Movies, TV shows, and video games make up a large part of what people enjoy consuming in their free time. I am most certainly one of those people, but I think a big and often overlooked part of why we love them so much has to do with the incredible soundtracks that help make them so memorable. I want you to think about your favorite movie right now. Now, go look up the soundtrack of that movie and listen to it. I bet you can remember each scene that goes with each song. I just think that it’s super cool, that people can create music with no words whatsoever and yet still convey a story and a message. Soundtracks can make or break the thing that they are representing. If franchises such as the MCU had bad music to associate with their movies, they wouldn’t be as recognizable or popular as they are today. The same goes for things like Stranger Things. The soundtrack for that franchise is so wildly popular that now when people hear any type of electronic music, more often than not they call it “stranger things music”. The main one that most people recognize is “Kids” and it’s recognizable within the first few notes. My favorite soundtracks of all time have to be the ones that go along with video games. Games such as Skyrim or Dragon Age have such distinct styles to their music that I can tell you what exact level the songs on the soundtrack correlate to. I can tell you which songs go with which settings and characters. That’s the true beauty of soundtracks. They make up part of the bigger picture of the entire project. Without them, the final product would always feel incomplete.