Video Game / Hit Single

Hit Single is a Friday Night Funkin' Game Mod created and directed by Churgney Gurgney along with a team of artists, coders, charters, etc.

The mod itself consists of songs made by Churgney Gurgney that he considers to be his "Hit Singles", some of which were intended for other mods, but were moved to this one after said other mods got cancelled.

Currently, the mod is in Pre-Alpha, with more songs planned for the future.

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Song List:

It's Time (Story Mode)

1. Silly Billy (Yourself vs. Boyfriend)

Lord X Songs

1. Trichael (Lord X vs. Boyfriend)
2. Joyous (Lord X vs. JoeDoughBoi)

Miscellaneous Songs

1. Darnell Wet Fart^note Formerly titled "Bold or Brash" (Teuthida vs. Mr. Krabs)
2. fakebaby (No More Innocence vs. Daddy Dearest)

Secret Songs

1. Car's Little Song (Car)
2. SoRetro (Retro Mario vs. Retro BF)
3. TRI-TORIAL (N/A)
4. The Power of Pig (Conan the Pig vs. Boyfriend)

Upcoming Songs

1. Joker's Trick
2. Grusthouse
3. Yumenated
4. Deathrun (EXE)
5. Lemmy Blast

Scrapped Songs

• Mutilate (KiloByte)

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Tropes:

• Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: Yourself twists his torso a full 360-degrees on a few occasions throughout "Silly Billy", notably when he transforms into a closer imitation of Boyfriend and later during his lyrical segment.
• Affectionate Nickname: Implied. The dev team has also taken to calling Yourself "Silly Billy," after the song. The thumbnail of the official upload has text saying "She calls me" between the words of the song title, implying that Herself used to call her Boyfriend "Silly Billy" as an affectionate pet name.
• Alternate Self: Yourself is a version of Boyfriend whose Girlfriend died, after which he went through some sort of dark transformation.
• Animation Bump: Near the end of "Silly Billy," as Yourself starts speaking, his motions are fully animated.
• Art Shift:
  • "Joyous" is completely rendered in 3D, as opposed to the rest of the mod being in 2D. Lord X himself resembles a stop-motion character.
  • The first part of "fakebaby" is rendered in a detailed, heavily shaded art style, but towards the end when No More Innocence warps himself and Daddy Dearest, the art style becomes more standard albeit in mostly monotone besides the red coming from the monitor Innocence appears from, with No More Innocence in particular resembling his older concept arts.
• Brick Joke: Part of the lyrics of "Trichael" mention Lord X having torn off his face. An update later, about halfway through "Joyous", Lord X's face appears to have been torn off, possibly by himself.
• Call-Back: Near the end of "Silly Billy", Yourself starts singing lyrics based on those heard from Sturm's prior lyrical cover of "Subterfuge", albeit with an altered motive to 2017X.
  2017X:
  I'll make... you play... along... in time with me!
  As soon I'll break... that space! Your heart... I shall set free, so follow me-!
  Yourself:
  I'll make... you say... how proud... you are of me!
  So stay... awake... just long... enough to see... MY WAY!
• Chase Fight: One of the secrets in the Garn47 game is the 3D chase sequence from Sturm's Subterfuge cover, complete with 2017X pursuing Tails alongside a fire tornado moving up the street the whole time. In addition, you can only run so far ahead of the tornado, so you have to avoid 2017X's attacks and let him clear any blockades to let you reach the exit.
• Cute Kitten: Car stands out among the cast due to being a kitten with a rather cute design (albeit downplayed due to being rendered in primitive 3D) and his childlike, innocent demeanor with a voice to match.
• Evil vs. Evil: In "fakebaby", Daddy Dearest, the main antagonist of Friday Night Funkin', has to face the extra evil No More Innocence.
• Face Death with Dignity: "Trichael" has vibes evocative of this, as Lord X discusses his vessel's decay and nearing death. That said, the lyrics also make it apparent that X isn't in any real danger of dying himself and will just move on to a new vessel. Inverted in "Joyous," where Lord X threatens his own creator that he'll kill him if he has to in order to stay as Lord X, ending with JoeDoughBoy's death.
• Face of a Thug: Yourself has gray skin, bony flesh, ragged and torn clothing and a pair of shadowed eyes matching with a mouth that opens a bit too wide. But his Suddenly Speaking segment implies he's not really hostile to Boyfriend, and just wants to make somebody else proud of him before they die.
• Facial Horror:
  • In the midway point of "Joyous", Lord X is missing his face, resulting in him putting his hand over where it once was, heavily implying that he doesn't want to be looked at. In some of his poses, he lifts his hand, allowing the player to see him without his face, and the sight isn't pleasant to look at.
  • Like his inspiration, Starved, Teuthida's face has been altered as a result of malnutrition caused by his new diet, in that his eyes have gone pitch black, his lips have peeled back, and his nose has fallen off.
  • Plankton, who occasionally appears in the background of "Darnell Wet Fart", also has a disfigured face in the form of a missing eye and peeled back lips.
• Foil: Lord X acts as this to himself between "Trichael" and "Joyous". Within "Trichael", he's mature enough to realize he has to let go now that his vessel is too weak to support him, and simply looks forward to what new life awaits him as he shares one last song with Boyfriend with his only intention being genuine, non-violent fun. "Joyous" meanwhile, is a Lord X who is not just incapable of moving on with his life, but uses his Fourth-Wall Observer status to threaten the life of his own creator in order to keep persisting as he is now despite the fact that he's beginning to fall apart mid-song.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: For a brief moment during Yourself's lyrical section in "Silly Billy", a ghostly manifestation of Herself, his counterpart to Girlfriend, can be seen embracing him from behind, only to disappear just as quickly.
• Game Within a Game:
  • As of the build that added "Silly Billy" to the mod, you can now play a 3D platformer known as "Garn47", and searching carefully enough will allow you to unlock four more songs.
  • In the same build, completing "The Power of Pig" lets you play a recreation of Conan's game of origin.
• Glass-Shattering Sound: During Yourself's solo, the mirror he emerged from cracks towards the beginning, specifically when he screams "Proud".
• Hero Killer:
  • Spongebob was one of Teuthida's victims, and his dismembered corpse can be seen on the floor in "Darnell Wet Fart".
  • No More Innocence killed Girlfriend prior to the events of "fakebaby," with Daddy Dearest fighting Innocence to avenge her.
• Interface Screw: Downplayed example in "Silly Billy", as Yourself's note chart is displayed on the mirror behind him as opposed to the left side of the screen, notably increasing in speed until they hit the strumline.
• Intentionally Awkward Title: A trademark of Churgney Gurgney's. fakebaby, Silly Billy, and especially Darnell Wet Fart are way too ridiculous for the dramatic songs and dark visuals they're attached to.
• Life Drain: Almost all songs have the opponent drain the player's health whenever they sing. Teuthida's health drain comes in the form of a "Fear Meter" that fills up as he sings, with the drain itself becoming more powerful the higher the meter fills up, while any notes that the player hits will drain the meter. If the meter completely fills up, it's an instant Game Over, regardless of how much health the player has once it's full. Averted with NMI, who doesn't have any health drain at all.
• Marathon Level:
  • "Joyous" clocks in at 6 minutes and 5 seconds.
  • "Darnell Wet Fart", while not as long as "Joyous", is still a bit lengthy at 4 minutes and 11 seconds.
  • "Silly Billy" manages to take the cake, clocking in at 6 minutes and 14 seconds in total.
• Mirror Match: "Silly Billy" is a more literal example than most, as Boyfriend faces off against Yourself: a twisted alternate version of himself who manifests out of a mirror. Partway through the song he even changes shape to match the real Boyfriend's proportions.
• Mythology Gag:
  • One of the different backgrounds that appears in "Joyous" is the Hill stage from Sonic PC Port.
  • "Darnell Wet Fart" is framed similarly to "Fight or Flight", in that the opponent is facing forward and the character the player controls is viewed from the back. The latter song was the inspiration for the former, and both songs were composed by Churgney Gurgney. The former song was even originally titled "Bold or Brash", a play on "Fight or Flight".
  • Mr. Krabs in "Darnell Wet Fart" is wearing his anti-ghost armor from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Pranks A Lot".
• Nightmare Face: When missing notes during "Car's Little Song", Car will sport a creepily warped sad expression that constantly glitches and deforms. Eventually, his face will deform to the point of looking like it's collapsed in on itself.
• No Indoor Voice: Garn47 himself embodies this in his game, shouting "It's awesome!" or an equivalent on the title screen, can occasionally shout Car's name loudly when calling him over, and if he's provoked into doing so, he'll angrily shout at Drilly, the helper character, to shut up if he delivers one too many tips.
• Non-Indicative Name: "Darnell Wet Fart" is unrelated to Darnell from the Pico franchise. The song is simply named that in reference to an in-joke from the development of the mod the song was originally for, Mistful Crimson Morning.
• P.O.V. Cam:
  • "Joyous" takes place from JoeDoughBoi's point-of-view. Unlike the other playable characters in the mod^note Boyfriend, Mr. Krabs and Daddy Dearest, he lacks any visible features.
  • The last part of "fakebaby" takes place from Daddy Dearest's point of view, being able to see his hands with NMI right in front of him.
  • The Suddenly Speaking segment of "Silly Billy" has this as well, after Yourself breaks the mirror.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: Yourself tells somebody to "stay awake just long enough to see my way," asking them to hold onto life until he can make them proud.
• Rage Against the Author: "Joyous" has Lord X face off against his own creator, JoeDoughBoi, with the former's spoken words making it very clear that he has no qualms harming the latter. The screaming heard at the end of the song, along with the flames engulfing the screen, heavily implies that Lord X kills JoeDoughBoi.
• Rock Falls Everyone Dies: "Darnell Wet Fart" ends with the building Teuthida and Mr. Krabs are in collapsing around them as Teuthida screams in horror, with Word of God confirming that he died, while leaving Mr. Krabs' fate ambiguous. Teuthida's death also doubles as him being an Asshole Victim, as he'd become a cannibalistic serial killer, with his handiwork visible in the stage's background. invoked
• Sizeshifter: Yourself is normally a more realistically proportioned version of Boyfriend, but he shrinks down to the real Boyfriend's size midway through "Silly Billy" before changing back.
• Spell My Name with a "The": No More Innocence refers to himself as "the No More Innocence" twice.
• Suddenly Speaking: "Trichael" and "Joyous" both have instances where Lord X sings actual lyrics instead of being confined to the typical FNF-style chromatic scale. It's more frequent in "Trichael". Same applies to Yourself towards the end of "Silly Billy."
  • Inverted with Car in "Car's Little Song". He speaks normally in the introduction, but briefly switches to "singing" with a chromatic scale before properly singing.
• Synthetic Voice Actor: Car is voiced by the "Ana" text-to-speech voice from ttsfree.com.
• Unexpected Gameplay Change: "TRI-TORIAL" is not an FNF track at all, instead being a fully instrumental electronic track with visuals of a Lord X-themed level of SOUND VOLTEX. The UI is also changed accordingly, including the addition of a more traditional note highway and a recreation of an SDVX controller replacing the strumline.