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MeGaLoVania

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By Toby Fox tobyfox Bandcamp tobyfox Twitter toby.fangamer.com Other fwugradiation Tumblr ← Umbral Ultimatum Previous track by this artist → Gaia Queen Next track by this artist.
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Released 1/5/2011.
Duration: 2:47.

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Toby Fox: (MSPA forums, excerpts) captured 3/15/2016

Megalovania wasn't intended to be anybody's anything but if people want to perceive it as Vriska's theme it's fine. I just figured that if the trolls had chapters to themselves a la Live-A-Live, it might be the chapter boss theme.

Namewise yes, it is a direct reference to MEGALOMANIA from Live A Live. I've seen a few people pick up on that because that's cool. The chords are kind of similar but I wouldn't say it's a huge inspiration for the COMPOSITION of the song itself but it's TOTALLY attempting to be the kind of a badass song that might be suitable for a similar purpose.

A little more in-depth: I originally made it for that Halloween EarthBound hack forever ago (and by forever ago I mean "back in high school") and people were ripping the song themselves from the game. I felt like maybe I should do a semi-official release ripped straight from the music editor program (the song actually lags in-game). I realized the song didn't have a name, so I took the inspiration for the track and the whole idea of the final battle (Megalomania) and just slammed some Halloweeniness into it (transylVANIA) and boom Megalovania.

Theeeen by Album 6 there were 3 different versions of the songs so I threw weird capitals into it.

Also as long as I'm talking about the track, I've heard some people complain about the new guitar recordings versus the supervibrato crazy fakeguitars I usually use.* If the recordings sound bad, it's basically because I didn't alter the original crazy parts to make them playable, plus all of my written parts were REALLY stretching the area that a guitar can play without sounding screechy and stupid (this was aided by the fact that Tensei's guitar goes a whole note higher than most guitars can). I think I just made it so it was badass enough to make up for the fact that I kinda messed that up (the track sounds good to me and Tensei, so whatever). I tried alternatives, but the fakeguitars sounded muddy when I tested them down an octave (because of the original SNES track in the background was already occupying that space, and the SNES track is essentially uneditable - which, again, resulted in me writing a pretty uncreative solo section with the same chords complete with fade lolololol)

So, that was a learning experience for me! Next time I'll start the piece off with non-screechy parts that are physically possible to play, and... also I won't have an SNES track in the background (I kinda felt that was the purpose of the song SO I JUST COULDNT TAKE IT OUT) so the parts won't have to be in the upper octave and be screechy and the chords won't be the same... so I'll be able to actually... compose a real B section.

That being said... I'm still pretty damn happy with it as a first try, especially given the whole Super Nintendo thing.

*People complain about literally everything but I feel like this is at least kinda a legit complaint.

Andrew Hussie: (Homestuck Book 6: Act 5 Act 2 Part 2, p. 101, excerpt)

Also, upon loading, this Flash cues up the song "Megalovania" by Toby Fox, which, you know, at the time was no big deal. Just another cool song from the greater discography dropped into one of these animations. But then years later he used it again in Undertale, thus somewhat rebranding the public's association with it. Does that mean it's fair to say it's more of an Undertale song than a Homestuck song now? This question, of course, is completely ridiculous, since the answer is: it's neither. It still is, always has been, and always will be, a Vriska song.

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