"Now these points of data make a beautiful line, and we're out of beta we're releasing on time" - I'm a grown man, still getting goosebumps and watery eyes to this.
Me too, and it's the weirdest thing. I played Portal and liked it a lot, bit it's not a game a have a real emotional attachment to. But that line... every single time.
Nossa quase chorei com Essa música de Jonathan Coulton... ele é o Cara, me inspirou a voltar estudar Programação, Eletrônica e Cursar Analise de Sistemas!!! Obrigado Jonathan Coulton.., Por me dar Orgulho de ser Programador, ou seja "Code Monkey" !!!
I first heard of Coulton when I saw "Code Monkeys" on G4 and wanted a copy of the theme song. Since then I have never been unimpressed with a single note he's penned, plucked, or sang. Absolutely love his work.
@@Double0Pig It is and isn't a cover. The original was sung by GLaDOS (Ellen McLain) in Portal, but it was always Jonathan's song (his musical genius and creation). This is a new version of it.
When I first heard it, before I ever heard of Portal, I thought that it was a breakup song. Now that I know about Portal, it's definitely a breakup song. Really bad breakup.
I know, Artificial Heart, it's one of my favorite albums. I meant if JoCo started a band with these guys and released a full album of them collaborating.
Apart from being a great song (and I can't deny my love for Sara any more than the rest of these commenters), this is my absolute favorite type of video: it shows the joy and beauty of the performance of music itself. And I think it works especially well in a situation like this where there's so much interesting contrast between the performers.
@@stratelite1337 think that's bad look up "cube world" it started development in july 2013 and was taken off sale a few years later to then with little known about the game it went to steam as a release in September 2019(yes i know your comment was before it released on steam but still)
Do play it, even if only to know what the fuss is about. Even if you dislike it (if you do, please tell, I've never in my life met someone who didn't like Portal. It would be interesting to find out someone like that exists), it's a pivotal cultural phenomenon, it's a piece of History. The present are the consequences of the past.
This is a very cool version of one of my favourite songs. Although I prefer the game/original version. Ellen (GLaDOS's VA) gives the song a different kind of.. charm, that I don't think can be replicated by someone else.
Tommy Byler Almost. She's a lesbian. This isn't a homophobic comment. What makes her and her sister not perfect because of this is, they're so sexy, but will never be with me, because i have a penis:(
Jason Burditt That is only one of several thousand reasons why they won't be with you, or the vast majority of the 3.5 billion other males currently alive. Your comment isn't homophobic, but it is a bit sexist, seeing as you measure a woman's perfection by "can I sleep with her". It's fine to find famous people attractive, and if you recognize the fact that you're not in the running to begin with, their sexual orientation becomes entirely moot.
God, I love how clean and coherent Sara's singing is here, that's a rare but super welcome talent. Makes it way easier to follow the lyrics when you get a Singer like that
What a beautiful version of the song - thanks! :) Still the best game ending I came across so far - You made it through the ordeal, thought you destroyed GlaDOS for good, but there's halls full of cores left... And then she sings this "Nya nya!"-Song at you... But - somehow between the lines of the lyrics, at least to me, there's also a sad and lonely creature... All those ambiguous messages combined with the adrenaline high of "Yeah, I beat the game!" made the best "WTF exactly happened just now?" moment. And this song is totally an integral part of that experience, it's not just some music playing over the end credits. Portal 2 (and "Want you gone") were brilliant in their own right, givin GlaDOS more debth through her background story and the song leaves me not feeling so bad for her as Still Alive, but nothing beats the surprise when you hear the song for the first time after beating POrtal. 'tis a piece of art, altogether! :)
It really regrets me that it took 12 years to find this video. However, I believe I have now encountered the best ‘still alive’. Thank you. この動画に辿り着くのに12年もかかったことが本当に残念です。しかし、私は今、最高のstill aliveに出会ったと思っています。ありがとう。
The comments to re: your brains are turned off, I don't know if you turned them off or RUclips did it. They're been doing that a lot lately. This sounds so pretty unless you listen the lyrics.
Don't take this the wrong way, I love the song and the performance, great work all around, but... Since you put theremin in the title, I was kinda expecting it to have a central role in the performance. Other than a tacked on intro (which is still a good performance), it was hardly in the song.
