#youmayberight

Aka help meh prove to myself that I'm not (entirely, as of yet) off my rocker....

In my recent rewatching of RWBY Vol. 3, a moment in episode 5 left me twitchy. I often hear sub-layering in songs [concreteexampleA) chorus of Lady Gaga's Pokerface-she pronounces 'pokerface'...*ahem*... in at least two different ways as she quickly repeats the word] OR [generalhypothetical#1) when you tune into a momentary dissonance during a single beat midway through a certain song, which upon further investigation reveals itself to be lyrical/linguistic overlay i.e. when the artist(s) layered multiple tracks with differing words that fall on the same beat atop one another. Often, initially, one track (set of lyrics) will seemingly drown out the others (usually it isn't actually louder or anything, but your mind was primed to expect track A... so you heard track A, and many people can't/don't/won't/stubbornly refuse to even try to register the sublayer after settling into whatever track they heard first, getting stuck on it and losing plasticity. But as with many visual illusions like the 'rotating figure', you can cue into the others the next time you listen if you retain an open-minded...-ness about it, sans expectation as it were...but I digress.... Oh, right; concreteexampleB) Sound is Vibration by Atmosphere, much easier to hear than the sneakier one in Pokerface. But I swear, it's there)

AnYwHo...now that we're jiving on similar wavelengths and or particular particles...RWBY Vol3ep5 wherein the match pitting Neon & Flint VS Weiss & Yang, the score starts up with the song 'Neon' and that jazzy burst of trumpet, and Neons skating up a rail, across the ?ruins of a building's rooftop? and swooping gracefully and annoyingly to the left...underneath the line 'the best will climb to the top like me, the rest will end up like you', there's a bothersome sound that to my ears rings like two words, spoken rapidly and rhythmically (and repeated three times for a total of 4) in timing with Yang's firings of ember celica. They definitely aren't part of the song, seem to be at a fairly high pitch reminiscent of a guy's falsetto voice, but also really make me think of that squeak you can get on a dry-erase board and certain erasers/sponges/towels. I don't know, but I can't leave it be. Anyone got any idea what the hell it's supposed to be? Cause the only reference I could find for the sound effect credit of ember celica was Halo 3's shotgun sound bytes, which while accurate is definitely not what I heard. I'm gonna go ahead and just ramp up my foolish to 125% before even giving one of y'all a chance to be the first to tell me it's something simple (and I missed it and am stupid) by throwing out the nonsense word pairing I kept hearing after the oh-say-27th replay....*lesigh* it sounded like if you lit the tippy toes of both shoes of an unsuspecting but admittedly mediocre (on his good days) court jester on fire, just for fun, and he just noticed and began prancing about, impossibly light footedly, on said flaming tippy toes as he looks for any nearby water to ballet himself on into (twinkle toes first, of course) and he's just naturally babbled his actual voice up an octave or two into his 'shakespearean femalecharacter#3' voice as he prances circles before collapsing, just repeating the words 'water prism'. Ironically his collapse didn't even claim quenching the fire, as it kinda fizzled out on his third frantic lap of the small courtyard y'all are in. So yeah. Water prism water prism, water prism water prism, said the squeaky dry board eraser in a mocking tone.