You're right. The first one is the general theme and the second is a battle theme. By the way the lady and the guy playing the flutes are married and come from Peru. Natlan is a mix of Africa and pre-colombian Latin America (it has six different tribes/regions)
@@Ugn98 nope. I just saw the comment of a real-life friend of both of them on another reaction. He said that they recently lost their only son (aged 14).
Indeed, that is one of the things that internet people often fail to understand. If only they could understand the difference between the two, twitter wouldn't have been so noisy
@@fairiz375 Not only that, Natlan is inspired by many different cultures not just one group of people, and these cultures all vary in skin color. hence you get characters like Iansan who are darker than others like Mualani. Which makes the Twitter controversy even more meaningless.
At this point i can already imagine Edygrim is going to set up a projector for his entire neighborhood to watch natlan symphony Also the "wakanda vibes" got me 😂😂😂😂😂
@@gyannunez as much as I don't like marvel, kinda want a crossover between Black Panther and Natlan (since fictional characters can actually get into Teyvat like Aloy. They don't neccesarily have to be on Descender level. However, I'm not sure if such collab is respectful as the actor for BP have passed away ;; )
What they mention about Swahili sounding different depending on location reminds me of Brazilians trying to understand the Portuguese that Portuguese people speak.
I had the chance to hear both and they sound quite different. I'm an italian so I can understand a bit of Portuguese and Brazillian (more Brazillian strangely enough).
@@renatomarelli4199 To tell the truth, the Spanish of Spain and Latin America are not really that different.What changes is the accent and regionalisms, not to mention that some words can be misinterpreted between regions.The point is that they can understand each other.😊
@@MXUKrazyDave yes. One of my best friends is from Argentina and his fiancee is Spanish. I can feel some differences but in general I can understand them both when they speak "Spanish".
The flute that the woman with the bandana is playing is a 'zampoña'. That one and some others traditional wind instruments that appear on the video are actually form latin america, specifically used in Perú and the north of Chile, since the region of Natlan also takes inspiration from those cultures
if I'm not mistaken, natlan is based on a bunch of cultures rather than just one, somewhat like sumeru. there's some parts that are closer to south america, some are closer to african countries. I think there might also be some australia and hawaii in there.
from what we know so far, natlan is a region that mixes africa, america and oceania. as "the land of war", the central (unifying) theme is something like 'the constant fight to defent their land against foreign forces that threaten to destroy everything'
@@Yvonne-Bella Because there is absolutely NONE. Natlan is fighting against the Abyss, which is a force of nature. Nothing to do with colonialism. I don't know/understand the concept very well, but in the "Hoyoverse" there's like two realms expanding at the expense of each other, both seeking to anihilate each other but always kept in equilibrium. Like the Ying-Yang thing, in an eternal "Ouroboros" struggle. This is what they call the "Honkai", where the Imaginary Tree where all things exist struggle to not get crushed by the Sea of Quanta which envolves them, which manifests itself in the form of Abyss. The world (universe) of Teyvat is like a leaf in that tree, there's many others like the whole universe of Star Rail and whatever continuation they decide to come in next games. Or in another words, its like Teyvat is a star and the Abyss is the gravity force trying to make it collapse.
I just finished the story so far today, without spoiling the unifying thing is because they need every able hero to fight against the forces of the Abyss because the leylines in Natlan aren't as deep rooted as other nations, so they're more vulnerable to Abyss rifts and subsequent invasions. It has nothing to do with colonialism. Genshin is a chinese name and Hoyo tends to avoid any politicizing issue to not draw the attention of Xi Jing Pooh or the communist dictatorship in general.
Music unites us. That’s what their marketing team spent most of the budget on beside their advertising animations. Whether you love it or hate it the game, you can’t deny that’s money well spent.
I wonder what the actual warriors in a village can feel in the music. That will be utterly profound and interesting to see what they feel in the music. Do they feel courageous? Do they feel inspired? Do they feel heroic towards the fate that they do for their people and faith?
im not even a warrior and my heart is pumping so hard. what can't i do for a nation that sings my praise each time i go out to defend them? i'd prolly still fight with my arms teared off when i hear this banger
I love that you find it so good that you bring your neighbors to show it to!! I'm really exited for natlan's release in 3 days and love the main theme for the nation
Nice to see your friends here too. 😊 Some thoughts to help understand the game's world: actually some of Genshin's nations are inspired by not just one country/culture but multiple different ones. For example Liyue is based on China, Inazuma is based on Japan; but Fontaine is based mainly on France, but there are also some other Southwestern-European influences like Spanish. Mondstadt has many German influence, but also other Northern-European cultures. Sumeru is also a mixed one, India, Egypt and other Arabic cultures, Persia, and Middle East in general. As for Natlan, besides the African-inspired things there are also Aztec and other native American, and also Hawaiian and Maori influences. So this is why you saw some native American musicians and instruments too in this performance. These inspirations and influences can be seen everywhere in a specific nation, like the names of the characters, the style of buildings, the geography (like Inazuma is a group of islands like the real world Japan) and many times also the lore and history of that nation.
