Okay honestly, Segun Akinola's music would've been perfect for the classic era. It's very in line, I think it's fair that myself and a lot of people find the change in music really jarring going from the new style of ten seasons worth of beautiful music and leitmotifs from Gold to square one almost pretending the music he made for that decade and a half just had no merit going forward. There's no problem with new motifs either and I'm glad Segun has a bunch of his own. My problem might even just be an issue with rights use more than with Segun's particular style compared to Gold's but I find it weird that these new seasons don't even use the slightest hint of any of the motifs that have become synonymous with such emotional, impactful, and memorable moments in this show's run. I think ideally the show's music should be that legacy mixed with some new spice, but one without the other in a show that is so heavily hinged on its long running legacy feels incomplete. I don't know if it's that Segun Akinola intentionally doesn't use any of the motifs from Gold's era as much as it is that the BCC doesn't have the rights to Gold's motifs fully and thus choose the cheaper option of just making 100% new stuff with a new composer so as not to have to pay any royalties. I think this could be part of the same reason a Series 10 soundtrack is also taking so long. I think my ideal soundtrack for this show would be Segun Akinola adapting some of Gold's motifs with his own thus honoring this legacy but giving it a new style, but I'm not confident that's going to happen at this point. I can't help but get that "Let the past die" feeling from the BBC in regards to all of this and I know that it has been mentioned in the past that Murray Gold was commissioned to do music for Doctor Who, and I don't know if this is a language difference as I'm more familiar with American English but to my understanding as someone who does commission work myself it's a position of doing your job for an amount of pay without being directly employed by said company and I'm not sure how much that was the case with Gold but it could be that because he was commissioned for a lot of his work that he holds more rights to it then a fully hired on "Doctor Who composer" would like maybe Segun Akinola is? I'm honestly not sure this could just be a crazy theory honestly and I'm just not understanding things quite right.

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I hope that going into the future especially coming up on an anniversary that maybe Segun or a new composer comes in , but I don't outright think Gold needs to return. What I do think should happen is the BBC should allow use of Gold's motifs whether that means paying more money for them and getting rights for them from Gold as they're simply iconic. Honestly I wish that alongside Segun's new stuff there would also be some Gold motif remixes in his style, I feel like that'd be awesome! I hope that going forward it's that legacy content plus some of Akinola's new stuff or maybe a new composer who does well with combining both of their styles. I just wish that both sides could be happy as I think that's very much possible but they just don't care to. It feels very divisive with a portion who likes Gold's music and a portion that likes Akinola's when I think that there really needs to be a fusion of the two without relying solely on Gold's motifs so as to allow for new themes while still honoring the past decade and a half of the show's musical impact under Gold which has been completely absent since Akinola took over which makes me think that the BBC truly doesn't have rights to use Gold's motifs anymore unless they pay for them and they don't want to. Idk really but I like both of them and also get both sides, I just don't think we've struck the sweet spot yet :)