Love that by the end, the lyrics switch to plural (“Let’s journey together”/“We’re just quirky notes in a symphony”) to symbolise Paracelsus promising to stay with her and journey with her so she won’t be a lone single note in the world.
@@Yugiitsu Dude, I've read everything from that tag, it's so good, now I'm hungry again, I may not write anything but I'm thinking about drawing something for them
"I'm not here to fit in this world. I just want to make a difference.," In a song where the chorus is BLAH BLAH BLAH, Daisuke drops a deeply profound lyric. Incredible.
I think that’s a big part of why GG appeals SO intensely to me. I’m autistic, and I guess I always felt like this world wasn’t “built” for me. And here’s the cast of Guilty Gear: a bunch of fucking whackos, all striving (ha ha) to DO something. Have Hope, Be Free.
"Finally got marriage counseling with my key, now I'm still insane but okay with that" is probably one of the more normal character arcs in this series honestly Also, that drummer sounds like he got something personal against that set for how HARD he's beating it lol
@@nella544Actually, according to 8bitdrummer’s comment section, they’re using midi here. as for why I don’t remember, but it would probably have to be for time constraint reasons. On live stages they did get a drummer though.
I absolutely fucking love the pace of this song, how the tempo and tone shifts to be faster as if aba and para are getting more confident in each other
i love that this messed up character has such a powerful song about accepting how weird you are and that you have your beloved friend or lover that accepts you as how you are guilty gear ladies and gentlemen
Fun Fact about A.B.A., she originally appeared in the spin-off game Guilty Gear Isuka and got ported to XX. Her theme in Isuka was Quicksilver and in XX it was Keep In Gates, both composed by Masaomi Kikuchi. Strive makes it the first time her theme was done by Ishiwatari himself
And even wilder then that, she wasn't even DESIGNED by Daisuke himself...instead she was the baby and the first real character design of legendary fighting game god Mori Toshimichi...the man who would make Blaze blue. Its why Aba seems so different and the line 'quirky note' hits so hard. She really is a 'quirky note' in that she is Mori Toshimichi's baby first and foremost. A 'blazblue character before blaze blue'. Given how the lyrics are and how Mori famously left Arc Systems Works after the failure of a blaze blue mobile game...I want to imagine this song is Daiske wishing Mori love and respect given they grew up together and famously got into gamedev because of their love a unnamed-to-this-day girl in college.
@@kyokyodisaster4842 That's not true, it's a common misconception but there's literally no proof that Mori designed ABA. Everything points to her being designed by Daisuke like almost every other character in the series.
And later, when the song starts using plural (to represent her being with Paracelsus) it says "LOVE is a maze woven with words, let's shout-shout, let's shout-shout, let's shout-shout-shout", which is also incredibly clever to turn the lyrics from before upside down
dude that part kicks so much ass. OWN YOURSELF. be unapologetic yourself. screw the social norms thats says money, women, and status equals happiness. screw social conventions. Rock and roll is all about challenging the norm
"I'm not here to fit in this world, I'm just here to make a difference' is such a profound quote that I love dearly. I mean, it feels so perfect and just makes me fall in love with it. That quote alone makes the song into my most favorite of all.
@@TheQuilavaQueenLol what? Paracelsus got her to listen to him and they both admitted their faults and mutual toxicity, and resolved to restart their relationship with honesty. He even showed he was listening to her and cared by changing into her favourite color to reassure her that they both CAN change for the better.
I love how "I'm not here to fit in this world" quotes a part from The Wall about the way our systems stifle and crush invididuality and humanity. Hell yeah A.B.A. do your freaky thing.
Only Guilty Gear songs are able to make me go from headbanging to reflect on where my life choices has taken me to and vice versa, all in the same song. Truly magical
Many songs in Guilty Gear Strive remind me of the "Spy Kids" and "Sharkboy and Lavagirl" films. One moment you have the most profound phrases possible that make you reflect on life and other times you have things like "BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH"
Holy shit, I just realized that A.B.A is one of the few times someone used the definition of jealousy correctly! Jealousy is the fear that someone is going to take someting you have, while envy is deeply wanting something that someone else has.
A.B.A feels like if I (and maybe other people with OCD can relate to this) was just to let every intrusive thought manifest. In my experience with therapy, you’re told to let a discomforting thought, like not holding the door open for someone, happen and to brave your anxiety. It’s meant to show you that even if that distressing thought occurred, you’ll be ok. So, something about A.B.A being ok, being motivated to make a difference, really resonates with me. I feel empowered by this song, and how it expresses A.B.A’s personality, her determination to keep moving forward.
Daisuke: Okay, and then I want a bossa nova Pink Floyd break in the middle and OOO! a ragtime reprise for the outro! rest of the metal band: *visible confusion*
@@richieco4624 Enjoyment is fine. But saying "top 3" is a qualitative statement beyond just saying they enjoy it, so its perfectly reasonable for people to bring up contrasting viewpoints at that point.
People talking about ‘blah blah blah blah’ being erroneous while missing the point of a song about the value of words and what their meanings impose. Classic GG community.
It's also comedy. Jokes are far from a foreign concept to rock and metal, due to the writing styles both generally use. That being said it's still fun to make fun of it. That means said joke landed
@addison_v_ertisement1678 yes, but it's pretty difficult to make an argument against it without just saying "blah blah blah" is stupid. it sounds good from a musical standpoint, and is fitting from a songwriting standpoint. getting bothered by it feels like splitting hairs. then again, you don't even know the meaning of the word "erroneous", so i guess i can't expect too much from you.
