yknow i just thought that it was parallel canon because it was parallel to the canon of agent 8 but im not surprised it goes so deep, splatoon is incredibly detailed
the double meaning is likely because its inklings so “parallel canon” is probably referencing how it’s just like the octolings you fight in the other story modes, and how this is an alternative to that
Not sure if you've seen it already, but a TH-camr by the name FiveEyesStreams has covered the names of the enemies you're on about! Definitely worth the watch.
@@redtomato4903 Every side order enemy is named after a musical term, it just so happens that Italian is the language used for musical terminology. Terms like "Lento" and "Andante" are pretty common in music as they are just indicators of speed, but even more obscure names like "capriccioso" refer to a particular style of quick and intense pieces. The use of these words as music terms rather than generic italian words is best shown in this video, given that the term "Canon", used here by its musical definition, is NOT an italian word. And is also shown more generally by the fact that the story of Splatoon has always revolved around music.
the marciale's track is SOOOOO COOL . i don't have anywhere near a concise or detailed explanation for why i like it so much, but i love that it shies away from swung patterns (very reminiscent of marches + similar military band pieces!) and leans heavy into all the sorts of melodies and synthy instruments that make the previous hero mode tracks stand out
@@melon-official I was honestly really surprised hearing the amen break track in the boss's theme and it really makes me hope that they start leaning more into breakcore tracks for splatoon
@@Kurameno it depends on what you think of being a big deal, but it was more surprising to me. The amen break drumtrack is very widely used for breakcore tracks which (afaik) isn’t a music genre that’s been used in splatoon at all until now, which is very interesting to me. I think it’d be cool if they started leaning into more of it for splatoon tracks since I think breakcore fits the chaotic nature of the game.
@@glitchingeclipse9850 Splattack! (Octo) is a breakcore track! :3 it's the battle music against Sanitized Agent 3 (not inner) during the main story of Octo Expansion :3
duuude the references to music in side order are literally all over the place, all the silly lil enemies have music names (except for like. the portals.) silly guys showing us the silly motifs :D
I thought it was odd that Parallel Canon was the only enemy to not have a music term in its name on surface level (aside from its title having “harmony” in it) but that’s super cool that they used a double meaning, I didn’t know that was a thing but I love it
“Parallel Canon” could also refer to a parallel universe where inklings lost the Great Turf War and were forced underground, considering how this boss resembles Girl Power Station/the last section of After Alterna. Great video :) Would love to see you do one on Asynchronous Rondo (no pressure tho!)
every song on the splatoon OSTs are masterpieces! so much work is put into every single one and as you peel back the layers you discover more and more! the songs those produces make blow me away every single time.
I’m not entirely sure if the case you bring up can be considered a canon. Typically, a canon involves multiple overlapping voices, similar to a fugue or round. In your example, the two-bar section plays and drops. To me, it sounds more like one voice doing variations on a theme. Love your ocs!
I do like how this Boss it's called The parallel Cannon but it's not a parallel to the player character which is agent 8 but it's actually a parallel to your Splatoon 2 character and that point is even more stated in the info logs after completing the spire with agent force palette
From the thumbnail I thought that the DJ setup was a kitchen and this wanna gonna be a comic about them cooking and I was just like “ah, yes. A side order pun. Wonderful”
Is this what the flashing red lights on the sides of the stage are all about? I noticed those but couldn’t quite place where they were aligned in the beat. Awesome breakdown, thanks for sharing this!!
@@melon-official AW HELL YES WE LOVE TO SEE THAT!!! AAAHHHH it's such a gender look. and im SO glad u included fat rolls as well we r out here,,,, do u mayhaps have a diff socmed i can follow for splat oc stuff?? if ur comfy w/ giving that out ofc
@@callie-flower3177 oh for sure omg !!!! u can find most of my oc stuff at melon-official on tumblr + melon_official on TH ^^ its so nice of u to ask!!
