Monster (Song)
Monster is the third and final track of Week 2 and the seventh track of Friday Night Funkin' overall. The song was added to the game on the 1st of November, 2020, following the Week 2 update, remaining accessible only through the chart editor. It was officially made playable with the release of the Week 7 update on the 18th of April, 2021. It appears on the eponymously-titled album Monster, Friday Night Funkin' OST, Vol. 2[note 2] and Friday Night Funkin' - The Official Soundtrack Vol. 1.
The opponent for this track is Monster.
Version History
- 0.2.8
- Monster was officially re-implemented into the game, and now serves as the final song of Week 2.
- 0.4.0
- All difficulty charts of Monster had some sections re-charted.
- 0.6.0
- Scroll speeds across all difficulties were increased: 1/1.2/1.4 -> 1.4/1.4/1.5;
- The difficulty rating for Normal was changed from 1 to 2.
- 0.6.4
- Properly credited MtH as a charter in the song's metadata.
Lyrics
Lyrics directly sourced from Bassetfilms' Monster album on Bandcamp.
Guess it's time,
you better plug in all your nightlights.
What's out there, past your darkened door?
Just the eyes floating up out of the shore.
Hey man, I'm gonna eat your girlfriend,
Or maybe turn her into broth,
la-la-la la la
Kill a kid, cut em up.
stuff em up inside of my, secret meat box.
Find my, hands across your body slowly
peel your skin off.
You'll meet your friends,
inside the ambulance.
Call into the night,
to the werewolf.
Give all your blood to him,
stand under the warm street light.
Let yourself be hypnotized.
You're just a little snack,
and so is your girlfriend.
Hey man, I'm gonna tear your eyes out,
and then I'll boil your girlfriend,
la-la-la la la
Kill a kid, cut em up.
stuff em up inside of my, burning dungeon.
I would give you guys a little break but
I'm not Satan.
Trivia
- Monster is one of the few tracks that have English lyrics, the others being Tutorial, Fresh, Spookeez, Winter Horrorland, Ugh and Stress.
- Monster is currently the longest track in the game.
- Coincidentally, the fifth longest song currently in the game is Winter Horrorland, the Week 5 track also performed by Monster.
- Monster is the first song to be named after the opponent, the second being Pico, the third being Senpai and the fourth being Darnell.
- Monster was always planned to be the third track of Week 2[2] but was originally scrapped due to difficulty charting the song.[3] In a November 2022 Tweet, ninjamuffin99 stated that it was difficult to chart because the code and chart editor for the game did not accommodate the song's multiple BPM changes, and the song was cut to get the Week 2 update out roughly in time for Halloween.[4] Prior to the song's official release, when asked if there were plans to release Monster in the future, ninjamuffin99 confirmed that there were, stating, "yeah, jus been one thing after another! We have the chart, but now I need to hardcode a few certain things for it, as well as fix the jumps (when 2 notes are pressed at the same time)."[5] It was later officially added with the release of the Week 7 update.
- Previously, the song wasn't charted when it was first implemented in the game. However, ninjamuffin99 later added a fanmade chart made by Reddit user ChaoticGamerCG;[6][7] this was accessible exclusively through the chart editor. It did not have any difficulty levels or a way to save the final score. The original charting was rough, as there wasn't an option to change the song's BPM at the time.
- As stated in a Tweet by Bassetfilms, the beginning of the song is based on the song "Your Mother Should Know" by the Beatles.[8][9]
- Basset has also stated that he was thinking of "Blood and Bones" by the Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra, "Crocodile Rock" by Elton John, and new wave band Oingo Boingo when writing Monster.[10][11][12]
- With a varying tempo of 95 BPM, Monster is currently the second slowest track in the game, with Eggnog ERECT being the slowest with a final tempo of 80 BPM, and Tutorial, Bopeebo and Cocoa all tied for the third slowest with a tempo of 100 BPM.
- Monster is the only track in the game that uses uncommon time signatures, with some sections of the song having 7/4- and 5/4-time signatures.
- The lyrics "stand under the warm street light" appear to have inspired the artwork for the album Monster, which depicts Monster standing under a street light.
- These lyrics are seemingly also referenced in Friday Night Funkin scary, an animated short made and posted on YouTube by PhantomArcade. In the cartoon, Monster stands under a street light and twitches while he and Boyfriend stare at each other; Boyfriend then plays the Sir Mix-a-Lot song "Baby Got Back" from a boombox, causing Monster to dance.[13]
- Monster's lyric "Hey man, I'm gonna eat your girlfriend" was the subject of a mondegreen in late 2020, where people misheard the lyric as "Evan, I'm gonna eat your girlfriend", leading to a popular theory of Boyfriend's real name being "Evan". This was debunked by ninjamuffin99 shortly after, and he reassured that Boyfriend's real name is simply "Boyfriend".[14]
Song
Notes
- ↑ Due to the time signature changes in the song, the BPM changes were set differently in the chart editor. In the Week 7 update, they were were set to: 95, 127, 95, 127, 100, 105, 216, 95, 132, 120. The WeekEnd 1 update later altered the chart's BPM changes incorrectly, so Girlfriend bopping her head, camera zooming and icon bouncing are off-beat. According to the song's metadata file, the BPM changes effectively set the speed to: 95, 100, 105, 107.5, 95, 132, 119.5, 132, 120.
- ↑ Excluding the Bandcamp release.