Cloud, I’ve been watching your Guilty Gear Strive lyric videos for about three-ish years. I am so happy that I was able to assist you in providing footage for A.B.A’s lyric video. Thank you so much. 😀
As someone with autism, this song really speaks to me. Sometimes I don't feel like I'm part of this world. I feel like a quirky note in a symphony of people.
I agree with you. Im autostic too, and some times i felt impossible to comprehend, even for all the things i wanted to share with people. I Always felt lonely because this world and this society will Always treat us as mere tools without self, and this real problem will never be resolved. Because we love being selfless and idealess. Thats why i dont know how to go on now that im grown up. I Hope that you could understand how much people suffers to suffocate their true self for satisfy the hipocresy of our world and society.
Hearing this, I could swear Daisuke has a message to some of the players. If you like up some of the songs together it creates an overall message. To me it'd be 1.Necessary Discrepancy. 2. Symphony 3. Armor Clad Faith 4. Play the Hero. Line those up, and it creates a message to the NEET and hikikomori types. Which is something like "Go out, it can be painful, but to not is the same as death. Don't be hung up on conforming, and fight for yourself. Have faith, and try to help others."
its not really about neets specifically, like half of the soundtrack is about the whole cast feeling like a bunch of misfits and trying to find their place in the world. The entire theme of the game is characters striving towards something, whether to leave a path for others to follow, to build a better life for themselves, or to just make a difference. Plenty of people from all walks of life will find a way for this message to apply to them, the reason it works so well is the music explores the same general topic from many perspectives.
"Respect Loyalty Responsibility forges the armor Liberty Curiosity Compassion and Affection words weave a stealthy chain" this part of the lyrics went so hard in my opinion
@@dragonliIIyin an interview, Daisuke said she changed her hair because she discovered fashion. (Would like to add I honestly prefer the oxidation theory over the canon explanation, I love when writers geek out about things like science)
@@dragonliIIyNah devs directly debunked this in an interview with Rooflemonger. They thought it was a neat theory but the truth is simply ABA was experimenting with hair dyes now.
@@Elementroarwait I thought the oxidation “theory” was clearly just a joke, but I don’t know much about ABA. Is she really weird enough that “her hair was copper-based and now it’s got a patina” was a possible explanation?
It's a lot less obvious than Mariah and Amazing Grace in Extras, but the "Creepiness" bit of the chorus is musically quoting "Poison" by Bell Biv DeVoe, which is fittingly a song warning someone about a girl with a bunch of red flags, which... **Gestures at ABA** Also, I feel like not enough people are appreciating the wordplay of "Quirk-*key* note in the symphony."
Also wanna add that "i'm not here to fit in this world", Like a key that can't fit into a lock properly. And the "Break out, Break out" is relevant because she was locked up in a laboratory for like a decade. This whole song is just key analogies, I swear to god.
I really like this song, I like the distinction between more standard common virtues and the more traditionally negative ones claimed by the singer (presumably A.B.A and/or Paracelsus), which as time goes on both seem to come together towards the end with love becoming a maze as well. This song is both hope for one's ability to change and find connections to others, as well as a denial of conventional understandings of what one should be, and I think it's quite interesting. Even the commonly mentioned "blah-blah-blah"s are fun as they initially seem to be the incomprehensible expectations enforced on people, but towards the end as the singer and their companion join together they instead "shout" and form their own expectations for themselves. In that sense this song is not a rejection of boundaries, but instead a declaration of working together to create ones that actually relate to the subjects, and function on behalf of the involved parties
@@squill4883 He absolutely does. It’s well documented that Daisuke loves American Classic Rock and it’s referenced all over the place in Guilty Gear, both in the music and in many other things. Fun example, Sol Badguy, our main series protagonist, is actually named Frederick Bulsara. Sol Badguy was an alias he gave himself after becoming a Gear, referencing the title he had been branded with “The Corrupted Sun”. Frederick Bulsara is a reference to Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the rock band Queen, which is Daisuke’s favorite band. Freddie Mercury was a stage name, his birth name was Farrokh Bulsara, so Daisuke merged his birth name and stage name into one for Sol. In fact there’s Queen musical references all throughout the Strive Soundtrack. Drift, Happy Chaos’s theme, literally has a break in it that sounds like Bohemian Rhapsody.
@@ArmigusArsenal three things: 1: a small gripe, but it’s called the Flame of Corruption, not the Sun. 2: Axl Low is (rather blatantly) based off Axl Rose, the frontman for Guns ‘N’ Roses. 3: my dad mistook the song Freesia from GGXrd for an actual Queen song.
@@addison_v_ertisement1678Okay, i've seen you do nothing but complain in everyone's fucking comments. Besides, it's actually a bit smarter than that due to all of the allusions to keys and freedom. "I'm not here to fit in this world" is a double entendre for a key that can't fit in a lock correctly. The song is full of these.
