YMMV / Carmina Burana

• Adaptational Displacement: Carl Orff's score has completely overshadowed the original medieval music written for the poetry.
• First Installment Wins: "O Fortuna", the very first movement, is by far the most famous of the Carmina Burana's movements, being frequently sampled as epic music.
• Funny Moments: "Olim lacus colueram," in a very Dark Humor way, since it's sung from the perspective of a swan getting roasted over a spit, lamenting its fate and former glory. It's enough to make one a vegetarian.
• Mainstream Obscurity: Most lay people who heard of the Carmina Burana struggle to recall any part of it that isn't "O Fortuna". The second movement "Fortune plango vulnera" may also be recognized but even then it is prone to being misidentified as part of "O Fortuna" itself.
• Narm: People who discover the Carmina Burana through Final Fantasy VII may be humorously surprised to find out that "Veni Veni Venias" is not at all supposed to sound like its use as an ominous bridge chant as used in "One-Winged Angel". Rather, "Veni Veni Venias" has a bawdy tone, and the line "veni veni venias, ne me mori facias" is actually a guy gushing about how pretty a girl is!
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis: Final Fantasy VII players may have heard of the phrases "Estuans Interius" and "Veni Veni Venias" get name-dropped in "One-Winged Angel" without knowing that they are movements in their own right in the Carmina Burana.