#raft : Ellie53

[7grandmel]

Todays Raft: 11:36 - 01/04/2024

TiK ToK, on the clock, but the Raft Ride don't stop, no

Season 7 Ridden on: The Year of Grand Dad Sound Selection [Side B]

Raft by Ellie53

This is one of the first Raft Rides I remember being actually really impressed by and I can't really put my finger on why...I mean, like, the pitch shifted vocals are the biggest sell of course, they're genuinely still really funny just like the prior vocal rips of pop music, but the instrumental manages to fit both Raft Ride and the original song shockingly well at the same time. The rip feels like putting a square peg in a round hole yet making it work absolutely flawlessly into a really fun listen. Banger.

[7grandmel]

Todays Raft: 02:54 - 01/04/2024

A-RISING Rapids

Season 7 Not Ridden by Link (Read More) Raft Ride (JP Version) - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

Raft by Ellie53

HI ELLIE53 i love getting to hear more idol music and this does a pretty funny thing of having the vocals be completely unedited but the instruments from the song itself be pitch-shifted and it sounds surprisingly natural? kinda crazy how well it works actually but, I dunno I'm not a love liver (yet)

[7grandmel]

Todays Raft: 09:52 PM - 01/04/2024

Raft Time, Anytime!

Season 8 Not Ridden by Link (Read More) Raft Ride (CENSOR Prototype) - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

Raft by Ellie53

Another Ellie raft ride! And yet again its of a source I don't really know anything of. But I did go and actually listen to the original, because the melody of this rip in particular just really grabbed me for some reason - and yeah, Party Time, Anytime! is just a fun time! I love the sound effects added to the rip in particular, helping in capturing that same high-energy fun feel as the track its arranging. And that they're all from Link's Awakening itself, too! Really great official start to the season's Raft Riding.

[7grandmel]

Todays Raft: 05:28 PM - 01/04/2024

Raft Ride at Freddy's

Season 7 Ridden on: The Year of Grand Dad Sound Selection [Side B]

Raft by Ellie53

I'm flabbergasted how much Ellie's popped off with the Raft Rides in particular honestly!! I love the idea of this alone, LivingTombstone's FNAF music is always funny to hear in rips, and the robotic voice used in the first one already lends itself perfectly to stupid pitch shifting like Raft Ride. I like the use of Freddy's laugh in the interlude and the jumpscare sound as the melody ends - there's a surprising amount of detail packed into this 30 second ditty but it all adds up to a really fun listen all the same.

[7grandmel]

Todays Raft: 03:28 - 01/04/2024

Windfish Project ~ Bad Raft!!

Season 7 Not Ridden by Link (Read More) Raft Ride (Japanese Release) - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

Raft by Ellie53

This was inevitable. Like, it feels like a constant with so many memes, of COURSE it would reach Bad Apple eventually. But damn it does bang. Like, this doesn't feel at all like a shitpost or like it was low-effort, it just genuinely works super well with the raft ride instrumentation, and the uneasy, chaotic backing only really adds to Bad Apple's atmosphere. Amazing job here Ellie!!

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 08/04/2024

Shiny Smily TALE

Season 8 No Album Release (Read More) Shiny Smily Story (OST Version) - HoloCure

Ripped by Ellie53

Well, would you believe it - its the eighth Season 8 rip being covered, on the eighth of April (half of eight)! And what better way to celebrate this than to cover completely uncharted territory for the blog - an UNDERTALE rip!!

I kid, I kid - though Undertale is definitely quite prominently featured on here, I feel as if it is rightfully earned. It and its psuedo-sequel in Deltarune feel almost like the frontmen of the SiIvaGunner channel in some way, as Season 1 began mere months after Undertale and its music began making waves online in late 2015. Such a hot topic was impossible to ignore, yet SiIvaGunner and Undertale have a fair bit in common that made the game's continued presence on SiIvaGunner feel very natural. There's the lore theming of course, I covered that briefly in Your Best Nightmario, but it also extends to the very core of what Undertale is: A game shamelessly rooted in silliness and absurd, internet-age comedy, yet still able to evoke such real attachments and emotions. The fit was all too perfect, and so the Undertale rips have continued year after year - Hoopache, Outertale, Determination is Magic, BUSTER HAND, and on and on and on. It may seem difficult to imagine that these all manage to stay fresh for so long, but they all find a way - and Shiny Smily TALE, eight years into the channel's life, shows that they're here to stay.

Immediately upon first hearing Shiny Smily TALE, I was reminded of one of the most recent UT/DR rips to have been covered on here, in kris gaming. Its reference was completely lost to me, being an arrangement in the style of stock music popularly used within VTuber circles, of which I'm terminally unfamiliar with - but the sheer vibe, the coziness, comfort of it all just made it such a wonderful listen. I don't mean to say that the VTuber world is one I oppose, moreso that its a part of the internet that still feels so nigh impenetrable to me - althesame, I love admiring it from a distance, just seeing how much passion and endearment is formed within these creators' communities.

And I immediately felt many of those feelings when hearing Shiny Smily TALE for the first time!! Shiny Smily Story has such a wonderful sound to it already, a vibe at once danceable and comforting - "Future Bass", I believe its typically called? - which turns the once-dramatic feel of SAVE The World into something far more pure-hearted in its arrangement here. Its as if all of those emotions still present from SAVE The World are spun into something far sweeter, spun like a legend of something exciting ahead, but with happiness and joy at the forefront. Without too much experience in listening to the original Shiny Smily Story, its hard to assess "accurately" how impressive of an effort this is, but what I DO know is of Ellie53's prowess in ripping - I was practically forced to during the great Raftmageddon incident of April 1st 2024. But even these jokier rafts rides, ones like Raft Ride at Freddy's and TiK ToK, on the clock, but the Raft Ride don't stop, no, show how good she is at merging two songs to such seamless (if, here, comedic) effect. Indeed, I can pick up on a lot of subtler touches done here to make the arrangement work, Shiny Smily TALE utilizes the various ebb-and-flowing sections of intensity and noise within the Shiny Smily Story theme, to punctuate the progression of SAVE The World where it best fits. For instance using a calmer section for the Hopes and Dreams leitmotif, only for it to build in excitement as it progresses, like the very song itself is pulling itself out of isolation and loneliness...allllmost commenting on Asriel's own struggles in Undertale?

Okay, okay, I won't quite go there - but the theme of community and love is one I do want to wrap things up with, adding one last little anecdote. Because it extends beyond the confines of just this rip, extending as far back as 2020, with Sarvéproductions' SAVE the Virtual World. Yes - the inverse joke of Shiny Smily TALE, Shiny Smily Story and SAVE The World, was made four years ago by another long-time excellent ripper: Sarvéproductions, the one behind Bloody Freddy and many more on the channel, across his many years of contributing. It's an equally lovely rip in its own way (likely more, for those attached to HoloLive!), but its the sentiment that Shiny Smily TALE shows that really makes it land for me - that Ellie53 wanted to pay tribute to HoloLive, and at once was able to make it as much of a tribute to a fellow long-time channel contributor, to a partner-in-crime on the channel! It's not a new thing to occur on the channel of course, rips like old town ribbon race and Green Panty Zone (Sequenced Ver​.​) were made in tribute to specific rips or specific rippers respesctively, but I love how interpersonal this exchange between Ellie53 and Sarvéproductions feels in particular, how well it all fits with the feel of HoloLive and VTuber communities in general - and of course, I love how genuinely fantastic Shiny Smily TALE sounds on top of it all.