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“Celestia’s Story” - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic BGM

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Channel: RainShadow · 2017 · Film & Animation

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“Celestia’s Story“ from the episode “Celestial Advice“ of "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” (S07E01).
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--Overall Comments--

And here we are again! After 7 years, MLP enters its 7th season on air, and what a way to start off!  The show is doing things a little differently to start off: having two distinct, yet connected episodes to begin the season, rather than a two-parter.  So, here’s we’ll be talking about just “Celestial Advice.”

Twilight Sparkle realizes that Starlight Glimmer has reached a point in her friendship lessons, that it may be time to let her graduate onto her own, like Celestia once did for Twilight.  She parters with her mentor to seek her opinion on the matter.

While “All Bottled Up” holds a song, “Celestial Advice” is jam backed on the other side of the music aisle: the score.  As we follow Twilight’s emotional rollercoaster through the decisions she must make, the music follows suit, and provides us with some absolutely beautiful cues.  From gorgeous reorchestrated reprised of a few motifs from the past few seasons, to a wonderful new flashback score in “Celestia’s Story,” William Anderson and Kelly Davidson continue to provide some of the best compositions on television, and bar-none the continued best use of leitmotifs.

We have a lot to cover, so lets’ dive in!


--Track Specific Comments--

This and the reorchestrated score of “‘I’ll Always Be There For You’” are my two favorite tracks from the episode, and are up there in terms of the series.  In this scene, Celestia recounts her own troubles with letting Twilight go out on her own, and the similar fears she harbored.  First of all, I love this scene and how it provides additional background and development for Celestia’s character, putting more motivations behind her actions earlier in the series, and letting us into her head at that point in the series’ lore.

As we enter her flashback and see young Twilight and her fiends in school, a lovely new child-like score is used.  Like some previous scores of the series of this nature, it utilizes guitar, keyboard, and bass — some of the same instrumentation from early episodes of the show.  It’s a beautiful and wonderful score for the series, and has a similar feel to many of the old lesson cues.

Celestia begins to talk about the decision she had to make, and as she stand on top of the mountain overlooking Canterlot, the score becomes very grandiose and emotional.  She looks up at the moon as she realizes that she must send her protégé away, and some high-pitch violins tug at your heartstrings to help you feel her pain.

The scene concludes with Celestia admitting she had a hard time letting Twilight go, and that the young horse taught her as much as she taught her.  Some more lovely new, emotional score is used for this scene, which sneaky works in a part of Celestia’s motif.

The track ends with a small piece of score we haven’t heard since Season 4’s premiere.  You can hear it there in the track “Luna’s Banishment Suite,” as Celestia stand back up after being shot down by her sister.

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DOWNLOAD:
MP3 (320 kbps): http://www.mediafire.com/file/a78a6t548tfp474/Celestias_Story.mp3
AAC (320 kbps): http://www.mediafire.com/file/kkg78om6yyy7xt7/Celestias_Story.m4a
Apple Lossless (ALAC): http://www.mediafire.com/file/e9hs4h3qh0sw2uy/Celestias_Story.m4a
FLAC: http://www.mediafire.com/file/23a94zzjz4ax1z3/Celestias_Story.flac



----) Download all BGM from the episode: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/otux0zy6cff1c/E01_Celestial_Advice



For a playlist with all of the BGM from the episode in order: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM9sv7wkNb96fuFW6ClBf5oFlh1sPfRvr


Music By: William Anderson
Additional Music & Orchestrations: Kelly Davidson


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