i’ve seen this a lot recently, where people are saying that the soundtrack wasn’t good because they “weren’t humming any of the new themes when they came out of the cinema”. But are you really sure that you remembered the older themes just from viewing the movie once? Probably not.

Previous promotional material, prior to the films releases, featured themes from these movies. The music video for Duel of the Fates was played on TV all the time before TPM came out. Battle of the heroes was used before ROTS came out. We had the soundtrack albums out there before the films. How many of us had the OT albums before getting to see the films? And how many times did we play them? Yet, with TFA, the only music that would be featured in the film that was used for any pre release promotion was the jedi Steps and that was just for the International trailer. Oh, and guess what, this one seems to be the one that most people seem to remember when coming out of the film. The soundtrack didn’t come out until after the films release. So we had no pre-conditioning towards the music.