Eminem's newest album may have taken many by surprise as it somehow replicates an eerie ye exciting background score from Square's Kingdom Hearts. The 12th track of this recently revealed 'Kamikaze' album on Spotify, named as "Good Guy", sports a vocal extraction similar to that of what is heard in the background of Kingdom Hearts series. The vocal of the song is played by a woman in Japanese.
According to IGN, the insight was first rolled out in public by producer IllaDaProducer, who worked on the album with Eminem recently. When Rolling Stone enquired about the track, IllaDaProducer stated: "That's me doing my video game thing. Kingdom Hearts. It's a Japanese video game, and that's the theme song from it. It's one of the dopest melodies I've ever heard. Shout out Japanese video games and Japanimation for inspiration."
While asked about the unusual appearance of the sound mix in the song, he replied to the question by adding that he "Filtered it, did some chops, did some processing to it. I basically made it unrecognizable, but I know they would have still found it. That's why we had to deal with the clearance. But when I do anything I try to make it to where it's not fully recognizable."
After all the queries by Rolling Stone, he concluded the conversation by saying that he has "basically made it unrecognizable." The track is still not really clear to many, but Kotaku traced out the origin of the music. It stated the background feminine score is a direct adoption from the intro song of the original Kingdom Hearts. The track is listed as the sample tune of the anime game, named 'Simple & Clean' by Utada Hiraku, on credits/lyrics depository site: Genius.com.
On Spotify, the track "Good Guy" is listed with the credits to Jessie Reyez, L. Gomamoto, M. Mathers, Norio Joseph Aono, R. Fraser, and Y. Yamada. The surprising thing is that none of the mentioned ones were involved in the album: 'Simple & Clean'. This has created a roundup of debate over the song's creation.
Many even speculated the track's resemblance with 'Glassy Sky', a track by Tokyo Ghoul, which was earlier used in Kingdom Hearts. However, Genius.com currently also regarded Glassy Sky as the source of 'Good Guy'. However, potential sources have also denied the possibility of this speculation to be true. Now, it is to see whether IllaDaProducer brings any further explanation about this.
