Check out Dan's ALTERNATE ENDING! ruclips.net/video/4y46LYa1OUU/видео.html LYRICS: INTRO: Steel, iron, nuts and bolts Poor man’s gold in rusted vaults Scrap, tin, wheels and gears Shift by shift and year by year Rod, beam, sheet and plate Ironclad, you sealed your fate All that shines shall fade in time Welded put the day you signed VERSE 01: The production line You better do your best, forget about sunshine ‘Cause you won’t see it where you’re going And the only thing you know is You won’t get to have your lunch on time Or ever again, ‘cause every second you spend That isn’t meeting an end that an executive penned Is another debt that you render that’ll let them extend Upon the length of your tenure where you’re ever condemned Well, would you look at that, life’s coming thick and fast, I run and Zig and zag amid the tat, pick and pack, bric-a-brac Click and drag, mix and match, stick a stack in my sack ‘Til it could fill a skip of scrap then bring it back quick as a flash We’re scrappy and resilient, we’re happy and we’re diligent But that’s just if you’re listening to marketing transmissions Contractually itinerant, a dastardly predicament Entrapped within a system hauling scrap for the omnipotent Voices in the radio that point us in which way to go The base we’re excavating, what we’re paid and then the pay we owe Uncertain of the purpose to the service that we’re slaving over Purge the lunar surface of its worth to meet the daily quote MAIN CHORUS: Some of us are living to work Some of us are working to live Some of us are making while others are just taking And some of us are dying to give VERSE 02: Whoop! Yay! Hooray! Another day at the office Slaving away and generating the profits Heading straight for the pockets of the laziest bosses If it wasn’t for me then they’d be making a loss, it’s A struggle working double shifts, selling my soul So my landlord doesn't have to do any at all I’m clearly very important while you’re merely a drone Giving me steady employment just to dwell in a hole That I can barely afford, belly unfilled like Oliver Twist Begging for more, I don’t want to exist No longer stomaching it, wanna be somebody different But I’m stuck as it is, so stuff it, double my shifts Rub out the family time in your diary, erase it all They’ll only hire me if I’ll be reliably available Yet I appear, clearly entirely replaceable The irony’s I find it to be kind of inspirational Anxiety’ll make you more inclined to reach a greater goal Until you find me crying quietly against the wall I miss my wife, I miss my kids I miss my life, can’t live like this! Perhaps for once if salary might rise in line with rent We’d have the funds to rise and shine, not rise in line, content To sacrifice our family lives to those on high, hell bent On empires founded on the thousands drowned in the cement PRE-CHORUS: I am the very model of a model employee I never leave my shuttle, can’t afford to pay those fees My overtime does overtime, I work nine days a week And I never hit that bottle ‘til it’s time to take a pee MAIN CHORUS: Some of us are making a killing While some are barely making a living Is a life worth saving without life savings? It’s a 9-to-5, 25-to-life in prison VERSE 03: Lift off, tick tock, the big clock’s a-tickin’ Drift in, dropped off at the drop ship’s position Sod tip top condition, a tip’s what you live in Drop shipping top tip - “Tips will not be given” With this cost of living what do lives cost? Well, the customer ain’t fussed over the lives lost We’re discounted, under the counter, half off In stocks, at the gallows for the price drop To rock bottom, ba-da-da-dum Sing the jingle, give a whistle, here’s your lot, plod on It’s official, sacrificial, sing the company song ‘Fore they bop the stop-button on your oxygen Two guys moonlight on a new moon nightly Tryna find loot like, “Ooh that’ll do nicely” Lamp, cookie mold, jar, fish, stop sign Pan, whoopie, gold bar, gift box, MINE! No, mine! NO, MINE! [mine explodes] Should you be hurt in our place of employment It’ll be worse than a band-aid and some ointment There isn’t a nurse with whom to make an appointment There’s really just certain doom; painfully poignant Each day tossed upon the scrapheap Struggling to meet pay, care to mind the gap, cheap Labour can be replaced when there are fatalities Several men a week slayed, tumbling from the gantries In what kind of dimension is debris so decrepit Worth more than all the lives amongst the men you send to get it? The minions paid a pittance from the millions you inherit And then billed for the equipment ‘fore they get to spent the credits SPOKEN INTERLUDE: Have you had an accident at work that wasn’t your fault? No, you haven’t It absolutely WAS your fault! MAIN CHORUS: Some of us are living to work Some of us are working to live Some of us are making while others are just taking And some of us are dying to give We all bought the production line We all toe the production line We all march in production line We all signed the production line BRIDGE: It’s a hell of a show, better the devil you know Just another shift, try to keep a grip Haven’t slept a wink and my vision starts to drift We’re here to sell you your soul, next day and ready to go Filling up the ship, just another trip Maddened, on the brink, in no position to resist The wheels of progress, they turn, so get ahead or go home I got a quota to meet or else it’s over for me And when my rota’s complete then I can hopefully leave Just never question what burns to run the engines below We were sold on a dream but now they won’t let us sleep Take a moment to grieve and you’ll owe them a fee VERSE 04: My school careers adviser couldn’t be any nicer She was just like, “Might as well give up and die, bruh” It isn’t that likely we’ll experience retirement When staying alive’s a minimum requirement I’ve trained, I’ve tried, ‘til I’m strained, I’m tired I’d trade my trade for a train driver’s But I’m afraid that the end of the line Isn’t a place I’ll arrive ‘til the end of my life PRE-CHORUS: I am the very model of a model employee ‘Cause I’m used to being toyed with by those far bigger than me Painfully aware my fate to bear’s as cog in a machine Just one more face cast off to space for products on a screen FINAL CHORUS: Production line Production line Production line Production line Production line Production line Production line Production line We all bought the production line We all toe the production line We all march in production line We all signed the production line Some of us are making a killing While some are barely making a living Is a life worth saving without life savings? It’s a 9-to-5 25-to-life in prison Some of us are living to work Some of us are working to live Some of us are making while others are just taking And some of us are dying to give It’s a hell of a show, better the devil you know We’re here to sell you your soul, next day and ready to go We all signed the production line
"I am the very model of a model employee , cuz I’m used to being toyed with by those far bigger than me" is such an unbelievably raw line, it perfectly captures the mood of Lethal Company (not that the rest of the song doesnt- it all does!)
raw and makes sense since model could be interpreted as a miniature version of a real thing. Models like action figures get toyed with by humans much bigger than them. Not sure how obvious that was to people but it took me a second to get it.
It's a tiny detail, but I love the little patches on the suits. A tiny little expression of individuality on top of a concealing uniform that strips away individuality and humanity, a carefully constructed vent outlet within bounds that don't threaten the bottom (production) line. And, without those, it's genuinely hard to tell who's who when those helmets are on.
1:59 "My son will be turning 18 later this year and as i have yet to meet him, i humbly request that i might perhaps see him for half an hour to mark the occasion?...please?" The details in the actual video are almost as good as the songs, BANGER
i love how very little of the song seems to actually involving life-threatening things (I.E. monsters) making it very clear that "hey this is about more than Lethal Company"
Well, yeah, it's barely a Lethal Company song. It's a Corporation Bad song with a very impressive Lethal Company set of visuals made for them to wear and interact with.
