Wave Goodbye
Artist | Squid Sisters |
Lyricist | Callie (in-game)[1] |
Vocals | keity.pop Mari Kikuma Callie (in-game) Marie (in-game) |
Game | Splatoon 3 |
Heard in Splatoon 3 |
End credits after finishing Story Mode |
Featured in | Splatune 3 - disc 3, track 18 Nintendo Music – link |
Genre | Pop |
BPM | 126 |
Key signature | D major |
Time signature | 4/4 |
Length | 5:31 2:11 (In the Studio video) |
Sample |
Wave Goodbye is a song by the Squid Sisters. It is played during the end credits of Splatoon 3's story mode, Return of the Mammalians.
Description
Wave Goodbye is an atmospheric J-pop song that starts with somber, drawn-out melodies that build up to an energetic chorus. Following the chorus, the intensity drops again, and the Squid Sisters pause singing as unidentified human-sounding vocals sing the lyrics to Calamari Inkantation. The Squid Sisters then harmonize with this voice singing their own lyrics before transitioning out of the interlude and back into the pre-chorus.
The major mode of the track (as opposed to the relative B minor) is implied harmonically but it does not fully resolve to the tonic D major until the interlude, around 3:19 in the Splatune 3 release. This keeps the tension and momentum up throughout the first half of the track, as it never feels securely anchored in the major key.
The credits of Splatune 3 reveal that Wave Goodbye is the only new track in the game by Shiho Fujii, the original sound team member responsible for the music of the Squid Sisters. The other new Squid Sisters songs, Tomorrow's Nostalgia Today and Liquid Sunshine (as well as the arrangement of City of Color (2023)) were written and produced by Yumi Takahashi.
Wave Goodbye plays during the credit sequence while the player is free to shoot ink out into space where the final boss battle takes place. The ink will explode like the shot from a blaster before fading into the abyss.
Lyrics
The booklet included with Splatune 3 gives the official lyrics for Wave Goodbye. The lyrics are nonsensical; the Japanese hiragana simply give the pronunciation.
Wave Goodbye | ||||
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Squid Sisters | Japanese Lyrics[2] | Romanized Lyrics | ||
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ちゅてらぺ とぅらぺ ぬらめっきゅ けしぇらて ふぉにゅ られきゅって |
Chuterape turape nuramekkyu Kesherate fonyu rarekyutte | ||
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ちゅてらぺ とぅらペ ぱらめっきゅ けしぇらて もりん られきゅって |
Chuterape turape paramekkyu Kesherate morin rarekyutte | ||
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ちゅてらぺ とぅらぺ ぬらめっきゅ けしぇらて ふぉり られきゅって |
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ちゅてらぺ とぅらぺ ぬらめっきゅ うぉってみて ちゃり められきゅって |
Chuterape turape nuramekkyu Wottemite chari merarekyutte | ||
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Other versions
Wave Goodbye (In the Studio)
The behind-the-scenes video uploaded by Nintendo[3][4] uses a shortened version of the song.
Samples and interpolations
Chorus of Calamari County
Main article: Chorus of Calamari County
Part of Calamari Inkantation and the Chorus of Calamari County can be heard in Wave Goodbye.
Fresh Start
Main article: Fresh Start
Samples of Fresh Start can be most noticeably heard at 3:00-3:07, before the Calamari Inkantation section.
Trivia
- One of the verses appears to be saying "Shiokaze no hoshi", the Japanese title of the song.
- Wave Goodbye is the one of the only credits songs to not have a live version or a Grand Festival version along with #47 onward.
Etymology
Wave Goodbye is a pun on wave, and waving goodbye as the Splatoon 3 credits song.
Names in other languages
The name of the song is the same as English in all languages except for Japanese.
Language | Name | Meaning |
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シオカゼの星 shiokaze no hoshi |
Star of the Sea Breeze. Also a pun on shiokara. |