Here’s a headline we didn’t expect to write today: eight-time Grammy Award winner Skrillex is composing the theme song for Kingdom Hearts III alongside singer songwriter Hikaru Utada. If you are one of those nerd types who pretends to know nothing about popular culture, here’s an example of a Skrillex song:
The theme song will be named ‘Face My Fears’, and has had input from record producer Poo Bear, who’s worked with Justin Bieber in the past. To be fair, whether or not these artists are your particular cup of coffee, there’s some top talent here – but that’s standard for Square Enix, who got Florence and the Machine involved for Final Fantasy XV.
In other, unrelated news, the Japanese publisher has announced an all-star voice cast for the sequel, with many Hollywood stars reprising their roles from Frozen, Tangled, et al. Kristen Bell will once again play Anna, while John Ratzenberger will return as Hamm. Elsewhere, the ageing Haley Joel Osment will return to play protagonist Sora.
[source youtube.com]
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Thought it already had a theme song called Chikai (Oath) by Utada Hikaru but it's still cool that she's making another song for the game. I'm also one of those nerd types that's not familiar with Skrillexs' songs. Hopefully, the new theme song doesn't sound anything like the track embedded.
@WanderingBullet Oh it will.
going to show my age, WHO???
Nice, hopefully he gets paid enough to finish off that hair cut.
Eurgh. The first negative news about this game so far. This will be way worse than leona lewis being in final fantasy 13.
Surely another remixed version of Simple and Clean?
@get2sammyb Then it might be the first song by her that I'm gonna hate.lol
@eltomo I'm guessing this will be a new English song altogether unlike Simple and Clean which was an English version of Hikari.
"Make it bun dem" is the only song I like from Skrillex.
@delukze same and that's because of Far Cry.
Skrillex is one of the worst. EVER.
Great, now I've remembered that Skrillex exists. Thanks, Push Square.
@suikoden I've heard of him, woo hoo I don't feel so old now. Now I'm going to celebrate by playing some Cyndi Laupher on my ghetto blaster
I'll keep my expectations low for this song, but I would find it funny if they proved us wrong and produced a truly wonderful and magnificent theme.
@kyleforrester87 Best comment.
I don't care for their music, but hey, they have fans so some people are bound to be excited.
Salsa on my balls boys
OH MY GOD CALL 911!
Square Enix couldn't just not f**k up one game could they?
No idea who this bloke is. 😂
And why not? What I've heard of Utada's KH songs seems like it could gel well with the guy's style.
And damn, I know Osment is being discussed in regards to voicing kid/teen characters here, but reading "ageing" in reference to someone a year younger than yourself is quite a harsh reality.
@MadAussieBloke tell that to Lindsey Stirling.
On one hand I'm not a Skrillex fan, on the other Square really can make great music. Wait and see.
If this is anything similar to - dang it my ears while that junk is playing - this, it's gonna be so much worse than the DMC song for Dante. Gosh dang it. It's worse than I thought it would be. That was completely spontaneous that complaint in the middle. Okay, I'm turning that off.
I'm just happy to hear Hikki is back. I need her to drop a new album badly.
@MadAussieBloke That place already belongs to Rap😝
Hahahaha, clearly this announcement has been in the works since 2014. Unfortunately popular music has moved on. However bad I personally find Dubstep, it just isn't relevant either.
"eight-time Grammy Award winner Skrillex"
Well how about that.
Well considering the first game started with a remix of Simple and Clean I can buy this.
Skrillex is great! He's a fantastic musician and there's not a single track he's made that can be considered trash. I have my full trust on him and you should too.
This guy has eight Grammy awards? Is this music nowadays?
@GKO900 modern rap i agree with you
For the record, Skrillex barely makes dubstep type stuff anymore, and the provided example song is a mediocre song off his worst album. He's just an incredibly talented electronic music producer, and working with Utada has been a dream of his for years
@Areus Yeah I guess I needed to clarify but I think everyone knows that by now, that modern rap sucks
I wish they could have got Danger Mouse
I thought they already had a theme song called “Don’t think twice”?
https://youtu.be/r1o-Ew1fhH8
@DerMeister
Is that a reference to this?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIEf-xJ8VE4
@Ryu_Niiyama She just released a new album back in June.
@WanderingBullet Good to know I'll hit up yesasia sometime this month.
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