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    ‘Terrible music and absurdity’: introducing Trombone Champ, the internet’s new favourite video game

    Sep 23, 2022 2 minutes

    On Wednesday morning, I saw a tweet from games magazine PC Gamer that made me leak from the eyes with laughter. It contained a video, in which a wide-eyed, pained-looking cartoon trombonist struggled to hit the notes of Beethoven’s Fifth while the composer himself stared sombrely out of the screen in evident disapproval. It is a golden comedic combination of terrible music, fart noises, earnestness and absurdity., and it has since gone wildly viral.

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