@@madiz4228I mean the lore is that a giant monster “hires” them to find human scrap….for something, it’s less lazy bosses and more eldritch horror hires human to feed them as they slowly become insane or die
The dead emotionless stare as they did the dance is the face of men who worked months upon months for the company and just had enough after being struck by lightning for the 20th time.
I worked blue collar jobs (formally factory work, now I'm an electrician) almost all my life and every now and then you'll get an executive that would think that mandatory "fun" things like group dances or stretches would be more beneficial than a pay raise. The workers all have that dead look in thier eyes as the foreman half-heartedly guides the guys through the motions so we can all get back to why we're there in the first place.
@@05-04| It's a reference to Amazon, which was woking its warehouse employees so hard they didn't even have time to use the bathroom, and instead had to pee in bottles.
I love how this is literally not a lethal company song, it's just a corporate greed song with the guise of lethal company. Stupendium and Dan you only make bangers!
@@nnnn8029 Data Stream especially. That break where he lists all the shit they track, was literally taken straight from the list of stuff Facebook tracks
I haven't played this game, but I don't understand why people complain that Stupendium and Dan Bull took a different path lyrically to not be so close to the original game. I love this! It's so deep, it's lyrically wonderful... AND THAT CHORUS IS SO CATCHING... AAAA!!! I LOVE IT!! Sparked a genuine interest in the game, i have to try it.
Petty sure people are complaining because it's like you're saying you've mad ean improved BLT, but instead of Bacon and Tomato, you've put grilled beef and onions in the sadnwich instead
@@sarge1408no, it’s more like they were tasked to create a meal using a certain set of ingredients, and they made a proper 5 star meal but people complain because it wasn’t junk food that. they didn’t go for the low hanging fruits of comedy writing just making references like marvel and people who are too used to that and expect that level of quality mistake it for poor writing
the way thier name tags doesn't have thier names on them and just says "employee' is such a good detail because in reality when you're at this kind of working environment you're just that, an employee to them you have no name, no personality, you're just there to make them money
"Mine" "No, Mine" "No, MINE" lmao. Genius lyrics, genius set design, genius video.... GENIUS, as always. You and Dan have both outdone yourselves once again!
"I'd trade my trade for a *train driver's* but I'm afraid that the *end of the line* isn't a place I'll arrive 'til the end of my life!" That's SUCH a great little nod to the last song Stupes and Dan Bull have collaborated on AND I'M LIVING FOR IT!!
"Ah, you figured it out! Would you like a cookie?" -your brain, F:NV I jest, but honestly stupes' songs.... stupend me with how much they contain secrets. Call me stupid, but i realied about 1 1/2 years after the remaster of "the second" that the title is a pun name.
Every time someone makes something, it's about more than the idea. It's communication. Start with something you feel so hard it grabs your bones inside your flesh, and it doesn't matter if its fanwork-- people will feel it whether it's your original story or another that inspired you.
“I’m the very model of a model employee” both a reference to “The Very Model of a Modern Major General” AND Ad Infinitums line “The very model of a major general store” Well played, Xir, well played
first of all, i know NOTHING about lethal company. im thinking that dance at 3:20 is an emote? if not i find it genuinely so silly to see. secondly, the SET PIECE of this is insane. first time watching i was so busy enjoying the music i didnt realize the set was so incredibly impressive
I like how this song barely talks about the robotic, eldritch, paranormal or cryptid horrors that the game is about and just focuses on the working class stuff. The only thing more horrifying than the unknown is a deadline
wow, if i had a nickel for every time stupes and dan got together and made a song about a horror game with the word "line" in its name that had two alternate endings, i'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
If I had a nickel for every time stupes and Dan go to SPACE to engage in DANGEROUS TASKS in silly SPACESUITS. Oh yeah. alongside that. In one of the two alternate endings STUPES ENDS UP BEING THE BAD GUY.... I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but its weird it happened twice.
"Our empires founded on the thousands drowned in the cement" is my favorite line. Just upon hearing the opening tune did I know this was going to be a Stupendium hit
Its a beautiful line and extremely true. In the US we rarely hear about the hundreds of thousands of laborers from across the world were used like slaves and died building the dams and railroads not that long ago
“lift off, tick tock, the big clock’s-a-tickin’, drift in, dropped off at the drop ship’s position, sod tip top condition, a tip’s what you live in, drop shipping top tip, [TIPS WILL NOT BE GIVEN.]” is so pleasing to the ears
How in the world do flip the words tip top so much and still make it absolutely fire....only stupes and dan know Also the whoopy, gold bar (whoopi goldberg)
@@emmettwinroth1316Listening to that song after listening to this banger made by Stupendium is like the difference between biting into a apple pie and a cow pie. Stupes Is the apple pie.
I feel like if I looked hard enough, I'd be able to find every line of this song in a comment saying it's their favorite. Which says a lot about how AMAZING this song is.
Woken up with this song for the past 2 weeks, it falls right in my vocal range so I can belt it out without warming up and it kickstarts my day. Thank you to everyone who made the song, and those folks who support this team's ability to continue making music!
Stupe's amidst all the heavy themes, I couldn't help but chuckle at the "Have you had an accident at work that wasn't your fault?" interlude. It's a clever nod to those ubiquitous workplace safety ads that always seem to pop up when you least expect them. Overall, a fantastic piece of music for THE COMPANY with layers of meaning and a sprinkle of humor to keep it all balanced. Stupendium/Dan Bull really nailed it!🔥
It's so real too, I had an injury at work that made my back useless for the next few months and all I got told was that I should have done better. Didn't even bother pursuing workers comp, I've never seen it given in my life
Stupes popped off with this one. I mean, anticapitalism and Stupes go hand in hand, but they really made a working class anthem. The day before this was posted, I was fired with no warning even though I worked more overtime than anyone else. This absolute banger is gonna be the fight song for a bit. The line "I am the very model of a model employee ‘Cause I’m used to being toyed with by those far bigger than me" COULD NOT have hit harder than it did today. All love Stupes. Keep doing what you do best.
3:04 is literally EAR CANDY. Also wanted to add that the set looks INCREADABLE. It's probably one of my favorite sets you've done by far with it being incredibly detailed! Bravo to literally everyone who work on the video
"Did you hear that Stupedium song?" "Which one?" "The one about how Capitalism corrodes and destroys everything it touches." "You're going to have to narrow it down some more."
very minor detail, but I love how, in the credits, the beat for the backing track comes in just as Stupes thanks Freshy and Free for help making said beat.
I gotta say, listening to it again i really love how the beginning of the song starts like a song sung by the masses, almost like a work song, that then refines into the personal singing - it feels like we're getting a view of the company as a whole before zooming in on two unfortunates!
I know what you mean. I really enjoy the work song at the beginning, I’d say it’s my favorite part! Don’t get me wrong, the whole song’s a banger, but I’m curious about what it would’ve sounded like if they stuck with the work song.
