Opera Singer Breaks down: "Life Will Change" from Persona 5

[@Laffey16]

Notably this song plays at the end of each palace where you try to steal the palace's "treasure" It's very much a song of "fuck you, nothing can stop us now". Because arguably it is the anthem of the thieves when they have the upper hand and it now only a countdown till they win.

[@boollye]

my favorite detail about it is how it's an instrumental version up until you replay the casino sequence with all the context of the last 70 hours or so, where it gains lyrics again. really a magical feeling experiencing it for the first time

[@twodents]

"Daredevil," which serves the same function in Persona 5 Strikers, REALLY drives that home. It's a total victory lap of a song; "we've done this shit so many times already, you fucked around and now you're gonna find out"

[@GG-Gamer1]

Also notably: it only has lyrics in the last palace or two. In all previous palaces, there is no singing. Might explain why Marco doesn't remember the song.

[@JustinFike]

I would pay a whoooole pile of money to have my memory of PS5 Royal erased so I could experience it fresh and catch all those amazing layers for the first time...

[@theoneandonlyranch4552]

oh its time for the persona rabbit hole lets fuckin go i will patiently wait in my corner for "i believe" and "our light"

[@kiwiparfaits]

our light ‼️

[@Crouch_Potato]

I'd like to add "throw away your mask" to the list.

[@theoneandonlyranch4552]

@@Crouch_Potato oh for sure i just didnt wanna bombard with names lol. At the very least i believe and throw away your mask are kinda two peas in a pod

[@Turlow2000]

how am i the first to add "rivers in the desert" in here?

[@theoneandonlyranch4552]

@@Turlow2000 mainly cuz i didnt wanna list too many, there a simply so many songs to list that are good, and admittedly its not up in the lost for me. (Still rly good ofc) Out of curiosity id prolly go Our light With the stars and us I believe No more what ifs Days when my mother was there Honorable mention of ideal and real and gentle madman

[@davialmeida6566]

Yo "I Believe" is also a banger, and I think an analysis of both this song and her oposite "Throw your Mask Away" would be an awesome video.

[@jrRabet]

Persona music has a unique stylish energy that's infectious. Glad you enjoyed and hoping for more 😊

[@potato1674]

As a giant persona fan I cannot describe how happy it made me to see you react to this song Persona music is a glorious rabbit hole that's impossible to get out of ,,It's going down" from persona 3 is legendary

[@3.002]

3:53 The delivery on that "Wake up!" reminded me of the Persona 3 Reload into.

[@Goncho03]

@@nachgeben ok

[@3.002]

@@nachgeben I wasnt even talking about "Life Will Change". It was just something Marco said.

[@kougaon8513]

​@@nachgeben What does aesthetic have to do with dlc practices? Like how does that somehow relate to it failing to capture P5's aesthetic? Regardless P3R still kept its own aestheic in mind and clearly didnt try and copy P5 beyond the menu's having stylized UI.

[@amaramist_]

@@nachgeben I hate to break it to you but the only way P3R was trying to recapture P5R is by being a fucking banger

[@losharikoved]

​@@nachgebenit's better to treat reload as very good p5 x p3p mod instead of something trying to recapture FES esthetics Otherwise you can go insane

[@rullyrizqullah7096]

I literally just watched Drumrolltony and Alex Moukala's reaction and breakdown of Persona 5 music, and also Lyn Inaizumi's live performance which was uploaded years or months ago and then this video gets recommended to me and I was like "Oh, MarcoMeatball also did a breakdown, might as well watch it." while not realizing that this is just uploaded 4 hours ago.

[@MarcoMeatball]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@joshuacichon4635]

Super glad to see another Persona song covered on the channel! I love the music from this game so much, and this video was a great excuse to revisit it.

[@itsjonesh]

Oh, boy. Marco's gonna enter the Persona rabbit-hole and get to know the genius of Shoji Meguro, ain't he? And I'll be right here to watch everything. Let's go! I Believe, Beneath the Mask, Takeover, Last Surprise and Life will Change are some of my favourites!

[@hellsylpher]

Hope to see Persona 3 Reload's Color Your Night sometime in the future here

[@HeliumHe]

This song is my most favourite in Persona 5, including Royal. It really is the anthem of the Phantom Thieves. To add context as a reminder for you. This song starts before your final run at each of the dungeon for the treasure. Right after each of the boss proclaim to you that "You punks just try to come at me, I will be guarded and ready to kick yo arse". This song is your reply that "Yeah, we will be there, and nothing will stop us". Digging further into the lyrics, it really is the anthem to raise your flag and fight against something. Injustice, corruption, exploitation. It is the song about you, about all of us having enough of something controlling our lives and we will now take the matters into our own hands, and to also deny the claim that our voices are just small part of the society. No, we exist, and we are coming for you.

