The Youtuber who made a Music Genre Famous

In this video I talk about Summoning Salt and his taste in music and explain how and why it has become such phenomenon.
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[@SummoningSalt]

As others have said, I don't think the title is accurate, but very enjoyable video!

[@lasy1]

Summoning Salt commenting on a video about him

[@freddy0604]

hey salt not really a fan and don’t really know who you are and I don’t really like this music and I don’t really know why I’m commenting

[@user-lx4vb5zm5s]

No way

[@mrthorian8096]

if it isn't accurate, why do we enjoy the music you use even if nobody heard it before? the way you use it and when you use it are but a show of your brilliance of video making, you made this type of music popular thanks to your fantastic videos, without them, they may not have been as popular as they are now, it's just because of you, this is why I also get a smile on my face when I see you in my subscribtion box with a new video, I know the video may be long, but will be very enjoyable all the way through, you're truly doing amazing work Summoning Salt, thank you for that

[@Sheep506]

Summoning Salt has been summoned

[@JugglerOfWords]

"We're finally landing" has become the national anthem of speedrunning....

[@four-en-tee]

Idk how intentional it was, but its such a fitting name as well. Its the song that plays in your head when you're on _the_ run, knowing history is about to be made.

[@Ohokk0]

"but then hefest got this run"

[@Mercenaryow]

Hello you absolute Legends

[@M0torsagmannen]

@@Ohokk0 Svanefossen intesifies

[@oigboi]

Everytime I get a world record I say “please rise for the speedrun national anthem”

[@chillaxbro107]

Another thing to point out is the consistent way he uses all the tracks, they’re often used for the same thing every video. We’re finally landing is the intro and during the final major run of the video, where the runner finally achieves the run the whole video has been building to. Wave table is used during montages of runs or clips. This means that long time viewers will know a little bit of what’s coming, which means these track get linked to the emotions of those segments, meaning we start to feel the hype or anticipation from the music alone

[@AngelofGrace96]

Damn, that's a really good point! I hadn't consciously realised that, but you're right!

[@DonkoXI]

**cough** repetition legitimizes **cough**

[@rpgamercraft8439]

i hate repetition

[@Periwinkleaccount]

@@rpgamercraft8439 it’s just using certain songs for certain parts of the video, it’s really not bad.

[@rpgamercraft8439]

@@Periwinkleaccount i mean it's fun for the first time but after watching more than 50 videos it becomes boring

[@SPVLaboratories]

won't deny that summoning salt brought more eyes onto this kind of retrowave music, but Home got pretty popular before SS in 2015-2016 when vaporwave really started to reach a wider audience with things like simpsonswave (lmao those days). very cool analysis on how SS uses music to complement the action in his videos, he's a master

[@BradsGonnaPlay]

I actually got into vaporwave around 2015-16 but had fallen away from the genre for years before being reintroduced by SS. Although I’m not sure I’d call HOME vaporwave, it’s very cool that his channel popularized the genre as a speedrunning hallmark.

[@cupuacu4life13]

you just made the comment that i just made but smaller and more understandable

[@cupuacu4life13]

leafy definetely made saint pepsi and home famous

[@SPVLaboratories]

@@cupuacu4life13 that feels debatable, SP and home were already pretty big

[@cupuacu4life13]

@@SPVLaboratories true! even that is debatable to begin with

[@weathered5042]

I truly assumed that this was made by some established creator with a big following while watching. The editing and voice over quality were super convincing! Keep up the great content you have earned another sub here

[@unkownknown9041]

Same! Then I saw my dude had 650 subscribers, really awesomely made vid

[@Alex-yl8dz]

"Summoning Salt uses THIS type of music" *Never names the genre throughout the entire video for those unaware*

[@AnarchoTak]

tell me the genre please I've been listening for years and I still don't know

[@rpgamercraft8439]

@@AnarchoTak vaporwave

[@KabalFromMK9]

​@@AnarchoTak synthwave

[@bruh-rt7sr]

@@AnarchoTak synthwave

[@DrStuff142]

@@AnarchoTak chillwave. synthwave and vaporwave are two completely different things.

