Why is "video game music" often overlooked? Pic related is a masterpiece, and obviously not the only example

[Grayson Edwards]

Why is "video game music" often overlooked? Pic related is a masterpiece, and obviously not the only example.

[Hudson Harris]

Because it's just intended to sound good. Very rarely does video game music have a message that it's trying to convey and as such cannot be discussed in the same way that most other forms of music can be.

[Christopher Cooper]

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[Hunter Foster]

>what is pop
>what is ambient

[Zachary Gray]

massage my ass mother fucker

[Jordan Flores]

Because Sup Forums is more concerned with image than quality, and it's embarrassing to admit to listening to video game music

[Samuel Morris]

Just as irrelevant as video game music

[Charles Phillips]

I don't think video games have that stigma anymore.
Also, it's the same rule as always: if you're good looking, you can be listening to any kind of cheesy or quirky shit and girls will think you're cool and original.
If you're bad looking you will be a laughable nerd, whether you listen to video game music or p4k's top 10 bullshit.

Anyway, as far as video game soundtracks go, many of them were composed by famous artists.
You have Sonic 1 and 2 which were composed by Nakamura from the legendary J-pop band Dreams Come True, Mother 1 and 2 composed by Keiichi Suzuki of one of Japan's most prominent new wave/art rock band Moonriders, and Ghost in the Shell on PS1 has an amazing soundtrack of pure techno (mostly german techno), produced by Japan's techno god Takkyu Ishino and including all original tracks by veteran techno producers like Westbam, Scan X, Hardfloor.
The Mario games themselves have a lot of great spins and twists on ragtime music which makes them interesting.

Thinking video game music can't be appreciated on its own is a kind of disconnected opinion.

[Cooper Butler]

Michael Jackson even did music for one of the Sonic games (can't remember which) but it was later scrapped/reworked. Some of the songs sound just like MJ songs that were later released. Saw a video on youtube about it some time ago.

[Austin Perry]

Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Yeah Michael was supposed to be the composer, but it was actually his music crew (who also composed and arranged/produced stuff for him). And yeah, the ending song of Sonic 3 is actually a faster version of Stranger in Moscow, and Sonic 3 came out before the song.