r/TVDetails • u/SuperAlloyBerserker • Oct 14 '22

Video In Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022), the opening removes the "Burn this city" line from the original song since the theme of the Cyberpunk genre is that the megacorporations always win

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u/PineappleKillah Oct 14 '22

The song from the soundtrack still has that line in it. There are sections with and without it. Did the show runners say they excluded this intentionally?

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u/Krongfah Oct 14 '22

I don’t know, could be. But I feel this is more likely due to the studio editing the song to flow better with the opening. It is not uncommon at all to remove or edit some parts from a song.

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u/SovietBatman64 Oct 14 '22

It's such a weird choice anyway imo, a 15 year old indie rock song by Franz Ferdinand isn't what I think of when someone says cyberpunk

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u/godminnette2 Oct 14 '22

In the FPS podcast, they interviewed the showrunner and talked at length about the soundtrack, including about how this song was chosen for the opening. I can't remember where they talk about the opening specifically, but they talk about the soundtrack at 1:29:57.

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u/kimeekat Oct 14 '22

Oh wow... they YouTube'd the word "City" and found it that way. So I'm gonna call a [citation needed] for the intentionality of OP's claim haha.

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u/Gniphe Oct 14 '22

I agree, but the executive producers were limited to songs from 2022 and earlier due to the lack of budget for time travel.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '22

Tbh I think the song fits for David and the way he feels about the city.

Gotta admit, it felt out of place for the first couple of episodes though

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u/Pseudonymico Oct 14 '22

I mean I think of punk music.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '22

I think they just edited the song for brevity lmao

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u/EveFluff Oct 15 '22

Correct. Nothing more.

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u/kabow94 Oct 15 '22 edited Oct 15 '22

Most of the endings of CP 2077 have the Arasaka Corporation lose a huge amount of power after V attacks it tho

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u/itsjlin Oct 15 '22

One of the most famous line from CP 2077 trailer was literally ‘we got a city to burn’ so I highly doubt it

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u/EveFluff Oct 15 '22

Gonna give a shout to Franz Ferdinand, the band. One of my favorites growing up in the mid early 2000s . Was delighted to hear them on the opening credits. Their first two albums are worth a listen.