RWBY Volume 2 Soundtrack - reaction & review 

Omg im dying right now. Im just imagining Pyrrha thinking about Weiss as “the little chick in white” and IMMEDIATELY going “Im sorry” out loud and everyone is just looking at her like wtf

Though the song All Our Days is portrayed as Taiyang (Yang and Ruby's Father) singing it to Yang it was actually written by Jeff about Casey. Supposedly when Casey went to record the Vocals for the song she had yet to read the lyrics and when it started to dawn on her that Jeff had written the song about her she cried while recording.

The song "Boop" actually was in the show. It was an example of a Diegetic song. Nora was listing to it on her headphones in Vol 2 chapter 6 when Jaune and Ren are talking and you can hear it for a second or two when she interupts them to say that Ren and her are not "together together."

Just FYI. Post credit screen of vol2 was a SUPER last minute addition by Monty, and I don't think he told Myles and Kerry fully what he had planned before he passed away, so that scene was basically retconed. So going forward just keep in mind Yang never really spoke to that lady. The lady saved her from Neo on the train, an going forward that's the only thing from that volume that was carried over related to her.

4:41 Time to say goodbye(opener, one of my personal favorites. Was top until vol 8 came up) 10:17 Die 15:42 shine 22:31 dream come true(complete with a cameo from wiess) 29:05 Caffeine 34:10 all our days 40:41 boop (renora best couple, second is eclipse) 45:35 sacrifice One of the best volume for ost imo, lacked a bit for the ending but the music was amazing as always.

Correct, the male vocalist on Caffeine was Jeff Williams, who does pretty much all the male volcals and backing vocals and did sing indeed on From Shadows.

Well, in the words of Jaune himself: “I just don’t know how to...........girls”

*Listening to your comments on Time to Die* "Oh, sweet summer child..."

Fun fact if I remember correctly All our Days is a song Jeff wrote to Casey.

quickly becoming one of my favorite rwby reactors - so glad you came across this amazing show :)

17:50 i literally just heard my heart shatter

"The achievements that she's... achieved" - sounds like Dr. Oobleck :-D

I love this soundtrack. For a *long* time the Vol2 intro was my favorite. Caffeine just makes you wanna jam out. And Sacrifice... oh man Sacrifice. Shine makes me feel warm and fuzzy. I love how Dream Come True turns into a Weiss diss track.

"We've got 2 Jaune and Phryha songs, are they going to pull the trigger?" **Hacking and choking intensifies**

Sacrifice was initially thought to be a Cinder song but... ah, that changed with Volume 6 :)

Jeff Williams is amazing in being able to make great songs in so many different genres and styles. And Casey for singing so many of them.

So something about Boop, it does actually make an appearance in the show. The smallest of appearances. When Jaune is talking to Ren about how to get Weiss to notice him Nora interrupts. He tells at her to put the headphones back on. There is the smallest bit of the song Boop playing through the headphones when she has them off of her head.

*dances to Shine unapologetically* Also Dream Come True is such an underrated gem, like, yeah. It played at the after credits of a Chapter. Not all songs on the soundtrack actually get to make it into the show, without it feeling forced, so it's included here, and junk. ouo)/ Sometimes you do get to hear the instrumental though, or in RWBY Chibi when you get there. ouo)/ When the music started ramping up in Boop, your entire being was my whole mood. XD Also about Sacrifice? Don't worry. People don't know who it's about either. lol It's a long-held debate and theory in process. I'm glad that the person who sent you the playlist didn't use the music video that had like massive spoiler art in it. lol

Re listening to the music while staying with RWBY in real time is really interesting like they are telling you what you need to know before anything really happens (its mostly for the volume that comes right after but some of the things that happen in one volume always affects another) and it is amazing such a good way to use music to advance the story.

