everyday gratitude

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everyday gratitude

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Today's prompt was "thanksgiving," and I wanted to write something that felt like a hymn and a JRPG staple all at once. I feel like this is suitably joyful for a thanksgiving piece, but also mundane enough for it to be sung like a familiar air on the street.

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RealTin3Sn

2024-11-28 01:14:02

Let me review this first as Thanksgiving song and I'll edit it next year to talk about it relative to tessarakoste:

Woot somebody on the other side of the pond celebrates Thanksgiving! So we're not just a bunch of losers, those of us in the US and Canada. We should be grateful for nothing more than that. :O

But seriously. This is far and away the best Thanksgiving song I ever heard. When I first heard this, I thought you either had to be a wizard or an AI because you had combined all these different, seemingly irreconcilable ideas together flawlessly. This feels exactly like a JRPG composer wrote a Thanksgiving hymn in European style yet it feels so genuine too. Not like a novelty song.

Every note of this captures everything you said in the description without flaw. In other words, this has of the best Theme Representations I've ever heard. It makes me feel like I'm at Plymouth rock and I'm one of the pilgrims, eating dinner with my friends just being grateful for everything life has given me thus far.

My comment about comparing you to a wizard or an AI is not exaggerated. You blended hymns, Thanksgiving, and JRPG music together flawlessly and made something incredibly unique. Just enough to be in my list of the best songs ever.

Happy Thanksgiving Trois!

-Tin3Sn.

Troisnyx responds:

So, Thanksgiving... We don't celebrate it in Europe because we don't have the cultural connection (AND Indigenous peoples would rather we be aware of the ongoing sufferings they have gone through before and since then)

But the notion of giving thanks to our Maker, or to the people who helped us, is very much in us, so thanksgiving with a small T is what this song is about ☺️

And this much I can express

mutty99

2021-03-03 17:19:58

Reminds me of the PS1 variant of Wharf, a piece I hold very dearly. Very good emotional track!

CIEIRMusic

2021-03-03 09:36:27

I agree with @PIZZADAWG. This is wonderful.

PIZZADAWG

2021-03-02 14:31:47

someone pay this genius !!