@@grimlockthetyrant4521 that's exactly what im thinking! that initial part set the bar so high for me, it is probably my new favourite verse in stupe's songs. i really wish we could get another song focused on that style
Now, with me being an active Lethal Company player, upon seeing the teasers for this, my mind started imaginating how the song/video would end up like. I had huge expectations. I only expected an amazing output. But THIS? This is just ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING. The Game-accurate Sets? The catchy as hell song? The insane vocals and production on the instrumentals? The Cinematography? The Props? The creative direction the song took? This is, without exaggeration, the best thing to ever come out from Lethal Company, including the game itself. Y'all have outdid yourselves. Now I'mma go, I swear there was an headless dog 'round there. I fear I might've played this song too loudl...*LIFE SUPPORT OFFLINE*
In the age-old tradition of shouting out lyrics that go hard, I gotta give love to "at the gallows for the price drop" and "just never question what burns to run the engines below"
Empires founded on thousands drowned in cement. Wow. It's so hard to pick just one line from this amazing work of art. It's so perfectly distilled "Stupendium talks corporate greed" that it's iconic, of course. But man. The hardness of these lines makes me think it'd sell better than the gold we're grabbing to hit quota. Platinum song indeed.
It's a reference to real world fact, that during construction of large buildings almost inevitably someone drowns in cement. They aren't even recovered from it.
"Lamp, cookie mold, jar, fish, stop sign, pan whoopie, gold bar, gift box, mine!" That is so perfect and i have no idea how you came up with such a good rhyme. 💯
1:42 This line has nothing to do with the game, and I could not be happier that it is in here, good work, guys! You truly went above and beyond your quota, and I hope you can afford a great luxury, like radio, or flashlights.
My two favourite tidbits of this are the nod to "The End of the Line", and the incredibly tired and lifeless dancing around the 6 minute 13 mark. So much fun. Great work, Stupes and Dan!
I found Toybox by the stupendium the other day scrolling and I looked up your channel yesterday and I found this masterpiece of music. And even better with Dan bull! It’s a Chef’s kiss if you ask me. Keep up the great work Stupendium!!!❤
The continued theme of calling out late-stage capitalism for being lethally toxic to basic human existence in Stupendium (And Dan Bull! Danpendium? Stupendibull?) videos never fails to bring a smile to my face, a tear to my eye, and a refreshed terror to my soul. Well done!
“lift off, tick tock, the big clock’s-a-tickin’, drift in, dropped off at the drop ship’s position, sod tip top condition, a tip’s what you live in, drop shipping top tip, [TIPS WILL NOT BE GIVEN.]” Is extremely satisfying because Dan Bull and Stupendium are some of the best wordsmiths when it comes to rhyme scheme in the entirety of nerdcore. They have usage of the repeating, back to back i and o vowel sounds, with them generally following a pattern but sometimes deriving from it to add the variety in those lines. Also, they maximize the words by using all their dictionary and slang usages throughout those lines. for example, they use "tip" as in 1. tip/peak condition, 2. tips as in a location on a shape, 3. top tip/effectively, 4. [TIPS WILL NOT BE GIVEN] is an double entendre because they mean either they wont give help/advice, or as in the money donation. It's just astonishing how far they have come and how amazing they are at writing.
My peep, this is so frickin good. I decided to check back on the channel after repping yall to a friend, as it’s been a year or two since I’ve exited your Spotify and yeeted to your videos/newer songs, and Y’ALLLLL. Everyone else is gonna go on about the rhymes, which are /absolute fire,/ but I GOTTA just explode about the musicality of this. It’s so JAZZY- please, seriously, feel absolutely free to make more jazz-adjacent stuff in the future, because that pizzacato bass with the piano goes SO HARD. And yall, the way you and Dan mess with stolen time in this is SO SATISFYING oh my gods, I literally could point any of the a dozen points in both the sung and rapped portions of this where yall just play with the beat like it’s NOTHING. And when you reference the “bustin makes me feel good” song (ha!), I can totally tell yall probably saw where the bass line was going (“-duction” repeating sounds close to the way “bustin” created the melody- assuming its melody, I have a spotty vocabulary for music stuff - in the cicirega remix) and threw it in. It just sounds so good. And also? The actual song is ALMOST SEVEN MINUTES LONG, and you CAN’T EVEN TELL. Like, it just sounds complete. The Data Stream is one of my all-time favorites from yall, and even in that song you can kinda get the sense that it goes on for longer by the third verse (and I loop that one a TON- it’s not a knock on it by any means!), but /this/. It’s just. It’s just really good. I love how you repeat the melodies (I really hope I’m using that to mean the right things!) for the chorus and the bridge while changing the lyrics a bit each time to give variations/progression on each theme- you still get that satisfying structure of the kind of song you might hear on pop radio, but you’ve done something far more creative with it (also, with a song this long, you get to repeat it more than twice, and MMM as someone who prefers longer songs in general, this is like scratching a brain itch). This is probably one of your best ones yet, both musically and lyrically (like gods, lyrically. Literally losing it over here, yall and Dan manipulate the English language like you’ve both written it). I’ve already looped this straight for like six hours since discovering it, and it’s been perfect for focusing on some art I’m working on. Also, i gotta stop somewhere before i find RUclips’s character limit for comments, but i am absolutely STUNNED with this video. I literally can’t wrap my head around how you managed this cinematography, let alone just /how many graphics/ y’all had to design and edit in. Like? Coming from the Data Stream and The Fine Print- which were already incredible- not using in-game footage when those were like 50% in-game footage is. I don’t even know how your computers rendered this. This is crazy. Basically, this slaps so hard. 1,000,000%. And lastly, I just saw the change in the channel description (it must have really been a bit since I’ve been around!), and happy early Pride!!! Us in the NB collective welcomes such an adequate wordsmith with open arms
Oh my gosh, this was so lovely to read, thank you! I'm really glad you've enjoyed this track so much, it was just as much fun for us top make as it was for you to hear! I love working with Dan, I feel we really bring out the best in each other's writing and performing and we really pushed ourselves to try new things in this track, I'm so happy you noticed and appreciated! (I was very proud of the Ghostbusters/Bustin' reference, haha, well spotted!) And not only that but thank you for the support! Being openly gender-non-conforming with such a large platform is quite intimidating at times, comments like that mean so much!
The mine line is genius it reminds me of the time my friends and I had like 500 dollars from one moon carrying it through the facility and someone yelled "MINE!" and we all blew up. Incredible song as always!
I really like the easter eggs in the video Like the REQUEST DENIED for meeting my son on his 18th birthday Really helps underscore the depressing theme of the song
Yesterday in the supermarket someone pointed to my Stupendium brand hoodie (tm) and said “no I in team” and we both said “but theres con in economy!” And my friend put their head in their hands
MAANN THEE DETAIL AND REFERENCES OF THIS SONG IS JUST PHENOMENAL! Love your dedication and work as always for giving it a feel of belongingness to the game, literally got those props and scenes right on the mark. Addition to that, you and Dan Bull always amazes me the way you rhyme lyrics, a lethal duo indeed.
Thank you for making these so upbeat. Some of these lines bring up some painful memories, but they're worth remembering. The energy definitely pushes it in a "laugh rather than cry" direction.
Stupendium; I've gotta hand it to you. Not only is this a rather good song ( Within your rather well-established niche of 'Evil Corporations' ) But, one of your last songs; Adequate Wordsmith to be specific, actually got me to start working on a project of mine. While i have stalled for the moment, you did it; you got me to start- and that's more than i had before. Thank you.
The production value, as always, is fantastic. While maybe not at flashy as some Stupendiums other works, the costumes, props and set look like it came straight out of the game. The song is fantastic as well, it has a great beat, and the rhymes flow immaculately.
Stupendium ALWAYS surprised with these absolute head bopping songs. He somehow makes me have a new favorite song. First, art of darkness, and then find the keys, and then tune into the madness, and then The End of The Line, and then rest and employed, and then the house always wins remastered, and then the ribbon, and then dead ahead, and then vault 76 remastered, and finally this song. Good job Stups, you made me think you couldn't do any better than you have.