I think Time To Say Goodbye and Sacrifice are still some of my favorite tracks from RWBY as a whole, the latter especially hints at some really interesting stuff down the line... And I love all the Jaune x Pyrrha content here too ^^

Sacrifice is about a character that comes later on in the volume. So it’s not about Ruby don’t worry lol

*An autumn leaf floats on by*

Loving all the comments you’ve made and it makes me really excited to see what you think of future events & volumes, sacrifice is one of my favorites of the volume for lore reasons you’ll learn later on.

i love it when i can catch up with reactions and then see people say stuff like: "i ship them" and " they are going to end up together" while im sitting here thinking: "Cant wait to see the reaction"

"I think they are gonna get together" My heart broke at that moment you said that.

Sacrifice the best song this volume, it's take a whole new meaning when you understand

The intro song is definitely my favorite song from volume 2. Can't wait to see you start volume 3!

*spoiler* watching the Tai scene V8C5 made All Our Days hit different... (T_T)

man, sacrifice is one you'll want to come back to after you're caught up, trust

“and the storm is set to rise!” -Die. wow... i just realized something

My FAVORITE RWBY intro, even to this day! Yes, Magnhild is the name of Nora's weapon. ^_^ Sacrifice...is a song you should come back and listen to later, once you're further into the series. It will likely be VERY obvious what the song is about at that point.

11:55 oh honey you have no idea

Was waiting to hear her reaction to the Weiss cameo in Dream Come True but she talked over it...

I've been looking forward to your Vol. 2 OST reaction. Can't wait for your reaction to Vol. 3, both to the chapters and the OST

Boop is me and my girlfriends song. It's seriously such the perfect love song to me.

I know Die is super dark but I can’t help smiling when we hear the part where Neo drops in🙈😊

I'm glad you're enjoying RWBY ;-; Also it's my birthday today ^_^

Sacrifice is honestly a crazy song, like listening to it after V8 even, it just matches up with so much!

Thank you for this really awesome reaction!

man this show delivers such excellent music and your reactions are so fun to watch! die is definitely a dark song but i enjoy the heck out of it and caffeine is just an absolute banger. i cant say with 100% certainty off the top of my head but im pretty sure all male vocals in rwby aside from lamar hall’s rapping and one song in a later volume are jeff. all our days was actually written by jeff for casey, but i think the in show context is probably meant to be about yang and taiyang (the girls’ dad). though i have seen it framed as from yang to ruby and it kinda works there too. it being from tai to yang makes the lyrics about never leaving hurt my heart even more considering yang’s mom left right after she was born so i can absolutely see tai promising lil baby yang that he’ll never do the same. yang said after ruby’s mom died that their dad kind of shut down but there was no expansion on that and based on the very small snippets of info we’ve gotten about him from the girls mentioning him and how they talk about him, i always assumed that was like the grief response and possibly a period that he needed help to break out of, not that he’s been that way ever since. even 6 volumes later people still talk about sacrifice a lot and debate who they think it is about. i dont know if jeff or casey have ever actually confirmed the meaning behind it but i think it has potential to apply to a lot of characters.

Love your reaction to the songs. The songs in RWBY really stand out compare to most other series. I'm really looking forward to see your reaction to vol 3 :)

41:58 you'll see a snippet in vol 3, but the full backstory is vol 4

In caffeine Jeff is singing and Lamar does the rap

I think I finally figured out who Sacrifice is from and who it's to. But I can't say it now because of spoilers.

Team CVFY is the most amazing team during volume 3, so check on their semblance. 1. Coco Adel: the leader of team and extremely strong with her briefcase single hit a Beowulf. We have seen her semblance actually which is Hype she could charge her dust bullet and make it more powerful to one shot the grim. 2. Fox Alistair: he is blind but make up with speed style fighting skills and his semblance of telepathy. Could communicate to his team members without speaking. 3. Velvet Scarletina: arguably the most skilled fighter in RWBY series, I just said this for a hint of her semblance of photographic memory she could copy any kind of fighting style that she already see with her weapon could copy someone weapons after take it's picture. 4. Yatsuhashi Daichi: gentle giant with the most powerful strength feat which with his single strike on ground could knock grim around him. I don't know you read their novel but I will said his semblance is one of the powerful and terrified at the same time, which is mind erase: he could erase memories for certain amount of time like erase for 1 hour ago that's why he hate his semblance. It's not spoilers she already finished volume 3 in patreon.