[@jmbw4271]

I recently had my first (and second, third, etc) playthrough of persona 5 and loved the concept of this song but struggled to put in words what is it about, and i think you nailed it! Reclaiming Life. This theme plays as soon as you start the final stage of every palace heist. As you stand against whatever distorded desire said palace is built upon, this theme builds to a roar in the background like an anthem.

[@ninetees9831]

you should listen to the velvet room theme “hymn of the soul”, it would be perfect to react to as a opera singer

[@Efwerd]

Marco, your proclivity in the understanding of aesthetic beauty in music is impeccable in my humble opinion. Your thoughts on music is still valuable even without the “right” credentials.

[@MarcoMeatball]

I appreciate that very much!

[@cylexia]

i read my notifs and _only_ saw "opera singer breaks down" and thought this was a whole other type of video 😭 this was a banger btw!!

[@xDidddle]

you said you were near the end and you didnt hear that track? i think you are nowhere close to the end my good sir.

[@isthatajojoreference]

It's like the first song that plays once you play the game too lmao 💀

[@ArveEriksson]

Ah... Life Will Change? The track where you take your final swing at a Palace - the rush towards the big bad Boss. I'm not receptive to jazz, but this sucker? I was genuinely grinning ear to ear when I first heard it play! At the 110 hour mark, though? My first playthrough clocked in at ~130-140 hours, IIRC. You were (are...?) so close to the finishing line...

[@elijahdubois7902]

LIFE WILL CHAAAANGE!!!!!🎶🎶🎶

[@ImxxFuZe]

YESSSSSSSSSS YESSSSSSSSS i have been waiting for you to react to Persona music for so long!!!!!!

[@cyrius2636]

literally my favorite song in any video game that i've played, so glad to see some Persona OSTs discussed on this channel ❤

[@bluegizmo84100]

Tuba player checking in. Love that the first thing you do is give a shout out to the bass guitar. Not enough games have interesting bass lines, so it's great to hear one get recognition.

[@elaishane1616]

yoo marco , i just wanted to say that i love your content , you see in youtube its rare to actually see someone with this much passion to break down video game music and analyze stuff. i love video game music and there is also a lot of music i would love for you to check out at your own pace. please do more songs from umineko and maybe some from the house in fata morgana(really underappreciated music). And hope you have a fantastic weekend ahead.

[@Shabbot]

Looking cool Joker!

[@kenjianimates]

Looking cool Joker 👌

[@Geddes1709]

Persona 3 (reload too), 4 and 5 have such bangers, love their music so much

[@yosephsunarli6794]

Great job on analyzing one of the best Persona 5 ost. Now hoping that you react (especially to the lyrics) to Persona 3 Reload opening titled Full Moon Full Life 😁

[@MBrandr]

Easily my favourite song in Persona 5. It’s also the song you’ll learn to love (or hate) if you select Joker to climb Babel in Catherine Full Body.

[@madcap830]

Same here, but Whims of Fate is VERY close

[@havocsTeacher]

every time i check back in with this channel you're covering another one of my interests haha. Cool stuff

[@ricardoorozco9757]

This was my top 1 persona song before color your night arrival, Now those two are in The top 1 i cannot choose only one are too perfect.

[@Xxblade17]

Beautiful

[@asolomoth1066]

Now that the Persona 5 wall has been breached, cant wait for Marco to react to Life Will Change 2 (aka I Believe)

[@exoticdachoo007]

Not what I expected but Persona is always welcome! Now we need "I believe" next, it's amazing as always

[@UgyBoogie]

I can never hear this song again without the Onegai Muscle mix...

[@Tamagotschi95]

You know, now you should also do the other 2 parts of this "song-trilogy": "Wake up, get up, get out there" and "I Believe"

[@-Lindol-]

You know, I think that “I Believe” is also a reply to “Throw Away Your Mask” which implores to “Believe in me”

[@Naestrith]

That song is such a banger, I may have listened it 1000 times since I discovered it last year playing the game.

[@thenamelessking2730]

If I can give you just one suggestion, listen to the concert version, because the singer just keep doing really interesting things (once I was talking about it with a friend that is studying modern singing, and she was astonished by the long notes of the live version)

[@smurgledwerf]

It's interesting that this plays in the very beginning of the game, but then it's always the instrumental version up until you "catch up" to the present.

