Forest Rain
Active since	December 2011
Known as	Musician

Forest Rain is a Canadian pop/rock musician doing both covers and original songs. He also publishes readings of fanfics on his YouTube channel and was the creator and producer of the Massive Smile Project (see below). He has written one original short story.

Contents 1 The Waterfall 2 Join The Herd 3 The Massive Smile! Project 4 Selection of other songs 5 References 6 External links 7 Comments

The WaterfallEdit

The Waterfall
The coverart on FIMFiction
Writer(s)	Forest Rain
Date published	February 12, 2012
Words	1,121
Status	Complete
Type/genre	Romance Slice of Life

The narrator of this story is a male Pegasus also named Forest Rain. He's an omniscient narrator, relaying not only his own emotions and memories, but also those of his parents. The bulk of the story describes a day on which his father and mother (who is pregnant with him) discover a beautiful waterfall and decide to name their as-yet unborn son after the location. A reading of the story is available on Forest Rain's YouTube channel.

Join The HerdEdit

Join The Herd
Composition	The Offspring (original)
Lyrics	Decibel, Forest Rain
Arrangement	Forest Rain
Vocals	Forest Rain
Published	March 11, 2012
Duration	2:49

The song uses the melody of You're Gonna Go Far, Kid by The Offspring under new, pony-related lyrics. The song features a primary "character" and a chorus, both entities performed by Forest Rain.

The character is a skeptic who can't believe someone would enjoy a "girly" show like Friendship is Magic, and who's especially annoyed someone would ask him to give the show a chance. After this tirade, the perspective shifts briefly to the chorus for the refrain, which consists of the names of the main characters and the assertion that the skeptic will no doubt see the light eventually if he is not afraid to try. The skeptic comes back in and has to admit that the show is pretty cool after all. He announces his intention to watch the next episode when it airs and then joins the chorus in singing the refrain.

Forest Rain released a slightly different version of the song a few days later. It has received numerous covers and music videos with clips from the show.

The Massive Smile! ProjectEdit

Smile!
Official video; original audio here
Published	April 29, 2012 (audio)
Duration	3:50 (audio)

"The Massive Smile! Project" is modified cover of the Smile Song Pinkie Pie sings in the episode A Friend in Deed. The project was initiated and produced by Forest Rain and is a collaboration between eleven vocal soloists, several other musicians providing instrumentals, and over a hundred backup singers. Soloists include WoodenToaster (singing without electronic distortion), Mic the Microphone, The Living Tombstone, Forest Rain himself, and Jenny Nicholson (the primary voice actress and co-writer for Friendship is Witchcraft). The initial casting call went out via social networks on February 23, 2012 and was picked up by news blogs a few days later.

While not part of the Seeds of Kindness fundraiser - the song is not on the album -, it was eventually decided that it should complement and raise awareness for that charity drive. An animated music video by BronyDancyParty depicts the pony alter egos of all the soloists and many of the other singers (though Jenny Nicholson's "OC" looks just like Pinkie Pie). It was produced concurrently with the song, finished a few days after its release and published after the initial Seeds of Kindness funding goal was reached on May 11, 2012.

The song technically premiered on the Brony Talk show on April 19, 2012, and ran several times on this and other live online radio programs (such as Fillydelphia Radio) before being broadcast "officially" on Everfree Radio on April 29. Daniel Ingram mentioned the project several times on Facebook and "liked" the final version when it was done.^[1][2][3]

Selection of other songsEdit

Published	Title	Length	Genre	Notes
2012-01-05	So Much Left To Know	3:59	Musical/Broadway	Cover of song by MandoPony
2012-02-09	Luna (Alt Mode)	3:16	Rock	Cover of song by Eurobeat Brony
2012-04-12	Hay Ms Derpy	3:55	Rock	Collaboration with Axel Gunn & Cyril the Wolf
2012-05-26	Trixie	4:30	Rock	Collaboration with Axel Gunn & Cyril Lyric

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ Forestrain on RDN, mentioning a reply by Ingram (2012-03-03).
2. ↑ Entry on Daniel Ingram's facebook wall (2012-04-21).
3. ↑ Entry on Daniel Ingram's facebook wall (2012-05-01).

External linksEdit

• Forest Rain's YouTube channel
• Forest Rain's Twitter
• Forest Rain's tumblr
• Forest Rain on the Rainbow Dash Network
• "The Waterfall" on FIMFiction