@@PlasticChair86 Sure, it absolutely is. It doesn't mean to 'represent' any real life nation directly, they are just taking inspiration from them. Thanks for adding this. 😇
Liyue also has a lot of Mongolian influences since their history is so closely related to China's, so it's not only China there lolol oh and IMO fontaine also got some of that Italiano lmao
In case you missed or can't find it, there is also a concert/orchestra for the soundtrack of Liyue, the nation that came before Inazuma and was inspired by China, over here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pFrKZxStL_U.html Since Mondstadt and Liyue were the first 2 nations in Genshin and the game was still in its early stages then, they didn't have full fledged live symphony performances like the other nations you've seen so far, though Liyue still has an orchestra recording, in the link that I pasted. After watching all the national live symphonies, I would definitely recommend watching the Boss battle OSTs as well. Like the national symphonies, they also incorporate a lot of cultural and modern musical elements together. Other than that for each national symphony orchestra like the Natlan live symphony, Genshin actually releases the behind the scenes of their making as well, u might be interested since they go into the details of how they made the soundtracks and the processes and people involved. Here are the different regional ones: Sumeru: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ps8oa3CRNfk.html Inazuma: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-avmFhel0ky4.html Fontaine: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WaNJ20OY8Bs.html Liyue: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JsDRUNFAcyo.html Mondstadt: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NWttfnCIX5E.html Natlan symphony behind the scenes is also expected to be uploaded by genshin soon.
The last two regional themes are part of a longer concerts. He should consider doing the entire "Refection of Spring" concert for a Liyue mix: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8svl0sQXDLI.html Chapter 1: "Liyue": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8svl0sQXDLI.html Prelude: "Mondstadt": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UIam8zl4af8.html
This is why we went hard for them to listen to us as their player base. Listening to us and understanding why we want proper representation of our culture has literally started gaining them more attention from an entire new base of people who otherwise would not have even known about the game
I think with the reason why the pronunciation sounds different is also because it's a choir, and choirs typically sing/pronounce their words differently from the language they sing in.
That's a good point to bring up actually. Commonly in English certain words are changed for clarity for the audience. "The" for example is commonly sung as "thee" and words with various slang changes get emphasized different to avoid those slang sounds. Christmas is a good example. Pronouncing the "mas" syllable as the typical "miss" makes the S come out too strong, so choirs typically change it to emphasize an "ah" sound in "mahss".
this is so wholesome. your efforts speedrunning to consume and spreading genshin impact beautiful content is so admirable. i hope you and your friends enjoy your stay.
I just found you this evening, I've been binge watching all your genshin reactions! It's so sweet that you brought your friends/neighbours and show them the new anthem in swahili ;)
that what the game's motto, tech otaku save the world, we need to bond our brotherhoods in diversity. we are from the same Great Father Adam afterall . i love this game so much and also you all
Natlan is not only Africa but also some of the Americas (mostly south), the instruments you point of the native American woman playing are pan pipes. There are some Latino instruments used in the anthem of the savannah as well
@@sofiagaeta8268 You even take History class? Maya, Aztec= Mexico and part of Center America. Inca: South Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, North Chile and a little of Argentina.
Natlan is inspire by "The Ring of Fire", but interchanging Asia for Africa, since Genshin already has many East Asian inspired regions and will have North Asia in Shneznaya. Basically, Pre-Colombinan America, Oceania and Tribal Africa I think.
This is actually supported by the fact that in-game hot springs are canonically from Natlan, so the onsen in Inazuma were artificially created by Snezhnayans because Inazumans liked the hot springs in Natlan so much they wanted them at home. The same NPC who says this also says that Inazuma doesn’t have volcanic activity, unlike Japan which is part of the ring of fire.
17:00 yeah, in these live recording videos the first one is the theme of the nation (which often includes several character leitmotifs) while the second is the main battle theme of the nation.
This is the type of music, that gets better the more you hear it. Which is a sign of real art. Pop-music hits hardest the first 5 times you hear it. Art hits harder the more you understand it.
