‘Why did you just play me a piece of must from Game of Thrones?’
Sue Dent is a Receptionist for the NHS.
Before knowing anything:
Why did you just play me a piece of music from Game of Thrones? Because that’s exactly what it sounded like. The acoustic guitar which was playing in the background was really Medieval sounding and in all honesty, I’m not sure how it made me feel. I neither disliked or enjoyed the song. Now, perhaps that’s because I became too focussed on it sounding like GOT but really, it’s because I couldn’t gauge who or what the market for this would be. It doesn’t sound like anything that would be popular in chart music as it sounds too old, and it certainly wouldn’t be popular in the Anglo-American world unless it became a theme song, so I spent the entire song trying to figure out the marketability of the song. I suppose you could say that I enjoyed it, but I definitely wouldn’t choose to listen to it again… Mostly because it had such a Medieval tone that I couldn’t simply sit back and listen to it.
After being informed:
I can definitely tell that it’s been inspired by sounds of the Mediterranean, there is something about the Flamenco guitar and drum beat which makes that so obvious. And I can see why people would want to listen to this, it’s something completely different from their normal diet of pop and rock music which is played on the radio – although I don’t know the extent to which Anglo-American songs are played on Spanish radio. I can also understand why it hasn’t been so popular in the English or American culture, it uses instruments we aren’t familiar with and a language we can’t understand: why would we listen to it?