Early Music

This is a sub-page of Proto:Persona 5/December 4th, 2015/Audio.

This page or section needs more audio.
There's a whole lotta words here, but not enough audio. Please fix this.
Specifically: Still more early songs to cover?

Missing Tracks#

This build has a total of 68 songs, which is most of the music that is in the final, but lacks some songs:

Phantom
Life Will Change
Days of Sisters
Beneath the Mask
Beneath the Mask -Rain-
Sweatshop (Another Version)
Impromptu for the Next Prime Minister
Freedom and Peace
Yaldabaoth
Our Beginning
When Mother Was There (Another Version)
A Woman (Another Version)
Crane Game
Tanaka's Shady Committees
Accident On-Air
Rivers in the Desert (Instrumental Version)
Rivers in the Desert
Big Bang Burger March
Triple Seven

Tracks With Major Changes#

A sizable amount of the songs are different from their final versions in some way, ranging from minor to major changes.

Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There#

Early	Final

The opening theme, while having the same visuals is different; It features Yumi Kawamura instead of Lyn, the instrumentation is slightly different while being in a lower key and the lyrics are different. This would also be present in the February and March builds.

The presence of the song is strange due to the near-finalized theme and instrumentation being revealed in the PV01 trailer from February 2015, and the finalized vocals in September 2015. It's likely that someone just forgot to update it or it was just deemed a lower priority, much like some of the other design changes in the game.

The following lyrics below are audibly transcribed, with the final version for comparison;

Early

Final

Good morning, I'm just in the sky
a crazy world I live in

having nowhere I can be myself
you drop that on my mind

so remember
you know how do I say (do you know more than I?)
keep it or move on
you know how do I say (take it away)

desperate just through a morning
I feel just like a fire
I just feel it and breathe in
as I never let you go

keep you right at the minute
make you run at the fire
Try to fight off the begging
I’ve every way to go

Who am I, am I not unique?
maybe I'm not here at all

look, the fakers, blinding us with lies
the breakers of us all

oh, it's useless
what could it mean that we're here?
can we make a difference
if we don't break outta here?

wake up, get up, get out there
raise your voice against liars
feed your anger like fire
why does nobody want change?

just imagine you're out there
swatting lies in the making
can't move fast without breaking
if you hold on, life won't change

Other Major Changes#

Sorted by Official Soundtrack order. Note that the multiple bgm duplicates in the same file sound identical, where some of them would be removed or separated in later builds and the final game.

Internal File	Track Name	Notes
`bgm_010`	Tension	A remix of 'Tension' with the internal name `bgm_010`, that would be removed in later builds. In the February build onward `bgm_010` and `bgm_025` - another version of 'Tension' - would be identical.
`bgm_300`, `bgm_310`, `bgm_320`	Last Surprise	One of the most different out of the early music tracks. The song is in a different key, the instrumentation is noticeably unfinished and the song lacks vocals, instead using a guitar and synth for the melody. It was originally used in the PV02 trailer.
`bgm_001`, `bgm_620`	Tokyo Emergency	Different in instrumentation with heavier emphasis on the percussion.
`bgm_440`, `bgm_441`	Sweatshop	Very different. Starts off with the early version of 'High Pressure' and then cuts at 0:26 to a more familiar sounding Sweatshop, the main instrument sounds a little different. The melody seems to be the same. Overall very unfinished. `bgm_441` ended up becoming 'Sweatshop (Another Version)' in the final release of the game.
`bgm_610`	Tokyo Daylight	Different in instrumentation, lacking the strings, guitar and heavier emphasis on the percussion. An electric piano is used in place of Lyn's vocals.
`bgm_450`, `bgm_451`	The Whims of Fate	Though the overall structure is the same, it's much more richer in instrumentation, such as the increased backing in the intro and overall song. This song uses a synth lead in its place of Lyn's vocals.
`bgm_102`	Hoshi To Bokura To	This track, like the others, lacks any vocals and instead uses synths. It is also much shorter than the final version and has a slightly different melody. In the final release, `bgm_102` is 'Freedom and Peace' and 'Hoshi To Bokura To' isn't present with the other bgm files as it is embedded in the credits' movie file, `mov045`. In this build a longer, but still unfinished, version is also embedded within movie file `mov045`. The final audio used on this page is taken from the official OST release as the movie file's audio has sound effects and dialogue mixed in.

Tracks With Minor Changes#