The "I'm not here to fit in this world" at later parts like around the 5:00 mark sounds like Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall part on "we don't need your education". Cannot be an accident
This is probably gonna sound corny as fuck but whatever , I love this song so much I've been listening to it on repeat for months now and almost each time I get really emotional listening to it , something about the line "I'm not here to fit in this world , I'm just here to make a difference" really clicked with me and I honestly have no idea how to describe why , so yeah I teared up to a song containing the lyrics "blah blah blah" and now it sounds so silly
What I take from this song is... A.B.A is without a shadow of a doubt, completely and totally with no chance, desire or recognition... for being fixed................. good. "I am no here to fit in this world" the... sincerity of this statement is refreshing and inspiring in a way, don't know if A.B.A was ever "normal" in any point of her life, but if the GGST theme songs are the characters most deep and honest opinions and feelings... A.B.A has no desire to be "normal", she is perfectly and sincerily happy being herself. But at the same time... the rest of the song "hints" at a much bigger desire inside her, a desire to influence and affect the "world" around her.
Waited for this to be added on the GG playlist. And I'm glad a lot of people love the last line of the song. "I'm not here to fit in this world. I just want to make a difference."
This song is so incredibly written for something that just plays in the background of a fighting game. I love how this song is basically her justifying her insanity and in the process “making” us just as insane as she is. The song literally throws the dictionary out the window and says that what it said is irrelevant because all that matters is that you think you’re making a difference in the world, and whatever that difference is, is just a note in a symphony, and variation in what those differences are is what makes life beautiful.
This is quite possibly the closest to perfect a character theme can get in Strive. It is genuinely almost perfect. The entire track is the perfect balance of emotion, intensity and need I mention the ending? I don’t think you could make a more perfect ending to a song if you tried. I don’t think the devs will ever be able to top this.
4:35 this is sounds exactly like a mental breakdown feels like. Depression, confusion, frustration and anger all coming together until the only thing left is raw unfiltered emotion ripping away inside you trying to break out
This is the most relatable song in Strive to me, which is saying something. God Daisuke is a genius, how the fuck does this shit come out of that man's brain?
Everyone praises Daisuke's guitar skills. But can we also talk about how that amazing that drummer is? Especially at the beginning of the song before the lyrics play? That fast drumming give the guitar a lot more BOOM, and it sounds badass.
Aba looks like she pulled an all-nighter doing a dozen assignments she neglected to do until the last minute. Anyways, I main the shit out this character
yeah, I've watched another before this one came out but the lyrics didn't match with the sung words or were weird. Idk how Cloudrop doe sit, but they'r ethe only one who gets the lyrics right.
@@tgdevourerActually Clouddrop gets the lyrics wrong more often (for the DLCs). The S1 vids were made before official lyrics released, and we don't have official lyrics for most of the S2 and S3 songs. I think The Kiss of Death, Mirror of the World, and Just Lean have the most mistakes. The Gravity is just incomprehensible to everyone lol.
If you want more accurate lyrics, Capnbrooker makes good lyric videos too and updates them (for example we got some Just Lean lyrics from Naoki and they've been updated)
Oh that's cool they used an organ...wait, am I hearing BONGO DRUMS?! Also the drop of "freedom, freedom" with the guitar statement into the piano is peak music
I really like all the subtle allusions to alchemical concepts in her design. It’s cool! Also, Jesus woman, get some sleep! Your eye bags are worse than mine!
@@preceptorseluvis5704 admittedly, most all of my knowledge of alchemy comes from watching Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. A.B.A herself is a homunculus, a being created artificially through alchemy. The name “Hohenheim” is written on one of her sleeves, referencing a major figure in the history of alchemy. Furthermore, Paracelsus is the name of a French alchemist from the early 1500’s.
I was listening through the entire playlist on my way to spring break trip I didn’t even realize this was posted till it started playing a great surprise to start my vacation
This is personally my favourite song on the ost. Ofc most songs in strive slap, but there's just something about this one that I love so much. May be there's some bias because I love literally every aspect of this character and she was the reason I decided to pick up strive again, but honestly I think this song just slaps and I'm a sucker for piano.
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he really just opened a dictionary and started cooking
Sir that's his cook book :)
@@Hikariinu124 you mean my random dictionary was a cook book how dare you not warn me
The casserole of words
it was the bible
Nah actually the words are virtues of marriage and fits her lore.
Love that by the end, the lyrics switch to plural (“Let’s journey together”/“We’re just quirky notes in a symphony”) to symbolise Paracelsus promising to stay with her and journey with her so she won’t be a lone single note in the world.
It being after/accompanied by the wedding like music is also very fitting
I wish there were more fanfics exploring ABA and Para', they are very interesting characters and relationship, too bad it's almost non-existent.
@@maio0077 Okay, if they are almost non-existent, its time we put our pens to the test and write it ourselves
@@maio0077 they're some now!!:DD some of them really gets both characters right and it's amazing to read, can find some writings on ao3!!
@@Yugiitsu Dude, I've read everything from that tag, it's so good, now I'm hungry again, I may not write anything but I'm thinking about drawing something for them
"I'm not here to fit in this world. I just want to make a difference.,"
In a song where the chorus is BLAH BLAH BLAH, Daisuke drops a deeply profound lyric. Incredible.
It’s on brand for Daisuke, didn’t expect anything less than that.
WE GETTING KINGDOM HEARTS 4 EARLY BETA ON THIS ONE 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
You are talking about the same guy who writted "Are you brave enough to be a fool?" and "Rub-a dubba dubba ye-yeah!" in a same song
In what world is blah blah the chorus?