@ophy4 You'd have to play the game Portal to fully understand it. To get the gist of it, just imagine Sara is a sarcastic, Machiavellian artificial intelligence who subjected you to a whole lot of tests/experiments while taunting you with the promise of cake, and you eventually killed her, or at least you think you did, but you never can tell with identical twins. ;)
@Prodigiousguy8 I'm a little creeped out when even the favourite musicians that I didn't find out about somehow through each other end up collaborating.
At the start of the song I used to be scared of it because of the weird sounds of it. It sounded like tornado sirens. I was scared of it when I was 5 or 6
I agree that when put into context its bette as If you had no idea what portal/half life was then this song would be bizzare. Black mesa, Moist cake, Lines of code, you would be like WTF ? But saying that. If you are familiar with the games then I'm sure you would be able to appreciate this, and as you did say "I appreciate the musicianship". IMO - I didnt find the original tune to be cold/eerie, to me it was happy and accepting of her "fate" and showing no grudge towards the "test subject".
Lol i've played the game and only heard the song like once. So when I heard this version I was like huh...nice choice of lyrics...the lyrics are deep lol so im sure you prob got SOMETHING from them. Like there are two ways to take evey verse in this song...the glados way or the person who got crushed from a relationship way. BUT i do wonder if she ever played the game after doing this. :D
@JeffIsOld That's partly true, and don't get me wrong, I love the song (in every version it's been made). But if your theory was completely correct, there wouldn't be a song on RUclips, which countained a 'v'. On top of that, not every 'v' she says in the song sounds like an 'f', only those 'alive's (if she does say alive. But in the end, it doesn't matter. I mean, if that's the biggest problem with this song, then overall, this is a great song. And I'm so glad that it's got an official video.
C'mon, Sara, so emotionless. I mean, I know it's supposed to be a futuristic robot singing it, but there's so much more feeling you could've put into that, like Johnathan's solo version with the acoustic guitar. GLados does it in a better key too...sounds rough and choppy on the lower register.
@theslyder What? GLaDOS is a fictional character who sings the song in the game Portal. Jonathan Coulton originally wrote the song for Valve Software's game. Now he has released a cover of it on his album Artificial Heart, performed by him, his band and singer Sara Quin.
@FuturesCEO She is into it- thats just her nature sometimes. Besides you have to take into consideration that she was probably extremely tired after releasing Get Along, signing like 12,000 posters, making trailers,etc.. Either way she sounds amazing
@Cernoise I'm more confused than ever. It's weird Sara did this. She doesn't even like video games. I don't understand it, but I really love it anyways. It's sorta sad and funny at the same time.
So I guess after GLaDOS heard this girl she kidnapped her, brainwashed and told her that her name was Chell and her parents had abandoned her. That's what you get for messing with her songs.
"Now these points of data make a beautiful line, and we're out of beta we're releasing on time" - I'm a grown man, still getting goosebumps and watery eyes to this.
I know the feels :-D
Me too, and it's the weirdest thing. I played Portal and liked it a lot, bit it's not a game a have a real emotional attachment to. But that line... every single time.
Same. For some reason it really makes me feel hopeful - even though canonically it’s sung by a homicidal robot that we just killed...
@@MQXM001 well technically that robot is Still Alive
As a software developer, I also get goosebumps when fantasize of releasing on time.
As a lifelong IT person who is becoming a performer, you sir are a constant inspiration.
thanks for this amazing song on a so troble and messed up world of "music" of today!
it is beyond awesome to see how joco's growing and changing but still keeping that thing that makes him so individual and cool! yay!!!
Beautiful.
Nossa quase chorei com Essa música de Jonathan Coulton... ele é o Cara, me inspirou a voltar estudar Programação, Eletrônica e Cursar Analise de Sistemas!!! Obrigado Jonathan Coulton.., Por me dar Orgulho de ser Programador, ou seja "Code Monkey" !!!
Fantastic!!!
holy feces!!! thank you gods of the internet for dropping me here! fantastic music sung by pretty girl :) good time was had by all
So cool :-)
This was pretty rad
im glad sara and tegan escaped from their peanut shell
Theremin
I want to play with that Theremin
@bowiebookgirl Theremin
^^ Sara is so cute!! Love her! xD
Actually, you do know that Jonathan Coulton composed "Still Alive", for Portal right? I was actually a bit dissapointed he didn't do a DUO with Sara!
Holy crap! That's Marty from They Might Be Giants on the drums!
Speaking of TMBG, John Flansburgh directed this video.
