Rock the house

Rock the House debuted in Pump It Up 2015 PRIME as a hard-dance number supplied by Matduke, filed under the World Music / Prime channel at 175 BPM. It has an unusual footprint: it was only included in the Korean, US and Canadian releases, and a full-length version exists on a 2013 Monstercat album. Its Short Cut actually began life as an original song early in Prime 2 before being reclassified as World Music. The BGA was made by ATTO., the same artist behind the Robot Battle BGA, who later illustrated Macaron Day.

The headline chart is the D22, and everything about it comes down to the ending. Its first half is undercooked for a level 22, but it closes with a 32nd-note drill that lasts roughly 2.7 seconds, equivalent to about 23 hits per second (the feel of BPM 350 in 16ths). It can't be cleared with a normal drill at all: you have to cross both feet and double-step at extreme speed, and the outcome depends heavily on pad condition, so player-to-player variance is huge. This section knocked FEFEMZ* out of the WPF2016 final and is notoriously disliked by Jboy, yet FEFEMZ* eventually landed an All Perfect on it. In XX, an SS rank or higher unlocks the DRILL Lv.8 title.

The rest of the spread is varied. The S8 is a tricky level 8 thanks to its syncopation and finisher, while the S10 reuses that rhythm but swaps the trills for twists. The S16 was lowered from 17 for being easy for its band. The D13 and an alternate S16 both came from UCS contests. The Short Cut S18 is a gimmick chart, a freeze-and-speed-change fake-out that forces you to step to the kick drum; in PHOENIX, an SSS rank or higher earns the GIMMICK Lv.5 title.