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Bandcamp: https://paranoiddj.bandcamp.com/track/it-was-beautiful-feat-cycoriot-the-mediocre-dutchman
iTunes: Coming Soon
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5nxxN6SnH1TYYbQLhZ3EtY
Apple Music: Coming Soon
A brand new original song based around Lucifer and Charlie Morningstar, featuring originally created backing music, sound design, visuals and artwork.
A new year, a new track in this universe, and a chance to update some old characterisation that comes closer to what we finally got in the final completed show after so long.
My original attempts at Lucifer years ago were done on rather little information in comparison to other tracks. Outside of a general idea of him being somewhat dismissive of Charlie, there weren't many clues as to who he was, how he sounded, or how he acted. As a result, my interpretation through the 'Change The Order' project of Lucifer covering a Silent Hill song was wildly inaccurate, even if the themes of a resentment of Heaven were true. And on the other side of that, Charlie had never really been given a chance to shine on my prior Hellaverse work. Projects featuring female vocalists and characters often takes a lot longer to write and create compared to others I've done solo and I'd been wanting a chance to give her a chance to shine ever since her original featured appearance during 'We're Sure To Drown'.
In the wake of the end of Season 1, and the wonderful portrayal of both these characters that helped to establish Lucifer as a favourite, 'It Was Beautiful' was written to serve as an epilogue to the events of that season. I wanted to ground a track like this around a possible scene before the start of Season 2, where Charlie and Lucifer have a chance to reflect on what's happened and have a moment to bond more beyond the brief chance they had. Rather than create something high paced and energetic as I'm normally known for, I wanted to go back to instrumentation similar to Just Look My Way and embrace the sound of more musical-based works to create something emotionally effective.
Bringing back Cycoriot's immense vocal talent to reprise Charlie was a no-brainer, especially after such a stellar job of adding depth to the Husk track with the callbacks and vocalisation that came so close to the final version of the character. But the main thing holding this track from release for longer than I'd like was frankly my own shortcomings: Lucifer's canonical voice being something I just simply could not do myself. Luckily in my aim to make these projects as real to the source as possible, hearing the efforts of The Mediocre Dutchman as Lucifer in the Hazbin Internet parodies was just what was this track needed. The pair of them together on this truly made it shine, coming so close to the reality of these characters at times that it blew me away.
Add into all this some truly stunning artwork and visual presentation from Rayne, who added so much incredible detail and accuracy to their art in everything from the basic shapes to the colour schemes being 1 to 1, and welcoming back MrDemoVE again to bring it all to life with superb editing skills, and this is something I am truly proud of. Make sure to support all of them using the links below for their awesome talents.
And see if you can spot the little dig at myself in the intro!
Music Production, Vocals, Lyrics, Sound Design: Myself (PARANOiD DJ)
Voice of Charlie: Cycoriot
https://twitter.com/Cycoriot
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1TDqkz7vwjYJTlC56UBm18?si=U6VRk1baRKeCaVAijq8TyQ&nd=1&dlsi=08d3a06e178b4f43
https://t.co/dZKgPrUJRg
Voice of Lucifer: The Mediocre Dutchman
https://twitter.com/PGoetia
Artwork & Visual Assets: Rayne
https://twitter.com/Rayne_Deer
Motion Design & Video Editing: MrDemoVE
https://youtube.com/@MrDemoVE?si=wIDSHpIxMCfCX-TN
https://x.com/MrDemoVE?t=-i6OdG8Yy2AOoyfiNVBP1g&s=09
https://bsky.app/profile/mrdemove.bsky.social
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