@animangacreators ♡ Badge Battle #1 21st Century ~ Love Live! Snow Halation (2010)

Our English "Snow Halation" Cover!

For the winter this year, we wanted to try something different. Since we've secretly (or not-so-secretly if you follow our personal blogs) been Love Live! fans this whole time, we decided to turn our efforts toward the most legendary song in the Love Live catalog: Snow Halation, by µ's.

So we rewrote it as an English-language song and performed it with a Pacific Northwest garage rock style in our home bedroom studio, as is our way. It's a new take on a classic song, but one we tried to keep true to the original in spirit.

Please enjoy it with your holiday nog products this year, or at any time of year you so desire.

Featuring:

@nothing2seehere420 - guitar, lead vocals

@niconicorose - Farfisa and Hammond organs, electric piano, drum sequencing, tambourine, sleigh bells, backing vocals, English lyrics composition

@etrianodysseyobsession-hd - bass guitar, backing vocals, audio engineering, mixing, mastering

Find it on Spotify, Apple Music, and Bandcamp

snow halation ❄

Eli Ayase (Snow Halation ver.) Prize Figure by SEGA, from Love Live! School Idol Project

Todays rip: 02/12/2023

snow halation but it shreds

Season 4 Episode 2 Featured on: Halation Celebration ~ 10th Anniversary Tribute to Snow halation

Ripped by Joshua Taipale, Nolithium ft. Charles Ritz

December 2020. Near the end of Season 4 Episode 2, closing out SiIvaGunner's fifth year straight of running, a new project is suddenly unveiled to us as part of the SiIvaGunner All-Star Winter Festival. To commemorate the tenth anniversary of Love Live's Snow Halation, a song closely tied to the channel's history, the SiIvaGunner team unveiled "Halation Celebration" - a full-on arrangement album featuring two dozen contributions both from within the team and from external submissions. You can sort of trace a journey here, from the original King for a Day Tournament, to the King for Another Day Tournament, to Halation Celebration, and to Season 5 and beyond - the journey that would eventually form "SiIvaGunner Fusion Records", the branding used to denote these sorts of full-scale arrangement projects in the future.

I've talked about a few of these in the past - hell, the blog's first-ever post was on Running Through Cookie Country from SGFR's "Super Star Symphony" project, and later on I'd cover *** EVERYTHING IS FINE *** from the first SGFR release of Season 7 - "Shovelware from Beyond the Deep!". Yet for as great as all these projects are, it all truly began with a Christmas celebration - it all began with Snow Halation, and for my money snow halation but it shreds was one of the utmost best parts of that celebration.

And that's not to disparage or dismiss any of the other contributions - like every SGFR release, Halation Celebration is filled with tons of different interpretations, different styles and creators all outputting at an utmost high level of quality, to where it almost does feel a little bad to pick just one favorite. Yet I am at the end of the day merely a Sonic fan, a total sucker for punk-rock and wailing electric guitars - and snow halation but it shreds is quite literally exactly what it promises on the tin. And its a fantastic performance - though I adored hearing the arrangements from SiIva's mainstay rippers, its just as fascinating to hear contributions from people like Joshua Taipale and Nolithium, who contribute despite otherwise not being associated with the channel! And the two are EXCELLENT musicians in their own right - something that I only discovered through this arrangement.

Holiday cheer can be a lot of things, and there's going to be a variety of different rips featured on the blog during the month to truly encompass that (and some more silly stuff too, don't worry!). Yet its in large part about appreciation and celebration, of shared and spread love and joy. And that feeling transcends any sort of conventions of music genres - that joy can be felt, even through the shredding riffs of snow halation but it shreds. Every part of Halation Celebration is an absolute gift, and I'm eternally going to be grateful for it playing part in kickstarting SGFR, and introducing me to so many talented musicians both inside the team and out.

fuck it

if Mariah Carey defrosts

so do they

tis the season

i miss them sm

Snow Halation - VSHOJO COVER

Happy birthday, Nozomi!

its -22C rn

Happy 12th Birthday Snow Halation!

sanrio x love live, from the puchiguru collab circa 2018 i believe!

my melody x bokura wa ima no naka de

cinnamoroll x snow halation

keroppi x sore wa bokutachi no kiseki

hello kitty x aozora jumping heart

pompompurin x happy party train

badtz-maru x mirai no bokura wa shitteru yo

Happy Snow Halation Day

µ'sic forever 💖

Doing an English cover of it was something we thought about doing for ages, and I'm so glad we finally made it!