GALE SONG - "Wizard Of Waterdeep" (Baldur's Gate 3 Bardcore) ||
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I love how this is how a Bard would open up....and Gale just buries his head. "Oh Mystra, not again..."
I was just imagining a Bard Tav sitting and writing all these songs instead of fanfiction involving them.
@@petrusjnaude7279 it might seem crazy what I'm about to say, but I have a playlist for my Bard Tav and all of Jonathan's BG songs are there
@@tavprisun Not crazy at all. I am already imagining a headcanon (maybe for a future playthrough) where my bard Tav romances Karlach and composes Jonathan's Karlach song because of it.
@@petrusjnaude7279 IN MY HEADCANON MY TAV PERFORMS IT FOR AN ENTIRE TAVERN AS A ONE MAN BAND. GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE MATE
I'm imagining this song being played in a tavern where Gale is, and it's just like in Firefly with
"JAYNE! The Man They Call JAYNE!"
And the whole party going "What...the absolute hell..."
Awesome! I had Gale in my first playthrough. He's such a sweet guy, I really managed to like him. Your song captures his sadness, and also his desire to move forward.
Next song I'd vote for Minthara or The Dark Urge. Especially Dark Urge as a metal version could really bring out all your strong points!
The Dark Urge deserves a metal song! Dude literally defied death after his cruel assasssination to return with vengace against the very blood in his veins!
@@YuubiTimberwolf And not by will, hate or own power. Death himself deemed him too heroic to die. Others may have difficult lifes or sad backstories, but only the Dark Urge betrays his very existence to be a hero (or he is just the villian, if you´re a dick).
Gale is pretty solid. All the characters are so well written.
@@nightninji5849 Durge is the duality of man, defy your blood right for the greater good or embrace it and bring ruin to even your closest friends.
Give me your shit I'm hungry
The time signature on this fits the rhyming scheme really well. I like how the lyrics go back and forth between praising Gale's prodigious talent and digging at his flaws in equal measure.
I love how you captured the nuances of his character... All the Gale hate always feels so "you don't look deep enough"...
I mean, I don't like Astarion as a LI ... But I still get his struggle and personality ...
Thanks for this Song 💜
I'm the opposite. I love Astarion as a love interest, as well as Gale. :3.
Astarion's my Ride-or-die Bestie, but even without the Netherese bomb inside Gale, I feel he deserves a better fate than what Mystra left him with.
Most people seem to overlook the rough edges of their favorite companions and exaggerate those of the others. Most of the companions start off pretty rough, especially the 4 you meet right by the crash site
I feel a lot of the Gale hate is based on taking his story literally as a story about a weird relationship. If you consider how poetic the guy is and take the way into account how he introduces Mystra to you (for me she is all magic, all creation) it becomes a story about someone so enamoured with his chosen profession that he sees no purpose outside of it and this hunger is destroying him, magical burnout to make a crude metaphor. Astarion's story is much more literal - but then again, Astarion is "the body" who wants to be more than that while Gale is "the mind" and he needs to be more than that too to be whole.
honestly i cant find it in myself to hate any of these characters cause theyre so fucking well-written that you know exactly why they are the way they are
"gale is so annoying, hur hur he fumbled the bag with a goddess" HE WAS GROOMED!!! BITING YOU BITING YOU HITTING YOU WITH STICK etc
"ooh i kill astarion immediately whenever i play cause i dont want him flirting with me or drinking my blood lol" he flirts with you because that's how he's fucking SURVIVED for 200 years! and you dont need to let him drink your blood, all he wants is for you not to be a dick about his condition basically
"idgaf about lae'zel i always let her die, she's an asshole" she is the YOUNGEST PERSON IN THE GROUP and she has been fed militaristic propaganda for her whole life which she earnestly and wholeheartedly believes in and she is TRYING to help YOU get a CURE despite the fact that youre a stranger to her and her culture!
like. idk man. theyre all really well written. i havent slept in 24 hours hgdfhgjdf
I had Gale in my second playthrough and love him deeply. I really love how your song captures his loneliness and how broken he actually is. If we love him as who he is, we can see what he actually craves is love, not power.