[@L0calLEGEND]

I want to say that HOME Resonance was rising in popularity before Summoning Salt. I also remember that people took a notch from Emplemon and started using his choice of music and editing style.

[@Cyberian_Khatru]

yeah, it's been a trend in video essays in general, but he has very good branding (and props to him for that) it also helps a lot that HOME is very lax with copyright iirc

[@L0calLEGEND]

Ah yes, the algorithm is funneling people towards this vid.

[@Mordecrox]

"Have you ever seen a Nascar fly?"

[@thesye1014]

Yeah that's who I was trying to think of emplemon was the og no?

[@Mordecrox]

@@thesye1014 don't quote me on that but the Nascar bit came later... If memory serves well, back then Salt's most notable use of HOME was from Choco Mountain, which I think was the first to start with a We're Landing montage I'm almost sure because Emplemon's choice at that moment evoked of the triple weathertenko

[@xavierkane37]

I think it’s important to realize that how frequent he uploads makes every video really special. Hearing “We are finallly landing” really feels like going home.

[@jannickesselink3912]

Summoning salt videos have somehow made me get goosebumps from We're finally landing

[@WolfHunner]

I hate to be that person but vaporwave was recognized meme music years before Salt reached notoriety. I would argue Pyrocynical's intros and use of HOME's music was the influential catalyst back in 2015.

[@cupuacu4life13]

nope, Pyro only really used Boardwalk by Whitewoods in 2016, after Leafy had already started using Enjoy Yourself by SAINT PEPSI also used Home's Resonance, Glue70s Casin, Moe Shop's You Look So Good and even tho only Enjoy Yourself is truly vaporwave, all of them are around that same vibe from that time, that retro vibe from genres inspired from vaporwave (edit: by the way im just tryna type in capital letters cuz its mostly typed like this)

[@WolfHunner]

@@cupuacu4life13 ah interesting I didn’t know that

[@cupuacu4life13]

@@WolfHunner ye man

[@Sykale]

A great thing about SummongSalt is how well they attribute their songs. All of the tracks they use are listed with the times they show in the video. This is great and helped me find these incredible tunes.

[@vertexia9982]

Amazing video! The scripting was incredibly well done and the way you spoke throughout the video was done amazingly. I hope you continue working on more stuff like this!

[@punko9031]

I’ve discovered his channel about a month ago. 1. I have no interest in speedrunning. 2. I’ve never actually watched a speedrun. 3. I don’t really play video games anymore except maybe once or twice a year when a new story driven game that I’m interested in comes out. But… My time on KZbin is mostly spent watching documentaries on whatever topic interests me and I like them being a bit longer so there is proper context and nothing needs to be rushed through. And Video games will always have a special way place in my heart due to their importance in my childhood - nostalgia is real! I feel like many of the viewers probably are drawn in by something like: “eh why not check this out - sounds mildly interesting and I’ve always liked video games” and then the music hits and the storytelling keeps you there. What a great channel with an amazing premise and the ability to reach outside the niche which it was targeted towards.

[@kmc98x]

Damn, summoning salt is one of my favorite youtubers ever. I listen to so much of the music he uses all the time... good stuff. Also the thumbnails are really getting good, keep it up

[@MFGreth]

Nicely presented but I've literally never heard of this guy and I can promise you synthwave and vaporwave were both quote popular before the dates proposed in this video.

[@OrloxPhoenix]

You should go watch his videos then. The world record progression ones.

[@cartermc4141]

Yeah his videos are something special for real, but I agree with your point

[@whcolours9995]

I've seen both the rise of Summoning Salt & synthwave (& related micro-genres) over the years. To say that Summoning Salt made it famous would be deceptive, but it sure as heck introduced it to a new wave of internet users w/ a very strong, renewed blend of emotions for them. Neat video.