I knew from the beginning Side order bosses were in fact named after Music terms that dictate the pace of music, but i never knew what a Canon is thanks a lot
This video made me inspect the music for the other bosses, and I noticed something (Possibly intentional) in pinging marciale's boss theme. So a Marciale is a musical term referring to a piece of music being in the style of a march, typically indicating to the composer to write the song in a military style. That same boss theme uses the "Onward!" leitmotif, used by the Octarian *Army*
I just made a video including the Parallel Canon, but I didn't get a chance to talk about their theme! Someone linked your video for me and I'm glad they did. I've been going back and forth deciding whether or not Echo Onslaught actually falls under the category of canon, but I think it is absolutely inspired by canon at the least. Your video really sheds some light on that. Thanks for making this!
oh man, i just noticed i never responded to this! wanted to say i saw that video of yours mentioned in my comments + went to check it out myself; it's very well put together and super entertaining :] and you have excellent taste in orchestral pieces. respect
This is so cool !! As a fellow music nerd, I absolutely love details like this in video game ost's, especially in splatoon's one, so thanks for sharing :) (btw are you planning to do the same type of videos for the 2 other bosses of the dlc ? If so, then I'd love to check these out as well)
tysm!!!! honestly i cant say i have ideas for the other two bosses that are substantial enough to make into videos, but doing music analysis + stuff like that is definitely always on my mind lol e: also, it might interest you to know that the asynch rondo's tune can be pretty cleanly split into 4-bar phrases that modulate and repeat over each other-reminiscent of a rondo-and the pinging marziale's track is all straight eighths and octarian military motifs, like a marziale is :]
You know, when I first played this boss fight, I assumed that the head Inkling was your Splatoon 3 version if you made one, and that it would default to the Inkling Girl hairstyle if you didn’t have an Inkling made. Not to mention with the name Parallel Canon, for me it implied that this is possibly how your own character could have ended up if Order had won. But then I heard that it just uses your last saved Splatoon 2 Inkling, which for me, uses the same hairstyle as I do for my Inkling now, so I guess that explains why I might have mixed up the two by mistake.
So we basically have a triple meaning with the “Canon” part of the boss’s name. In terms of storytelling, it’s a parallel “canon” because of how (it’s implied that) the boss is copying an existing character, Agent 4, including their appearance if you carried over a save file from Splatoon 2. In musical terms, the “canon” repetitions in the boss music itself and going with the musical theme naming all the other enemies in Side Order follow. In terms of gameplay, you’re tasked with fighting a group of clones, starting with one copy, then several more at a time. Like the musical term, the boss is established, then immediately repeated.
I'd love to see a music nerd and a competitive player go through all the names together and explain what hte names mean and how they play in to how the enemies function. I don't know really any musical terminology (I learned a lot in this video, i thought the "canon" was literally just "hurr this is what team order wanted dur") but I know what "accelerate" means and can tell from "Whirling Accelerando" (spins and lunges) that there's a lot of double meanings in this DLC, and I just don't know what they all are 😩
if you're curious and don't know where to start: lots and lots of musical terms are in italian! most of the time, plugging a term into google translate will give you a solid idea of what it means in the music.
i thought the parallel cannon was a reference to the splatoon manga where they had shadow replica forms who they had to fight who where also gray and had dark grey ink😭😭😭
honestly 0ct0ptic0n has motifs that feel to me a lot more like the boss gameplay than the musical inspiration, but there's still elements of a rondo there! the whole track can be broken down into a loop made of recognizable four-bar phrases, and even within a handful of those phrases there are repeated bits. like... rotating within the whole. i thought that was cool
yknow i just thought that it was parallel canon because it was parallel to the canon of agent 8 but im not surprised it goes so deep, splatoon is incredibly detailed
the double meaning is likely because its inklings so “parallel canon” is probably referencing how it’s just like the octolings you fight in the other story modes, and how this is an alternative to that
@ethanb9981 that's exactly what I thought! I'm really confused as to why nobody else thinks of that
@@ethanb9981 dudeeee that’s so smart i was just thinking since the boss like upgrades the more color chips you have
@@ethanb9981I thought it was also representative of agent four/3 since it uses your inkling model and turns it into that.
@@Eclipse_101 it could def also be referencing how 8 and 4 are parallel, not just the order inklings and the octoling soldiers
Ngl, I'd love a whole video or mini series about the use of music and musical terms in side order.
