Happy 10th birthday, "Loyalty"!

AcoustiMandoBrony – Loyalty

Feeling old yet? It's ten years today since the best known part of the "Elements" collection was first uploaded to YouTube. This has never actually been finished, and although in the last year or so we've had a couple of updates from Re:Make (as Acoustic Brony are now known) we still await any actual new music to complete the set with "Honesty"¹ and "Magic". Back in 2012 they were collaborating with MandoPony, but that perhaps unsurprisingly won't carry over to the new versions of the songs. Anyway, as you'd expect from a song with this title, "Loyalty" is a song about Rainbow Dash. As befits her character, it's very much a rock number, a paean to the pony for whom backing up her friends means everything. (Well, usually.) It contains what is probably Acoustic Brony's most famous solo, too, a great guitar-then-drums section that kicks in around 3:25 and lasts for just over a minute. I was privileged to see AB play "Loyalty" live at BUCK 2014's Summer Sun Celebration: the solo was changed a bit, but it was still a fantastic experience. They also played it at UK PonyCon 2019, but I had to dash off after the first verse to do the famous UKPC pub quiz! No regrets, but "Loyalty" is and will forever be a great fandom classic.
¹An early version of "Honesty" was played at UK PonyCon 2019, but no public studio version exists