When a video game carries a major musical motif through a franchise, it's impressive to see how it evolves. This week's Music Monday is going to focus on a song that started on the Game Boy and has been seen as recently as the past few years! If you're familiar at all with the Kirby franchise, you know this song.

When you think of water levels, what kind of music do you think of? What instrumentation typically comes to mind? For me, it's ethereal and it uses instruments like strings and soft pads to generate feelings of waves and ocean. There are many great examples but today I wanted to pull focus towards Dire, Dire Docks from Super Mario 64…

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Sometimes video game music can be nostalgic, sometimes it can hold memories. Other times, it can just hit you the first time you hear it. This week's song? It's not even a year old yet and it hit me in just the right spot. This week's song is "Breaking Through (Heart of Gold)" from Donkey Kong Bananza! Even if you haven't played the game, you might have heard this during the medley of the Game of the Year songs during The Game Awards:

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If you know anything about me, you know that I have an incredibly soft spot for Disney films, and a major part of it is because of the music that comes with it. What does this have to do with Video Game Music? Well, there are a lot of Disney video games, but there's one song from a non-Disney video game that just gives the vibes of a Disney end-credits film.