The theme song for Stage Witch Season 303 was called Destroy Old Rules.
The composer, lyricist, and everyone responsible for the subsequent arrangement and choreography were all one person: Dinesha, a musical prodigy.
It began with an elegant violin piece that led into a somewhat Gothic melody.
Then came the dark punk of a more sinister style, with percussion, pipe organ, and strings.
Dinesha had boldly discarded both the double bass and viola, making the string section entirely of violins and cellos.
For the brass, she used the tenor horn in the arrangement.
At the same time, Dinesha had also been extraordinarily, incredibly bold in using the newest electronic keyboard.
This theme song had actually been built according to symphonic music, yet it felt more like rock and punk. It was not the hysterical screaming and roaring sort, but a howl elegant to the bone—sinister and overflowing with rebellion.
It might not have been entirely new, but it was absolutely a musical form that cast off the old and brought forth the new.
The impression witches' music usually gave people was one of ease, lightness, pastoral charm, and an inherited woodland countryside air. That had to do with their nature.
Gothic music had once been immensely beloved by witches after vampire legends spread, but the birth of Gothic heavy metal later made witches reject the genre. In the end, after decades of change, the ghost witches of Dinesha's lineage began pursuing a Gothic Botticelli style, allowing this musical form to be accepted by witches once again.
On tiptoe, skirts lifted in hand, they spun gracefully and leaped with the music.
...Jiang Han could feel her stamina draining away. Thankfully, witches could replenish their strength with magic; otherwise, she doubted she could have endured this ten-minute dance segment.
—That was right: