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[high pitched demon summoning]

This sounds like the type of thing you'd hear in a random cursed scratch game. Like, each time you eat an apple, the screen gradually turns redder and redder. The sounds of the damned slowly start getting more and more violent as the volume increases. The more you play, the more you realise a reflection of yourself in the game. The game then zooms out and the apples which you once ate, now are in the pattern of your face. Tracking your every movement. You hear your phone ring. The screen turns completely black as the colour red darkens. The sounds of the damned screaming in your ear. Your fight or flight reflexes kick in as you pick up your phone. You hear this deep demonic voice telling you to go outside. You take off your headphones but somehow you still hear the screams of the damned. As you stumble towards your front door, your vision begins to blur. You open the door and you can barely make out the image of a man. You hear a loud bang and you feel a sharp pain in your chest. You've just been shot. You collapse to the floor and lay there as your life flashes before your eyes. Soon after, you're blinded by a bright white light. You wake up in a chair surrounded by a bunch of scientists. One of the men tells you that you have been awoken from your simulation because someone wants to speak with you. You are hesitant but you leave the room to meet this person. AS you enter a room, you see a man with no eyes. The screams start to play up again and you become lightheaded. The man with no eyes walks over to you to inform you about your extended car warranty.

You know that relatable moment? Just me? Ok... Nice sound effect though.

RosieUV responds:

how have i only just found this

[figures dentist music]

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Zone18069 responds:

WAAAAAAAAWEWEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Iowa]

This is a very nice song. I really like the use of contrasting low notes throughout the song. It's something that I haven't seen you use much and I feel like you used the low notes great here. They really bring depth to the song and makes the song feel richer as a whole. I really like the piano solo in the middle of the song. I'm very sorry for taking so long to respond to the song. I didn't see it initially until I went on your account and saw it there. I can really feel the Halloween vibes from this. Honestly, I feel like this is your best song yet. The general theme and feel of this song are great. It's very different from your songs in terms of style and range. My favourite of your songs constantly changes because you improve production and general musicality in every song. I really love the use of distorted and mangled notes towards the end of the song. It was a giant surprise and it made this piece sounds a whole lot better. You ended the song off phenomenally. Overall, I really love the song. I look forward to what you make next!

I just have a quick question; what are you going to do once you do every state of the US? Will you find a new naming scheme or will you just start making songs without any correlation with one another?

50Steaks responds:

There were just so many subtleties I wanted to include with this one. I’ve at this point had five chances to remake the melody from early July of 2020, so I wanted this to live up to how I thought the best Missouri would sound like. What I accomplished exceeded my expectations: this atmosphere is really what I wanted from the beginning. At the final climax, 3:57, the distortion goes away and you can hear the song clearly one last time. It was almost like the peak of the Missouri melody. On top of that, what I did with the low notes as you said is I gave them a ton of bass and no high frequencies and did the opposite for most of the other instruments. This produced a gritty, slightly distorted sound that I adored and still left enough room to not sound messy. As for the pitch bending at the end, I felt it was the most appropriate ending for a Halloween song such as this.
What do I plan to do after I’m done? I talked about this in a news post a few months back: essentially I joked about making a song for every country. Honestly there are close to 200 countries currently on this planet, and some of them I know absolutely nothing about so that wouldn’t really work that well. Another option is to just post random songs, but I was kinda planning to just have this account be dedicated to the series as a sort of piece of internet history, and to release more songs would only bloat what’s already there, if that makes any sense. In other words, 50 songs for 50 states; I could just as easily make an alternate account to post future songs on if I were to go the route of posting random songs with no correlation. At this point I haven’t decided which, or a third option to start making songs on cities, which would also be difficult. Another option I see is to make songs on Canadian provinces, but I can’t tell you two differences between Saskatchewan and Alberta. This issue is even a problem right now as I struggle to see if I can make two songs for North and South Dakota when they are practically the same thing.
A long review deserves a long reply lol. TL:DR I am surprised you thought this was my best as always, although I did put a lot of effort into sound design. For the future I don’t know but am considering making a second account.

[The Amiable]

Very soft and relaxing piano. Very nice! I really like the shift in tone at 00:29. It adds a good flavour to the music.

BigBoyGotRefund responds:

Thank you (:

[concrete cult kill count]

Very nice and discordant. I feel like the song could be a little longer and have a little more progression.

SirSandman0 responds:

thanks for the feedback!

[stupid beepbox thingy]

Honestly, this is pretty impressive with the limited customizability beepbox gives. I feel like programs like hookpad are much better for making small little repetitive tunes as it is easy to use. However, it uses a little music theory and can be a little scary at first.

motdab responds:

thank you!

[Neo-Pegasus]

Absolutely love this. Great job Dan! I love how you mixed metal with a little bit of that videogame 8-bit sounding thing.

DanJohansen responds:

Thanks man! Yeah I love mixing in old school video game type synths :D I get a kick of that energy

[Colorado]

Very nice opening. It really reminded me of a trailer for one of the Forza Horizon games. You really introduced the song very well with the opening and the effects/dynamics used. It's like setting the scene of a movie. However, 00:55 has a diminished chord which doesn't carry the flow of the song as well as I'd like. It would have been much better to use the diminished chord right before changing into a different section or if you wanted to bring the melody up an octave. Hearing a diminished chord once every five chords make it begin losing its effect. The very powerful thing about diminished chords is that they can really elevate a melody/verse if used sparingly and effectively. It can help elevate the feeling of conclusion before the final chord of the verse; however, if used too much then it could make the verse worse for the people listening. Diminished chords are very make or break and you have to be careful with them. I really like how you finished off the piece. Slowing it down and using a diminuendo. I really liked the use of discordant notes in 1:45. It brings a lot of personality to the piece and it works really well with the piece. I feel like you should have added more separate sections to avoid repeating the melody for too long. Overall, I really like the piece. I think you did a great job on it and most of the things I've criticized has been opinionated and you may completely disagree with me.

Edit: I just realized you said "Last notable state done". xD That genuinely made me laugh.

50Steaks responds:

Now that I think about it and after really listening to this a few times over post publishing I do think you’re correct. I initially thought that the first half was superior to the second, but I think I got a little too excited on the emotional effect of the chords that I may have… overused them a little in that first half. Looking back I would love to spice up that first half a little, just not sure quite how. Specifically I think the the biggest problem with the song in its current state is 0:59-1:28. You suggested bringing the melody up an octave but, given that I kinda did that in the second drop it feels inappropriate. I also think changing up the chords too much would make it not fit with the second half so there must be a sweet spot that I can make it impactful and also feel like it fits together. I don’t have a long history of using dimished chords effectively so this is something relatively new to me. Either way, I still think that, of all my songs, this is the one I would come back to the most often because of the repetitive melody. I don’t generally prefer them over more drawn out melodies, but the way it’s done in this song, I don’t think there was a better option.

[Gud Sung]

Vury gud sung

BlueFrost05 responds:

Tenks