Season 4 Episode 2
Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume C
Ripped by Jamangar
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Whaaat? More Undertale?? Say it ain't so!!
Look, I lamented it a bit over on Logan Paul's Shop, and its something you can even see for yourself by viewing the Undertale tag on the blog archive. In terms of games to have been featured on the blog one way or another, Undertale/Deltarune are leagues ahead of the competition. And I am torn on this, still. Like on the one hand, I want the blog to cast a wide net of rips, to not just cover my personal favorites, but to cover as much of SiIvaGunner's history and growth. But on the other hand...Undertale IS a huge part of that history and growth, it has been since the very beginning, and as I discussed in Your Best Nightmario and Shiny Smily TALE the game's very DNA and themes is just a perfect fit for everything that SiIvaGunner stands for. Well, there's that - and there's how rippers like Jamangar just keep absolutely outdoing themselves with how much leverage they can get from this 9-year old game's soundscape. Its rips like Locked In The Underground that remind me of WHY Undertale rips are so prevalent on here.
If you've been reading for a while or just kept up with SiIvaGunner in general to the degree I have (or are from the team!! hi team!!), you may well recognize Jamangar's name. Much like ShonicTH with Trial of the Heart and many others on the channel, Jamangar has carved out her own very specific niche in terms of what she contributes with. That niche is the same one you'll hear in World Out There and Story of Undertale: There are few SiIvaGunner contributors who have as much expertise in ripping Undertale as Jamangar. Yet all of these three rips feel quite different from one another - Story of Undertale is a magnificent journey throughout just about the entire Undertale campaign with instruments changing along the way, wheras World Out There was an incredibly resonant mashup/melodyswap, a full-on shot of nostalgia on all the senses. Indeed, Locked In The Underground follows their footsteps in quality, yet is excellent in a subtly different way - its just a flat-out banger.
I don't know what it is about Bruno Mars' music that makes it work so incredibly well in mashups. Perhaps I have BotanicSage to thank, with Pokemon GSC Is What I Like and 16BIT Magic both permanently etched into my soul ever since I first heard them - but Locked In The Underground takes on the very same challenge, and in my eyes passes with absolutely flying colors. I mean, it only takes a few seconds for the rip to sell you - as soon as you hear Mars' "oh-yeah-yeahs" followed by Undertale SFX playing to the beat, you KNOW Jamangar's made far more than a mere mashup here. It helps, of course, that CORE is already one of the most stand-out songs in the game, much like Colress' battle theme was to Pokémon Black & White's soundtrack in Light! (Potentialseeker Colress) - its hard NOT to get excited seeing a CORE rip knowing just how distinct of a sound any take on the track will have, due to the pure quality of the track underneath.
So much is done to have Locked In The Underground truly fit together. The melodyswap is fantastic on its own, having CORE's lead instrument play in tune with Mars' vocals yet rising high in volume to the song's chorus, and CORE's synthetic backing paired with the drums of Locked Out Of Heaven create such a unique soundscape to boot. But beyond that, there are tons of little flourishes - small segments where CORE's original melody peeks through in the backing, Undertale sound effects sprinkled in to censor expletives or punctuate key moments of the song...like Semi-Charmed All Star, you get the impression that Jamangar GETS both of the songs used, that she's "studied" how Locked Out Of Heaven works in order to have the mashup work so perfectly.
Really - Locked In The Underground is the kind of rip that just feels like a shoe-in for the blog, as one of the most popular rips made during 2020. Funny enough, beyond the obvious combination of Locked Out Of Heaven and Undertale, you could even read the rip's title itself to be referencing the feeling all of us had during the pandemic - sort of reframing its pleas and shouts, in a way. But then Locked In The Underground also isn't the kind of rip where I'm desperate to know more about its possible lore and inner workings: I know Bruno Mars, I know Undertale, I know Jamangar, and she made one of the season's cleanest bangers by doing what she does best. That's awesome.
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Patidar quota stir: Court acquits all 14 accused of setting fire to cop’s bike
Patidar quota stir: Court acquits all 14 accused of setting fire to cop’s bike
A magisterial court in Jamnagar has acquitted 14 persons in a case of unlawful assembly and burning down of a police constable’s motorbike during the Patidar quota agitation in 2015 for lack of evidence.
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Season 5
Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume D
Ripped by Jamangar
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Something I've expressed a lot of fondness for over the course of this blog is when rips..."escalate", so to speak. A lot of fantastic SiIva rips are simple in a way that's quite easily conveyed, and usually do what they want to achieve within just one loop. The meme medleys and fusion collabs are of course the obvious examples of rips that go against this: Changing styles althroughout their runtime to reflect a plethora of different jokes and different collaborators' styles of arranging. Yet sometimes, gold can be found in the most unexpected places.
Like often is on SiIva, the source of today's rip is coated in irony - an infamous Undertale parody called "UNDERTALE THE MUSICAL". Rather than being an actual "musical", the original video is a crudely animated parody of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance, depicting a genocide run of the game to the tune of middling autotuned vocals. Being a gaming music video on Undertale, its made its way smoonthly into algorithms of gaming Youtube everywhere, ticking all of the boxes in a way similar to how the Minecraft Parody "Revenge" did way back when. Whilst Revenge lives happily ín our minds as a well produced encapsulation of the time it was uploaded in, UNDERTALE THE MUSICAL serves as a reminder of what kids' gaming youtube really looks like.
With that in mind, Story of Undertale - named after the first line said in the original parody - had everything needed for its success story lined up ahead. Its source, an audio that had spread online like wildfire and infesting Undertale fans the world over with or without their consent. Its ripper, Jamangar, is an absolutely legendary ripper for Undertale rips in particular, with a track record including the fan favorite, 600K-views-on-YouTube, End Point. All that was left then was the rip itself, and Jamangar went absolutely above and beyond.
Due to the channel's standard expectation of most rips not having visuals, rips such as Story of Undertale come with an interesting challenge to overcome: How do you convey the escalation present in the source's animation, without actually featuring any visuals? As UNDERTALE THE MUSICAL depicts a runthrough of the entire game, so too does Story of Undertale. Only here, its entirely by audio. Undertale's distinct themes are used as baselines for every different segment of the rip - The opening plays Once Upon a Time, followed by the first verse using Enemy Approaching and Fallen Down to reflect the beginning of the game, followed therafter by Nyeh Heh Heh and Snowdin Town to reflect the player exiting the ruins and meeting Papyrus and Sans for the first time. Its a perfect play-by-play speeding through the game's key audio moments in seconds, punctuated by the use of the Start Menu theme just after the moments I just described - the moment in which the player in UNDERTALE THE MUSICAL chooses to go down a genocide path.
The entire rips continues this way, excellently rearranging Bad Romance in every imaginable part of Undertale's soundscape in rough chronological order of their appearance. Through both the original Bad Romance's escalation and this everchanging evolution in sound, the joke never gets old: It refreshes itself faster than you can process, and keeps being an absolute bop throughout. Despite most people viewing UNDERTALE THE MUSICAL with distain, Jamangar was able to perfectly wield that attachment into an absolute masterpiece.
The music that plays when Frisk falls into the dump for the first time, and they have a flashback(?)... I can make out two leitmotifs, "Reunited" being one of them. Is the other Lilac's?
Oh, that’s an interesting take!
I don’t thiiink that was what Jamangar intended, but I actually hadn’t thought of that. :o