𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐖 𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐙𝐘!

intro: it's an instrumental. the last minute or so of it was good.

top 5: it's the title track but it wasn't impressive in sound or lyrics to me. it was repetitive and probably could've used a dance break / instrumental bc the beat's good.

v for vision: this was better than the title track. the chorus was good/catchy. it's getting added to the pl simply bc i like how "v for what?" sounds lol.

customize: this sounds like a song i've listened to from years ago, that is to say i enjoyed this. it's an endorphin boosting track fr. i liked the instruments in this.

exotic: did the chorus(es) save this song? extremely. 🕺🕺🕺🕺 i like her a lotttttt

changes: oh the snapping they going the r&b route- yeaaaa thought so. the melody was good, the vocals were okay, very predictable track.

zero to hundred: i like the spacey action film sound this had, especially at the beginning. didn't care for the rest, but the "vocal line"(? idk if zb1 has a specific vocal line) on this sounded really good. the high notes ad-libs >>>

OVERALL, wow that track run from 'v for vision' to 'exotic' carried. loved that. the rest was forgettable.

"Look at the dark air. Tsk tsk tsk, the hostile energy is strong, isn’t it? And the resentful energy is thick, isn’t it? Even us at the Wen Sect weren’t able to do anything about it. We could only surround it and prevent people from going in. This is still daytime. At night, really any—-thing can be found in there. When a living person goes in here, both the body and the soul, they cannot return, unable to get out for all of eternity." - Wen Chao, Poisons, Chapter 60

But then of course, Wei Wuxian survives it. And then he returns, to this hell of a place that left him broken and bleeding, because he has no other choice, because the cultivation world is determined to kill innocents and they have no where else to go.

And within the three years that followed, he does what even the Wen Sect in their prime wasn't able to, and tames THE FUCKING BURIAL MOUNDS. The Wen Remnants start farming there, for crying out loud.

(I do think some of the taming started during when Wei Wuxian was first there, because they were able to enter the place without too much trouble.)

By the time the siege happens, people could walk in and out of the place, and it no longer carries with it the horror it once did.

Even after the siege, with Wei Wuxian dead, the clans are able to remain there, loot the place, and set up prevention measures against Wei Wuxian potentially coming back.

The various clans set one hundred and twenty stone beasts on top of LuanZang Hill and initiated frequent soul-summoning rituals, followed by heightened vigilance and searches for strange occurrences from all over the world. - Prologue, Chapter 1

And then, during the second siege, we again see the clans easily enter the place and throw around their ridiculous allegations.

"This place is called the Burial Mounds. The hatred is intense, isn't it? And the resentment too? When a living person enters this place, there's no coming back-- for the body or the soul. They can forget about ever escaping. Wei Wuxian, you, too, can forget about ever escaping."

come into the water 🩸