Sorry L*berals, you mean to tell me she has an entire town inside of her? Ridiculus. Since a person is definetly, without a doubt, smaller than an entire town; Unless she is actively bending space-time that just isnt possible. And if she were, the gravitational effects would absolutely destroy her body. -Shen Bapiro
Marco on his way to explore the world of Guilty Gear and it's characters The characters: Millia - Has a story about accepting who she is Ino - Is about spending all of your life trying to find something but never actually living Leo - Is dealing with the horrors of war and PTSD Chipp - American ninja that's a recovering drug addict Sol Badguy - Wife gone. Regret. On a constant loop
One of my favorite things about this song is how the lyrics indirectly reference Bridget avoiding facing the fact she's trans, every time she comes close to that bit of self reflectance in the song it ends with an "I-" then cuts to a random thought to interrupt itself in a very jarring way. Then, when we hit the second half of the song it stick to the theme of finding peace at the end (similar to character themes like Zato's) and bridget accepts herself and begins solving the issues the song initially lays out such as the "Gray Haze."
Another element that's noteworthy is that the further into the song you go, the quieter "I'm the one to blame" is sung, until it very nearly disappears into the swell of the music. The more sure of herself Bridget becomes, the more that inner voice of self-recrimination gets drowned out by the joy of her convictions.
It's drowned out, but never quite gone, which is pretty accurate to anything like disphoria, depression, anxiety and impostor syndrome. It's always gonna be there but that doesn't mean you gotta listen to it.
At the end, it's straight-up replaced by "I can feel the light even after the sun goes down", showing hope for her future instead of that cloud of self-doubt And you wanna know what? It's reminiscent of Ky's song, "Hoping to fill the world with all kinds of light" AND HE'S THE ONE WHO HELPED GUIDE BRIDGET Imma cry now
You start out denying it constantly and blaming yourself. And at the end your accepting who you are but that sense of doubt never fully goes away. It's just alot less .. Yeah like tell me this song isn't about overcoming gender dysphoria.. xD
"It wasn't hard to move on. I didn't hate it, but I did not even like it" Refers to her trying out being a boy. It wasn't "hard" and she didn't hate it but she prefers being a girl.
The best part is this song is how it kind of sounds like the singer is holding back from being louder in certain points. It's like Bridget is nearly hitting her breakthrough but pulls back to stay in what she knows is safe. It isn't until the bridge (heh) that the singer finally starts to get loud. The song even starts to sound like the other more energetic songs at the end with the electric guitar finally playing loud and proud, showing how she finally accepts who she is and is confident to take those steps as the woman she is Also haha trans yoyo girl go BRRR
Another cool detail: the line 'I'm the one to blame' gets progressively weakened as the song progresses. Its first instance is very pronounced, but as the track itself picks up momentum and more instruments are added, it slowly becomes harder to parse along the explosive chaos of the instrumentation, until it becomes completely drawn out by it. A really cool way of showing how much Bridget's view of herself is defined by fear and how difficult she finds it to accept her identity, until she reaches the point where she doesn't want fear to dictate her life anymore and decides to live true to herself and come out, letting out all her pent-up emotions at once.
Just a small note: some of the confusion from the lyrics comes from this video being an early transcription before the lyrics were officially released. What was transcribed as "Me without me" should actually be "Be without me, I'm the one to blame," further expressing her reluctance to return home at least at that time
This song is great. It definitely does a good job of representing Bridget's inner turmoil; a big part of her character in the earlier games was her trying to forge her own identity. As of Strive she's accepted that she's a woman, but on her own terms. You can see that journey reflected in the lyrics; "always had the gift, just had to open up the box" etc.
Honestly I don't like Bridgets story it doesn't strike me as them finding themselves it strikes me more as "gaslighting wins" Bridget was forced to be a girl since they were a child because of a insane superstition held by the village. That two boys born as twins means one is a monster and bad luck. So they raised Bridget as a girl. Every time Bridget didn't do something in the role they were assigned they were treated like garbage. Told they were a curse or bad luck and ostracized unless they acted their role. And they took it with a smile on their face. Until one day they figure that maybe if they go out and become a bounty hunter and try to bring fortune to their town they would be accepted for who they were. That they were not a monster or curse or bad luck but Bridget. But no matter what they did no matter how much they succeeded they were always treated the same. The town inside them still called them horrible things...unless...they submit. They accept what everyone tells them to be. They can be Bridget that the town wants. I know I'll get hate for this perspective but it just doesn't jive with the rest of their tale. At least to me.
@@NameIsDoc Totally get what you mean, it's just not a good metaphor for what they were trying to do. You could introduce a new character and make a much better story for that kind of thing, but using Bridgett ain't it. Feels forced and weird, and definitely not a good ending.
@@NameIsDoc I'm trans, I don't hate your perspective, but I do disagree. Her parents were concerned that they were forcing her to be a girl, that's a real concern, and it's definitely NOT a GOOD THING. (Frankly letting a kid decide, for the time being, how they present themselves is the way to go. Kids grow and learn, when they figure out what they are, they could just say so, and if they change their mind later, they could communicate that also. No big stakes. Life's weird enough without others dictating complex parts of your identity to you.) But... Bridget is transgender. And life's messy like that, really often. In my own journey, it was very difficult to tell what I was, I had to look inward a lot, look at my history, what influenced me, and the way I felt about it all. It took years, and I was in denial for a long, long time. I was patient, y'know? I waited until I was older, certain that these feelings would sort themselves out when I grew a beard, or got taller. But for a while, I was sure I just had body image problems, or was just stressed out. I really convinced myself "It's my stress, that's for sure." And I mean, it wasn't hard to be a guy, I guess. I thought I didn't hate it, but just... didn't like it. Instead, it was just uncomfortable. Like, it wasn't... me. Just not who I am. I looked in the mirror and just felt... gross. No matter what I did to make myself look better, It always felt wrong to me. Figuring out who I am was a struggle, and finding out I was a woman deep down was a real eye opener. So, speaking as a trans woman, my perspective is really different from yours. I'm not what people told me to be, far from it. I was told to grow a pair and be more manly, my whole life. It takes a lot of courage to just openly declare who you are, and doubly so if you've got a problem like Bridget, where it's hard to discern where others imposed view of who you are IS who you are or not. Idk what the point I'm trying to make here is, I just hope you can appreciate the other side to this. It's a lot of emotion to handle.
@@NameIsDoc I just think we need to consider all of the people who are "born" boys, raised as boys, and continue to be boys. We wouldn't consider them gaslit if they continue to be boys on their own terms- so why would Bridget be gaslit if she continues to be a woman on her own terms?
what i love most about the song, knowing bridget's story is in part about her transition, is how well it just...nails the concept of dysphoria. a lot of media depicts it as this constant, soul-crushing pain of being in the wrong body, but "it's like vegetables i don't like " or "i hate the alarm clock i chose" is just...really damn close. just something discomforting, constantly, that you don't really recognize you have a choice in. same for the lines "me without me" and the repetition of the grey haze. you kinda just...drift through life, feeling like an observer of your body, before realizing that you can change, the sky doesn't have to be grey. (sidenote: transitioning affects a lot of things but a common description from trans women on how it affects their emotional state is "it's like everything went from black and white to seeing in full color")
It still amazes me how Daisuke was able to make such an actually fucking perfect trans narrative. I have legit never seen any trans character have a more accurate yet complex story. It's beautiful.