For example: rondo, lento, etc.
that's an awesome idea!!!! i can't promise i'll ever have time to make something like that, but if i ever do, i'll lyk ^^
Not sure if you've seen it already, but a TH-camr by the name FiveEyesStreams has covered the names of the enemies you're on about! Definitely worth the watch.
the normal enemies are also named after certain musical terms too like the homing *arpeggio*
They’re mostly just named with Italian words, which are also commonly used in music terminology
My dumbass thought they were actual fish names😅
@@redtomato4903 oh
@@redtomato4903 Every side order enemy is named after a musical term, it just so happens that Italian is the language used for musical terminology.
Terms like "Lento" and "Andante" are pretty common in music as they are just indicators of speed, but even more obscure names like "capriccioso" refer to a particular style of quick and intense pieces.
The use of these words as music terms rather than generic italian words is best shown in this video, given that the term "Canon", used here by its musical definition, is NOT an italian word.
And is also shown more generally by the fact that the story of Splatoon has always revolved around music.
They even make arpeggio noises that speed up as they get closer :o
Can we talk about how pinging marciale uses amen break
the marciale's track is SOOOOO COOL . i don't have anywhere near a concise or detailed explanation for why i like it so much, but i love that it shies away from swung patterns (very reminiscent of marches + similar military band pieces!) and leans heavy into all the sorts of melodies and synthy instruments that make the previous hero mode tracks stand out
@@melon-official I was honestly really surprised hearing the amen break track in the boss's theme and it really makes me hope that they start leaning more into breakcore tracks for splatoon
Is that a big deal? /gen
@@Kurameno it depends on what you think of being a big deal, but it was more surprising to me.
The amen break drumtrack is very widely used for breakcore tracks which (afaik) isn’t a music genre that’s been used in splatoon at all until now, which is very interesting to me. I think it’d be cool if they started leaning into more of it for splatoon tracks since I think breakcore fits the chaotic nature of the game.
@@glitchingeclipse9850 Splattack! (Octo) is a breakcore track! :3 it's the battle music against Sanitized Agent 3 (not inner) during the main story of Octo Expansion :3
as soon as i saw these guys in my game and realized its based off your Agent 4 data on appearance , i started thinking
“Thats not my baby!”
You mean how it's actually not really Agent 4? Yeah I sobbed over that.
wow these little dudes are pretty cool. i'd drink an iced coffee with them. :)
THE HIGHEST HONOR. they would probably love to go get some iced coffee once they are no longer part of a virtual hivemind
@@melon-officialid gladly join their virtual hivemind with them
@@melon-official yes and they also have a zaku pearl drone
I would too if they didn't terrify me
Can I join them?
duuude the references to music in side order are literally all over the place, all the silly lil enemies have music names (except for like. the portals.)
silly guys showing us the silly motifs :D
hehe :] lots of em match up with their movement styles as well! (see: andante, lento...)
Makes sense since the world is crafted by a musician
goofy goobers ♥️💖♥️💖♥️💖♥️💖♥️
I love you little robo inklings
I thought it was odd that Parallel Canon was the only enemy to not have a music term in its name on surface level (aside from its title having “harmony” in it) but that’s super cool that they used a double meaning, I didn’t know that was a thing but I love it
“Parallel Canon” could also refer to a parallel universe where inklings lost the Great Turf War and were forced underground, considering how this boss resembles Girl Power Station/the last section of After Alterna.
Great video :) Would love to see you do one on Asynchronous Rondo (no pressure tho!)
These devs can’t help but flex how well they know music every chance they get. And I love them for that
Octoling Rendezvous = Inklings Reconvene
YOOO THIS IS SO SICK!!! i love music analysis like this, thanks for showing us!! also i like your ocs too....they seem cool ^_^
you just made my day, tysm :D
@@melon-official I love the big one, so silly. :3
@@Dentzy-01aw thx !!!!! that's my agent 4- here's her toyhouse page (toyhou.se/8001496.sunny-4-) if you feel like seeing her non-robotified
silly goobers goobin 💖💖♥️💖♥️💖💖♥️💖♥️💖♥️♥️💖♥️💖♥️💖
I like how the one with the record is fat and other is skinny! (btw it’s the best duo ever)
holy hell i love how informative this is
THIS IS SO COOL AAAH I DIDNT NOTICE THAT WHAAAAAAT i love stuff like this 😭💕
Not gonna lie, this is very cool.
every song on the splatoon OSTs are masterpieces! so much work is put into every single one and as you peel back the layers you discover more and more! the songs those produces make blow me away every single time.
