Fun fact, this is the only track Xenoblade Chronicles X that's not an original track for this game. It's actually a track from Sawano's old album Musica.
Okay, that makes it make a little more sense why a song like this is tucked away in a screen you spend 5 seconds on. Still doesn't explain why they used their worst track for the daytime city theme you hear ALL the time
@jojonoa3590 bruh it's been nearly over a decade since xcx came out, and I don't see they change the track with the remaster on Switch lol. Hopefully they actually recompose the track and make it sound tolerable.
nothing like the awkwardness of Japanese lyricism in an otherwise amazing song. X is full of such pearls, and I recall the tyrant theme as the exponential of it. At least they made some songs in German so we don't have to care about that awkwardness (unless you're German or understand it :D )
Goodbye Xenoblade X Online servers, see you all again in Mira someday ♥ It's truly a shame that this song is only audible during Squad selection, it's such a hidden masterpiece and most people have only heard the first few seconds of it in game
Every time I listen to this song now it makes me so sad. This song is gone. I'll never hear it again when I open up Xenoblade X. I didn't appreciate it as much as I should've before it was gone, and now it just hurts. This game means so much to me and I wait for the day it comes back with online on a new console. Please Monolith.
I will never forget the first time I waited long enough on this menu to actually hear the vocals kick in. I had no idea it even had lyrics and just sat there in awe listening to what has since become one of my favorite vocal tracks in any video game. EDIT: I… I didn’t realize this song was gonna get taken down along with Wii U online… If I’d known, I would have booted up the game one last time just to listen to it :(
I met Aimee Blackshleger at a convention once. I thanked her for the great vocal work she dit for Xenoblade X and she was all confused because nobody had ever mentioned her work on that game to her before. Since Hiroyuki Sawano is mostly prolific in anime composition and she sings on many of his songs, she's mostly used to be credited for anime work.
I cannot comprehend how this song is apparently stuck in the game's menu hahah. It's goddamn amazing and really puts the expectations of the other music in the game. Holy hell I can not wait to play this game next year. Fuck, the wait is so damn painful.
There is a CD of the whole OST. I have it right here. But that released back in 2015. Some kind of Vinyl Deluxe Edition would be damn awesome though. I don't think Sony Music Labels is going to do that though. Ever.
They really went all out for a menu you spent less than 20 seconds and can't even access anymore! I need the remake just so I can hear this once again! One... more... time...
This song used to have a 1M views before it got taken down. Here’s to hoping it gets back to where it was. Never played xenoblade X, but this song is so goated.
The lyrics to this song are written beautifully. It's as if they're telling a story. I can practically picture it infront of me, like grainy moving images on a projection screen. I see... I... see... *"With this life, I'm exhausted* *They are frozen, people's eyes* *Kind of close to endless mental slavery* *Always look up to the sky* *Is this what I'm living for?* *How can I spin this world better?"* I see a young woman bearing an exhausted expression. She looks on as even younger people fight an endless war for all eternity. She herself feels trapped, too, unable to escape the lucrative position she finds herself in. Deeply disturbed, she stands on top of a cliff and looks into the distance as rain pours from up above. She does not know what the purpose of her unending existence is in this dying world, and she quietly awaits the day on which she will meet her other self, just as her queen had foreseen. *"Every place I used to live* *All the news we used to hear* *All the things we heard from you* *Are almost making fun of me* *Every day we work so hard* *Every thing will never change"* Now I see the same young woman, bearing a vaguely religious-looking symbol on her neck. She is put into various unfair positions, sometimes wearing beige clothing, sometimes white. On one occasion she is handed a flute in spite of her stellar combat practice results. To pour salt on the wound, she is coupled with the klutziest member of her unit. She puts all her effort into her training, first as a combatant, then as something more. Yet in spite of it all, she can't change her situation or the world. And so she screams. *"Push forward, it's time to make the day yours* *Push forward, it's time to make the day yours* *See, it's not the cards that life deals* *Anyone can alter situations* *Push forward, it's time to make the day yours* *Anyone can alter situations"* On a particular combat assignment, she meets three new people. All of them are deeply disturbed by things they've experienced in the past. This whole time both she, her team and her enemies have done the same thing, fighting for the sake of the world that gave them their life instead of themselves. A fourth person, old and wise, appears to offer them wisdom on how to move on. The man persuades the woman and her new acquaintances to change the world. *"They try to