Sunday 26 January 2020

Rewatch hiatus plans, plus a music question for you all

In keeping with the show itself, "My Little Repeats" will be going on hiatus once I've rewatched the S1 finale, something I hope to do tomorrow. Don't worry, though, I'm not going to have several months off! It'll be a much briefer break than that – probably just a week or two. What I want to do in that gap, apart from simply taking a breather, is to reflect on how the S1 rewatch felt, and to give some thoughts on how I think S2 will feel. I wish I'd done the latter for S1 actually, but too late now.

As for the music question, it's one that someone asked in a YouTube comment of all places: what MLP fandom music produced in, say, the last four years do you really like? Clearly there aren't many cast-iron smash hits any more – PrinceWhateverer's "Solidarity" is the one really major exception I can think of – but what (if anything) from 2016 onwards do you think could have been such a hit if it had come out seven years ago? I almost asked this on a Fimfiction blog, but it's potentially memey and knighty doesn't like that. So it goes here!

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  1. "Shy Heart" by ponyphonic just sneaks into the four year time limit. ponyphonic is old-school horse famous of course.

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    1. So it does! I adore that song, so excellent answer! Though, as you say, ponyphonic did have a bit of a head start. (Mind you, so did PrinceW.)

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  2. I am a bit obsessive about keeping track and judging everything I listen to. I listened to the vast majority of the pony songs released in the period, and these are the ones that score toward the top of my list. Broadly categorized by genre as well. Be aware that outside pony I mostly listen to Metal, so the list is biased towards that.

    Rock

    4EverfreeBrony - Chant of Benevolence (feat. Chi-Chi)
    4EverfreeBrony - Little Dreams (Original by Vylet Pony)
    4EverfreeBrony - Someone Like Me (Original by Aviators)
    4EverfreeBrony - Can't be Real (ft. Replacer)
    4EverfreeBrony - Good Girl (cover ft. All the Mares)
    4EverfreeBrony - Chant Of Immortality (feat. Chi-Chi)
    Acouste Wholenote - When the Party's Over
    Foozogz & PrinceWhateverer - Heavenbound
    Forest Rain - Chrissy (Nightmare Mode) [ft. Cyril The Wolf & Whirlwind]
    Forest Rain - The Fight
    Forest Rain - The End of the World (Radio Edit)
    Francis Vace - Hunter
    MathematicPony - Alright
    Prince Whateverer - Solidarity (In this Together)
    Prince Whateverer - Destabilize
    Prince Whateverer - Are You There
    Prince Whateverer - Guardians of Equestria (2019)
    Prince Whateverer - Taking Flight (feat. Dakota Crowell (NRGpony))
    Prince Whateverer - Shrouded Integrity (feat. IMShadow007)
    Prince Whateverer - Resilience
    Prince Whateverer - Solidarity (In this Together)
    ReverBrony - Sunburn (ft. FritzyBeat)
    Seventh Element - Raiders
    Stealing Shad3Z - New Beginnings (The Tower Pt. 2)
    StealingShad3z - Shut Me Up (ft. Agatan)

    Metal

    Alexander Engström - King of the Horde
    Chris Wöhrer - What Fun is there in Making Sense?
    The L-Train - My Monstrosity (ft. 4EverfreeBrony)
    Mane In Green - For Equestria We Rise (Metal Cover)
    Royal Canterlot Symphonic Metal Orchestra - Chapter 2: Crossroads of Life
    Royal Canterlot Symphonic Metal Orchestra - Chapter 5: Regents of the Darkness
    Royal Canterlot Symphonic Metal Orchestra - Chapter 6: Kingdoms Divided
    Royal Canterlot Symphonic Metal Orchestra - Chapter 7: The Calling
    Royal Canterlot Symphonic Metal Orchestra - Chapter 8 - Heaven's Fury
    Royal Canterlot Symphonic Metal Orchestra - Epilogue: The Fall of the Shadow's Veil
    Royal Canterlot Symphonic Metal Orchestra - The Heroes I Seek
    Royal Canterlot Symphonic Metal Orchestra - Healin' Brew
    Royal Canterlot Symphonic Metal Orchestra - Forged as One
    Ponysphere & Secret Metal - Desperate Housewife
    Narokath - Their Blackest Day
    SDreamExplorerS - Lost Dimension III
    SDreamExplorerS - Oblivion Highway
    SDreamExplorerS - Could be Different
    SDreamExplorerS - Tower of Endlessness
    Secret Metal - Faster Than a Lightning
    The Snatcher - A Fallen Star
    Stallionslaughter - All Gussied Up
    Thrasher & Velvet R. Wings - The Forgotten Reality of a Hero's Ascension (ft. SDreamExplorerS)

