THESE HALLOWED WINGS | Animal Crossing: New Horizons Song!

HOO!

So I've gotten REALLY into Animal Crossing... And after 'Nook, Line & Sinker' did so well I'd be a fool not to follow it up! When I decided to do an AC song I couldn't pick whether to write a song for the (hypothetically) greedy tanuki or the eccentric owl... So now I've done both!

A HUGE thank you to Oxygen Beats for his amazing work on this track! It isn't often I commission a completely original instrumental for my songs but this one is truly something special! Go and check his channel! Link below!

Also a big thank you to my friend Sheax for her help colouring and sketching up some doodles for Blathers' notes and to Lizzy for her assistance capturing and editing the game-play footage.

I had a blast making this one, I don't often do such animation heavy videos but with lockdown it has given me a chance to get back to some serious drawing!

Stay safe out there everyone, and enjoy!

#AnimalCrossing #NewHorizons

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Lyrics, Vocals and Video by The Stupendium
Additional artwork by Sheax
Song produced by Oxygen Beats
Additional video editing by Lizzy CJ

Animal Crossing, its world and its characters are the property of Nintendo.

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The Stupendium is a musician, animator and content creator, creating weird, wonderful and usually incredibly nerdy songs and animations. Join them on their journey to obscure, niche internet stardom! They have some pretty decent videos, wonderful facial hair and a great sense of discomfort describing themself in the third person.

[TheStupendium]

LYRICS:

Get home from an expedition
And the phone on my desk is ringing-
Sounds like a friend with a special mission
Found an astounding exhibition
Packed my things and I flapped my wings
Excited to find what the campsite brings
There’s a brand-new island for analysing
And this chap’s flying in to track findings
Natural history is my domain
Extinct little trinkets and giant remains
I don’t know though, might think again
I think that’s a Dodo flying the plane!?
Now I’ve had a jolly holiday in Zanzibar
But this sabbatical is practically spectacular
From above, it is honestly a bit bizarre
How the island is improbably rectangular
Pioneering new frontiers!
But what should I expect?
Exploring tropic flora?
Newfound fauna to inspect?
To ply my palaeontology
To prospect and erect
A repository for fossils
For each fish and each inse-EUGH! NO. NO.

You got a village that needs assistance
Expertise and seasoned wisdom
Want to learn? Take a seat and listen
This bird IS the word on the ecosystem
Squeal with glee at each acquisition
Who says you can’t teach facts with fiction?
This museum has a speaker system
Pumping out beats ‘bout your ecosystem

On briny waters, I’m quite astute
And dinosaurs I’m a fine who’s HOO!-
But when we all live with tigers too
It might be awkward to try a zoo
Head down the stairs and you’ll see scores
Of dunkleosteus and plesiosaurs!
The fish are all down the right-hand hall
And on the left are the creepy crawl-UH. NO. NEVER MIND.
You can quiz me with your queries on aquariums
You’ll nary see so vibrant or varied a vivarium
There’s no greater a curator or librarian
Just beware of all the horrors housed in the solarium
So if you’ve been a-digging or a-fishing in the sea
Then pluck up your discoveries and shuttle them to me
But if you want to know about the birds and bees
This bird prefers that the bees would LEAVE.

Look, I UNDERSTAND all the important work they do for the planet, I just wish they’d do it SOMEWHERE ELSE.

You got a village that needs assistance
Expertise and seasoned wisdom
Want to learn? Take a seat and listen
This bird IS the word on the ecosystem
Squeal with glee at each acquisition
Who says you can’t teach facts with fiction?
This museum has a speaker system
Pumping out beats ‘bout your ecosystem

Yes all things bright and beautiful
all creatures great and small
Are collated and notated
And displayed within our halls
From mighty titan ancestors
To wretched scuttling things
Invited, if reluctantly
Inside these hallowed wings
And though bugs may be repulsive
I will put up with the fainting
If heinous abominations
Pave the way to taking paintings
The masterworks of artists
Throughout all history
Inexplicably displayed
Upon an island out at sea

You got a village that needs assistance
Expertise and seasoned wisdom
Want to learn? Take a seat and listen
This bird IS the word on the ecosystem
Squeal with glee at each acquisition
Who says you can’t teach facts with fiction?
This museum has a speaker system
Pumping out beats ‘bout your ecosystem

You got a village that needs assistance
Expertise and seasoned wisdom
Want to learn? Take a seat and listen
This bird IS the word on the ecosystem
Sworn by noblest tradition
Organising organisms
This museum has a speaker system
Pumping out beats ‘bout your ecosystem

[josepholberding]

Tom nook song: Evil businessman
Crazy Redd song: Evil con man
Blather's song: Wholesome museum dude

[morningstar]

I love how blathers considers flick a criminal for loving bugs

[jobot]

Why are both of the Animal Crossing songs so good? What wizardry have you wrought?!
EDIT: Why are all 3 of them?!

[hayabusa]

Blathers is underrated. He seats in the museum just waiting for donations, and gives facts on the animals you give him, even he’s afraid of it

[SeaKing_]

"And on the left are the creepy-crawli- UH. NO. NEVERMIND"

This has to be my favorite line in the song.

[Theuser]

As a zoologist and someone who works in a museum of natural history, teaching visitors with stories and anecdotes, I thank you for this song that feels like it was almost made for me! I vow to listen to it every time I head to work and embody the energy it evokes!
Honestly, the only difference between myself and Blathers is our feelings about invertebrates!
Thanks, Stupendium - brilliant work as always!

[tyllisxu]

Note: Residents Do NOT APPRECIATE 'FREE ACCOMODATION' and the CEASE AND DESIST letter for imprisonment of islanders in museum exhibits is brilliant!

[X-SPONGED]

1:19
Blathers: **NO BUGS** underwater!
Sea lice: *_"Now this looks like a job for me"_*

[NinthYard]

Oh, this is just... I’m at a lack for words I could only imagine how much effort the 3D shots took to draw or make.

[angelnava]

Tom Nook: (song about manipulation and capitalism with a dark, dictator tone)
Blathers: (Just wants you to have a good time)

[brainstorm]

Blathers: "Hoo says you can't teach fact with fiction?"

Ms. Frizzle: "Preach it, brother!"

[taizomichael]

Nook, Line and Sinker is the darkest song you've ever done.
These Hallowed Wings is the song with the most creative beat you've ever done.
And Rogue's Gallery is the hardest you've ever rapped.
These Animal Crossing Songs are revolutionary for your channel.

[OddyCreates]

There are a quite remarkable number of references hidden in the imagery; Shame Boone and Cooper aren't around anymore, looks like more than just Redd have a criminal past...

[Phoenix]

Fun Facts with Phoenix!

There is not such thing as a bad Stupendium song.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

[shreyaspamaraju]

I WANT THIS MULTI TALENTED BLATHERS TO BE MY BIOLOGY TEACHER

[TravelingKeeper]

Not gonna lie. This is exactly how I imagined Blathers to sound like if he spoke.

[flora._.]

Who else thinks that he should make a song about Crazy Redd and how he is a criminal in his Black Market
Edit: *Holy s**** HE MADE IT-

[DibbleDibby]

Ok. But like for real Stupendium deserves way more credit his songs are always super catchy, easy to remember, and the animation is always so smooth. I honestly don’t know how he comes up with this stuff

[murderer-robloxmore]

Tom Nook: Greediest man on the planet
Blathers: *bug scary*