The music in Nier does have lyrics but they’re not translatable, as Keiichi Okabe thought it would be too distracting, hence why he and Emi Evans came up with the series Chaos Language. I love how ethereal the singing is, the closest style of singing to this I can think of is Enka.
The best game of decade. The best OST of decade. Keep in mind, that almost all of the OST tracks for Automata exists in 4 completely different versions and are mixing on the air depending on interactive game context.. Plus lots of arrangements from piano to symphonic live performances.
"Everything that lives is designed to end. We are perpetually trapped in a never-ending spiral of life and death. Is this a curse? Or some kind of punishment? I often think about the god who blessed us with this cryptic puzzle...and wonder if we'll ever get the chance to kill him." -2B 11945 AD
At the storytelling part you mention a duality between technology and nature in choice of instruments. The game's story also puts a heavy emphasis on spirituality and consciousness, and it's discovery of, as concluded by you by simply hearing the song. Which I think the organ and 'tribal' chants reflect pretty well. Pulling similar strings to Ghost in the Shell, as mentioned in the comments a few times.
That music had always given me HEAVY Ghost in The Shell vibes, the first animated movie I mean, if you haven't listen this movie OST go have a listen and you'll see the similitude ^^
It’s funny that he liked the strings part. It sounded so gothic. Also it fit the part in the game where the Ho229 Unit was flying through the tight parts before it got destroyed, to reveal 2B for the first time.
If you’re gonna listen to more NieR music, I highly recommend Bipolar Nightmare, it’s a really good theme - especially hearing it during the boss fight
To elaborate further, Emi Evans (the singer in most Nier pieces) and Keichi Okabe (lead composer) have devised a really interesting system for how they make Chaos Language. Okabe will create the instrumental portion and send a sample to Evans. Evans then finds a language that she thinks fits the style of instrumental music. She then takes the most common sounds of that language, and uses those to write what could be called the lyrics. The idea is that, since the Nier games take place in the future, languages would have changed and evolved by then. This gives each song a few pieces that are seemingly recognizable to speakers of said language, but are just off enough to not really mean anything. Alex Moukala (I think that's how you spell his name) did a reaction to A Beautiful Song, and he pointed out that some parts of the song sound like Italian. Chaos language is super fun to listen to, especially if you try to guess the language of origin for each piece.
Nothing I have played even comes close to Nier:Automata soundwise Highly recommend playing, many of the tracks have layers added to them when you draw aggro and are therefore best listened to ingame
I have no idea why they had to go so hard with this creativity but I love it. All the half notes just had me sold on this being a masterpiece. Love it!!
So happy to have your thoughts on this song, as i have a very special relation with it. Let me explain. I'm a huge NieR fan. I, a 32 years old fully grown, pretty huge man, nearly cried when Automata was announced. Because the first one touched me in a way almost no other game managed to. Fast forward, a few months later, the demo for Automata is released. I boot it up, get past the menu, and this piece of music starts playing. The hype was already growing up, i could feel it, something was coming. And then the violin part kicked in, and i had no choice but to put down the controller, i couldn't play anymore, because i was straight up crying. I broke down, plain and simple, as deep down, i knew this game was gonna be as special as its predecessor was. And as of today, hearing this song still make my eyes wet, because that one moment i heard it for the very first time will always have a place in my memories, and a very special one at that. Music really is a blessing. Thanks for your work, Atlas !
this song always reminds me of a scene in ghost in the shell where it does a pan shot of all these buildings and lights and what looks like a festival or parade passing
The vocal performance is similar to that of the Ghost in the Shell (1995) movie opening. Actually there are a lot of parallels between Nier Automata and Ghost in the Shell.
That guitar play you did was a god send!! This soundtrack is one of my favs in these games. This however is not an area exclusive track. Rather it plays on scenarios where the machines (aliens, which make sense due to the title) are present, the player of course killing them in the process for exploring that area and getting to a story point. Hearing this in game is absolutely beautiful. This also plays on the presentation btw. You like organs? Boy you are in for a trip with these NieR OST. Also, the lyrics are gibberish. Known as Chaos Language by composer Keiichi Okabe and vocalist Emi Evans. It is done this way so that the music is not distracting. Anyway, great reaction!
