Mustache Girl With Lyrics - You Are All Bad Guys (A Hat In Time: The Lyrical Rift) 

Thank you! All the kudos really has to go to Raven and her wonderful performance as MG. I felt dissatisfied with the original You Are All Bad Guys With Lyrics, so I spent a LOOONG time writing out 2 different versions of it, this one and one for Hat Kid I hope you'll like Hat Kid's version just as much when that comes out btw!

If you like this you’ll love Man On The Internet’s AHIT stuff

I'm honoured that you think so highly of it! Really, it was a lot of writing and rewriting and retaking and rewriting again, but I'm so happy that it came out this good and to this much appraisal You seem familiar - Have you been around a lot of RU-vid comments sections? I think I recall your username from those but hm

@@AlexPastGrey Hey, that's how you refine something to be really good, revisions! And yeah lol

@@TheAdvertisement Ahhhh sweet

And MOTI just did it so now you get double the epic covers!

@@JustANewHunter Seriously!!!

Ah thanks! Though I should warn you that the uh cutscene you refer to will *not* be in AHIT Lyrical Rift - This is for the sake of centralising the story of the ending a little bit more and also just plain because I hated it That being said, if you would like to see an adaptation of that ending, I'd recommend Bright Torch Productions' AHIT The Musical, who I think managed to pull it off super well

Yeah i can see why it would seem lame lol. And i wrote the comment after watching the vid anyway so yeah. Really cool song​@@AlexPastGrey

@@Mk-mz8zt Less that it's lame, more that it comes out of nowhere and kind of destroys the flow of the story and makes Mustache Girl out to be purely the bad guy with little to no nuance to it beyond that point As someone who really likes the idea behind Hat Kid and Mustache Girl's dynamic, it sucks seeing the game butcher it in favour of an Undertale reference haha

@@pascalbatronic Aw, well thanks for the compliment either way(?)

@@tempinveir6234 Thank you thank you! I worked really hard on the lyrics on this one, and was kind of trying to invoke a "Holier than thou" thing for MG, but I guess that backfired haha

@@AlexPastGrey backfired? it worked out perfectly. MG having that kinda theme makes perfect sense

@@tempinveir6234 Backfired in that she came across as childlike and over the top lol

@@AlexPastGrey I don't think they mean the lyrics or word choice, they mean the actual vocal delivery. She sounds EXACTLY like a child drunk on power.

@@BaronSterling Ohhhh okay Yeah no, Raven knocked that out of the park completely

@@Thedragonlover95 Sadly the writers didn't want to do anything with this lol

@@AlexPastGrey True

A pleasant surprise seeing you here Katie! I'm glad and a tad honoured you enjoyed this one, I was trying to do Mustache Girl the justice she deserved, as her whole thing in the game proper isn't great haha. Raven's vocals were absolutely insane and I love them sm, she just kinda GOT it, y'know? I'm glad you found this at least a bit captivating and hope that the eventual Hat Kid version will have the same effect And yeah, tysm for the feedback! If this were to become a larger scale project, I'd likely ask you to help with writing as I agree that a chunk of my writing is a bit stilted, for lack of a better term. As for Mustache Girl's whole thing, I actually was partially spurred to write Mustache Girl's adapted story in this after re-reading that old Twitter thread where we were talking about MG and Hat Kid both being missed potential. I agree with your points, and am trying to sort of incorporate a bit of that into Lyrical Rift. It's not perfect, but it's the least I can do with what I have P.S. For Lyrical Rift's full video, I rewrote Hat Kid and Mustache Girl's ending to be more characterful as I feel like giving both of them a good ending point would have been nice. I have the feeling you might like it P.S.2. I removed the A Little Help From My Friends bit too, mostly because: 1) I hated that bit so much, I just thought it was so out of place and completely inane and incomprehensible, and I hate how it sort of fed into the fandom idea that Hat Kid was some kind of "loved by all" person who made a bunch of friends 2) I wanted to centralise this fight on just Hat Kid vs Mustache Girl. I couldn't get rid of it gameplay-wise obvs, but lorewise it's nonexistent and the fight between the two is a solo thing. This also means that, technically, Hat Kid in Lyrical Rift is a lot stronger than canon, so lmao P.S.3. Better than the Xbox 360 fight me /j

@@AlexPastGrey if it did ever become a larger scale project I would love to help out, I’m kinda crazy about musical theater haha I really appreciate the kind words and the thought given to improving the story and I’m SUPER curious to see what you’re doing here leading into the ending. I’ve had my own ideas for a rewrite since we last got to chat so it’ll be cool to see how our approaches line up/differ!!