[@GO-tq6hs]

This is a good video but I really think it's hard to attribute summoning salt for being responsible for synthwave or even HOME's popularity. Resonance came out in 2014 and was HUGE the video has over 100m views now kzbin.info/www/bejne/bni6Z6aCp7BnZs0 I love summoning salt and love his music selection and it's definitely exposed more people to the genre but HOME's music was already famous years before Summoning Salt ever used it. Still a well made video though, I just think it's a little bit of a misinterpretation of reality I think lol

[@cupuacu4life13]

2016 was the catalyst you had leafy, pyro, many others, electronic gems and artzie music were blowing up, you had the simpsonwave meme coming back, you had frankjavcee using that kinda vibe and talking about it making memes about it for millions of ppl you had the early trap movement really falling in love with synthwave and vaporwave and many artist making rhymes on top of it you had the 2016 hype for blank banshee's "blank banshee 2" which ended up being called MEGA also playing a role

[@aidanbove231]

I became familiar with HOME (the goat) through a different youtuber, EckhartsLadder and his intro/outro being Resonance (my second fav song of all time). He is a Star Wars lore youtuber who exploded in popularity leading up to the release of "The Force Awakens" in 2015. His soothing yet thoughtful tone of voice matched the galactically scoped space settings of many of his lore breakdowns which is why Resonance was a perfect intro/outro choice to set up these themes. This song has gone on to accompany drastically different connotations on TikTok and in my own life experience, listening to it on a trip to the Keys which now puts a serene, tropical lens over my personal listening experience. Also, Come Back Down and more recently Sunshower off the album Hold, have been featured as outro songs to SwaggerSouls' youtube vids which gained contemporary popularity with EckhartsLadder's channel despite these two having zero interactions. It's interesting that this taste in synthwave seemingly crept out of the woodwork in the mid-late 2010's all thanks to youtubers with excellent taste. These albums' sounds are so distinctly "internet-y" (also due in part to the close cousin of synthwave; vaporwave's samplings of early internet sounds/aesthetics) so to say which lend themselves to splendidly accompany yt vids. Love ur channel man, just found it from the Rate Your Music vid and loved ur inclusion of Resonance as a bit of your own background music. Also, I stand in defense of Imagine Dragons with you comrade! Looking forward to more vids soon!

[@epuppy]

6:06 YO THAT’S ME! Great video, by the way. Mine definitely took the “gettin jiggy with it” route

[@danielrehfeldt]

I think while it’s cool to notice that all the drops are timed perfectly with some big event happening, but it’s not just the drops or the start of the song, but he edits the video to match the song throughout the entire playtime of the song especially when the gameplay and music is all you see the gameplay and music will be synced together perfectly transitioning from one hard moment in a run to another hard moment, which we all know the difficulty of by that point because he spends the time to build up how difficult it is before so you get everything you need from the music and gameplay no words required.

[@Oboromaru]

I seem to remember back in 2014-2015 that the whole vaporware thing started to take off, and that style of music (including Home) became popular. I remember hearing Home specifically before I ever watched a summoning salt video. I would see that music in random videos, like in meme videos or kinda like AMV type things. I always just associated it with the vaporware movement since that's how I found them in the first place. And with that in mind, I didn't think that so many people would only ever know these songs just from summoning salt

[@prodbyANT]

I knew about HOME and synthwave before I became a Salt fan

[@SharpeRacing]

I used the same “We’re Finally Landing” song for a small documentary about roller coasters and it really made the whole experience seem otherworldly. I don’t know what it is that makes it so, but it really set the tone for how incredible this little expedition was for myself and for those that were with me.

[@OmegaGlops]

I'm watching a KZbinr's video essay on the background music selection of another KZbinr's video essays! What a time to be alive!

[@BM30]

Great video! I’ve been watching Summoning Salt since 2017 and the music has been one of my favourite things about his videos.

