I try not to obsess about this, but occasionally I'll run across a music clip from the Shore soundtrack for LotR and wind up feeling incredibly frustrated. Let me attempt to begin explaining why. Perhaps doing so will be therapeutic for me, and I'll be able to shrug it off the next time. (But probably not.)

Let's consider this purely as music, and ( Read more... )

Admittedly, I probably wouldn't care all that much (although the repetitive themes are annoying) if I didn't love this style of music so much:

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It sounds like the Icelandic countryside, or the ocean in winter, or corn fields and bare trees in late November, and these are all things that I love. This sound makes me yearn. My heart pants, it thirsts ( Read more... )

I have a theory about movie music: it should be another aspect of world-building. Just as you build sets and pick out costumes and do all the rest in order to create the illusion of a world that doesn't actually exist (in the movies, not even real-world places are real, if only because they're framed by the camera; by choosing my shots carefully, I ( Read more... )