It's still unbelievable that they got Chevy to sing all these songs. It's amazing that they got someone that used to make fan songs for Hoyo fan festival videos.
Another thing about the clapping especially in hope is the thing with feathers is that the song is diegetic, meaning its happening in world and not just as boss music for a game, with robin singing to the people of penacony to get them to wake up so it feels extra appropriate to get them to join in
Well the whole thing is Sunday and his choir represent the followers of Enas order as one. While the Trailblazers and the Echo of Afar of the Astral Express represent the people of Penacony that are not part of the OAK family which was a secret cult for Ena. Which is why Himekos "WITNESS THE WILL OF THE WEAK" like goes so hard when its her turn to shout out her ideals. Sunday and by extension Ena, see people as weak and not able to decide things for themselves.
As a A/V guy for a church that does modern/arena music, I completly agree with you. If I can stop one heart from hurting and even Hope Is The Thing With Feathers is something I would expect from a Hillsong, Bethel or any of the modern church music.
I really think this is sort of intentional on their part since there are already a lot of church motifs with the Robin and Sunday story. Sunday is just straight up named after the Christian holy day. Sunday's music and the theater music is very old Hymnal and operatic; everything is orderly and grand. Then you have Robin with the pop and gospel like sounds; something free and down to earth.
Well the whole Harmony arc of Penocony have a very Christian theme to it. Ena being the Old testament and Xipe being the New testament. Order through obedience for safety and security, or Harmony through mutual operations and family many voices as one.
Listen "We hope in the light of truth" is one thing but there was absolutely no need for "kingdom" to be in the lyrics if they didn't want it to sound like born again pop
@@Samizard Having just played the part in game I can see why. It's meant to loop certain parts until you get to the final phase in which the chorus doesn't even start until the end of the fight. So you are almost hearing verse 2 the entire second phase. It doesn't start looping the full song until the final phase. They didn't want you to get sick of the part they liked the best before the fight. For a couple reasons. This is the fight the express dies in on the bad end. This fight determines the outcomes of the entire Divine Chorus of Harmony itself. They needed to beat Wildfire. This event is more significant than Jarillo. While I think it does. If they gave the boss more hp artificially so it lasted longer it would have been a lot better. It is supposed to draw on the same feelings Wildfire does, but Wildfire benefits from your team being weak as hell so the fight lasted longer. The timing of the dramatics from the song and the dramatics from the animation are supposed to collide at the same time. If you are too strong for the fight that doesn't really happen.
yess “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” totally gives me Christian pop vibes! if i were to play this song to some of my Christian family members who know nothing about HSR, i don’t think they’d clock it as a song from a video game lol and while ik this song is obviously another reference to Emily Dickinson since it shares a title with another one of her poems, some of the lyrics in the song like “through the shadows of despair”, “across the plains, in valleys deep”, and “stride to our kingdom and see the light of day” make me believe that this ~Christian pop~ vibe could be intentional cause it really reminds me of this famous Bible verse: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.” and in a way i suppose these vibes/potential references kinda makes sense considering how the Halovians are obviously based on angels and how especially Sunday and Ena The Order have strong Christianity influences in their lore + aesthetics 🤔
Ena makes me think of the Old Testament God, where Xipe makes me think if the New Testament God, so Xipe would align with Christianity more than Ena would
@@mythito5120when you put it like that, Xipe does have 3 faces, get it? The trinity reference, gosh that just clicked my mind when you mentioned it 😂😂😂 Edit : minor spelling mistake ☠️
Shaoji really did a wonderful job on this patch and Hoyo double it with the music. The style of music is one that you can hear at church conventions and concerts. Master craft!
Not gonna lie, I enjoy most musical analysis of games I like, but watching my second monitor while listening, and then checking my first monitor to see someone bopping their head in the exact same way? That's a new experience. And you nailed the last song: It's made for a studio audience, that's sitting in their room alone playing a videogame. When I first played this game and had this song show up, it was meant to represent a planet's worth of people waking up, a train full of people at a time.
There is a fourth song in her album listed under her album in the official Hoyo physical album merch that you can preorder now. It’s not official officially out yet, but there was a music producer hinting a new song for 2.3 in Robin’s Demo trailer. All we know about that song is the title, “Had I Not Seen the Sun”. We aren’t sure if it’ll be a different song for 2.3 or “Had I Not Seen the Sun” will be a CD exclusive song.
