why is this motif in literally everything

Wow everyone has a song they recognize this in huh

EVEN IN CLUB PENGUIN LMAO THIS IS THE REAL LIFE EQUIVALENT OF THE FREEDOM MOTIF

ok now that you're all here, where does this motif actually come from???? i think the earliest occurence of it i found was from toy story 2 but surely the melody's older than that, does anyone have one older than 1999?

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i loooove bear ghost :)

It's everywhere 😭

fucking me up that i was literally just working on a song with this exact chord progression lol

i think i also unconsciously used it in trainwreck for antipathy lmao

Mix of it being a fire melody, going with a lot of popular chord progs (literally guessing on this one), and it being a sorta messy melody where a few changed notes in timing or interval isn't noticable? I can't believe how many examples you found lmao

im p sure ive even heard even more examples of this but just couldnt get the examples off the top of my head, i think mili has a song with the exact melody

the minor descending line cliche chord progression! the bass descends stepwise while the upper chord notes remain the same (in theory anyways, a lot of the time they cheat the notes bit). really easy to make the melody match the bass which is what you have in most of these

BECAUSE CHROMATIC WALKDOWNS FUCKING RUUUUULE

i recreated the melody and added some motifs to it

how fast i locked in when i heard stone ocean theme:

humanity leitmotif

was waiting ages for the Club Penguin pizzatron theme or alternatively the 2013 pizza parlor music to show up and NEITHER ONE DID

i genuinely didnt know those had this motif until someone posted it in replies here HAFWJUJUHNWAJ

my porpoisal (1:32)

this is also berdly's theme

sooooort of, berdly's theme is just sliiightly off imo. similar style of melody too another one that's very close is yonkagor - memory merge, especially the chorus (tho iit's the same imo where it's not quiiite the same melody, just a very similarly styled one)

it's a damn good melody.

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Also Pac-Man World 2 (and its remake ofc)

Something similar can be found on Alice in Musicland too!

idk if this counts since it’s a different key but shinkalion change the world op

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@CloverCl0verClo “What am I now in this world without her?” “petty and dull with the nerve to doubt her”

@izzybelleeeee who am i now in this world without her? petty and dull, with the nerve to doubt her

have sam & max rotted my brain or do i hear it in this intro

Got jumpscared by Vampire Refence in a Minor Key

MANGLED/(i call it Humanity Lyric) LYRICS LETS FUCKING GOOOOO YOU KNOW BALLLLLL

go down scale good chromatic walkdown makes ears go ouh!ouwow. oh yueah. getwith the Memo . kid

Another one to the pile

this is just a siivagunner fusion collab

Will wood fans do be talking about the sudden vampire reference but missed seeing the OP's attempt to look for the leitmotif in 6up 5oh lol

@elbio_laculos33 Do you think the irl Gaster created the first instance of this banger before shattering across time and space to live on in the hearts of every future musician

Does any part of this song count?

It’s Mary Poppins y’all

will wood spams this all the time LOL