🎶 Radio Stations in Paralives 📻
Hey everyone! Andrei here, ready to bring some special music to this post 🎵 Ever tuned in to your favorite radio station and gathered with friends or loved ones to share a moment, letting the music create the perfect atmosphere? Or maybe even slow-danced to a song before sharing your feelings? We wanted to have those kinds of moments for Early Access, coming up on December 8th. Check out last week's post here for more details on our release!
🎥In the video above, you heard eight of our many radio tracks that will be in the game (two per genre). Fun fact: most of these songs were made completely from scratch in under a day each 😶 They might sound a little rough or unmixed 🥹 There were also some behind-the-scenes of how I recorded some of them, which was so fun to do 🥸
Parafolks can interact with radio or speaker items to pick a radio channel to listen to.
Next, we’re gonna talk about each genre that has been added in the game so far and why we chose it 🚀
🌃🎧 Lo-Fi
I can’t even count the number of times I’ve set some Nujabes or Lo-Fi Girl to set the background vibe while doing literally anything. Since Lo-Fi was a big influence on the soundtrack’s blend, this was the first genre that I wanted to do for the radio. Also, because it’s super satisfying to produce 🤭. Looking out through the window while it’s raining really sets the mood when doing these beats. Let’s move on!! 🏃💨
📀📻 Indie Pop
A while ago, during a hackweek, I experimented with making the radio’s music turn into the soundtrack’s music whenever Paras would have a very special moment together. The song I made for that was “Witches”, which we decided to still keep for the radio after all this time. From it, I thought of making an Indie Pop radio station, which was super cool and hard at the same time since Indie Pop is influenced by soooo many styles!!! 😵💫
🎸🤘 Rock
If there’s anything I love in this world besides doing music, it’s watching anime while eating good ramen 🍜 And I have to admit it, I’ve been heavily influenced by all those J-Rock intro tracks. There was no chance I couldn’t make a Paralives radio station for this genre. Funny enough, these were much easier to produce than the other genres since there are fewer layers to record 🔴
🎙️✨ Old Ballads
One day at the office, I was passing by our animator Alice’s desk and saw a little slow-dancing animation she was working on. It immediately inspired me, and I decided to make a radio station specifically for your Paras to be able to slow dance to that music. I just had the image of an old couple putting some “old classics” from the 40s to 60s on their vintage radio and casually starting to dance to it. It’s little moments like that one that make the game for me ♥️
Here’s a little sneak peek of what I saw on Alice’s screen that day at the office vs how slow-dancing ended up looking in-game!
That’s it for today!! If we have the time, we will add more songs of different genres to our radio stations before the early access in 6 months. I have to say, I wish I could’ve shown you more of the songs, but hey, sometimes we have to tease. I’m definitely looking forward to showing you many more another time. Hope you enjoyed today’s post! Which ones were your favourite songs? What other music genre would you like to hear in the game?
Have a great Friday everybody,
Andrei ♪♩♩ ♪♩♩♩
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Comments (174)
I’d love to see different languages. Would it be possible to make our own station like Caribbean pop and upload Caribbean songs to that’s group?
Ooo~ They sound good. I do hope these later get covered into parish though, I've never been a big fan of when songs have English words while characters speak a gibberish language.
Add 80s or 90s pop style, I sometimes play this genre for cozy games~
Sounds good!🕺
Hero Returns is a total banger!
Definitely excited to see what you give us in the future, there is so much talent on this team! I'm the type of person who likes to throw a lot of parties in my life sims, so a techno station would be super cool.
Omg I don't know why, when the note dropped at 2:50 like I've heard it from somewhere, I'm loving these samples & honestly can't wait to play this 😍😍
These are all so amazing! I will admit the use of English kinda threw me and I don't know how I'll feel about it in game but I will keep an open mind since the songs are all so good
I love the music so far especially the rock and old ballads! I'd love it if you added 70s 80s pop. Something like Bee Gees, Andy Gibb, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Player and TOTO. I could write so many more but I think you get the vibe I'm going for here :>
Techno, House and Ambient Trap
Notedddd! ✅
I am so late to this post! This felt like a special gift to listen to. And you did all of these from scratch within a day?! My hats off to you, sir!! They all sound amazing, but I think my Paras are gonna be stuck on the Rock and Lo-Fi stations, lol. That "Hero Returns" made me sorely miss the times I used to binge anime for months on end. Ahh, thank you so much for sharing! 🌇💞 P.S. You have a lovely voice, I could hear you doing Jazz or Christmas songs...or a blend of both 👀🥰
That's super sweet thank you ZLoves! 🥹 I'm happy you enjoyed the post!