@@Halfwit_658 Naoki posted the lyrics
No way Daisuke found a way to give a key two belts.
This caused me to double back and look at their design and he _really_ did
"He can't keep getting away with it!"
@@addison_v_ertisement1678 We say that, but we all know deep down inside, _he will keep getting away with this_
With this DLC, we've copied Tetsuya Numora's character design tropes into one character!
(please keep in mind I love Numora's work.)
At first I thought this was a comment about music theory
It's funny we get the "quirky manic pixie dream girl" and the "insane lunatic ex girlfriend" in the same season
And the ultimate ladies' man on top of that
And now we get the loving husband to close the season
Back-to-back, no less.
@@discmanthecdlord Elphelt is very mentally stable how dare you….. >:(
yeah but she's not in the same season as potemkin so 0/10
"I'm not here to fit in this world, I just want to make a difference." describes most of the cast in Guilty Gear
"you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down"
And weirdly doesn't fit aba
It's just like fireworks.
They are very diverse and that's why they are great.
I think that’s a big part of why GG appeals SO intensely to me. I’m autistic, and I guess I always felt like this world wasn’t “built” for me. And here’s the cast of Guilty Gear: a bunch of fucking whackos, all striving (ha ha) to DO something.
Have Hope, Be Free.
"Finally got marriage counseling with my key, now I'm still insane but okay with that" is probably one of the more normal character arcs in this series honestly
Also, that drummer sounds like he got something personal against that set for how HARD he's beating it lol
Man must have ran a mile with those bass pedals
That set deserves a paid vacation to some tropical paradise after this abuse.
The drums owed them 5 bucks a week ago.
@@Alacaelumdrum sets getting violated harder than paracelsus
Proof she's one of the best Yanderes.
Every new GG track release doesn’t feel complete until CloudDrop uploads his edit 🔥
Honestly yeah
True
so real
REAL
I agree
the drummer's fighting for his damn life out here
He was paid enough and put in extra
@@nella544 -S OOOF LIFE
@@nella544Actually, according to 8bitdrummer’s comment section, they’re using midi here. as for why I don’t remember, but it would probably have to be for time constraint reasons. On live stages they did get a drummer though.
Reminds me of whiplash
Yeah
I absolutely fucking love the pace of this song, how the tempo and tone shifts to be faster as if aba and para are getting more confident in each other
i love that this messed up character has such a powerful song about accepting how weird you are and that you have your beloved friend or lover that accepts you as how you are
guilty gear ladies and gentlemen
This song is a lot of things. "Powerful" is not one of its qualities.
@@addison_v_ertisement1678cap
@@addison_v_ertisement1678 Sure about that? Music is subjective, it's not that ridiculous to think people will find this song powerful.
@@Novus-jo2vo No, it isn't. At least, not entirely.
@@addison_v_ertisement1678atleast make a point all u have said is "nuh uh".
Fun Fact about A.B.A., she originally appeared in the spin-off game Guilty Gear Isuka and got ported to XX. Her theme in Isuka was Quicksilver and in XX it was Keep In Gates, both composed by Masaomi Kikuchi. Strive makes it the first time her theme was done by Ishiwatari himself
What’s cool is that he incorporates little pieces of each of her previous themes in this one too! Seriously a complex piece for such a cool character
And even wilder then that, she wasn't even DESIGNED by Daisuke himself...instead she was the baby and the first real character design of legendary fighting game god Mori Toshimichi...the man who would make Blaze blue.
Its why Aba seems so different and the line 'quirky note' hits so hard. She really is a 'quirky note' in that she is Mori Toshimichi's baby first and foremost. A 'blazblue character before blaze blue'.
Given how the lyrics are and how Mori famously left Arc Systems Works after the failure of a blaze blue mobile game...I want to imagine this song is Daiske wishing Mori love and respect given they grew up together and famously got into gamedev because of their love a unnamed-to-this-day girl in college.
@kyokyodisaster4842 pretty sure it was just her design
@@kyokyodisaster4842 That's not true, it's a common misconception but there's literally no proof that Mori designed ABA. Everything points to her being designed by Daisuke like almost every other character in the series.
@skunthundler I think it's cuz he voices paracelsus
The Blah Blah lyric isnt lazy guys, it's making fun of the "maze woven with words." It's clever songwriting and gets the point across no I'm not mad
What does "maze of woven words" mean?
@@lady6266words that you get lost through trying to find the meaning of it all if not a way out.
even if it was i would still like it
And later, when the song starts using plural (to represent her being with Paracelsus) it says "LOVE is a maze woven with words, let's shout-shout, let's shout-shout, let's shout-shout-shout", which is also incredibly clever to turn the lyrics from before upside down
BLAH BLAH BLA-BLAH BLAH BLA-BLAH BLAH BLAH🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
From the guy who brought you A-B-C-D, now brings you Blah-blah-blah-blah
* A-B-C-E-F-GO!
And rub-a-dub-dub
*BLAH-BLAH-BLAH-BLAH-BLAH-BLAH-BLAH-BLAH-BLAH-BLAH!
And splash splash splash
And oh hallelujah
"I'm not here to fit in this world, I just want to make a difference" is something I've needed to hear for a long time.
Same here, brother.
