epsilon72 said:
What's wrong with it? For me it makes me want to vommit and bang my head against the wall
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Hip-Hop and all forms of "popular music" (or contemporary music) do not add atmosphere. More often than not, they do little more than "date" whatever they appear in, locking them into a time and place, and often degrading the product over time. Look at any movie from the past, 50's, 60's, 70's or 80's (especially those last two) that uses the "music of the time." No matter what the movie is, that music never offers anything positive to the experience. Oftentimes, the music is laughable and ridiculous. Imagine if Star Wars had just followed suit of every other Hollywood calamity of the 70's and used then-popular Disco/synthesizer crap. The series wouldn't be as popular as it is today. The music has withstood the test of time. Look at Logan's Run, released a year before Star Wars, the music is that pop-synth type crap. The movie feels dated, ridiculous--and the poor special effects alone aren't accomplishing that, the music is also largely to blame.
Pop/Contemporary music is not appropriate in 99% of it's uses in movies or video games. Burnout Revenge's worst feature is it's use of revolting Pop-Punk. Don't get me started on that trite. Punk should never, ever be Pop. More so than Metal, Punk was always the anti-Pop.
Without the option to shut off the music in True Crime: Streets of LA, the game would've been damn near unplayable.
Look at every movie from the 80's using that dreadful Glam/Hair Metal (as if any of that stuff is actually Metal in any regard), and how we deride them. They're ridiculous. The music is either wildly inappropriate or way off base. In music-themed horror flick Trick or Treat featured the worst possible kind of "music" in it's presentation.
I do consider Hip-Hop/Rap to be the worst offender, though. It's not melodic, it's not atmospheric, it's not moody, it has no real feeling--in large part because it's not really music. All too often, it's samples from real music, a thick bass beat, and some jackass speaking extremely quickly, sometimes with rhythm. That is not music. Music requires more than a mixing board and a damn microphone. A lot more. Making fart sounds with your mouth is no way to keep a beat or make a tune. The only time--ever--that I was accepting of a Rap soundtrack was with Office Space, because it was used humerously and used well. Luckily, the movie wasn't intent on being deep or atmospheric. It's hard not to laugh when three guys are dramatically beating up on a copy machine while some dreadful rapper belts out "DIE MOTHERFUCKER, DIE MOTHERFUCKER, DIE!!!"