Okay, I'm biased because I love rock, metal and anime, so the rock station brought a huge smile to my face! It sounded exactly like an anime opening! Also you have a lovely voice!
Hehehe yesss! Thank you!! So glad you liked it! :)
Can I please request that what ever music is added to the game you double the expected amount of music for it. One of my biggest pet peeves is repetitive music in a game. The last game I played I turned if off after only a few hours (not going to name and shame).
Absolutely! I'll make so many more of them as we keep expanding the game! So far we reached the minimum amount of music we wanted for early access but I'd love to add so many more tracks. This is just broad speculation but it'd be great to reach double or even triple the amount of music we have by end of 2026
Similar to images that we can upload from our PC to the game and use as posters/paintings, can we upload our own audio files and listen to those on the radio?
100%!! You can add you're own radio stations via the control panel!!
The volume of the radio is adjustable? I want to be able to hear the sound effects in game and the characters talking more than the background music. Maybe you can add another menu right there with "Turn off" (or is there a general setting for volume for all music in the game?)
That's a great question! Right now the only way to adjust the volume of the radio tracks is to change the "Foley" volume in the audio settings or go on the control panel and change the individual songs' volume. But I agree, it'd be much better if you could simply adjust the volume in the game itself or have a separate volume fader as "Radio Music" in the audio settings. Thanks so much!
OH MY WORDDDD the old ballads 🥹 "My Love" is giving major "Beauty School Dropout" vibes at the start 🎶
Thank youuuuuu
The quality of music shared so far has been really incredible. Half of my excitement for release is to get my hands on the complete OST. You have a lot to be proud of here.
That means so much Aaron thank you :)
I’d love to hear experimental PC style music, like Sophie or Charlixcx tracks
Noted!
i honestly love this music. Thank you also for the beautiful card with Sebastian and Maggie on it as well as the other Parafolk. Love each and everyone of the team also
Thank you Francis! Glad you liked the postcard!
Nossa , eu amei TODAS as músicas ❤️ gostaria de te-las na minha playlist
muito obrigado! 😁
For a podcast/talk radio option, it would be neat if staff (those interested) created some content whether talking about their passions, how the game was made, easter eggs, etc.
Ooohhhh that would be so cool!!! Definitely adding it to the nice to haves. Thanks so much Jennifer!
It would be neat if you got permission from Rick Astley to add a cover of Never Gonna Give You Up. And for added fun, possibly include it as a Rick roll prank that paras can set the radio station/computers to. :D
Hehehehe I don't know about that but would definitely be fun to rick roll some players
oh wow I love it!!
I loved Witches best and then the oldies tracks blew me away. Absolutely brilliant Andrei! Any chance of some reggae too though?
Thank youuuu! Reggae is definitely in my future stations to do list
These are all great. You're so talented! I can definitely hear the anime influence in the rock songs 😂 I love the chill vibes of this game already, so the lofi beats are probably my favorite of the lot.
Thank you so much!!!! :D
I really am loving all of these! So relaxing and fun to listen to <3
Thanks Jessy!
Really Love Heroes Return and Wings. Can't wait to discover all the tracks when I play the game <3
Thank youuuu
Would love to hear some hip hop, classical, maybe something more whimsical like “kids” music (my nieces love listening to the kid songs on YouTube), too. Oh… toddlers dancing to that would be super cute! Love the music!
That'd be perfect! Other people mentioned a kids station and I definitely love the idea. Hip hop and classical are to be done too!
I cried 30 seconds into the video. This game is reaching a part of my inner child, and it's not even out yet. Thank you for putting so much love and care into every facet this game <3
That means the world Cole, thanks so much
I love your music! The ballads were my favorites this time — I love hearing you sing. Great work, Andrei! Keep up the awesome work!
EEEEEEHHH :D gracias!
Music is what truly makes a game! I hope there will be Holiday/Seasonal music too!
Thank you Derek! Adding the idea to the list!
OMG YES NUJABES MENTIONED 🥹❤️ The music selection is absolutely, positively LOVELY!!
Thanks so much Azem :)
I can see 15 year old me walking to school listening to the rock station through cheapy Apple earbud knockoffs 100000/10 amazing work 🎶
Hell yeah! Thanks Allie 😁
The old ballads almost had me tearing up 🥹 very well thought out and put together for the early release. Can't wait to have my Paras slow dance to these great tracks! Andrei, you talented soul, you.
Thanks so much Jordan :) So glad you liked them!