[@michielvansteenhoven7255]

Great video! But I don't think that the summoning salt videos had such a big impact on the popularity of synthwave man. It's been blowing up a couple years back and still hasn't simmered down in the meantime. Summoning Salt is big in the speedrunning community but that's rather niche.

[@pholidia8175]

Love how you used a different Patricia Taxxon track right after talking about Salt's use of Wavetable

[@ax2781]

dang vaporwave/synthwave era is 10 years old already ... so glad it still lives in some ways ... didnt know Home was an anthem for the speedrunning community, thats so cool !!

[@sheedays]

Good video. I was a fan of speedrunning as well as the artists HOME, Stevia Sphere and Patricia Taxxon before I discovered Salt, and I was blown away when I first watched him. His story-telling and how it’s amplified by the editing and music is just amazing, and was a part in getting me interested in video editing. Your explanation of all of this is also great. I wouldn’t exactly call SynthWave a “famous” genre though, and HOME’s Resonance was a pretty well known way before Salt, but hey, the title is pretty catchy so I can’t really blame you. Also, a cool little fact is that HOME made the albums that feature Resonance and We’re Finally Landing when he was 17, which is cool and also makes me feel a little useless. Anyways, again, good video, and thank you for reading my essay.

[@jordandoesstuff]

i've always loved salt's videos, and synthwave quickly became one of my favorite genres of music. so now i'm trying to write my own stuff

[@matthewnoland2008]

Fantastic video! Great editing and voiceover, you should be proud of your work here

[@JoeCarolanWorship]

Such a great video! Great job man!

[@kingclayton]

This intro soothes my soul and I always prepare before I start his videos . It’s a whole experience

[@kianbijari1154]

killer style my guy, keep at it

[@saksam_]

great video, you put the finger exactly on what I felt, it's also great to hear that patty taxxon made this music because i discovered her a few weeks ago but only for her videos

[@nickvv921]

Didn't realize how much I loved the music and the way he uses it, great video 👍

[@PilzQ]

I'm getting goosebumps when hearing these songs... man. Thank you Summoning Salt and thank you Liam for making this video.

[@fatamusballamus6004]

This is such a good vdeo bro. Gottal love video essays on little things like this

[@GeoNix64]

Great video. Considering the size of this channel I didn't expect such amazing quality on the whole, but it really was fantastic, take my sub!

[@RealSnarb]

This channel is going places. Getting in early.

[@UseActionsNotWords]

Nice video buddy. I'll check out the rest. Best of luck growing!

[@moistandmushy]

Amazing video, definitely going to subscribe! Keep it up:)

[@tobyret9302]

This is a beautiful moment of youtube recommendations. One day it just gave me the Salt's Soundtrack and i loved it. Added a lot of it in playlist, revived my interest in synthwave genre and HOME tracks. So happy to see someone noticed how remarkable this music is now, a lot of people using it now for background actually.

[@jeremyweaver5639]

Damn that mic sounds crispy. Dope video.

[@andrewwhite1097]

A really nice video and considering you have a small subscriber count I really hope you and your content blows up !

[@anubis520]

I am not going to argue one way or the other with the title, the truth is that no other video gets as much out of the music like SummoningSalt does (for me) The transitions, the black screen, the timing, the clips chosen, everything about it works so well.

[@brycedaugherty9211]

Salt definitely captures the emotion, and blends it masterfully with the climax in the music. Seriously can't overstate that emotion, and it gets me every single time. I watch all of his videos

[@thenixaless7493]

I actually came along to summoningsalt's content because of the comments on we're finally landing!

[@feelgoodmusic8722]

Facts. I fell in love with Home only because of SS. I get goose bumps just when I hear it.

[@WorldEngine64]

Me too Brother 🌎🌎🌎

[@KremBotop]

Emplemon has also used these types of songs in recent times and it's just as effective. Top soundtracks for top creators

[@Boxman487]

Amazing video quality. Subbed

[@Sirbanza]

HOME has got to be one of my favorite electronic artists of all time, and i’ve explored his entire discography as a fan, and i feel if you enjoy what you’ve heard, then you’ll enjoy the rest

[@n1k0n_]

When the outro plays in any summoning salt video I get a fulfilled joy welling up inside me.