When music has that, you know higher of me in a loop of noise it’s really cool 0:55
yesssss the modulation to a higher key!!!! it's so good
I’m not entirely sure if the case you bring up can be considered a canon. Typically, a canon involves multiple overlapping voices, similar to a fugue or round. In your example, the two-bar section plays and drops. To me, it sounds more like one voice doing variations on a theme. Love your ocs!
I do like how this Boss it's called The parallel Cannon but it's not a parallel to the player character which is agent 8 but it's actually a parallel to your Splatoon 2 character and that point is even more stated in the info logs after completing the spire with agent force palette
Cool video! Pretty informative and i love the designs of these two
From the thumbnail I thought that the DJ setup was a kitchen and this wanna gonna be a comic about them cooking and I was just like “ah, yes. A side order pun. Wonderful”
I would've thought Ech0 0nslaught plays a melody over itself with a slight delay
Wait what the hell this is so sick!
Is this what the flashing red lights on the sides of the stage are all about? I noticed those but couldn’t quite place where they were aligned in the beat. Awesome breakdown, thanks for sharing this!!
idk why i thought they were making food on the thumbnail
ohhh thats so neat!!! thank u for making this video ^^
i love that sunny is just. Beef. hell yeah didn't know I needed beefy inklings but i am All Here for it
YAAAYY TRHANK U :] i love sunny very much too . she is made of agent4 muscle and fat rolls and plot armor and a heart of gold
@@melon-official AW HELL YES WE LOVE TO SEE THAT!!! AAAHHHH it's such a gender look. and im SO glad u included fat rolls as well we r out here,,,,
do u mayhaps have a diff socmed i can follow for splat oc stuff?? if ur comfy w/ giving that out ofc
@@callie-flower3177 oh for sure omg !!!! u can find most of my oc stuff at melon-official on tumblr + melon_official on TH ^^ its so nice of u to ask!!
I am playing side order while watching this and I just got the parallel canon boss lol
Man I adore these guys. And appearantly good music producers, too! I'd love to hang out with them!
I NEED ANOTHER ONE ;0; THIS IS SO ENLIGHTENING
omg i love these 2 robots i want to hangout with them
Same here !
honestly i had no idea, thank you for this!!!!!
This is a really clever way of explaining this!
I knew from the beginning Side order bosses were in fact named after Music terms that dictate the pace of music, but i never knew what a Canon is thanks a lot
This video made me inspect the music for the other bosses, and I noticed something (Possibly intentional) in pinging marciale's boss theme.
So a Marciale is a musical term referring to a piece of music being in the style of a march, typically indicating to the composer to write the song in a military style.
That same boss theme uses the "Onward!" leitmotif, used by the Octarian *Army*
SPLATOON IN AN *alternate universe*
Whoa! Please do the other two bosses!!
Agreed
Love it
I was first and got this popular
I just made a video including the Parallel Canon, but I didn't get a chance to talk about their theme! Someone linked your video for me and I'm glad they did. I've been going back and forth deciding whether or not Echo Onslaught actually falls under the category of canon, but I think it is absolutely inspired by canon at the least. Your video really sheds some light on that. Thanks for making this!
oh man, i just noticed i never responded to this! wanted to say i saw that video of yours mentioned in my comments + went to check it out myself; it's very well put together and super entertaining :] and you have excellent taste in orchestral pieces. respect
splatoon music should be its own art form, its so cool how its done.
I think all of the enemies in side order are named after some sort of music note or time. Except for the final boss.
I love people nerding about music theory in Splatoon. I also love the animation.
