#acnl music

[retrogamingblog2]

reminder that KK Slider is a good boy

[video-game-jams]

Animal Crossing: New Leaf - 7 PM

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 29/03/2024

Luna, mi Amor

Season 8 No Album Release (Read More) K.K. Moody (Cherry Mix) - Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Ripped by Astor, BrahaMan Visuals by Café con leche, Elsix64

You've probably noticed if you've been reading day-by-day just how comparatively high the frequency of Season 8 rips has been already, at slightly more than one covered per week on average. That's of course because Season 8 has far more catching up to do in terms of coverage here on the blog - perhaps to be expected, given that it has only been running for about a month wheras the blog itself is now pushing past 10 months of activity. But to be clear - I'm not going to have my intentions of covering Season 8 rips at a higher rate cloud my judgement on what rips end up on here. I'll write when there's something to write about, as there was with Euler's Panties, Willievan Afton Polkka, and indeed today's rip - Luna, mi Amor.

Readers who keep up what I do on this blog besides these posts may have already been made aware of this rip's existence by this reblog of its key artwork, with Animal Crossing villager Cherry holding a bouquet of maroon pansies. It's entirely reasonable that the reference is lost on you, as it was for me - yet the presence of such visuals in the rip, paired with the beauty of the rip's audio, invigorated me to dig deeper. What I found was yet one more reminder of one of the things I've hammered home on this blog as one of SiIvaGunner's most defining aspects, not only recently with Poké Village but at pretty regular intervals in posts like As Miku Collides. What I found was one of the most beautiful displays of the SiIvaGunner channel's ability to be a melting pot of all different walks of life, and in this case, even extending to different parts of the world.

Much like the joke of the rip itself, initially the people who created it stood as a big question-mark for me. Its not that any of them are inexperienced rippers and/or artists - far from it - but their activity has largely been on SiIvaGunner fan channels as covered in V​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​a​-​V​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​r. This includes Vvvvvavvvvvvr itself and TimmyTurnersGrandDad, but more notably - channels you may not have heard of, like SiIvaLatin and GiIvaLatinSunner. As you can perhaps tell by their names, these are channels defined not solely by their independent nature, but specifically by the culture and memes prevalent in Latin America. And sure, we've had some funny Brazil-related postings on SiIva, but its predominantly stuff like Os Barões da Pisadinha - a meme that despite its origins has received somewhat mainstream attention outside of the Latin American regions, making rips like Rainbow Baroad understandable and funny even to outsiders like myself. Barões are great, don't get me wrong, but Luna, mi Amor feels like a far more personal, genuine, and heartfelt act of culture exchange. A way to give us SiIvaGunner viewers, who are out of the loop with the beauty of regions like South America, a peek into just what we're missing.

The joke of the rip, and by proxy the reference the artwork is hinting at, is to Mexico/Chilean musician and overall acclaimed artist Mon Laferte, and the single Amor Completo from her 2015 album Mon Laferte, Vol. 1. Luna, mi Amor is a melodyswap to this song - specifically having it be sung with the in-game vocalizations of the character featured in the artwork herself, Cherry - and the rip was so well done, that I felt a need to go listen to the original song. It's enchantingly beautiful and uplifting, yet at once a little bittersweet - the feelings of love, passion and true romance are completely understandable even past the language barrier. In that sense, I suppose Luna, mi Amor takes things yet one step further, beyond even what a rip like Moves Like K.K. did with Animal Crossing music as a source, in replacing those vocals to the explicitly unintelligible vocalizations of the Animal Crossing cast. The emotions in the rip can no longer be conveyed through vocalized words with meaning - no matter where in the world you live, Luna, mi Amor's beauty has to shine through in its music alone.

And, if it wasn't immensely evident by this point, I do believe it succeeds at that effort in spades. The gentle, nostalgic strumming of K.K. Slider's guitar works to excellent effect, but there's something just so endearing about hearing the sounds Animal Crossing vocals - which many of us likely associate with peppier songs like Bubblegum K.K. - attached to a piece with such passionate meaning ascribed to it. It's a fantastic rip on every front, but most importantly, it stands out in such a meaningful way. Amidst all the great stuff we've gotten in Season 8 thus far, be it bangers, reoccurring jokes, fun events or nostalgic reminiscing, I wouldn't necessarily say that Luna, mi Amor is my favorite - but it is perhaps the rip I've spent the longest thinking about, and by proxy the one that'll likely stay with me until the end of the year and beyond. The invitation to listen in to this small little nugget of culture from the other side of the world was one I was not expecting, but one I'm now very grateful to have received.

