Starting with this Latula analysis: -The song GameGlr is a cry for help.
Okay, that might be a bit of an overstatement, but I do have some genuine (somewhat non-professional) notes on GameGlr.
For context, GameGlr is a remix of GameGrl (Original 1993 Mix), where the song Teal Seer is overlaid onto the original song. GameGlr is mixed by Toby (Radiation) Fox, whereas the original GameGrl is by Michael Guy Bowman. Both songs are counterparts to the songs G4M38L0RG and GameBro (Original 1990 Mix).
GameGrl (Original 1993 Mix) is an incredibly fun and not too serious song, though there is a lot of thought put into it. It is intentionally composed to be reminiscent of the somewhat cheesy raps you'd hear in 90's video game advertisements (Bowman actually cites these ones). The result is a song that is itself intentionally cringe-worthy, but genuinely fun and (in my opinion) kind of really catchy because of it.
The artist interview for GameGrl is actually really cool and interesting and you can read it here on the Homestuck Music Wiki, you can tell how much fun they had working on both the song and cover image!
GameGlr on the other hand lacks any notes (that I am aware of) regarding its creation, but you can glean quite a bit just from the song on its own.
Firstly, GameGlr sounds somewhat cluttered in comparison to the original. The added Teal Seer (a theme made for Terezi) is very well-put together, the points where it picks up feel very deliberate. It's composed to evoke the image of Terezi's usual mind player deliberation antics after all. However, the process of speeding it up to overlay it onto the GameGrl lyrics makes it feel a bit more strained. The tone of the 2 different songs does not match up at all and I want to believe this is intentional.
Add to that the increased distortion on some of the lyrics and the addition of the Phoenix Wright "OBJECTION" sample just barely disguised as a part of the instrumental and you wind up with a song that sounds noisy and, especially in the context of the character, like it's barely holding it together. I've seen more than one instance of people saying they had to mute the track in the Openbound because they found it annoying, or distracting while trying to read, which I do want to believe is... also intentional.
And if not intentional, at least pretty fitting.
While you can argue whether or not the song itself is good as a song, it is (in my opinion) a perfect character theme for Latula. The instrumental on its own is one of a competent Mind player, but you're distracted from it by the obnoxious, repetitive lyrics hammering in the same point repeatedly (she's a game girl). It's the theme of a competent Mind player who's been flanderizing her own identity for possibly thousands of years and developed an overbearing, repetitive persona.
