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Yui Mugino is the vocalist, and it seems to be her only FFXIV credit!
One of my favorite new songs. Unfortunately this was with the unofficial lyrics! When a song comes out we often have to guess at them, at first, before they come out with the correct ones. They were largely correct, but one big thing that was missed in this version was that there are references so "Like my mother before me" and "Like my grandmother before me" and "Girls are born to step into the light," which references the matriarchal society of the Keepers of the Moon (cat people from whose perspective this is written from). If you want to view the full lyrics, the FFXIV team released a blog post on 2/15/2023 with them!
the version of the lyrics that you watched is actually not the official lyrics, but the misheard version before the official lyrics came out
The violin parts reminded me of Devil Went Down to Georgia.
Menphina the Lover is the maiden goddess of the moon. you can kind of think of her as ffxiv's version of Artemis without the hate for men. XD
i kinda love the backstory of the wolf companion. like another comment said, in the world of ffxiv, there's only one moon which was Menphina, but for thousands of years the world believed there was 2, the other being the lesser moon Dalamud. turned out Dalamud was actually a prison containing the elder primal Bahamut, so in reality there was only 1 moon and Menphina didn't have a wolf companion, but the belief of her followers caused the wolf Dalamud to be created.
Dedicated to Moonlight has got to be one of the most beautiful tracks to ever come out of Soken’s lab. First time I felt such a surge of emotions from an alliance raid.
I guess Soken has to repeat the structure of a song because of the length of a fight in game. and when the boss fight song loops, the chorus has a slight change, but I get what you mean about the repetition of the structure of 14’s songs
This song always reminds me of a 90s anime opening, I kinda love it for that.
with this one, i think you've covered all my favorite songs from XIV. i don't even play it that much but when i heard this for the first time i felt… things, lmao
It is required to break into dance when you enter this boss arena.
The wolf, in case nobody has mentioned it, is Dalamud. Dalamud is better known as the moon that big honking dragon exploded out of in the A Realm Reborn trailer (which I believe was the video you reacted to for Answers). As Menphina is the Goddess of the Moon, he came into being as the bestest boy when Dalamud The Moon was sent into the sky.
Been waiting for this one since it came out. Was excited to hear your take on it when it appeared in-game.
lmao, when you said "Saloon" I thought you meant "Selune", who is the moon goddess of Forgotten Realms (D&D). XD
The "cool wolf" is Dalamud, named for the second, smaller moon which we found out was artificial near the end of the original FF14 when it was destroyed during the calamity. But the deity still exists because in the people's faith Dalamud is the loyal hound of the moon goddess as it was seen to be following the larger moon this goddess represents.
This song reminds me so much of Revolutionary Girl Utena's opening, so dramatic and adventurous
I'm not even kidding, this song gives me oldschool Gundam/mecha anime vibes
The song has some serious late 90s, early 00's anime opening feels.
That wolf is the world's smaller moon responsible for causing an apocalypse in game, but don't hold it against him he's just such a good boy
I think my current tally of FFXIV tracks is 765 (51hrs 33min), and every four months they add another 6-10 songs.
It's soft, folk like, and with much joy. Glad u enjoy it.
I'm very distracted by how wrong the lyrics in the video are. lol
I hope at some point you get to listen to more ambient/chill FFXIV music, in particular "Sands of Amber" from Shadowbringers!
violin intensifies
That wasn't just violin, that was some good old fashioned fiddling. Not something you hear enough outside of very specific types of music, but it works great here.
As a raid, the tone it's very light and cheerful. The god roughly know, and satisfied with your progress. So let me see first hand what you are capable of. so it's pretty much playing for them.
Kind of good that the raid wasn't just another mysterious being trying to destroy the world. and we can have songs like this.
I didn't see it mentioned, but string instruments and a sort of folk feeling fits the music for the rest of the raid! So it's neat to see it tied into this song has as well especially in the final boss fight of the raid.
Fleeting moment and The Tireless One from new raid are also awesome 😀
Violinist began casting Limit Bread 3. 😅
This song is surprisingly catchy. It also makes me think of Sailor Moon anime series a lot. How fitting.
This game ost are infinite or what 😂
Regarding song structures being similar in 14 songs. It's also partly because fights are similar in structure too, usually has phases that are like 30/60 seconds in length, and the songs tend to reflect that too. A lot of times certain sections might line up with a specific mechanic or part of a fight in general.
And then there is just, Soken is Soken xD
I still love this song so much…
I love her design, too! A lot a people were disappointed when it was revealed bc they thought she would look more sexy. What they forgot is that Menphina is goddess of love, not sex, and is often called Maiden. So her design look more like first love: gentle, young and playful.
First time I heard this time I thought "I want LIndsey Stirling to cover this". And every time I"ve heard it since 🙂
I don't enjoy this song because it's another banger from the amazing music development team from Enix.
I enjoy this song because it could fit into a snow zone in Megaman X
Soken learnt fiddle it was super effective.
Heh, get ready for more Soken because FFXVI’s soundtrack is also wall to wall bangers
A song with an epic guitar solo is a classic hit. But a song with an epic VIOLIN solo…. I dare someone to listen to this and not feel the need to dance.