@@penlordnt AND HER CHARACTER DESIGN OH MY GOD IT'S SO PERFECT LITERALLY EMPHASIZES WHAT SHE LIKES ABOUT HERSELF (Waist, hair, thighs(?)) AND DEMPHASIZES WHAT SHE DOESN'T (Shoulders, neck, arms)
for Bridget's story. She was born in a british village (yes, she is inherently cringe) that thinks having twins of same gender is an omen that the family will be financially demolished. Well, her family raise her as a girl, and after a while she becomes a bounty hunter to prove the village curse wrong. At this point, she thinks she's a boy. Then Strive comes along with it's arcade mode. In it, she's clearly having some kind of a mental crisis. At the end of the arcade she full on transitions And says she's a woman.
Strive’s music is so varied, which is necessary to fit the wildly diverse roster. This one certainly has one of the better stories within, on top of being incredibly catchy. When you learn that Bridget determines she’s a girl at the end of her story mode in this game, a lot of the lyrics become more poignant. Hope to see more guilty gear on the channel soon!
This is incorrect. Bridget refers to himself as "otokonoko" (男の子; male) and "otokonoko" (男の娘; girly male). This term is used in reference to both gender and sex. Both terms are used for him by Japanese developes and by him in game. In the game, he refers to himself as an "otokonoko" (男の娘; girly male). So he is a boy, albeit a girly one. The Japanese website for Strive specifically uses the word "seibetsu" (性別; gender) in reference to him being an "otokonoko" (男の子; male). So Strive states his gender is male. In the Strive game, Stage 1 ending (heart lose), he directly states he's a boy, in Japanese and English. In Stage 1 (flawless win), he directly states he's a boy, in Japanese and English. Stage 8 (Stage 7 heart lose) was a mistranslation. This is where Westerners claim he is a girl. In the Japanese version, he does not state he is actually girl. Goldlewis throughout the game kept on mistaking him for a girl and called him a girl. Bridget corrects him repeatedly. In the later stages, Bridget gets tired of correcting him and when Goldlewis, again, calls Bridget a girl and Goldlewis tries correcting himself, but Bridget reassures him by saying "お嬢ちゃんでいいですよ" (translation: "I don't mind [being called] a young lady) and then adds "別は女の子ですから" (translation 1: since according to you I'm a girl, or translation 2: apart from that [since I was raised as a girl] I am like a girl"]. Bridget's confusion and stress over his identity in Strive is because he finally accomplished what he always wanted to, that being he finally proved that him being a boy twin was never a curse like his village thought, and now that this part of his life is over, he doesn't know what to do with himself. Bridget says he's a boy in the correct Japanese version.
@@VanceAsagi Have you, perhaps, considered looking at this from every angle? The fact of the matter, from what I understand, is that the devs themselves have confirmed that she is a young lady. To be honest with you, your comment rubs me the wrong way and comes off as being transphobic. I don't know if this was your intention, as I am not you, but I want you to know that this is the perception that I have. I hope you take this to heart and perhaps learn a lesson on how you phrase things.
@@VanceAsagi "After the events of Bridgett's story in arcade mode, she self-indentifies as a woman. So, as to whether 'He' or 'She' would be the correct pronoun for Bridget, the answer would be 'She'" -Daisuke Ishiwatari (Lead Designer since the inception of Guilty Gear), Developer Backyard 11. I can and will read off the direct Japanese page for the same backyard and painstakingly translate each word if you don't trust the localization team here.
I've never been a massive guilty gear player, I usually don't play many pvp games at all, but Guilty Gear's art direction, characters and music is just absolutely breathtaking. The heavy guitars that accompany many of the songs are amazing, but when Bridget came out this theme instantly became my favourite, both because it's just so different but also just perfectly conveys Bridget's emotion and confusion as to what to do in life. I may be legally an adult, but i'm very much still a child and this songs just feels warm and fuzzy to me. As always man, thanks for bringing more people to these amazing tracks and thanks for reminding me every time of how much I love video game music
You should totally do Faust's Alone Infection, Potemkin's Armor-cladded Faith, hard to believe these songs are in the same game. Honestly all of the character theme from strive is their own story, from Happy Chaos who only cares about one thing, Axl Low who's moved on cause he understands his own situation and is contempt with it, or I-no who's still struggling to come to terms with hers in complete contrast to Axl Low. Or Leo who the entire community memes on for being a gorilla while his theme is literally a glorified suicide note.
My favorite thing about this song is that as it progresses, it gets more and more upbeat. It really makes it feel like we're tagging along with Bridget on her journey of self-discovery.
I love how the song is a bout the struggle for identity and it’s reflected by the instruments e.g: orchestral instruments when Bridget works out what her problem was and acoustic during the build up as though the song itself is struggling with what genre it is but eventually these two parts unify when Bridget accepts everything in the lyrics
Bridget's theme is a hard one to pin down because the experience it describes is far from common, the gray haze, the me without me, for those who felt it before it feels as real as it can, it's why the Trans community attached big time not only to the character but the theme as well The Strive soundtrack did a killer job with the characterization on the theme songs for each character, either telling their story (Potemkin, Ramlethatl), fleshing out their character and innermost thoughts (Leo, I-no), or showing where their mind is at now (Jack-O, Testament)
It is ABSURD how well this song makes transpeople relate considering Daisuke himself isn't trans. Somehow, his insight when writing this song is unreal for somebody who hasn't lived it himself.
To me, The Town Inside Me reflects Bridget's journey through Guilty Gear Strive. She left her home and lived as a man in response to the expectations and perceptions of the people around her. After becoming a successful bounty hunter and proving her village's superstition wrong, she still feels unfulfilled. Her journey in Strive is her coming to the realization that she was and is actually happier being a girl. A trans anthem for a trans icon. I love everything about this song. The sense of vague anxiety that she can't put a finger on, interjecting and interrupting herself with various different possible explanations. It's just stress. I'm not eating right. My alarm clock's been getting on my nerves. She feels distant from the people around her and herself. "Me without me." Who she is was entirely shaped by other people. She had no say in it. The repeated insistence that It's Fine, Actually! It could be worse! It's not *hard*, being who she's told she is. She's not really suffering. But she's not *happy*, either. She could *be* happy. She has everything she needs to do it. She just has to go through with it. Open that box. Choose. And that's the emotional arc of the song, reflected in the relatively somber start climbing to a vibrant, bombastic finish. Bridget chooses to be happy. Her doubts dwindle to a whisper compared to the sheer bombastic delight of finding herself! She has chosen to be who she is, not who people expect her to be or not to be, and those expectations will never again have any hold on her.