+KaBlamBandicoot64 well I'll be damned! would have know that had I read the description lol
He's really Whitney Houston.
@@Realwessharpe I think I we Flansburgh at 2:36!
@@DaveFarr Heavyset dude on the right side of the screen?
I first heard of Coulton when I saw "Code Monkeys" on G4 and wanted a copy of the theme song. Since then I have never been unimpressed with a single note he's penned, plucked, or sang. Absolutely love his work.
Yes!!!!!
sara singing the portal song?? ...this is an unexpected but amazing combination of interests for me.
nicolegend Well phrased.
+nicolegend Ellen McLain sings it in the game and does the voice of GLaDOS
Same! had no idea she even did a cover of this song
its not a cover megan, she is the original singers along with jonathan
@@Double0Pig It is and isn't a cover. The original was sung by GLaDOS (Ellen McLain) in Portal, but it was always Jonathan's song (his musical genius and creation). This is a new version of it.
Even outside the context of Portal, it can be considered a fairly simple breakup song really.
yeah
Yep
When I first heard it, before I ever heard of Portal, I thought that it was a breakup song. Now that I know about Portal, it's definitely a breakup song. Really bad breakup.
"and you make a neat gun for the ppl who are still alive" idk if that's all too great out of context
@@davidbrand391 But thankfully, in Portal 2 they are reunited. Such a sweet story. 😃
If this group made a whole album together, I would buy it immediately.
Dude....there's a link to the album in the description.....
I know, Artificial Heart, it's one of my favorite albums. I meant if JoCo started a band with these guys and released a full album of them collaborating.
@@zoo804 But Artificial Heart is recorded with all of these musicians... You're asking for an album that's already been recorded!
Even though this song was written for Portal it is still a fine piece of music. Not gonna lie.
FirestarHC Just because a song is written for a game doesn't mean it's bad!
Cake
Cake
Cake
Cake
Apart from being a great song (and I can't deny my love for Sara any more than the rest of these commenters), this is my absolute favorite type of video: it shows the joy and beauty of the performance of music itself. And I think it works especially well in a situation like this where there's so much interesting contrast between the performers.
anyone still alive? ...it's been a lot of data ever since!
AHAHAHAHA RELEASING ON TIME? NO ONE UNDERSTANDS THAT PHRASE ANYMORE!
A crying HL fan T_T
It is the Valve Time, guys.
Purchase pre-alpha today!
@@stratelite1337 think that's bad look up "cube world" it started development in july 2013 and was taken off sale a few years later to then with little known about the game it went to steam as a release in September 2019(yes i know your comment was before it released on steam but still)
They aren't out of beta for Portal 3...yet
SARA QUIN FOR FUCK SAKE i love her ok
This version is a triumph. I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
It's hard to overstate my satisfation
Aperture science
we do what we must, because, we can
It's been 11 years how you holding up man
for the good of all of us
Nah dude this is the song from submachine universe.
I definitely love this version. The skillfully played theremin is such a nice touch.
Enough about Sara.
We all know Jonathan was the real star here.
" go and leave me , i thinks i prefer To stay inside ... maybe you find someone else " is in my opinion the best line of this song
Singing this hits very different during a pandemic.... oops
I just recorded a cover for this for 2021... search for it and tell me what you think: "Still Alive (2021 Edition)"
We're gonna laugh at this pandemic one day! Not all of us, of course. :)
@@JelaniGNatural It's awful. Just a bunch of shoehorned-in politics.
Can we just talk about how into it the drummer is getting. You go, drummer guy.
Too into it. He should lay off the coke.
@@andybaldman i lol'd
That's Marty from They Might Be Giants! He's always having fun haha
I don't think I will ever get tired of this song.
It's been 12 years, still not tired of it?
I have never played Portal, but this song is featured in the last level of the game "Chime" on Steam and it is absolutely freaking lovely
Holy crap dude you need to play portal
yes! Robot Voice haha
Do play it, even if only to know what the fuss is about. Even if you dislike it (if you do, please tell, I've never in my life met someone who didn't like Portal. It would be interesting to find out someone like that exists), it's a pivotal cultural phenomenon, it's a piece of History. The present are the consequences of the past.
This is a very cool version of one of my favourite songs. Although I prefer the game/original version. Ellen (GLaDOS's VA) gives the song a different kind of.. charm, that I don't think can be replicated by someone else.
Ah, Sara Quin. Perf.
sara lin?
