This guy’s a hack
I didn’t think it was that bad. What has he done?
He starts off the video with a random complaint that has nothing to do with the quality of the Rogue One music. Then he gets into his analysis that’s basically just the same stuff people have been talking about for months (but that he passes off as if they were his own seismic revelations).
I checked out another video to see what his deal is called “Why Your Nostalgic Reboot Musically Sucks.” Kinda provocative and an interesting idea but he starts the video talking about how writing sequel scores is inherently easier than writing wholly original scores and I’m kind of ready to go along. But then he brings up Star Wars, and I’m thinking he’s going to counterpoint his thesis by talking about how brilliant ESB’s score is, but instead he talks about TFA and says that it’s all old stuff except for Rey’s Theme, which just tells me he has no idea what he’s talking about, especially because he refers to a bit of trailer music that wasn’t even part of the score or written by Williams. Maybe if the film had just came out I’d give him a pass but this was about half a year later. The guy was just talking out of his ass.
So yeah, from the two samples it seems he doesn’t actually know anything, therefore, hack. Lots of Youtubers like that, unfortunately.