As if adding Ariana Grande’s likeness to Square Enix’s free to play mobile game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius wasn’t strange enough, her song “Touch It,” will also be given a fully orchestrated remix for the game. It’s kind of … good?
Music producer Nick Wood from SYN Productions, a music studio he co-founded with Simon LeBon of Duran Duran (weird!), will be handling the remix. “We’ve hired a 52-piece orchestra,” he said in the announcement trailer from this morning. “I certainly don’t think you’ve heard anything like this from Ariana Grande before, and I think Final Fantasy fans will be happy to hear something new in this game.”
This is the funniest picture I have ever seen
Just in case you haven’t listened to the oeuvre of Ariana Grande: think Mariah Carey, but with worse enunciation. To give her the melodramatic treatment of a Final Fantasy game is kind of hilarious, but not not totally incongruous. The remix of “Touch It” kind of sounds like something Yuna would sing in Final Fantasy X-II. The original song is about longing and desire, but with this treatment, the aforementioned longing is being given the weight of an impending apocalypse or something. You know, Final Fantasy stuff.
If you’re desperate to know when, exactly, Ariana Grande will grace Final Fantasy Brave Exvius with her presence, Square Enix said that, “more details will be released in the middle of January,” in a press release this morning. In the meantime, I guess you’ll have to tide yourself over with this picture of a man playing a french horn for the “Touch It” remix, who seems to be pondering how his life got to this point.
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I think Final Fantasy fans will be happy too, complaints about the lack of pop stars in FF have always been the focus of all he games.
I still remember the great petition in the late 90’s to get Celine Dion as a playable character in the upcoming FF8 game.
It didn’t pan out back then, but this feels like it makes up for that and a huge win for FF fans and the franchise.
I liked her until she became a real pop tart
I thought the reason we play fantasy RPGs like FF was to get away from reality with its vapid pop stars. And of all celebs why Ariana? It’s the most random thing ever, I mean I wasn’t a fan of Gackt being an actual character (Genesis) either, but at least he’s an actual fan of the series. Ariana just doesn’t fit imo…