Between this and “What is it like to you? No one can see the colours but you”, Daisuke and Naoki sure know how to pull my heartstrings.
dude that part kicks so much ass. OWN YOURSELF. be unapologetic yourself. screw the social norms thats says money, women, and status equals happiness. screw social conventions. Rock and roll is all about challenging the norm
This is the equivalent of Joker saying "Society."
@@addison_v_ertisement1678 nah, that's Potemkin's theme
"I'm not here to fit in this world, I'm just here to make a difference' is such a profound quote that I love dearly. I mean, it feels so perfect and just makes me fall in love with it. That quote alone makes the song into my most favorite of all.
WE NOT FIXING HER WITH THIS ONE🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️💯🔥🔥🔥💯🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯💯
don't need to, testament already did
@@TheQuilavaQueenLol what? Paracelsus got her to listen to him and they both admitted their faults and mutual toxicity, and resolved to restart their relationship with honesty. He even showed he was listening to her and cared by changing into her favourite color to reassure her that they both CAN change for the better.
@@Elementroari guess testament really wasn’t the key factor in this interaction.
COUPLE'S THERAPY DID THAT 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Don't need to, she perfect already.
I love how "I'm not here to fit in this world" quotes a part from The Wall about the way our systems stifle and crush invididuality and humanity. Hell yeah A.B.A. do your freaky thing.
Hey, it’s even got the leitmotif
Only Guilty Gear songs are able to make me go from headbanging to reflect on where my life choices has taken me to and vice versa, all in the same song. Truly magical
U good?
@@Br1anwastakenit's hilarious that you keep asking people this bro
@@weebster-vo1zy why?
Cheese burger 😔
Many songs in Guilty Gear Strive remind me of the "Spy Kids" and "Sharkboy and Lavagirl" films.
One moment you have the most profound phrases possible that make you reflect on life and other times you have things like "BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH"
"Do you think god stays in heaven because he too fears what he has created."
Out of everyone that invents the lightbulb, there is one who creates the atom bomb!
(not the exact quote because I don't know it.)
HA HA HA! You’re right! You’re so fucking right…
That’s part of what makes them all so good :)
Badguy and Geargirl
Holy shit, I just realized that A.B.A
is one of the few times someone used the definition of jealousy correctly! Jealousy is the fear that someone is going to take someting you have, while envy is deeply wanting something that someone else has.
🤓
@@fujiwaranonekobiodrando1257
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@Mafi_acosta cum
@Mafi_acosta 🤓☝️
A.B.A feels like if I (and maybe other people with OCD can relate to this) was just to let every intrusive thought manifest. In my experience with therapy, you’re told to let a discomforting thought, like not holding the door open for someone, happen and to brave your anxiety. It’s meant to show you that even if that distressing thought occurred, you’ll be ok. So, something about A.B.A being ok, being motivated to make a difference, really resonates with me. I feel empowered by this song, and how it expresses A.B.A’s personality, her determination to keep moving forward.
As someone who also has OCD, as well as being autistic, I fully agree! I find this song really encouraging, too.
Fun fact: Aba's VA (Anna Brisbin) cosplayed ss her!
Daisuke: Okay, and then I want a bossa nova Pink Floyd break in the middle and OOO! a ragtime reprise for the outro!
rest of the metal band: *visible confusion*
I love how the lyrics sound not like a love confession but as someone who struggles with opening up finally coming to terms with their emotions
ABA comes back from the +R purgatory after a decade and randomly has a Top 3 Strive song out of nowhere
Top 3? recency bias lmao
@@Kyong008definitely not also it’s opinion based they can think how they want
@@Wable-nz7yn saying "definitely not" is also opinion-based lmao, and it's also copium
Guys just let the person enjoy it
@@richieco4624 Enjoyment is fine. But saying "top 3" is a qualitative statement beyond just saying they enjoy it, so its perfectly reasonable for people to bring up contrasting viewpoints at that point.
People talking about ‘blah blah blah blah’ being erroneous while missing the point of a song about the value of words and what their meanings impose. Classic GG community.
GG fans will miss anything that doesn't have Baiken-level titties plastered on top... I am also a GG fan, so I'm included.
It's also comedy. Jokes are far from a foreign concept to rock and metal, due to the writing styles both generally use.
That being said it's still fun to make fun of it. That means said joke landed
1. How is it "erroneous."
2. People can understand the meaning of something and still call it bad.
Bold of you to assume that songs from this game have a meaning 😂
@addison_v_ertisement1678 yes, but it's pretty difficult to make an argument against it without just saying "blah blah blah" is stupid. it sounds good from a musical standpoint, and is fitting from a songwriting standpoint. getting bothered by it feels like splitting hairs.
then again, you don't even know the meaning of the word "erroneous", so i guess i can't expect too much from you.
Cloud, I’ve been watching your Guilty Gear Strive lyric videos for about three-ish years. I am so happy that I was able to assist you in providing footage for A.B.A’s lyric video. Thank you so much. 😀
YAYYAYAY!!!!!
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You dropped this 👑
How do you guys even find out what the lyrics are?
@@cjbroskin1327 some of them are officially released after a few days the song is out on streaming platforms. At least from what I know.
Naoki released the official lyrics
"Depressed sickness, those are virtues of mine"
She just like me fr
why
You dont know why until you experience it 😁@@jessealvarado7796
U good?
Real
@@foreveruseless1292 u good??
