One Winged Angel-Rebirth Is INCREDIBLE!!!

I love how it feels like Sephiroth himself highjacked the song. Like the song is trying desperately to stay on track but he keeps reshaping it the way he wants until he finally gets his desired result. I feel this version is blatantly telling you what Sephiroth is scheming. He'll keep altering what we all know and love until he gets his way, as many times as it takes

I love how the remake version is like 90% intro and outro and 10% actual One Winged Angel.

A lot of people mention how this song feels like it's been overtaken or corrupted, shuffled into exactly what Sephiroth wants it to be, an example, but the one part I think everybody scans over is that almost no section is allowed to have a proper ending, really get to its finale before mutating again with all the false stops and starts, showing that just whenever we feel that we've discovered something, it's already out of our reach, that he's always a step ahead, putting a constant turn in everything to confuse us. Sephiroth is a bad dream, a traumatic memory, and a shocking reality simultaneously, that we will remember walking down the street randomly. He doesn't need to win to win. Even if he loses, we'll always be in the palm of his hand. Very few will reach a level of writing as sinisterly good as Sephiroth.

The main reason why i like this track over the original is because it messes with our head. At this point in the game we arent supposed to face him yet, so we are confused. Just as we are getting confused, the choir comes in and screams into our face with their angry voices. Thus, we start to panic. The music quickens.... etc. Hands down for the remixer. He knew what he was doing.

It is almost impossible to explain to today's children the weight of this music and this game for our generation. I had to hold myself not to cry.

The Advent Children version of One Winged Angel is still my favorite version of this song, but this one and the original both are definitely right up there with it.

@8:55 the song refuses to end. It pushes through were it was MEANT to end, it grows more violent, more chaotic, it REFUSES to end. GAHHHH

I never played final fantasy but I did encounter a rendition of this music in kingdom hearts when I was little. That boss still scares me to this day… so many health bars

"I had a full blown panic attack facing sephiroth" *first 10 seconds of music* me: yup.... this will definitely cause panic while being attacked

I like how they added a very loud "A" choir with vibrato right at the beginning, as if even the orchestra was horrified of what's coming, it gives yet even more sense of urgency, like a calamity about to arrive, announced by a running and screaming crowd.

This theme was my alarm for years it's the one thing that would reliably wake me up no matter how tired I was or what time it was I needed to be up. The opening lines are borderline horror movie sounds.

I think the reason for all the false starts that give that chopped up feel is because this version is meant to dynamically transition throughout the different phases and intermediary cutscences in the battle. It gives this effect that it's always building up to something, getting more and more tense as stakes rise higher

This version of One Winged Angel is just a perfect musical manifestation of Sephiroth, further emphasising the vibe the entire time that he's messing with us and won't stop, just persisting like a bad dream, its perfect.

if you played the original game, the moment it switched from regular game music to the orchastral song, you knew you just entered a new level of gaming. this song is like a giant power up/ evolution of that song.

This song is, "Oh my God I'm So Fucking Dead - The Theme."

This song basically embodies the game. Sephiroth appearing in act 1 of the story in the remake and all over the place, is paralleled in the music, taking the original theme and jumbling it up all over the place. No actually, it embodies Sephiroth throughout the franchise. Every time you think you have beaten him, he keeps coming back. Cloud thinks he has escaped to Smash Bros, and Sephiroth comes right over.

Hearing this at the final fantasy concert in London was epic AF, especially when Nobuo himself was there and he got on the mic to sing one winged angel for us. I got goosebumps alone from the drums at the start of the song.

The amount of work they put into one villain for this piece is astronomical. It just goes to show how powerful and godly sephiroth is considered in the final fantasy universe. It's like his entire backstory is laid out in this piece for you to feel his anger and betrayal for the world that lied to him.

The thing that always gets me about this song is that it so encompasses that feeling of despair when there’s something so overwhelmingly terrifying before you and you realize you have to not only meet it but somehow overcome it. I’ve literally never experienced anything like it in real life but I know this is the song that I’ll hear if I ever do

Something I have realized over time is the many fasle starts and stops in this version of the track represents how the entire fight Sephiroth is toying with you.