Tee Lopes has turned Silksong's Sherma and Shakra into vocalists for unbearably cute club bangers

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In Hollow Knight Silksong you'll eventually meet Sherma, a whimsical pilgrim who loves to belt out a good earworm. While Sherma doesn't seem very good at the instrument he wields—he basically whacks two nails together towards a discordant "melody"—he's got a lovely voice on him, especially with an excess of cavernous reverb applied.

Tee Lopes, a videogame composer who's worked on Sonic Mania and Shredder's Revenge, to name a few, has released a remix of Sherma's lil' jingle. It sounds a lot like that style of saccharine European dance pop that was big in the '90s and early 2000s: music that resembles Saturday morning cartoons, but which is actually precision-geared for dancing to while high. Very high.

Hollow Knight Silksong Sherma Remix - YouTube

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Lopes has also done one for Shakra, whose banger sounds like something the Vengaboys might have released at the height of their inexplicable popularity. In the words of YouTube commenter @Akif-Faisal: "This is what entertainment looks like".

(It may also look, depending on your temperament, like something akin to torture. Oh, the Mandelbrot complexity of human subjectivity!)

Hollow Knight Silksong Shakra's Theme Remix - YouTube

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For my money, if Pharloom had a kind of "Top 40" for insects and parasites, I think Shakra's jam would win out over Sherma's. Sherma's, while cute, has a low key darkness to it. It feels like something that could be used towards evil ends.

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Shaun Prescott is the Australian editor of PC Gamer. With over ten years experience covering the games industry, his work has appeared on GamesRadar+, TechRadar, The Guardian, PLAY Magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald, and more. Specific interests include indie games, obscure Metroidvanias, speedrunning, experimental games and FPSs. He thinks Lulu by Metallica and Lou Reed is an all-time classic that will receive its due critical reappraisal one day.

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