I like to think of the drums in Hope is a Thing with Feathers as the Astral Express. During the verses and the pre-chorus the train is leaving a stop so the drums are consistent and steady with fills being added as it speeds up. During the pre-chorus itself the drums fade until the build-up as a moment of reflection on what this stop in the journey met. The chorus is then when the express finally warp jumps in this emotional, driven, yet cheerful rhythm that falls in line with the spirit that is the Nameless’s never ending journey.
I'm honestly shocked by what this development team has been making every single new version. They have created an amaizing narrative and they acompany everything with a lot of songs that play in my head dozens of times nonstop even when i'm doing something completely different.
Me and my friends are absolute Robin stans. When her fourth single dropped I copped that shit so fast booooooy! I really hope they continue using her as a in-universe idol and release music. Genshin doesn't really have that vocal aspect to its music but Star Rail has quite a lot of songs with stunning vocal performances: Interstellar Journey, Take the Journey, Wildfire, Pedujara, Samudrartha, WHITE NIGHT and all 4 of Robin's songs.
once i heard the inside album announcement, and then hope is the thing with feathers was playing, i instantly fell in love, and i knew i needed that song on my streaming playlist. still favorite. ESPECIALLY!! since in the new boss fight, robin sings this song during the final phase
These have been the best ost's personally in my opinion star rail has released so upbeat and catchy. Speaking of Robin songs there are also a few others that's are slapping as hard as these ost's are. In over all hindsight tho looking forward to the future songs and music hoyomix cooks up.
@@LycanMOON The dream train represents the people of Penocony that were not part of the Oak family cult of Ena. Remember the Revolution was helped by 3 trailblazers from the astral express that helped freed the people from the IPC tyrants. Rasaline vanished into the dream scape memoria trying to find out more about it, Mikhal stayed behind to try to help build the world, Tienan went off into the world cause he felt something was off about the FAMILY that formed on penacony, and never made it back even though he intended to go back. Mikhal at some point realized that the Oak family was up to something and helps set in motion the events to stop their plans by literally working with the Will of Penocony itself.
If you noticed in the song ‘if I can stop one hear from breaking’, they added the game’s login menu theme in the middle with the piano, very cool detail
Not entirely. The official releases on audio platforms include the full version with verse 2 and the extra chorus (in this video I was listening on Spotify). It's just the version in that video upload that is shortened
Speaking of breaking down the structure of HSR songs, have you watched the Dev talk videos on the HSR music? The Song of Distant Planet video series. In the newest video on Penacony's music, they mentioned that they used more Eastern pop song structure but with Western instrumentation for Robin's songs (I'm not sure if it's for "Sway to My Beat in the Cosmos" or "Hope is the Thing With Feathers")
Speaking of Pop songs. Sony had one of Japans most popular musician/Song writer Kenshi Yonezu, make a Pop song for a PlayStation commercial. It's literally called "Pop Song" and has an amazing music video I'm sure many would love to see your reaction on... 😉👍
Me over her have been listening to the whole album for like a month straight no other music for me, and havent goten anoyed by it, probably because of the instramental
I thibk you should also see the life performance of If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking and Say to My Beat in Cosmos from the concert STAR RAIL LIVE 2024, it has a little bit different arragement
All three of these songs are composed by 王可鑫 Eli W. (the red hair guy in this video th-cam.com/video/Fa-oD-LtR0o/w-d-xo.htmlsi=FzFZumKtxVSsqoVO) So talented.
Saccharine pop songs aren't my cup of tea but I don't mind the second and third songs. The fact that the song in her ultimate is the one that annoys me the most is kind of funny. Can't escape it. One extra reason to skip her. 😂 Fun break down video though!
If her ult rotated between songs it would honestly help with the inevitable burnout of hearing this one pop song a hundred times when using her for regular content.
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It's still unbelievable that they got Chevy to sing all these songs. It's amazing that they got someone that used to make fan songs for Hoyo fan festival videos.
Wait, she made Hoyo fan songs? I just know her for her cute UwU song that she made years ago. XD
NGL Chevy's voice is made for Christian related songs, just like the hope is the thing with feathers, it's so good
they've always done that since hi3 days
She used to make fan songs? I seriously just assumed she was a popular artist in China already. This sounds so wholesome I want to know more!