When this song came out, a lot of people instantly loved it because it is sung from the viewpoint of a young female Miqo'te (a playable race of people with cat-ears and tails in the game) of the MOON tribe. While Miqo'te is the most played race in the game, the vast majority of people play SUN tribe Miqo'te, (the cosmetic options differ. Sun tribe has slit pupils and mostly normal skintones, Moon has fangs but normal round pupils and unnatural skintone options) and there are a large amount of important main story lore characters from the SUN tribe, as well as story bits exploring their culture in A Realm Reborn and Stormblood. The MOON tribe has practically none of that, only scraps in side-content and very few important story npc's. This song is effectively one of the most high-profile bits of exploration into the MOON tribe's culture within the game currently. The only thing with more information into the tribe is a physical book that is difficult to come by and expensive. (Encyclopedia Eorzea)
Lore context: The Moon tribe Miqo'te worship Menphina and are immensely matriarchal. Last names are passed from the mother. Sons are also given the mother's first name with only a small extra bit at the end to signify order of birth, effectively numbering them. Females are encouraged to seek out their true love on their own. The song is a hymn to the goddess with the main vocalist being the young girl who reached adulthood and the backup vocalists representing her ancestral mothers, grandmothers etc.
Some notable lyrics from the official lyrics of this song: (sadly this is the unofficial which altered things)
"Like my mother before me I follow this path knowing love will find me"
"Like my Grandmother before me I know each note every beat, melody mine to keep"
"Girls are born to step into the light" (sung by the backup vocalists)
Extra context: The SUN tribe is also female-oriented, but not fully matriarchal. Both genders have unique first names. (although they are prefaced by the letter signifying their tribe) Girls' last names are the first name of the male who fathered them. Boys compete for the right to procreate (generally there is only one who can per tribe, but some big tribes have more) and their 'last name' is effectively their status. Tia for males who do not have any tribe's right to breed and are therefore free to live their lives as they wish, and Nuhn for males with the tribe's right, who have major responsibilities and rarely leave the tribe, sometimes even functioning as tribe leader. Ofcourse, the title can be passed at any point if the current Nuhn is overthrown, making the former Nuhn a Tia again and removing his responsibilities and rights.
The official lore representation in genders for Miqo'te is that only roughly 1 in 10 births is a male.
Yes, this game is huge and has deeprooted lore on even the naming conventions for every subset of each playable race.
Interesting note about how the "formula" seems similar among songs. I'm thinking it's probably to do with the nature of the game, because most of what you listen to from XIV are the big boss fight songs – something that needs to repeat over and over with a seamless transition with enough variety to not get sick of it but not too much to be distracting.
Hurray! Been waiting for this one! Also, VERY odd to see the early (and quite wrong) lyrics here – as others have stated the song is a worship song, of sorts, largely from the Keepers of the Moon Mi'qote (cat peoples). Menphina is, in story, one of the most widely loved gods in general, but in particular by the Keepers of the Moon. They are matriarchal, and a lot of the lyrics are about passing on their their traditions and from grandmother to mother and so on.
Examples: "Like my mother before me I follow this path knowing love will find me", and what was particularly poorly heard on these lyrics, "Go, sing now unto the sky, Girls are born to step into the light".
Shame this was an early edition of the song so you didn't see the actual lyrics. But so awesome to see it, thanks again!
The song you were trying to remember is "Scream." Those songs do not have the same vocalists. "Scream" was by a famous Japanese vocalist named AKINO. This was sung by a singer named Yui Mugino. I think each of them has only done those songs for XIV, so there's actually a decent number of vocalists being added to the game over time.
A little extra context: the song is sung by one of the cat-looking race from XIV, a subtype called the Keepers of the Moon. They're (usually) charcoal-black in skintone and with light shades for the hair and fur, evoking that moon-people aesthetic. It being sung by them is pretty much the first bit of in-game lore or information about them since the game came out (over ten years!!), which for certain people interested in the worldbuilding and such is very nice. And the song's amazing.
Oh hey, was wondering when we’d get this one.
I've been waiting for this specific video ever since the raid first dropped lmao
It's like a b-tier supervillain- THE ARPEGGIATOR strikes again!
Yes, Menphina, the Lover… one of the Twelve, the benevolent pantheon of Eorzea's twelve deities. As her name implies, she is the Goddess of Love, Keeper of Eorzea's moon (well, formerly moonS). She herself represents the greater white moon of Eorzea (which is also her divine symbol). Eorzea used to have a second moon, a smaller, red one (that turned out to not be a moon at all, but indeed very much a space station… sort of), Dalamud.
Dalamud was called "Menphina's loyal hound", which is why Menphina summons the great wolf to fight alongside her in this battle (and i LOVE how he lets her sit on his huge paw like a throne during the fight).
And yeah, her design is pretty neat. Although highly attypical, in a way, for the way goddesses of love are usually portrayed. In our real world mythologies, they are often depicted as gorgeous women with hourglass figures and generally seductive demeanor, whereas Menphina looks like a young, petite woman, a teenager almost. Her color scheme, i guess, is supposed to be reminiscent of the light of the moon and the stars at night, but most likely also chosen because she, alongside Halone, the Fury, abides in the Heaven of Ice, one of the seven domains of Eorzea's Heaven and she herself also commands the element of Ice (and it shows in a lot of her abilities in this fight).
And i love this song. The entire soundtrack for this raid is typical Soken-greatness, but especially the two songs for the final encounter of each part of this raid so far, "In the Balance" and "Dedicated to Moonlight", are catchy AF.
First time i heard this it reminded me of the end credits song i'd expect during a magical girl anime… like Sailor Moon, ironically 😀
I somewhat jokingly refer to this as "Soken found a Fiddle, the raid". It's such a fun fight
I agree the game has a ton of musical variety. And that's just with basically only the boss and trailer music, I don't think you've listened to much of the zone or city music yet. Not sure if that'd be as "Wow" or anything since it's meant to be on repeat for like 20 minutes at a time (with different day / night tracks). But there are a lot of great tracks!