wear me down with what they tell me* *I'm just trying to make moves, see beyond what they're trying to sell"* *Push for it, even if some attempts fail* *Take problems mix 'em up like a cocktail* *It's not the cards that life deals* *Anyone can alter their situations by* *Not sitting around, accepting the* *Abuse and devastation"* Now the woman is standing in the desert, surrounded by suspicious individuals. She listens to her best male friend as he ponders the nature of the world. I receive a slight glimpse into the woman's complicated past. Too many times she has already succumbed to the world. Her fates are blending together. I turn around and see the same woman speaking to a girl sitting on a desk. They are surrounded by people with nothing but cruel intentions. Everyone on the lower level is told to complete various tasks for fear of punishment. However, she and the girl hatch a plan to escape from the mysterious facility. *"All of my life's begun to change you, until the end* *Someone's death means* *An indication of the new world* *They hope won't be the same"* Strangely, I see a man wearing a mask. Despite his fanatic claims, he has only changed for the worse, because of the woman. Now he screams to the heavens, witnessing a display of sheer horror. The young people, too, can be seen crying. Then smiling. This doesn't have to be their world, they realize. And this is only the first step. *"We're kept unheard if we're silent* *Waiting on others to make a sound,* *Leads to walking blind instead of self-reliance* *Eyes on the back of the pack* *It's time to make the day yours* *Complacency never makes an impact* *Believe media controls you if you don't act* *Nothing ventured, nothing gained* *But when we speak, listen, and act,* *That's what we change"* What follows is a chaotic torrent of conflicting ideals. I hear voices, some pleading for the world to remain the same, others begging for it to change. Some take pleasure in going through the motions and sticking to their routine. Others open their eyes and ears and realize how wrong they've been their entire lives. *"There's a chance for me to find my way of life* *Anyway I know some nervous strain of time* *You cheer me, reminds me* *There is a sun rise* *You told me to save me from a hell on earth"* I see the woman breaking down infront of her partner, overwhelmed with her survivor's guilt. She struggles to find meaning in her short life, which was given to her in an unfair exchange. However, she is surrounded by supportive individuals who motivate her to keep going. After a while, she returns to this same location and hears tales of humanity's hubris from her queen. *"All of the world's begun to take me into the sun* *Hiding people getting out from crumbling shelter* *Now the time has come today"* Now I see the woman kneeling on the floor and disappearing into the golden sky. At the same time, I see citizens mobilize their armories to set their plan into motion. Finally, all the pieces are falling into place for the woman and her companions to reclaim the world. *"We're kept unheard if we're silent* *Waiting on others to make a sound,* *Leads to walking blind instead of self-reliance* *Eyes on the back of the pack* *It's time to make the day yours* *Complacency never makes an impact* *Believe media controls you if you don't act* *Nothing ventured, nothing gained* *But when we speak, listen, and act,* *There's nothing that can't change* *All things can change"*
![SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]; Aimee Blackschleger; David Whitaker - Melancholia [Lyrics]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/cwmimqmgmGU/mqdefault.jpg)
Monolith really said “𝘼𝙉𝙔𝙊𝙉𝙀 𝘾𝘼𝙉 𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙎𝙄𝙏𝙐𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉𝙎 ‼️‼️”
I’ve been laughing at this comment for days
See beyond what they’re trying sell
Fun fact, this is the only track Xenoblade Chronicles X that's not an original track for this game. It's actually a track from Sawano's old album.
@@Mario123007looks like sawano really did alter the situations
XENOBROS WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK
Goodbye to Melancholia :( see you all soon!
See you in March.
WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK
"Soon"
Bro had a vision
Should I call you Shulk? Cuz that comment saw the future for sure.
@@veloxaflit GOOD MORNING MELANCHOLIA!!!
WE ARE SO BACK
Goodbye, Xenoblade Chronicles X servers.
... and now welcome back!
BACK FROM THE FRICKING GRAVE
Welcome back to Mira, BLADEs.
Welcome back, Xenoblade Chronicles X servers
WELCOME BACK XENOBLADE CBRONICLES X SERVERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We now have the chance to hear this banger again
They really stuck the best song in the game into a 10 second menu lol. The audacity.
We made it, lads.
PUSH FORWARD, ITS TIME TO MAKE THE DAY YOURS
Goodbye Xenoblade X. You carried me through middle school. I'm 24 now
Ready to go back?
welcome back soldier
Welcome back to NLA comrade.
Go back to Middle School again :D
us
THERE'S NOTHING THAT CAN'T CHANGE
They really should have found a better place to have this song play than the multiplayer/singleplayer menu which only takes 10 seconds to get through
i honestly thought this played at the shops/dealers. i remember watching previews and having that play there.
