WAG Spin off on most abhorred music.....

[duyetanh]

(For the life of me I couldnt get the poll thingee to come up, so I guess we can all ramble away...):

For those who ahem, dislike the compulsory music, which one of the 5 drives you the most batty, and which one out of the 5 is the least annoying?

I will start. So help me God, the level 2 music for me is the worst. And I still get it in my head at times...it is always the end part, and always when i am driving. Ugh!

I can handle the level 4 one the best (even though they all drive me nuts) because at least there are a lot of different instruments.

Alright...lets hear it. And by hear it, I mean your opinions, NOT the floor music. Hah!

 

[MILgymFAM]

I've never heard the music for L1-3. Of four and five, L5 is the worst. It's really terrible.

 

[bookworm]

Does level 5 still have the pole dancing part in it?

 

[VanessaJV]

Level 3... without question! DD competed 8 last season and I STILL have twitches when I hear level 3 music!

 

[sce]

Never heard level, but level 2 music is awful. So glad my gym stopped competing level 2. Don't really like any of them but level 5 always makes me think if creepy clowns.

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Never heard the level 1 or 2 music.

As somebody with experience in composition and production of music, I find the level 3 music almost physically painful. Even if I'm willing to ignore how much I hate the composition of the track, the production is inexcusably awful. The instruments sounds like it's played on a cheap radioshack keyboard, with not even the slightest effort given to the dynamics of the instruments. A moderately-skilled producer should be able to make those instruments sound better, even without spending any money on samples or effects. As is, you can hear the piano sample looping, the violin is barely even recognizable as a violin, and I've heard better-sounding flutes in 90's Nintendo games. I strongly suspect that whoever recorded and produced that track had literally never never touched any sort of audio workstation before.

The old floor music (the music used from 2004 to 2012) is an excellent point of comparison. While it may still have been annoying after hundreds (or thousands) of listens, the production quality was significantly better. Live instruments were used for most of the parts, and even the parts I suspect of being computer-sequenced are done well enough that they sound like real instruments played by a real human. I can honestly say I kind of liked the old Level 6 music (the vaguely-spanish sounding one). It had a dynamic piano part, and a tastefully-subtle classical guitar (both of which I'm pretty sure were recorded by actual human musicians). It had humanity, even a bit of emotion.

But the current level 3 music? Completely dead. Every piano note is at the same volume, and you can blatantly hear the samples looping at some points. Zero attempt at any sort of dynamics or expression in either the violin or the flute. And some chords near the end where I honestly can't even tell if the instrument is supposed to be an accordion or a string quartet; repeated notes at exactly the same volume with not the slightest trace of humanity or dynamics of any sort. I mean, the entire reason string quartets (or accordions, for that matter) can be so compelling is that they can be spectacularly expressive, and hearing either instrument (or synthesized versions thereof) sound so dead and lifeless makes me almost-irrationally angry.

They could have made a thread on the OCRemix forums or KVR audio forums asking for a producer, and I bet somebody could have done a better job with this track in under an hour, and probably wouldn't have charged them more than $100 for the job.

 

[LindyHopper]

Does level 5 still have the pole dancing part in it?

No. It is now creepy doll/clown music. I actually became numb to it by the end of Short Stacks L5 season last year.

 

[duyetanh]

Does level 5 still have the pole dancing part in it?

No, its more like creepy clown music

 

[2G1B]

I called L5 the "suicidal clown music".

 

[Rockygym]

Definitely the L2 music

 

[duyetanh]

Definitely the L2 music

da da?, da da, da da da DA!, da da da da? Da da da DAAAAAAAA.
(ending)
BLECH!

 

[justanothergymmom]

Does level 5 still have the pole dancing part in it?

I am crying laughing!!! I know the music of which you speak. It was terrible! I never pictured a pole dance, but rather a suggestive dance with a feather boa! LOL....

 

[Jard.the.gymnast]

Level 2 is the worst, then L1, then L3, then L5 and L4 makes the best IMO

 

[SurpriseGymMom]

Never heard L1 or 2. Entered the world of compulsories when DD started competing at L4, that one isn't too bad... I was thanking my lucky stars she skipped L3 as I hated the music. I now coach L3....

 

[wandrewsjr]

My vote for worst goes to level 3 flute. There is a note in that version that was not made for human ears.

 

[CoachAlex]

Level 3.

 

[gymmutti]

Old level 5 was definitely striptease music. Once someone suggested that, I could not get it out of my head. New level 5 is a Vincent Price Carnival horror B movie gone wrong. USAG has something against Level 5.

 

[duyetanh]

Never heard L1 or 2. Entered the world of compulsories when DD started competing at L4, that one isn't too bad... I was thanking my lucky stars she skipped L3 as I hated the music. I now coach L3....

Bahahaha...sorry...but that is funny.

 

[mommyof1]

I hate the L5 creepy clown horror movie music the most. The L3 audio malfunction version--oops, I mean "violin" version--is also a nightmare. I hate the L4 music the least, but ask me again at the end of the season.

I also despised the old L5 stripper music and the old L4 music with the weird tempo changes. USAG needs to hire someone with musical expertise to oversee the procurement of the next set of compulsory music. The possession of a computer or iPad does not automatically make one a composer.

 

[Deleted member 18037]

3 is the worst.

I don't love any but I'm the odd duck that doesn't think 5 is creepy. It's OK.