this was one of the funniest ways Adventure Time ended an episode. because 1) it had nothing to do with the rest of the episode and 2) this clip is what the episode is named after
really not a fan of entire (mostly black) music genres being compressed and confined to being seen as “video game” music to be totally honest
acid jazz isn’t acid jazz anymore, it’s persona 5 music. new jack swing is just sonic cd music. jungle is the latest victim of this and is being relabeled as “ps1/n64” music even when the genre exists well beyond the confines of a couple dozen games from that period. and it sucks because the composers/artists who worked on these songs obviously adore those genres and where they come from. it’s not their fault. but it just makes me sad seeing these genres effectively being whitewashed by people with zero interest in learning about their origins
For those who want to learn about which genres were used in different video game soundtracks, I’d recommend using RateYour Music. Tools for browsing genres via spotify really suck because it categorises them by shared listeners, while on RYM it’s done by user consensus.
Here’s what it has for Persona 5 and Sonic CD, as an example. It does still include that they’re VGM, but there’s a lot more detail about the genres used.
