Video essays don't usually seem like fanworks to me, they're too professionalized, but given how little formal meta seems to be written in fandom circles these days, I'm going to point to this because it's definitely interesting and there's usually little writing done about musical scores: Why the Music in The Rise of Skywalker Felt Misleading by Sideways https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_8-dWSLDWI
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