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In CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 you take on the role of V, a gun for hire in the dystopian metropolis known as Night City. Choose your life path; Corpo, Nomad or Street Kid and embark on a quest to uncover the secrets and conspiracies of the city and the Arasaka corporation all the while dodging magical teleporting police officers and hoping your car doesn’t sink through the asphalt.
It goes without saying that the much anticipated Cyberpunk has had a… rocky… first 6 months of life.
The nature of my videos means they take months to make and most of the time I need to work ahead, start making them long before a game releases. Sometimes that means a game releases in a poor state and I already have a song prepared. It happened with Fallout 76 and it’s happened again here!
Late last year I had this song ready, the props and costumes bought and the video planed all on schedule to be ready for the game’s release. Then Among Us happened and I decided ‘Cyberpunk is big enough to wait an extra month, I’ll squeeze in an Among Us video first!’
…Then Cyberpunk released. In the firestorm of response to the game I opted to shelve the project to return to at a later date in the hopes things would calm down and the game might improve. Well here we are! Has the game improved? Possibly. But I had a free slot in my schedule and all of the props and costumes ready and waiting to go so I decided it was time to make this thing happen! I already have too many other projects in long-term limbo to let this one wait any more!
This song focuses on the ‘Corpo’ world of Arasaka. (Are you surprised I took the corporate corruption approach?) My initial concept for the song was more about the world of corporate espionage, but as I wrote about this interconnected digital corporate world the idea shifted into the themes of data collection and privacy and how these issues that we are already facing today might take form in a world where the corporations so keen to know everything about you have direct unfettered access to the inside of your head.
It’s another ‘this is a song about the world of the game and using that world to explore a real world theme’ kind of song. Sorry if you were hoping for a song about shooting folks with laser guns and Keanu Reeves. 😉
A huge thank you to Cami-Cat for lending her stunning vocals to this track! I’ve wanted to work with her again ever since she joined me for ‘Slide Into the Void’ and I’m stoked to have her on this track. This might be one of my favourite choruses I’ve ever had and it’s in no small part thanks to her!
Another huge thanks to DefendTheHouse for generously allowing me to use their gorgeous Night City footage in this video. Link to their channel below for more awesome game captures!
#Cyberpunk2077 #Corpo
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Lyrics, vocals and video by The Stupendium
Guest vocals by Cami-Cat:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGkof8LRvN62anVl3O6xCcA
Cinematography by Paul Marke:
https://www.paulmarke.com/
Custom costuming by CosFia:
https://www.instagram.com/fia_cosplay/
Night City footage courtesy of DefendTheHouse:
https://www.youtube.com/defendthehouse
Set fabrication assistant: Nick J. Henderson
Mixing by oo Oxygen:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxWsEk2r3NF5XVyETPL2PrQ
Beat Production by The Artisans:
https://www.beatstars.com/theartisans/
Cyberpunk 2077, it’s world and characters are property of Mike Pondsmith and CD Projekt Red!
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LYRICS:
VERSE 1:
Eventually all walls meet demolition
So Wall Street had to keep the tradition
Their financial systems resigned to ignition
And out of the ashes, we have arisen
An empire is forged in the fire of ambition
In business there isn’t the time for attrition
Invest to suppress then ingest competition
Then each acquisition is new ammunition
When governments crumble and fall to the floor
That was paved with the graves of a corporate war
A fundament funded in blood just to shore
A foundation for founding our covenant – born
Of a need for control of societal entropy
Enterprise at the price of your indemnity
Chart out the course and of course you were meant to be
Bent to the will of a corporate entity
Arasaka Security. You’re in safe hands.
CHORUS:
We’re the light in your screens, we’re the lead in your veins
Then you wake from your dreams so we can sell them again
In the light we distract with the shiny and new
So you’re blind to the fact that the product is you
So let your brain dance and replay the dream
But don’t drown in the data stream
‘Cause we see where you are and we see where you go
‘Cause we know what you own and we own what you know
VERSE 2:
From the top of all our towers, the corridors of power clearly need rewiring
Arasaka saw the spark and then embarked upon the path to turn that spark to lightning
There’s no autonomous megalopolis so populous or prosperous you could reside in
And every citizen that’s living in this city is a digit on the charts we’re climbing
Political systems are too inefficient
They split like the atom and burned in the fission
Now every department and every decision
Defer to the herds of our corporate divisions
If you don’t remember the ballot you cast
It’s printed on every receipt you were passed
Each time you selected our products and services
We were elected in each of your purchases
What’s left to do when you’ve got the monopoly?