I beat Portal last night and got so excited when this song started haha :P
I like how the most replayed meter on youtube shows that everyone is skipping the theremin part.
Ugh, Sara is so perfect
She really is.
Tommy Byler Almost. She's a lesbian. This isn't a homophobic comment. What makes her and her sister not perfect because of this is, they're so sexy, but will never be with me, because i have a penis:(
Jason Burditt That is only one of several thousand reasons why they won't be with you, or the vast majority of the 3.5 billion other males currently alive. Your comment isn't homophobic, but it is a bit sexist, seeing as you measure a woman's perfection by "can I sleep with her".
It's fine to find famous people attractive, and if you recognize the fact that you're not in the running to begin with, their sexual orientation becomes entirely moot.
yeah, I'm married, and anyways it was a joke. Thanks for your reply though bud.
All of You made IBM 7094 still alive. Daisy Bell to thanks you a lot.
How the fuck is Sara so cute? :D
God, I love how clean and coherent Sara's singing is here, that's a rare but super welcome talent. Makes it way easier to follow the lyrics when you get a Singer like that
Love this version.....but still prefer your original :)
FINALLY! I’ve been looking for this song ALL day!! 😁 🤖 edit: omg and I never knew it was on theremin, that’s amazing!!!!
this is a great performance. but it's still not GLaDOS singing it, which takes something away from it.....
only a fool spits on silver wishing it to be gold.
Theremins are so unappreciated. Love this cover.
Not sure it's a cover when it's organized by the guy who wrote it.
This is the weirdest and best collision of my favourite things. I'd LOVE for a Sara, Tegan, Coulton, Chrysler, and gang mash for 2023
I'm so GLaD I found this! I love this song and Sara!
Lightning in a bottle. The universe conspired to make all of that happen. This rendition too is part of the legend.
Man, all these comments are so old... Who's still alive around here? (no pun intended)
First time I've heard a theremin solo and it's.. kind of awesome?
Your intro scared my dog. Two likes
I love this song ! :)I want this to be played on my funeral :D
TheNortySP that would be ironic
JBcaptian he would obviously be known as the guy who died without unloving portal games.
*Irony Self Test Complete*
Why is sara so perfect ?
marty on the drums to complete the band
Out of all the different versions of still alive this one is my favorite it’s so good
Even if they are releasing on time, there’s still testing that can be done.
What a beautiful version of the song - thanks! :) Still the best game ending I came across so far - You made it through the ordeal, thought you destroyed GlaDOS for good, but there's halls full of cores left... And then she sings this "Nya nya!"-Song at you... But - somehow between the lines of the lyrics, at least to me, there's also a sad and lonely creature... All those ambiguous messages combined with the adrenaline high of "Yeah, I beat the game!" made the best "WTF exactly happened just now?" moment.
And this song is totally an integral part of that experience, it's not just some music playing over the end credits.
Portal 2 (and "Want you gone") were brilliant in their own right, givin GlaDOS more debth through her background story and the song leaves me not feeling so bad for her as Still Alive, but nothing beats the surprise when you hear the song for the first time after beating POrtal. 'tis a piece of art, altogether! :)
WHOS WATCHING IN 2016??
me! :-)
IM WATCHING IN 2013
MY COMPUTER IS OLD
+The 64th Shadow :-0
Never gets old.
I thought seven years would be way longer :)
I just want to take a moment to appreciate the amazing ability to play what is essentially an invisible instrument. Theramins are a wild thing.
I went to see 2001 yesterday, hadn't in years and started singing this post HAL breakdown
I just finished portal and this song if FIRE!!!!!! My favorite part is “Maybe Black Mesa, that was a joke HAHA FAT CHANCE!” love it.
It really regrets me that it took 12 years to find this video. However, I believe I have now encountered the best ‘still alive’. Thank you.
この動画に辿り着くのに12年もかかったことが本当に残念です。しかし、私は今、最高のstill aliveに出会ったと思っています。ありがとう。
3:10 maybe black mesa, that was a joke , ha ha , ha ha :3
lol
The comments to re: your brains are turned off, I don't know if you turned them off or RUclips did it. They're been doing that a lot lately. This sounds so pretty unless you listen the lyrics.
Don't take this the wrong way, I love the song and the performance, great work all around, but...
Since you put theremin in the title, I was kinda expecting it to have a central role in the performance. Other than a tacked on intro (which is still a good performance), it was hardly in the song.
Hearing this after years, I cried.