This is so cool !! As a fellow music nerd, I absolutely love details like this in video game ost's, especially in splatoon's one, so thanks for sharing :) (btw are you planning to do the same type of videos for the 2 other bosses of the dlc ? If so, then I'd love to check these out as well)
tysm!!!! honestly i cant say i have ideas for the other two bosses that are substantial enough to make into videos, but doing music analysis + stuff like that is definitely always on my mind lol
e: also, it might interest you to know that the asynch rondo's tune can be pretty cleanly split into 4-bar phrases that modulate and repeat over each other-reminiscent of a rondo-and the pinging marziale's track is all straight eighths and octarian military motifs, like a marziale is :]
@@melon-official aah tkusm for the additional facts !! In any case looking forward to seeing your next vids :D
this video is really cool :D
I don’t understand other than it’s cool musical Easter eggs which I’m down for
I learn something new about music every week or so lol
(Also, I really like Sunny! They're so cute!!)
welcome to .. learning music theory trivia on the internet! sunny says she likes u also
@@melon-official Aww! Tell her I said thank you! :>
Fun fact: every enemy side order is named after something to do with music.
Oh this is so interesting?? I love this
You know, when I first played this boss fight, I assumed that the head Inkling was your Splatoon 3 version if you made one, and that it would default to the Inkling Girl hairstyle if you didn’t have an Inkling made. Not to mention with the name Parallel Canon, for me it implied that this is possibly how your own character could have ended up if Order had won. But then I heard that it just uses your last saved Splatoon 2 Inkling, which for me, uses the same hairstyle as I do for my Inkling now, so I guess that explains why I might have mixed up the two by mistake.
that's so cool!!
wait that’s so neat
So we basically have a triple meaning with the “Canon” part of the boss’s name.
In terms of storytelling, it’s a parallel “canon” because of how (it’s implied that) the boss is copying an existing character, Agent 4, including their appearance if you carried over a save file from Splatoon 2.
In musical terms, the “canon” repetitions in the boss music itself and going with the musical theme naming all the other enemies in Side Order follow.
In terms of gameplay, you’re tasked with fighting a group of clones, starting with one copy, then several more at a time. Like the musical term, the boss is established, then immediately repeated.
this is iconic
They remind me of hollow knight, its all on the masks (and the fanon way masked characters are animated)
can i eat yr art? (yr ocs are very very cool and yr art is amazing)
the highest honor... having edible art...
i know this video is about the music but the one on the left is so cuteeejvgaknekrjwhwrooggkrohhejgofind
parallel canon is a synonym to copy machine.
us music theory nerds are eating so well off this game
Look I am a piano player, know what arpeggio means, and somehow never see them
I lov3 parall3l cannons so muchhhhhhhhhhhhh
real
Do one for the other bosses please
I'd love to see a music nerd and a competitive player go through all the names together and explain what hte names mean and how they play in to how the enemies function. I don't know really any musical terminology (I learned a lot in this video, i thought the "canon" was literally just "hurr this is what team order wanted dur") but I know what "accelerate" means and can tell from "Whirling Accelerando" (spins and lunges) that there's a lot of double meanings in this DLC, and I just don't know what they all are 😩
if you're curious and don't know where to start: lots and lots of musical terms are in italian! most of the time, plugging a term into google translate will give you a solid idea of what it means in the music.
Fun fact, they use your s2 data for looks
i thought the parallel cannon was a reference to the splatoon manga where they had shadow replica forms who they had to fight who where also gray and had dark grey ink😭😭😭
Can you make one for aschryonus rondo?
honestly 0ct0ptic0n has motifs that feel to me a lot more like the boss gameplay than the musical inspiration, but there's still elements of a rondo there! the whole track can be broken down into a loop made of recognizable four-bar phrases, and even within a handful of those phrases there are repeated bits. like... rotating within the whole. i thought that was cool
I thought they were cooking
banger tho
ngl i saw the thumbnail and thought they were cooking with pans and stuff 😑😐
oh theyre COOKIN alright
This might be a stretch but like… triplets…. 3…. 3 motif strikes again
I do not wanna know what asynchronous rondo is associated to 😮💨
Agent 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 etc
Nifty!
omg hi dude ^^ thx!!
I think theyre cuadruplets and not triplets. Idk if that would make sense but I guess it could considering this is agent 4.
Can i hug the two parallels?
i promise they are very huggable when their minds aren't trapped inside a virtual hellscape
@@melon-official yayy!
They're partners idk I'msorry
LOL that would be pretty neat but im pleased to inform u their lore is even funnier: they are fated never to interact with each other at all
Huh