@@ChrisMorrayme too
Another thing about the clapping especially in hope is the thing with feathers is that the song is diegetic, meaning its happening in world and not just as boss music for a game, with robin singing to the people of penacony to get them to wake up so it feels extra appropriate to get them to join in
Well the whole thing is Sunday and his choir represent the followers of Enas order as one. While the Trailblazers and the Echo of Afar of the Astral Express represent the people of Penacony that are not part of the OAK family which was a secret cult for Ena. Which is why Himekos "WITNESS THE WILL OF THE WEAK" like goes so hard when its her turn to shout out her ideals. Sunday and by extension Ena, see people as weak and not able to decide things for themselves.
That’s o incredible what. Imma actually cry whattt
As a A/V guy for a church that does modern/arena music, I completly agree with you. If I can stop one heart from hurting and even Hope Is The Thing With Feathers is something I would expect from a Hillsong, Bethel or any of the modern church music.
Oh cool! My younger brother ran A/V for countless services back when I was playing in that scene
I really think this is sort of intentional on their part since there are already a lot of church motifs with the Robin and Sunday story. Sunday is just straight up named after the Christian holy day.
Sunday's music and the theater music is very old Hymnal and operatic; everything is orderly and grand.
Then you have Robin with the pop and gospel like sounds; something free and down to earth.
Well the whole Harmony arc of Penocony have a very Christian theme to it. Ena being the Old testament and Xipe being the New testament. Order through obedience for safety and security, or Harmony through mutual operations and family many voices as one.
Listen "We hope in the light of truth" is one thing but there was absolutely no need for "kingdom" to be in the lyrics if they didn't want it to sound like born again pop
@@apothecaresathey straight-up use God in the last line so I'm pretty sure it's intentional
Thank god you listened to the full version of Hope is the Thing with Feathers!! Great video as always 🎉🎉🔥🔥
I can't believe they left out verse 2 in that official video!
@@Samizard Having just played the part in game I can see why. It's meant to loop certain parts until you get to the final phase in which the chorus doesn't even start until the end of the fight. So you are almost hearing verse 2 the entire second phase. It doesn't start looping the full song until the final phase.
They didn't want you to get sick of the part they liked the best before the fight. For a couple reasons. This is the fight the express dies in on the bad end. This fight determines the outcomes of the entire Divine Chorus of Harmony itself.
They needed to beat Wildfire. This event is more significant than Jarillo. While I think it does. If they gave the boss more hp artificially so it lasted longer it would have been a lot better. It is supposed to draw on the same feelings Wildfire does, but Wildfire benefits from your team being weak as hell so the fight lasted longer.
The timing of the dramatics from the song and the dramatics from the animation are supposed to collide at the same time. If you are too strong for the fight that doesn't really happen.
yess “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” totally gives me Christian pop vibes! if i were to play this song to some of my Christian family members who know nothing about HSR, i don’t think they’d clock it as a song from a video game lol
and while ik this song is obviously another reference to Emily Dickinson since it shares a title with another one of her poems, some of the lyrics in the song like “through the shadows of despair”, “across the plains, in valleys deep”, and “stride to our kingdom and see the light of day” make me believe that this ~Christian pop~ vibe could be intentional cause it really reminds me of this famous Bible verse: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.”
and in a way i suppose these vibes/potential references kinda makes sense considering how the Halovians are obviously based on angels and how especially Sunday and Ena The Order have strong Christianity influences in their lore + aesthetics 🤔
Ena makes me think of the Old Testament God, where Xipe makes me think if the New Testament God, so Xipe would align with Christianity more than Ena would
SO TRUE i feel like I would hear that at church when their Christian band is on stage
@@mythito5120when you put it like that, Xipe does have 3 faces, get it? The trinity reference, gosh that just clicked my mind when you mentioned it 😂😂😂
Edit : minor spelling mistake ☠️
Shaoji really did a wonderful job on this patch and Hoyo double it with the music. The style of music is one that you can hear at church conventions and concerts. Master craft!
Well the whole Ena vs Xipe and how the approach what Harmony is and should be is like Old Testament vs New Testament.
Finally someone reacting to her album
Tell your friends 😎
All these Robin songs have been circling my head since I finished 2.2. Incredible video btw!