OMG this was amazing and hilarious but was anyone else expecting this song to be about how much we love the company and it getting progressively darker?
Some of us are living to work, some of us are working to live!!!! This absolutely slapped - Stupendium & Dan bull making some of the best content on the internet!
Stupendium & Dan Bull is a dream team combo that never ceases to be amazing! And having these goofy yet high production live action videos makes these songs so much more enjoyable than they already are! Please don't stop anytime soon.
This was such a fun one! I still appreciate how Stupes and Co make these songs about the games and their messages and themes, rather than just trying to pad time on referencing mechanics. Its why I'm glad to tune in each release!
These verses really resonate what my dad is going through with his family right now, working three jobs over 6 days a week in California. He's 55 and I really worry for his safety "Anxiety’ll make you more inclined to reach a greater goal Until you find me crying quietly against the wall I miss my wife, I miss my kids I miss my life, can’t live like this! Perhaps for once if salary might rise in line with rent We’d have the funds to rise and shine, not rise in line, content To sacrifice our family lives to those on high, hell bent On empires founded on the thousands drowned in the cement"
This song hits something I haven't felt in years I love to dance. And some songs have this special something that gets me to start keeping time with my heel thumping against the floor. The punctuation of each stanza, the syncopations and tempo changes just come together in a force of feeling that makes it impossible to hold still- I just gotta move with it because it hits just right. Its been a decade since a song made me NEED to get up and dance. Thank you for bringing that feeling back to me.
Check out Dan's ALTERNATE ENDING! ruclips.net/video/4y46LYa1OUU/видео.html
LYRICS:
INTRO:
Steel, iron, nuts and bolts
Poor man’s gold in rusted vaults
Scrap, tin, wheels and gears
Shift by shift and year by year
Rod, beam, sheet and plate
Ironclad, you sealed your fate
All that shines shall fade in time
Welded put the day you signed
VERSE 01:
The production line
You better do your best, forget about sunshine
‘Cause you won’t see it where you’re going
And the only thing you know is
You won’t get to have your lunch on time
Or ever again, ‘cause every second you spend
That isn’t meeting an end that an executive penned
Is another debt that you render that’ll let them extend
Upon the length of your tenure where you’re ever condemned
Well, would you look at that, life’s coming thick and fast, I run and
Zig and zag amid the tat, pick and pack, bric-a-brac
Click and drag, mix and match, stick a stack in my sack
‘Til it could fill a skip of scrap then bring it back quick as a flash
We’re scrappy and resilient, we’re happy and we’re diligent
But that’s just if you’re listening to marketing transmissions
Contractually itinerant, a dastardly predicament
Entrapped within a system hauling scrap for the omnipotent
Voices in the radio that point us in which way to go
The base we’re excavating, what we’re paid and then the pay we owe
Uncertain of the purpose to the service that we’re slaving over
Purge the lunar surface of its worth to meet the daily quote
MAIN CHORUS:
Some of us are living to work
Some of us are working to live
Some of us are making while others are just taking
And some of us are dying to give
VERSE 02:
Whoop! Yay! Hooray! Another day at the office
Slaving away and generating the profits
Heading straight for the pockets of the laziest bosses
If it wasn’t for me then they’d be making a loss, it’s
A struggle working double shifts, selling my soul
So my landlord doesn't have to do any at all
I’m clearly very important while you’re merely a drone
Giving me steady employment just to dwell in a hole
That I can barely afford, belly unfilled like Oliver Twist
Begging for more, I don’t want to exist
No longer stomaching it, wanna be somebody different
But I’m stuck as it is, so stuff it, double my shifts
Rub out the family time in your diary, erase it all
They’ll only hire me if I’ll be reliably available
Yet I appear, clearly entirely replaceable
The irony’s I find it to be kind of inspirational
Anxiety’ll make you more inclined to reach a greater goal
Until you find me crying quietly against the wall
I miss my wife, I miss my kids
I miss my life, can’t live like this!
Perhaps for once if salary might rise in line with rent
We’d have the funds to rise and shine, not rise in line, content
To sacrifice our family lives to those on high, hell bent
On empires founded on the thousands drowned in the cement
PRE-CHORUS:
I am the very model of a model employee
I never leave my shuttle, can’t afford to pay those fees
My overtime does overtime, I work nine days a week
And I never hit that bottle ‘til it’s time to take a pee
MAIN CHORUS:
Some of us are making a killing
While some are barely making a living
Is a life worth saving without life savings?
It’s a 9-to-5, 25-to-life in prison
VERSE 03:
Lift off, tick tock, the big clock’s a-tickin’
Drift in, dropped off at the drop ship’s position
Sod tip top condition, a tip’s what you live in
Drop shipping top tip - “Tips will not be given”
With this cost of living what do lives cost?
Well, the customer ain’t fussed over the lives lost
We’re discounted, under the counter, half off
In stocks, at the gallows for the price drop
To rock bottom, ba-da-da-dum
Sing the jingle, give a whistle, here’s your lot, plod on
It’s official, sacrificial, sing the company song
‘Fore they bop the stop-button on your oxygen
Two guys moonlight on a new moon nightly
Tryna find loot like, “Ooh that’ll do nicely”
Lamp, cookie mold, jar, fish, stop sign
Pan, whoopie, gold bar, gift box, MINE!
No, mine!
NO, MINE!
[mine explodes]
Should you be hurt in our place of employment
It’ll be worse than a band-aid and some ointment
There isn’t a nurse with whom to make an appointment
There’s really just certain doom; painfully poignant
Each day tossed upon the scrapheap
Struggling to meet pay, care to mind the gap, cheap
Labour can be replaced when there are fatalities
Several men a week slayed, tumbling from the gantries
In what kind of dimension is debris so decrepit
Worth more than all the lives amongst the men you send to get it?
The minions paid a pittance from the millions you inherit
And then billed for the equipment ‘fore they get to spent the credits
SPOKEN INTERLUDE:
Have you had an accident at work that wasn’t your fault?
No, you haven’t
It absolutely WAS your fault!
MAIN CHORUS:
Some of us are living to work
Some of us are working to live
Some of us are making while others are just taking
And some of us are dying to give
We all bought the production line
We all toe the production line
We all march in production line
We all signed the production line
BRIDGE:
It’s a hell of a show, better the devil you know
Just another shift, try to keep a grip
Haven’t slept a wink and my vision starts to drift
We’re here to sell you your soul, next day and ready to go
Filling up the ship, just another trip
Maddened, on the brink, in no position to resist
The wheels of progress, they turn, so get ahead or go home
I got a quota to meet or else it’s over for me
And when my rota’s complete then I can hopefully leave
Just never question what burns to run the engines below
We were sold on a dream but now they won’t let us sleep
Take a moment to grieve and you’ll owe them a fee
VERSE 04:
My school careers adviser couldn’t be any nicer
She was just like, “Might as well give up and die, bruh”
It isn’t that likely we’ll experience retirement
When staying alive’s a minimum requirement
I’ve trained, I’ve tried, ‘til I’m strained, I’m tired
I’d trade my trade for a train driver’s
But I’m afraid that the end of the line
Isn’t a place I’ll arrive ‘til the end of my life
PRE-CHORUS:
I am the very model of a model employee
‘Cause I’m used to being toyed with by those far bigger than me
Painfully aware my fate to bear’s as cog in a machine
Just one more face cast off to space for products on a screen
FINAL CHORUS:
Production line
Production line
Production line
Production line
Production line
Production line
Production line
Production line
We all bought the production line
We all toe the production line
We all march in production line
We all signed the production line
Some of us are making a killing
While some are barely making a living
Is a life worth saving without life savings?
