[*21/08/06: Back-dated entry. Wrote this some time ago but 'never found time' to post it.]

After watching the first video during the national day parade, I didn't know whether to be sad that we actually have to write variations on the soundtrack from Lord of the Rings, or happy that we are actually brave enough to so blatantly use the movie's soundtrack.

I know it's really hard to write cliche, cheesy, 'grand/majestic/herioc' music like that without feeling disgusted by your own work, so it might have been easier to use someone else's work and still feel disgusted that you actually did that.
But it still feels wrong somehow. What happened to telling us to be creative and original? And telling us to use our own words when answering comprehension questions instead of copying from the passage itself? Er... ok, I guess we just end up paraphrasing the passages anyway.

I think I could accept something that sounds somewhat similar or familiar, but not something like this where the tune and harmony of the original soundtrack are almost completely preserved, other than a countermelody (which is then played as the foreground and hence becoming the melody) written above them.