S06E08: A Hearth's Warming Tail

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Re: S06E08: A Hearth's Warming Tail

Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Sun May 15, 2016 1:36 pm

Lorce wrote:Luna's song was great, but why did it have to use the magic/tragic rhyme... Image


Rewatching that sequence is really weird. I absolutely love the song, but it all feels like it's out of an entirely different show; the way that song sounds is quite unlike anything else they've done. The closest I can think of is "Release the Magic" from Friendship Games, but this is darker and more dramatic again.
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Postby Lorce (?) » Sun May 15, 2016 1:54 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:Is there something technically wrong with that rhyme, or is it just really commonly used? I don't think I've heard it a bunch of times before or anything.

I just think i heard it quite a bit when i was still listening to pony music radio back in the day, so i'm kinda associating it with more amateur music production and it feels lazy to use here :-I
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Postby Octavia (?) » Sun May 15, 2016 3:17 pm

Octavia wrote:Yeah that'll probably be my av in 24 hours

IT IS DONE :snobtavia:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun May 15, 2016 3:21 pm

Lorce wrote:I just think i heard it quite a bit when i was still listening to pony music radio back in the day, so i'm kinda associating it with more amateur music production and it feels lazy to use here :-I

Oh, that'd do it. Music is perhaps the one big branch of our fandom's creative output that I've not really interacted with, so if that was common in a bunch of brony songs then I wouldn't have heard it.
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Postby Discord (?) » Sun May 15, 2016 6:39 pm

Pretty awesome episode. Starlight Glimmer has been hitting all the right notes this season, hitting my dislike of the season to a tee and bringing it as a cool Scrooge with a great song.
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Postby Niels Olof (?) » Sun May 15, 2016 6:47 pm

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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun May 15, 2016 7:08 pm

Headcanon accepted.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sun May 15, 2016 7:52 pm

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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun May 15, 2016 8:20 pm

:lol:
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Sun May 15, 2016 10:23 pm

Octavia wrote:IT IS DONE :snobtavia:

Mighty fine. :golfclop:

Octavia, I'd be interested in hearing your musician's perspective on the songs in this episode, if you have any special insights. I was giving the ep a re-listen and all the songs are next-level good IMO, but I don't have the vocabulary to explain why. They're just really good!
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Postby Octavia (?) » Sun May 15, 2016 11:01 pm

Mechanical Ape wrote:Mighty fine. :golfclop:

Octavia, I'd be interested in hearing your musician's perspective on the songs in this episode, if you have any special insights. I was giving the ep a re-listen and all the songs are next-level good IMO, but I don't have the vocabulary to explain why. They're just really good!

I haven't rewatched the episode yet, but I really liked that they gave Pinkie a Dixieland style song, which is something they haven't done in the show yet. Also, most pony songs are in bright happy major keys, but this episode had 2 songs in minor keys. Minor keys are a lot more versatile for composers. They're less restrictive in terms of where you can go with harmonies and melodies, since as far as diatonic major keys go, there's pretty much only one scale to use. But for minor keys, there's natural minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor, etc.
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Postby Zimbie (?) » Mon May 16, 2016 6:02 pm

A Christmas Carol: Pony version :-P
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Postby Applepie (?) » Mon May 16, 2016 8:48 pm

Finally more Starlight songs, and Luna gets a song. :yay:
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Mon May 16, 2016 10:11 pm

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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Mon May 16, 2016 10:35 pm

I would have loved to see that.

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Postby The Doctor (?) » Mon May 16, 2016 11:28 pm

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:gotcha: Great bit of meta commentary. Have Marley be Sunset Shimmer. But not Pony Sunset. Just have Starlight-Scrooge get a message from some biped from another dimension.
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Postby Frith (?) » Tue Jun 21, 2016 11:20 pm

I enjoyed this episode. The Christmas Carol plot was handled well in this episode and the songs were really good.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Thu Nov 10, 2016 9:31 pm

:wingsright: I am the spirit of Hearth's Warmings Future Perfect Subjunctive!
:wingsright: I will show you what would have happened were you not to have changed your ways!
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