Right. He seems to think that if he redeems himself and can regain what power he once had he might be able to reclaim his Mystra. He is heartbroken to have ruined his relationship.
He meant well by tracking down the fragment. He meant it as a token of his love. He fell to temptation because he is not a god, he is human. He made a mistake.
So excited to hear the rest of the companion songs, but also curious if we’ll get a Dark Urge song.
I'd love a ballad for Lae'Zel, especially incorporating the "what good is this heart of stone" line... man, that would be awesome.
I'm hoping you'll cover Halsin, Minthara, and (as a wild vote out there) Ketharic Thorm, because Ketharic was my favorite enemy character, despite being barely present. The threat he posed that made the entire Act 2 feel so ominous just made him feel like a presence that a song could be crafted about.
Oh man Ketheric would be AMAZING
I mean honestly Gortash and Orin weren’t even the big bads of their Act, Ketheric was the king of Act 2
Oh man, I need a song for Halsin so bad!
@@FrostyFyre Ketheric was the best of the chosen, and it's not even close
@@macewindu3492 hard agree. Even though Gortash’s steel watch are brutal and Orin is hot, they don’t hold a candle to my boy J Jonah Jameson.
The way the beat of the guitar sounds it reminds me of a ticking time bomb. Which is PERFECT for what Gale is going through with the orb in his chest! Bravo Jonathan!👏👏👏
Suggestion for next companion song, I really want to hear a song about the amazing Blade Of Frontiers!
EVERYONE WAKE UP SONG ABOUT MY HUSBAND JUST DROPPED. what can I say, I love an Icarus complex lmao
god I'm enamored by how well you make bard-like songs, every BG3 song from you has been a straight banger, especially Shadowheart.
Gale is a particularly interesting character to me because you can see he's doing his best to be better. he openly admits he was foolish and shouldn't have done what he did, but he still has that insecurity where he feels he needs to be more, to be Mystra's equal. and it makes sense, because she's a goddess and he a mortal, of course he would want to stand beside her if he truly loved her. and that desire resurfaces, unless you convince him that it's not worth it. he conducts himself in a very arrogant way but it's hiding a serious amount of self loathing... and gifted kid syndrome lol. it's a shame more people didn't give him a chance due to his buggyness.
Couldn’t say it any better myself! Gale is an amazingly written character!
He had me when he started describing magic like poetry. I'm a career Bard in dnd so I fell hard.
Well how about OUR husband?
"Will you hold him close to you while he sleeps
The lonely Wizard of Waterdeep"
As a Gale fan this hit me hard. Really love your bard songs! Keep up the good work 🌟
I love trying to decipher his story from this. I almost would say he doesn't need a lover. He needs a friend to guide him and help him understand humility, to admit his flaws, and know he is still enough.
He IS enough. Gale went from hubris and thinking himself a god to getting his heart broken by his own foolish choice to open the book. I bet if you could ask him he would say if he could he would go back and not open the book. I can tell how badly he misses Mystra, he's just trying to lie to himself to soften the pain.
Another epic Bard song! I thought this one might been lighthearted, but you captured his sadness well!
I think me and many others would love a Minthara one!
a minthara one would be excellent
I'd like to get ones for Lae'Zel and Wyll before Minthara, but I definitely would love for him to make one for Minthara too!
Thank you for the Gale song, I love him so much, and I love you!
Hear! Hear!
Ok so next Baldur’s Gate patch - devs can add a Bard NPC that you can come across and he will sing about each companion. Mr Young, you’ll be needed in that MoCap studio. Can you do a British Accent?
someone might mod it
Would be extea cool if they'd also do your tav (even if it's really cheesy and based around things like class, background, main story events)
@@evelynjolly9375that would be great actually
So how many more of these are we thinking. We still need Wyll, Lae'zell, Halsin (would be cool to have), and maybe a dark urge song since it's a unique archetype with very much its own story.