Show them more symphonies, many people in the comments are recommending really good ones. Please do more reactions with your buddies. The more the merrier.
This is very interesting, thanks to the first reaction video you uploaded, from this and the video game in general I have learned something totally new. And is what one of the companions says, that the language sounds a bit strange but apparently it is because it is spoken differently depending on the place or the tribe? (Or so I understood). Also, before Natlan's Video, the only place where I had heard that language was precisely in the Lion King Movie. so it's interesting to see how they use it here. Well, many of the names in Natlan (I play Genshin) sounded familiar to me due to the Mayans, Aztecs and Incas (I'm from Latin America) so it was a surprise to hear the theme in an African language. 🤔🧐
Yes, Kiswahili sounds different due to accents and regions. For example, at the Kenyan Coast - the way they speak Kiswahili is different than me and my friends who are in the Capital City Nairobi. So of course, when non-natives speak Kiswahili it would sound different to us because our accent and pronunciation. Even at the Coast of Kenya, they speak way more fluent Kiswahili than us. In the capital Nairobi and it's suburbs, we use "SHENG" often - which is Kiswahili slang. I'll do a small video about this and the tribes of Kenya
Your solo natlan rection video got immense number of views and likes which made you interested in covering the game, i hope you try the game out and you will fall even more love with it Genshin Community can be notorious sometimes so ignore their toxicity and enjoy the content as much as you want to your comfort, looking forward to more videos and reaction when Natlan drops in few days
I really like the comments of your buddies to the Natlan theme music! They're fun to be with and I love their genuine reaction on how they point out some important parts like the instruments, the lyrics, and how they pronounce it compare to the Swahili you use. Love the culture
this is how the game got me with its music it basically keeps me always close to it by making such good music bringing me back everytime without fail lol
I'm glad you showed them this performance but I think it would be more immersive if they each had their own earphones or if it was out loud for them idk
His friends seem to not be youtubers/reactors haha. It was cool of them that they joined him. I do think it is more usual for people to not react much while watching something because they (me personally) just watch all the way. Which is why I appreciate reactors too because I can evidently see how they feel so excited by something. (edit I made several typos ^^;)
I think it also has to do with listening in only one earphone. The experience is just not the same. There are several things in music production/mixing which you cannot hear with just one earphone.
@zackjdl I think they did, it's just that as a dj I'm more animated and have more to say about music. Also, I do reaction videos daily so I'm able to generate commentary easily. Non-RU-vidrs doing blind reactions would typically just sit and listen first before giving their opinions
I've been watching a lot of musicians reacting to Hoyoverse music recently, I find it fascinating. You're already watched some of the other regional live symphonies, but there's a whole host of other music videos, such as boss themes and entire concerts. I'd definitely reccomend the boss themes, but there's also 2 songs with full lyrics like Emberfire On a side note, I'd like to see your reaction to the Natlan version 5.0 trailer
Genshin has this annual concerts of their ost Since natlan is out, they will probably hold another one and replay the battle theme Hopefully with natives and proper pronunciation this time
What would be amazing is if you watch all the live symphonies Genshin Impact came out with and see the variety of cultures they put in their music and the game itself .. ❤
i would recommend to watch characters teasers/trailers next(just a warning theres a LOT so itll take a while to get through it all). i also suggest watching the trevail trailer, its one of the first vids made by genshin made before the games release and outlines the journey you take throughout the game and gives a quick preview of each nation and their roles in the story.
I watched your translation video, and the comments of your friends also pointed it out - are there dialects of Swahili? That could explain why some of it is odd cause they are using a different dialect maybe. Like, in Japanese and English there are different dialects that some people use where it could be harder to understand them or what they say because of the words they use for stuff is different. For Japanese, Tokyo-ben is like "Standard" Japanese but Kansai-ben, Hokkaido-ben are some of the other dialects that "Standard" speakers of Tokyo-ben will say it's hard to understand or won't even know what some words are. They are all still speaking Japanese but, you know, from the outside people might not think each could be distinct enough to be it's own dialect. In English, like just American English, alone has many dialects. One of the ones I grew up hearing about but not speaking myself (I grew up with Appalachian dialect in the mountains of my state) was Tidewater dialect which is the coastal dialect of my state. While we both speak English, it's hard for me to understand Tidewater and they use a lot of words I don't so I'd have to ask what they mean a lot.