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    1. Electronic

      BlackIceMusic - The Fuff
      Eurobeat Brony ft. Odyssey - Discord 2019
      Flak - Walls (NewPatrol Remix)
      FritzyBeat - Neigh Anything (feat. Melody Note) (remixing Sim Gretina)
      FritzyBeat - Sunshine and Moonbeams (remixing Sim Gretina)
      Ghost Horses & Junk Machine - Feral
      Junk Machine - Asphalt
      loophoof - 478,000 Miles (Shining Forth)
      Sayonara Maxwell - Part of the Swarm (ft. FritzyBeat & ForeverFreest)
      Paper Box - Another Planet
      Quadrivia & Arturo Höst - Ultimate Wolfpuncher
      SeyN AQ - Satellites (ft. Metajoker)
      Silva Hound & PegasYs - Hands on (ft. StealingShad3z)
      Sim Gretina - Rude Buster (Sim Gretina Remix)
      Sim Gretina, FritzyBeat & μThunder - Neigh Anything (feat. Melody Note)
      Suskii - Daybreaker (VyletPony Cover)
      TPressleyJ - What the Hay
      Vylet Pony - No Matter What (2016)
      Vylet Pony - Out of Your Mind (ft. Lyde)
      Vylet Pony - Beautysleep (ft. R3ctifier & Namii)
      Vylet Pony - Daybreaker
      Vylet Pony - Cataclysm (ft. Scraton)
      Vylet Pony - Pretty Girl (ft. Cadie)
      Vylet Pony - Mistress (ft. Chi Chi & Xavi)
      Vylet Pony - Kingdom Finality
      Vylet Pony - Little Dreams
      Vylet Pony - The Great Unknown
      Vylet Pony - Zräos's Kingdom
      Vylet Pony - Little Dreams (YourEnigma Remix)
      Vylet Pony & Voodoo - TEMPEST (ft. Namii)

      (The latest Silva Hound album has some great songs as well, but I didn't have time to listen to them properly)

      Rap/Hip-hop

      bank pain & DJT - Vultures (feat. Wootmaster)
      Ditherer the Fussbudget - The Game of Riddles (prod. Steryotype)
      Ditherer the Fussbudget - Pillar of Salt (prod. Syndrome)
      Ditherer the Fussbudget - #StormGang (prod. Ego Melt En)
      Ditherer the Fussbudget - Quiet Hands (prod. Homage)
      Ditherer the Fussbudget - Flowcellus (prod. Syndrome)
      FenPony - Flow Rhyme Till the End of Time
      Wootmaster - Horse Christmas

      Misc.

      Jyc Row - Flamethrone Legacy (ft. Black Gryph0n & Michelle Creber)
      Jyc Row - Night Queen VIP (w. Felicia Farerre, ft. PrinceWhateverer)
      Jyc Row & Felicia Farerre - Sun Of The Night
      Jyc Row & Felicia Farerre - Night Queen
      Jyc Row & Francis Vace - Celestial Berserkers (feat. IbeConCept)
      Jyc Row & PegasYs - Going Far (ft. Michelle Creber)
      Jyc Row & PegasYs - I'll Fly High (ft. Black Gryph0n)
      Jyc Row & WoodLore - Flamethrone Legacy (feat. Karen Warren)
      Jyc Row, Francis Vace & WoodLore - Warriors of Griffonstone
      Ponyphonic - Shy Heart
      Ponyphonic - The Return
      Ponyphonic - Feed Me with Your Heart
      Rusty Thorsell - Keep on Going
      Rusty Thorsell - Keep on going (the rusty train)
      Rusty Thorsell - The desert boat
      Rusty Thorsell - Lost in the fog
      The Wasteland Wailers - On Hold (ft. Brittany Church) (YourEnigma Cover)
      The Wasteland Wailers - Dare Master (ft. Brittany Church)

      You should be able to spot some patterns here. A few people have been consistently putting out high quality stuff during this time, particularly Vylet, Jyc Row, the L-Train (Royal Canterlot Symphonic Metal Orchestra is his project), Prince Whateverer, and 4EverfreeBrony. Hip-Hop, which used to be huge, is mostly dead.

      Out of curiosity, here is the breakdown by year:

      2016 - 36
      2017 - 24
      2018 - 21
      2019 - 28

      Oh, and I have no idea how any of these would do with a broader audience.

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    2. That is a seriously impressive list! I think your comment at the end makes my own point, though. Back in my early days in the fandom (2012-13) you could get breakout hits which appealed beyond existing fans of that artist/genre. The Living Tombstone's "Discord" remix is probably the most obvious example. I've heard of quite a few of the artists on your list, but actual broad-based hits are very few. "Chant of Benevolence" maybe, "Shy Heart" as well, "Solidarity" definitely. Covers aside, there are perhaps only half a dozen others in there that I could hum right now. (I'm not a big metal fan, which doesn't help.)

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