The instrumental of this was just played on PBS' From Sea to Shining Sea documentary. Did you know???
Terrible theremin technique :( You don't play with your wrist... gives you no room to adjust fine pitch...
...and how they hell have i not seen this yet. Portal is one of my favorite games of all time and I love Tegan and Sara.
Who knew 10 years later this would be the COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers theme song!
I wish all of the success to these artists. When everyone gives their utmost to a project it can't help but succeed.
fuck ye ! i was sure recognizing one of the sisters of "Tegan and Sara", and obviously it's Sara x)
So does this mean that GlaDOS was the fake Tegan and Sara during the catfish scam?
Left 4 dead 2 y portal enserio que más todo es excelente, lo mejor es que Sara no mames es Sara la mejor cantante que escuche junto a Tegan.
@ophy4 You'd have to play the game Portal to fully understand it. To get the gist of it, just imagine Sara is a sarcastic, Machiavellian artificial intelligence who subjected you to a whole lot of tests/experiments while taunting you with the promise of cake, and you eventually killed her, or at least you think you did, but you never can tell with identical twins. ;)
Pretty girl :33
sososocute
LOVE LOVE LOVE this arrangement - never get tired of listening to it
Sara is so cute hiihi
Gotta love theramins... But is Jonathan a really massive, massive person, or is that just a really small guitar?
I think that's a ukulele.
LIstening to this just made me soooooooo damn happy, my day just got > 9000x better!!!! Holy. God. I. Am. A. Nerd.
@Prodigiousguy8 I'm a little creeped out when even the favourite musicians that I didn't find out about somehow through each other end up collaborating.
Sounds good, but the singer lady just looks so bored. She's kinda bringing me down, and that just should not happen with this song.
damn, you got so much milage out of this song, but for me nothing ever came close to Ellen McLain in the closing credits
At the start of the song I used to be scared of it because of the weird sounds of it. It sounded like tornado sirens. I was scared of it when I was 5 or 6
I agree that when put into context its bette as If you had no idea what portal/half life was then this song would be bizzare. Black mesa, Moist cake, Lines of code, you would be like WTF ?
But saying that. If you are familiar with the games then I'm sure you would be able to appreciate this, and as you did say "I appreciate the musicianship".
IMO - I didnt find the original tune to be cold/eerie, to me it was happy and accepting of her "fate" and showing no grudge towards the "test subject".
Lol i've played the game and only heard the song like once. So when I heard this version I was like huh...nice choice of lyrics...the lyrics are deep lol so im sure you prob got SOMETHING from them. Like there are two ways to take evey verse in this song...the glados way or the person who got crushed from a relationship way. BUT i do wonder if she ever played the game after doing this. :D
@JeffIsOld That's partly true, and don't get me wrong, I love the song (in every version it's been made). But if your theory was completely correct, there wouldn't be a song on RUclips, which countained a 'v'. On top of that, not every 'v' she says in the song sounds like an 'f', only those 'alive's (if she does say alive.
But in the end, it doesn't matter. I mean, if that's the biggest problem with this song, then overall, this is a great song. And I'm so glad that it's got an official video.
Guess who didn' t like somebody else being the center of attention? I'll give you six guesses
Holy testiclehats that is one talented theremin player.
beautifull
C'mon, Sara, so emotionless. I mean, I know it's supposed to be a futuristic robot singing it, but there's so much more feeling you could've put into that, like Johnathan's solo version with the acoustic guitar. GLados does it in a better key too...sounds rough and choppy on the lower register.
@theslyder What? GLaDOS is a fictional character who sings the song in the game Portal. Jonathan Coulton originally wrote the song for Valve Software's game. Now he has released a cover of it on his album Artificial Heart, performed by him, his band and singer Sara Quin.
Smell like portal
@FuturesCEO She is into it- thats just her nature sometimes. Besides you have to take into consideration that she was probably extremely tired after releasing Get Along, signing like 12,000 posters, making trailers,etc.. Either way she sounds amazing
portal
I kinda want to see the guy who mimws to Natalie Imb.... "torn" to this song.
@Cernoise I'm more confused than ever. It's weird Sara did this. She doesn't even like video games. I don't understand it, but I really love it anyways. It's sorta sad and funny at the same time.
So I guess after GLaDOS heard this girl she kidnapped her, brainwashed and told her that her name was Chell and her parents had abandoned her. That's what you get for messing with her songs.