The old ballads genre is made for me 😍
Oooh I love them all!! Especially the old ballads, jukebox-type music is my favorite 💕
Thank you Holly!
this is random but i find the descriptions of what inspired you to make the songs just as interesting as the actual music! for example, the “lore” behind paper pet and golden days made already incredible songs even better for me! if it isn’t too much, i think short stories like that for each song on the soundtrack would be absolutely amazing and i would 100% be willing to pay extra for it.
That might be something fun to include in the game too. Like if you have a Para with a certain level of interest in music an option might appear on the radio to "Look Up Song Wiki" or "Research Artist" that would give you an excerpt from an interview . By extension, a fake profile could be made for one or two artists on each genre as flavor text and maybe that could extended into other things like "Poster of [BAND]".
This RULES!! :D
thank YOUUUU! :)
Music is beautiful as always 💛
Thanks so much!
i’m quite partial to beautiful piano themes so maybe some of them? and by those i mean like when people on youtube take recognizable theme songs and do piano covers. they’re always gorgeous! also, maybe some hip hop style songs? the rock songs can bring one kind of party atmosphere and the hip hop would bring another! some nice jazz or blues would also be amazing!
Someone mentioned the idea of adding piano versions of the main soundtrack's music! That'd be super fun! Also hip hop, jazz blues definitely will be done!
I was thinking it'd be nice to have a children's station and a lullaby station. I keep imagining a baby fussing and not going to sleep, and the parent turns on the lullaby station to soothe them ❤️
Definitely! That'd be so wholesome!
I love indie Pop and Rock ❤️❤️❤️
Thank youuuu!
please add classical music
Yes, please. Most pieces in this genre are public domain, so you wouldn't need to worry about writing and could focus on how to make it sound. Is it very clean and professional? Is this a station that showcases local student orchestras? The biggest obstacle would be recording that many layers unless you want to go synth.
"My love" and "Waiting On You" are my favorite! Thank you Andrei for being part of this game. You voice sounds beautiful in those 2 songs.
Thank you so much Thabiso 🥹
Maybe add a Kids station. Just for younger Paras to enjoy! Along with that, I like late 2000s, early 2010s-style pop.
Yes!!! A couple other people have mentioned the idea of the kids station and I think it'd be great! Thanks so much!
"Honeywave" sounds like old Animal Crossing music 😍 The Rock songs are *chefs kiss* too, that will be my station of choice! When you'll expand the radio eventually, Pop should definitely be the first thing you add, and I'd love a Jazz station as well, I think it really fits with the style of this game. Also, very specifically, I'd like to personally request some Phoebe Bridgers inspired Indie songs 😭 👉👈 And really anything that sounds like from a Life Is Strange soundtrack 🫡
Thanks so much Max!! I LOVE PHOEBE BRIDGERS!! Will definitely add a pop and a jazz station in the future!
i would love to see basic pop music for all my basic pop paras🤭
Will do! I'm definitely one of those basic pop paras
Honestly, this is a great addition to the game. I've been dreaming about what music radio would be like in Paralives, and now this answers my question! I love the sounds and variations, and I'd love to see how the music evolves over time. One small detail you should consider is changing the intensity of the musical notes based on the music: rock with hard notes, jazz with softer notes, etc. I think it would be a really nice touch, but that's up to you, the developers. By the way, I love the new music. Bye!
Thank you so much Sonia! Glad you like the new music! Will defnitiely consider the intensity of the notes by genre!
we NEED city pop !
Noted!
okayy singer
hehehe
I love that the songs are in English and not gibberish! They all sound wonderful, I love the singing vocals and I look forward to listening ingame. Great work. Andrei! Rock on!! 🎶🎶
Thanks so much Tey! It's still to be confirmed if we'll leave the english lyrics or change them!
I like 80s synth pop, 90s Shoegaze music and 60s folk/pop
Noted!
these are all so good! i would love to see a r&b inspired station as i love r&b especially mariah carey
Noted! Thanks so much Pedro!
R&B next pleaseeeeeeeeeee some Latin music, alternative metal
Noted! Will add them to the list!
Amazing music as always Andrei. I was sure that I would be a rocker but that old ballad got me in the end. (still have to beat my favourite Intertwined acoustic though). Genre for me... metal. Definitely metal please.... and if you are looking for a second suggestion... blues brothers (the film) has some cracking songs.
STEWBYYYYYYYY! Thank youuuuu hehehe the ballads were fun to do. Metal is definitely gonna be there soon 😌 I still gotta check the Blues Brothers film!
I haven’t played yet the game already feels nostalgic???
I haven't released anything yet and already feel too hyped!!
My favourite was "Hero Returns", that one sounds like something out of My Hero Academia.
Eyyyyyy! That's the best compliment! Thank you!
I can definitely see a future where people make up lyrics for the radio music that doesn't have it yet. Heck, people could add in their own songs, using the mod tools.
