Future good music:

Today marks the completion of my music listening project -- the newly added songs that were used to replace remixes and bad songs in my 'final exam' have all reached 100 listens as well, so now it's all over.  The six year slog is over.  There are no more provisional entries, they all made it past the finish line.

Does this mean no music will ever be good in the future?  No, that's nonsensical.  I already have my eyes on the soundtracks of 9 different games:

Astria Ascending

Granblue Fantasy Project re:link

Bravely Default II

Heaven Burns Red

Summer Pockets Reflection Blue

Unsung Story

Tales of Arise

Eiyuuden Chronicle

Star Ocean the Divine Force

But first they would have to come out, and then I'd have to play them, so as to learn if they have any good music or not.  That could take years.  There's certainly no rush any longer.  The frenetic stage of this project is over.

What I do know is that there are currently 876 1-star video game songs that wouldn't mind being replaced by new and better video game songs.  So there's plenty of room for these new games to join the fold.  There's no need to grow beyond 5500 songs, from here on every new song can kick out an old and used up song I have no need of anymore.

It's also likely that new anime opening and ending themes will join my music hall of fame.  I welcome them, the current ratio of 3/5 video game, 1/5 anime, 1/5 western is a little too lopsided if you ask me.  With 876 acknowledged weak video game songs to pick on, anime can have a heyday replacing as many of them as it likes.

I don't expect there will be any new western music, whether rock or classical, making it in.  The artists I used to admire, like Bjork and Garbage, don't make good songs anymore.  They're all super old.  The same is true of John Williams and the like.  They did a good job and they're well-represented already, but as a last favor to them I promise not to kick out any of their songs, even if they are 1-star.  At a pitiable 1/5 ratio, they need as many representatives as they can get.