{"id":9668,"date":"2022-11-06T19:25:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T19:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/06\/talking-point-whats-the-best-use-of-licensed-music-in-a-switch-game\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:25:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T19:25:10","slug":"talking-point-whats-the-best-use-of-licensed-music-in-a-switch-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/06\/talking-point-whats-the-best-use-of-licensed-music-in-a-switch-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: What&#8217;s The Best Use Of Licensed Music In A Switch Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(No, it&#8217;s not Mad World).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You know that feeling you get when you&#8217;re driving down a highway at sunset, and the <em>perfect<\/em> song comes on the radio? All of a sudden, it feels like you&#8217;re in a music video, or that bit at the start of a &#8217;90s teen movie, where everything is sparkling and perfect. The music becomes a soundtrack, and your life becomes a story.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few brilliant moments like this in media, too \u2014 ones that deploy the right song at the right moment for a perfect synergy of feelings. Think of how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W4tVH7BPb-Q\">Edgar Wright uses licensed music in his films<\/a> to underline tense, snappy moments and add comedy, or the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Sv1I4q6lOpo\">Don&#8217;t You (Forget About Me) at the end of <strong>The Breakfast Club<\/strong><\/a>, or the Imogen Heap-scored season 2 finale of The O.C., which became so iconic that <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vmd1qMN5Yo0\">it got its own SNL skit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/talking-point-whats-the-best-use-of-licensed-music-in-a-switch-game\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Talking Point: What&#8217;s The Best Use Of Licensed Music In A Switch Game?<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>(No, it&#8217;s not Mad World).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You know that feeling you get when you&#8217;re driving down a highway at sunset, and the <em>perfect<\/em> song comes on the radio? All of a sudden, it feels like you&#8217;re in a music video, or that bit at the start of a &#8217;90s teen movie, where everything is sparkling and perfect. The music becomes a soundtrack, and your life becomes a story.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few brilliant moments like this in media, too \u2014 ones that deploy the right song at the right moment for a perfect synergy of feelings. Think of how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W4tVH7BPb-Q\">Edgar Wright uses licensed music in his films<\/a> to underline tense, snappy moments and add comedy, or the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Sv1I4q6lOpo\">Don&#8217;t You (Forget About Me) at the end of <strong>The Breakfast Club<\/strong><\/a>, or the Imogen Heap-scored season 2 finale of The O.C., which became so iconic that <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vmd1qMN5Yo0\">it got its own SNL skit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/talking-point-whats-the-best-use-of-licensed-music-in-a-switch-game\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}