Hello!!! It's been a while since I've watched some bl, getting back to it I'm currently watching the Heart Killers and I love how effortlessly cool the soundtrack is (i love a good movie/drama soundtrack and conversely bad sound design is all the more annoying to me. I love the sound design on this show, it's more high-quality than I expect for Thai BL) What's your favourite ways for finding songs other than the OSTs used in thai BLs? (I so want to listen to all the songs used in this franchise but I think language differences are getting in the way) Thanks for your time, have a good day! :D
I'm afraid I may not be the person for this. My dislike of a boy + guitar as a trope extends to most other aspects of the music in any given show. It's pretty rare for me to like a theme song (let alone background stuff) and so far only 2 shows from Japan (Eternal Yesterday & Our Youth) and a half dozen or so from Korea have entered the sacred space of OTS graduating onto one of my playlists.
I generally listen to Kpop, and I tend to prefer songs/groups that go pretty hard (less bubblegum and more rock). So many OSTs are just overly saccharine for me. There are always exceptions.
For example, I agree with you on Heart Killers. Although I did find some of theirs a little... well... silly.
Thus I don't go to any effort to track down or engage with soundtracks. I simply follow various YT content creators who report (with samples) on new comebacks out of Korea. I follow up with the songs I like. (I'm not a gen 5, or even much of a gen 4 stan, so I rarely go for albums anymore.)
The Technical Bit
I can tell you what I would do. Since you did ask.
Just load up Shazam, SoundHound or (likely best, since it's from Tencent) QYin to my phone and hold it up to the speaker on my watching device while that song is going. (Rumor is WeChat's "Shake" feature works particularly well for Chinese stuff.)
Once the app gave me the title, I'd search for it on YT or in a music app using the song title in the original language's script (just copy and paste that from google or whatever).
All that said, I am 99.9% sure at least 3 of my moots are big into the OST side of the equation so maybe they could step forward with tips?
