Mario's modern music years! (Mario music post part 2!)
Hey there, friends! I hope you're all doing well as always, and as always, I'm here to talk to you about something that I think is pretty interesting, and I'll do my best to explain why you should too! I started talking about Mario's many different themes and music throughout his long platforming career last week, and I hope to finish it up today. We still have a lot of games to get through, so I'll start soon, but first I have to make an important clarification. In the New Super Mario Bros. games, I'm only going to cover the first one, as the music for all of those games is pretty similar, even down to the gimmick of singers coming in and saying, "la, la" and making the world react to it. I'll explain that when we get to those games, but I'll go ahead and start this post with a game that is divisive even to this day! Not quite the vacation that Mario wanted... Mario's first adventure on the Gamecube came out in 2002 in the for...