Rebecca Mayes Muses

Rebecca Mayes Muses is a young British gamer musician (a one-woman band, even!). Starting out on GamerPeople, she is one of the more recent shows/entertainers on the video game webzine The Escapist.

Her act consists of mostly writing a weekly song review of a game. At first, they were just songs but now she shoots a (mostly) live-action music video for the review with her friends, interlaced with clips from the game itself. She also will write songs exploring a theme in video games, like body image, villains you love to hate, retro gaming and her opinion (Take That/What the Hell, Hero?) on Yahtzee's (which is also on The Escapist) brand of humor.

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Rebecca Mayes Muses provides examples of the following tropes:

• Author Appeal: Handclaps and light/alternate forms of percussion which may double as a Leitmotif.
• Author Tract: A little bit, but particularly in "Bloodhound" (her musical flame of Yahtzee) and her song and about Heavy Rain, which has a paragraph-long blurb about her not shaving her armpits to prove a point about Anglo society's expectations on beauty.
• Ax Crazy: "Bloodhound" ends with her threatening Yahtzee with a screw driver, maybe...
• Cruel Player Character God: Rebecca portrays herself as one in her first Escapist review of The Sims 3, a song sung from the perspective of one of her creations. She even dresses in a toga, vamps, and casually eats muffins while he suffers. She subverts this later in a few other songs.
• Fan Service: Slightly in that she's pretty. Most of her costumes are much closer to …
• Impossibly Cool Clothes: Her costumes include:
  • A zombie (twice)
  • The Joker (Heath Ledger version), Batman, and the Riddler.
  • A sunflower from Plants vs. Zombies
  • A Greco-Roman goddess
  • Multiple kinds of aliens from Silent Hill Greys or someone from Mass Effect
  • Some sort of vague steampunk fighter pilot heroine
  • A classic villianess (like Maleficent)
  • Wolverine!
  • ((Spiderman))
  • A heavy metal overlady?
  • A cowgirl
  • A worm from Worms
  • A soldier
• Ear Worm
• Flame War: A snippy, passive-aggressive, perfectly British Twitter-feud sparked between her and Yahtzee for a brief skirmish. Their fans,(all registered on the Escapist,[[[More Dakka]] however]])
• No Export for You: Being a British gamer means a lot of the games she can get her hands on are delayed or never to be because of how releases are handled over there/local politics. Guess who else has the sameproblem)?
• Something Completely Different: "Bloodhound", which is done in the stills style of a Zero Punctuation review. It looks very close to the real deal, except Yahtzee's author avatar looks slightly smaller (which maybe intentional). She also makes a Yahztee version of herself.
• Squick: Probably a case of unintentional irony but in "Bloodhound", the giant cursive E in the "Escapist" logo is stenciled over the video. The bottom part curls and juts forward from Yahztee's midsection as she delivers a thisiswhyyousuck speech to him from a stage. It extends right through his hand and it looks like, well just go to 2:54.
• Take That: "Bloodhound", to Yahtzee and a general dislike of Gorn in video games.
• Tear Jerker: "Death and the Spaceship" (Mass Effect 2) and "Fight" (Modern Warfare 2)
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: "Bloodhound" to Yahztee and the more childish/misogynist/hetero-normative aspects of gamer culture. Also, lol penis.
• Video Game Cruelty Potential and Video Game Caring Potential: Rebecca sings about Batman: Arkham Asylum and how the player cannot kill anybody. Which makes sense for Batman.
  • Her Resident Evil 5 song is called "Don't Shoot Them" [zombies] and contains lyrics like "its not their fault/don't kill them/try to hug them/and hold them instead."