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I bet it is Mike Verta or something ;)

I could believe that, actually.

The car commercial sounds a lot like Williams but the others feel more like imitations...hm. The melody in the Falcon video doesn't really seem to me like something he'd write, especially as a main theme which is what it kind of sounds like.

I kinda doubt Disney/Lucasfilm would release the first bits of score with these videos. If none of it's Williams, it's really well done mimickry, especially the car one. If it is him, then he can do better. Someone should try getting ahold of Mashable on Twitter or something...

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It sounds good but not entirely convicing imo. The car one sounds the best imo (and really good), the other ones feel a bit too lightweight/feathery for lack of better words. I also doubt it would leak like this too.

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The car commercial sounds a lot like Williams but the others feel more like imitations...hm. The melody in the Falcon video doesn't really seem to me like something he'd write, especially as a main theme which is what it kind of sounds like.

I kinda doubt Disney/Lucasfilm would release the first bits of score with these videos. If none of it's Williams, it's really well done mimickry, especially the car one. If it is him, then he can do better. Someone should try getting ahold of Mashable on Twitter or something...

Yeah, the heroic themes don't really "sing" like great or even average Williams heroic themes.

Also, the Imperial car music rides a little too close to the temp-track king, Holst's Mars.

They're still fine Williams imitations of course (should that be the case)

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It's just weird because the car commercial really made me think that was him...but then the Falcon one gave me second thoughts, and the BB-8 one doesn't sound like him to me at all. So I'd rather believe that it's just some very gifted young composer who just happened to nail it on the car commercial than to accept right away that this is what Williams has been doing since January.

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If the music for the car commercial was written for that commercial alone, someone definitely went above and beyond, including hiring a sizable orchestra. Why would someone do that for a 45 second commercial (it's not like it's for the Super Bowl)? And that leads me to believe the music is lifted from somewhere, and it sure sounds a helluva lot like Williams.

As for the other two videos with questionable music, they pale in comparison to that car commercial, and the music sounds different, synthy. Probably not Williams there, and definitely not coming from the same source.

Has anyone tried using Shazam to ID the car commercial music?

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I think the car commercial really does sound like Williams; the other two, not so much. But if the latter two are not Williams, then it is highly doubtful the first is. Damn fine job, though, on the car commercial.

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The car ad music sounds close, but not quite right. Something's off. It's kind of like the uncanny valley with artificial intelligence. Its got so many features of Williams's classic action writing - pedal points, polytonal dissonances, chromatic parallelism, but I don't hear his "voice." His sense of line and contour.

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Hmm, I don;t know what to think

But IF the score is already recorded, why not use Williams music for these commercials?..it makes sense instead of some other composed music (an even more waste of time and money)

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The Falcon one sounds like a Williams Olympic theme played in the chipper attitude of Galaxy Quest.

Yeah, I was reminded of his Olympics themes there too.

I'm with Sharky, it's there but it's not. Gonna keep my fingers crossed that it's a very astute imitator rather than the real deal. If it's the latter, my buzz will go down a bit tbh.

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The car ad music sounds close, but not quite right. Something's off. It's kind of like the uncanny valley with artificial intelligence. Its got so many features of Williams's classic action writing - pedal points, polytonal dissonances, chromatic parallelism, but I don't hear his "voice." His sense of line and contour.

I agree completely about the car music.

Also, the car music doesn't appear to be written specifically for the commercial since the music fades out before the music is finished- it seems to be taken from a longer cue. The only way to know for sure is to get a statement from Mashable.

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I'm sufficiently drunk and I just tweeted to that guy. I'm suddenly reminded of the time I e-mailed some perturbed lady at Concord Records about the Indiana Jones set.

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Hmm, I don;t know what to think

But IF the score is already recorded, why not use Williams music for these commercials?..it makes sense instead of some other composed music (an even more waste of time and money)

I'm not sure but maybe it's more expensive use the actual music from the film? Kind of like when albums featured a re-recording of a score instead of the original recording.

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The car ad music sounds close, but not quite right. Something's off. It's kind of like the uncanny valley with artificial intelligence. Its got so many features of Williams's classic action writing - pedal points, polytonal dissonances, chromatic parallelism, but I don't hear his "voice." His sense of line and contour.

I agree completely about the car music.

Also, the car music doesn't appear to be written specifically for the commercial since the music fades out before the music is finished- it seems to be taken from a longer cue. The only way to know for sure is to get a statement from Mashable.

Yeah, I do agree that it sounds like it's from a longer piece. I wouldn't at all mind if that turned out to be the only one that has actual score, I could definitely believe that. Personally I'm not as concerned about that one as I am the other two.

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Honestly, if this turns out to not be Williams, I'll have to surrender my Williams card. It takes a lot to excite me. It's been a long dry spell when it comes to Williams music. I don't even listen to the old bastard anymore. I'm working on that. Point is, when I heard this, I instantly Williamsgasmed like I haven't since 2005 when the fucking bridge collapsed while Anakin and Obi-Wan were fighting. It has to be him.

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They debuted the voices of key TFA characters using toys yesterday. That was something I would have thought would have been presented with better audio in a trailer first. So the newly recorded score popping up in a car commercial three months out would be on par with this marketing campaign.

I just can't fathom the makers of that ad choosing the most expensive option of hiring someone to make it sound like Williams instead of just using the Imperial March, the escape from cloud city or already existing star wars music.

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Guys, the car commercial music is NOT Williams, nor Star Wars. It's taken from "Out of this World" from Experience the Adventure. I'm not sure what it is; apparently David Arnold was involved, but Shazam identifies Ben Lasker as the composer of the piece in question.

You can listen to the whole thing here. The portion used in the commercial begins about halfway through.

Thanks a mil for the clarification. I don't know how much longer we could have maintained sanity without knowing where that music came from.

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well,it's true that Disney has a bunch of "adventury" stock music for the parks

Plus it says one of the composers is David Arnold

Yeah, I just noticed that. Although apparently the track in question was composed by a guy named Ben Lasker: http://search2.warnerchappellpm.com/onepage/3c2bac3bf36cc0ee203d95dc4b0bf6c4

It is nice, though.

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I remember we thought some music for PoA trailers was by Williams...but it wasn't

When the real Williams music turned up there could be no mistake though

We'll probably know this time too

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