How to Write a NieR Song

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  @MisterL777 · 4 years ago (edited)

  I measure my progress as a musician by how clear these videos become to me

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  @ToxicxEternity · 4 years ago

  NieR music just hits different. great video!!

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  @TrevorWicklund · 4 years ago

  Keiichi Okabe is always credited as the main composer for the series, which is true, but all the song examples in this video except for City Ruins and Repose were written by Keigo Hoashi.

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  @grissini · 4 years ago

  I know there is so much to talk when it comes to NieR music but my lord, this soul voice out of nowhere in the Simone fight, it&apos;s unreal, how do you come up with such an idea when you&apos;re composing for a japanese game with orchestral music and chiptune. <br>I think this is quite something about NieR music and NieR as a whole: unexpected.

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  @snooz3d998 · 4 years ago

  If you want to know how successful the &quot;future language&quot; concept is, as a french speaker, grandma&apos;s lyrics sound like syllables arranged at random. But it is obviously french-like. It feels a little weird but I love it.

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  @Er404ChannelNotFound · 4 years ago (edited)

  I&apos;m guessing this was an editing error but the version of City Ruins that plays at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R8EdPvX0ZY&amp;t=130">2:10</a> is the Ray of Light version which is sung by J&apos;Nique Nicole. Emi Evans&apos; iteration is called City Ruins - Shade.<br>Edit: Fixed track names.

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  @patrickr.1433 · 4 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R8EdPvX0ZY&amp;t=124">2:04</a> &quot;so putting Evans&apos; vocal at the front of these heartfelt arrangements makes them even more potent&quot;<br><br>plays a song that doesn&apos;t feature Evans&apos; vocals

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  @TheRDBat5 · 4 years ago (edited)

  If anyone wanted to know, the &quot;i/5th to V7&quot; (and then back to i) that sounds so classical actually has a name: the cadential six-four, which appropriately is found all over classical music!

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  @keen96 · 4 years ago

  The only thing that would have made this video any better would have been a small sample of your own attempt at making a song that sounded like a NieR song lol. Insanely informative and entertaining, thank you!

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  @lawlietscake · 1 year ago

  Not mentioning J&apos;Nique Nicole is crazy work my guy. 💀

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  @homespunheroes · 4 years ago

  NieR, FaR, where eeeeeeeever you ArE

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  @-tera-3345 · 4 years ago

  While as you mention, there is an intensely emotional, desolate, depressing feel to the music, what has always struck me is that there is also something fantastically beautiful in it, as well. And that seems to be a theme present all over the game: the desolate beauty of the ruins that make up the environments, the unending despair of the plot which nevertheless also shows moments of immense beauty and hope... and I think that&apos;s what really makes the games so compelling. They don&apos;t just torture the player endlessly with pain and sadness, but paradoxically invite the player to find beauty in the desolation.

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