With no new episodes of Friendship is Magic for almost a year after Season 4, Hasbro really went all out on the hype for Rainbow Rocks. The second film in the Equestria Girls franchise saw no fewer than eleven musical shorts released. Eight came before the film, of which the most significant and best remembered is surely the first, "Music to My Ears". This came out on 27 March 2014, six months to the day before the film's US release. Dubstep was huge in brony music at the time, so an official dubstep track from Daniel Ingram himself was a really, really big thing. (Even if it does sound awfully like "Bullseye"... :P ) Then we see the rest of the Rainbooms (sans Twilight or Sunset at this stage) getting their instruments sorted out. Those other tracks have faded a bit more in the memory, though Rarity pushing a grand piano remains amusingly ridiculous. As for the final two shorts, I've always thought "Perfect Day for Fun" pretty catchy and a bit underrated. "Shake Your Tail" is the one actual movie song given an early release; not the greatest RR track, but then it's not supposed to be in-universe either.
Handily, there's a complete playlist of the Rainbow Rocks shorts. The videos have lost all the comments they had in 2014 (cheers once again, "For Kids") but the shorts themselves are nostalgic if you were there at the time and still worthwhile if you weren't.
I definitely wasn't sure how to approach these back in the day, but I find myself now feeling like they were significantly more consistent in quality than the shorts that would follow the EQG movie era. Dunno how true that is, but it's my impression I guess. :B
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