Great com my friend ! in addition you can see who she is afraid of returning to the village, because if she is girl, this mean the prophety was true and the village could return as it was with his mysticism. I really like they implement that in the song too.
Each character track plays as you fight with them, so when I was finding who I wanted to play, picking Bridget and this absolut bop that is so different from the rest of the cast felt so nice! I fell in love.
If you're doing Guilty Gear songs I'd recommend listening to all (or at least 2 of) the themes of the characters, as many have more than one. You'll be able to hear the evolution in character in many of them, as their stories have developed over the years and the music reflects it. For example Ramlethal has Diva of Despair from Xrd and Necessary Discrepancy from Strive. Anyway, great to see you covering Guilty Gear, it was a matter of time.
Bridget being confirmed as a canon trans girl with her new story and also this song was such a wonderful thing when it happened. I did a thread about it on twitter talking about how the lyrics to this song specifically make SO MUCH SENSE if you're trans or familiar with trans experiences. Her whole life is this journey going from being who others wanted her to be to finding out who she really is and living as herself. Loved this video and looking forward to hearing your thoughts on more guilty gear songs! Transfem Bridget forever!
It's full of twists and turns. Maybe it's the bad translations back in the day, or the wonky story modes that weren't really giving up much info compared to Xrd and Strive. Cause to me, it felt like Bridget JUST wanted the town to accept him as a him for the safety of his family before Strive. Bridget is a teen though, motivations and feelings can change quite quickly, or even just be understood differently. So I won't say something like Bridget can't be a girl, cause the long canon says so. She's strong enough to be whatever she feels like.
@@zetsumeinaito To me, it seemed like Bridget coming to terms with being a trans woman was the moment she truly freed herself from the town's expectations. Before, she constantly asserted that she was a "super masculine dude" as a form of rebellion, but she continued presenting as feminine despite those assertions. In Strive, she's realized that by repressing her feelings about her identity, she's still allowing the town's expectations to control her, in a way. I think that it's a really touching piece of character writing, and it was really sad to see a lot of people call it "bad writing."
@@sushiroll3795 I get ya. I just have a hard time explaining things properly. I feel overtime, my wordsmithing of Bridget's situation has gotten more understandable. The short is she achieved her goal of recognition. Without that stress, she was afforded the time to self reflect and actualize herself.
@@autumnlotus6250 Guilty Gear already had three queer characters before Bridget was revealed to be a trans woman. Daisuke wasn't "pressured" to make this decision, homie.
I think just about every song in Guilty Gear Strive is either an exploration of a character's emotions/anxieties, an explanation of their story, or a combination of the two. Definitely an OST worth listening to (majority of it is hard rock/metal though)
I have just started listening to that song nearly non-stop yesterday what in the heck is this kinda coincidence? I didn't even vote for it or anything. Very pog
May's Theme "Disaster of Passion" is equally as poppy, and you're just bringing me back to the year this game dropped and I just kept listing to its ost anytime it popped into my head! lol
So your interpretation of thr lyrics seems to be pretty great overall, but the story you read only covers Bridget's story through Guilty Gear XX ^Core+R. Bridget did not make an appearance in the game between that and Strive, but her story in Strive adds a new depth to the song IMO, as it's in Strive that she finally accepts and acknowledges her identity as a trans woman, with one scene where she asks another character for advice about coming out and another where she comes out to a character who had been helping her through part of the story. The line that really sticks out to me is "I'm not waiting for Santa Claus / I've already got the gift, just can't open the box". This line makes me feel that this is a song about finding yourself and your place, but also about Bridget's struggles to come put and be honest with herself and others about her identity. Edit to add: Also, FYI, the most "poppy" songs remaining would definitely be "Disaster of Passion" and "Perfection can't please me", while the most Heavy Metal song is probably "Alone Infection" (I'd still love to see you try to make sense of it, but it may not be your style).
This song is particularly strong for me, the kinds of struggles this song tackles feels particularly specific to my life experience as a trans person and a lot of the structure of the song itself communicates some really complex and difficult feelings pretty well. I won't go on a long rant about personal life experiences and such, but it is very distinctly a trans coming of age song and mirrors a lot of personal things I've done and have been through. Despite only being a pretty casual GG fan, I connect a lot with Bridget, and I think this theme does a lot to carry that connection! I even found myself tearing up a touch towards the end of the song, it's just oddly personal despite being a fun and pop-y song.
This song came out around the same time I finally realized I was trans.. and it hit me like a fucking stack of bricks as bridget goes and sings my entire life story to me
Speaking as a 30 year old trans woman who has spent the last 13 years trying, failing, trying again, and finally gleaning who exactly the fuck I am, this song, and Bridget's existence, and Daisuke's continued stressing that she IS trans, and her story through the game has led her to this point, it's all so fucking important. Not just for people like me, who have spent close to half our lives trying to figure out who we are based on what other people expect from us, but also for all the younger trans kids, or kids who might be questioning their identity, to let them know that sometimes it's NOT what everyone else around you is telling you. This song, this character, her entire story is teaching the viewer that no amount of outside influence from either side can tell you who you really are, that it's something you need to figure out for yourself, through experimentation, and failure, and grief, and finally, if or WHEN you finally figure out who you are, that moment of pure euphoria in yourself.
I like how the chorus changes every single time is played, almost like how a teenager keeps exploring their personality to find themselves and who they are.
This song always makes me tear up, especially when the full instrumental comes in. You can hear the joy that she's found. Also I like that the last "I'm the one to blame" is faded out like she no longer thinks that and is actively pushing the thought out of her head.
If you want another pop song in Guilty Gear, Disaster of Passion, which is May's Strive theme, is a very traditionally pop song, but you can still hear just a bit of the Guilty Gear edge hidden inside of it. For Strive they really expanded the type of music they wanted to do for the soundtrack, which gets you things that flow all over the spectrum. The craziest one being "Drift", Happy Chaos' theme, which is like 5 or 6 songs in one. It's WILD!
Yes! been waiting for a guilty gear song to come on for so long now. personally i think Hellfire and Love the Subhuman Self are fantastic if you're going to explore more ggst music.
Basically, the theme of Guilty Gear and most of the characters conflicts can be boiled down to, as Sol's newest theme declares, "Don't melt in the world! Find your own way!" Everyone in it has a conflict of identity. Milia learning to accept herself, Ky trying to be the right kind of ruler, Jack-o conflicting with who she's "supposed" to be, Baikan searching for where she belongs in the world, In-0 having a constant existential crisis because of what she's seen, and Potemkin reaffirming his own beliefs. I could go into how it plays into the campaigns, but we'd be here a while.
Absolutely. That is a consistent theme with so many variations across the franchise, and handled extremely well. Glad to see others taking the same joy I have in it.
You really should look into more of the character's themes! They all summ up their stories to the pointof where they are now, and they're all absolutely amazing. Thanks to the amazing producer Daisuke Ishiwatari.
