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Paul McCartney's Music Video For His Destiny Song Is Certainly… Something

Published Mon, 08 Dec 2014 17:30:22 -0600

When Destiny came out, I remember Paul McCartney's "Hope for the Future" getting a fair bit of criticism thrown at it. It's the song that plays at the end credits of the game and it certainly baffled quite a few people. There are two sentiments that came out of this oddity. 1) It's weird Paul McCartney has written a song specifically for Destiny. 2) This doesn't really fit the tone of the game.

While I agree with both, I never really had any ire for it existing. I don't even dislike the song. It's fairly bog standard modern-era McCartney.

However, now that the video has hit, things have gotten much weirder. Check it out below. Basically, it is a hologram of McCartney set to the backgrounds of Destiny. That isn't even an awful idea in concept. It is just very peculiar in practice.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=163_C5UVU-I[/youtube]

Are we all still here? Yes? Good.

Honestly, if you take McCartney out of the video, it's fine. Destiny's vistas are incredible. You could easily make a 'hope for humanity' video just out of that. I suppose McCartney had to make face time somewhere though.

Still, there isn't single Guardian using the dance function. That's a missed opportunity.

So yes, we now have a former Beatle singing a song specifically for a video game. At the very least it's something that will no doubt turn up on pub quizzes across the globe.

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