Studio Musician | Honkai: Star Rail OST: Phantylia The Undying Reaction & Analysis

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Honkai: Star Rail OST Reactions
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Second Boss Battle Theme from Honkai: Star Rail I do!
Phantylia The Undiying, 3 phases full of transcendant madness, the evolution of miHoyo is certainly intriguing and all the love they put in their work is mesmerizing. We all love to see how people reacted to this soundtrack!
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@wesyoung296 Жыл бұрын

The Chinese title of this song is '蝉喓歌', which means 'the song of the chirping of cicadas'. In Chinese culture, cicada is the symbol of immortal and eternity, which means undying. The vocal sound in this song is called 'the Dong's Chorus', a kind of a cappella from the southwest part of China. It's a traditional music of the Dong , one of the 56 ethnics of China. This form of performance has a history of thousands of years, and is usually performed by thousands of people together. And here's translation: Phase 1: It's vibrant when the sun rises, but gets withered when the sun sets. Just like the mayflies and the dew, sighing the rest time of life is so short. Your whole busy life is short as only one day, what a tragedy! Phase 2: Bewail for the elapse of time！ The struggle of life, the sadness of senescence, the pain of sickness. All of them is because of the terror of death! Even as the noble body of celestial being, there is also a day of ending. You can do nothing but sighing. The divine tree is exuberant, flowers and grasses grow around it. And now the divine fruits are on the branch! Phase 3: I take the order of the god, with such a long and prosperous life! With the bless of heaven, I will spray the shine among the stars!

@spymadmax584 Жыл бұрын

For those who don't know, the lyrics isn't in Chinese or mandarin. It's DONG. It's language of an ethnic tribe in China that solely rely on speaking, that's because dong has no script so majority of the lyrics is sung like sutras and the other parts are done by tibetan language

@lagrangewei Жыл бұрын

there is no tibetan.

@spymadmax584 Жыл бұрын

@@lagrangewei the music composer themselves said that they took inspiration from tibetan language in their behind the scenes video, wtf you're saying 🙂

@inx1629 Жыл бұрын

Check the video again, what they said is they “tried” various elements including tibetan however until they heard Dong they decided to settle with it. In the music there is only Dong but not tibetan in the end.

@wesyoung296 Жыл бұрын

Actually they didn't, they tried, but finally gave up. This is the Dong's language.

@ineedmorecarrots6063 Жыл бұрын

hehe DONG

@deltadeltaa Жыл бұрын

The thing about Star Rail's boss themes that I think is different with Genshin's is that the "boss themes" tells the story of the fight between the protagonists with the boss instead of just being all about the boss. Like the last phase in this Phantylia theme, they started adding Xianzhou's and Jing Yuan's theme that gradually takes over the song as a sort of resolution. That's why the last phase feels a bit different and suddenly feels more positive. It's like a mix of a boss theme and our (the protagonists) fight/battle song

@spymadmax584 Жыл бұрын

We'll get more time to explore about the boss pov in genshin so the osts are written from their perspective. Whereas in hsr, the Pacing of stories are quite quicker so we'll get little to no time learning about the bosses. Take cocolia for example, she came and died in a single chapter. PEOPLE who played hi3 know how important is cocolia for the story.

@skyzell5029 Жыл бұрын

@@spymadmax584 Tbh Cocolia is not that important in Hi3 as well, she play as an "opening" characters to open the opportunity to seele and bronya to have more development while in HSR she also became a "opening" characters that allow bronya meet us and then meet seele. Other than for bronya and seele honestly cocolia doesn't have any important role in both game

@spymadmax584 Жыл бұрын

@@skyzell5029 the point I was trying to make is that we don't need to focus on the bosses in hsr since the story pacing is fast. Forget cocolia, phantalia was introduced in this patch, there's not much foreshadowing of her in previous patches , except for the tingyun from teaser that came out an year ago.

@skyzell5029 Жыл бұрын

@@spymadmax584 yeah I know what you mean, i just wanted to clarify the Cocolia thing

@izu1624 Жыл бұрын

Apep actually similar to this where the boss theme is actually from the perspective of us the traveler instead of Apep theme

@batperson3532 Жыл бұрын

Phase 2 boss theme is great but phase 3 is something else. There is literally a fight going on where the track pulls you between hope and despair plus those Man of Steel drums are otherworldly

@agrexor3783 Жыл бұрын

I love how in the third phase there are hints of Honkai Star Rail's main theme's leitmotive in the middle of the really heroic and emotional part that kinda reminds us how monumental this fight is.

@imnotreanalbertospynotatal6968 Жыл бұрын

The boss is some kind of "galaxy destroyer" in a weak body. At the beginning she starts toying with us but she starts taking more seriously as the fight goes on

@cktan5369 Жыл бұрын

The boss was in her optimum form, after she got the ancient artifact of Medicine Master Yaoshi and used it to made an almost indestructible/undying body with infinity healing power. The artifact also powered by Stellaron, which is literally the Cancer of All Worlds that can destroy a planet. She herself is one of the seven Lord of God of Destruction, by combining all the power, she gained a flesh that possessed the power of both Destruction and Abundance, a form that embodies the cycle of death and rebirth. An Emanator with two paths is so crazy powerful. Even she feel sad and regret for losing the body that may help her to avoid fated destruction.

