Wednesday, March 31, 2021

My favourite background music for comic-reading

I know, I haven't really consistently read any comic series in a pretty long while, but I've noticed, for almost every one, I've listened to "Safety" (from Cave Story) by Pixel, or at least, a variation of it. Safety's one of my favourite soundtracks of all time, so there's that too, but I've got some explanation as to how this really works for me when reading comics. Well, at least the comics I've read (which has mostly been teen fiction so far...). 

You can listen to its original here:

The general key of the song's in major, so you could say it's a pretty happy tune, overall. Even though, some of the melody does hit some accidental notes every now and then in the first section for that sense of quirkiness, the entire song's melody hardly hits any really negative feelings. 

It's happy enough that happy scenes feel joyful reading, but not so much that it takes away from sadder scenes. In fact, it kinda gives the sadder scenes a tinge of bitter(sweet?)ness. 

Safety even manages to work for scenes where characters are feeling more heightened emotions, too. Well, at least for me. For instance, when characters are excited, the soundtrack gives a more optimistic feel. The soundtrack can also give feelings of anger can add some sorta sense of frustration, and like with sadder scenes, bitterness. I dunno, maybe it made me feel that the character wants to cry. A similar feeling when a character "descends into madness" or something, too.

When characters are in situations where they're scared (or at least, in a life-threatening situation), uncomfortable, or tense, Safety kinda gives off this (false) reassuring sorta feeling. An interesting contrast, at least from what I've experienced. 

Dunno if that's all the feelings/emotions/etc. there is usually in comics, but that's what I've got, so far.

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