I’m glad you’re getting into the Guilty Gear stuff now! I don’t know how many months back you asked what to check out on Twitter and I happily hopped in suggesting it, but it’s definitely a hell of a ride getting into the current stuff from xrd and strive. Glad you enjoyed it, looking forward to more!
I love the way the lyrics change in tone as it goes on, especially given I read "The Town" to be social pressure - at first its almost a sense of sad acceptance - I'm not there, just watching from afar because I can't change the way society's pressures affect me. But when it becomes hopeful the meaning changes - I'm not there, just watching from afar because it doesn't matter what society thinks of me - I'll be who I am anyway.
I love that you did the lyrics to this I was playing the arcade mode yesterday and Bridget herself to one of the other characters mentions that she is a boy
Whats great about the "I'm the one to blame" line is that during the final use of it, when Bridget has accepted who she is, it's extremely quiet and drowned out by her new way of thinking, and shows how she's learned to stop blaming herself.
While staying close to rock, Guilty Gear has a great variety of influences in it's music that are all worth exploring. Daisuke does a great job at representing each character's style and personality through music and the decision of having lyrics for every theme in Guilty Gear Strive pushed that to another level. Can't wait for you to hear some of the slower rock ballads and the more unusual stuff Guilty Gear has in store. Also when it comes to lyrics, you should refer to the Guilty Gear wiki or better yet the official booklet from the soundtrack's physical release. Perfection Can't Please Me and The Kiss of Death from the Strive soundtrack in particular suffer from inaccurate lyrics circling online.
I think it’d be cool if you did an analysis on I-No’s theme “Requiem” and/or Baiken’s theme “Mirror of the World”, since they’re both characters with a lot of story behind them and is reflected in their songs The only thing with Baiken’s theme is that the lyric video from the channel you got Bridget’s theme from got some parts of Baiken’s song wrong since it was uploaded before the official lyrics were released so just a heads up that you might wanna look somewhere else for the lyrics if you do look into her theme!
It’s really interesting to see you interpret this song without the context of Bridget being trans - I’d say you got about as close as could reasonably be expected given that! I do think that in addition to a heavy focus on dysphoria the song does more broadly relates to everything you said as well.
Bridget is the reason I started playing guilty gear and fell in love with fighting games as a genre. She is the second time in 19 years of playing video games I've ever gotten to play a trans girl and it's amazing to finally feel like there are characters that are representative of me. also I'm sure you've gotten this but the video you're watching didn't get the right words it's "be without me" and "I did not even mind it", not "me without me" and "I did not even like it"
I really hope you can do more gg and especially strive in the future. Strive is probably especially interesting for you since all the songs also have lyrics and their meanings to analyze. Keep up the good work!
I'm here for Marco exploring fighting games and their characters and music. Can't wait for more Guilty Gear and what other fighting games he'll check out.
Hey Marco, I've been watching since you listened to the AC tracks and been a huge fan since. Love seeing you growing on the platform as well as your success in Genshin. I hope to see you in alot more projects in the future. I was also quite excited to see you playing and enjoying Destiny 2. You should really react to the track "The Fanatic" from the Forsaken DLC. It is absolutely amazing and hope you enjoy it as well.
Ohh I'd love to hear what manic conclusion you'd come to on "Faust's" theme. I do not remember the name of the top of my head, something infection I believe
guilty gear has such amazing ost's, strive in particular has been great. I fully recommend Let me carve your way and Hellfire, both are great tracks that do an even better job of articulating the characters emotions.
Marco, bit of a warning/something to keep in mind with the gg strive soundtrack: it ages like fine wine. I only liked 30-40% of the songs on my first listen, now I own the whole soundtrack. So, go ahead and do your initial reaction, and if it doesn't hit for you, you may want to consider another pass at the lyrics on your own after seeing the lore. The more you know, the better the songs get. Keep up the good work, man!
When I was playing against Bridget as Faust, I hit her with a wheelchair, and I swear he said "Sorry"
My heart broke.
Sorry L*berals, you mean to tell me she has an entire town inside of her? Ridiculus. Since a person is definetly, without a doubt, smaller than an entire town; Unless she is actively bending space-time that just isnt possible. And if she were, the gravitational effects would absolutely destroy her body.
-Shen Bapiro
You're telling me a trans woman fried this apartment building?
You expect me to believe that a shrimp fried this rice?
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congrats, you got me for 0.5s
Thanks Shen Bapiro
Marco on his way to explore the world of Guilty Gear and it's characters
The characters:
Millia - Has a story about accepting who she is
Ino - Is about spending all of your life trying to find something but never actually living
Leo - Is dealing with the horrors of war and PTSD
Chipp - American ninja that's a recovering drug addict
Sol Badguy - Wife gone. Regret. On a constant loop
ngl, kinda spoilery
@@cristodemonte1690 Wrong, Potemkin tldr is just, "SOCIETY"
Almost word for word from bricky's review. Try to look into them yourself, you'd be surprised
@@spirto1279 Correct
Wait, wasn't she supposed to be a boy who was forced into pretending to be a girl?
One of my favorite things about this song is how the lyrics indirectly reference Bridget avoiding facing the fact she's trans, every time she comes close to that bit of self reflectance in the song it ends with an "I-" then cuts to a random thought to interrupt itself in a very jarring way. Then, when we hit the second half of the song it stick to the theme of finding peace at the end (similar to character themes like Zato's) and bridget accepts herself and begins solving the issues the song initially lays out such as the "Gray Haze."
Another element that's noteworthy is that the further into the song you go, the quieter "I'm the one to blame" is sung, until it very nearly disappears into the swell of the music. The more sure of herself Bridget becomes, the more that inner voice of self-recrimination gets drowned out by the joy of her convictions.
It's drowned out, but never quite gone, which is pretty accurate to anything like disphoria, depression, anxiety and impostor syndrome. It's always gonna be there but that doesn't mean you gotta listen to it.
At the end, it's straight-up replaced by "I can feel the light even after the sun goes down", showing hope for her future instead of that cloud of self-doubt
And you wanna know what?
It's reminiscent of Ky's song, "Hoping to fill the world with all kinds of light"
AND HE'S THE ONE WHO HELPED GUIDE BRIDGET
Imma cry now
You start out denying it constantly and blaming yourself. And at the end your accepting who you are but that sense of doubt never fully goes away. It's just alot less ..
Yeah like tell me this song isn't about overcoming gender dysphoria.. xD
"It wasn't hard to move on. I didn't hate it, but I did not even like it"
Refers to her trying out being a boy. It wasn't "hard" and she didn't hate it but she prefers being a girl.
HOLY CRAP, IT'S BRISKET
The best part is this song is how it kind of sounds like the singer is holding back from being louder in certain points. It's like Bridget is nearly hitting her breakthrough but pulls back to stay in what she knows is safe.