It plays in a few cutscenes too, though only like 2 or 3
YEAH LOL I remember my first time hearing that drop I was just distracted doing something else while being on that menu. I fell off the couch
I waited for the end of the song every time I played
I think it also plays during one of the last cutscenes during HB's first affinity mission, but that's the only moment that I remember
“Everyday we work so hard, everything will never change” hit hard after playing 3.
Fun fact, this is the only track Xenoblade Chronicles X that's not an original track for this game. It's actually a track from Sawano's old album Musica.
plus it sounds a lot, a LOT like persona music, with the weird rapper and terrrible english singer. I LOVE this song
@@LPN00b Um, no Sawano's music are nothing like Persona lol.
@@Mario123007 pretty sure they meant this specific song, not the rest of his music
Okay, that makes it make a little more sense why a song like this is tucked away in a screen you spend 5 seconds on.
Still doesn't explain why they used their worst track for the daytime city theme you hear ALL the time
@jojonoa3590 bruh it's been nearly over a decade since xcx came out, and I don't see they change the track with the remaster on Switch lol. Hopefully they actually recompose the track and make it sound tolerable.
We are finally getting a remaster for the Switch. What a time to be alive 🙏🏼🙏🏼
ANYONE CAN ALTER SITUATIONS 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
nothing like the awkwardness of Japanese lyricism in an otherwise amazing song. X is full of such pearls, and I recall the tyrant theme as the exponential of it. At least they made some songs in German so we don't have to care about that awkwardness (unless you're German or understand it :D )
Anyone can alter situations by… not sitting around 🗣🗣🗣
I love the song but the engrish can still be funny lol
@@cldpt Am german. The lyrics are so badly pronounced that I'd have never guessed it even was german if I wasn't told.
All things can change.
0:22 The aliens trying to explain to me what the weird round things are in the stew they served me.
Shrak approved
Goodbye Xenoblade X Online servers, see you all again in Mira someday ♥
It's truly a shame that this song is only audible during Squad selection, it's such a hidden masterpiece and most people have only heard the first few seconds of it in game
We'll be back in Mira in March 2025!!!! The BLADEs are back!!!!
PEAK IS FINALLY ARRIVING
Every time I listen to this song now it makes me so sad. This song is gone. I'll never hear it again when I open up Xenoblade X. I didn't appreciate it as much as I should've before it was gone, and now it just hurts. This game means so much to me and I wait for the day it comes back with online on a new console. Please Monolith.
hey man, good news :)
@@makiira6385 I JUST SAW. I'M ACTUALLY CRYING
WE GET TO HEAR THIS SONG AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!
I will never forget the first time I waited long enough on this menu to actually hear the vocals kick in. I had no idea it even had lyrics and just sat there in awe listening to what has since become one of my favorite vocal tracks in any video game.
EDIT: I… I didn’t realize this song was gonna get taken down along with Wii U online… If I’d known, I would have booted up the game one last time just to listen to it :(
In a few months you'll get to boot up the game on the Switch
Babe wake up Xeno X is back
WE ARE BACK BAYBEEEEEE
WE SO ARE BESTIE
HELL YEAH
gotta get my 100% survey on my last character before DE drops, maybe one more 😂😁
It's time to push forward and make the day ours once again. Welcome back, Xenoblade X.
WE ARE SO FUCKING BACKKKKKK
I see I'm not the only one listening to XCX songs in these happy times
Get ready BLADEs. It's time to defend our city once more, I'll see you all there.
Holy banger
It’s kinda interesting how this is a random sawano song from 2008, but the lyrics are very on point for xenoblade x
Wait, the song was way before the game?
@@cerealmama3879 yeah it's the only licensed song in the whole series
IT'S TIME TO MAKE THE DAY YOURS, COMPLACENCY NEVER MAKES AN IMPACT 🔥🔥
WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK NOW!
WE ARE GONA HEAR IT AGAIN!
"Melancholia"
Composer/Arranger: Hiroyuko Sawano
Lyrics/Rap: David Whitaker
Vocals: Aimee Blackschleger
Piano: Hiroyuko Sawano
Guitars: Hiroshi Iimuro
Bass Guitar: Takeshi Taneda
Drums: Yasuo Sano
Thanks for the credits! ^^
@@jellycore1316 You're welcome!
Sawano has composed a lot of OST and he is the composer of attack on titan, seven deadly signs... This guy is a genius
Hold up - the rapper's a native english speaker?
I met Aimee Blackshleger at a convention once. I thanked her for the great vocal work she dit for Xenoblade X and she was all confused because nobody had ever mentioned her work on that game to her before. Since Hiroyuki Sawano is mostly prolific in anime composition and she sings on many of his songs, she's mostly used to be credited for anime work.
