That won't stop people from just reading the title and posting a reaction
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Yoko Shimomura has composed a tribute track for XXXTentacion in the anniversary edition of his final album (UPDATE: It's Real. See Threadmark.)
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She probably thought it was the name of a new Kingdom Hearts port
She likely has no clue what it's for. Then again, I know nothing about Yoko Shimomura's personal views so who knows?
I wouldn't blame people for expecting that multi-billion dollar record label isn't blatantly lying in their liner notes.
Welp there goes some of my opinion of Yoko. Damn, why even do this?
Edit: wait it's just some bullshit? Nvm then.
Edit: wait it's just some bullshit? Nvm then.
It sounds to me like she either didn't care enough to put any effort into it or she was only slightly involved if at all.
Literally one person called for "canceling" her in this thread, and I'm pretty sure they were joking.
Utada and Skrillex have been friends for years, apparently, so that collaboration makes some sense at least.
These nonsense noise posts mocking people for not supporting people they feel cross a line are far, far worse than any perceived "cAnCeL cUlTuRE".
Imagine posting this and thinking you had something.
I mean it's not though, that was an actual collaboration.
This is...I don't know what this is.
Dude let's get an update on that thread title since clearly there's a lot of questions and doubts here, it's not even remotely as definitive as the title makes it sound and I'd hate if people just read the title and ran with it.
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I just got mods to update the title.
Universal Music are claiming it's a tribute from Shimomura and that hasn't changed, we don't however know the extent to the collaboration. She probably just got her agent to sign off on it.
I honestly think it might be legit? Like all press releases of the album specifically state that it's a tribute to him from her. Even the official site says this. Maybe they DID get in contact with her? I have no fucking idea. This thread took a weird turn all of a sudden LOL
It could be that the "tribute" is the fact that she gave the OK for his estate to use the music (assuming she has the say and not Square). Not everyone allows their music to be licensed to everybody.
What is moral gymnastics?
So far this is a story and people are giving their take.
This isn't moral gymnastics, it's more like moral being pushed down the stairs
Yea I hope we get clarification soon because from where I'm standing I highly doubt she has even an inkling of what her music has been attached to, and at any rate it's clear she didn't "compose music for XXXtentacion" in the sense that the record label implies (i.e. "Shimomura made this tribute track for XXXtentacion").
What moral gymnastics?
Most of this thread is trying to actually figure out the situation because it's so weird.
Hell, I though maybe XXX's people could have just taken it from an audio pool if they shared the same parent company labels but Yoko is mostly Sony Music and EFI and XXX is Universal.
Nothing about this makes sense, there's no reason why any parties involved would agree to this.
It happens all the time... people love something or someone... someone supposedly does something... and now they have to figure out if they are going to hold someone to values that they have held others to... or make justifications for why said someone is doing something they disagree with. I think it's entertaining that's all.
It really is weird
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Are you cool with this title then?
"Yoko Shimomura allegedly composed a tribute track for XXXTentacion in the anniversary edition of his final album according to Universal Music"
He's dead. He also made an incredibly poignant album whose influence will be felt for decades. X the guy was an asshole, X the artist was pretty much a once in a generation genius.
I got a random theory on this. XXXtentacion like Kingdom Hearts, even had a KH3 Sora figure he posted on his Snapchat (saw picture on the KH subreddit and learned the former info from a former co-worker). Someone saw that Yoko composed for the KH series and picked a sad sounding song made by her, not knowing the song wasn't from KH, and added more instruments to it.
Yes, they literally are. Take a step back and stop adding to the noise.
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This is the most likely scenario. It also means the liner notes are wrong.