[@maeldupuy9410]

Me watching the whole video was completely dependant on if you'd do a beat drop moment at the end of the introduction segment, and I was satisfied.

[@Akrafena]

funfact: the genre of music summoningsalt uses is vaporwave

[@divyanshusingh6008]

Thanku ,

[@DJ_CARCINOGEN]

nah its synthwave

[@pigsaw.]

Its synthwave lmao

[@your_stepdad]

synthwave, seen emplemon (kinda like summoning salt but for irl topics) use some vaporwave tho

[@JohnPaulBuce]

synthwave

[@calliastah4115]

HOME - We're finally landing honestly has so much of a deeper meaning to me, its my dreams of becoming an engineer ( currently studying for it ) & going into NASA, seeing our world through the perspective of outside, and just 'completing' the quest in the world. It feels almost nostalgic too, even.

[@alexbenzie6585]

Awesome video mate, subscribed.

[@Tiquono]

Well hello fellow small creator! Loved the video! I've shared it over on my channel to help you out at least a little bit

[@alexpickles1674]

I put on a summoning salts vidéo every night when I go to sleep. Soon as I hear that music I’m out like a light

[@BlobstoF]

This video was REALLY well made wow

[@abra_escaped]

Didn't expect to see Patricia Taxxon mentioned here! Haven't listened to much if any of her music but I found her channel through a 2 hour long video detailing the Marble Blast series

[@KdoubleR_]

Omg thank you very much to talk about home's music. I love that artist and there are only few people who talk about him online. By the way I found summoning salt from the comment section of we're finally landing

[@space_demxn1558]

That's a big overstatement. Synthwave started gaining traction first around the time Drive came out with kavinsky and a "real human bean", and then the second, even bigger wave of fans appeared with hotline miami with more edgy darksynth, bringing us carpenter brut or perturbator, but also moon or com truise

[@eduardoc439]

It always gives me the vibe of that scene in the Speed racer movie when Pops explains to Speed the night when he started to feel alive again watching the recorded race with him

[@jamesbrennanmusic]

Definitely earned a sub mate! smashed it

[@sitbar1]

Incredible video!

[@themodernshoe2466]

Nice video 👍

[@Evixyn]

I enjoyed the video and I can see how others may come to this conclusion.

[@FishBola1991]

I think it also meshes with the retro vibe many of his videos have. A lot of the games highlighted are from the 80’s, 90’s, and the turn of the millennium. The dreamy synths evoke a strong sense of playing the NES on a “wood” paneled CRT while sitting in deep shag carpet.

[@ceroenblanco]

This feels like a breakdown video about speedruns breakdown videos

[@blakegrundy2600]

Everyone knows that song for a reason. Summoningsalt brought so much joy to a community I’ve been around since I was just a little kid playing Mario

[@magma6635]

I like the little reference to speedrunning in the video by reading the script at 10x speed

[@whisttv3532]

The emotional feeling is get as soon as this song comes on hits so different

[@BBb-xv9cm]

Great vid(:

[@jmarth523]

Great video bro!

[@Luigi_bros4321]

Even before I watched his videos, I played a game on Roblox with that music and it’s so nostalgic for me. The music is just nostalgic for me

[@boodaviking2736]

His style really reminds me of old Jon bois videos.

[@Blad0x]

i met this kind of music because of him haha thanks summoning salt, i love you for this

[@Francy-.-]

Loved this video

[@SNESKegaGamer]

I love HOME, been listening since 2014 when I started to hear the song Resonance in Vines. It was cool to hear We're Finally Landing in the first Summoning Salt video I watched.

