C'est Chaud

C'est Chaud, also known as "Folk Guitar" in Club Penguin, is a stock song composed and published by Jeremy Sherman. The track was first added to Club Penguin as igloo music, and was later used in a few different parties. The track was Sherman's third track to be added to Club Penguin, and is often compared to another one of his works that was added to Club Penguin earlier, Paris St. Germain, due to its similarity, using the same exact instruments.

The track was later rereleased in the album "Music of the Prohibition Era (1920-1940)" in May 1st, 2011, together with Paris St. Germain. It is streamable in Spotify and last.fm. It is also available on YouTube through Shockwave-Sound.com's channel.

It is available for licensing through NEO Sounds, provided by LynneMusic, and through Amazon.

Name

"C'est Chaud" is a french phrase, and literally means "it's hot" (as in the temperature), but it also has other meanings such as to indicate that something is challenging, or in other contexts, to indicate that things have gone downhill. This track is just another of Jeremy Sherman's works in the album "Music of the Prohibition Era" to have french influenced names.

Versions

The following different versions are for sale on NEO Sounds:

Version Name	Length	Description
Full track	1m 10s	The original, full version of the song.
Variation	1m 09s	An underscore version of the full version.
30sec	32s	A shorter version, which consists of the first 24 seconds of the full version, followed by its outro, the last 8 seconds of the full version.
Loop A	8s	The loop consists of the first 8 seconds of the underscore version.
Loop B	17s	The loop corresponds to the segment from 16 seconds to 32 seconds in the underscore version.
Loop C	8s	The loop corresponds to the segment from 8 seconds to 16 seconds in the full verison.
Loop D	17s	The loop corresponds to the segment from 16 seconds to 32 seconds in the full version.
Loop E	17s	The loop corresponds to the segment from 32 seconds to 48 seconds in the full version.

Uses in Club Penguin

In the web game, the track was the SWF of ID 209. The file contained 5 different music clips, compressed, labeled from 1 to 5, which compared to the loops from NEO Sounds, corresponds to the loops A to E, respectively, indicating the team probably had only access to the loops. The music played at random, progressively adding new clips to the random poll of clips each new clip. Being the only known file of the track in Club Penguin, it is likely all uses of the track used this version.

The track was initially used in Club Penguin for the igloo catalogue from March 15, 2007, where it was released under the name of "Folk Guitar", a name original to the igloo lists. It is unknown how long it remained available at that time, but evidence shows that it was still available on June 15, 2007, but had been removed by December 22, 2007, after which the track returned at an unknown point, being available again by January 25, 2008, where it again remained for an unknown amount of time, known to have still been available on July 18, 2008, but had been removed by October 17, 2008.

In-universe, the Penguin Band was releasing new tracks, which were being added to the igloo list from March 2007, with C'est Chaud being included in the list. Aunt Arctic commented in the newspaper about the release of the new igloo music, of which she wrote: “I've been listening to the "Folk Guitar" track a lot while I'm writing”.

There are sources that link this track with the old tutorial that played in the help page of Club Penguin. There are no archived files that prove the use, but YouTube videos of the tutorial seem to indicate the connection. If the track was used in the tutorial, then it likely was added at some point long after the tutorial release, in either 2007 or 2008, and it would have likely remained to be used there until the tutorial was removed, which is believed to be some time from April 13-16, 2008. Since the tutorial itself was never changed to accomodate for a new file, it is likely that instead the file which hosted Paparazzi was replaced with C'est Chaud, though said file has never been archived, so it is unknown if it exists. Judging by the videos in which it plays, the version is very likely the exact same as SWF 209.

The track featured in the "Silly Place" room of the April Fools Party in 2011 (March 24 - April 5) and in 2012 (March 29 - April 4), replacing Puffle Ragtime which was the room's music in 2010.

The track featured in the Extreme Paint Festival, which took place on November 10 to December 16, 2015 at the Dock room.

Notable Fan Works

On June 18, 2022, the Club Penguin High Quality OST channel on YouTube uploaded a mix of the track to YouTube which consisted of both the full version and the underscore version played in full. The mix's intent is to be able to show the "full potential" of the track, as since the Club Penguin version used the 5 loops, which consisted of segments of both the underscore and the full version, uploading either version would not have been enough to fully evoke the Club Penguin feeling of the track, but by using the full track instead of just the loops, a more complete experience could be delivered.