Lets not forget Jaheira she has so many epic tales
He could maybe even do two dark urge songs, one for resisting the urge and one for full-blown villain.
I have a very soft spot for Halsin somehow.
He's a cutie and definitely has his shit together. I'll romance him earnestly on my third playthrough (the second now is a Durge, i'm not going to do that to the poor Druid). He 'barely tolerates' her after all. Maybe i'll do a resist Durge. It feels like Halsin can not only take that but actively help Durge to go through the process without dooming himself.
Durge is a very fun play so far and feels more like the Main character than any of the others.
Who not a regular Tav song too?
GRIPPING THIS SONG IN MY HORRIBLE LITTLE BISEXUAL HANDS...
Also I would LOVE to see your take on a song for Wyll :D
The 'baseline' feels vaguely flamenco and it works really well.
Like we say in Spain, he is a "Don Juan" 😂
@@Thewolfstation24 You're not wrong.
This sounded legendary from the beginning. Like traveling in a faraway desert trying to find some meaning in ones life.
I loved the song, but I feel like the lyrics didn't quite capture Gale's essence. In fact, he lost everything, but it was in an attempt to please Mystra even more. It wasn't out of pure greed, but rather an innocence/lack of awareness that he already had everything he needed. And honestly, he's not arrogant. Look at Lorroakan, that's an arrogant wizard.
Agreed. I’ve never felt that “greed” describes him. Ambition born of severe self-esteem issues, yes. Greed, no. He can sometimes appear a bit arrogant on the surface. But I read that as someone who is a really smart dork who lacks social skills.
While I agree that greed doesn’t describe Gale at all, I can’t agree with the arrogance. The Gale we meet in game seems quite humble, yes, but that’s only because he’s a wizard who’s now been burned by his own hubris.
(SPOILERS)
He created a disaster thinking he could command powers far beyond him, and was then scorned by the goddess he loved and sought to serve. Not to mention, he’s quite quick to jump on the idea of trying to achieve Godhood through the Crown of Karsus and the Karsite Weave. Hell, one of the possible endings for origin Gale is being destroyed by Mystra because he became a god and then challenged her IN HER OWN DOMAIN. Without Tav’s keeping him grounded or the Player’s interference, he absolutely would fall to hubris again.
I love how beautifully you tied in the parallels between Gale and Astarion, as well as the general joy of the song.
"He had it all if not for greed...he lusts for power too hungrily"
"But for power and for greed...will his freedom be in vain"
Really exceptional song ♥️
bloodweave nation is feasting on this one
@@hanna-liminal Is that what loving Astarion & Gale is called BECAUSE I AM IN!
Wyll is so often overlooked and it’s a shame, so I think it would be awesome to see a Bard song for him next 😁
YES AGREED!!!
Yes😭 he was my first playthrough & I absolutely adore him
Thank you, Jon, for another amazing song. You never disappoint.
As expected another banger, really captures gales loneliness and the tragic situation regarding the orb in his chest. Now just laezel and wyll and you'll have done all the act 1 companions.
Finally!! This is awesome! Gale is my favorite companion and always will be, and this song did not disappoint.
Everytime I try to start a different game up, the siren draws me back to Baldurs Gate with yet another beautiful song...
The man never misses! Another song to listen to on repeat!
Hoping you'll do a song for Wyll next. I think the angle of sacrificing his own humanity to save the city and the people he loved, and to do the right thing, is an excellent angle.
Easily one of the best characters in the game!
Love the song you’ve made for him, the lyrics fit so well!
“A Heart Divine, that he once did keep”.
Yes! A proper song for the greatest wizard in all of Waterdeep.
I'd think it would be extremely difficult to combine bard music and hard rock. But you always pull it off! Thank you for sharing!
