Music / Chuckie Finster

It's Chuckie.

Chuckie Finster is a hyperpop album created by Isaac Garcia, better known by his online pseudonym Kawai Sprite, released in September of 2020. It lends its title to a fictional character of the same name, likely due to the similarities between the character and the artist.

It features a series of frantic and abrasive music, most of which being focused on a crush Kawai Sprite has on someone over the internet. The album can be found on Bandcamp, Spotify and YouTube.

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Tracklist:

1. "Chuckie"
2. "Crush"
3. "Hotbun"
4. "Hypochondriac"
5. "Mountain Doo"
6. "Philly"
7. "Boyfriend"
8. "Blush"
9. "Talk 2 Me"
10. "I Got U"
11. "Gud"
12. "Pico Day"

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Tropes that can be found in Chuckie Finster:

• Auto-Tune: Used extensively throughout the album, likely as a stylistic choice.
• Broken Record: The chorus of "Blush" features the phrase "you and me" being repeated ad nauseum.
• Call-Back:
  • The lyrics in the climax of "Philly" callback to "Crush", with the phrase "even if things get rough, I still got you" being repeated at the end of the song.
  • The line "one time for my homies, one time" is used in "Chuckie", "Hypochondriac", and "Mountain Doo".
• Catchphrase: The song "Chuckie" birthed the phrase "It's Chuckie", which would later go on to be used in several of Kawai Sprite's later music, such as "100", "PBR & cigarettes" and "Fresh (Boyfriend Remix)".
• One-Word Title: Two thirds of the track list, with the exceptions being "Mountain Doo", "Talk 2 Me", "I Got U" and "Pico Day".
• Rhyming with Itself: "Chuckie" rhymes the word "time" with itself three times in a row.
  "One time for my homies one time
  Pico's done yeah I'll see you next time
  Every minute now it feels I might die
  What the fuck is wrong with me this time?"
• Sensory Abuse: The intro to "Hotburn" is certainly this, featuring deranged screaming from Kawai Sprite, simply because he "decided it was how (he) wanted to start the song".
• Sequel Song: "PBR & cigarettes" could be seen as this, featuring the same musical style and themes as the tracklist of Chuckie Finster, being released a little over a month after the album's release. This track seems to have more of a cynical outlook, simultaneously being a Boastful Rap while portraying Kawai Sprite as a Hopeless Suitor.
• Shout-Out:
  • The entire album is named after a character from Rugrats.
  • "Pico Day" is named after a holiday on the website Newgrounds, the holiday celebrating both the titular Pico character and the website as a whole.
• Surprisingly Gentle Song: Being placed right at the end of all the frantic and abrasive music that make up the album's track list, "Pico Day" is just a minimalist Pep-Talk Song being delivered from Kawai Sprite to himself.
  "I know people love me
  And I know that I have a place
  I know where I belong"

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