It’s a 9-to-5 25-to-life in prison
Some of us are living to work
Some of us are working to live
Some of us are making while others are just taking
And some of us are dying to give
It’s a hell of a show, better the devil you know
We’re here to sell you your soul, next day and ready to go
We all signed the production line
Now I have to play Lethal company to understand the references you’ve made. Great.
Edit: Not that it’s a bad thing :)
You're the Best ❤❤❤❤❤
1000 views in 5 minutes you really fell off stu
I hope you do more songs like these sort of music.
1hr gang
Corporate evil and Stupendium is a combo that can really never go wrong
True
Corporate evil and The Stupendium go together like Impressive Sets and The Stupendium, or On Point costuming and The Stupendium. It’s insane!
We work,to earn the right to work
At this point "Corporate Evil" just redundant
Mr house proves
"I am the very model of a model employee , cuz I’m used to being toyed with by those far bigger than me" is such an unbelievably raw line, it perfectly captures the mood of Lethal Company (not that the rest of the song doesnt- it all does!)
Also it might just be me, but that line is a bit sus no ?
@@MayoOverlordno it is not.
Pirates of Penzance?
Anyone else being reminded of the song of a certain modern major-general when hearing that line?
raw and makes sense since model could be interpreted as a miniature version of a real thing. Models like action figures get toyed with by humans much bigger than them. Not sure how obvious that was to people but it took me a second to get it.
The fact that lethal company was made by a single furry in his basement and managed to outsell call of duty brings a smile to my face
I didn't know the developer was a furry.
he wasnt just a furry, he was a roblox developer
Hell yeah
@@shrubbzofficalit’s a miracle he didn’t groom any kids and is a decent person
It's a tiny detail, but I love the little patches on the suits. A tiny little expression of individuality on top of a concealing uniform that strips away individuality and humanity, a carefully constructed vent outlet within bounds that don't threaten the bottom (production) line.
And, without those, it's genuinely hard to tell who's who when those helmets are on.
Not to get too deep with it but it's like the different suits and nails and stuff people like to wear
1:59
"My son will be turning 18 later this year and as i have yet to meet him, i humbly request that i might perhaps see him for half an hour to mark the occasion?...please?"
The details in the actual video are almost as good as the songs, BANGER
Nuh uh, nope, denied, never, L+ratio
@@SubscribetoFREAKBAIT 🥲
Live footage from the HR department of an Amazon warehouse
[REQUEST DENIED]
"Rub out your family time in your diary. Erase it all."
Thanks for pointing that out. I was vibing and missed it. Good catch.
i love how very little of the song seems to actually involving life-threatening things (I.E. monsters) making it very clear that "hey this is about more than Lethal Company"
Well, yeah, it's barely a Lethal Company song. It's a Corporation Bad song with a very impressive Lethal Company set of visuals made for them to wear and interact with.
@@Kektus1I think it is very pertinent to Lethal Company. It just focuses more about the lore surrounding the Company than on the monsters.
I was actually kinda hoping for some more about the monsters lore or just some funny quips about them
It's only missing a line about the monsters in charge being worse than the monsters they find
@@madiz4228I mean the lore is that a giant monster “hires” them to find human scrap….for something, it’s less lazy bosses and more eldritch horror hires human to feed them as they slowly become insane or die
The dead emotionless stare as they did the dance is the face of men who worked months upon months for the company and just had enough after being struck by lightning for the 20th time.
I worked blue collar jobs (formally factory work, now I'm an electrician) almost all my life and every now and then you'll get an executive that would think that mandatory "fun" things like group dances or stretches would be more beneficial than a pay raise.
The workers all have that dead look in thier eyes as the foreman half-heartedly guides the guys through the motions so we can all get back to why we're there in the first place.
@@Mr.Sparks.173"If they are treat you like the money you make them, treat them like the money you get"
"It's the dance floor, ma'am, you've gotta dance with the music to make it go up"
@@PvZGardenWarfare2fan if you treated them how they treated you they would be in a pit burning alive
999th like!!
I love how sarcastically the line "I'm clearly very important while you're merely a drone" was delivered
Also, I adore the emotion Dan brought to the role!!!!
Including "production makes me feel good" as a nod to Bustin' was genius.
NIEL CISCEGA!?!?
NIEL CICADA???
DID SOMEONE SAY CICADA?? I LOVE SHADY!!
Dang, Dan's consonants are so PUNCHY, and Stupes sounds SMOOTH as butter, you really are a duo that can do no wrong
Always was dan's strong point, man can enunciate in such a clear way.
"And I'll never hit that bottle until it's time to pee." As someone who's heard horror stories about night shift, that line hits different.
Can I understand
@@05-04| It's a reference to Amazon, which was woking its warehouse employees so hard they didn't even have time to use the bathroom, and instead had to pee in bottles.
@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth when I first heard that lyric my first thought it was reference to fnaf song stay calm where Mike pee into a cup
@@GamerBendyI mean… yes’nt they both where referring to the same thing
@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth No... I want to know @fawkespryde9183 horror story stuff
Can't believe they ACTUALLY built a space ship JUST for this music video!
I love the helmets
AND they went to 71 gordion to put on the mask and perish! 100% effort even to the grave.
I love how this is literally not a lethal company song, it's just a corporate greed song with the guise of lethal company. Stupendium and Dan you only make bangers!
In the end, either works. The Company *is* just a walking code violation anyway. Or... whatever it uses to walk.
Right? It's literally just the world today...
The VISUAL was very Lethal company but yes, not really the lyrics... It works quite well though !
As much as Datastream, Fine print and other corporate songs were much more about real life horror than about their source games.
@@nnnn8029 Data Stream especially. That break where he lists all the shit they track, was literally taken straight from the list of stuff Facebook tracks
I haven't played this game, but I don't understand why people complain that Stupendium and Dan Bull took a different path lyrically to not be so close to the original game. I love this! It's so deep, it's lyrically wonderful... AND THAT CHORUS IS SO CATCHING... AAAA!!! I LOVE IT!!
Sparked a genuine interest in the game, i have to try it.
I know its been a month but if you ever play it I would suggest getting a group together because the game is so much more fun with funny friends
@@Emmet0223 totally agree!! It is very fun to play these types of video games with friends.
Petty sure people are complaining because it's like you're saying you've mad ean improved BLT, but instead of Bacon and Tomato, you've put grilled beef and onions in the sadnwich instead
@@sarge1408no, it’s more like they were tasked to create a meal using a certain set of ingredients, and they made a proper 5 star meal but people complain because it wasn’t junk food that. they didn’t go for the low hanging fruits of comedy writing just making references like marvel and people who are too used to that and expect that level of quality mistake it for poor writing
Love the detail of Dan forgetting to turn off the flashlight and has it in his pockets still on
the way thier name tags doesn't have thier names on them and just says "employee' is such a good detail because in reality when you're at this kind of working environment you're just that, an employee to them you have no name, no personality, you're just there to make them money
2:00
It is also like this in the game, it basically your rank.