Not gonna lie, I enjoy most musical analysis of games I like, but watching my second monitor while listening, and then checking my first monitor to see someone bopping their head in the exact same way? That's a new experience. And you nailed the last song: It's made for a studio audience, that's sitting in their room alone playing a videogame. When I first played this game and had this song show up, it was meant to represent a planet's worth of people waking up, a train full of people at a time.
There is a fourth song in her album listed under her album in the official Hoyo physical album merch that you can preorder now. It’s not official officially out yet, but there was a music producer hinting a new song for 2.3 in Robin’s Demo trailer. All we know about that song is the title, “Had I Not Seen the Sun”. We aren’t sure if it’ll be a different song for 2.3 or “Had I Not Seen the Sun” will be a CD exclusive song.
The song had leaks in the chinese tiktok platform, all I can say that it’s like a sad disney song about separating with Sunday😢
@@jarrenlkkho9429more like with Firefly
Zard man with the music breakdowns. Good shit as always!
I really love the way you break it down, make it easy to understand and give examples.
I'm glad you like it :)
I like to think of the drums in Hope is a Thing with Feathers as the Astral Express.
During the verses and the pre-chorus the train is leaving a stop so the drums are consistent and steady with fills being added as it speeds up.
During the pre-chorus itself the drums fade until the build-up as a moment of reflection on what this stop in the journey met.
The chorus is then when the express finally warp jumps in this emotional, driven, yet cheerful rhythm that falls in line with the spirit that is the Nameless’s never ending journey.
I love listening to musical breakdown from Professionals from different part of the industry. Thank you for this amazing breakdown of Robin's songs.
Been WAITING for this video
This music analysis is really cool to understand how songs are put together. Thanks for doing this!
I'm honestly shocked by what this development team has been making every single new version. They have created an amaizing narrative and they acompany everything with a lot of songs that play in my head dozens of times nonstop even when i'm doing something completely different.
Fun fact with the release of 2.3 there is another Robin song! It’s called if I have not seen the Sun, it’s such a beautiful song!
Me and my friends are absolute Robin stans. When her fourth single dropped I copped that shit so fast booooooy! I really hope they continue using her as a in-universe idol and release music. Genshin doesn't really have that vocal aspect to its music but Star Rail has quite a lot of songs with stunning vocal performances: Interstellar Journey, Take the Journey, Wildfire, Pedujara, Samudrartha, WHITE NIGHT and all 4 of Robin's songs.
once i heard the inside album announcement, and then hope is the thing with feathers was playing, i instantly fell in love, and i knew i needed that song on my streaming playlist. still favorite. ESPECIALLY!! since in the new boss fight, robin sings this song during the final phase
These have been the best ost's personally in my opinion star rail has released so upbeat and catchy. Speaking of Robin songs there are also a few others that's are slapping as hard as these ost's are. In over all hindsight tho looking forward to the future songs and music hoyomix cooks up.
Thanks for your enthusiasm. I learned a lot about music here.
the songs are great, but i LOVE your enthusiasm for it especially on song 3 you are so pumped and it makes me feel good aswell
The second verse on Hope is the thing with feather is my favorite, too!
chevys a great singer, its so beautiful 😭😭😭
"Then all of a sudden you're bobbing your head and you're just in to it"
Me literally beginning to start bobbing my head at that exact moment 😂
it's cool that you mentioned the similarities to worship music, I noticed that too! ❤
Hoyoverse isn't just a gaming company. They're also a music company
I love watching music reactions You can learn a lot of things, especially if you are making music beat this video is a lot of help
Robin has another song yet to be released. You should look forward to it xD
I love all three but I love Hope is the Thing with Feathers the most
I love 💕 these songs ❤️
They used part of the opening astral express theme.Surely that is foreshadowing that she will join the crew, right 😬
*looks at the end of 2.2*
How about giant dream train?
@@LycanMOON The dream train represents the people of Penocony that were not part of the Oak family cult of Ena. Remember the Revolution was helped by 3 trailblazers from the astral express that helped freed the people from the IPC tyrants. Rasaline vanished into the dream scape memoria trying to find out more about it, Mikhal stayed behind to try to help build the world, Tienan went off into the world cause he felt something was off about the FAMILY that formed on penacony, and never made it back even though he intended to go back. Mikhal at some point realized that the Oak family was up to something and helps set in motion the events to stop their plans by literally working with the Will of Penocony itself.
