6) Winter Wrap Up
The main chorus, filled with repetition of the title, is an inevitable earworm. One moment, you’re watching the episode the song is in, and the next you’re humming “winter wrap up/winter wrap up” as you clean your room.
Winter Wrap Up is a classic MLP song that follows the poppy, upbeat feel of most songs in the series. The episode itself is quite iconic within the fanbase, and those positive connotations contribute to the song’s likability as a standalone piece as well.
Content-wise, the lyrics hit especially hard if you’re a high school senior. Twilight is all of us, dealing with the unpredictable nature of the future and trying to find a life’s purpose before college.
5) True True Friend
In our suffocating capitalist, kill all your friends to get to the top, culture, this song made for kids is such a refreshing reminder of what human connection should actually be built around (-told by ponies? Just don’t think too much about it).
Much like Winter Wrap Up, True True Friend has an amazing – and objectively more catchy – chorus filled with repetition. “A true true friend helps a friend in need/a friend will be there to help them see./A true true friend helps a friend in need/to see the light that shines from a true true friend” is both an optimistic take on and joyful interpretation of human connection.
While some people might max out human relationships for the purposes of getting ahead, seeing these fictional ponies find real companionship in each other and sing such seemingly simple songs is beautiful. It’s something we need to remind ourselves more and more of as we get older.
4) Tricks Up My Sleeve
The entire album from Rainbow Rocks should be nominated for a Grammy (minus the ones made from the Mane Six; definitely not serving main character vibes). This song seems to have fallen under everyone’s radar, so let’s wake that up.
Trixie is just constantly serving after she got over her whole evil villainry era, and this song is thus the perfect confidence bop for when you might be feeling less than you actually are. We’ve got banging lyrics such as “I’m a six-course meal, and you’re just burnt toast” that the likes of genius lyricists could never think of. Speaking of that lyric, the bridge it belongs to is also amazing instrumentally. Trixie truly is that girl, and this song is that song. It’d be first if the next three weren’t just that much more iconic.
3) Babs Seed
The cutie mark crusaders really did their big one, which is strange considering they’re foals dealing with incredibly childish drama while singing this. The instrumentals of this song are beyond satisfying, and the rhythm of it is much more driving than the usual pop beat from MLP. The true crime here is that the song is less than two minutes long.
Going to PV means you will meet at least one bad seed, so the story of the episode and song will probably hit surprisingly close to home. If you haven’t dealt with that, then you are probably that bad seed.
2) This Day Aria
Even non-MLP fans have probably heard this song if they’ve clocked in a certain number of hours online because it’s just that good.
Many kids’ animated shows have a tendency to give all their bangers to the villains, and MLP low-key has this tendency too. Yes, Queen Chrysalis is one of the few incarnations of pure evil within the MLP universe; it’s just that her vocals as Cadance make you forget how rotted her character is. This song can’t be talked about without mentioning the ridiculously beautiful delivery of “No, I do not love the groom/In my heart there is no room/But I still want him to be all mine.” It is just *chef’s kiss*.
1) Under Our Spell
All other musicians pray daily that the Dazzlings aren’t a real band because they would be coming for their bands.
Adagio and her two underlings have a perfect track record of songs within Rainbow Rocks. Their voices and songs are so good that certain crevices of the internet regularly go into uproar that they didn’t win and take over Equestria because the other ponies (pony human hybrids?) paled in comparison. The pure plot armor holding the Mane Six and their 67th “friendship is all-powerful” song rivals that of Reiner from Attack on Titan; it is just that absurd that they managed to break their spell.
Adagio absolutely ate in this song and proved why she is a SIREN. All her lyrics are so well thought out, given her background as a creature who literally lures people with their voice, that there isn’t one standout part. You just have to listen to the whole song, and then permanently add it to your liked songs playlist.
