Professional Game Composers and Amateurism

So how much is it not having the ear for it vs. not putting forth the effort? One suggests a natural talent and the other suggests focus.

I personally feel that stripping a piece of too much of it's original melody is a little pointless. This wouldn't automatically make a piece bad, it could still be pulled of as a worthwhile effort despite how closely connected to the base material it is. But if I go into something knowing that this is a remix of song X, I am looking to hear a different take on song X. Not a similar backbeat placed to unrecognizable development leading to a brief phrase of the original. I do go in with expectations, it's just the nature of the media.

So are the looser than loose arrangements intended to just be for the sort of crowd of the trained ear and gets these things and not for the general fan, or...

Not just your stance but your apparent disdain for the other side seems hella condescending. I am open minded, but if I don't want to be to the point where something in music goes purposely above my head, I'd like not to be blamed for saying I didn't enjoy it.

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