I randomly listened to a piece by the Korean pianist/composer Yiruma called River Flows In You and... omg, it's gorgeous. It's only about 3 minutes long but it's amazing. And it's probably the only song/piece that has moved me literally almost to tears within the first 5 seconds.
I've heard of Yiruma before, just by name, but I've never heard any of his music or Wiki'ed him. Turns out he's well-known worldwide and River Flows In You is one of his best-known pieces (I can see why). After hearing this piece I'm definitely going to check out more of his stuff.
The initial "moving me to tears" feeling has gradually faded after looping the track like 5 times in a row (oops) but it's still an amazing piece.
On a related side note, I thought it was weird and mildly interesting that according to Wiki his two pieces River Flows In You and Kiss the Rain are "widely misattributed as Bella's Lullaby from the soundtrack to the 2008 film Twilight." Umm, what?
(And no, I've never watched any of the Twilight movies.)
Listening to right now: Yiruma - River Flows In You
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I would be so insulted if I were in your position (i.e. liking a particular song a great deal) and were to find out that people were mistaking it for something on the Twilight soundtrack.
ReplyDeleteA LOT of people think of Muse only as "The Twilight Band" because one of their songs was featured prominently in it. (the song wasn't "done" for the movie; the director had selected an existing Muse song, not even a new one).
Haha well it helps that the piece that they're mistaking it for is pretty decent too (I only listened to small snippet of it on Youtube though).
ReplyDeleteI got the impression that it was because there was a rumour that "River Flows In You" would be used in Twilight. I'm not really sure how/why it was misappropriated as "Bella's Lullaby" when the composers are obviously two completely different people.
I think Muse being thought of as "The Twilight Band" is significantly more insulting. ><
I mean, at least it's just the pieces' names getting mixed up as opposed to Yiruma getting dubbed "The Twilight guy".
Although it does annoy me when I see Youtube comments saying "Yiruma made this for Twilight, blah blah blah". (Which are usually followed by comments of "omgomgomgIlovetwilightEdwardhavemybabies" or "twilightsucksballsurallgay") -_-;
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(I totally made those comments up; I didn't actually read any of them, hahaha. I bet that's what they say though.)