Snowball Park - Super Mario 3D World

"Snowball Park - Super Mario 3D World" is a high quality video game rip uploaded to the SiIvaGunner YouTube channel (and made by the eponymous character in-universe) by an unknown contributor of the track "Snowball Park" as arranged by Japanese composers Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Yasuaki Iwata, and Koji Kondo for the World 3 level of the same name, which is almost known under the name of "World 3-1", in the video game , that was initially released on November 21st, 2013 in the country of Japan.

Jokes
The rip begins normally as an unaltered version of the regular track. This remains that way up until the timestamp of 0:03 (which is three seconds into the rip), it becomes an unsynced mashup involving the advertised track (which continues to play without any alterations done with it) and the memetic "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 (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 two tracks' different tempo, keys, or time signatures. The first edit, at 0:03 (three seconds), 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 year I have just one query of the year"This 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 absense from the rip up to this point. The permutations are as follows:


 * two insertions of the clip of LeBron James' line, the second one being higher-pitched than the first;
 * 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";
 * another two insertions of LeBron James' line in a higher pitch;
 * and finally, three more insertions of the same clip in an even higher 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. However, instead of being transposed down two semitones like one may expect, it is transposed up ten semitones, 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 (forty-eight seconds), 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 (fifty-three seconds) to 1:29 (one minute and twenty-nine seconds) and the second time from 1:43 (one minute and forty-three seconds) to 2:27 (two minutes and twenty-seven seconds), 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 (two minutes and twenty-nine seconds), 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 (two minutes and thirty-four seconds). Also, the thumbnail is the one which was previously used for every rip of the game up until August 2016 (and was most likely taken from the now-defunct video game soundtrack channel BrawlBRSTMs3 X ), 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, this thumbnail was taken from the actual GilvaSunner channel 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
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) Brazillian 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) <!--??? (translated into English)= [???] snowball park from mario wii u world yipee Hebrew= [DRAM] (אי) זאת התקופה הצמאה ביותר בשנה יש לי רק שאלה אחת (מה זאת?) ביותר בשנה (אי, יש)

[LeBron James] ?רוצה ספרייט חמוציות ?רוצה ספרייט חמוציות

[DRAM] (אי) ביותר בשנה

[LeBron James] ?רוצה ספרייט חמוציות ?רוצה ספרייט חמוציות

?פרייט חמוציות ?פרייט חמוציות ?פרייט חמוציות

[DRAM] (אי) זאת התקופה הצמאה ביותר בשנה יש לי רק שאלה אחת (מה זאת?) ביותר בשנה (אי, יש)

(אי) זאת התקופה הצמאה ביותר בשנה יש לי רק שאלה אחת (מה זאת?) ביותר בשנה (אי, יש)

[LeBron James] ?רוצה ספרייט חמוציות ?רוצה ספרייט חמוציות

[DRAM] (אי) ביותר בשנה

[LeBron James] ?רוצה ספרייט חמוציות ?רוצה ספרייט חמוציות

?פרייט חמוציות ?פרייט חמוציות ?פרייט חמוציות

[DRAM] (אי) זאת התקופה הצמאה ביותר בשנה יש לי רק שאלה אחת (מה זאת?) ביותר בשנה (אי, יש)

(אי) זאת התקופה הצמאה ביותר בשנה יש לי רק שאלה אחת (מה זאת?) ביותר בשנה (אי, יש)

[LeBron James] ?רוצה ספרייט חמוציות ?רוצה ספרייט חמוציות

[DRAM] (אי) ביותר בשנה

[LeBron James] ?רוצה ספרייט חמוציות ?רוצה ספרייט חמוציות

?פרייט חמוציות ?פרייט חמוציות ?פרייט חמוציות

[DRAM] (אי) זאת התקופה הצמאה ביותר בשנה יש לי רק שאלה אחת (מה זאת?) ביותר בשנה (אי, יש)

Upload
This rip was initially published to the SiIvaGunner YouTube channel as part of its fourth season on the twenty-eighth day of March 2019 at 9:00:01 AM PST (nine hours and one second before midday, Pacific Standard Time), after being submitted to the SiIvaGunner team by a fan at some point prior.

Description
When the rip was initially made public, the video description listed Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Yasuaki Iwata, and Koji Kondo as the composer(s) of the track, in the line "Composer(s): Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Yasuaki Iwata, Koji Kondo". This was inaccurate to the description of the equivalent upload on the actual GilvaSunner channel, which lists Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Yasuaki Iwata, and Koji Kondo as the track's arrangers, in the line "Arrangement: Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Yasuaki Iwata, Koji Kondo", since the track "Snowball Park" is an arrangement of "Snow Land" from Super Mario 3D World 's predecessor, . The discrepancy was eventually corrected by modifying the video's description to change the offending line to "Arrangement: Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Yasuaki Iwata, Koji Kondo", matching that of GilvaSunner's upload. This description change most likely occurred during the month of August 2020 (having been first noticed on August 22nd, 2020 at 6:21:01 AM (six hours, twenty-one minutes, and one second before midday)).

