAT SHIT SLAPS SO FUCKING HARDDD Daniel Pemberton I love you
#SOUNDTRACK IS A BANGERRR#hearing others themes incorporated into a score makes me go crazy#sratches an itch in brain#i have an old friend who still hasnt seen atsv and its make me go crazy bc she loves to animate and just fucking know shed love it#shes coming back into town this week and i am praying so fucking hard that at least one theater keeps atsv a little longer#PLEASE GODDAMNIT PLEASE#im gonna drag her there#just kidding lol she already agreed to go w me#see a movie enough times you can visualize it in your head when you listen to the soundtrack bahaha#thats me with shang chi#atsv#spiderverse#across the spiderverse#reigniting my love and obsession for film scores#making me wanna do it for fun when i have zero creative bone in this body baby#all numbers and math unfortunately#this brain is emptyyy#daniel pemberton#atsv soundtrack#when i watch this a 3rd time ill be able to fully watch the movie in my head buly just listening to the soundtrack hehe
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💃🏾SELF LOVE HE DONT LOVE HIMSELF TRYNA LOVE ME!! CUFF ME!! TOLD THE TRUTH TO HIM!! HE DON'T TRUST ME!!
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