It's realistic, too. I have an 'ID card' at my job that simply says Staff.
Everyone is just a number
*your just there to feed an monster that grows hungry and if you dont it starts eating planets
"Mine" "No, Mine" "No, MINE" lmao.
Genius lyrics, genius set design, genius video.... GENIUS, as always. You and Dan have both outdone yourselves once again!
Agreed!
Kaboom!
Yeah that part got me cracking.
@ArianOlivopart 3: where's you father?
@@GamerBendypart 4:
The Avian Chase
"I'd trade my trade for a *train driver's* but I'm afraid that the *end of the line* isn't a place I'll arrive 'til the end of my life!" That's SUCH a great little nod to the last song Stupes and Dan Bull have collaborated on AND I'M LIVING FOR IT!!
Bonus points for the spidery threat both times!
There's also a lyrical reference to Tune Into The Darkness at the end of the first verse.
0:17 LOVE THAT BEGINNING
Yes!
Should’ve been the chorus
3d printing layer lines spotted, this brings me happiness for some reason
"its a 9-5, 25-to-life in prison" gotta be one of my favorite lines in this song :D i love this
that line reminds me of "ashes to ashes, 9 to 5" in the Death and Taxes song.
@@dallastexas1684 dang ur right.. nice
Wait a minute... this isn't a song about Lethal Company ... this is just a song about real life.
"Ah, you figured it out! Would you like a cookie?"
-your brain, F:NV
I jest, but honestly stupes' songs.... stupend me with how much they contain secrets. Call me stupid, but i realied about 1 1/2 years after the remaster of "the second" that the title is a pun name.
@@noahhamilton5974 Wait until you learn that "Matter of Factories" is a pun on "Matter of Fact".
@@Vaprous did know that one.
BUTTT DID YOU KNOW IT IS A PLAY ON THE NAME OF HIS SONG "A MATTER OF FACTS"?
Every time someone makes something, it's about more than the idea. It's communication.
Start with something you feel so hard it grabs your bones inside your flesh, and it doesn't matter if its fanwork-- people will feel it whether it's your original story or another that inspired you.
Thats The Stups Experience for ya. :)
“I’m the very model of a model employee” both a reference to “The Very Model of a Modern Major General” AND Ad Infinitums line “The very model of a major general store”
Well played, Xir, well played
I dont understand but that sounds smart
Both are apparently references to something else
first of all, i know NOTHING about lethal company. im thinking that dance at 3:20 is an emote? if not i find it genuinely so silly to see. secondly, the SET PIECE of this is insane. first time watching i was so busy enjoying the music i didnt realize the set was so incredibly impressive
I like how this song barely talks about the robotic, eldritch, paranormal or cryptid horrors that the game is about and just focuses on the working class stuff. The only thing more horrifying than the unknown is a deadline
Worker's rights are human rights my dude
wow, if i had a nickel for every time stupes and dan got together and made a song about a horror game with the word "line" in its name that had two alternate endings, i'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
This song also has an end of the line reference in it
I see Phineas and Ferb reference, I press like.
End of the Line has alternate endings?
@@GuyYouMetOnline When Dan Bull and The Stupendium collab, they always have different endings, so far.
If I had a nickel for every time stupes and Dan go to SPACE to engage in DANGEROUS TASKS in silly SPACESUITS. Oh yeah. alongside that. In one of the two alternate endings STUPES ENDS UP BEING THE BAD GUY....
I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but its weird it happened twice.
"Our empires founded on the thousands drowned in the cement" is my favorite line. Just upon hearing the opening tune did I know this was going to be a Stupendium hit
Its a beautiful line and extremely true. In the US we rarely hear about the hundreds of thousands of laborers from across the world were used like slaves and died building the dams and railroads not that long ago
The opening bit is stuck in my head so I just listen to the song to remind me that once I get out of school I get to work the rest of my life.
@Ag3nt-MC The more people that understand how bad capitalism is the closer we get to doing something about it
"Hell-bent on empires" because that's what corporate wants.
At 0:29 " You sealed your fate... "
😈😈😈😈😈@@TheStringyGamer
“lift off, tick tock, the big clock’s-a-tickin’, drift in, dropped off at the drop ship’s position, sod tip top condition, a tip’s what you live in, drop shipping top tip, [TIPS WILL NOT BE GIVEN.]” is so pleasing to the ears
How in the world do flip the words tip top so much and still make it absolutely fire....only stupes and dan know
Also the whoopy, gold bar (whoopi goldberg)
…tick tock heavy like a brinks truck, looking like I’m tip top, shiny like a wrist watch….
@@emmettwinroth1316NO NO NO NO NO
@@emmettwinroth1316 NONONNONONNONON. STOP
@@emmettwinroth1316Listening to that song after listening to this banger made by Stupendium is like the difference between biting into a apple pie and a cow pie. Stupes Is the apple pie.
I feel like if I looked hard enough, I'd be able to find every line of this song in a comment saying it's their favorite. Which says a lot about how AMAZING this song is.
Woken up with this song for the past 2 weeks, it falls right in my vocal range so I can belt it out without warming up and it kickstarts my day.
Thank you to everyone who made the song, and those folks who support this team's ability to continue making music!
Stupe's amidst all the heavy themes, I couldn't help but chuckle at the "Have you had an accident at work that wasn't your fault?" interlude. It's a clever nod to those ubiquitous workplace safety ads that always seem to pop up when you least expect them. Overall, a fantastic piece of music for THE COMPANY with layers of meaning and a sprinkle of humor to keep it all balanced. Stupendium/Dan Bull really nailed it!🔥
It's so real too, I had an injury at work that made my back useless for the next few months and all I got told was that I should have done better. Didn't even bother pursuing workers comp, I've never seen it given in my life
Stupes popped off with this one. I mean, anticapitalism and Stupes go hand in hand, but they really made a working class anthem. The day before this was posted, I was fired with no warning even though I worked more overtime than anyone else. This absolute banger is gonna be the fight song for a bit. The line "I am the very model of a model employee ‘Cause I’m used to being toyed with by those far bigger than me" COULD NOT have hit harder than it did today. All love Stupes. Keep doing what you do best.
I'm down here at the bottom with you, solidarity my friend, someday we'll claw the billionaires off their thrones
I hope you either A: get a proper wrongful dismissal claim going or B: get a better job and say “screw you” to the bosses.
hope that you're safe, and best of luck going forward with the fight to end capitalism.
Stupendium autocorrects to stupendous for a reason.
Yea because theres a yter with that name
Because they are ✨stupendous✨ /hj
The Stupendous Stupendium.
Because that's exactly what they are 😊
@@theromanorder r/wooooooosh
3:04 is literally EAR CANDY.
Also wanted to add that the set looks INCREADABLE. It's probably one of my favorite sets you've done by far with it being incredibly detailed!
Bravo to literally everyone who work on the video
I can agree.
3:34 this is better to me
"Did you hear that Stupedium song?"
"Which one?"
"The one about how Capitalism corrodes and destroys everything it touches."
"You're going to have to narrow it down some more."
very minor detail, but I love how, in the credits, the beat for the backing track comes in just as Stupes thanks Freshy and Free for help making said beat.
The amount of love and care you put into these music videos is insane
Thank you! 🧡🧡🧡
With the orange hearts that’s crazy
YOOO IVYCOMB?!
