Tear Jerker / Friday Night Funkin' WITH LYRICS

The Boyfriend: "It's funny...when we were singing, I felt like everything was going to be okay...even though I knew it wasn't..."

— GARCELLO WITH LYRICS

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While this particular "With Lyrics" rendition of Friday Night Funkin' tends to be more Kinder and Cleaner than its source material, it can get pretty sad at times.

GARCELLO WITH LYRICS

• This particular rendition plays off of a common fan-speculated theory: Garcello being just another assassin sent by Daddy Dearest to snuff out The Boyfriend for good, and the fact that Garcello was tricked by one of Dearest's roadies into taking a cursed pack which kickstarted his addiction. As Garcello states later on; he was doomed to die one way or another.
• This is the first video to paint Daddy Dearest as the downright cruel and genuine threat he is occasionally painted as in the fandom, as opposed to being comically evil (Week 6 and 7, Hex), having a slight shred of respect for The Boyfriend (Dad Battle), or potentially having some form of genuine concern for others' well-being (implied in Whitty). Garcello's week is the first to paint him as an absolutely heartless bastard, to the point where even his own daughter is distraught about it.
• You can't help but sympathize for poor Annie. At first, one would imagine her cameo in Release would just be that; a cameo to acknowledge that Atsuover made both the Annie and Garcello mods, but RecD writes a full story for them, with Annie attempting to use her knowledge of "The Liquid" to help cure Garcello's curse, complete with funny visuals of it going wrong and heartwarming visuals of the two of them hanging out and enjoying each other's company. The fact that Annie herself shows up (played by Atsuover no less) at the end once Garcello is gone for good just makes things hurt harder, as she talks about how Garcello seemed like her Only Friend, and how she believes at first that the only reason Garcello went back out on the streets to pawn off his pack was because he thought that Annie couldn't save him.
  Annie: Hellooo Garcello! I'm back! Let's pour these liquids into you and kick that curse in its stupid curse face! …Huh? Who are you? And where's Garcy?
  The Boyfriend: He's… gone…
  Annie: What?! (drops her bottle with the subtitles reading "Shattered bottles… and hopes…" as the music slows to a stop) No no no… Not now… not this… I was so close!
  The Boyfriend: I'm sorry, Annie…
  Annie: He told you about me, huh?
  The Girlfriend: He told us a lot.
  The Boyfriend: And he wanted me to tell you that you helped him be at peace before the cigarette took him.
  Annie: (undergoes a Color Failure) Oh, okay, that makes me feel a lot better.
  The Boyfriend: Really?
  Annie: NO! Of course it doesn't! He was my best friend! I don't want him to be at peace! I want him to be at my house eating all the Cheez-its like he always does! And laughing to loud and...speaking too soft and...and making me feel like I'm good enough...
  The Boyfriend: I think you're good enough...
  Annie: Then why couldn't I save him?!
• When you think about it, despite it not having any known fatal or detrimental effects to her body apart from Hulking Out, Annie technically engages in substance abuse, too, and is what allowed her to get close to him in the first place.
• Furthermore, what's Annie's Leitmotif? "Good Enough". Not one of her jauntier songs like "Animal" or "Tug-of-war"... not even "Lover", the song that contains traces of "Fading" in its melody. Despite its upbeat melody, "Good Enough" is a song essentially about Annie/Atsuover fearing that she might not be good at anything out of self-doubt or laziness. It does have its own set of lyrics and they're...uh...not happy.

  Why would I continue being me

  When better people are all I see?

  There's nothing changed, doesn't matter if I'm here

  This time I might just disappear

• There's also something kind of sad about the beginning as well. It doesn't open with the Boyfriend feeling particularly happy. Instead, he's worried sick as to why Daddy Dearest is constantly after him despite his efforts to treat his daughter well. It also begins with the setup for "Mid-Fight Masses With Lyrics", where The Boyfriend wants to leave The Girlfriend at home while he sneaks off to Sarvente's church to have his sins forgiven. That's right: WLYR is actually dropping a comical subplot to a mod^note The Boyfriend looking for the bathroom within the church for a plot that might cause some discourse in the lead couple's relationship.
  • This is thankfully averted in "Mid-Fight Masses WLYR", which brings back the comical bathroom subplot, though it does reveal that The Boyfriend wanted to try and banish Daddy Dearest so that he and The Girlfriend could be together, and she seems distressed about the idea. Thankfully, she seems quick to forgive him.
• The video's sad enough that in the "next up" screen, everyone has a tear in their eye, and you don't even hear the usual menu selection sound from Friday Night Funkin either.
• One could also note something from the thumbnail of the video compared to the previous one before it. In the Week 7 WLYR thumbnail, sure, The Girlfriend is crying Ocular Gushers, but it's in reference to how Sergeant John Captain roasts her before "Guns" which, in the source game and in the video, causes her to play her crying animation from when you miss a combo. In the thumbnail for "Garcello WLYR", some expected the tears to come back, but instead she just looks uncertain, looking sullenly off to the side as if she doesn't know what to say which is further reflected in the video itself.

  The Girlfriend: I...couldn't find the words to say to him when he was here...and now that he's gone, I...all I can think of is...goodbye, Garcello.

Daddy Dearest FULL WEEK WITH LYRICS

• As much of a Jerkass Boyfriend-Blocking Dad he is, it's not hard to feel bad for Daddy Dearest when The Boyfriend accidentally reveals that he only wanted to rap battle against Dearest to convince him to let him date his daughter. Throughout the retelling of Week 1, it's abundantly clear that Dearest wants to come out of retirement and feels like The Boyfriend actively wants to help him do so.
• Daddy Dearest says his daughter is his only true fan...what does that say about his relationship with his wife? Considering there's a mod out there based on the concept of the two getting divorced, that might spell unfortunate implications for the Girlfriend's parents.

Mid-Fight Masses WITH LYRICS

• Demon!Sarvente is a Jerkass Woobie in this iteration of her canon, as she's rash and aggressive toward The Girlfriend, but after her transformation runs out, she reveals her true motive; she's trying to save people and get them to go to Heaven because she has been repeatedly rejected out of Heaven for centuries herself. Despite her being a pompous jerk earlier, it's very hard not to feel sad for her.