This is probably why Marty was fired (Destiny)

by Leviathan , Hotel Zanzibar, Monday, December 08, 2014, 19:24 (3878 days ago) @ Cody Miller

He tried to put his foot down and stop this embarrassment from getting out . . .

I'm pretty sure he was super-excited to work with a living legend, actually...

Which is made all the more amusing when something like this is the result :-p

Hey, maybe they dig it, I don't know. I've always had to skip/delete those bonus songs by random bands included on the Halo soundtracks. This is like the ultimate expression of that, heh. :)

It's kind of funny though - Paul made, what I think is, one of the better James Bond songs, and here he is doing the same kind of thing for Destiny, and it seems at home with some of the cheesiest Bond songs. Paul still has a great voice, but I think the problem is really all in the lyrics. When you sync up your contribution to the associated work too much, too simply, too blatantly, it just goes over the top. Put it into a video and it's definitely too much, even before the weird hologram thing.

You see a film where somebody goes through a breakup and a song starts playing with the words "breakups are bad, do dee do dee do" and you're not adding anything to the sequence. You're concreting it for the audience instead of opening it up. I've always enjoyed music selection that supplements a work but adds its own separate elements to the interpretation, the expansion, of the ideas being expressed in the original medium. Probably why a couple of my favorite Bong themes are the ones that don't have the title of the movie in the chorus...