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Are Video Games Giving Us Some of the Best New Music?<\/h2>\nJon Caramanica, host of \u201cPopcast,\u201d explains why Valorant\u2019s new Champions anthem, \u201cLast Shot,\u201d captures the moment.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n \nAre video games where the best new music lives? Get in. Let\u2019s talk about it. So this song is incredibly chaotic but wholly coherent. \u201cLast Shot\u201d is by templuv, which is an electronic music duo, and 347aidan, who is a Canadian rapper. Valorant is a first-person shooter game, and this song was commissioned to be the 2025 Valorant Champion tournament anthem. I like it so much because if it had popped up on some random kid\u2019s SoundCloud page, I would have pointed at it and said, That \u2014 that\u2019s what right now sounds like. One of the things that\u2019s so great about this song is it shifts every 10 or 15 seconds. In one moment it\u2019s, like, emotionally desperate, and the other \u2014 it\u2019s, like, really pugnacious. You\u2019re hearing the long tail of groups like Brokencyde. It\u2019s really, really Warped Tour familiar. The breakdown in the middle feels incredibly indebted to Lil Peep. For more than two decades, video games have kind of doubled as discovery engines for new music. You had hip-hop living alongside pop, living alongside rock, alongside pop punk. It\u2019s really helped make generations of young people genre agnostic. I\u2019m thinking of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series, Grand Theft Auto, Madden, NBA 2K, Fortnite. Do I love video games?!<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Jon Caramanica, host of \u201cPopcast,\u201d explains why Valorant\u2019s new Champions anthem, \u201cLast Shot,\u201d captures the moment.<\/span><\/p>\nBy Jon Caramanica, Joe Coscarelli and Arjun Srivatsa<\/p>\n
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