They get millions of views and yet the original artist is extremely likely to just fade into obscurity after the hype is over and eventually commit sudoku, because most people are just going to download the song for free being the cheapskates they are.
So I would atleast hope that the original artist is rewarded by some kind of award for "Best OP of 2017", but nope. It doesn't happen.
Is it just some kind of naive "HURR VIDEO GAME MUSIC IS NOT REAL MUSIC" attitude amongst critics that prevents awards being given to best video game songs?
It's cause most game music isn't taken notice of as a stand alone piece and mainly is considered part of the game
Carter Morales
you don't need trophies or cash rewards to feel good about yourself OP. I'm pretty sure the composer is already satisfied by seeing that millions of people hear his music.
Owen Jackson
Award shows are cancer, sempai. You don't want them.
Angel Hill
because they're shit
Noah Gonzalez
What awards? There's VGAs. If you mean some Grammy shit, correct me if I'm wrong, but they don't give awards to any kind of OST albums, do they?
Kevin Walker
Because giving random games awards don't appeal to normalfags and don't do a single thing for to boost labels. Games have their own awards, soundtracks sell even if piracy exists and successful artists don't bank their entire career on a single game.
Eli Jones
Baba Yetu won a grammy.
Zachary Russell
Because jazz pop in this vein hasn't had commercial relevance since the early '90s.
Plus heavily accented vocals are offputting to many people. Take Loudness for instance; they were the biggest Asian metal band of the '80s, but they ditched their original Japanese singer in a heartbeat for an American vocalist when they had the chance to potentially crack the international market.
Angel Sanders
that song is fucking terrible t. 1 TB hard drive filled with music
Julian Long
>the original artist is extremely likely to just fade into obscurity after the hype is over
Shouji Meguro doesn't need your irrelevant awards to prove his talent.
Grayson Parker
The Grammys have expanded a few categories to such extents as "Visual media" so that video games can be a part of it but games don't have nearly the rep they'd need for the Grammys.
Ryan Murphy
the game sells well, the composer gets paid for his work, and he gains more recognition now than before. that's satisfying enough for them.
Justin Scott
That's the worst vocalized song in the game.
Last Surprise, Beneath the Mask, Life Will Change are all better.
Lincoln Richardson
Because it's shitty meme music?
>japanese sings engrish trash >weeaboo retard overrates it as a masterpiece
Sebastian Baker
she's Korean actually
Dylan Perez
Probably because music and video games are seperate hobbies. Music critics and award show people probably don't play video games to notice the tracks. Likewise game composers don't seem to go out of their way to get recognised by music critics and award show people
Mason Young
>implying the most popular and recognized music nowadays aren't memes >implying vidya music is somehow worse, because it's not an "independent" composition
Nicholas Green
>he doesn't exclusively listen to late '80s jazz fusion
I think Journey is the only video game to get nominated for that award plus an album or OST has to be submitted to them, so it's probably on the devs who don't give a shit
Owen Miller
Many reasons:
- It's a game song - too 'japanese-y' for most americans - in a japanese game
The sooner you understand that all awards are popularity contests and not quality contests, the better you'll feel.
Owen James
literally who? maybe it's not unique
Zachary Collins
>so it's probably on the devs who don't give a shit true true
Jacob Stewart
The instrumental version that they played during the reveal trailer was better.
Jackson Sullivan
Any attempt to make the Academy Awards of video games was a colossal failure with rampant nepotism and a clear Western bias. So exactly like the Academy Awards
It's better this way.
Leo Sanchez
Correct.
David Martin
>The sooner you understand that all awards are popularity contests and not quality contests, the better you'll feel. dat true desu
Aaron Green
Also if you look at music awards as like overglorified marketing, devs have no reason to send it to them as even if the soundtrack were to get nominated it probably wouldn't bring much attention to the game itself
Easton Clark
>It's better this way.