I feel so bad for the people who aren't blessed enough to have heard this song
This is amazing. What I read into it (and I'm not certain this is the intended interpretation) is that this song almost reads like Gale singing about himself, especially when it praises and belittles him at alternate turns. Its the sort of thing he'd say about himself in game- he's a very self aware character, (which is interesting for someone with his inferiorty- superiority complex), knows his strengths and weaknesses and hates himsef for them. The mocking tone the song takes is very reminiscent of his particular brand of self - loathing, where he'll acknowledge his virtues and praise himself for them, but actually believes that his strengths only make his failures more apparent. (And the emphasis on his hubris is definitely something he believes about himself, probably to a greater degree than it's actually true, because for most of the game he hasnt quite clocked that the whole situation with Mystra wasn't 100% his fault.) Overall i love this song. And the tune is also great :)
I love how I got my signing from Tim Dowie today and so did this song! Absolute perfection
I continue to be astounded by your talent. I'm LOVING all of the companion songs! Would love to see Wyll or Lae'zel next
I LOVE THIS! Instant goosebumps, by far my favourite of your bg3 songs so far. It's absolutely perfect. I really hope you will write one for halsin as well!
This is my favourite song you've done so far in this series. Never added a song to my Spotify quicker than this 😂 (Gale is my fave)
So obsessed with Gale after my second play through
I love how every single one of these songs (except for the call), has a simple, repetitive melody and lyrics that are deep at the same time, and clearly something that would be a bardic banger in medieval/fantasy settings. Not only that, the fact that every single one of them has been hitting at identity and who these characters are at their most origin form is thematically on point. I simply love Jonathan's music writing.
Pale Elf and Devil with the hearth of iron are really beautiful and catchy songs I like them the most but this one is slowly climbing up as well I love those songs since ngl I'm way too big of a fan of BG3 you captured the stories really nicely T-T thanx for those!
I like the song. Though I'm not sure it really captures Gale's personality, as he doesn't seem particularly greedy or vain. And the whole orb/Mystra thing was more the desire to learn more (more beyond what any god had allowed a mortal to do thusfar) than lust for power. Did he gravely overestimate his own ability to accomplish it? Definitely. But I don't think that counts as greed or power-lusting.
It is always the mages that get you right in the heart I swear!
All of these BG3 songs have absolutely matched the vibe of the characters and I love them all
This reads so much like a cautionary tale, I love it!
this is gonna be the only thing I listen to for the next few weeks! I love the constant repetition of his title as the chorus cuz of COURSE, behold the wizard of waterdeep and his incredible successes! It's the grandiose version of him he hides behind... which we get into as the song progresses until it finally hits the truth: the lonely wizard of waterdeep..... ourgh this goes so hard
You really are doing a superb job on these BG3 songs, I thought you'd struggle to match the quality of Karlach or Astarion's song with some of the others as those two have great and easily defined character with more binary stories, where many of the others are more secretive/nuanced so hard to capture as well. I look forward to the rest (expect perhaps Wyl's, I've never managed to warm to him, or his speaking about himself in 3rd person all the time).
I kind of want to hear a more Dr Who theme styled cover of Gale's song, I think that could really add an interesting twist that mimics his hubris caused problem - consuming the bardcore at times.
thank you so much! I've been so excited for this and its amazing!!
Wonderful
Let’s goooo! More bardcore!
Man your Baulder’s Gate Songs are amazing have rewatch them all like 20 times.
YES
Amazing!
Alle Songs über Baldur's Gate 3 sind Außergewöhnlich und auch dieser ist wieder Super gelungen. Großes Lob ❤
Freue mich auf die restlichen Songs 😊
THIS IS INSANE! I love it so much. A wonderful song for a wonderful character.
OMG THATS SO ON SPOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Really captured his character!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I was so excited to see a new BG3 Bard Song in my subscription feed
Yes! I've been waiting for this one and it didn't disappoint
By far incredible again. I am looking forward to a song about WYLL, and Layzell.
One day...I will play this game. And these songs are pushing me to want to even more
Honestly, you will not regret giving it a try!
It’s a great fucking game. It won game of the year this year I think and for good reason
the idea that bard tav is singing this in camp is absolutely hilarious.
Wow. Another great song. I can't wait for the next one. ❤
damn, all your baldurs gate songs have been absolute bangers!!