Privatization
During the first three days of April 2021, this rip's visiblity status was set to "private", meaning that it was unavailable to view from its original YouTube URL, except if viewed whilst signed in to the SiIvaGunner YouTube account. This was part of a mass privatization of rips that occurred during the April Fools' Day 2021 channel event, which served as an elaborate jab at Nintendo's decision to discontinue the ' 35th anniversary releases ', ', and Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. (plus the online services for the Super Mario Bros. 30th anniversary release ') on April 1st, 2021, and, simultaneously, a reference to the meme of Mario dying on March 31st, 2021 which had been propagating through the internet in the months prior in reference to the aforementioned discontinuations. This rip was unfortunately caught in the crossfire, as its title "Snowball Park - Super Mario 3D World" happens to contain the name of Nintendo's mascot, which was the criterion for being removed for the duration of the event (with three exceptions, those being "Vanish Mario - Super Mario 64" due to its connection to the event's theme, "SEQ_MARIOKART - Mean Girls (DS)" possibly due to the game's lost status (which was the case at the time of the event until the game was uncovered by Youtuber Bobdunga in June 2021 ) or an error due to "Mario" not being a whole word, and "Dad Battle (In-Game Version) - Friday Night Funkin'" which was privated the next day on April 2nd, 2021, following the upload of "Dad Battle (In-Game Mix) - Friday Night Funkin'", a parody of the aforementioned rip without Gangsta Mario; see the "Privated rips" section of the April Fools' Day 2021 page for more information). Fortunately, all of the rips that were set as "private" for the event, including this one, were resurrected 3 days later on the PST midnight between April 3rd, 2021 and April 4th, 2021 upon the release of "Birth - Super Mario Galaxy", one of the four rips that served to celebrate the return of Mario as well as to conclude the event.

Trivia

 * It's possible this rip was originally meant to be part of Season 3, as its placement early in Season 4 (being the twentieth or twenty-first rip the season, depending on whether one counts "Balcony Fusion Collab" as a rip ) combined with the festive theming of the rip (despite it being uploaded in the month of March) could indicate it was made for the Grinch Takeover, and had its upload delayed due to that channel event being cut short by the SiIvaGunner Termination (and the subsequent Season 3 Finale). Another rip featuring "Thirstiest Time of the Year | Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry" which was published one day before this rip, namely "Sugar Lane - Sonic Lost World", is known to have been delayed under these circumstances.
 * This rip is referenced in the track title for the album release of the later rip "Snow (Edit) (Super Mario 3D World) - Super Mario Maker 2" by Ethan64Music, a rip of an arrangement of the advertised track used in  which features a melody change to "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year", which is what the joke in this rip, "Thirstiest Time of the Year | Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry", is a parody of. The title ironically refers to "Snow (Edit) (Super Mario 3D World) - Super Mario Maker 2" as being an "inferior version" of this rip, despite the fact that in comparison to this rip, "Snow (Edit) (Super Mario 3D World) - Super Mario Maker 2" contains less traits usually considered negative; the reason for this is likely because Ethan64Music considers this rip to be funny, a trait that does not frequently apply to rips that are merely competently created, like "Snow (Edit) (Super Mario 3D World) - Super Mario Maker 2".
 * This is the 12th high quality rip of a track from , or the 13th if the rip "A Boss Approaches - Super Mario 3D World", which was uploaded to the original GiIvaSunner channel that was terminated on April 6th, 2016 and has never been reuploaded to the current SiIvaGunner channel, is counted. It is also the first rip of the track "Snowball Park" from the game, making it the 8th rip of a Super Mario 3D World track for which it was the first rip of the track that it's a rip of.
 * Though the rip has yet to be featured in any albums, its actual track name may be "Cranberry Park" based on the SiIvaGunner contributor Expensive Dispenser's independent album Expensive Dispenser Presents: The Rejects which contains the track "Cranberry Park (On-key On-tempo Version)" that is a competently-created mashup using the same sources as in this rip.
 * According to a Tweet posted by SiIvaGunner contributor OnBP at 7:17 PM EST (seven hours and seventeen minutes after midday, Eastern Standard Time) on Saturday, December 5th, 2020, this rip was accepted because it's "fucking hilarious".
 * This would receive a sequel rip on the fifteenth day of January 2022 with "Snow Mountain - Super Mario 3D Land", which features a unsynced mashup with "Astronaut in the Ocean" by Australian rapper Harry Michael, known professionally as Masked Wolf, and "Snow Mountain" from  which, as was mentioned earlier in this page, is the track that "Snowball Park" is an arrangement of. The rip first appeared on October 7, 2021 sent by user Insaannee as a submission to the 2021 edition of Riptober, an Inktober-inspired event held in the Ripping Resources Discord server, with the 7th prompt being "snow". The choice of "Astronaut in the Ocean" may relate to how the song was notoriously used in many unsynced mashups on SiIvaGunner from April to May 2021, and over other media such as TikTok, so the rip may have been intended to parody a notoriously off-sync rip with a source that already has plenty of association with off-sync mashups. The rip is structured similarly to "Snowball Park - Super Mario 3D World", with many illogical and repetitive lyric edits, and random pitch-shifting. The main structural differences are that it only loops once instead of three times, and it abruptly ends entirely instead of abruptly becoming quieter. It would later get album release which was on the video "Ending - SiIvaGunner's Inevitable Holiday Celebration" during the Season 5 finale on the album The Inevitable Holiday Album with the name "Astronaut on the Snow Mountain" as an hidden track  with the placeholder name, LeBron James in reference to this rip's joke source.