UHMMM HELLO???? oh my god my monkey brain just activated the second you mentioned Jamie All Over! You got me to put on A Lesson In Romantics again istg (which recently celebrated 15 years too I follow mayday parade on twitter, gosh i feel so old) xD
Truth be told Taylor's playlist was just my playlist in high school, just replace the mega enthusiasm for mayday parade with paramore. Though, Mayday Parade is way up there in my list of faves.
My fangirling aside, We're so glad to see that you enjoyed the VN! We really did put a lot of thought into depicting the characters as nuanced and realistically as we possibly could and I'm glad it shines through. Don't worry about Julio and Bernadette though, Julio especially is gonna be the focus of the next major arc for the second update so stay tuned for that! Was thinking "soundtrack of my summer" type next few chapters.
Beyond that i am actually so happy that you feel that way about the soundtrack???
Pyr and I have been making music for years now, a lot of it unreleased but there's been a mounting pile of songs that i've written and he's produced in our computers. I write the songs and he produces the music. We're like HUGE HUGE music nerds, and on top of that I'm a film nerd too, so we REALLY put emphasis on making the soundtrack as cohesive and elevating to the narrative as it could possibly be. To see that someone recognizes that it did much more than it needed to really warms my heart!!! The nights staying up talking and discussing influences for the soundtrack (Taylor Swift and Mayday Parade mostly because our protagonist and LI love them so), really helped us create this soundscape that we can be really proud of especially when it feels as effective as we wanted it to be!
Lori's career prospects are definitely going to factor into later updates and we're going to get TAYLOR LORE!!!! That boy's been through a lot, dear god. xD
Anyway thank you again so much for even taking the time to send us all this! It totally made my day and it makes me ecstatic to find someone who likes mayday parade in the comments omg!! I hope you like the next updates in the future. :))