I gotta say, listening to it again i really love how the beginning of the song starts like a song sung by the masses, almost like a work song, that then refines into the personal singing - it feels like we're getting a view of the company as a whole before zooming in on two unfortunates!
I know what you mean. I really enjoy the work song at the beginning, I’d say it’s my favorite part! Don’t get me wrong, the whole song’s a banger, but I’m curious about what it would’ve sounded like if they stuck with the work song.
@@grimlockthetyrant4521 that's exactly what im thinking! that initial part set the bar so high for me, it is probably my new favourite verse in stupe's songs. i really wish we could get another song focused on that style
If you slow it down it sound like a kind of ipnosis
Now, with me being an active Lethal Company player, upon seeing the teasers for this, my mind started imaginating how the song/video would end up like.
I had huge expectations. I only expected an amazing output.
But THIS? This is just ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING.
The Game-accurate Sets? The catchy as hell song? The insane vocals and production on the instrumentals? The Cinematography? The Props? The creative direction the song took?
This is, without exaggeration, the best thing to ever come out from Lethal Company, including the game itself.
Y'all have outdid yourselves.
Now I'mma go, I swear there was an headless dog 'round there. I fear I might've played this song too loudl...*LIFE SUPPORT OFFLINE*
In the age-old tradition of shouting out lyrics that go hard, I gotta give love to "at the gallows for the price drop" and "just never question what burns to run the engines below"
Empires founded on thousands drowned in cement. Wow. It's so hard to pick just one line from this amazing work of art. It's so perfectly distilled "Stupendium talks corporate greed" that it's iconic, of course. But man. The hardness of these lines makes me think it'd sell better than the gold we're grabbing to hit quota. Platinum song indeed.
It's a reference to real world fact, that during construction of large buildings almost inevitably someone drowns in cement. They aren't even recovered from it.
@@ceu160193 and the amount of first nations people burried under buildings, hidden in the cement as part of the genocide that built empire.
YOUR SONG KEEPS THE COMPANY HAPPY.
"Lamp, cookie mold, jar, fish, stop sign, pan whoopie, gold bar, gift box, mine!" That is so perfect and i have no idea how you came up with such a good rhyme. 💯
Credit to Dan for that bit :P
2:44 Is that a reference to Amazon work conditions I hear?
This song just made me desire a Helldivers 2 song made by you both XD
You two work so well together for these kind of fun crazy games
If junes' monthly song isn't it THAT JUST MEANS IT'LL BE EVEN BETTER WHEN IT COMES OUT!
Deep rock galactic as well for the trilogy of fun multiplayer games
@@triggerhappy4199That would be great, DRG getting more recognition is always a good thing.
Fallout song this week let’s gooo
Not regretting being a patron for these kinds of bangers!
Here, here!
With this kind of funky beat, i’m surprised the beastly creatures didn’t join in the company approved dance.
1:42 This line has nothing to do with the game, and I could not be happier that it is in here, good work, guys! You truly went above and beyond your quota, and I hope you can afford a great luxury, like radio, or flashlights.
My two favourite tidbits of this are the nod to "The End of the Line", and the incredibly tired and lifeless dancing around the 6 minute 13 mark. So much fun. Great work, Stupes and Dan!
3:15 this is an amazing shot. What a genius way to pan to the second character.
5:17
“I’ve TRAINed”
“END OF THE LINE”
*gasp!
CHO CHO CHARLES BANGER SONF REFERENCE!!!
Also "I'd trade my trade for a train drivers'"
5:17
We love the Company *and* The Stupendium!
WE LOVE THE COMPANY
WEEE LOVEE THE COMPANY. THE COMPANY. THEEE COMPANY!
I found Toybox by the stupendium the other day scrolling and I looked up your channel yesterday and I found this masterpiece of music. And even better with Dan bull! It’s a Chef’s kiss if you ask me. Keep up the great work Stupendium!!!❤
I love how it feels like you are getting more and more exhausted throughout the song.
That dance at the end looks like it's a comandy mandated coreography that people were required to do, or else get a pay cut. Fun!
I've GOT to listen to the acapella so I can try to breakdown the production techniques in stacking those harmonies at 5:40. AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING
What a fun little song with absolutely no real world implications at all. No siree!
The continued theme of calling out late-stage capitalism for being lethally toxic to basic human existence in Stupendium (And Dan Bull! Danpendium? Stupendibull?) videos never fails to bring a smile to my face, a tear to my eye, and a refreshed terror to my soul. Well done!
“lift off, tick tock, the big clock’s-a-tickin’, drift in, dropped off at the drop ship’s position, sod tip top condition, a tip’s what you live in, drop shipping top tip, [TIPS WILL NOT BE GIVEN.]” Is extremely satisfying because Dan Bull and Stupendium are some of the best wordsmiths when it comes to rhyme scheme in the entirety of nerdcore. They have usage of the repeating, back to back i and o vowel sounds, with them generally following a pattern but sometimes deriving from it to add the variety in those lines. Also, they maximize the words by using all their dictionary and slang usages throughout those lines. for example, they use "tip" as in 1. tip/peak condition, 2. tips as in a location on a shape, 3. top tip/effectively, 4. [TIPS WILL NOT BE GIVEN] is an double entendre because they mean either they wont give help/advice, or as in the money donation. It's just astonishing how far they have come and how amazing they are at writing.
Cool how the two best lyricists of nerdcore harmonize so daym well!
Love the upbeat-ness of the song, and I dare say the flow is amazing
2:10 idk why "I miss my wife, I miss my kids, I miss my life, can't live like this!" got me LMFAO, all of this is amazing
Was looking a comment mention this lyric. Thank you friend
Olimarcore
"I miss my wife, I miss my kids, I miss my life, CAN'T LIVE LIKE THIS!" Was so well delivered. It legit had me worried for dan's mentality
"Whoopie, gold bar" was so sneaky
The aesthetics in this video were great, the animations and costumes were amazing!
I swear, Stupes has mastered the, “Corrupt business, dystopian, evil ceo” type of song.
I have never found a channel quite as effective at throwing verbal-flashbang lyrics at you as the stupendium. Incredible stuff as usual, we love it!
My peep, this is so frickin good. I decided to check back on the channel after repping yall to a friend, as it’s been a year or two since I’ve exited your Spotify and yeeted to your videos/newer songs, and Y’ALLLLL. Everyone else is gonna go on about the rhymes, which are /absolute fire,/ but I GOTTA just explode about the musicality of this. It’s so JAZZY- please, seriously, feel absolutely free to make more jazz-adjacent stuff in the future, because that pizzacato bass with the piano goes SO HARD. And yall, the way you and Dan mess with stolen time in this is SO SATISFYING oh my gods, I literally could point any of the a dozen points in both the sung and rapped portions of this where yall just play with the beat like it’s NOTHING. And when you reference the “bustin makes me feel good” song (ha!), I can totally tell yall probably saw where the bass line was going (“-duction” repeating sounds close to the way “bustin” created the melody- assuming its melody, I have a spotty vocabulary for music stuff - in the cicirega remix) and threw it in. It just sounds so good. And also? The actual song is ALMOST SEVEN MINUTES LONG, and you CAN’T EVEN TELL. Like, it just sounds complete. The Data Stream is one of my all-time favorites from yall, and even in that song you can kinda get the sense that it goes on for longer by the third verse (and I loop that one a TON- it’s not a knock on it by any means!), but /this/. It’s just. It’s just really good.