Mate, you have to play this game next.. it will absolutely blow your mind and the music + story will destroy you emotionally. Not only that, it’s the final game in a 4 game series that You can enjoy without playing the others, though, you won’t really understand the truth of what’s actually happening, and the ending is gonna seem like something that it actually isn’t. Confusing series as it’s square enix and yoko, but goddamn is it the best story ever written.. ever!!
So Nier does have a language but it's not real. Composer believes that words distract from the sound, but still mean so much to music that it would be bad to not have any
Love that u do this, It’d be amazing if you did the Team Fortress 2 soundtrack Fight Songs It’s genuinely super well done big band 1960s spy jazz mixed with Enio Moricone, Synths, military drumming and other weird stuff, u definitely wouldn’t regret it
9:07 That's what I think too. I really like the more high-pitched vocal chant it got, and it's very rare. Beside Ar Tonelico, I've only heard little of it from Extremum Belli in Code Vein, and the 2nd final boss theme in Soul Hackers.
The stuff about this theme, as I understand it, is that the cute little robots, the machine lifeforms we fight, they are trying to emulate human behavior, but since they lack true emotions and souls, then they behave in a more primitive manner, which I think that's where the percussion lands in and the other compositional elements, could reflect the sad true the machine lifeform will always face and that is that they will never be human, no matter how much they try.
man you are so hard to find on the search button on youtube and im subbed lol i need to type atlas composer and look for many other channels and when i see your bald head i click lmfao XD
NieR's lyrics exist, but in order to prevent them from distracting and making people go "wait what was that line?" or people trying to find story or lore in the songs, it's a form of phonetic sound rather than a real language. The lyrics have no meaning, and they're just sounds. In a way, it's the voice used as a pure instrument, unrestricted by meaning or language. You still feel that emotional response from hearing a voice, but you no longer have that confusion of what you're feeling and what the lyrics are singing. It's... Well... It's a rather unique approach to vocals in music. Not entirely unheard of, but for a videogame OST it has this strangely beautiful connection that you rarely get in any other way. If I could request one to really show this, look up the vocal version of City Ruins. The game has many dynamic layers in the songs and sometimes you don't get the vocals or certain instruments, so be sure to get the vocals.
The music in Nier does have lyrics but they’re not translatable, as Keiichi Okabe thought it would be too distracting, hence why he and Emi Evans came up with the series Chaos Language. I love how ethereal the singing is, the closest style of singing to this I can think of is Enka.
Exactly, it remind me a lot of Ar Tonelico. 😁
also resembles some Bulgarian folk songs
Or Ghost in the Shell
I was gonna say it reminded me of Kate Bush.
Nier Automata won OST of the year for a reason 👊
More Nier music, please. One of the best soundtracks in gaming.
Amen to that. Spoken like a true god amongst androids
Correction the best soundtrack in gaming
We all react the same when the violin part comes out. So beautiful.
I will admit. Whenever I hear this song it's always the violin part I wanna hear
The best game of decade.
The best OST of decade.
Keep in mind, that almost all of the OST tracks for Automata exists in 4 completely different versions and are mixing on the air depending on interactive game context..
Plus lots of arrangements from piano to symphonic live performances.
I preferred Replicant's OST to Automata, but both are god tier
@@jonahbrown5669 both + drakengard's are transcendental
"Everything that lives is designed to end. We are perpetually trapped in a never-ending spiral of life and death. Is this a curse? Or some kind of punishment? I often think about the god who blessed us with this cryptic puzzle...and wonder if we'll ever get the chance to kill him." -2B 11945 AD
this is the first song you hear when you begin a playthrough
I'm so glad someone else reacted to that chord change at 3:13 in such a visceral way.
Ikr
That "Oooh" everyone feel the same in that part hahaha 🛐
At the storytelling part you mention a duality between technology and nature in choice of instruments. The game's story also puts a heavy emphasis on spirituality and consciousness, and it's discovery of, as concluded by you by simply hearing the song. Which I think the organ and 'tribal' chants reflect pretty well. Pulling similar strings to Ghost in the Shell, as mentioned in the comments a few times.
every OST of this game is sensational.
no matter how many times i played the game and hear this music, the violin part always give me goosebumps, its so beautiful
That music had always given me HEAVY Ghost in The Shell vibes, the first animated movie I mean, if you haven't listen this movie OST go have a listen and you'll see the similitude ^^
Wow, you are right, I never thought about it even tho I watched it. Now I realize why I loved it
Yeah I just commented the same. Automata and GitS have a lot of thematic parallels.