WELCOME BACK MELANCHOLIA
🔥🔥🔥🔥
GUYS LETTTSGOOOOOO WE ARE FUCKING BACK, ONE OF THE BEST OST IS BACK
HERE WE GOOOO
After seeing the good news, I’m listening to this playlist on shuffle to get a feel for what the soundtrack will be like WHEN I get the game
OOH, BABY! WE'RE BACK!
Goodbye Meloncholia. May Xenoblade X's severs rest in peace.
News of X's death is greatly exaggerated...
@@ReynsoonIt just needed a little nap, it's fine now.
My monolith is no longer soft!
MELANCHOLIA MY FAVORITE SONG, IMA SEE YOU IN THE DE
I cannot comprehend how this song is apparently stuck in the game's menu hahah. It's goddamn amazing and really puts the expectations of the other music in the game. Holy hell I can not wait to play this game next year. Fuck, the wait is so damn painful.
This sounds like something Linkin Park and Evanescence would have collaborated on if they were Japanese.
More like P.O.D and Paramore.
Linkin Park has strong Japanese influence btw.
Luke Ryuzaki Well one of them _is_ Japanese to begin with.
@@lukeryuzaki2328 Mike Shinoda is of Japanese descent.
I love this song.
same. underrated.
The entire soundtrack is underrated, since everyone is just jerking off to Xenoblade Chronicles' ost
I actually like this one better, it offers more varierty than the first game's which is literaly "every JRPG soundtrack ever"
they really deleted the upload of this song with a million views
The one uploaded by max galactica?
@@jefferyzhong6135A lot of his videos got taken sadly. The new release of the vinyl and cs's did that.
@@Implosion-Gamingbut they didn’t rerelease the X soundtrack at all
@@genderender maybe they plan to
There is a CD of the whole OST. I have it right here. But that released back in 2015.
Some kind of Vinyl Deluxe Edition would be damn awesome though. I don't think Sony Music Labels is going to do that though. Ever.
Everything will never change
so true bestie
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO!
Time to pull out the rusty old mech
Time for more people to hear this song
I remember sitting on the start menu listening to this...Cant wait to go back.
Thank you, this song gave me the motivation to get back to work.
FINALLYYYYY
Meu primeiro RPG Japonês na vida com 32 anos, apanhei muito SIM mas amei s2 Trilha sonora Sensacional!
Why do I keep feeling like this song is gonna go "Row Row Fight The Powa"
EL mejor xenoblade vuelve!
Yo their 5 year anniversary is in 30 days
They really went all out for a menu you spent less than 20 seconds and can't even access anymore!
I need the remake just so I can hear this once again!
One... more... time...
Wish granted.
💖It's really happening!💖
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO WE BACK
Too good for my ears to handle omg
WE'RE BACK!!!!!!!
神曲
I agree 😂
WE'RE SO BACK WTF
I remember spending some time in the menu to hear this song hahah
They didn't have to go this hard
This song used to have a 1M views before it got taken down.
Here’s to hoping it gets back to where it was. Never played xenoblade X, but this song is so goated.
We MOVE
3:20 amazing.
I was never able to play this online FML
Fingers crossed for a remake some day, or at least pretendo support for it
You rang? Get in the Skell, BLADEs.
@@KnightGamer724 YOO it just got announced for switch
@@IceYetiWins it just happened
@@Zybax1 so hyped, can't believe the timing
yooo 1000th like letsgooo
This is my favorite Xenoblade X song. Too bad I only hear it in a few heart to hearts (and it makes the dialogue hard to hear lol)
❤️
Melancholera
Mama Im coming hooooooooome
The lyrics to this song are written beautifully. It's as if they're telling a story. I can practically picture it infront of me, like grainy moving images on a projection screen.
I see...
I... see...
*"With this life, I'm exhausted*
*They are frozen, people's eyes*
*Kind of close to endless mental slavery*
*Always look up to the sky*
*Is this what I'm living for?*
*How can I spin this world better?"*
I see a young woman bearing an exhausted expression.
She looks on as even younger people fight an endless war for all eternity.
She herself feels trapped, too, unable to escape the lucrative position she finds herself in.
Deeply disturbed, she stands on top of a cliff and looks into the distance as rain pours from up above.
She does not know what the purpose of her unending existence is in this dying world,
and she quietly awaits the day on which she will meet her other self, just as her queen had foreseen.
*"Every place I used to live*
*All the news we used to hear*
*All the things we heard from you*
*Are almost making fun of me*
*Every day we work so hard*
*Every thing will never change"*
Now I see the same young woman, bearing a vaguely religious-looking symbol on her neck.