I love how you repeat the melodies (I really hope I’m using that to mean the right things!) for the chorus and the bridge while changing the lyrics a bit each time to give variations/progression on each theme- you still get that satisfying structure of the kind of song you might hear on pop radio, but you’ve done something far more creative with it (also, with a song this long, you get to repeat it more than twice, and MMM as someone who prefers longer songs in general, this is like scratching a brain itch).
This is probably one of your best ones yet, both musically and lyrically (like gods, lyrically. Literally losing it over here, yall and Dan manipulate the English language like you’ve both written it). I’ve already looped this straight for like six hours since discovering it, and it’s been perfect for focusing on some art I’m working on. Also, i gotta stop somewhere before i find RUclips’s character limit for comments, but i am absolutely STUNNED with this video. I literally can’t wrap my head around how you managed this cinematography, let alone just /how many graphics/ y’all had to design and edit in. Like? Coming from the Data Stream and The Fine Print- which were already incredible- not using in-game footage when those were like 50% in-game footage is. I don’t even know how your computers rendered this. This is crazy.
Basically, this slaps so hard. 1,000,000%. And lastly, I just saw the change in the channel description (it must have really been a bit since I’ve been around!), and happy early Pride!!! Us in the NB collective welcomes such an adequate wordsmith with open arms
Oh my gosh, this was so lovely to read, thank you! I'm really glad you've enjoyed this track so much, it was just as much fun for us top make as it was for you to hear! I love working with Dan, I feel we really bring out the best in each other's writing and performing and we really pushed ourselves to try new things in this track, I'm so happy you noticed and appreciated! (I was very proud of the Ghostbusters/Bustin' reference, haha, well spotted!)
And not only that but thank you for the support! Being openly gender-non-conforming with such a large platform is quite intimidating at times, comments like that mean so much!
3:04 i love the visual of stupes and dan playing lethal company and just rapping into the walkies the entire time
The mine line is genius it reminds me of the time my friends and I had like 500 dollars from one moon carrying it through the facility and someone yelled "MINE!" and we all blew up. Incredible song as always!
I cannot with Dan's face when he says bruh behind stupes
I really like the easter eggs in the video
Like the REQUEST DENIED for meeting my son on his 18th birthday
Really helps underscore the depressing theme of the song
Yesterday in the supermarket someone pointed to my Stupendium brand hoodie (tm) and said “no I in team” and we both said “but theres con in economy!” And my friend put their head in their hands
What was your friend expecting? Adventure?
MAANN THEE DETAIL AND REFERENCES OF THIS SONG IS JUST PHENOMENAL! Love your dedication and work as always for giving it a feel of belongingness to the game, literally got those props and scenes right on the mark. Addition to that, you and Dan Bull always amazes me the way you rhyme lyrics, a lethal duo indeed.
THIS SONG WAS SO GOOD, THE PRODUCTION VALUE IS THROUGH THE ROOM OH MY LORD
Thank you for making these so upbeat. Some of these lines bring up some painful memories, but they're worth remembering. The energy definitely pushes it in a "laugh rather than cry" direction.
The freaking produciton level in this oh my god, this all looks amazing
Pun intended?
Guess you could say stupes is running a good production line
2:09 That hits pretty hard
Stupes is such an icon I swear they somehow look stunning in any costume
Stupendium; I've gotta hand it to you.
Not only is this a rather good song ( Within your rather well-established niche of 'Evil Corporations' )
But, one of your last songs; Adequate Wordsmith to be specific, actually got me to start working on a project of mine.
While i have stalled for the moment, you did it; you got me to start- and that's more than i had before.
Thank you.
The way that Dan Bull and Stupendium never fail to deliver whether its working together or as individuals
WE ARE BLESSED, 7 MINUTES WITH HARD LYRICS AND LITTLE REPETITION, A NARRATIVE STRUCTURE, IT'S ALL SO GOOD.
The production value, as always, is fantastic. While maybe not at flashy as some Stupendiums other works, the costumes, props and set look like it came straight out of the game.
The song is fantastic as well, it has a great beat, and the rhymes flow immaculately.
Stupendium ALWAYS surprised with these absolute head bopping songs. He somehow makes me have a new favorite song.
First, art of darkness, and then find the keys, and then tune into the madness, and then The End of The Line, and then rest and employed, and then the house always wins remastered, and then the ribbon, and then dead ahead, and then vault 76 remastered, and finally this song.
Good job Stups, you made me think you couldn't do any better than you have.
OMG this was amazing and hilarious but was anyone else expecting this song to be about how much we love the company and it getting progressively darker?
When a song about a horror game applies to real life, you know life sucks.
Some of us are living to work, some of us are working to live!!!! This absolutely slapped - Stupendium & Dan bull making some of the best content on the internet!
Stupendium & Dan Bull is a dream team combo that never ceases to be amazing! And having these goofy yet high production live action videos makes these songs so much more enjoyable than they already are! Please don't stop anytime soon.
You and Dan Bull collabing on a song never miss. And a song that is supposed to be a spiritual sequel to The Fine Print and it shows? My soul ascends.
This was such a fun one! I still appreciate how Stupes and Co make these songs about the games and their messages and themes, rather than just trying to pad time on referencing mechanics. Its why I'm glad to tune in each release!
This-
This might actually be the catchiest song you’ve made. INCREDIBLY well done!
These verses really resonate what my dad is going through with his family right now, working three jobs over 6 days a week in California. He's 55 and I really worry for his safety
"Anxiety’ll make you more inclined to reach a greater goal
Until you find me crying quietly against the wall
I miss my wife, I miss my kids
I miss my life, can’t live like this!
Perhaps for once if salary might rise in line with rent
We’d have the funds to rise and shine, not rise in line, content
To sacrifice our family lives to those on high, hell bent
On empires founded on the thousands drowned in the cement"
That sounds horrible! 😢 Hope everything will be fine in the end! ❤ I wish you and your family will be okay and everything will get better! 😊
@@Astewisk Thanks for your sympathies, friend. I'll be sure to tell him what you said!
I'm sure your father handles these awful working conditions so much better knowing that he has such a caring family! All the best to you both.
@@stompingliger Yeah, he's a tough son of a gun.
This song hits something I haven't felt in years
I love to dance. And some songs have this special something that gets me to start keeping time with my heel thumping against the floor. The punctuation of each stanza, the syncopations and tempo changes just come together in a force of feeling that makes it impossible to hold still- I just gotta move with it because it hits just right.
Its been a decade since a song made me NEED to get up and dance.
Thank you for bringing that feeling back to me.
the dead inside dancing is amazing
4:10 despite never listening to this, on the first listen, i could instantly tell where this line was going
THEY DID IT! THEY REUSED THE LAMP!
WHERE?
@@bearrett_8783 During the part where they lost off the items, it's the very first item they list off
I absolutely love the madrigal-esque quality the final chorus has in the ending. Again, Stupendium does not disappoint
the little "PRODUCTION MAKES ME FEEEEEEEEL GOOOOOOOOOD" thats mixed into the ending chorus is GOLD, amazing work fellas! :)
5:22 I never noticed the claws coming down from the ceiling, nice touch! 😁
Spider legs, given the game's menagerie of killer critters