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Casey Lee Williams & Martin Gonzalez - "Trapdoor" from the animated series "RWBY" (Patreon)

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2026-02-15 16:00:33
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2026-09
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It's crazy to learn that Casey started her singing career at the age of 6. She began singing and basically becoming the voice for RWBY by the age of 12 or 13.

Her voice is absolutely beautiful and has strength that sends out a powerful feeling through the lyrics in this song. The play the goes through the words where we hear falling of pitch when the lyrics talk about going down.

The key signature is a major key, but then the borrowing of chords from the minor key makes this interesting to listen to, especially with the context of the lyrics being somewhat sad.

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Spadeas

So yeah, for a little bit of context, this song is about Ruby, who is the leader of the team RWBY and also the youngest of them, while Yang, who is the Y in team RWBY is her big sister 2 years older (Weiss and Blake are the same age as Yang too). Ruby was always the beacon of hope during all the show, even when they took a big hit and Weiss, Blake and Yang had their struggles to go throught, she moved forward and still put a smile while leading people. But after several events that lead to Volume 9, she struggle this time to smile and be this "hope" for other, but her friends and sister that are around her, don't seem to see it because they just worked their own and found new hapiness, leaving her alone in her inner turmoil. So I think the "upbeat" vibe you felt, that could contradicte the lyrics but also the fact the musique and Casey's melody aren't necessarily syncrone, might be voluntary to représente that even when the people around her are happy, she is not. Same in the last part of the song, when Casey start to sing "Watch it all unfold, As I cascade, below...", the percussion sound almost like an heartbeat and I think it's voluntary too, since Ruby is withdrawing into herself, left alone with her thoughts, her own heart being the only thing she could hear at this moment. This song captur her feeling that they don't need her to guide them now, that she isn't seen and wanting to leave and disapear but don't know if she had the courage to leave, or the courage to stay... For a volume full of color like volume 9 is, the theme are in reverse pretty dark but I won't say much in case you want to watch it one day. Now, about your question, I have so many thing that I like that are considered niche, that it could be hard to choose just one, but I think tokusatsu could be it. Tokusatsu being japanese super heroes, of course everyone know Power Rangers, but not everybodies watch the original japanese show nor the current season and other super heroes show ^^.

Juan San

Excellent. I came to RWBY through my sons. Along with Arcane, it's their favorite anime.

Randy Hammill

RWBY is an excellent show, as is the music. I think you will really enjoy both. The character designs were made specifically to be easy to cosplay. For the first 8 volumes, the music was composed by Casey Lee’s father Jeff Williams. As far as I know he played or programmed all of the instruments, and Casey Lee was the main vocalist. But Jeff sang male parts, and there have been guest vocalists for specific parts, including Sandy Lee Casey (Casey Lee’s mother) on Red Like Roses Part II. Volume 9, which is very different in the series, is also the first where all the music is now composed and performed by Casey Lee and Martin. Jeff is an assistant professor of electronic production and design at Berklee. The music covers a wide variety of genres, and they are all incredible for a song within that given genre. Here’s what I’ve been trying to figure out. Aside from the obvious, in that Casey Lee is the primary vocalist, there is something about the compositions that have a very recognizable sound. Not always the specific genre pieces, but most of the music. It’s also recognizable in the scored portions of the show, which was also written and produced by Jeff. I’d love to see you do a deep dive and try to identify what it is that makes a song sound like a RWBY song. This song, and the volume 9 soundtrack, still sounds like RWBY, but also evolved. Because the volume was so different within the story, it was a good volume for Casey and Martin to take over the music. There are parts that are recognizably RWBY, and parts that are new and evolved. The chromatic decent and certain melodic and harmonic approaches in here are part of what makes it sound like RWBY. But I don’t know enough theory to really dig into it. Please do more! Our cats (named after RWBY characters) will love it too! Monte passed away during volume 3, but Rooster Teeth folded during/after volume 9, which is why 10 has been in flux. But it’s coming. Niche thing? Most of what was niche when I was younger (D&D, King Crimson, etc.) isn’t so much anymore. Model railroading is still pretty niche, I guess.