[franticmelody]

animal crossing new leaf ost... so beautiful... so serene... timeless... why are you one of the best videogame soundtracks of all time I love you

[polybrow]

K.K. Jiggy-Wiv-It

[vomitpukey]

Just in time for pride!

[shopwitchvamp]

The skirt:

The music rec:

[worstvideogamesong-poll]

Worst Video Game Song Tournament - Round 1 Match 2

K.K. Synth - Animal Crossing: New Leaf

VERSUS

Bad Feeling - Mad Rat Dead

FIGHT!

I would recommend listening to as much as you can of each song before voting, but how you choose is up to you! Remember to be civil in the tags and replies!

Propaganda under cut:

K.K. Synth:

"this is so grating on the ears and so overstimulating. literally the worst K.K. Slider song. pain. all I know is pain."

Bad Feeling:

"this song sticks out like a SORE THUMB compared to other MRD tracks. One Day at Laboratory is also dubstep but Bad Feeling is FULL-ON DUBSTEP. like. no punches are being held here. it punches you in the dick with its BWAMP"

Feel free to add more propaganda in the tags and replies, or send it to me in the ask box and I'll try to share it as soon as I can!

[gomatose]

[hyahyahyahya]

Music is such a wonderful gift to share🎵 Meet Toccata, my latest Animal Crossing OC!

[rorotoru]

2020.08

Live keyboard recording performed by me. Top 10 K.K. Slider Bangers

[medicallymercury]

I don’t wanna be bitchy but this defence of “it doesn’t matter if the letter said that Dylan’s autistic” that people use whenever someone criticises how Casualty went about that storyline kinda irks me because

1.) it did, he is

2.) that’s not even really what people are criticising

3.) I’m sorry, YES IT DOES

not even just on a level of “it matters that Dylan is autistic (and knows he’s autistic) to the many people who have seen themselves in him and his experiences for years” but also just…

even if this wasn’t a storyline about a character who clearly already knew they were autistic before they supposedly ‘found out’, even if this was about a character a realising you’re autistic in adulthood storyline would work for, it WOULD matter that they are autistic and have just found out!!

I’m saying this as someone who realised I’m autistic a couple years ago, obviously not in adulthood, but late enough that it felt like and still feels like I realised it ‘later’: it does matter! like, of course, it doesn’t change who you are or how good you are at your job or anything like that, you are the same person you were before you found out, but it does change your total understanding of yourself and that is a massive deal, maybe if I put it like this: finding out I’m autistic didn’t change who I am but it did (massively) change my understanding of who I am - and that has impacted how I live my life

even if they had done this storyline with a character it actually worked for, I wouldn’t want the final message to be “it doesn’t matter” with, like, no follow up - I would want it to continue with showing how finding out you’re autistic later on leads you to change certain aspects of how you live your life as you go from viewing your autistic traits as ‘problems’ you have to deal with to recognising them as just autistic traits you maybe need accommodations for

I’m really worried this post might get misconstrued as me agreeing with Patrick or saying “it does matter that Dylan is autistic, it changes everything about him” NO!!! finding out he’s autistic (massive quotation marks) does not change who he is as a person or how good of a doctor he is, but it WOULD change his understanding of himself and how he lives his life with that new understanding and, frankly, they can’t do that kind of continuation with Dylan only now living as someone who knows he’s autistic because he has lived as someone who knows he’s autistic for as long as he’s been on the show

[raindearreindeer]

[itwaslegendary]

i'm getting obsessed with animal crossing again and my mom is making fun of me for that calling me childish and immature 😐 idk what even is the issue i’m not bothering anyone nor causing any harm- i'm simply lying on the sofa playing my switch while listening to my records....? it's a cute fun relaxing game i really don't get where's the issue... would she rather i go get stoned with the people from my school? maybe that's a more "mature" activity for her 🤷‍♀️

[fartgirl4000]

the 7pm soundtrack in acnl