Paparazzi
Paparazzi, also known as "Paparazzi Shuffle", is a stock music track composed by Jane Finstrom under Swarthy Publishing. In Club Penguin, it was used for a tutorial which was found in Club Penguin's website around 2006.
It was previously sold through the CD "Silly Stuff" in RoyaltyFreeMusic.com and through Studio Cutz under the name of "Paparazzi"[1][2].
The song is available for licensing through Smartsound, under the name "Paparazzi Shuffle", and is the only place where the song is officially called that. This is likely the case because of the fact that a different track named "Paparazzi" already existed in the website.
Uses in Club Penguin[edit]
In the Club Penguin website, Paparazzi was found in the path "clubpenguin.com/flash/500.swf", but it is unknown for what exactly this path was used for. It has been reported to have been used in Penguin Chat 3, but there is no concrete proof of that[3]. The earliest archive of this file is from November 10, 2007, but it's very likely it long predates being archived[4]. This file contains compressed, 43-second long version of the track, which is on a loop. Because the file is named like the other music, some have mistakenly believed to mean that Paparazzi is the track of ID 500, but the song is not stored in the music part of the media server.
It is reported and strongly believed that the track was used in an old tutorial that was available in the help page of the website in the early days of Club Penguin. Somewhere between February 7 and March 14, 2006, the tutorial started calling for a SWF named "500.swf", the same name as the known file of Paparazzi in the media server, and is thus believed to have been the same file. Other players have also reported the track being used, which corroborate this association. It is unsure for how long the track would have been in the tutorial. Some other reports show that C'est Chaud might have at some point in time replaced Paparazzi as the tutorial theme, though there is no concrete proof for this or a known timestamp. If that was the case, the track might have replaced it in 2007 or 2008. If Paparazzi was not replaced, then it is likely that it remained until the tutorial was removed, which was likely somewhere from April 13-16, 2008[5].
YouTube Link[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20050310124904/http://studiocutz.com/productdetails.php?albumid=36&setname=default
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20151001050658/http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/Silly-Stuff.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20240608153119/https://cpclubpenguincheatin.wordpress.com/club-penguin-swfs/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20070615000000*/http://www.clubpenguin.com/flash/500.swf
- ↑ Music of the Old Tutorial