It isn't until the bridge (heh) that the singer finally starts to get loud. The song even starts to sound like the other more energetic songs at the end with the electric guitar finally playing loud and proud, showing how she finally accepts who she is and is confident to take those steps as the woman she is
Also haha trans yoyo girl go BRRR
Yikes
@@sgtsage2 wdym yikes? It is beautiful really
@@sgtsage2 clown
@@sleepynova4840 ur mom and existence
Another cool detail: the line 'I'm the one to blame' gets progressively weakened as the song progresses. Its first instance is very pronounced, but as the track itself picks up momentum and more instruments are added, it slowly becomes harder to parse along the explosive chaos of the instrumentation, until it becomes completely drawn out by it. A really cool way of showing how much Bridget's view of herself is defined by fear and how difficult she finds it to accept her identity, until she reaches the point where she doesn't want fear to dictate her life anymore and decides to live true to herself and come out, letting out all her pent-up emotions at once.
Just a small note: some of the confusion from the lyrics comes from this video being an early transcription before the lyrics were officially released. What was transcribed as "Me without me" should actually be "Be without me, I'm the one to blame," further expressing her reluctance to return home at least at that time
NOOOOOO that actually makes me so upset because I love the line "Me without me"
@@Nikowo1610agreed
Nooooo "me without me" hit so darn hard it's like a perfect description of what it's like ...
Where are you getting that "be without me?" Every source I can find on the lyrics says "me without me."
@@Darke_Exelbirth in the guilty gear wiki the last me without me is be without me. The rest is still me without me.
That's actually really funny, hearing you recite the lyrics. I had never realized just how conversational the lyrics to this were.
This song is great. It definitely does a good job of representing Bridget's inner turmoil; a big part of her character in the earlier games was her trying to forge her own identity. As of Strive she's accepted that she's a woman, but on her own terms. You can see that journey reflected in the lyrics; "always had the gift, just had to open up the box" etc.
Honestly I don't like Bridgets story it doesn't strike me as them finding themselves it strikes me more as "gaslighting wins"
Bridget was forced to be a girl since they were a child because of a insane superstition held by the village. That two boys born as twins means one is a monster and bad luck. So they raised Bridget as a girl.
Every time Bridget didn't do something in the role they were assigned they were treated like garbage. Told they were a curse or bad luck and ostracized unless they acted their role. And they took it with a smile on their face. Until one day they figure that maybe if they go out and become a bounty hunter and try to bring fortune to their town they would be accepted for who they were. That they were not a monster or curse or bad luck but Bridget.
But no matter what they did no matter how much they succeeded they were always treated the same. The town inside them still called them horrible things...unless...they submit. They accept what everyone tells them to be. They can be Bridget that the town wants.
I know I'll get hate for this perspective but it just doesn't jive with the rest of their tale. At least to me.
@@NameIsDoc Totally get what you mean, it's just not a good metaphor for what they were trying to do. You could introduce a new character and make a much better story for that kind of thing, but using Bridgett ain't it.
Feels forced and weird, and definitely not a good ending.
@@anap1680 they made him trans in strive
@@NameIsDoc I'm trans, I don't hate your perspective, but I do disagree. Her parents were concerned that they were forcing her to be a girl, that's a real concern, and it's definitely NOT a GOOD THING.
(Frankly letting a kid decide, for the time being, how they present themselves is the way to go. Kids grow and learn, when they figure out what they are, they could just say so, and if they change their mind later, they could communicate that also. No big stakes. Life's weird enough without others dictating complex parts of your identity to you.)
But... Bridget is transgender. And life's messy like that, really often. In my own journey, it was very difficult to tell what I was, I had to look inward a lot, look at my history, what influenced me, and the way I felt about it all. It took years, and I was in denial for a long, long time.
I was patient, y'know? I waited until I was older, certain that these feelings would sort themselves out when I grew a beard, or got taller. But for a while, I was sure I just had body image problems, or was just stressed out. I really convinced myself "It's my stress, that's for sure."
And I mean, it wasn't hard to be a guy, I guess. I thought I didn't hate it, but just... didn't like it. Instead, it was just uncomfortable. Like, it wasn't... me. Just not who I am. I looked in the mirror and just felt... gross. No matter what I did to make myself look better, It always felt wrong to me. Figuring out who I am was a struggle, and finding out I was a woman deep down was a real eye opener.
So, speaking as a trans woman, my perspective is really different from yours. I'm not what people told me to be, far from it. I was told to grow a pair and be more manly, my whole life. It takes a lot of courage to just openly declare who you are, and doubly so if you've got a problem like Bridget, where it's hard to discern where others imposed view of who you are IS who you are or not. Idk what the point I'm trying to make here is, I just hope you can appreciate the other side to this. It's a lot of emotion to handle.
@@NameIsDoc I just think we need to consider all of the people who are "born" boys, raised as boys, and continue to be boys. We wouldn't consider them gaslit if they continue to be boys on their own terms- so why would Bridget be gaslit if she continues to be a woman on her own terms?
what i love most about the song, knowing bridget's story is in part about her transition, is how well it just...nails the concept of dysphoria. a lot of media depicts it as this constant, soul-crushing pain of being in the wrong body, but "it's like vegetables i don't like " or "i hate the alarm clock i chose" is just...really damn close. just something discomforting, constantly, that you don't really recognize you have a choice in. same for the lines "me without me" and the repetition of the grey haze. you kinda just...drift through life, feeling like an observer of your body, before realizing that you can change, the sky doesn't have to be grey.
(sidenote: transitioning affects a lot of things but a common description from trans women on how it affects their emotional state is "it's like everything went from black and white to seeing in full color")
It still amazes me how Daisuke was able to make such an actually fucking perfect trans narrative. I have legit never seen any trans character have a more accurate yet complex story. It's beautiful.
@@penlordnt AND HER CHARACTER DESIGN
OH MY GOD IT'S SO PERFECT
LITERALLY EMPHASIZES WHAT SHE LIKES ABOUT HERSELF (Waist, hair, thighs(?)) AND DEMPHASIZES WHAT SHE DOESN'T (Shoulders, neck, arms)
@@zeldas_her080 I am still shocked that a cis dude made what is basically perfect trans rep.
@@zeldas_her080and the ribbon like I literally did that before
@@deethwarrior SAME (well, used a belt, but same diff-)
for Bridget's story. She was born in a british village (yes, she is inherently cringe) that thinks having twins of same gender is an omen that the family will be financially demolished. Well, her family raise her as a girl, and after a while she becomes a bounty hunter to prove the village curse wrong. At this point, she thinks she's a boy. Then Strive comes along with it's arcade mode. In it, she's clearly having some kind of a mental crisis. At the end of the arcade she full on transitions And says she's a woman.
He ❤
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@@AA-cf4esyou lost, let it go.
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@@AA-cf4esCringe alert
Strive’s music is so varied, which is necessary to fit the wildly diverse roster. This one certainly has one of the better stories within, on top of being incredibly catchy. When you learn that Bridget determines she’s a girl at the end of her story mode in this game, a lot of the lyrics become more poignant. Hope to see more guilty gear on the channel soon!
