never getting over this actually

so I had a birthday recently, and my sis literally blessed me with a record player (long time dream, you know 😌❤️)

guess what record I bought first, haha

Music Parallel: ‘Destroying the Castle’ x ‘In the Closet (at Rink O Mania)’

We know that the s3e3 rain fight and s4e2 rink fight parallel each other, and it turns out that the music does too! 

This is a mashup of the two songs found primarily in these scenes (overlaid audios).

Since these songs are both in 4/4, their rhythms match up perfectly once tempo-adjusted. Coincidently, so do their harmonies (take a listen, it’s pretty cool)

I first noticed this because ‘Destroying the Castle’ is in G minor, while ‘In the closet (at Rink O Mania)’ is in Bb major, which are relative keys and ideal for mashups.

Coincidence? Maybe...?

The original pieces: Destroying the Castle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjZfA1agB8I  In the closet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C3ouXEP1bI 

Music theory speculation under the cut:

Destroying the Castle is set firmly in the key of G minor, with its main motif being the notes Bb-A-G, which are characteristic of the g minor scale. That’s what creates sad and depressing mood. The corresponding chords are G minor, F major, Eb major (yes, Eb major. it surprised me when i found out).

In the Closet seems to be in Bb major? Not entirely sure. The main motifs are Bb-D-C-A and Bb-A-C (depending on which section of the song you’re listening to). Both are pretty similar. Corresponding chords are G minor, Bb major, F major, Eb major in some order. 

There are a lot of the same notes and chords in both pieces, which isn’t obvious when listened to separately. It could be a coincidence, since many songs on the Stranger Things soundtrack are in keys with flats (around the F major - Bb major - Eb major area).

The structure of both songs is similar as well. Both start with a quiet ambient section of chords, and transition to a louder second half. I only used the second half of both songs. Luckily for the mashup, both ‘second halves’ are around the same length.

I’m not very well-versed in music theory or film analysis, so feel free to add your thoughts about this!

guys i'm watching st4 ep5 and i noticed a curious thing. during these scenes

ep 5 ep 4

is playing this song

but during the heart to heart scene between mike and will it's playing a sort of variant. it seems that a (electric) piano is accompanying the melody, which is not in the original piece. it's also curious because this is a little far from dixon and stein's style for the soundtrack. i don't really know what this could mean, or if this was intentional for some reasons, because this variant was played just for that specific moment, while in the scene where max reads her letter to billy it was played the original track.

i know it’s been a while since my analysis but it’s still absolutely fucking wild to me that the song “being different” is a combination of the first lie and the first i love you, and LITERALLY plays during will’s first lie and first i love you to mike.

like what the fuck. combining songs from seasons 2 and 3?? that played in situations that work for the context of byler?? that display a deep level of care and attention to detail over the seasons for a pairing that may well be not only the endgame of the show but also the pairing that perfectly displays the overall message of the show? that our differences are what make us unique, and it is love in all its forms that make our differences so important? that amongst all the chaos and hatred in the world, two childhood friends falling in love is not the (forgive me) strangest thing that could ever happen? it’s just so…. wow.

with what the duffers have been saying about season 4, that it’s them “peeling back the layers” and “showing their hand” to the audience, all of this just makes so much sense. it’s going to be really beautiful to watch this story come to fruition. i’m so excited :’)

i’ve been digging around in the s4 soundtrack to see if there was anything notable, and i found byler proof that was highly intriguing.

so this is the title of one of the songs. it plays during episode two, when el is hiding in the closet from angela. but after rewatching the clip, i noticed that the song started way before we actually see that scene with el.

it commenced playing in this scene.

which, i mean, that’s proof by itself. though some may argue that any references to being closeted is merely referring to will. however, there was a bit of further evidence that hints otherwise.

the song first began, in particular, when the camera was focused on mike. not will, not even the both of them. just mike wheeler. and we know how much the creators and directors of this show love to focus on camera angles and such to foreshadow things. it’s peculiar that they’d add this song in now, during this scene, when focused on this character, who is supposed to be in a requited straight relationship…

interesting.

Beat's So Lonely by Charlie Sexton playing in the school parking lot as Eddie watches you walk in slow motion like...

This animation of the Stranger Things S4 soundtrack is mesmerizing. I could watch it for hours while listening to the songs. 🤩

𝘓𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘨 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦⛰

Hey if you're going to sit down and watch stranger things tonight, you might wanna hear what I have to say. I swear it's not me spoiling things.

I want to warn you guys because Netflix did not put a content warning before episode one.

I know a lot of people, especially those in America, are dealing with a lot after the school shooting that happened earlier this week.

I don't know a lot about it, I'm Canadian so there's not a lot of details circulating for us, but there is something in the opening scenes of episode one that if you have been affected by this event, or events similar, those scenes can be extremely difficult to watch.

Netflix 100% should have put a warning for that, because even though everyone knows it's a horror show, events extremely similar to those ones happened only two days ago.

Looking at the soundtrack of Stranger Things, the song “The First I love You” has been discussed a lot, I know. Mainly with the “love” being in lowercase, as the “love” is not real, or at least not romantic. It’s played during when El tells mike she loves him and they have that brutal kiss at the end of season 3, right before the Byers’s are going to move. (Mikes eyes are open, he looks absolutely horrified during and afterwards. it’s intentional, I’m sure.) It’s also played during Robin’s coming out to Steve, meaning that their love is not romantic. It’s Steve’s first “I love you” as it was El’s to Mike’s, but the other side cannot reciprocate due to them being queer. I’m sure this has been said before, and in much better ways, but I thought I’d just type something out.

NOW for how this connects to s4!

I’ve been kind of pissed at s4 since it’s the big director-heavy bash that goes too long that I’ve been mad about ever since watching It Ch2 (which I love a lot nonetheless, despite its way too heavy use of jump scares, etc. that’s got another time, I mainly like it so much because it’s adapted from my favorite book and I love the cast but I think the miniseries did the adult losers much better on a simple scale) and Wonder Woman 1984.

But despite how I feel about s4 not connecting to my dad-and-I’s big-scale analysis of s1-3 that we have developed over many car rides through New England, I made a connection that happens to explain all of this to me and prove why the “love” being lowercase is significant.

While Robin is trying to tell Nancy that her and Steve are not romantically involved, she says “Platonic with a capital P” showing that the word with the capital is the true and significant one. If the love is not capitalized between El and Mike, it shows that it’s not romantic.

I hope that came out clearly haha. Thank you for reading this if you did read this far.

i need to fall in love and have it sound like The First I love You from the stranger things soundtrack you don't understand

𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚍𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜, 𝚞𝚗𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚎, 𝙸'𝚖 𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚗' 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚜𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛, 𝚘𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚗 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚜

𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭 (𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘨𝘰𝘥) / 𝘬𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘩

Letter to Willy?! o_O

One of the greatest songs of all time was featured in the last episode of Stranger Things Season 4 and NO ONE EVER brings it up - Spellbound by Siouxsie and the Banshees

Y’all know that would’ve un-vecna’d me in a heartbeat