Arcane was so great I have arisen from my sarcophagus to talk about its music for 22 straight minutes. Watch it?
Arcane is an exception to the rule that a game adaptation can't be great, that a CG animated TV show can't be cinematic quality, and that score and soundtrack are fundamentally separate.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:31 Piltover - Progress theme
4:08 Zaun - Playground and Dirty Little Animals
6:10 Orchestral vs. Pop music - a narrative analysis
8:26 ***SPOILERS***
8:36 Sisters theme
11:04 Jinx's Violin
12:15 The showstoppers
12:59 Goodbye
14:40 Guns for Hire
16:25 What Could Have Been
19:46 Scoring pop songs to picture
21:02 Outro
The Making of ‘What Could Have Been’ from Arcane | Sting ft. Ray Chen:
https://youtu.be/_DegKNj62-w
What Could Have Been CSMT Transcription:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sERPiwZuImSr8NsqCE4nnUSLk1vMet29/view?usp=sharing
Thank you to my artist and friend Sarah Cruz