This is so interesting because I never saw him as power hungry or vain. What happened to him was a result of wanting to prove himself worthy of Mystra's love. He wanted to be her equal in their relationship. Nothing was ever done out of lust for power or vanity. He did overreach, thought that he could handle it and that was hubris but he never wanted to be powerful for the sake of it.
He does show hunger for power as you go further into the game, especially for the crown of Karthus. He slowly shifts and you see the greed underneath as well. That's why he relates to the story of the crown so much. Yet believes that he would be different from that. It's what makes him a complex character. He was even excited about the fact that the crown could have him overpower Mystra who he loved so much. There is greed under there along with wanting to be her equal. He's only human, after all. She's a Goddess.
@@nohemi6899 I finished the game twice, I know his character. He's never after power for the sake of power. When you romance him especially he says he wants to be worthy of you. He thinks his magic is the only good thing about him so obviously he is in a constant state of wanting to be better, to be deserving of love. His self worth is so fragile, he doesn't think he deserves to live if he's not constantly striving for more and with how powerful he already is, the crown is the only way he can see.
Oh man this slaps!!! Absolutely perfect! Fabulous job! Maybe Wyll next??? Or Lae'zel or Halsin?
Love, love, love! I need more songs like this ❤
I love all your musics SOOOO MUCH i can't my playlist is just your song i can't, thanks for the amazing work like always
Crackin' work, as always. 👍 Loving these bard core songs ☺
Amazing song
Now we wait for Dark Urges song :) Wonder wgat the title would be... "Father's Blood" maybe?
Yet another Jonathan Young Baldur’s Gate song, yet another Absolute banger. Hell yeah!
I love these B3 Bard songs! They are not only banging tunes but so fucking on point about the different characters as well! Masterfully written and performed!
Excellent performance.
We've gotten Shadowheart, Karlach, Astarian and now Gale. Just a bit longer as we'll get a hard rock song for Lae'zel. lol
Lets spice it up after 4 companions, how about a song about Tav, choosen by Fate alone and The Dark Urge, returning with Vengence against his own blood?
Another banger that's going to be stuck in my head all week :)
I was waiting for his song. I love him so much
Yes! I've been waiting for a song with Gale! I waited!!! Hurray!!
Keep 'em comin', brother! You're killin' it!!!!! 🤘❤🤘❤🤘❤🤘❤🤘
This song makes me love Gale even more. ❤ i could listen to it all day
THANK YOU FOR THE FOOD!!!!!!!!! this is lovely and wonderful omg 😭
Hells yeah!
Loved the vocals on this one, absolutely smooth. Rhythm and pacing might be my favorite bard beat yet.
Honestly, I want to hear Lae'zel next, because I want to hear how you portray such a deep and complex character! Love the Gale song!
This is my favorite from your channel. It's very much a bard's song. Love the time signatures. Plus, it's about my bae Gale. Baele. 😂
THE DARK URGE
Not gonna lie, when I saw the thumbnail I thought Jonathan had just used a stylized self portrait
a very enjoyable ditty, which encapuslates the character it's sung for.
Woah another great song! Could totally see myself listening to this in a tavern. You never disappoint! I think a song about Ketheric Thorm would be AMAZING.
Great work on all of these! Would love to see what you do with Halsin next.
Great work (as always) on this companion song!
Looking forward to hearing your take on Minthara!
Sweet :) Still haven't played BG3 but BG1 was awesome back in the day!
It still is.
Thank you so much!! This makes me so pensive - knowing Gale’s story and the tune of the instruments. Feel as if we need Wyll done next - get all our mages done and finish with Lae’zel. Tho will we also get songs for Halsin, nightsong, jaeira and all?
AMAZING WORK
this is so good
Loving the Baldur's Gae 3 songs!
Good!
"Will you hold him close to you while he sleeps? The lonely wizard of Waterdeep..."
Always.
YEEEEEEEES
These songs have all been AMAZING! I really hope you do Lae'zel next though, she deserves more love!
Ooh 😮 That Sound Really Good