Thanks for explaining everything. I learned a lot.
Hope is the Thing with Feathers reminds me of the songs the faries of Winx Club sings
Pop fits Robin's character so well omg
If you noticed in the song ‘if I can stop one hear from breaking’, they added the game’s login menu theme in the middle with the piano, very cool detail
There’s actually one more Robin song, It’s called “If I have never seen the sun” it’s the cd exclusive one.
i'm really grateful that the her ult song is a catchy one. her ult could easily drive people insane if done wrong
yoowww love this breakdown
im addicted
Still can't unhear the Morse Code on "Sway to my Beat in Cosmos" on your vid, 10:31
The official release is different because im pretty sure the other one is the one specifically from the boss fight
Not entirely. The official releases on audio platforms include the full version with verse 2 and the extra chorus (in this video I was listening on Spotify). It's just the version in that video upload that is shortened
@@Samizard thats really strange
15:03 I CANT BE THE ONLY ONE THAT NOTICED THAT THAT RIFF WAS LITERALLY THE LOGIN PAGE THEME
Speaking of breaking down the structure of HSR songs, have you watched the Dev talk videos on the HSR music? The Song of Distant Planet video series. In the newest video on Penacony's music, they mentioned that they used more Eastern pop song structure but with Western instrumentation for Robin's songs (I'm not sure if it's for "Sway to My Beat in the Cosmos" or "Hope is the Thing With Feathers")
На самом деле, когда ты знакомишься с Зарянкой, ее песни становятся действительно душевными
Hoyoverse is a music company that makes games to promote their music
Speaking of Pop songs. Sony had one of Japans most popular musician/Song writer Kenshi Yonezu, make a Pop song for a PlayStation commercial. It's literally called "Pop Song" and has an amazing music video I'm sure many would love to see your reaction on... 😉👍
First song feels like a Fun dream,
second song feels like a Sad reality,
the last song is about Hope for future.
Me over her have been listening to the whole album for like a month straight no other music for me, and havent goten anoyed by it, probably because of the instramental
A suggestion! October ends ' new song is on a whole ottheyr level. You should react to their new song! 🔥
Hope is the thing with feathers is such a great song.
Are you interested in other game's music? And do you take suggestions?
In sway to my beat there’s a Morse code message at the end of the song
I thibk you should also see the life performance of If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking and Say to My Beat in Cosmos from the concert STAR RAIL LIVE 2024, it has a little bit different arragement
Check my recent uploads :) I’ve got the whole concert uploaded
Nice reaction as always! How about some more PGR songs, like Evan's Gambit or Under Dimension? Been a while since you reacted to some PGR songs!
Last Resort is going up at the end of this week!
@@Samizard I'm excited for that one!
The one with the video, is not the full song. Only EP or Extended Play . I believe its the same with AK EP's .
You should go over more HSR music, like the boss fights(or really anything from penacony grand theater)
Are we gonna see some drum covers from you of these songs? That'd be sick.
For sure! Once this finger is healed 🥺
she the second reason i play hks
I hope you react to another song coming soon called if I had never seen the face of the sun ❤
We made a choice go fight against
Pop and rock drummer, no less!
All three of these songs are composed by 王可鑫 Eli W. (the red hair guy in this video th-cam.com/video/Fa-oD-LtR0o/w-d-xo.htmlsi=FzFZumKtxVSsqoVO)
So talented.
been loving hoyomix since hi3
Mihoyo/hoyoverse is a music company disguise as a game company
Ik im here for this video but i hate the song is getting interrupted😂😂
Saccharine pop songs aren't my cup of tea but I don't mind the second and third songs. The fact that the song in her ultimate is the one that annoys me the most is kind of funny. Can't escape it. One extra reason to skip her. 😂 Fun break down video though!
Same
I personally can't relate, but adding a toggle for her song would be a great feature!
I think the fact that you know that it will always be there makes you feel annoyed already even if you arent exactly tired of the song yet
If her ult rotated between songs it would honestly help with the inevitable burnout of hearing this one pop song a hundred times when using her for regular content.
@@natchu96 yeah that would work too!