The possibilities are endless!!!
Oh wow, the ballads...🥹 I love all the songs & genres Andrei, but the ballads immediately inspire me to make a cute elderly couple who used to be sweethearts and find each other again in their old age 😭 My ONE burning wish: a talk radio station! I don't care if it uses Parli or English or talk-inspired murmuring (maybe that's easiest)...it could have sounds like the news, weather report, advert jingles, and lots of constant murmuring. CBC Radio 1 girlie here for whom having talk radio on in the background sounds like home 😌
I would love a talk radio station too!
In the far-away future it would be cool to have a feature to purchase discs/vinyls of your fave songs to play on devices other than radio, so that the player can play a specific song during specific times if they would like to! (like weddings or something)
That would be very wholesome! I'm so in love with the idea of having a record store and buying your individual songs there and being able to check their wiki or behind-the-scenes description there too
Amazing!
thanks!
absolutely gorgeous music and I'll be honest, this is one of the main reasons I am already in love with Paralives! I especially loved the piano added to the rock song. I don't hear that very often and I loved it. I literally gasped when I heard the Old Ballads though. Thank you for all your hard work! It truly makes this game special.
That means the world thank you so much! :)
OMG Andrei!! You're so crazy skilled! I know this, and yet you keep blowing me away... all the instruments, making songs just like that - AND GOOD ONES! - singing, everything! Really, the songs capture the vibes of their genres so perfectly! When I'm not listening too closely, it could be any of a number of existing songs (and I mean that in the best possible way - they sound familiar because they fit their genres so well). I think I have to claim my favourite as Wings because it sounded like epic video game music 😂 The Old Ballads make me think of Greese or Dirty Dancing... or an old timey movie. Ok, I have to stop gushing or this post will never end. Just... SO. FREAKING. WELL. DONE!!!! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
I agree. Andrei is crazily talented (not jealous at all, honest) and you would never believe that one person has made that music alone... like made all the separate components and then merged them together. Just stunning.
These are lovely! For my suggestions: I would love to have Folk, Indie, Metal, Classic Rock, Electronica, and Emo. 💜
Thank you! Noted! Those are great ideas!
It's truly amazing, congratulations !
Thank you Emma!
I love this! You are so talented! I can’t wait to hear the full versions of all of the songs once the game is released!!
Thanks so much Kaitlyn! :)
Oh love it 😀 ❤️
Woohooo! Thank youu!
Everything sounds so amazing! I love these updates and insights into the process. I was wondering if some of the music would possibly be in Parli? I love getting to hear and understand the lyrics but I know for immersion sake, the music might be expected to be in the in-game language
Thank you so much! I feel that, we'll defnitely consider either changing them to Parli or just removing the lyrics. Parli would be so fun though
🎵 Ooh "Raspberries in Bed" is smooth and cute but a little mysterious. Love "Honeywave", and I argue that it's some sort of new funk 😁 "My Love" definitely captures the golden oldies ballad, and hope we'll hear more swing selections like "Waiting on You" 🎶 Great to hear the progress as you polish this game!
Thank you so much!!!! :D I'm super glad you liked the tracks!
For other genres i would love to see! Country (specifically the slow or "story-teller" style of Country!) Swing/Jazz (electro-Swing could be fun too! But i love anything from the 60s) And R&B! Which is my favorite so ofc i had to suggest it :] it's also quite a broad category OH! And it'd be cool if there was an "atmospheric" station on the radio too! i listen to stuff like that all the time😅
Got it! Adding to the list!
This game is worth buying for the music alone! Love them!
That's so sweet thanks Fran :)
Talking about music made me think about the music skill of the game, and since we got the cooking system recently, do you suppose we could get something kinda like the recipe but for the song and music sheet a para would know? One of my favorite thing to do is to try to play a song I love or try to play a song I know on a new instrument just for the fun of it. But you could also buy sheet or ask someone to teach you, etc... It's been a long time since we go a post on the music skill so I'm kinda curious. I know that skill are kinda my favourite thing in game to thing about and how to exploit them and have them have several use. It's not priority obviously but my mind immediately jump on that idea. Also love the music 🎶 as usual. I really like having some singing and not just instrumental music. I hope we get more variety in the future. Have a nice weekend!
On another note that is more silly but since I love lore I ask about that. Will the music on the radio have para artist/groups 'link' to them? Like it would be cool if our blue Anime girl or any musician para was a famous artiste. The idea of buying 'merch' for band is really fun to me. Also if some of those 'celebrity' lived or came by the town, it coul make for a nice random event. Or even just be a topic of together card. Imagine the drama of badmouthing the favorite group of your neighbours 🤣
That sounds so cool! Just a question can we make custom radio with our own music?
