Opera Singer Reacts: Unexpectancy 1-3 || Pizza Tower OST

Looking forward to playing this game here on youtube, live. Mid July. Stay tuned.

Yeah Pizza Head has absolutely perfect music for him, since A) Yes, he is a clown. B) You could say he is personfication of "I will make you suffer for my enjoyment". Not in a pompous and serious dark villainy way, but in literal sense. His life mission is to ruin your mental health, make you scream, piss you off so hard you'll explode and all that's because he finds it funny.

I love Phase 3 because it's not Pepino going "why do I hear boss music" it's Pizzahead screaming "WHY DO I HEAR BOSS MUSIC"

Oh, Pizza Tower is quite silly, but there’s some serious depth to a lot of the music. Like a jester who has more wit than you would first believe.

Fun fact: for phase 2 the sampling is taken from "After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It" by Irving Berlin performed by Van and Schneck, a song from 1920 that was also covered by Marilyn Monroe in 1954 for Berlin's musical "There's No Business Like Show Business"

Once again, Marco guessed the meanings of the themes with ease. The 2nd phase is a fight against Pizza Head who is basically the one behind everything our main character has to go through. He is like a cartoon character who laughs all the time and doesn't take the fight seriously whatsoever, which is where the ''mocking'' comes from. The 3rd phase is where Pizza Head throws out all of the previous bosses onto the arena and our main character gets so anxious and pissed off that he straight up beats the living shit out of everyone in his path, including the main bad guy.

I knew you'd get that expression at 3:00. The weird radio warbling is actually there for a reason! Pizza Tower has this (at first benign) little gimmick where there's a TV in the top right corner of the screen showcasing what the fans have dubbbed "Live Peppino Reaction". It basically just shows his face and it changes if you're running or if you're grabbing things or if you're killing things, if you're hurt, powerups, etc.. However, Unexpectancy puts that all on its head. Pizzahead, the dick that claimed he was gonna blow up your Pizzeria, had been recording your quest up the tower this whole time for his own amusement. We know this thanks to: -the abundance of other purple TVs in the Employee's Only segments of the final level, The Crumbling Tower of Pizza -Pizzahead's second phase (the Part 2 of Unexpectancy) utilizing The TV that was in the top right of the game as an attack -and the fact that when you P-Rank the entire game, (the hardest rank to get on any one level,) your reward is a set of purple clothes marked as "TV Purple"

This song is, in parts: Phase one: Anxious italian man is very done with giant pizza who wants to destroy his restaurant. Phase two: Giant pizza was actually a pizza-MAN, who is verily insane and fights by doing the goofiest shizz possible. Phase two: A N G E R Y ITALIAN MAN NOISES

Unexpectancy is one of my favorite songs from the OST, it ranges from dire, to silly, to unstoppable and never really loses any of those themes. Kind of like the game itself.

pizza tower is a pretty good mix of goofy lighthearted fun and "I WILL RIP OUT YOUR SPINE THROUGH YOUR EYES!"

I would argue that a big part of Pizza Tower’s OST draws strength from the pallet of its instrumentation. It is as 90’s as it gets. Synth, electric guitar, very specific chords, rhythms and riffs…it screams as a throwback to the era its pallet hails from. And thus it is chaotic, energetic, and a mish-mash of bombast. And yet, its emotional appeal is genuine. In the same way, so is its nostalgia. The composition is extremely well put together and arranged in such a way that even if it DOES have the silly, goofy, (dare I say) “cheesy” instruments…those notes carry weight you would not expect them to have. It does remind me of a different point. There were once criticisms of “electronic music” not being “real” music. Movies, too, were not seen as art. In much the same way video games and video game music sees a similar stigma. The beeps and boops of 8-bit may have faded into nostalgia, but the stigma of the (seemingly) simplistic, limited sound fonts and appeal to a younger audience did not. And because of that stigma, we’ve seen music producers reacting to video game music (as well as established musicians) not only as great sources of insight towards the technical brilliance these pieces convey…but also as ambassadors to the rest of the musical world on behalf of video game music. It’s a medium on the cusp of artistic legitimacy. All that to say…thank you so much for taking a second bite out of this ost. It really does mean a lot to us that you did.