As someone with autism, this song really speaks to me. Sometimes I don't feel like I'm part of this world. I feel like a quirky note in a symphony of people.
I agree with you. Im autostic too, and some times i felt impossible to comprehend, even for all the things i wanted to share with people. I Always felt lonely because this world and this society will Always treat us as mere tools without self, and this real problem will never be resolved. Because we love being selfless and idealess. Thats why i dont know how to go on now that im grown up. I Hope that you could understand how much people suffers to suffocate their true self for satisfy the hipocresy of our world and society.
I like when sol bad guy says we are the guilty gear…
Strive
Someone who’s also autistic here, you captured what I’ve been feeling about this song perfectly 🫡
Dont worry, , you Like everyone else is Part of this thing we experience.❤
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣
Hearing this, I could swear Daisuke has a message to some of the players.
If you like up some of the songs together it creates an overall message.
To me it'd be
1.Necessary Discrepancy.
2. Symphony
3. Armor Clad Faith
4. Play the Hero.
Line those up, and it creates a message to the NEET and hikikomori types. Which is something like "Go out, it can be painful, but to not is the same as death. Don't be hung up on conforming, and fight for yourself. Have faith, and try to help others."
THIS is Daisuke's Vision
Underrated comment
its not really about neets specifically, like half of the soundtrack is about the whole cast feeling like a bunch of misfits and trying to find their place in the world. The entire theme of the game is characters striving towards something, whether to leave a path for others to follow, to build a better life for themselves, or to just make a difference.
Plenty of people from all walks of life will find a way for this message to apply to them, the reason it works so well is the music explores the same general topic from many perspectives.
“I’m not here to fit in this world, I just want to make a difference” 🔥🔥🔥✍️
Why do people keep saying that lyric is good?
@@addison_v_ertisement1678
Because It is
@@addison_v_ertisement1678because they think it's good.
@@addison_v_ertisement1678 maybe because i'ts good 😮
@@addison_v_ertisement1678ppl can connect to it
2:30 bro just drop the hardest transition and expect we didn't notice.
"Respect Loyalty Responsibility forges the armor Liberty Curiosity Compassion and Affection words weave a stealthy chain" this part of the lyrics went so hard in my opinion
Her facial expressions are everything.
Fist clouddrop video that has 100% accurate lyrics
lmao
I usually prefer to watch Capnbookers videos for that reason. They seem to actually care for getting the lyrics right
In which videos are the lyrics wrong?
@@greenswing7681 Decent amount of them. Baikens, for example
@@Kaz12904Yeah, Clouddrop’s Baiken video is horrendously wrong
WE'RE TURNING KEYS TO WORLDS UNTOLD WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥
WE CHANGE HAIR COLOR WITH THIS ONE!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🥦🥦🥦
By oxidizing
@@dragonliIIyin an interview, Daisuke said she changed her hair because she discovered fashion. (Would like to add I honestly prefer the oxidation theory over the canon explanation, I love when writers geek out about things like science)
@@CyrusCentralfictionodd coincidence
@@dragonliIIyNah devs directly debunked this in an interview with Rooflemonger. They thought it was a neat theory but the truth is simply ABA was experimenting with hair dyes now.
@@Elementroarwait I thought the oxidation “theory” was clearly just a joke, but I don’t know much about ABA. Is she really weird enough that “her hair was copper-based and now it’s got a patina” was a possible explanation?
It's a lot less obvious than Mariah and Amazing Grace in Extras, but the "Creepiness" bit of the chorus is musically quoting "Poison" by Bell Biv DeVoe, which is fittingly a song warning someone about a girl with a bunch of red flags, which... **Gestures at ABA**
Also, I feel like not enough people are appreciating the wordplay of "Quirk-*key* note in the symphony."
Oh dang you’re right
Also wanna add that "i'm not here to fit in this world", Like a key that can't fit into a lock properly. And the "Break out, Break out" is relevant because she was locked up in a laboratory for like a decade. This whole song is just key analogies, I swear to god.
@@MythicMachina bro this song is insane with the depth of meanings. I feel a ton of other songs from guilty gear do this aswell
OUR SAVIOR😭
"This music brings back memories"
-John Paracelsus
0:54 Love how you sped the combo up to match the song. Thanks for using my gameplay! :)
Turn the key.... BANKAI
The final section hits home for a guy like me who has social anxiety...
I feel the same.
I like how it appeals to a lot of people despite what it says. It even sounds like a chorus of people singing it.
U guys good?
@@Br1anwastakenno
@@knotknight514 why?
Mfs who don't get the song: "he's just going blah-blah-blah? This is dumb.."
Mfs who get the song: "I look at life as words and blahs."
I really like this song, I like the distinction between more standard common virtues and the more traditionally negative ones claimed by the singer (presumably A.B.A and/or Paracelsus), which as time goes on both seem to come together towards the end with love becoming a maze as well. This song is both hope for one's ability to change and find connections to others, as well as a denial of conventional understandings of what one should be, and I think it's quite interesting. Even the commonly mentioned "blah-blah-blah"s are fun as they initially seem to be the incomprehensible expectations enforced on people, but towards the end as the singer and their companion join together they instead "shout" and form their own expectations for themselves. In that sense this song is not a rejection of boundaries, but instead a declaration of working together to create ones that actually relate to the subjects, and function on behalf of the involved parties
An excellent breakdown. I love this interpretation of this song since it's kinda what I had gathered from it.
