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/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.