So to get it started, Stretchyman is a series created by Megacharlie in around 2013-2014 where it started with a pilot in which the publicity has been revoked. He doesn't allow a single person to see it. Approximately a year later however, Stretchyman Episode 1 released, which follows the plot of Stretchyman doing a scroll of about 500 or so chores, and then going to the arcade with the first ever known and released side character, Twozez. Stretchyman Episode 2 released just a month later, being the longest released episode as of August 10th, the release date of the Stretchyman Theme Song on Newgrounds, not in accordance to Streaming, where it was August 7th. This follows Stretchyman, his Car and Bert to the Breadman, the first known and the second currently released side character. Stretchyman, his car and Bert are his only three customers, so they decide to advertise his small stand, and they made an ad they may have regretted. Stretchyman Episode 3 released a month later, with the first mention of the Stick King. He says that he's better than everyone else, and Stretchyman denies this allegation. This makes the Stick King angry, and decides to make Stretchyman do a task for him, and that's to find this magic cow, which wasn't hard. All Stretchyman had to do was walk a couple meters to the Stick King's house and pull this lever and then the cow was found. The Hiding is the 4th known episode and was simply never released. It's known to have a lot of progress and is almost in a finished state, but Charlie in a more recent state, started working freelance as he was becoming an adult in need of a job, and therefore has needed to hold it off for more important tasks, but Charlie has stated that it likely will get done someday, but he doesn't know when that will be. Hopefully it can be soon though!

However, that was just the story of Stretchyman, the Stretchyman Theme Song is a song created by Cameron Crowe and help and support from friends. It was made in about a week and is 10 minutes and 39 seconds long. Boomy however, was the first to listen and give advice, back when the song only had a simple intro done, which his support had basically paved the way to the rest of the song being completed. It received feedback and knowledge from Derpy, socketlizard, Quad Kanix, MrFriday, Jsword and even Charlie as well.

The album cover was art made by Charlie years ago and gave permission for me to use as the album cover, along with some other art he made for the show. Charlie personally helped with the post-production and the pre-production, providing ideas before and even after the song was considered complete. He has said that it's my project and I should have the rights to it, but honestly I think that in at least some sort of aspect, we all have something liable that helped make it what it is, because this would have been a completely different song without it; and likely chance, not even a song at all.

However, this song is inspired by many other tracks that I felt make the song sound whole. The list of the exact inspirations will be linked below.

• 0:00-1:55 - Trouble in Town & Everything's Not Lost by Coldplay

The ideas from this are linked by the piano and drum selection used from Everything's Not Lost and the melodic temptation and the strings are inspired by those in Trouble in Town.

• 1:55-2:35 - The Hype by twenty one pilots

I really liked the synths and the strings used in The Hype, and I thought that the melody was fantastic, and they all clashed together pretty well in my opinion when trying to incorporate some ideas into the song

• 4:48-8:44 - Leave The City by twenty one pilots

Leave The City, especially when listening to all of Trench, is so mesmerizing. It's hard to explain. The synths, the piano, the impact of just it all ending is crazy. I had no other choice but to incorporate that emptiness into the song, especially with the lyrics also suiting it by talking about The Hiding, an unreleased and unknown heavily hyped project. Obviously, it isn't really taking what it is and making it my own, I want to make it stand out to differ from the other tracks. Luckily, this meant I had a better variety to work with, and I even incorporated some flute and string work, an idea from Derpy when he heard it for the first time.

• 8:44-10:08 - Goner by twenty one pilots

Specifically the ending. It's almost blatant, too. It almost feels like stealing, I'm not gonna lie. Either that or it was heavily inspired. One of the only things that differ this from Goner are like the chord progression and the use of the strings. So they aren't exactly the same, but they're very similar, and I still think Goner did it better. The vocals are heavily upbeat and I keep screaming 'season 2!' as if it's realistic. Just to mention now, no. This does not an indication that there is a season 2, or even if the hiding will be released. I still do not know, I am not Charlie, and I don't want to decide this for him. That is his series that this song is inspired by.

• 10:08-10:39 - Truce by twenty one pilots

I'm aware that it is a lot of twenty one pilots, and that we all know that Truce is very similar to Leave the City; and that is true, but it's specifically the piano. One of the only things that Leave the City does that's different from Truce is that Leave the City uses drums, it has vocal effects, it has synthesizers. Truce is just Tyler Joseph and the piano. That's what the ending is. It's using ideas from Truce and incorporating it into a way that fits nice as the ending to this song, and I think that it's done well. Not better than Truce though. Truce did it better than I possibly could.

That's what this song incorporates from others, and that's all it ever would be.

The song changes drastically dependent on the discussion of each episode, if you didn't know. Episode 1 and 2 are talked about in their own style, since they're the most popular and are grouped together. Episode 3 is it's own separate genre due to how unpopular but fairly decent it is. The Hiding is all over the place due to it being unknown, as stated in the lyrics. That's why it's genre changes a couple of times, and then is left off at a sad state with just the piano, the synth, and the flute. Then it picks all back up with the outro being about a (possible) season 2, and the excitement it may receive, due to Charlie having grown a bigger audience over the past 10 years, on Newgrounds and YouTube.

I would like to thank everyone who helped me work on the song. This means I would like to thank Derpy, Socket, Jsword, Quad Kanix, MrFriday, and last but certainly not least, Charlie for helping with absolutely everything that made the song what it is, without this crew, this song either wouldn't exist, or be different and likely worse beyond repair. Thank you again.

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