Closing Thoughts
There is a very centeral theme to this whole album of parodies. It's about Link's rejection of all the women who loved him or are supposed to love him in Ocarina of Time. You see, in every song that Link is connected with, I tried to distance it from romance. For example, in "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", I made it about Link and Ganondorf fighting. It has nothing to do with romance. In "Thriller Night (Hero)", while I did have Link protecting a girl, I didn't give the girl a name, so that it would not be Link falling in love with another girl. Besides, he's not about Link loving an anonymous girl, he's just doing his job - protecting people from evil.
In "Zelda Queen", which was one of the two original songs that got this whole album going, I made it very clear that Link wasn't interested in love with the girls - "Zelda Queen is not my lover", "Malon girl is not my lover" etc. In fact, the original lyrics were "Zelda Queen is not my lover, she's just a girl who claims that I am the one. But I know Shiek is my one!" in order to make it appear that Link wasn't interested in women, period (I changed the lyrics though, because I was trying to be anti-romance, and Link/Shiek is romance).
And on "The Women In My Life", the closing song, I made it blatantly clear, so that the people who were a bit too thick to pick up on the hints in "Zelda Queen" would see that I was trying to avoid Link being involved in romance.
As for the romance songs, I always made them be one of the girls loving Link, not Link loving one of the girls. "The Boy Is Mine" shows how Zelda and Malon fight over Link (on that song, I tried to work in a line where Link rejects both, but I couldn't manage it), and the other romance songs are all spread among the girls (Zelda, Malon, and Nabooru all sing only one romance song) so that it would not appear as though I was biased towards a specific couple.
I believe very strongly that Link shouldn't have romance with the girls (or guys, for that matter) in the game. This is due to the fact that he rarely sees the same people consistently throughout the game - he talks with Zelda a total of three times in the entire game. Once as a child, once before she is captured by Ganondorf, and once after Ganondorf is defeated. He meets Malon very sparingly as well (in fact, even less than he sees Zelda). As for the other girls - Ruto, Impa, Nabooru - they talk only a few times. In fact, Link spends most of the game talking with Shiek and Ruto, not Zelda and Malon.
I'm tired of visiting the Zelda section and seeing lemons and romance stories in which Link is paired with every single person this side of Hyrule. It's become so extravagent that authors (Link's Queen) are pairing themselves with Link (I'd like to point out that "My Inner Life" is a ridiculous and weak story, with almost ten pages worth of author notes [which are very repetitious]). And I'd very much like it to stop.
I realize that I appear to be acting very contradictory, of course. In my other album parody, "1984", I've written many parodies that involve Link being in love with a specific girl (most notably "Hot for Zelda"). But that was just done for fun, and I didn't intend for "1984" to be very thougt-provoking. I also tried to do a little bit to change that - "I'll Wait" is aimed at being any one of the girls loving Link.
In any case, I hope that people enjoyed "Thriller Night", and that I've made a few fans and earned myself some popularity.
Ta, dearies.
The End
There is a very centeral theme to this whole album of parodies. It's about Link's rejection of all the women who loved him or are supposed to love him in Ocarina of Time. You see, in every song that Link is connected with, I tried to distance it from romance. For example, in "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", I made it about Link and Ganondorf fighting. It has nothing to do with romance. In "Thriller Night (Hero)", while I did have Link protecting a girl, I didn't give the girl a name, so that it would not be Link falling in love with another girl. Besides, he's not about Link loving an anonymous girl, he's just doing his job - protecting people from evil.
In "Zelda Queen", which was one of the two original songs that got this whole album going, I made it very clear that Link wasn't interested in love with the girls - "Zelda Queen is not my lover", "Malon girl is not my lover" etc. In fact, the original lyrics were "Zelda Queen is not my lover, she's just a girl who claims that I am the one. But I know Shiek is my one!" in order to make it appear that Link wasn't interested in women, period (I changed the lyrics though, because I was trying to be anti-romance, and Link/Shiek is romance).
And on "The Women In My Life", the closing song, I made it blatantly clear, so that the people who were a bit too thick to pick up on the hints in "Zelda Queen" would see that I was trying to avoid Link being involved in romance.
As for the romance songs, I always made them be one of the girls loving Link, not Link loving one of the girls. "The Boy Is Mine" shows how Zelda and Malon fight over Link (on that song, I tried to work in a line where Link rejects both, but I couldn't manage it), and the other romance songs are all spread among the girls (Zelda, Malon, and Nabooru all sing only one romance song) so that it would not appear as though I was biased towards a specific couple.
I believe very strongly that Link shouldn't have romance with the girls (or guys, for that matter) in the game. This is due to the fact that he rarely sees the same people consistently throughout the game - he talks with Zelda a total of three times in the entire game. Once as a child, once before she is captured by Ganondorf, and once after Ganondorf is defeated. He meets Malon very sparingly as well (in fact, even less than he sees Zelda). As for the other girls - Ruto, Impa, Nabooru - they talk only a few times. In fact, Link spends most of the game talking with Shiek and Ruto, not Zelda and Malon.
I'm tired of visiting the Zelda section and seeing lemons and romance stories in which Link is paired with every single person this side of Hyrule. It's become so extravagent that authors (Link's Queen) are pairing themselves with Link (I'd like to point out that "My Inner Life" is a ridiculous and weak story, with almost ten pages worth of author notes [which are very repetitious]). And I'd very much like it to stop.
I realize that I appear to be acting very contradictory, of course. In my other album parody, "1984", I've written many parodies that involve Link being in love with a specific girl (most notably "Hot for Zelda"). But that was just done for fun, and I didn't intend for "1984" to be very thougt-provoking. I also tried to do a little bit to change that - "I'll Wait" is aimed at being any one of the girls loving Link.
In any case, I hope that people enjoyed "Thriller Night", and that I've made a few fans and earned myself some popularity.
Ta, dearies.
The End