Snowball Park - Super Mario 3D World

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"Snowball Park - Super Mario 3D World" (typically /ˈsnoʊbɔːl ˈpɑːrk - ˈsuːpər ˈmɑːrioʊ θri: ˈdi: ˈwɝːld/) is a high quality video game rip uploaded to the SiIvaGunner YouTube channel on Thursday, March 28th, 2019 CE, at 09:00:01 AM PST of the track "Snowball Park", originally titled in Japanese as "スノーボールパーク", which was originally arranged by Japanese composers Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Yasuaki Iwata, and Koji Kondo for the World 3 level of the same name in the video game , and is itself an arrangement of the music track "Snow Mountain" from Super Mario 3D World's predecessor, , originally composed by Asuka Hayazaki.
==Jokes==
The rip begins as the regular unedited track until 0:03, when it becomes an unsynced mashup involving the advertised track (which is not itself altered) and the memetic"Wanna Sprite Cranberry?" on Know Your Meme. Tuesday, December 19th, 2017. "Thirstiest Time of the Year | Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry" commercial for the colorless, lemon and lime-flavored soft drink Sprite featuring a song sung by American rapper and singer Shelley Marshaun Massenburg-Smith, who is known professionally as Shelley FKA DRAM"That's DRAM with the #refreshing vocals! #WannaSprite", Tweet by @Sprite. Friday, December 1st, 2017. (with a single line from the American professional basketball player LeBron Raymone James Sr., though he is prominently featured in the commercial's video), which is itself a parody of the 1963 Christmas classic "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" by Edward Pola, George Wyle, and Andy Williams. Throughout the rip, snippets of the first three lines of "Thirstiest Time of the Year | Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry" are repeated over the advertised track arbitrarily and irrespective of any melody, rhythm, or consecutiveness, resulting in an off-beat and partially off-key mashup that mostly does not account for the 2 tracks' different tempo, keys, or time signatures.
The first edit, at 0:03, plays the majority of the first two lines of the verse in "Thirstiest Time of the Year | Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry", however it is left in D major, creating a dissonance with "Snowball Park", which is in C major. The third line (an interjection from LeBron James) is replaced with a repetition of the end of the first line, creating the following illogical lyrics:It's the thirst, thirstiest time, of the yearI have just one query of the yearThis is then followed by various much smaller pitch-shifted clips (as opposed to the extended, mashup-esque clip that began the rip), though these clips, much like the ones heard previously, have seemingly little connection to "Snowball Park" in their timing and pitch. All but one of them are taken from LeBron James' line, "Wanna Sprite Cranberry?", that being the most (in)famous and meme-spawning part of "Thirstiest Time of the Year | Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry" despite its absence from the rip up to this point. The permutations are as follows:
* two insertions of the clip of LeBron James' line, the first one being lowered from the original pitch by two semitones, followed by the second one being increased from the original pitch by two semitones, making it four semitones higher than the first one;
* another repetition of DRAM's "of the year" that is left in D major despite being played during an E major chord in "Snowball Park", and that's at a higher volume than the previous repetition of "of the year";
* another two insertions of LeBron James' line that are increased by ten semitones;
* and finally, three more insertions of the same clip in the same ten semitones increased pitch, but with the word "Wanna" cropped out poorly, resulting in LeBron James saying "Prite Cranberry?".
After this, the illogical verse edit that opened this sequence is repeated once more, acting as the end of the sequence; the repetition correctly transposes "Thirstiest Time of the Year | Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry" to C major, although using the same ten semitone increased pitch, as opposed to being transposed down two semitones like one may expect, making the lyrics sound very distorted and particularly leading to some squeaky sounding "hey"s. The distortion also heavily affects the instrumental of "Thirstiest Time of the Year | Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry" by increasing the pitch of the bass to create an abrasive sound not normally heard in any electronic music. The initial sequence lasts until 0:48, which is around the point at which the advertised track begins looping, and after this point the same lyrical sequence is repeated twice, the first time from 0:53 to 1:29 and the second time from 1:43 to 2:27, though in these repetitions the initial use of the illogical verse edit is again transposed ten semitones up to C major. Finally, at 2:29, the rip's audio abruptly becomes very quiet to the point of inaudibility unless one raises their volume, leaving the viewer to contemplate their decision to listen to the entirety of the rip. This lasts until the end of the rip at 2:34. The abrupt volume shift may be a reference to how rips of video game tracks that loop usually fade-out around the start of the first or second loop. Due to "Snowball Park" being in the category of tracks that loop, this may have been an attempt to do the same. However, the abrupt cut to a lower volume as opposed to a gradual fade-out fails to give the same effect. This ties into the lack of effort present in the mashup itself, furthering the impression that the rip is unable to do anything normally.
thumb|220x220px|right|The rip's background image.
