Official US and European Main Theme Song~

[Fynn]

Well, personally I prefer the japanese version. This song really just sounds plain, I could probably listen to this on any r&b station I tune to. I'm not saying that My Hands it's a bad song or that Ms. Lewis is a bad singer, I just feel a tad ripped off. Like Square just said "hey let's change the theme for western audiences" and slapped someone else's song in the game.

Also, I heard that the theme being replaced was the only Uematsu song in the game, being a rapid Nobuo fanboy, I'm a little mad about that.

That song is not Nobuo's. Nobuo was supposed to compose the theme song, but in the end he didn't. However, he will compose the entirety of the FFXIV soundtrack.

As for the song, it's pop. Be it jpop or western pop, I don't consider pop actually music. It's not a large part of the game, so it's not that big a deal, but pop will stay an unnecessary waste of brainspace in my eyes.

What. That doesn't even make sense.

To me it does. I just look for different stuff in music... But this topic is not about my views about music. It's about why people love or hate the new song.

[Mirage]

That's like saying "I don't consider hollywood action movies to be movies". I don't care if you like it or not, but to say something that is definitely music isn't music just cause you don't like it just makes you sound either extremely arrogant, or just extremely illogical.

On topic:

I don't care about the theme song of FF13, but then again that crap in FF12 wasn't too good either.

[Super Christ]

It irks me a bit, mostly because it smacks to me of marketing douchebaggery. "We don't have time to record an english version of this song, and why would americans want to hear a song in japanese? Throw some other pop song in instead!"

It isn't going to ruin the game experience for me, but I would prefer it to be as close to the original game as possible, except with english text and voice actors.

'Course, what would be really awesome is if in the menu they had the option to change the language, like they do in FF1 for the PSP.

[PeneloRatsbane]

I love this song, i got it on my ipod and i think it really beautiful and actually far better than i thought it was the first time i heard it.