Final Fantasy VIII - Eyes On Me | Reacting To Video Game Music! 

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This song won a best song of the year award in Japan when it came out and was played on the radio. It was sung by Faye Wong a singer out of Hong Kong

Fun fact: Faye Wong sung this in ONE take in complete darkness. Uematsu organised an orchestra to play it and sent the recording to her. He called her voice "truly heavenly". The song along sold 400k copies and won "song of the year (western music)" in Japan's Annual Gold Disc Award in 1999 and was the FIRST video game song to win that honour.

Normal people: "So what's your favorite genre of music?" People who grew up on Uematsu: "What's a genre?"

This song is so important to the story i cannot wait for you to live it

FFVIII was the first FF to have a vocal theme song, which would become a staple for the series from here on. Also the first FF to have orchestral music (for the opening and ending). Eyes on Me was performed by Faye Wong

"I'm more than a dress and a voice" that part always makes me so sad, knowing the story behind the song.

FF8 is peak Uematsu for me. He's trying so many things in this game and he just keeps nailing it all.

Singer is Faye Wong. Very popular Chinese artist. Was the first Chinese artist featured in a Japanese video game I believe. Kinda funny considering the song is in English. Anyway, thank you for the reaction and I hope you enjoy my favorite Final Fantasy. :3

Omg...the moment the singing started.....the tears came flooding! I love this song so much, and this game!

Does this game have flaws? Yes. Do I hate it? No. Would I still love it if things turned out different? Maybe yes, maybe no. This can be said about every single game on existence, but with FFVIII, it feels special.

The first time I heard this song I realized that there is absolutely no style outside of Nobuo Uematsu’s grasp.

I really love this song. It brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it - a stirring story of missed love that resonates with me.

I actually seen Faye Wong and heard her sing this song in person. Alot of artists sound so different in recording then they do live. Not Faye, she sounded identical. She is a beautiful singer.

Imagine being Jesse and hearing this stuff without context you are a lucky person my guy all these songs meanings are going to shift so hard and I'm excited to see you react in real time

The first FF main vocal theme, Square went all out back then and hired a famous Chinese singer to perform this song. FF8’s gameplay is pretty polarising, but pretty much everyone agrees that the music is amazing.

I still can't believe this game's over 20 years old. It shaped so much of what I consider to be a great JRPG and a great video game story/soundtrack. This song takes me right back to that scene in the Ragnarok after suffering my way through the damn propagators.

this song is for a specific scene in the game, and the lyrics tells a story from the pov of a bar singer. after this song's debut subsequent Final Fantasy games has a vocalized music as their theme, my favourite being Suteki Da Ne from FFX.

This song along Liberi Fatali are the templates that cemented FFVIII as my favorite over FFVII, as I'm sure did for many other fans.

Faye Wong is the Queen of Pop in the Chinese music industry. Although she does not release anymore albums, she is still extremely popular. She is the first Chinese Singer to be on the cover of the Time Magazine. She was also voted one of the coolest woman in the world by GQ British. Guinness record holder of the biggest selling video game song and the best selling artist of canto pop music.

this is my fav FF (think my profile pic gives that away lol) the cast of characters were all just so cool to me back when i was a kid! Obviously looking back I realize the short comings that this game had, being the follow up to one of the most beloved games of all time is not an easy task lol

This is actually my all time favorite FF song ever as this is my first one from the series I played. In the game. This song was written by Julia to Laguna who went missing in action. For reasons they never got each other and they both ended up marrying different persons. In The game Julia was a singstress in certain bar while Laguna was a soldier who was a regular.

One of the best Karaoke songs from any FF.

FFVIII will forever be my favorite Final Fantasy game, and the music plays a big part in that.

Now, it's the pure beauty of music!

The more you get into Uematsu, the more it's gonna be wild man. It's a rabbit hole and you cannot win when it comes to never be surprised anymore. Also yeah, FF8 had an insane progression on the sheer budget they brought for it, you can feel it on some of the songs like this one that were actually recorded, and cutscene cinematics that were jaw dropping back then, and some of them being small movies in themselves. The production value ramped up with this game (I hope you play the remaster, it's the same but with really reworked, improved higher quality textures, really rejuvenating)

This song is so prominent in FF8 that its almost its own character.

I used the instrumental of the song in my wedding, that how much this song impact me as I grew up playing FF8 for like the 100th time.

Also there is a Distant Worlds orchestral version of this that is somewhat different, but equally beautiful.

Its nice that they brought back this vibe in FF7 Rebirth with the song in the new trailer.