@Docotuero 11 ай бұрын

My dumb ahh brain read this and thought “ wait did he say Master Yoshi?!”

@cktan5369 11 ай бұрын

@@Docotuero LOL

@Toyotomi1992 Жыл бұрын

Dongzu Choir（侗族大歌/Al laox）！Proud for Chinese culture😊 6:46 My table and chair has been the WARRIOR DRUMS！😂 7:28 Cyber Sutra chanting😊《Annihilate Phantalia Sutra》

@zhou4931 Жыл бұрын

Those are not children chorus, but ''al laox'' from Chinese Gaeml people.

@arcadius3257 Жыл бұрын

Good music truly transcends language. I can't understand a word of it but its still absolute fire!

@sandermarkunzo4538 Жыл бұрын

Buddha's theme song be like: 👉 8:14

@HamBurgerHam. Жыл бұрын

i love the Jing Yuan theme in phase 3

@user-eg8mb8zf5b Жыл бұрын

bro singers r not kids, they r Dong ethnic minority in southwest of China, this singing form is called Doing Choir, u can check this two video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mtp2osqYy82reYk.html and another popular southwest style song: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o7d1edqm3M2aZ3k.html, hope u will enjoy it!

@yolod.gachagamer Жыл бұрын

Update 1.2 has been nothing but fantastic so far ngl

@wesyoung296 Жыл бұрын

Actually the vocal is not from children. It's the choir of the Dong's Chorus. The singers are from the University of Guizhou, a high school.

@robotx6259 Жыл бұрын

great .

@pablomontes7798 Жыл бұрын

hola buenas Jhulian , me gustan mucho tus reacciones , te mando saludos , te recomendaria que escuches la cancion de Frederic "kanashii ureshii" , esta muy buena

@Maraschino47 11 ай бұрын

If you love this then you’re going to love more of Honkai Star Rail’s OST! I think it would be great if you could listen to more of mihoyo’s tracks. (esp Honkai Impact 3rd)

@iamkopicups 8 ай бұрын

it has to be this way. the battle might end anytime after all.

@weertangel7231 Жыл бұрын

It is a amazing OST, but if u want some context, just watch a video of the fight, it shows u when the music changes as the fight changes phases.

@mr_magnum21 Жыл бұрын

Ok, the second :)

@kitsuchii6809 11 ай бұрын

Did you saw honkai 3rd capricho koncert? Its sic

@T29hotrod Жыл бұрын

Yo Jhulian can you check out NIKKE soundtracks they are bangers. Here's 2 to look at Strong Hold Land Eater Inferno of Nihilist/ Burn it all

@ara_ara- 11 ай бұрын

Since you watched demon slayer you know the vibes, this reminded me a lot of demon slayer ost

@MCMH5.23 11 ай бұрын

ㅁㅈㅎ준다 ㅇㄱㅇ

@arwi9528 Жыл бұрын

First! Hell yeah.

@Jhulian_R Жыл бұрын

❤️

@saremsttral3954 11 ай бұрын

hear honkai impact 3rd iras 17514

@So_Viet8032 10 ай бұрын

That accent tho

@jpgarcia7892 Жыл бұрын

That form of choir singing is called the Bulgarian chant choir, first popularized by Kenji Kawaii for his now 8conic theme for the 1995 anime film adaptation of the cyberpunk manga, "Ghost in the Shell". You should cons8der checking out "Making of a Cyborg" by Kenji Kawaii if this song picqued your interest.

@pearlblack9753 Жыл бұрын

I think that part of choir is supposed to sound like Buddhist chanting. actually the chant in ghost in the shell is inspired by Buddhist chanting.

@drpaimon2369 Жыл бұрын

Not exactly, in this case it's a type of traditional Kam singing style from south east China. It utilizes similar techniques as Bulgarian chant choir. There's actually even more cultures that utilise similar singing techniques, making them all have a similar sound quality.

@lagrangewei Жыл бұрын

wrong. this is dong choir. if you actually listen to bulgarian chant before, you won't hear thing like 8:14 , that is a very distinctly buddhist arrangement.

@pearlblack9753 Жыл бұрын

I searched bulgarian chant Choir and it sounds nothing like this, bulgarian chant choir basically sound like a church.

@drpaimon2369 Жыл бұрын

@@pearlblack9753 well that's the Bulgarian church chant, OP meant the folk choir utilising female vocals. It does sound similar, but it's not quite the same.

@natsumischwartz957 Жыл бұрын

1st not children 2nd not trap, you should look up

@Jhulian_R Жыл бұрын

1. I said sounds LIKE children 2. I said Trap-ISH (only talking about the PERCUSSION, ONLY of that passage) You should get reading/listening/language comprehension classes ASAP