She is put into various unfair positions, sometimes wearing beige clothing, sometimes white.
On one occasion she is handed a flute in spite of her stellar combat practice results.
To pour salt on the wound, she is coupled with the klutziest member of her unit.
She puts all her effort into her training, first as a combatant, then as something more.
Yet in spite of it all, she can't change her situation or the world. And so she screams.
*"Push forward, it's time to make the day yours*
*Push forward, it's time to make the day yours*
*See, it's not the cards that life deals*
*Anyone can alter situations*
*Push forward, it's time to make the day yours*
*Anyone can alter situations"*
On a particular combat assignment, she meets three new people.
All of them are deeply disturbed by things they've experienced in the past.
This whole time both she, her team and her enemies have done the same thing,
fighting for the sake of the world that gave them their life instead of themselves.
A fourth person, old and wise, appears to offer them wisdom on how to move on.
The man persuades the woman and her new acquaintances to change the world.
*"They try to wear me down with what they tell me*
*I'm just trying to make moves, see beyond what they're trying to sell"*
*Push for it, even if some attempts fail*
*Take problems mix 'em up like a cocktail*
*It's not the cards that life deals*
*Anyone can alter their situations by*
*Not sitting around, accepting the*
*Abuse and devastation"*
Now the woman is standing in the desert, surrounded by suspicious individuals.
She listens to her best male friend as he ponders the nature of the world.
I receive a slight glimpse into the woman's complicated past.
Too many times she has already succumbed to the world. Her fates are blending together.
I turn around and see the same woman speaking to a girl sitting on a desk.
They are surrounded by people with nothing but cruel intentions.
Everyone on the lower level is told to complete various tasks for fear of punishment.
However, she and the girl hatch a plan to escape from the mysterious facility.
*"All of my life's begun to change you, until the end*
*Someone's death means*
*An indication of the new world*
*They hope won't be the same"*
Strangely, I see a man wearing a mask. Despite his fanatic claims, he has only changed for the worse, because of the woman.
Now he screams to the heavens, witnessing a display of sheer horror.
The young people, too, can be seen crying. Then smiling.
This doesn't have to be their world, they realize. And this is only the first step.
*"We're kept unheard if we're silent*
*Waiting on others to make a sound,*
*Leads to walking blind instead of self-reliance*
*Eyes on the back of the pack*
*It's time to make the day yours*
*Complacency never makes an impact*
*Believe media controls you if you don't act*
*Nothing ventured, nothing gained*
*But when we speak, listen, and act,*
*That's what we change"*
What follows is a chaotic torrent of conflicting ideals.
I hear voices, some pleading for the world to remain the same, others begging for it to change.
Some take pleasure in going through the motions and sticking to their routine.
Others open their eyes and ears and realize how wrong they've been their entire lives.
*"There's a chance for me to find my way of life*
*Anyway I know some nervous strain of time*
*You cheer me, reminds me*
*There is a sun rise*
*You told me to save me from a hell on earth"*
I see the woman breaking down infront of her partner, overwhelmed with her survivor's guilt.
She struggles to find meaning in her short life, which was given to her in an unfair exchange.
However, she is surrounded by supportive individuals who motivate her to keep going.
After a while, she returns to this same location and hears tales of humanity's hubris from her queen.
*"All of the world's begun to take me into the sun*
*Hiding people getting out from crumbling shelter*
*Now the time has come today"*
Now I see the woman kneeling on the floor and disappearing into the golden sky.
At the same time, I see citizens mobilize their armories to set their plan into motion.
Finally, all the pieces are falling into place for the woman and her companions to reclaim the world.
*"We're kept unheard if we're silent*
*Waiting on others to make a sound,*
*Leads to walking blind instead of self-reliance*
*Eyes on the back of the pack*
*It's time to make the day yours*
*Complacency never makes an impact*
*Believe media controls you if you don't act*
*Nothing ventured, nothing gained*
*But when we speak, listen, and act,*
*There's nothing that can't change*
*All things can change"*
I see what you did here.
And I think it's awesome.
Tldr bruh
You don't deserve one.@@zeed8102
The lyrics are trash bruh, buddy even admitted he didn’t gaf about what he wrote lol
@@NicktheLP I agree, Xenoblade 3 is fucking trash. Finally someone says it!
Hey I didn't know the Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote for this game!
hahaha. more like linkin park.
And Evanessence@@iownalx23
Anyone notice how the male singer sounds a lot like David Draiman?
Yes, david whitaker and david draiman sound alike. listen to black tar.
252 Jaiden Port
Thumbs up if you're listening after the announcement of Linkin Park's new formation in September 2024. ❤️