This is incorrect. Bridget refers to himself as "otokonoko" (男の子; male) and "otokonoko" (男の娘; girly male). This term is used in reference to both gender and sex. Both terms are used for him by Japanese developes and by him in game. In the game, he refers to himself as an "otokonoko" (男の娘; girly male). So he is a boy, albeit a girly one. The Japanese website for Strive specifically uses the word "seibetsu" (性別; gender) in reference to him being an "otokonoko" (男の子; male). So Strive states his gender is male. In the Strive game, Stage 1 ending (heart lose), he directly states he's a boy, in Japanese and English. In Stage 1 (flawless win), he directly states he's a boy, in Japanese and English. Stage 8 (Stage 7 heart lose) was a mistranslation. This is where Westerners claim he is a girl. In the Japanese version, he does not state he is actually girl. Goldlewis throughout the game kept on mistaking him for a girl and called him a girl. Bridget corrects him repeatedly. In the later stages, Bridget gets tired of correcting him and when Goldlewis, again, calls Bridget a girl and Goldlewis tries correcting himself, but Bridget reassures him by saying "お嬢ちゃんでいいですよ" (translation: "I don't mind [being called] a young lady) and then adds "別は女の子ですから" (translation 1: since according to you I'm a girl, or translation 2: apart from that [since I was raised as a girl] I am like a girl"]. Bridget's confusion and stress over his identity in Strive is because he finally accomplished what he always wanted to, that being he finally proved that him being a boy twin was never a curse like his village thought, and now that this part of his life is over, he doesn't know what to do with himself. Bridget says he's a boy in the correct Japanese version.
@@VanceAsagi Have you, perhaps, considered looking at this from every angle? The fact of the matter, from what I understand, is that the devs themselves have confirmed that she is a young lady. To be honest with you, your comment rubs me the wrong way and comes off as being transphobic. I don't know if this was your intention, as I am not you, but I want you to know that this is the perception that I have. I hope you take this to heart and perhaps learn a lesson on how you phrase things.
@@VanceAsagi no one cares
@@VanceAsagi "After the events of Bridgett's story in arcade mode, she self-indentifies as a woman. So, as to whether 'He' or 'She' would be the correct pronoun for Bridget, the answer would be 'She'" -Daisuke Ishiwatari (Lead Designer since the inception of Guilty Gear), Developer Backyard 11.
I can and will read off the direct Japanese page for the same backyard and painstakingly translate each word if you don't trust the localization team here.
@@VanceAsagi COOOOOOOOOOPE
She's a girl.
I would love it if you reacted to Zato's theme "Let me Carve your way" in Guilt Gear Strive.
on my list
Me screaming at the top of my lungs while crying: "I ONCE HAD SOME, SWEET MEMORIEEEEEESSS!!!!"🎶
@@undertonetm7692 u know its a good song when u lose your voice singing it
Zato's theme is easily the heaviest song,once you realize it is basically an entire mental breakdown
Your telling me there's a whole town inside this brisket?
THE GAL! ✨💖✨
The jam is completely an inseparable part of the character.. its such a perfect fit, and a total earworm 💙
I've never been a massive guilty gear player, I usually don't play many pvp games at all, but Guilty Gear's art direction, characters and music is just absolutely breathtaking. The heavy guitars that accompany many of the songs are amazing, but when Bridget came out this theme instantly became my favourite, both because it's just so different but also just perfectly conveys Bridget's emotion and confusion as to what to do in life. I may be legally an adult, but i'm very much still a child and this songs just feels warm and fuzzy to me.
As always man, thanks for bringing more people to these amazing tracks and thanks for reminding me every time of how much I love video game music
You should totally do Faust's Alone Infection, Potemkin's Armor-cladded Faith, hard to believe these songs are in the same game. Honestly all of the character theme from strive is their own story, from Happy Chaos who only cares about one thing, Axl Low who's moved on cause he understands his own situation and is contempt with it, or I-no who's still struggling to come to terms with hers in complete contrast to Axl Low. Or Leo who the entire community memes on for being a gorilla while his theme is literally a glorified suicide note.
It's hard to believe Zato's theme is the same song
Just waiting till he listens to Drift
My favorite thing about this song is that as it progresses, it gets more and more upbeat. It really makes it feel like we're tagging along with Bridget on her journey of self-discovery.
I love how the song is a bout the struggle for identity and it’s reflected by the instruments e.g: orchestral instruments when Bridget works out what her problem was and acoustic during the build up as though the song itself is struggling with what genre it is but eventually these two parts unify when Bridget accepts everything in the lyrics
Bridget's theme is a hard one to pin down because the experience it describes is far from common, the gray haze, the me without me, for those who felt it before it feels as real as it can, it's why the Trans community attached big time not only to the character but the theme as well
The Strive soundtrack did a killer job with the characterization on the theme songs for each character, either telling their story (Potemkin, Ramlethatl), fleshing out their character and innermost thoughts (Leo, I-no), or showing where their mind is at now (Jack-O, Testament)
It is ABSURD how well this song makes transpeople relate considering Daisuke himself isn't trans. Somehow, his insight when writing this song is unreal for somebody who hasn't lived it himself.
@@LazzyVamples well he did say he related to testament a lot
This song instantly hit me in the feels as an autistic transfem (who probably has BPD lmao)
Nigga he's trans lmao
The trans community will not claim this song. Just because it's objectively a great song and I love it doesn't make me an ally. Cope
To me, The Town Inside Me reflects Bridget's journey through Guilty Gear Strive. She left her home and lived as a man in response to the expectations and perceptions of the people around her. After becoming a successful bounty hunter and proving her village's superstition wrong, she still feels unfulfilled. Her journey in Strive is her coming to the realization that she was and is actually happier being a girl.
A trans anthem for a trans icon. I love everything about this song.
The sense of vague anxiety that she can't put a finger on, interjecting and interrupting herself with various different possible explanations. It's just stress. I'm not eating right. My alarm clock's been getting on my nerves.
She feels distant from the people around her and herself. "Me without me." Who she is was entirely shaped by other people. She had no say in it.
The repeated insistence that It's Fine, Actually! It could be worse! It's not *hard*, being who she's told she is. She's not really suffering. But she's not *happy*, either.
She could *be* happy. She has everything she needs to do it. She just has to go through with it. Open that box. Choose.
And that's the emotional arc of the song, reflected in the relatively somber start climbing to a vibrant, bombastic finish. Bridget chooses to be happy. Her doubts dwindle to a whisper compared to the sheer bombastic delight of finding herself! She has chosen to be who she is, not who people expect her to be or not to be, and those expectations will never again have any hold on her.
I was going to make a comment, but you covered everything way better than I could.
You put it wonderfully. 💖🏳️⚧️
Great com my friend ! in addition you can see who she is afraid of returning to the village, because if she is girl, this mean the prophety was true and the village could return as it was with his mysticism.
I really like they implement that in the song too.
The way you put that is not far off how I described dealing with gender dysphoria in my own life
Each character track plays as you fight with them, so when I was finding who I wanted to play, picking Bridget and this absolut bop that is so different from the rest of the cast felt so nice! I fell in love.
My favorite 60$ album that comes with a free fighting game.