It’s funny that he liked the strings part. It sounded so gothic. Also it fit the part in the game where the Ho229 Unit was flying through the tight parts before it got destroyed, to reveal 2B for the first time.
Oh if you like organs in these OSTs then you will love Dark Colossus also from this soundtrack!!
If you’re gonna listen to more NieR music, I highly recommend Bipolar Nightmare, it’s a really good theme - especially hearing it during the boss fight
''Making of Cyborg'' has that same type of vocals and it's an amazing soundtrack. It is from Ghost in the Shell(1995)
If you compare the soundtracks from both franchises, it becomes very obvious that Okabe-san took inspiration from GitS.
@@maximiliansinigr3505 which is fitting very well, because both are about Cyborgs/Androids and a somewhat dystopian world.
The 3.04-59 section is incredible, gets me in the feels every time, helps me drift away on a sea of happiness
the Nier franchise has a full(or just about) language they made up called "Chaos language"
To elaborate further, Emi Evans (the singer in most Nier pieces) and Keichi Okabe (lead composer) have devised a really interesting system for how they make Chaos Language. Okabe will create the instrumental portion and send a sample to Evans. Evans then finds a language that she thinks fits the style of instrumental music. She then takes the most common sounds of that language, and uses those to write what could be called the lyrics. The idea is that, since the Nier games take place in the future, languages would have changed and evolved by then.
This gives each song a few pieces that are seemingly recognizable to speakers of said language, but are just off enough to not really mean anything. Alex Moukala (I think that's how you spell his name) did a reaction to A Beautiful Song, and he pointed out that some parts of the song sound like Italian.
Chaos language is super fun to listen to, especially if you try to guess the language of origin for each piece.
Nothing I have played even comes close to Nier:Automata soundwise
Highly recommend playing, many of the tracks have layers added to them when you draw aggro and are therefore best listened to ingame
I have no idea why they had to go so hard with this creativity but I love it. All the half notes just had me sold on this being a masterpiece. Love it!!
Muchas gracias por subir contenido de NieR: Automata :)
So happy to have your thoughts on this song, as i have a very special relation with it. Let me explain.
I'm a huge NieR fan. I, a 32 years old fully grown, pretty huge man, nearly cried when Automata was announced. Because the first one touched me in a way almost no other game managed to.
Fast forward, a few months later, the demo for Automata is released. I boot it up, get past the menu, and this piece of music starts playing. The hype was already growing up, i could feel it, something was coming. And then the violin part kicked in, and i had no choice but to put down the controller, i couldn't play anymore, because i was straight up crying. I broke down, plain and simple, as deep down, i knew this game was gonna be as special as its predecessor was.
And as of today, hearing this song still make my eyes wet, because that one moment i heard it for the very first time will always have a place in my memories, and a very special one at that.
Music really is a blessing. Thanks for your work, Atlas !
The power of music indeed
This game is quite the experience! I recommend putting it on your personal list ✅
Finally.
I love the organ melody, its very nostalgic and kinda sad. I want someone to do that melody solo.
this song always reminds me of a scene in ghost in the shell where it does a pan shot of all these buildings and lights and what looks like a festival or parade passing
Tracks from the Nier Replicant remake would be amazing!
The vocal performance is similar to that of the Ghost in the Shell (1995) movie opening.
Actually there are a lot of parallels between Nier Automata and Ghost in the Shell.
That guitar play you did was a god send!!
This soundtrack is one of my favs in these games. This however is not an area exclusive track. Rather it plays on scenarios where the machines (aliens, which make sense due to the title) are present, the player of course killing them in the process for exploring that area and getting to a story point. Hearing this in game is absolutely beautiful. This also plays on the presentation btw.
You like organs? Boy you are in for a trip with these NieR OST. Also, the lyrics are gibberish. Known as Chaos Language by composer Keiichi Okabe and vocalist Emi Evans. It is done this way so that the music is not distracting. Anyway, great reaction!
