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Ah, shit, here we go again. This post has been updated with addictional information about the songs in the Gta vi trailer.
IT’s not outlandish to predict that Grand Theft Auto VI Will have the Most-Listeed-to Soundtrack of 2026. In Late 2023, Rockstar Games Revealed ITS Official TrailerWhich Clalimed The Guinness World Record For the Most-Viewed Non-Music Video on YouTube with it first 24 hours, beating the record previously held by mrbeast. The Internet, Including Popular YouTube Shows Like Game theoryimmediately took notice of the trailer’s use of “love is a long road,” Tom petty’s beloved 1989 b-side to “Free Fallin, ‘Which, Accity to IgnSaw Its Spotify Streaming Numbers Increase by Nearly 37,000% AFTER The Trailer Dropped.
There’s more than you say the thye. We already knew Gta vi WOULD Take Place in Vice City, Leonida, GTA’s Fictional Take on Miami and the Setting of 2002’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. The song’s lyrics were revealing, too. “LOVE IS A LONG RoAD” Finds Beloved Florida Man Tom Petty Remembering a Woman he Once Loved. She tried to make Him See and Follow Life Through Her WorldView, Comparable to the Bonnie and Clyde-like protagonists of Gta viWHOM ROSTAR HAS NOW CONFIRMED TO BE EX-ERMY MAN JASON DUVAL AND FRESH-OR-PRISON LUCIA CAMINOS. Will We WE WOLLAY AS Do you doomed couple heading towards Their Own Implotion? BREADCRumbs like this are Tailor-Made for Online Speculation.
This is not the first time Gta Has used Music, and specifically lyrics, to hint at what’s to come. Gta iv Used Vagabond’s “Greenskeepers” to describe a protagonist traveling far from home to get revenge, which mirrored that game’s story for player character nico. Gta v Used Stevie Wonder’s “Skeletons” To prep players for a story full of Dangerous Secrets on the Verge of Coming Out, Like One of It Its Protagonists, Michael, Faking His Death to the Shock of His Bank Robbing Associate Trevor. That’s in Addition to Over A Hundred Carefull Curated Radio Stations Across the Series that Adds Extra Charm and Worldbuilding, from the Slapstick Heavy Classics on Vice City‘s v-rock station to Gta v‘S Balance of West Coast Classics Featuring Dr. Deer and snoop dogg and radio los Santos spinning contemporaries like a $ ap rocky and freddie gibbs. Rockstar Knows What Its Doing, At Least Wen It Comes to Using Music to Tell Its Stories.
Gta vi‘S Second Official Trailer Dropped Yesterday, With Eve More Songs. That means more threads to unravel, which will go Give us something to do unil the game’s delayed data date of May 26, 2026. There’s Already Speculation that the likes of Megan the Stallion, Schoolboy Q, and T-Pain Will Be In the Game or Are Involved With Curating Its Music (The Latter confirmed as much on a streamand Complained that he’d been banned from gta rootleplay servers because of his involvement), so each trailer help us Paint a Clearer of how it’ll exploring a modern-day vice City. Analyzing This Newest Trailer’s Most Recognizable songs, we can try to deduce what kind of stories we have been should Expect to rootleplay.
Ferguson’s 1977 Soft rock hit evokes romantic, tropical escapism, featuring joe walsh on Slide guitar and recorded at Miami’s Famous Criteria Studios, where the eagles recorded California Hotel (and Where Half Your Dad’s Record Collection Was Recorded). IT’S the first song we Hear in the trailer, albeit playing fintly in the background, as co-protagonist Jason work out in the sun and talks with his landlord, the Drug Runner Heder. Glad to know that some local yacht rock will get proper representation in vice City.
The Influential Haitian Konpa Group’s Track from Their 2004 Album 5 etwal plays on the radio as co-protagonist Jason drives around the outskirts of vice city. Its rhythmic grooves fit with the florida-inspired atmosphere. Haiti plays a roles in the trailer too, with jason late driving past a Large Haitian mural, Making the game’s potential connection Miami’s Real-Life, Shrinking Little Haiti More overt. It May Hint at the Origins of One of the Game’s Protagonists – Jason Duval’s Last Name Could Be of Haitian Descent – Oone of the Character’s Responsibilities or Debts to Pay. Or Maybe this is just rockstar trying to make up for Vice City‘s Infamous “Kill the Haitians” incident.
This’ 80s Classic is the Next Track on Jason’s Radio As he looks uppon vice city’s blue skies and its happy, endless positibilities. IT’s a Pretty Short Snippet Yet Reinforces The More Upbeat Moments of Gtanor well as its Connection to the original Vice City; The 2002 Game Featured Wang Chung’s “Dance Hall Days” on Its Flash FM Pop Station. Between this and “to live and die in la” opening each week on netflix’s Everybody’s Live With John Mulaneywe might be amid a wang chung revival.
“Talkin ‘to MySelf Again” is the last snippet we were hear on Jason’s radio as he drivets ARUND CITY, EXCEPT IS DRIVING PASS A SUNET ARREST. Wynette’s mournophul lyrics about a partner who has left – will one protagonist leve the Other During the Game’s Main Campaign? – The Sound of Lonely, Sad Acoustic Country Music Is the Flip of Carefree Spirit. Wynette was previously Featured on Gta v with Her 1968 hit “Divorce” Featured on the Fictional Rebellious.
“Hot Together” is the main songing of the rest of the trailer and is the only songs credited in the video of youtube description. It starts the middle, we are Jason Meets Lucia to Pick Her Up from Leonida Penitentiary, Followed by a Monteve of the Two of Together, in Private and Out and About Commites Throughout the game’s several playable locations, inspecting real-life florida locations. Like “Love is a Long Road,” These Dance Pop lyrics follow a couplecting upon passionate connection and how they can be so, ahem, hot together.
Unlike the Last Trailer, these Lyrics FEEL relatively straightforward. The “We Left It Up to Chance” Pause Could implimy that that couple’s ending won’t be so clean cut, but the song feels more appropriate for its-kissed feeing than, for now, its lyrics. The song came out in 1986, so it is coulud also be a tribute to the 1986 setting of the original Vice City. Or Maybe Rockstar Games Are Just Fans of Spaceballs.