If you're doing Guilty Gear songs I'd recommend listening to all (or at least 2 of) the themes of the characters, as many have more than one. You'll be able to hear the evolution in character in many of them, as their stories have developed over the years and the music reflects it.
For example Ramlethal has Diva of Despair from Xrd and Necessary Discrepancy from Strive.
Anyway, great to see you covering Guilty Gear, it was a matter of time.
Bridget being confirmed as a canon trans girl with her new story and also this song was such a wonderful thing when it happened. I did a thread about it on twitter talking about how the lyrics to this song specifically make SO MUCH SENSE if you're trans or familiar with trans experiences. Her whole life is this journey going from being who others wanted her to be to finding out who she really is and living as herself. Loved this video and looking forward to hearing your thoughts on more guilty gear songs! Transfem Bridget forever!
It's full of twists and turns. Maybe it's the bad translations back in the day, or the wonky story modes that weren't really giving up much info compared to Xrd and Strive. Cause to me, it felt like Bridget JUST wanted the town to accept him as a him for the safety of his family before Strive. Bridget is a teen though, motivations and feelings can change quite quickly, or even just be understood differently. So I won't say something like Bridget can't be a girl, cause the long canon says so. She's strong enough to be whatever she feels like.
@@zetsumeinaito To me, it seemed like Bridget coming to terms with being a trans woman was the moment she truly freed herself from the town's expectations. Before, she constantly asserted that she was a "super masculine dude" as a form of rebellion, but she continued presenting as feminine despite those assertions. In Strive, she's realized that by repressing her feelings about her identity, she's still allowing the town's expectations to control her, in a way.
I think that it's a really touching piece of character writing, and it was really sad to see a lot of people call it "bad writing."
@@sushiroll3795 I get ya. I just have a hard time explaining things properly. I feel overtime, my wordsmithing of Bridget's situation has gotten more understandable.
The short is she achieved her goal of recognition. Without that stress, she was afforded the time to self reflect and actualize herself.
Not trans. That would defeat his entire character arc. The writer just got pressured by activists to make the politically correct statement
@@autumnlotus6250 Guilty Gear already had three queer characters before Bridget was revealed to be a trans woman. Daisuke wasn't "pressured" to make this decision, homie.
Bridget actually has support from a couple characters that basically act as dads for her
The game is very wholesome
A couple characters who are the US Secretary of Defense and the king of Europe.
I think just about every song in Guilty Gear Strive is either an exploration of a character's emotions/anxieties, an explanation of their story, or a combination of the two. Definitely an OST worth listening to (majority of it is hard rock/metal though)
I have just started listening to that song nearly non-stop yesterday what in the heck is this kinda coincidence? I didn't even vote for it or anything.
Very pog
May's Theme "Disaster of Passion" is equally as poppy, and you're just bringing me back to the year this game dropped and I just kept listing to its ost anytime it popped into my head! lol
And perfection couldn't please me
Time for armor-clad faith
When asking what musical genre guilty gear has the answer is "all of the above."
So your interpretation of thr lyrics seems to be pretty great overall, but the story you read only covers Bridget's story through Guilty Gear XX ^Core+R. Bridget did not make an appearance in the game between that and Strive, but her story in Strive adds a new depth to the song IMO, as it's in Strive that she finally accepts and acknowledges her identity as a trans woman, with one scene where she asks another character for advice about coming out and another where she comes out to a character who had been helping her through part of the story.
The line that really sticks out to me is "I'm not waiting for Santa Claus / I've already got the gift, just can't open the box". This line makes me feel that this is a song about finding yourself and your place, but also about Bridget's struggles to come put and be honest with herself and others about her identity.
Edit to add:
Also, FYI, the most "poppy" songs remaining would definitely be "Disaster of Passion" and "Perfection can't please me", while the most Heavy Metal song is probably "Alone Infection" (I'd still love to see you try to make sense of it, but it may not be your style).
Disaster of Passion is almost exactly Don't Stop Me Now by Queen, it's absolutely a rock song.
I love when the guitar from her original theme (simple life) kicks in. Such a blast of nostalgia.
This song is particularly strong for me, the kinds of struggles this song tackles feels particularly specific to my life experience as a trans person and a lot of the structure of the song itself communicates some really complex and difficult feelings pretty well. I won't go on a long rant about personal life experiences and such, but it is very distinctly a trans coming of age song and mirrors a lot of personal things I've done and have been through. Despite only being a pretty casual GG fan, I connect a lot with Bridget, and I think this theme does a lot to carry that connection! I even found myself tearing up a touch towards the end of the song, it's just oddly personal despite being a fun and pop-y song.
This song came out around the same time I finally realized I was trans.. and it hit me like a fucking stack of bricks as bridget goes and sings my entire life story to me
He summoned the tran with this song lmfao(its me i am one of the traaaans)
Speaking as a 30 year old trans woman who has spent the last 13 years trying, failing, trying again, and finally gleaning who exactly the fuck I am, this song, and Bridget's existence, and Daisuke's continued stressing that she IS trans, and her story through the game has led her to this point, it's all so fucking important. Not just for people like me, who have spent close to half our lives trying to figure out who we are based on what other people expect from us, but also for all the younger trans kids, or kids who might be questioning their identity, to let them know that sometimes it's NOT what everyone else around you is telling you.
This song, this character, her entire story is teaching the viewer that no amount of outside influence from either side can tell you who you really are, that it's something you need to figure out for yourself, through experimentation, and failure, and grief, and finally, if or WHEN you finally figure out who you are, that moment of pure euphoria in yourself.
As someone who is trans, I relate to this song so much
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I like how the chorus changes every single time is played, almost like how a teenager keeps exploring their personality to find themselves and who they are.
He was forced to listen The Town Inside Me
This song always makes me tear up, especially when the full instrumental comes in. You can hear the joy that she's found. Also I like that the last "I'm the one to blame" is faded out like she no longer thinks that and is actively pushing the thought out of her head.
YES! Please Marco you gotta do all of Strive's character themes. All bangers
If you want another pop song in Guilty Gear, Disaster of Passion, which is May's Strive theme, is a very traditionally pop song, but you can still hear just a bit of the Guilty Gear edge hidden inside of it. For Strive they really expanded the type of music they wanted to do for the soundtrack, which gets you things that flow all over the spectrum. The craziest one being "Drift", Happy Chaos' theme, which is like 5 or 6 songs in one. It's WILD!
it's kinda funny how much Bridget's theme is just like "OH." when you learn that she's trans now, LOL
Getting home from work to this....I guess eating can wait. Marco should take a gander at Testament's theme, love what Arcsys did with them.
I love how the tiktok on this video summoned every transfem
Aw man, I'm so happy you are listening to guilty gear songs
i just found out that Bridget doesn't eat her vegetables, this must be Roger's doing
The character is gold Lewis
Guilty Gear Strive has a fantastic OST full of great songs. My absolute favorite has to be Baiken's theme Mirror of the World.
When the shamisen hits different
Strive is a fantastic music album, and the game that they included with it is so amazing too.