[@sedy123456]

I personally like that summoning Salt uses the Music as a kind of extension to his speech, like in 4:00 where you give an example of how he uses music this underlines it again, its not just background music but really an extension of his Video. It's really interesting

[@12234mapp]

Nathan Barnatt on his "DadFeels" also used vapowave in a lot of his content. It was funny because I remembered hearing track 17 from Resting State|HOME and be so confused about such an overlap

[@verywholesome]

This was a good ass video you deserve more views

[@StarDoge210ACIOfficial]

Proud to be a summoning salt subscriber

[@NateTheOhioan]

I love the use of “We’re Finally Landing” for speedrunning. We’re Finally Landing seems like it conveys the feeling of humanity achieving once thought completely impossible and landing on the moon, with this feeling in a nutshell being, “all your effort towards an impossible task have finally been rewarded.” That’s what speedrunning is all about, endlessly grinding for goals and achieving feats that your predecessors years ago thought to be impossible but you were able to break through with sheer determination

[@jackroland4303]

Great video! But I wanted to point out that you missed an opportunity to talk about the nostalgic aspect of the music that summoning salt chooses to display. Many of the videos that summon salt creates are based on video games that already carry heavy emotion onto the viewers that watch them (such as mario kart 64). When combined with HOME’s unique way of creating nostalgic and melancholic properties in his music, it can create the “dream-like” state associated with many of the trending videos you mentioned. I enjoyed the video very much and it was very professional, I just wanted to add that.

[@ezulon97]

Great video

[@roadwarrior114]

Don't forget that Home: 17, Prism Age: Plural, Chris Doerksen: Night Running, and 3 Chain Links: It Can't Be Bargained With are for science-y parts of the video where Salt explains key checkpoints and hypothetical shortcuts.

[@Emel_unlegit]

Put into words what I've been thinking about

[@dissonanceparadiddle]

It's not a summoning salt video experience if I'm not watching it at 3am or later😅. Fantastic video. I better go to sleep

[@silversauceran]

We’re finally landing in ss videos is like that “…or is it?” music in v sauce videos. It’s Pretty cool and rare to see music soundtracks become synonymous to their use in content creators videos

[@KabalFromMK9]

FYI that Vsauce music is "Moon Men" by Jake Chudnow

[@batman5red]

This is a pretty nice video but I feel like saying summoning salt made synthwave famous is just a straight up lie. The genre was huge even before summoning salt started his channel, summoning salt may have introduced you and many members of the speedrunning community, it he did not popularize it. It was already quite popular.

[@josephgoldsborough9138]

that opening song inspires something deep in my soul

[@DragonAurora109]

Honestly to find home-we're finally landing, i just looked up "synthwave meme song" and every synthwave song in existence came up except for that one

[@ckorijonesjr]

this deserves 1 million views

[@drewbabe]

I knew who Patricia Taxxon was before Summoning Salt's videos but every other artist was totally unknown to me before his videos. And I never really listened to Patricia Taxxon's music, I only knew her from her occasionally popping up in collabs with video essayists or doing soundtracks for hbomberguy videos, but Summoning Salt got me to purchase the album that has Wavetable in it since that song is such a banger. So yeah, I'd say the title is accurate at least for my personal experience. I really love his choice of music.

[@Runenut]

funnily enough, i knew of home well before summoning salt. already had dipped my toes in this kind of tune for a while

[@goblin0887]

Whenever I watched summoning salt while sick/tired, this music actually put me into a dream like state

[@WorldEngine64]

Me too Brother

[@Ignotus519]

I think a big thing for me is how inherently nostalgic it feels. By their very nature, Salt’s speed running history vids cover games that have been out for long enough that they are, or at least feel, old, and a lot of the audience has fond memories of playing the games he covers. Combine that with the usual retro sound of the genre and its this cocktail of nostalgia that transports you back in time. Its soothing and relaxing, but also mesmerizing, and its a big reason why his videos feel so good to watch late at night as you’re winding down from your day. I mean this in the best way, i fall asleep watching his vids.

[@beans2222]

Good video!