Your reading of the music continues to be on point. This plays both at the very end of the game(just before the end credits), and during a major emotional point in the later part as well.

So, as I'm sure you probably guessed, this is one of THE big songs of the game. And it's such an interesting piece both in the context of where it plays, and the fact that it actually has lore that isn't immediately apparent in game. This is one of those times that I'm sitting here biting my tongue as I type, but you better believe once I see you get past the moment, a new comment will pop up here to explain what I want to talk about.

A song composed by Japanese, sang by Chinese with English lyrics...masterpiece.

Kinda late to the party but FF8 uses Eyes on Me as a motif for several other tracks in the game like "Waltz for the Moon" and "Julia", which is also the name of the character who wrote the song in-universe.

At the beginning of the video you were looking for a le motief and this songs got the foundation for the whole sound track. This shows up in a few tracks especially when anything romantic is going on.

Ooof! Not heard this in years, but suddenly all the feels are back!

1:28 when you're a metalhead who's been tricked into enjoying a cheesy pop ballad 🤣

This song made me a huge fan of Faye Wong. At one point I probably had half of her discography in my regular rotation.

Bring back memories of my younger years everytime i heard this song. Most romactic final fantasy series

Faye Wong has such an incredibly beautiful voice and you also fall in love with her in Chungking Express, not only because she sings "Dreams" by the Cranberries on the soundtrack

The song is about the singer performing at a small bar and noticing a recurrent patron shyly eyeing her every night and always paying close attention to her performance. She gets attached to him and starts worrying about approaching her last performance in the place, she wonders how it will feel from his perspective, and wondering if he'll follow her to the next location. She wants to tell him that she's noticed he's interested in her and that she's interested on him. She has seen he's troubled but conceals his pain and wants to comfort him.

This was the first final fantasy game I ever played. It was so awesome can't wait for your play through

Guys, he is going to play that game (today), stop spoiling in the comment, geez.... Everyone's excited (if you are here) but keep it for now :D

"With that look on your face" WATERWORKS. This song just makes me sad all the time because it's used in certain parts of the game.

Every time i hear "Eyes On Me", it brings tears in my eyes. I dunno how it's for others people, but for me, this music is so nostalgic, and calming. And i dunno why tears appeared in my eyes, i guess it's just it.

After knowing the story, this song never fail to made me cry.

The song is very much in the theme of the relationship between two characters in the game's past and two in the present.

Ugh. My leg is cramping.

I always loved this song. This was the game that made me fall in love with the Final Fantasy series. I love me a good ballad too. A suggestion, that I will be stunned if it has been mentioned. One of my favourite songs from the franchise. Same composer, Nobuo Uematsu: 'Choosing Hope' from the FFXV Comrades DLC, sung by Emiko Suzuki. The music serves as a refrain throughout the Comrades DLC (which you can put a LOT of hours into) then at the finale the vocal version comes in and frankly the performance is amazing, extremely good vocals. There is a note in particular that tickles the goosebumps. The song as a whole has an almost gospel feel.

If there's one person I wish I could meet and shake their hand, it's Nobuo Uematsu. An astonishing talent.

the year 2000 - me putting my ffviii ps1 disc 4 in my walkman on the bus back from middle school. feels hitting as i just finished my first run LEGEND

I hope your playthrough was fun. Eyes On Me is so important to the story and when you hear it for the final time, during the credits, it's kinda hard not to tear up. Sometimes I need to cry and this is song can get me there! Later on in life I found it's complement in Dreamcatcher's Jazz Bar, which is more playful and sexy.

OMG I can't believe that I've missed this! This is one of my favorite FF songs ever!

1:26 - Our boy realizes it's a love song

Still one of the most beautiful video game soundtracks ever

FVIII was my first final fantasy and this song as bring me to tears. Spoilers: . . . Especially when Rinoa does that certain action at space =(

There's actually a part in the game where you put on a concert and you can hear each element of the song being individually played. Very cool

For me, this song is one of the best RPG song theme along with FF IX "Melodies of Life" and Xenogear "Two Wings".

Thanks now I'm crying in a grocery store

It makes me cry each time. I went to see Distabt Workds in Austin, Tx fairly recently and they didn't play it. You think given that this song won an award and sold 400k copies they would play it. This was the FIRST video game song that won Japan's Annual Gold Disc Award. It still stumps me they didn't play such a big part of VIII. It played first on the Ragnarok during the cutscene with Squall and Rinoa and then at the ending of the game.

So many memories…. I miss the good old days playing FF8 with my best Friends…… Everything was much happier and simpler back then……. Growing up is shit…..

I was a teenager when that game was made, that song blew my young impressive mind, especially with the tragic story behind it.

