The sung is one heck of an earworm, but now that The Witcher has been out for over a calendar month, it ’ sulfur clock time to take stock. Is “ Toss a Coin to Your Witcher ” actually a good birdcall ? Or is it a bad song that ’ s cruising on the power of one actually good refrain ?
To help get to the bottom of the interrogate, the Netflix Twitter report for Australia and New Zealand posted a train of thought on the creation of the song. Written by Sonya Belousova and Giona Ostinelli with lyrics by Jenny Klein, the sung went through numerous iterations, including a rap version. The final version settled somewhere between modern and medieval — good like Jaskier himself, played by Joey Batey, whose haircut and demeanor are more in line with a modern hippie despite his medieval invest .
Belousova and Ostinelli created half a twelve different versions of ‘ Toss A Coin ’, ranging in stylus from medieval to more modern renditions – including a rap.
In the end, they decided go with something a little more in keeping with @ LHissrich ’ s incredible vision for the series .— Netflix ANZ (@NetflixANZ) December 30, 2019
While that explains why “ Toss a Coin to Your Witcher ” sounds more akin to a modern popular or rock song than a historically accurate bard ’ sulfur ballad, that doesn ’ triiodothyronine account for the song ’ south lyrics, which are farcical. For your perusal, with annotations :
When a humiliate bard
Graced a ride along
With Geralt of Rivia
Along came this song
“ Ride along ” is contemporary gull ; it gets the point across as to Jaskier accompanying Geralt, but it ’ s decidedly not chivalric terminology .
From when the White Wolf fought
A eloquent devil
His army of elves
At his hooves did they revel
This verse just doesn ’ t have good mouthfeel in terms of rhythm. Just hear reading it out loud and you ’ ll see what I mean .
They came after me
With consummate deception
Broke down my lute
And they kicked in my teeth
While the monster ’ south horns
Minced our affectionate meat
And indeed cried the Witcher
He can ’ triiodothyronine be bleat
I ’ ll give “ mince ” to Jaskier as embellishment ( to mince means to cut or grind into small pieces, and no pieces of flesh fall off of either man in the read ) but I can ’ thyroxine bide by “ bleat. ” It ’ s a play on word in reference point to the goat-man the pair brush, but it ’ s not a substitution that makes sense. besides, calling yourself “ tender meat ” is questionable.
Toss a coin to your Witcher
O ’ Valley of Plenty
O ’ Valley of Plenty
O ’
Toss a mint to Your Witcher
O ’ Valley of Plenty
Inarguably bang-up .
At the edge of the world
Fight the mighty horde
That bashes and breaks you
And brings you to mourn
He thrust every extremely low frequency
Far back on the shelf
High up on the mountain
From whence it came
This is clearly a reference to the Christmas fiend the Elf on the Shelf, which might be funny for viewers, but doesn ’ t make any sense for the hearing that Jaskier would actually be playing this song for. It ’ s besides just absurd, though arguably the hale of The Witcher is, besides .
He wiped out your pest
Got kicked in his thorax
He ’ s a supporter of world
So give him the rest
The rest of what ? ? ?
That ’ sulfur my epic poem fib
Our ace prevailed
Defeated the villain
now pour him some ale
Let ’ s be real, this fib is not very epic. The Witcher season 1 could be called epic poem, but “ Geralt and Jaskier encounter some bandits ” can not .
The refrain repeats after that, which is in truth the song ’ second saving seemliness. Unlike another caparison, William Shakespeare, Jaskier ’ randomness words aren ’ triiodothyronine particularly evocative, nor do they fit within iambic pentameter or, for the most separate, any other sic meter .
The office contained in the refrain of “ toss a coin to your witcher, ” however, is undeniable.
To drive home plate what a banger ‘ Toss A Coin ’ is, the composers made Jaskier ’ s older songs extremely, well, not effective.
Keep an ear out for different versions of it throughout the serial, specially when Geralt and Jaskier hit up a public house for an ale. # WitcherNetflix is streaming now .— Netflix ANZ (@NetflixANZ) December 30, 2019
The Netflix thread besides notes that Jaskier ’ s other songs were made “ not good ” on purpose, and it ’ s a purposeful deviation in quality that proves the refrain ’ world power. No other songs have broken out of the show, while “ Toss a Coin to Your Witcher ” is ineluctable. “ It ’ s the most annoyance thing I ’ ve always hear, ” Batey said. “ Everyone ’ s been listening to it for a week or so nowadays, and humming it. I ’ ve had that in my head for eight months. ”
here ’ sulfur to another eight months of humming the song — or possibly even more, as we wait for The Witcher ’ s second season to deliver us another federal bureau of prisons .