China is infamous for having many many dialects that technically can count as their own language because of how different they are. For example, my family is from Fu Zhou and the spoken version of Fu Zhou is considered a dialect but understanding to Fu Zhou dialect is near impossible for someone who only knows mandarin Chinese because of how different they are. My grandma only understands and speaks Fu Zhou but she cannot understand much Mandarin anymore.
There are. I’m not a Swahili speaker or a linguist but I know a bit about linguistics and I did look into this topic. There are multiple dialects of Swahili, and it’s mainly spoken across Kenya, Mozambique, and Tanzania. It’s sorta the common language in parts of East Africa. Each country has their own dialect, and different groups within those countries have dialects as well. I know that his tribe, the Kikuyu, pronounce things in a notably different way from other Kenyans. Tanzania has the highest number of Swahili speakers because it’s the country where the Swahili people (or WaSwahili) live. From what I know, I think the singers are going for a more Tanzanian Swahili dialect. Their pronunciation of Shujaa in the second song is more like the Tanzanian pronunciation than the Kenyan pronunciation, but not exact because most of not all of the choir does not consist of native or second language speakers. Some things like the “Ukuu Ukuu” pronunciation in the song are wrong regardless of the dialect, but other things are just dialectal differences plus a result of them not actually speaking the language. There’s also probably some changing of sounds to make it fit better with the music, like he mentioned in his lyric breakdown video. People even do that when they actually speak the language they’re singing in just to make the song flow better.
Yes, as you move from region to region across East Africa, or even in Kenya, Kiswahili can sound different due to accent and word selection while talking. Words wouldn't change meaning but some speakers may use a larger vocabulary of words or speak more formal Kiswahili while some people (like me and my friends) would speak more Informal Kiswahili known as "Sheng" There are words in the Natlan symphony like "matkwa" (which means wants / desires/ wishes) that a regular Kenyan would rarely use in a normal spoken conversation. "Matakwa" is a word you'd hear in a speech or composition but a regular Kenyan in the village would never speak that way. Maybe someone in the Coast would say "Matakwa" because they speak more formal Kiswahili
You know, sometimes I look back and wonder how that one guy who destroyed his PS4 upon the announcement of Genshin Impact is reacting to how Genshin is doing now lmao
Bro really did that one king neptune move from a spongebob episode "its so good i want to eat it again" or whatever. The episode where spongebob fought against neptune in cooking competition
7:20 we had the same by the german words, they had in another part of Genshin. They sounded like an english man would say them. A bit different. And as you heard them you were like: Wait! I know that word. They only used them for some names, while the rest of the said words was english all along. So that was like a big surprise :D
Also something you might consider is the fact that the prononciation is not very important in opera singing. They sometime make word sound odd to have a sonority that fits better the piece. We have a lot of that in french even when its done by natives
I don't know if its available on PC or only on RU-vid mobile, but in future, if you want to do a reaction and don't know if your internet will be cooperative, download the video. That way the video is still available to watch despite any internet misbehavior.
Natlan by the story actually inspired by Maya, Inca and Aztec, but the music vibes is African. 7 region in genshin inspired by real nation. Mondstadt = Germany-Netherland Liyue = China Inazuma = Japan Sumeru = India-Middle East Fontaine = France Natlan = Ancient Latin American-African Szneshnaya = Slavia (Ex-Uni Soviet) - Italy, release at 6.0 But the disclaimer : Genshin is a fiction....etc, you know.
I think your friends not liking the ost as much as you has to do with listening in only one earphone. The experience is just not the same. There are several things in music production/mixing which you cannot hear with just one earphone. Anyways, good reaction though!
Yes, full headphones experience is more different than using one earpod. However, remember I'm a dj and youtuber 😀 I'm obsessed with music and I'm also good at music commentary hence why my reaction is different than theirs
I think why certain pronounciations is because of they way its being sung Certain phonics are defficult in certain notes just like “o” sound is very hard resonate
@@renatomarelli4199I just don’t feel the same for other hoyo music. There are some soundtracks by artists hoyo hired but unlike genshin they are done by outside companies and studios. Hoyo mix is just their production studio like Sony would be. That’s why for example the animations in Genshin are so good and a step above honkai since one is dome by themselves. And honkai is paid 3rd company. That’s said I am not even sure about Natlan music now.
It’s very relevant to him with this upcoming patch, and hearing lots of ethnic instruments in other region’s OSTs is probably really cool to witness, why wouldn’t he be interested?
idk if you can access a server from africa (as i think there's only america, asia, europe and etc) but if you end up ever trying the game and can somehow play on north america server, i'd love to help ya out :D