[@jamesfletcher6472]

NICE! In my opinion the Persona games are worth it for the music. Playing Persona 5 Royal in the summer of 2020 was a good time as I had a lot of spare time then, however it was the entry drug into Persona 4 Golden and Persona 3 Reload. Even going back and listening to the music sung by Yumi Kawamura on the remake of the original game Shin Megami Tensei: Persona has been a treat.

[@maxmoodyahya6675]

oh boy, now I’m waiting for u to react to color your night , full moon full life, when the moon reaches stars

[@junes4856]

I feel like marco mentioned that he played like 70 hours of p5 before lmao, hes definitely heard some of these before!

[@nwr189]

Honestly, whenever you do those videos introducing video game music to people, I always scroll to see if you did this one, lol. One of my favorite P5R tracks, but there are so many great ones!

[@GKplus8]

Persona 5 takes another "Music Professional reacts to video game music" victim

[@MrStress]

The last tracks in royal are just this but cranked up to 11 with heart

[@Fononandon]

This is what the average persona OST listening experience looks like

[@sanadabeach]

I've been waiting for this

[@hariyantotri888]

Is it persona time? Then you cannot miss the good old hymn of the soul

[@MarcoMeatball]

That I’ve done

[@hariyantotri888]

@@MarcoMeatball good info, on my way already

[@hariyantotri888]

@@MarcoMeatball on another note, do you know a game called slay the spire? They have some bangers that i feel like you will love to hear, anyway, keep up the good work

[@twalker5801]

"Rivers in the Desert" is one of the favorite Persona 5 tracks.

[@townnn-biz]

Finally we made it to def one of the top 5 best Persona 5 songs 🥹🥂

[@errorfox6682]

Maze of Life is one of my personal favorite persona tracks. Just figured I'd give the recommendation to check that one out too!

[@SliminBlue]

Life Will Change is still one of the most motivating songs in P5's soundtrack, and one of the few I can listen to for hours at a time. Genuinely a near-perfect song for what it's going for. I only say near-perfect because I Believe is actually just Life Will Change 2 but EVEN MORE MOTIVATIONAL and EVEN MORE BANGER so yeah go listen to that as well

[@nickwatic]

Life will change is the 2nd of 3 parts. The first being Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There and the 3rd being I Believe

[@Thefluff99]

All of the songs are bangers.

[@anguyen4576]

My favorite track from Persona 5 Royal is “Keep Your Faith”. While its lyrical counterpart, “Throw Away Your Mask”, is one that most people think of regarding that point of the game, the instrumentals of “Keep Your Faith” really conveys the emotion of the situation at hand. I saw a comment from forever ago that the guitar sounds like it’s crying and every time I listen to the track, I can’t not feel the same.

[@rikazz3842]

Hello Marco, you should check music from Solo Leveling. It’s made by Sawano, there’s a symphonic suite (LV.8 is crazy) and there should definitely be great stuff to analyze. I’d really love to have your view on this masterpiece, and so many people from the community I’m sure ❤

[@blackthorne2001]

this song is the reason i played persona 5 royal on PC.

[@bigbangmc7678]

My favorite song in all game is wake up get up get out there, is just so good to be real

[@EmEm-fm4nn]

The music inside the jazz club in P5R is underrated fr fr

[@chipi4179]

fav song ever

[@MatheusSM1000]

I know this is a Persona 5 video and believe me, I love this game, but I've been playing Lies of P and I really need to recommend Feel and Shadow Flower! Both fantastic songs

[@zahkrosis666]

Not be irrelevant from this topic, but so happy to hear you as Dvorak again in this new event going on in Genshin rn :3

[@FizzieWebb]

And now we wait for Persona 4's The Genesis, Reach out to the Truth, Time to make History, I'll face myself, Nevermore, The Mist, Backside of the TV, Pursuing my true self.

[@AdmiralAlfredo]

I really hope you get a chance to check out Persona 3 Reload's music sometime soon too!

[@thiefbehindthemask206]

Lyn is such a good singer

[@TheUndyingCrystal]

Hey, Marco, you should check out the new boss theme for Honkai Star Rail. Penacony's 2.2 final boss is amazing, and the music is even better.

[@sharlesdaviskendy2391]

Is this his first Persona? Oh boy...

[@stryfe7467]

Now, I await for Marco to reach out to the truth.

[@kellinquinn013]

And thus the persona era has begun. I swear I gotta play persona 5 again.