I will forever love part three. It gives off the feeling of "I'm not stuck in here with you, YOU'RE STUCK IN HERE WITH ME !"

Stage 3 is so satisfying. Peppino getting pushed too far and just laying the beat down feels amazing.

I love that every time I see someone react to Unexpectancy pt 2, they all go from kinda jamming in the first part to sitting there like “wtf”, it makes me grin every time.

it just occurred to me that they play The Death I Deservioli instead of Pizza Time in phase 3 because it's a second lap of the bosses. you're fighting them for the second time around

What I like about Unexpectancy is that each part reflects a different character during each phase. In Phase 1, you fight Pizzaface. The main antagonist, the pizza threatening to destroy Peppino's Pizzeria, the one who kills when you run out of time, the character that this whole game has been leading up to. So Part 1 is intense with a hint of fear, though it's admittedly pretty standard for a final boss. In Phase 2, it's suddenly revealed that Pizzaface was actually being controlled by the insane, clown-like Pizzahead. This is why Part 2 is so crazy and carnival-like. It also heavily samples "After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It", which represents how Pizzaheads attacks are him grabbing random objects and then throwing them away. Also something something vague lore reasons. But In Phase 3, when Pizzahead pulls out every boss that you've fought before and forces you to fight them again, the anxious Peppino finally snaps. In his pure rage, he absolutely pummels every boss including Pizzahead, slamming his head into his own tower. Part 3 is Peppino's theme, it's YOUR theme. This moment of pure catharsis is backed by music fueled by determination and triumph, that also uses various leitmotifs from other songs in the game to really seal the deal.

yep, it's a clown. and yep, he's making light of your situation, which is great taunting as you said. you nailed it. the first phase is just a standard "boss fight". the second phase is a "reveal of the true manipulator, the clown", and the third is not the boss's theme. it's peppino's, who is very much done with the clown's shenanigans throughout the game, and uses chunks of themes throughout the entire rest of the game to form one big megazord of a kickass, almost anime-ish, triumphant beatdown track.

I absolutely adore how they reincorporate the riff from The Death That I Deservioli at 11:19

The third phase of Unexpectancy uses several motifs from different songs previously played in the game, some of which are... - The Death that I Deservioli (Lap 2 theme) - Cold Spaghetti (Pizzascape B) - Oregano Mirage (Oregano Desert) - Don't Preheat Your Oven Because If You Do This Song Won't Play (Refrigerator-Refrigerador-Freezerator A) (yes, this is an actual track name.) - Tombstone Arizona (Wasteyard)

The jump between phase 1 and 2 is fantastic to me, because you can tell just by looking at it that Pizza Tower is fairly cartoony, but it at least seems to have its own sense of logic. It makes sense that the villain would be somewhat of a cartoon himself, being very over-the-top malicious and mwa-ha-ha evil. Unexpectancy phase 2 comes with the reveal that the villain is a cartoon cartoon. He's a cartoon in the Roger Rabbit sense, completely divorced from the rules and logic of even Pizza Tower's absurd reality; he can do seemingly whatever he wants in service of a gag, and that is apparently what Peppino is to him; a gag! Furthermore, it reveals more about his character; he's not just sadistic and malicious, he's demented. These two things together mean that suddenly, all sense of normalcy and sense go out the window. Peppino no longer knows what the hell is going on, neither does the player, and honestly, possibly neither does the villain! He's wacky like that. It's such a fun, sudden, strange soundscape shift that totally fits the moment. And then, of course, you have phase 3, which is essentially Peppino screaming "THIS. IS. NOT. FUNNY." And beating the tar out of everyone until they agree