Also, the image in the rip itself is the one which was previously used for every rip of Super Mario 3D World up until August 2016"A Boss Approaches - Super Mario 3D World", published on Monday, August 1st, 2016 (the first day of August in the year 2016), is the earliest Super Mario 3D World rip that features the correct image in both its thumbnail and video. (and was most likely taken from the now-defunct video game soundtrack channel BrawlBRSTMs3 X"Snowball Park - Super Mario 3D World Music Extended", BrawlBRSTMs3 X's upload of the unedited advertised track, which features the image used in the video, archived via the Wayback Machine on Thursday, June 4th, 2015 (the fourth day of June in the year 2015).), shows the Super Mario 3D World logo over a white background. This does not match the image used in the video's thumbnail, which shows the logo slightly smaller and in front of the background from a promotional webpage for the album Super Mario 3D World Original Soundtrack (which, as the name suggests, contains the Super Mario 3D World soundtrack) with the positions of the Boo, the Parabones, and Kamek shifted so as to not be covered up by the game logoスーパーマリオ ３Ｄワールド：スーパーマリオ 3Dワールド オリジナル サウンドトラック, the webpage where the graphic originated, archived via the Wayback Machine on Saturday, November 7th, 2013 (the seventh day of November in the year 2013)., this thumbnail was taken from the actual GilvaSunner channel"Snowball Park - Super Mario 3D World", GilvaSunner's upload of the unedited advertised track, which features the image used as the thumbnail, uploaded on Sunday, January 26th, 2014 (the twenty-sixth day of January in the year 2014) and archived via the Wayback Machine on February 13th, 2021 (the 13th day of February in the year 2021) as per the SiIvaGunner channel's usual goal of matching GilvaSunner's metadata exactly whenever applicable (aside from the "Please read the channel description." line placed at the bottom of the SiIvaGunner channel's video descriptions). However, it is not clear whether this thumbnail inconsistency was an intentional part of the rip's joke (as either the inconsistency itself or the simpler nature of the white background could tie in with the low-effort edits done in the rip's audio) or an actual oversight from the backroom member who uploaded and scheduled the video.
==Lyrics==
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English=
[DRAM]
It's the thirst, thirstiest time, of the year (Ayy)
I have just one query (What's that?) of the year (Ayy, yeah)
[LeBron James]
Wanna Sprite Cranberry?
Wanna Sprite Cranberry?
[DRAM]
Of the year (Ayy)
[LeBron James]
Wanna Sprite Cranberry?
Wanna Sprite Cranberry?
Prite Cranberry?
Prite Cranberry?
Prite Cranberry?
[DRAM]
It's the thirst, thirstiest time, of the year (Ayy)
I have just one query (What's that?) of the year (Ayy, yeah)
It's the thirst, thirstiest time, of the year (Ayy)
I have just one query (What's that?) of the year (Ayy, yeah)
[LeBron James]
Wanna Sprite Cranberry?
Wanna Sprite Cranberry?
[DRAM]
Of the year (Ayy)
[LeBron James]
Wanna Sprite Cranberry?
Wanna Sprite Cranberry?
Prite Cranberry?
Prite Cranberry?
Prite Cranberry?
[DRAM]
It's the thirst, thirstiest time, of the year (Ayy)
I have just one query (What's that?) of the year (Ayy, yeah)
It's the thirst, thirstiest time, of the year (Ayy)
I have just one query (What's that?) of the year (Ayy, yeah)
[LeBron James]
Wanna Sprite Cranberry?
Wanna Sprite Cranberry?
[DRAM]
Of the year (Ayy)
[LeBron James]
Wanna Sprite Cranberry?
Wanna Sprite Cranberry?
Prite Cranberry?
Prite Cranberry?
Prite Cranberry?
[DRAM]
It's the thirst, thirstiest time, of the year (Ayy)
I have just one query (What's that?) of the year (Ayy, yeah)
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Brazilian Portuguese=
[DRAM]
É a sede, época com mais sede, do ano (Ei)
Tenho apenas uma questão (O que é?) do ano (Ei, é)
[LeBron James]
Quer uma Sprite Cranberry?
Quer uma Sprite Cranberry?
[DRAM]
Do ano (Ei)
[LeBron James]
Quer uma Sprite Cranberry?
Quer uma Sprite Cranberry?
Prite Cranberry?
Prite Cranberry?
Prite Cranberry?
[DRAM]
É a sede, época com mais sede, do ano (Ei)
Tenho apenas uma questão (O que é?) do ano (Ei, é)
É a sede, época com mais sede, do ano (Ei)
Tenho apenas uma questão (O que é?) do ano (Ei, é)
[LeBron James]
Quer uma Sprite Cranberry?
Quer uma Sprite Cranberry?
[DRAM]
Do ano (Ei)
[LeBron James]
Quer uma Sprite Cranberry?
Quer uma Sprite Cranberry?
Prite Cranberry?
Prite Cranberry?
Prite Cranberry?
[DRAM]
É a sede, época com mais sede, do ano (Ei)
Tenho apenas uma questão (O que é?) do ano (Ei, é)
É a sede, época com mais sede, do ano (Ei)
Tenho apenas uma questão (O que é?) do ano (Ei, é)
[LeBron James]
Quer uma Sprite Cranberry?
Quer uma Sprite Cranberry?
[DRAM]
Do ano (Ei)
[LeBron James]
Quer uma Sprite Cranberry?
Quer uma Sprite Cranberry?
Prite Cranberry?
Prite Cranberry?
Prite Cranberry?
[DRAM]
É a sede, época com mais sede, do ano (Ei)
Tenho apenas uma questão (O que é?) do ano (Ei, é)