Definitely! Would love to make a tutorial about it once the game releases!
The music sounds great :) I'm looking forward to playing the game with them playing in the background. Will you do any punk or goth music? Or EDM?
Thank you Christinaaaa! Punk and EDM are in the to do list! Will add goth to the ideas right now!
Beautiful Andrei 😌 as always. Love what you’ve done and I’m obsessed with Lofi and Rock right now. So this gives me some tunes to chill to till December 🙌🏻
TINKS!! Super glad you liked them!! I'll do my best to make so many more so you don't run out 😤
I would love for both a rap and an r&b station. I listen to them alot in real life and I want para me to enjoy them too
Noted! Thank you!
I don’t even know if I can begin, I could go second by second describing each little bit I love but this comment could become a post in itself. It’s just perfect. Each song is just so well done, the vocals are lovely, and none feel like they’d annoy me in game. Love how I immediately heard anime intros with the rock ones and then you described that in the post! The Lofi is satisfying as hellllll and the BALLADS omg pls. I can’t wait to listen to the entire soundtrack and all these songs in FULL! PLS! Amazing work as always Andrei, and keep up the good work team! (Also what was “making the radios music turn into the soundtracks music” referring to?
I am assuming (possibly wrongly) that it is to do with the patreon rewards... we get a game soundtrack as a reward. :)
Oh the old ballads are so cool!
Thank youuuuu
For a heavymetal person I was surprised my favourites were in the old ballads section. Hope we'll more of these and maybe some with some French or Italian twist? Folk music from different cultures would be nice too. ❤️
i was the same. I thought I would like the rock cause i am more of a metalhead but nope... the old ballads were my favourites.
Hi Andrei, great to hear from you again ! Thanks for this post that showcases how versatile you are. Is it just me or these songs play with the left/right effects more than the soundtrack songs we've heard before ? Especially lo-fi. The Old Ballads genre is really great, you're going to be our older Paras' Sinatra XD So many babies are going to be concinved on these songs (...haha you didn't think about that when you recorded it, now did you ?). Speaking of which... Oh, Honeywave is the perfect song for, um... how did we say we were calling it in Paralives ? 😏 But the rock songs really are my favorites. Hero Returns is totally that bish XD When I first listened to it, it reminded me of early 2000s Ayumi Hamasaki, so it makes total sense that JRock was your inspiration ! Are you going to have a poll to decide what genres to add next ? It's been a while since the last Parapoll. I'd love some electronic music like EDM, I'm really curious how you'd be able to make it fit with Paralives' cozy vibes, but at the same time, teenagers and young adults like to par-tay ! Some synthpop would also be very pleasing, and I think great for the middle-aged Paras who are nostalgic about their childhood in the 80s !
my mind went into the gutter when i read raspberries in bed... oooooooooooh.
I got chills with the old ballads 🥹 you are a gem of a musician, Andrei!!
Btw I’ll also love to hear some R&B bops in the game, something like We belong together ❤️
Beautiful, the old ballads feel like instant classics🥰✨
Thank you Lisaaaa!
Are we able to add our own music too? I think that'd be a nice addition
Definitely! With the control panel you can add your own music!
I enjoy all of the songs, but the Ballads are my favorite!! Have you considered asking other musicians/bands to contribute their music to the Paralives Radio stations? Or will it at least be possible to add our own music files to the game and create custom radio stations?
Thank you so much Danny! I'd love to eventually make collabs with other musicians to add more stations! You can also add your own music through the control panel
OMG I WASN'T EXPECTING "OLD BALLADS"!!! 😍😍😍😍 they all sound SOOO AMAZING! ill definitely be listening to the entire paralives soundtrack outside of the game!! GREAT WORK ANDREI
Thank you so much! That's so sweet :)
This game is going to be amazing! December 8th can’t come fast enough. I love Hero Returns!
For us it's coming really fast hehehe 😅 Thank you so much!
Imagine Paralives gets so big you have big artists re-record their songs in Parli 🎶📻
Really wishing and hoping for that!!
loving all of these, but got a soft spot for Wings ✨
Thank youuuu
Awesome
DUDE I love older ballads I’m glad you guys added them!
Thank you Hewitt!
Love the music!! I could listen to them for hours! 🎶
That's so sweet Teddy :) Thanks!
This game is going to change my life!! everything about it to me is perfect.
It definitely has changed mine thank you Faith!
This music always makes me feel like I'm dreaming🎧🎶😭!! I can't wait for this art of a game!!
Thank you so much Thabiso!! 🥹