Final Fantasy music devours my parents, haha!

[The Man]

The other day I saw a header in the paper: "Video games to use real music," for an article about companies putting radio fodder like Hoobastank and Sum 41 in their games. Give me a break.

Now that's just ridiculous.

And yeah, the stigma against video game music is one I've encountered myself frequently before. I think people from older generations than ours just don't get it.

[Peter_20]

I just don't get it why people are so prejudiced to video game music.
It's pretty stupid to judge melodies from their sources, if you like it perfectly until you hear of this source.

"Ah, nice melody."
"It's from a video game, you know."
"Aha, uhum, hm... it sounds a little lame, you know."
"You think so?"
"Yeah. Let me off this crap."
"Okay."
"Thanks. It sucks."

[ThroneofDravaris]

Hehe, this is so hilarious.
My parents HATE anything that´s about video games, and I was gonna "try" them by playing some Nobuo Uematsu music for them.
I actually started out with this arpeggio-ish Prelude, and they immediately started talking about how relaxing and nice it was.
The sound wasn´t anything special, either!

Then I changed to Time Remains from the *real* FF3, and they still thought it all was beautiful and stuff.
And that was a MIDI file...
I also considered playing Terra (FF6) and Eyes On Me (FF8), but then they had went to sleep.

I promise you they´d feel really embarrassed if I were to tell ´em it was all VIDEO GAME STUFF!

"Was it a video game? Oh... []"

Wow, tricking your parents into listening to video game music. You're a real monster...

[Peter_20]

Hehe, this is so hilarious.
My parents HATE anything that´s about video games, and I was gonna "try" them by playing some Nobuo Uematsu music for them.
I actually started out with this arpeggio-ish Prelude, and they immediately started talking about how relaxing and nice it was.
The sound wasn´t anything special, either!

Then I changed to Time Remains from the *real* FF3, and they still thought it all was beautiful and stuff.
And that was a MIDI file...
I also considered playing Terra (FF6) and Eyes On Me (FF8), but then they had went to sleep.

I promise you they´d feel really embarrassed if I were to tell ´em it was all VIDEO GAME STUFF!

"Was it a video game? Oh... []"

Wow, tricking your parents into listening to video game music. You're a real monster...

Spare me the sarcasm, damn it!

[Winter Nights]

I'm lost on why anyone would care what their parents thought of their musical tastes.

[ThroneofDravaris]

Spare me the sarcasm, damn it!

Yeah, because you don’t deserve it at all.

[ffxfreak93]

My parents would think I'm gay if I ever played any FF song in front of them.

same here

[Daryl]

My mother has nightmares of the overworld music from the World of Balance in FFVI, because of how often she had to listen to it when I still lived with her back in the day.

[Roogle]

My family is constantly surprised whenever a song I'm playing turns out to be from a video game or from Final Fantasy. My sister actually kind of liked real Emotion from Final Fantasy X-2, but I think that was just because of the novelty of it more than anything.

[ShivaBlizzard8]

My parents are huge FF music fans. They don't play any video games and know nothing about Final Fantasy other than that its an expensive yet well animated game which is usually on my Christmas list. However, after hearing the music come from the game and from my computer, they always have me burn copies of the soundtracks for them and enjoy them immensely.

[Azure]

My mum overhead me playing Suteki Da Ne once, and she came in to listen to it fully, and asked me to burn it for her. But that's probably the nearest I've come to my parents liking video game music.

Though they're big fans of classical music.. shouldn't be too hard to trick them.

[vampirepiggyhunter7]

Nice....
Sometimes when my mom tells me to turn the TV up, I pretend like I am, then ask her "How's this?" and she says "that's good..."

[xX.Silver.Wings.Xx]

My mum banned me from downloading FF mp3 off the internet. I gave her a copy of FFVIII piano collections and she was fine about it afterwards....The power of FF osts...

[DelightfulSpekkio442]

I've performed a lot of Piano Collections stuff at coffeehouses and open mic nights, so my parents are used to hearing me practice stuff like "To Zanarkand, "Vamo Alla Flamenco," "Eyes on Me" and "Fisherman's Horizon." They don't really care who wrote it or where it's from, as long as it's pretty.

One day I was practicing "The Spinach Rag."

Dad: "Was that The Entertainer?"

LMAO.

[Takara]

I made my mother totally fall in love with "Melodies of Life". Even burned it on a cd for her. Yet, she doesn't believe me when I say it's from a video game.