I can't say for before FF7 but from FF7 onward Final Fantasy was famous for heark break love story so there was always at least one romantic balad for the couples. Proud to say that I got into FF mainly for the love story and music, back in my teenage years. : ) Lots of fans of FF for the story and characters rather than the rpg gameplay for sure.

Glad to see this !!

Beautiful song!! It made me cry in FVIII!! These games... were other times

never played FFVIII but I've always really loved this song

6:32 that's just Uematsu's Final Fantasies in general. 11 was the first one that kinda made the music similar to each other, and 12 was full orchestra with no other genre in it except for one song that Uematsu made. 8:01 it even sounds even more Disney-like in the Distant Worlds version

BY THE WAY, Celine Dion has a song called Eyes on Me, but is not like this lol

Songs like this make me wonder if Uematsu maybe missed his calling to ghost write love songs. Not my kind of sound and yet I love it.

It does sound like a Disney ballad at first, but after you played the game, the experience becomes different, specially for Laguna Loire's story.

here we go lol grown ass man "me" in tears lol once again listening to this having played and knows why this song touches :) you should come back lol to this after you played lol :D

The classical version that plays at the wnding is very lovely. There's also a piano version that is so soothing. Also, various version of the song play during the game like "Julia" and "Love Grows". You should check them all out... dood!

I highly recommend you listen to the acoustic version of this.

I love this song when I was playing the game. Got me hooked alright😊👍

Faye Wong and the breathtaking voice of hers

Since you mentioned not really listening to the actual lyrics, the PoV of the song is a lounge singer describing falling in love with a man who comes to listen to her sing every night.

The melody of this song is used as a theme in many songs of this game, so when you finally hear this song accompanied by the actual scene in the game it has quite an impact. Also I think the melody was inspired by Relm's Theme from Final Fantasy VI, there's a lot of similarities there.

I listen to this song everyday.

This song was made for Faye Wong.

"it sounds like a disney song" IVE BEEN SAYING THAT but for some reason it mostly reminds me of a non-disney song: "Looking through your eyes" from Quest for Camelot. i am a sucker for happy love ballads and love stories in general so FF8 made me BAWL.

Love this song!

fuck, man, I gotta give this one a playthrough for the first time in like 22 years

The leg cramps when you jam this one.

I heard this and I'm like Nobuo you can't have possibly wrote this you can't have wrote for asian LEGEND Ms Wong and Dancing Mad too. But nope it's our boy 😂! What's a genre? When I first moved to North America I listened to this song on the 18 hour flight while staring at the moon over a cloudless dark sea.

Oh my hod how i cried at the Ragnorak aftermath where this plays 😢FFVIII will always be my favorite FF game. It just is.

i wept when i heard it in game, the story is so sad, the singer is a performer in a bar, she performed for a guy who later was drafted into the army and went to war, which is why it was the last time the girl saw him, and she heard that he died in the war, and was heart broken and was comforted by another soldier who is a general, and married him. but later the guy came back from the war alive. its really a sad story.

It's soo beautiful song, it's first that type of song in Final Fantasy series, I mean song with solo vocal, not with choir like "One-Winged Angel". Songs from FF VIII, IX and X are the best! I hope you will react to song "Melodies of Life" from FF IX in future. ;)

Super late context for the song. The singer in game was a jazz singer in a jazz bar and she was singing for a soldier she liked. Pretty much saying she doesnt know if he will come back next time/deployment and indeed he got injured in the combat and disappeared she ended up marrying someone else. I didnt mention character names since it might be pointless for people who like the song but didnt play the game.

laguna and julia's song, love this game!

Were you about to cry toward the end of the song? I think this is the perfect song to shed a tear or two lol sometimes I ugly cry while listening to this and I can't explain why

Yo I sing this to my baby. Super good lullaby, very direct words, reassuring tune 10/10

this song would probably make me cry if it was at a wedding or something 😂

And the ending cutscene was awesome

thats a good pick up on chrono trigger, the song specifically has a certain time/generation connected fate element to it

There have been plenty of pop-inspired ballads in Final Fantasy games since VIII. Melodies of Life, Suteki Da Ne, 1000 Words... as far as I'm concerned, none of them even *touches* Eyes on Me. It's just that good, and the vocals are a big part of that.

my second favorite FF game after FFX

I hope you played ff8 now and know the context. Who the song sang, for which character it was meant, the first time the song playes during the game. I loved it.

God, I love the game.

Check out Final Fantasy IX song " Melodies of Life"

TFW when you didn't expect lyrics in an FFVIII song XD