Love your interpretation :)
A.B.A is not just another brick in the wall!!!
I'm glad I wasn't the only one that noticed lol, I wonder if Daisuke puts these references like the ones in elphelts theme in on purpose
Yeah, she’s the brick that gets thrown at you.
YES. @@squill4883
@@squill4883 He absolutely does. It’s well documented that Daisuke loves American Classic Rock and it’s referenced all over the place in Guilty Gear, both in the music and in many other things. Fun example, Sol Badguy, our main series protagonist, is actually named Frederick Bulsara. Sol Badguy was an alias he gave himself after becoming a Gear, referencing the title he had been branded with “The Corrupted Sun”. Frederick Bulsara is a reference to Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the rock band Queen, which is Daisuke’s favorite band. Freddie Mercury was a stage name, his birth name was Farrokh Bulsara, so Daisuke merged his birth name and stage name into one for Sol. In fact there’s Queen musical references all throughout the Strive Soundtrack. Drift, Happy Chaos’s theme, literally has a break in it that sounds like Bohemian Rhapsody.
@@ArmigusArsenal three things:
1: a small gripe, but it’s called the Flame of Corruption, not the Sun.
2: Axl Low is (rather blatantly) based off Axl Rose, the frontman for Guns ‘N’ Roses.
3: my dad mistook the song Freesia from GGXrd for an actual Queen song.
"I can fix her."
The girl in question:
I’m really happy to have been a part of this video. And like usual it’s a banger. Great work!
(I was Mr.Skeleton)
I'M NOT HERE TO FIT IN THIS WORLD, I JUST WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE 🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
4:39
Possibly the blandest lyrics I've heard in a GG song.
@@addison_v_ertisement1678nah
IM NOT HERE TO FIT IN THIS WORLD, I IUST WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣🗣🗣
@@addison_v_ertisement1678Okay, i've seen you do nothing but complain in everyone's fucking comments. Besides, it's actually a bit smarter than that due to all of the allusions to keys and freedom. "I'm not here to fit in this world" is a double entendre for a key that can't fit in a lock correctly. The song is full of these.
The ending is so damn good! It goes to such a light heartfelt tone aww
Chipp failing to get away at 2:02 is funny
Bro’s a ninja who can run as fast as a car and yet he still couldn’t outrun her xD
That crazy girl adrenaline pops off
The "I'm not here to fit in this world" at later parts like around the 5:00 mark sounds like Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall part on "we don't need your education". Cannot be an accident
knew I had heard that somewhere before
Dаmn
Yeah it’s meant to be a kind of chant, it’s really powerful stuff. ❤
Daisuke ishiwatari, you did again. Another beautiful masterpiece that tells you the inner workings of your characters.
This is probably gonna sound corny as fuck but whatever , I love this song so much I've been listening to it on repeat for months now and almost each time I get really emotional listening to it , something about the line "I'm not here to fit in this world , I'm just here to make a difference" really clicked with me and I honestly have no idea how to describe why , so yeah I teared up to a song containing the lyrics "blah blah blah" and now it sounds so silly
the song goes HARD as hell they had no business cooking this good
don't be afraid to speak yo shit, it's always nice to see stuff like this cus music is beautiful and it can make us feel things or feel identified
3:20 i really love how it sounds like wedding bells here
It reminds me of her old theme from GG xx
@@ds8765 I believe it's part of her original theme! Pretty cool.
What I take from this song is... A.B.A is without a shadow of a doubt, completely and totally with no chance, desire or recognition... for being fixed................. good.
"I am no here to fit in this world" the... sincerity of this statement is refreshing and inspiring in a way, don't know if A.B.A was ever "normal" in any point of her life, but if the GGST theme songs are the characters most deep and honest opinions and feelings... A.B.A has no desire to be "normal", she is perfectly and sincerily happy being herself.
But at the same time... the rest of the song "hints" at a much bigger desire inside her, a desire to influence and affect the "world" around her.
“I’m not here to fit in this world, I just want to make a difference.” I knew I clicked on this song for a reason.
4:13 "Let's shout shout, Let's shout shout, Let's shout shout shout!" Easily me favorite part.
"I can fix her"
my brother in christ she's doing better than you are
Love Symophony and her Legally Distinct Keyblade.
That’s her husband
A song is never trully out until cloud drop makes the videoclip
best guilty gear song easily just because of 4:38 holy shit
the drummer was on 10 cans of redbull during that part
i'm just thinking about how much therapy the drums need after this song
My man playing like he's held hostage
@@GLITCHEDGAMER01 no the drums are held hostage
Ngl, I thought this was gonna be an April fools joke, but I'm glad it wasn't. Your edits are a lovely as usual, keep up the good work!
I am pretty sure the drummer was literally on fire
First we got Elphelt's "Rub-a-dub-a-dub" and now they Bring A.B.A's "Blah-Blah-Blah"
And before we got ABCDEF GO😅
0:06 Me casually waiting on bro to drop a slayer video
CLOUDDROPPPPPPP DROP THE UPS AND DOWNS LYRICS AND MY LIFE IS YOURS 💯💯🔥🔥🦅🦅
Waited for this to be added on the GG playlist. And I'm glad a lot of people love the last line of the song. "I'm not here to fit in this world. I just want to make a difference."