[@ChengHorn9]

The best ways I've been able to describe the p5 soundtrack to others are 1) If p funk, the jacksons, and similar met the colors red and black 2) Sex in your ears

[@ahmaddanisaputra3580]

Oh shit, what a banger

[@KaiSaeren]

I often barely understand what the lyrics are, but I feel like the japanese accent is kinda making it better :D

[@aperson5820]

would love if you reacted to the other persona games like 1 and 3, 5 is just the tip of the iceberg

[@StarLinx9740]

dont know you know the PSO2 or not but want to see you react to "Dark Falz Persona Over The Universe" the boss song so much

[@zachary37]

Oh HELL yes.

[@johnnychopsocky]

Indeed, Marco, this song *slaps* very much Hope someday that you listen to the sequels: 'I Believe' and 'Daredevil'. Oh yes, you read that name right. Another song called 'Daredevil' to rock your ears.

[@arturoaguilar6002]

Fun fact: most of the times the song plays in the game it's only the instrumental version (with an electric guitar replacing the singer for the melody). This version first appears late game (and in the intro section, but without the context it doesn't hit you the same way).

[@E3Zen]

Persona 5 Royal has my favorite OST

[@Dazzman170]

Beneath the mask, vocal version

[@meraki2651]

YESS FINALLY PERSONA

[@thewaffle4049]

YES finally

[@MOFFSTER_MUSIC]

I'd like to hear your thoughts on the persona 5 strikers soundtrack. listen to Jail in Abyss. unbelievably good for a short area

[@ciberon1]

waiting for persona 2 knights of the holy lance theme

[@goukenslay7555]

i sort of want you to react to Duet of the Keyblade Masters OC ReMix

[@eyalamit5120]

I'd love to hear you listen to Persona 3 Reload tracks

[@aceric1646]

WOO I JUST GOT P5S TOO GODS KNOW MY WISH

[@gabrielfranchino2996]

Persona music here? Lets fuckimg gooooooooo

[@RathSoul]

Aaaw shit here we go again!

[@Crystalhair2024]

When you you said you stopped near the end, did you mean the vanilla ver or royal ? Cuz royal has many more even better songs and story section.

[@MarcoMeatball]

Vanilla!

[@WanderLustMCE]

For how long Persona 5 is, (assuming you mean Royal since it’s pretty much the same game but more), by the end of my first play through I had sunk 160 hours in that game. So depending on how quickly you were progressing through the game you probably had around of a third of the game left.

[@AWACLP]

Hello , can you please react to the BGM of frieren it is really good and b would to hear your analysis on it.

[@Reizxan_01]

Suggestion that you should watch new 2 songs in hsr

[@jordanplanas176]

Oh shit, we're getting reactions to Persona music now?

[@Kuvvii]

Full moon full life or Memories of you?

[@braydenanderinsandoval8060]

I have a request. Could you react to The spectral Sails song from sea of thieves? I love the Sea of Thieves soundtrack but I can’t find anyone who reacted to it.

[@ahmed_x5597]

please react to Blood Feuds, Ancient And Modern From Red dead redemption 2

[@ravelisland]

Maybe the next time you can try to listen to World of Tanks and World of Warships' music, Wargaming made some pretty banger ones

[@ers1668]

PLEASE REACT TO SILLY BILLY FROM FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN

[@Aureels]

I did P4 before P5.....NEVER DO THAT! P5 is better than P4 in all form aspect, but in the substance, P4 is WAY better. Better characters, scenario, plots, writing.... but P5 is funnier in all other aspect. So play P5 first, and P4 after, or you will, like me, ruin your P5 experience :'(

[@demonz4733]

I'm kinda glad you started getting into Persona. Persona 4 is such a good game man. I've just replayed it recently and it is really an entire tier above Persona 3 Reload and Persona 5 Royal.

[@kmc012]

P4G is a great game, but it's not better than P3R or P5R.

[@cristianoducceschi3547]

Nah but p4g is still amazing, I love it

[@JakkieDivinci]

TFW somethings been itching you while playing the current Genshin event...

[@grayguy69]

Can u react to skarner theme from lol pls❤❤❤

[@yarion4774]

This has been my biggest disappointment in P5 in general. How do you put this banger into the most important part of a palace but you can just teleport to the safe room closes to the treasure. Depending on the palace, you can't even appreciate this banger. So sometimes I made it a habit to run threw the entire palace from start to finish in order to create more memories with this song.

[@Performing_Nerd]

It's still great that you have the choice to spend as much or as little time as you'd like exploring the dungeon and jamming to the music before having to take on the boss. I rarely found everything in a dungeon before I got to the treasure, so I would often spend the first bit after sending the calling card tracking down the last chests, will seeds, etc. Storming through the palace with little resistance, on a quest to steal every little thing in the area, with that epic music scoring every move was one of the most slick, badass parts of the game.