🧵🎼🎹Dottore's boss OST breakdown - Between unhinged power and selfish guidance
Nothing is simple, nothing is straightforward in this impressive track, definitely one of Yuxi Wang's peaks.
This music stuns, puzzles, overwhelms, all while keeping its secrets well hidden.
@genshin_music Made this Genshin Impact music statistics sheet recently. If you think it’s worth sharing, feel free to post the image and spread it around.
@yu_kiyo_enjoyer This is only one example, but I hope it encourages people to think more deeply about what “good music” really means. Music can be beautiful in many different ways, and I think we should approach more kinds of music with greater openness and appreciation.
@yu_kiyo_enjoyer I’ve seen quite a few people saying that the weekly boss themes have “gotten worse,” but honestly, I don’t think that’s true at all. Music comes in an enormous variety of styles and forms, and when people say the newer themes are worse, what they often really mean is that they
@yu_kiyo_enjoyer Maybe it doesn’t sound as emotional as Scaramouche’s theme, but that doesn’t make it worse. It simply achieves its greatness in a different way.
@yu_kiyo_enjoyer It is genuinely innovative, sounding completely unlike any previous weekly boss theme, and the writing itself is actually incredibly complex beneath the surface.
@yu_kiyo_enjoyer In fact, from a purely musical and artistic standpoint, “Prajnaparamitopadesa to Quell Seven Calamities” is one of the most artistically sophisticated weekly boss themes Genshin has ever produced.
@yu_kiyo_enjoyer personally miss a specific type of boss music from the past. They want another Scaramouche theme. But repeating the exact same pattern over and over again would be meaningless.
What we need is something new. We need innovation, not repetition and imitation of the past.
@HikaAki In fact, many people have this flaw, and I may as well: equating personal preference with objective quality. From an ordinary person, that’s not a big issue. But from a creator with half a million followers, it feels rather irresponsible.
@HikaAki I think his musical insight is limited and his taste too narrow. That alone isn’t worth criticizing—he is after all just an "singer". But when he uses such narrow views to attack an excellent work simply because it doesn’t fit his own standards, it becomes extremely irritating.
@HikaAki I might not have explained it clearly: it’s originally a complete piece of music, but in the game it’s split into sections, and each part is looped individually. You can check the timestamps in my reply below.
@HikaAki Interesting Fact
I realized that the world quest boss theme is built on interactive music mechanics.
(All timestamps refer to the original audio track)