Sayonara Wild Hearts - Turning Pop Music into a Video Game

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Published on October 30, 2019 12:11:43 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyiPVdw6_gU

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Sayonara Wild Hearts (2019)

Duration: 11:45

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Sayonara Wild Hearts is a self-professed "pop album video game." That doesn't mean it's just a poppy rhythm game or a playable music video - it's not. Rather, it's a game that has pop music built into its DNA.

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Interview source:
"Let's Pop: Behind the Bubblegum Dream of Sayonara Wild Hearts" by Brittany Vincent for EGM.
https://egmnow.com/lets-pop-simogo-on-building-the-bubblegum-dream-of-sayonara-wild-hearts/

Thank you to Jacob Geller for specifically recording some Rez Infinite footage just to send it to me. You'd enjoy his video on Ape Out and its wildly expressive and reactive soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H89AbaFA3w

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Sayonara Wild Hearts was developed by Simogo and published by Annapurna Interactive. All this footage was capture on the Nintendo Switch.

Game footage used in this video, in order of appearance:

0:25 - Sayonara Wild Hearts
9:31 - Sonic Adventure 2
9:34 - Star Fox Zero
9:36 - Rez Infinite
9:39 - Panzer Dragoon

I also use a bunch of music videos, which are:

0:06 - Beyonce - Love on Top
0:11 - Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
0:15 - Imagine Dragons - Thunder
0:18 - Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes
3:36 - Sayonara Wild Hearts - Wild Hearts Never Die
6:58 - Goyte - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)
7:01 - The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
7:04 - The National - Squalor Victoria
9:48 - Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)
9:50 - Luis Fonsi - Despacito (feat. Daddy Yankee)
9:55 - Lorde - Royals
9:59 - Lil Nas X - Old Town Road
10:03 - My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade
10:08 - Rosalia - Malamente
10:11 - Childish Gambino - This Is America
10:15 - Ariana Grande - thank u, next

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All music used in this video is from Sayonara Wild Hearts, which was composed by Daniel Olsén, with Jonathon Eng helping with the the pop songs, and features vocals by Linnea Olsson. Many of the tracks can be heard on the official soundtrack, which you can buy as a 2LP vinyl set at iam8bit. 😍

https://www.iam8bit.com/collections/sayonara-wild-hearts/products/sayonara-wild-hearts-2xlp-vinyl

I'm not sponsored for that, I just think it's really cool.

Some of the tracks are not on the official soundtrack, but are from the level select screen and various in-game menus. Here's a list of all the tracks I used:

0:00 - Sayonara Wild Heart (Album Arcade screen)
0:23 - Wild Hearts Never Die
0:51 - Wild Hearts Never Die (level select)
1:15 - Pause menu music
2:02 - Clair De Lune
2:35 - Hearts & Swords
3:03 - Hearts & Swords (level select)
3:43 - Night Drift
5:06 - Heartbreak III
5:18 - Begin Again
6:20 - Parallel Universes
6:48 - Parallel Universes (level select)
7:22 - Hate Skulls (level select)
7:51 - Heartbreak IV
8:20 - Reverie
8:58 - Heartbreak III
9:44 - Settings menu music
10:30 - Sayonara Wild Heart
11:24 - Begin Again (level select)

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Game Score Fanfare is a show that celebrates music in video games, an aspect so overlooked as that's often the point: to work without you even realising it's there. I look at games through the lens of its score, discovering the unique perspective and roles that music can bring.

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