Todays rip: 16/11/2023
Windows Wonga Wappa
Season 7 Featured on: PROTONOMICON ~ The Cult of Proto Collection
Ripped by circunflexo
Yeah, look, Season 7 has had its grips in me recently, okay? I'm still making my way through the PROTONOMICON album, and just yesterday two humongous albums released covering rips from the entire year...after I'm done writing this post, I'm going to have to go update a bunch of older posts still sitting with tentative names. Until then, though - Windows Wonga Wappa.
Crypt of the NecroDancer has a long history on SiIvaGunner, as far back as Season 1 - though back then, it was almost entirely dedicated to ironic Kazoo covers of the soundtrack. That kind of put me off from listening to rips from the game in general for a long time, because it just seemed like the kind of joke that would keep going forever - and it wasn't really one I enjoyed all too much? Windows Wonga Wappa does indeed call back to this joke at the very start with a brief Kazoo fakeout, but its true intentions are far, far above what I'd ever expect - part brilliant YTPMV, and part tribute to *another* Konga Conga Kappa YTPMV by fellow channel ripper Nozobot. You may remember them from one of the channel's most landmark funny rips, Sex - Steve Harvey! Well, said rip was then later used by Nozobot as a basis for a YTPMV uploaded to their own YouTube channel, Konga Harvey Harvet. After having Sex - Steve Harvey haunt me for the better part of four years, it was incredible to see the very same nonsense samples and jokes used in it be elevated to the form of a proper YTPMV!
And that legacy, along with the entire Vinesauce Joel Protogent-theme that the PROTONOMICON Halloween event this year had, is what Windows Wonga Wappa builds on. The Windows OS sound samples used as the song's base foundation lay a fantastic sort of "bassline", allowing the rest of the song to go absolutely ham with Protogent-rap sentence mixing...look, everything regarding Protogent is a bit too much to explain in just this post - but it's one of the most memorable memes of Joel's most memorable series of videos, in a way circling back to the origins of SiIvaGunner as a whole.
Windows Wonga Wappa has so many fun layers and choices made in it - it really shows what strengths the art of YTPMV can have over mashups and melody-swaps. This cacophony of samples and sentence-mixed Protogent advert lines, all stitched together with a memorable base melody, is something that lets circunflexo truly flex their creative muscles as a ripper - a chaotic concoction of all that we love to hate about Windows.