Yes! been waiting for a guilty gear song to come on for so long now. personally i think Hellfire and Love the Subhuman Self are fantastic if you're going to explore more ggst music.
YES YES YES I've been loving Marco's channel the last few weeks and been wondering if GG would ever be featured.
I'm really happy now
More to come!
It is DEFINETL Y worth looking into the STRIVE soundtrack! Please keep them coming! :D
such a banger, been stuck in my head for a while
God i have been waiting for this, strives music is amazing hope you can do more of it
Trans Rights
I'm here for this, big here for this
I never expected this here but I'm so excited xD
Basically, the theme of Guilty Gear and most of the characters conflicts can be boiled down to, as Sol's newest theme declares, "Don't melt in the world! Find your own way!"
Everyone in it has a conflict of identity. Milia learning to accept herself, Ky trying to be the right kind of ruler, Jack-o conflicting with who she's "supposed" to be, Baikan searching for where she belongs in the world, In-0 having a constant existential crisis because of what she's seen, and Potemkin reaffirming his own beliefs. I could go into how it plays into the campaigns, but we'd be here a while.
Absolutely. That is a consistent theme with so many variations across the franchise, and handled extremely well. Glad to see others taking the same joy I have in it.
I’ve got time
Brisket my beloved
wow I was literally listening to this song right as this got uploaded LOL
You really should look into more of the character's themes!
They all summ up their stories to the pointof where they are now, and they're all absolutely amazing. Thanks to the amazing producer Daisuke Ishiwatari.
I’m glad you’re getting into the Guilty Gear stuff now! I don’t know how many months back you asked what to check out on Twitter and I happily hopped in suggesting it, but it’s definitely a hell of a ride getting into the current stuff from xrd and strive. Glad you enjoyed it, looking forward to more!
I love this song sm, its such a vibe, and the trans coded lyrics are gorgeous
I love the way the lyrics change in tone as it goes on, especially given I read "The Town" to be social pressure - at first its almost a sense of sad acceptance - I'm not there, just watching from afar because I can't change the way society's pressures affect me. But when it becomes hopeful the meaning changes - I'm not there, just watching from afar because it doesn't matter what society thinks of me - I'll be who I am anyway.
Radical as usual!
Drift (Happy Chaos Theme)
I am so happy you did bridget theme
I love that you did the lyrics to this I was playing the arcade mode yesterday and Bridget herself to one of the other characters mentions that she is a boy
Heaven or Hell, fight!
Whats great about the "I'm the one to blame" line is that during the final use of it, when Bridget has accepted who she is, it's extremely quiet and drowned out by her new way of thinking, and shows how she's learned to stop blaming herself.
Excited for more GG 🏳️⚧️trans rights🏳️⚧️
I too support transformers
@@chibiemo100 Jesus fucking Christ, you atleast try hitting the nail.
@@chibiemo100 who is?
@@chibiemo100 nazi man has been here
how can you tell?
k-on pfp
@@sirrhosis4638Transformers support transgender too! Pog
While staying close to rock, Guilty Gear has a great variety of influences in it's music that are all worth exploring. Daisuke does a great job at representing each character's style and personality through music and the decision of having lyrics for every theme in Guilty Gear Strive pushed that to another level. Can't wait for you to hear some of the slower rock ballads and the more unusual stuff Guilty Gear has in store.
Also when it comes to lyrics, you should refer to the Guilty Gear wiki or better yet the official booklet from the soundtrack's physical release. Perfection Can't Please Me and The Kiss of Death from the Strive soundtrack in particular suffer from inaccurate lyrics circling online.
I definitely recommend Drift, it is very chaotic in a good way, it goes from swing to metal to orchestral
He did listen to that one: it was during his 1 year anniversary livestream.
I just have to say, that is a Glorious Beard you have my good sir.
I WAS W8ING FOR THIS ONE LESGOOOO
I think it’d be cool if you did an analysis on I-No’s theme “Requiem” and/or Baiken’s theme “Mirror of the World”, since they’re both characters with a lot of story behind them and is reflected in their songs
The only thing with Baiken’s theme is that the lyric video from the channel you got Bridget’s theme from got some parts of Baiken’s song wrong since it was uploaded before the official lyrics were released so just a heads up that you might wanna look somewhere else for the lyrics if you do look into her theme!
PLEASE, hear the song Necessary Discrepancy from the OST!
I love the "i hate the alarm clock i chose" line it hits soo hard
It’s really interesting to see you interpret this song without the context of Bridget being trans - I’d say you got about as close as could reasonably be expected given that! I do think that in addition to a heavy focus on dysphoria the song does more broadly relates to everything you said as well.
Bridget is the reason I started playing guilty gear and fell in love with fighting games as a genre. She is the second time in 19 years of playing video games I've ever gotten to play a trans girl and it's amazing to finally feel like there are characters that are representative of me.
also I'm sure you've gotten this but the video you're watching didn't get the right words it's "be without me" and "I did not even mind it", not "me without me" and "I did not even like it"
Who was the other character?
OHHH YEESS GUILTY GERU DES
bro I saw the thumbnail of your last video and thought I saw Bridget and now this lmao
😊😊😊😊💝💕❤💕trans good
Brisket
Lightfall ost is out and is full of fantastic tracks
I really hope you can do more gg and especially strive in the future. Strive is probably especially interesting for you since all the songs also have lyrics and their meanings to analyze. Keep up the good work!
Amazing that this drops right as I'm also getting into Guilty Gear music. How fortuitous
Well now you got to see the rest of the ost
this song has nice little meaning if you know Bridgets story
may i remind you... there is a town inside that little brisket
*slaps Bridget's roof* this mf can fit an entire town inside of her.
She's got some good maneuverability for that type of character you can even throw the yo-yo and move around the screen with it
I'm here for Marco exploring fighting games and their characters and music. Can't wait for more Guilty Gear and what other fighting games he'll check out.
Hey Marco, I've been watching since you listened to the AC tracks and been a huge fan since. Love seeing you growing on the platform as well as your success in Genshin. I hope to see you in alot more projects in the future. I was also quite excited to see you playing and enjoying Destiny 2. You should really react to the track "The Fanatic" from the Forsaken DLC. It is absolutely amazing and hope you enjoy it as well.
im getting to my mid-20s this year, and i still feel like this i have no clue what the f--- i wanna do with my life
Ohh I'd love to hear what manic conclusion you'd come to on "Faust's" theme.
I do not remember the name of the top of my head, something infection I believe
Alone Infection
guilty gear has such amazing ost's, strive in particular has been great. I fully recommend Let me carve your way and Hellfire, both are great tracks that do an even better job of articulating the characters emotions.
Marco, bit of a warning/something to keep in mind with the gg strive soundtrack: it ages like fine wine. I only liked 30-40% of the songs on my first listen, now I own the whole soundtrack. So, go ahead and do your initial reaction, and if it doesn't hit for you, you may want to consider another pass at the lyrics on your own after seeing the lore. The more you know, the better the songs get. Keep up the good work, man!