Thank you!
It takes to genuinely love music to react like this.
It reminds me of Caedeus’s theme from Monster Hunter 3, that’s style of vocals
2:59 Best Part
Mate, you have to play this game next.. it will absolutely blow your mind and the music + story will destroy you emotionally. Not only that, it’s the final game in a 4 game series that
You can enjoy without playing the others, though, you won’t really understand the truth of what’s actually happening, and the ending is gonna seem like something that it actually isn’t. Confusing series as it’s square enix and yoko, but goddamn is it the best story ever written.. ever!!
This is my favorite track in the game.
It have lyrics, but it is singed in chaos language. Language made by vocalist I believe.
in game, some of my favorite scenes have this song playing in the background. off game, i use this song as a metronome for keeping running pace.
So Nier does have a language but it's not real. Composer believes that words distract from the sound, but still mean so much to music that it would be bad to not have any
Finally!
One of my favorites songs from my favorite soundtrack.
Love that u do this, It’d be amazing if you did the Team Fortress 2 soundtrack Fight Songs
It’s genuinely super well done big band 1960s spy jazz mixed with Enio Moricone, Synths, military drumming and other weird stuff, u definitely wouldn’t regret it
9:07 That's what I think too. I really like the more high-pitched vocal chant it got, and it's very rare. Beside Ar Tonelico, I've only heard little of it from Extremum Belli in Code Vein, and the 2nd final boss theme in Soul Hackers.
violin part
2:58
5:19
Your welcome
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Its Chaos langauge. A laguage only in Neir.
The stuff about this theme, as I understand it, is that the cute little robots, the machine lifeforms we fight, they are trying to emulate human behavior, but since they lack true emotions and souls, then they behave in a more primitive manner, which I think that's where the percussion lands in and the other compositional elements, could reflect the sad true the machine lifeform will always face and that is that they will never be human, no matter how much they try.
Do "interstellar stomper" pretty please
Favorite intro song to a game all time
Ye
Interesting viewpoints, especially the robot/organic contrasting themes in the game
Thanks!
Did you react to mourning ? It's in the game as well and it's just magnificent
This game was a bit trickier to get used to, but damn I slurped it at once after that.
man you are so hard to find on the search button on youtube and im subbed lol i need to type atlas composer and look for many other channels and when i see your bald head i click lmfao XD
Not anymore 👍
Reminds me of Demon Slayer with the vocals.
Keiichi Okabe Nier&Drakengard 🖤
Les plus belles OST du jeux vidéo ❤️
The vocals reminds of ghost in the shell
NieR have the best soundtrack EVER
NieR's lyrics exist, but in order to prevent them from distracting and making people go "wait what was that line?" or people trying to find story or lore in the songs, it's a form of phonetic sound rather than a real language. The lyrics have no meaning, and they're just sounds. In a way, it's the voice used as a pure instrument, unrestricted by meaning or language. You still feel that emotional response from hearing a voice, but you no longer have that confusion of what you're feeling and what the lyrics are singing. It's... Well... It's a rather unique approach to vocals in music. Not entirely unheard of, but for a videogame OST it has this strangely beautiful connection that you rarely get in any other way. If I could request one to really show this, look up the vocal version of City Ruins. The game has many dynamic layers in the songs and sometimes you don't get the vocals or certain instruments, so be sure to get the vocals.
More Nier, especially Dark Colossus, pls
Darksiders main theme please!!!
Attack on Titan: Footsteps Of Doom
I did that already
Yeah Nier will never have recognizable lyrics. It's a hodge podge of different languages
Yo can you listen to Fatalis theme from monster hunter world iceborne?
Copied City OST place.
If you like organs in game music check out nier gestald shadowlord
Nier beaultiful song pls
If this song is a B-tier, then whats an A-tier?
Crazy Bus ost
@@AtlasBenighted Really? Is this the Sega Genesis game?
More nier músic and you have to play nier
Drakengard 1 ost? XD lel, just joking.
Actually, not joking, never seen anyone reacting to that madness.
@@divinehatred6021 It's brilliant in it's own tortuous way, like anti-music, and it works so well for the setting.
This was probably my favorite piece in the entire game until I heard Bipolar Nightmare. And even still I flip flop based on my mood at the time.