Turn the consumer into the commodity
It isn’t hard where you’ve hardware neurology
Honestly, do read the company policy
Take information and trade it for wealth
You pay it in each augmentation we sell
It’s easy to cut out the middleman
When he’s cut out most of himself
Arasaka Finance. Investing in your future.
CHORUS:
We’re the light in your screens, we’re the lead in your veins
Then you wake from your dreams so we can sell them again
In the light we distract with the shiny and new
So you’re blind to the fact that the product is you
So let your brain dance and replay the dream
But don’t drown in the data stream
‘Cause we see where you are and we see where you go
‘Cause we know what you own and we own what you know
VERSE 3:
All that you say on the net we composite
To maps that go straight from your head to your pocket
Complain if you want, you’re still making deposits
Of data – each day you log on is a profit
Society currently lists electronic
So isn’t conducting resistance ironic?
We’ve plenty of skeletons locked in our closets
But yours are assembled from old-stock hydraulics
So lucky we know just the pieces you need
All plucked from your social media feeds
The places you go and the posts that you read
All snatched for a new algorithm to feed
Now holding our gold isn’t par for the brand
Our silver is sat in the palm of your hand
Quit whining and sign on the line in the sand
The supply does not get to make the demands
Arasaka Manufacturing. Building a better tomorrow.
BRIDGE:
Name, Age, Qualifications
Race, Faith, Career aspirations
Political leaning, Daily commute
Marital status, Favourite fruit
Family, Browser, Medical history
Hobbies, interests, Brand affinity
Fashion, style, your occupation
Gender identity, orientation
Lifestyle choices, dietary needs
The marketing contact you choose to receive
Posts, likes, employers, friends
Social bias, exploitable trends
Tastes, culture, phone of choice
Facial structure, the tone of your voice
If it’s inside your head we know
You can’t escape the ebb and flow
CHORUS:
We’re the light in your screens, we’re the lead in your veins
Then you wake from your dreams so we can sell them again
In the light we distract with the shiny and new
So you’re blind to the fact that the product is you
So let your brain dance and replay the dream
But don’t drown in the data stream
‘Cause we see where you are and we see where you go
‘Cause we know what you own and we own what you know
VERSE 4:
(In the light we distract with the shiny and new)
When guiding the hand of the market
If it’s holding a cheque or a gun
The fingers go deep in your pockets
And you can live under the thumb
(So you’re blind to the fact that the product is you)
You seem so surprised
What did you expect?
We’re thinking outside of that box that you checked
The terms were presented in full to inspect
You scrolled to the end just to get to ‘Accept’
(In the light we distract with the shiny and new)
Arasaka would like to know your location
Arasaka would like to know your location
(So you’re blind to the fact that the product is you)
Arasaka would like to know your location
Arasaka would like to know your location
There’s Fine Print
And then there’s Fine Print (2077 Dance Remix)
Awesome!
I want a song on Starbound and i want it now.
dude i need to know what you use to edit stuff and the effects you use….
Finally! A cyberpunk song
Note to self; Force an employer at gunpoint to give me a job,so I can throw some monthly ducats at Stupes.
All those little callbacks to Fine Print were clever as hell man
I love Cami-Cat's voice. Kinda curious if Scandroid was part of it with the beat, would probably have taken longer to come out though XD. Not saying I hate the beat either, I love all the beats. Just typing out thoughts and maybe future suggestions, idk. Also as always, Stupendium captures the theme of the game in song
So you see, that’s where the trouble began.
4:09
That smile
That damned smile
The costumes are always top-notch, I always end up wanting to cosplay Stupendium more than the source material XD
I'm getting "The House Always Wins" vibes here, and I love it!
Nice nails @the stupendium
Perfection. Simply perfection.
Anyone who watches this, Another fucking Atom of Stupendium to rattle around in the heads of the masses!
Read about the way Habits are formed, this kind of Bias reinforcement is actually a much bigger problem than the fantastic narrative of conspiracy theories sound.
Because once formed, Habits Execute Automatically.
Tonight on Black Mirror…
PLEASE we NEED this on spotify
The visuals in this one are next level. Bravo man.
Great, as always.
The Adventisments before the chorus remind me of his Fnaf 6 song Fazbearfamily
This is tremendous, I LOVE IT !
And hey, 4:18 nice to include the pride flags <3
I just discovered it a while ago, I hope i will find much more of this
Great song, but the video crashed 30 seconds in. Disappointing
Have they managed to patch the game to the point of competence yet?
"Fine Print" is like the future if Walmart takes over, and this song is like the future where Facebook takes over