About

Sky High (Japanese: スカイハイ) refers to a style of MAD videos and YouTube Poop Music Videos (YTPMVs) that use the audio track "Dynablade Area 4", also entitled "Candy Mountain" in later series, from the Nintendo's 1996 game Kirby Super Star.^[1]

Simillar to Kirby's Gourmet Race, Sand Canyon and Masked DeDeDe, this audio track has been a popular music resource for online parodies through YouTube and the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND).

Origin

This song is written by Jun Ishikawa, the main composer of Kirby series.

According to Nico Nico Pedia^[2], an internet encyclopedia for NND, this song began to be used in MADs on NND in the first half in 2008. And the first video that led to a substantial increase in popularity of the series was "Kirby of the Star : Super Misao Deluxe" (星のカービィ　スーヴァーみさおデラックス) posted to NND on May 16th, 2008.^[3] This video features the Japanese anime Lucky Star^[4], and its title based on the Japanese original title of Kirby Super Star.

In addition, Because this song was also played in the other stage "Sky High Planet", This song and its video series became to be called Sky High as a popular name among NND users.

Spread

On Nico Nico Douga

Other MAD editors began to follow this video, make MADs with the phrasal template "(Kirby of the Star :) Super X Deluxe". More than 800 videos related to this song have been posted to NND.^[5]

On YouTube

This song is also popular among YTPMV editors outside Japan. This "Supr falcon Punch Deluxe", one of the imported videos from NND^[6], was able to reach a large audience partly due to it's incorporation of the Falcon Punch fad.

Many Kirby Sky High remixes have been posted to YouTube as well.^[7]

Examples

For more videos, check out the videos section in this entry.

Westerners' Draw

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