@@Ah0yKatie I hope I can live up to those expectations! Admittedly - The rest of Lyrical Rift as it is now has a bit of an issue tying back into the main story, as much of it was made from the perspective of "How would this fit in as a standalone thing following the game's lore", but the parts with Hat Kid and MG were scripted to be more character-based as yeah, those two need the most work. I'm not sure if you've seen the rest of it, but I did try to fix more minor issues, such as Vanessa's lack of presence and (to me at least) horror factor, as well as, as mentioned earlier, omitting the whole My Friends Are My Power bs from the original bc again, that is just something I despise lol I'm excited to see your idea for a rewrite though, as I remember being a big fan of both your initial concepts from that Twitter thread and the Reddit rewrite you proposed on r/AHatInTime. Where would you be posting it?

@@AlexPastGrey oh, awesome, you saw the Reddit post! I guess I didn’t fully register who’d seen it, haha, I’m afraid I haven’t developed it PAST that but I’d be interested in doing so (or sharing thoughts if you’re struggling a bit with how to write things from here) If you’d ever like to chat more - either about this or just generally - I’d be interested in exchanging Discords or something! You’re probably the only person (outside my immediate friend group) I’ve been able to have good talks with about this sorta stuff and admittedly I’ve barely been using the hellsite that is Twitter anymore, lol

@@Ah0yKatie Of course! My Discord handle is alexpastgrey, but I do have a server that's linked in my channel's about me/links. I'd love to talk more about this with you, as you are one of the main inspirations for a chunk of my creative liberties with both Hat Kid and MG

Thank you! As an amateur mixer, that's a WONDERFUL thing to hear!

Thank you, thank you, I worked very hard on the lyrics and Raven worked very hard on the voice and Tex worked very hard on the art

I'm hoping the full video was just as good as you'd hoped!

@@AlexPastGrey it was, it was super amazing!

Thank you! I'm glad you did!

Tysm! I'm hoping you'll like Hat Kid's version when that inevitably comes out bc in my personal opinion, that one is FAR superior lyrically to this one and I'm so so excited to share it with the world

Awww that's awesome. I'm glad you love this so much to the point you'd play it on repeat like that

Tysm! Your support means a whole lot to us! Raven totally killed the vocals in this, I couldn't have asked for a better VA for AHIT's main opponent Tex also came in clutch at the tail end to finish up the artwork when my drawing tablet exploded, and did an amazing job

i listen to this at least a few times a week

@@MasterCookies How so?

@@AlexPastGrey I feel like some parts, like refrain could benefit from higher voice

You have Raven to thank for that awesome Moustache Girl voice ! She has done such a freaking excellent job at portraying her voice :)

Tjsngnenetjsjsg thank you TwT I had a lot of fun getting to play the mustached fiend again :3

@@Liztahit speak of the devil

Tysm - Raven's really a godsend with her vocals, and I hope you'll like Allen's vocals as Hat Kid when that comes out

@@boardwiids I'm glad you like that mod bc I had to reupload it lol

Tysm

Thank you!

I've never seen that movie, but honestly from what I remember of the book I'd think so Also thank you very much, I worked very hard on getting the characterisation not only right but (at least to me) better than how the game did it

Admittedly it's not perfect, by my own admission, but it's as good as I could have hoped on this end, and I'm v glad that you gave it the praise you did

@@svgaming263 So, this isn't particularly about what you said, but I read this at about 7am (5 minutes ago), and I thought you said "Burger department"

@@ThatOneSmilingCrittersFan pay me 25 time pieces or you don't get to listen to this /j

Pays Casually cuz Yes*

There you Go Boi :D

@@ThatOneSmilingCrittersFan thank you kind viewer

You’re Welcome :)

Tysm

Tysm

Also Black Friday is eating my brain like a parasite so it was what went to my brain first when I heard this 😭

@@gamingwithandrea449 I don't actually know what you're talking abt but thanks! /gen

@@AlexPastGrey I suck at explaining stuff 😭 but Imma use Black Friday as an example "Our doors are open" (it's a musical by Starkid) Cory (who is the character Frank) has these parts where he speeds up in his singing like where Man in a rush tries to bribe him he goes faster in his singing (sorry the parasites in my brain demanded i speak about Black Friday I know it's so random 😭)

@@gamingwithandrea449 Ohhh the breakdown Tysm! That was fun to rewrite

@@AlexPastGrey oh is that what they're called? But yes the breakdown are really fun to listen to)

Thank you very much!

_oh no_

Tysm!

Mash

While I'm very flattered by the compliments, I don't think it's very nice to demean MOTI's Bad Guys like that. That one was actually one of two significant inspirations for this remaster. the other being Bright Torch's Also, MOTI did not spend one day to make it, they spent at least a month bare minimum cooking up their video I'm not mad, just a bit put off by the tone haha

I'm not saying MotI's was bad, and I never really had much of a grasp on what actually happened during Songtober, so I assumed it was just a day to make the song in its entirety. So I understand a bit more about that now I just really think this is peak bad guys and I exaggerated by saying his was much worse