>get millions of views >get nothing in return because all your"""fans""" pirate your music for free
Connor Ortiz
nice assumption user
Gavin Wood
Not better this way, but I'm sure the creator is happy he gets to make music for a living and that his music is at least appreciated by the fan base. He won't get rich with videogame music, but he'll most likely not ever be out of work.
Andrew Bell
Nier Automata OST made into the billboard top 25 at 15#. That's something.
Ryder Peterson
>>get millions of views >>get nothing in return because all your"""fans""" pirate your music for free
Unlike whatever artist the kids listen to right now a composer gets paid for their work. A composer is hired.
Christian Smith
>implying the most popular and recognized music nowadays aren't memes
To Pimp a Butterfly is literally one of the best albums released in the last 20 years
Josiah Perry
not really, the charts don't mean shit anymore
Ethan Hill
If there were any kind of award the song wouldn't win anyway.
Persona soundtrack is Shoji Meguro weakest work. Every other smt game had a better soundtrack than shitsona games.
Xavier White
Civ songs did win awards. Videogame music can win awards if it is actually a musical achievement, it's just that most videogame music sucks and only losers and nerds with no actual music taste listen to it.
Kevin Phillips
I'm sure he's not talking about Kendrick. Besides, millions of views don't mean shit, pop songs on youtube get hundreds of million of views, sometimes billions.
Easton Cruz
>millions of free downloads pay for the composer's bills, food and rent costs
Eli Johnson
Thats why it never gets mentioned except for asshurt SMT fans
Cooper Torres
>being an absolute retard
Ryder Price
I assume most sites have a music category for their GotY awards.
Julian Sanders
They did Civilization 4 theme won many awards, Jeremy soule and many others In japan gust team until 2010 got rewards constantly, falcon and horizon get theirs even now But garbage you posted is just generic anime music without any worth Very cheap made and aimed on the lowest trash I for example dislike #fe songs with vocals and lyrics being shit, but quality of music itself was very high when Thorin struck his harp the music began all at once, so sudden and sweet that Bilbo forgot everything else, and was swept away into dark lands under strange moons, far over The Water and very far from his hobbit-hole under The Hill.
Landon Diaz
>generic anime music
Jazz is objectively superior to whatever 4 chord plebian progressions you westerns are drip fed with
Joseph Hill
Yes... filthy westerners don't know the first thing about jazz. Like where it was made.
Xavier Brooks
>jazz No, it's jpop that was made to sound kinda like jazz Because you don't know shit about music you obviously can't tell difference
Parker Ross
Ayy, my man. Need to find more jazz music to relax to, or just 80s music in general. Any recommendations?
Wyatt Powell
>persona 5 music is generic high pitched J-pop
please kill yourself before you embarrass yourself anymore
Gavin Wright
I hope you are joking. you already know why western society doesn't give a shit about video game music since your experience is (ostensibly) from this point of view. japan's video game (and anime) consumers and producers benefit from a virtuous cycle where fans are devoted to the media they like, and creators can put out more material because the fans will buy it. your example is the composer for the fucking persona series, do you really think he isn't well known by fans of the series? is "winning an award" the only way of recognition that makes sense to you?
Bentley Brooks
It hit #15 on the movie soundtrack chart, not that big of a deal
Henry Bell
>you already know why western society doesn't give a shit about video game music
i'm curious, why doesn't western society like video game music?
Daniel Edwards
Does that make Yoko Taro the greatest movie director of all time? He playfully achieved the milestone Kojima can only dream of.
Brody Thompson
western society only cares about the artists, not the actual music. see how many people care about justin biebers looks than his music.
Henry Gutierrez
They do, and video games music gets awarded He just mad because his garbage generic anime shut from niche series isn't recognized by anyone with taste, even in japan
Sebastian Perry
ngl his latest album was pretty good
Ayden Powell
>posts this on Sup Forums >gets BTFO >posts on Sup Forums >it's all persona 5 retards who don't know who Meguro is
