Smeared Canvas

Smeared Canvas​

Smeared Canvas

Artist	Deep Cut
Vocals	Anna Sato Laura Yokozawa Shiver (in-game) Frye (in-game)
Game	Splatoon 3
Heard in Splatoon 3	Splatfest Battle (Past vs. Present vs. Future only) Rocket 04 The Spirit Lifter: Steerage Rocket 05 The Spirit Lifter: First Class Jukebox
Album	Splatune 3
Track list no.	11 (Splatune 3 Disc 3)
Genre	Pop Electronic
BPM	170
Key signature	F# Minor
Length	1:43
Audio file	First Class version:

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 Splatoon 3, first during The Spirit Lifter: Steerage, then immediately followed by The Spirit Lifter: First Class. Although the song is played continuously throughout these two missions, different percussion instruments are used between them, with the transition to the different instrumental happening 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 Splatune 3, 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 maintain the volume when switching to the First Class version, then resumes fading out about 30 seconds later.

Samples and interpolations

Treasure Obtained

Main article: Treasure Obtained

The vocals use mostly the same melody as the Treasure Obtained jingle.

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.

Smeared Canvas
Deep Cut		Japanese Lyrics	Romanized Lyrics
Shiver	Frye
		ディ　ヘティカ　ニュタリンデ ディ　メンディア　ファトゥファレ ラタ　ウェンダ　ウィニャルディハ ダンザ　マカンリ	Di hetika nyutarinde Di mendia fatufare Rata wenda winyarudiha Danza makanri
		ディ　ヘティカ　ニュタリンデ ディ　メンディア　ファトゥファレ マカ　ジャンタ　ナンニュラリエ ウテン　チャパタニ	Di hetika nyutarinde Di mendia fatufare Maka janta nannyurarie Uten chapatani
		ラ　カン　ニュディラ　タイワァベンニ ミュハイレイ　ノイツェンナ	Ra kan nyudira taiwaabenni Myuhairei noitsenna
		はい　な　るぴら　まかんぴ ちら　まいらんてぃ	Hai na rupira makanpi Chira mairanti
Repeat

Other versions

Smeared Canvas (Live)

During the Splatoon 3 Live Concert featuring Deep Cut at Nintendo Live 2024 TOKYO, an extended version of Smeared Canvas is used. In this version the percussion line follows the version used in The Spirit Lifter: Steerage.

Smeared Canvas (Grand Festival Stage)

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During days 1 and 2 of Past vs. Present vs. Future Splatfest, an extended version of Smeared Canvas plays, based on the live version.

Smeared Canvas (Grand Festival Battle)

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During days 2 and 3 of Past vs. Present vs. Future Splatfest, an alternate version of Smeared Canvas plays.

Trivia

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

Names in other languages

The name of the song is the same as English in all languages except for Japanese.

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	天命反転ローリンストン tenmei hanten rōrinsuton	Reversed Fate Rolling Stone
Internal	BGM_Mission_Stage_Rocket_04 BGM_Mission_Stage_Rocket_04_Jukebox