If you're crying now.....wait till cold 💔😭

Boop for the longest time was my favorite song as ReNora was my favorite ship (Still is) but that spot has since been taken by a song you'll hear on a later Soundtrack.

31:18 yatsuhashi (green guy w/ big sword) is male, fox (faunus) is male, and coco and velvet are female

Sacrifice should never of been released in volume 2, they should of released it in V6, but its great that we got this song early, nobody understood the meaning regardless

You'll have the context for Sacrifice in a few volumes...

"maybe it's about the white fang" oh honey.. You got a big storm coming

Man, I need to catch up with your reactions before you get into volume 3

Yall she aint ready for season 3!

i cant help but getting super hyped while listening to the soundtracks

24:25 well kinda. I think someone at least pulls some *strings*

42:02 ouch

Literally every character has gotten a song and Even 8 Volumes in and We don't have a Ren song

As for the various song's foreshadowing....*spoilers, spoilers, spoilers**DESPAIR**spoilers, spoilers**Dejection**SPOILERS*

Holy heck I didn't realize sacrifice hints at things going on in volume 6 😲

24:20 no, but they’ll release the string...

Now that you've seen so much of the series I'll just say that the songs Die and Sacrifice are still under a fair bit of debate: Sacrifice is often most associated with Raven due to her constant blaming of Oz while still fearing Salem and death in general but well, for ages there were rumors it was a song for Cinder and well that sort of faded around volume 5 and 6 due it so fitting Raven and post V7E3 Salem reveal (since it sort of matches her resistance against the gods)... BUT well, volume 8 kicked the debate back up if it would work for Cinder for reasons you'll see. Regardless it's a great track though, probably directed towards Ozpin and could easily fit all of them in general~ XD The other one Die... Die I think is a Ruby(or 'protagonists in general') and Cinder('antagonists in general') song. Most of the lyrics lamenting the loss of peace, happiness etc but there are some that definitely feel quite a bit too sinister (namely the 'revenge is always sweet, and chaos is the prize' line). Generally though the track is very much late volume 7 and volume 8 feeling in retrospect (ahhhh the CRWBY just love their musical foreshadowing~

Sacrifice is well... Complicated to say the least lets just say later down the line a rewatch of it is needed this song is DEEP

If you read the Rwby novel After the fall it’s about Team CFVY

Sacrifice actually has a second version, with a different background when played, but it’s best to avoid it for Spoilers.

Yes, there will be a storm xD

I like to think Shine is actually a stealth Blake & Yang song, but that's me

its not necessary to hear, but if you wanted to listen to the acoustic version of Time to Say Goodbye when you listen to the Volume 3 soundtrack, I honestly think it's one of the most beautiful vocals that Casey's done.

I always viewed Sacrifice as a Cinder song

If you like Team CFVY, Melissa, both of the novels(After The Fall and Before The Dawn) are about them. You should check them out, but I advise waiting until after you finish Volume 3, because there are some heavy spoilers in there if you don't.

i know All our days is supposd to be from taiyang to yang but in my mind as a big sister myself i always felt that it was from yang to ruby

I don’t think I listened to All Our Days before and I only listened to Shine and Dream Come True once. People are STILL theorizing who Sacrifice is about.

Boop boop!

Ah man i never rly listened to the lyrics in sacrific wow i never picked up on all the foreshadowing

giving english teacher vibes

Caffeine is my favorite volume two song if not my favorite RWBY song ever. Strangely enough, not a fan of coffee.

FAIR WARNING: Starting with episode 8 The World of Remnant has SPOILERS. Save those episodes for after Volume 3. While we're at it, RWBY Chibi comes after Vol3 also - for spoiler reasons. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

"I really hope they have time to pull the trigger on this before everything gets so dark and awful" 😀

It'll be a few volumes until you understand who Sacrifice is about. And still, it seems many RWBY fans still don't understand the song.

No spoilers but Sacrifice won’t make any sense at all till like Vol 5.

Just to let you know idk you know or not but the girl singing is like 14

She is not gonna like the ending of volume 3