If you can't hear Splattack in The Plan, check this video! https://youtu.be/AnnAPrV0G9Y?si=vIDdXOJl2NovaUUI&t=420

The Grizzco VHS trailer doesn't use Splattack!, it uses a legally distinct knockoff. Which, frankly, is funny as hell.

Onward has to be the most iconic leitmotif

Fun fact: if you play #8 regret backward and slightly sped up calamari incantation can be heard

i love hearing all the Onward!s in quick succession

3:36 Me trying to figure out the notes to splattack on my bass guitar without trying to search it up online

The way Splatoon references itself its own music is so cool

did this make anyone else really emotional??

Only thing really missing here was Happy Little Workers, it actually shows up quite a lot in the campaign (for obvious reasons)

Woah, the "Onward!" leitmotif actually gave my chills, it came from Splatoon 1 to the latest Splatoon 3 DLC

5:17 fun fact 8 is the only one who can hear this, when they heard the inkantation the first time it got  so implanted into their brain that they hallucinate it in the deepsea metro

13:02 the rondo singing ebb and flow sounds both silly, terrifying and, in context, a little sweet? singing its favorite song by its creator, if a bit broken because it was never meant to.

Splatoon music is the only thing that can consistently make me cry
8 years and it shows how much passion and love they put into this franchise

I wonder… if you played shooting starfish to an octoling, would they go back to living under the oppression of octoling society?

Edit: for those who aren't aware, this isn't a serious question, it's just a joke about the reversed calamari inkantation vocals in the song

5:26 some quick lore on the calamari inkanation:
It's an ancient folksong that came from fishing communities who used it to give thanks for the bounty of the sea. The squid sister's songs from S1 are all actually covers of old folk songs but done in a more modern style for the time.
The song is incredibly culturally important to the inklings, which is why the scroll says it "might as well be" written into the DNA of inklings

(note: the song is not *literally in their DNA*, it is a metaphor about how popular and well-known it is)

7:35 WHY IS IT SO CUTE HE’S SUCH A SCRUNKLY LITTLE GOOBER

There's more ones ✨️
-There's a different version of the song shellfie in the the new stages and gears trailer.
-We can here big man's chorus in now or never.
-the demo version of clickbait in the return to the mammalians trailer.
- demo version of C-side's splattack in the first splatoon 3 trailer.
- Uotaro's demo of Paintscraper.
- and I'm pretty sure Incoming got refrenced in other themes.

Timestamps

0:07 City of Color
1:24 Splattack
4:05 Now or Never !
4:26 Onward!
5:02 Calamari Inkantation
8:04 Ink Me Up
8:23 Bomb Rush Blush
9:08 Tide Goes Out
9:57 Color Pulse
11:45 Ebb & Flow
14:43 Muck Warfare
15:16 Acid Hues
15:50 Fly Octo Fly
16:32 Shark Bytes
17:20 Nasty Majesty
17:48 #0 Shell
18:11 #12 awake
18:33 Anarchy Rainbow
19:56 Anarchy Splatcast
20:12 Deep Cut's Theme
20:39 Clickbait
22:13 Rinse/Repeat
22:34 Learning Curve
22:51 Spectrum Obligato
23:45 #47 onward

ok I hate to be that person but there is actually one more calamari inkantation reference!! it plays in the Splatoon 3 player make tune, but only when you're editing the smallfry. which is very interesting, and I love it

11:35 It’s now been confirmed that this is the OTH Splatfest 2nd half song - We’re So Back.