Guy Moon, the composer of some many series, including Fairly Odd Parents, Danny Phantom, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, Big Time Rush and many more, has sadly passed away from a car accident.

I still can’t get over the fact we lost a composing genius.

The thing with this scene is you’d think the music would cut off after the reverse, normally when ‘time reverse’ moments happen there’s no music that accompanies it other than the VHS rewind sound. BUT Guy Moon took the music that played before the ‘time out’, played it in reverse and struck a heavy electric guitar chord just to impact the viewers with ‘yep, that just happened’. Like the guitar’s almost going ‘whoa’ with you.

See, normally when we hear the tracks for cartoons they’re mostly just the same tracks every time used for specific moments unless there’s a very specific scene that invokes the emotional impact of a scene. Normally the music only changes according to what characters are present in the scene and/or the environment the characters are in. The music doesn’t really go hand-in-hand with the movement or action of the characters, it’s more ‘there is action, here is action music’.

Guy Moon, however, he gave the animation a sound, the music had a voice. It became a character in its own right. The backtracks of the episode was actively reacting to what happened on screen and I LOVE that about the sound of Danny Phantom, Fairly Odd Parents and many of the other shows he worked on.

His musicality was a HUGE part of my life and especially my childhood. The bg musicians for cartoons often don't get enough credit and he was one of the few who actually got a lot of acknowledgement and love. He was probably the first composer for cartoons I ever knew by name.

I'm so sorry to his family, friends, and those he worked with professionally.

𝟏𝟖 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐠𝐨 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐎𝐝𝐝𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 “𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐲 𝐎𝐝𝐝𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲” 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐎𝐧 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐧!!!

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚠 𝙾𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝟾.𝟾𝟷 𝙼𝙸𝙻𝙻𝙸𝙾𝙽 𝚅𝚒𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚜, 𝚁𝚊𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙰𝚜 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙽𝚎𝚝𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔’𝚜 𝟻𝚝𝚑 𝙼𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚆𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝙱𝚛𝚘𝚊𝚍𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝙾𝚏 𝙰𝚕𝚕 𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚎!!!

I don't know how many people know about this, since I just found it on Guy Moon' website and the privacy settings prevent it from being viewed on standard soundcloud

But there's a Danny Phantom Intro demo predation the early one most people know about (the one that was fully animated, appeared in promo material, and was used for the credits)

Butch Hartman himself didn't address this in his 2016 video where he hyped up that same storyboard that was already in his forums back in 2005

I like the weird edgy sound of this One. I feel like it could've fit maybe a possible Season 4 (in the alternate universe where 3 wasn't a disaster) or even a stupid edgy 2010s reboot