This song is so incredibly written for something that just plays in the background of a fighting game. I love how this song is basically her justifying her insanity and in the process “making” us just as insane as she is. The song literally throws the dictionary out the window and says that what it said is irrelevant because all that matters is that you think you’re making a difference in the world, and whatever that difference is, is just a note in a symphony, and variation in what those differences are is what makes life beautiful.
This is quite possibly the closest to perfect a character theme can get in Strive. It is genuinely almost perfect.
The entire track is the perfect balance of emotion, intensity and need I mention the ending? I don’t think you could make a more perfect ending to a song if you tried.
I don’t think the devs will ever be able to top this.
I'd say only Drift and Let Me Carve Your Way beat it in emotional endings but by god is this damn near immaculate
They’re all perfect to me at least
THIS SONG MADE ME BUY ONE OF MY FAVORITE GAMES AND IM EXTREMLY THANKFUL!!!
probably the best song in the game. i shed tears everytime i listen to this
lol
That last part there was so much shits going on
Truly peak
Strive songs have no right being so emotionally compelling, I'm not crying you are
@@BlackghostLTI'm a fool... I know NOTHING... I TAKE THE ROLE OF A SILLY CLOOOOOWN!
@@tttttttttttttttp12 BUT I WONT TUUUURN MY BACK OON LIIIIFE
Finally the official lyrics video
Absolutely not.
4:35 this is sounds exactly like a mental breakdown feels like. Depression, confusion, frustration and anger all coming together until the only thing left is raw unfiltered emotion ripping away inside you trying to break out
i need to have more of those then, because this part of the song is a BOPPPPP
CLOUDDROP! DROP SLAYERS THEME AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!
This is the most relatable song in Strive to me, which is saying something. God Daisuke is a genius, how the fuck does this shit come out of that man's brain?
"I aint fixin shit homie"
Thank you for the lyrics drop for this one, Naoki.
Everyone praises Daisuke's guitar skills. But can we also talk about how that amazing that drummer is? Especially at the beginning of the song before the lyrics play? That fast drumming give the guitar a lot more BOOM, and it sounds badass.
Holy shit this song is fantastic, this song might be the final push for me to buy the game
Aba looks like she pulled an all-nighter doing a dozen assignments she neglected to do until the last minute.
Anyways, I main the shit out this character
1:20 GREEN PENIIIIIIIIIIS
Let's not
Agreed
ITS WORTH THE WHILE!!!
BOTHERSOOOOOOME
AT TIMES IT'S KINDNESS
1:20 I love how this part is basically just "I can fix her" in lyrical form
Finally it's out in this channel
damn, the sync is insane. Good job
Ive been waiting for this one, I never put the non clouddrop uploads in my playlist
yeah, I've watched another before this one came out but the lyrics didn't match with the sung words or were weird. Idk how Cloudrop doe sit, but they'r ethe only one who gets the lyrics right.
@@tgdevourerActually Clouddrop gets the lyrics wrong more often (for the DLCs). The S1 vids were made before official lyrics released, and we don't have official lyrics for most of the S2 and S3 songs.
I think The Kiss of Death, Mirror of the World, and Just Lean have the most mistakes. The Gravity is just incomprehensible to everyone lol.
If you want more accurate lyrics, Capnbrooker makes good lyric videos too and updates them (for example we got some Just Lean lyrics from Naoki and they've been updated)
@@chryspyr will we have official lyrics eventually? I really like Just Lean, do ya know anoyne who got the lyrics right for that?
@@chryspyr my myth has been busted, but thank you man
Oh that's cool they used an organ...wait, am I hearing BONGO DRUMS?!
Also the drop of "freedom, freedom" with the guitar statement into the piano is peak music
The first half is already amazing, but that second half tunes it to another level. No wonder this is my favorite
I love that there is quirky off-key note in the word "symphony". Great word painting!
This gives me mad 'Drift' vibes and I love it
Finally, i can add it to my playlist!
I swear I hear A.B.A's old theme Keep in Gates at 3:18
You do!
Every time it got to the depressed sickness part it just scratched my brain so well
I can't stop thinking of that "Only Virtues" edit.
Sick!
Tired!
Normal!
*B I G*
I really like all the subtle allusions to alchemical concepts in her design. It’s cool!
Also, Jesus woman, get some sleep! Your eye bags are worse than mine!
Im interested. What allusions to alchemical concepts are in her design?
@@preceptorseluvis5704 admittedly, most all of my knowledge of alchemy comes from watching Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. A.B.A herself is a homunculus, a being created artificially through alchemy. The name “Hohenheim” is written on one of her sleeves, referencing a major figure in the history of alchemy. Furthermore, Paracelsus is the name of a French alchemist from the early 1500’s.
“I’m just a quirky note in the symphony” might be one of the best phrases I’ve ever heard.
I was listening through the entire playlist on my way to spring break trip I didn’t even realize this was posted till it started playing a great surprise to start my vacation
This is personally my favourite song on the ost. Ofc most songs in strive slap, but there's just something about this one that I love so much. May be there's some bias because I love literally every aspect of this character and she was the reason I decided to pick up strive again, but honestly I think this song just slaps and I'm a sucker for piano.
The amount of times you got the combos to line up with the beats in this one... Truly superb editing work.
Im not here to fit in this world I’m here to make an difference 🗣️