Smeared Canvas

Smeared Canvas is a song performed by Deep Cut.

Description
Smeared Canvas is an energetic pop song. The song starts with an instrumental intro, then a verse sung by both Shiver and Frye. This first verse samples the melody of Treasure Obtained. The second verse is two solo parts, first by Frye, followed by Shiver. The first verse is then repeated. Afterwards, a bridge is played featuring Frye's vocals before looping back to the intro.

This song is played during two missions in Alterna Space Center of the Return of the Mammalians single player campaign in, first during The Spirit Lifter: Steerage, then immediately followed by The Spirit Lifter: First Class. While the same song is played continuously throughout these two missions, it is worth noting that different percussion instruments are used separately for these missions. The transition to the different instrumentals happens after the player lands onto the latter mission.

Like in many other missions, when the player has been spotted by enemies, an additional percussion track is layered on top of the music.

In, the track contains two loops of the version played in The Spirit Lifter: Steerage, then switches to the version played in The Spirit Lifter: First Class. The music starts fading out near the end of the second loop, but stops to maintains the volume when switching to the First Class version, then resumes fading out about 30 seconds later.

Treasure Obtained
The vocals use the same melody as the start of Treasure Obtained.

Lyrics
The booklet included with Splatune 3 gives the official lyrics for Smeared Canvas. The lyrics are nonsensical; the Japanese hiragana and katakana simply give the pronunciation.

Trivia

 * Before the release of Version 3.0.0, this song was listed as "?" on Deep Cut's page on the Splatoon Base website.