Opera Singer Hears "We all Lift Together" While Playing Warframe

It was really fun to listen to We all Lift Together IN game and experience Fortuna, almost done with the story - genuinely a harsh place to experience and visit. This was fun. It's interesting how music can sound a certain way but mean different things depending on the context it's given. Really cool!
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[@MarcoMeatball]

Disregard the camera conversation there in the middle. I thought my camera died. Much more to come as I experience the in game experience of Warframe musically while playing it. Feel free to join me over on twitch or here on youtube! www.twitch.tv/marcomeatball. Tuesday streams of Warframe starting 1/3/2024

[@Morveyn]

The 'cameraman' bit was just an old joke about that cutscene transition where one of the Solaris hurls a canister at the 'camera' at 1:10, for context.

[@Tyrannus_Gaming]

I have two accounts subscribed to you, and I'm glad you're enjoying Warframe, MarcoMeatball. Not to shameless plug my own channel, but I have some videos on "How to Play..." for Warframe that may help you, and others looking to improve their Warframe experience. Story Note: The Corpus from this Song are Debt Slaves.

[@nyx3988]

I know it is silly and kinda childish question but is there possibility to maybe play with you ? Hehe

[@NeoBeelzemon]

Just wait when you will do Sevagoth quest. Final there is awesome.

[@MarcoMeatball]

@@nyx3988just come in!

[@vhalrougelarfouxe]

Seeing this the first time in game continues to be a core memory for me.

[@FirefoxEzo]

I stayed up till the update dropped, didnt regret it

[@mercerwing1458]

@@FirefoxEzo devs apologized for it being 4gb big, lmao imagine other devs optimizing space that much

[@Nistaa]

I remember the first time i've seen it at tennocon or devstream, i don't remember, gosh it was epic.

[@hijodelsoldeoriente]

Same! To be honest so many Warframe cutscenes and music are so memorable at least for me

[@DarkmegaGaming]

just you wait till you get past the new war... :

[@Defixio.]

I find the song to be optimistic, but it's raw and about life. "until we're all lifeless together". Life is always a struggle, and it has ups and downs. and you have to walk it with your people. Lift Together.

[@Maverick2736]

_Heart-wrenchingly_ optimistic, for life in what is basically a slave colony in which your body parts are debt collateral and the punishment for failing to meet the impossible demands of the Elon Musk stand-in in charge is a fate worse than death.

[@StarboyXL9]

@@Maverick2736 Projecting the evils of greed onto a single individual is a trap, its what the faceless corpos and their owners want you to do. At best Musk is a hard-working visionary who doesn't ask anything of his people that he himself wouldn't do, OR he is a greedy/self-interested but largely harmless scammer. The entire reason why Musk exists, I reckon, is because the corpos knew you people are quick to believe the worst of every individual human being they place directly in front of you, so they likely made him rich and wealthy to distract your criticism from hitting the right target: them. The real "rich" you Communist wanna-bes and posers moan about are never in the news, because they and their friends own the news and pay a lot of money to make sure their names are never in the public eye. The "visible rich" are the distractions, the sock-puppet show to keep "the children" (that's what they call you guys) distracted and angry at someone else. Stop watching the puppet show and start peaking behind the curtain, or else you're a traitor to your own beliefs.

[@shingshongshamalama]

"We know we're all going to die, but we're not going to die alone."

[@Marhathor]

Context you should now have: "Hi. I'm your landlord. I own Venus... the entire planet. Everything's gonna be fine, as long as you pay your rent. Unfortunately for you, that's a lot of money you don't have. Don't worry, though, you can just work for me until you've paid off your debt. (That's not really gonna happen, but since you can't leave, you probably wanna keep on my good side.)" - Nef Anyo, one of the biggest douches in Warframe

[@MarcoMeatball]

Context confirmed 😉

[@Cornu341]

You also missed one aspect: Oh, and before you start your shift, these are the unpaid bills from your family up to your great great great grandparents. Be a good one and pay them off. And if you cannot pay, I will send someone to fetch your cybernetic or organic parts to pay for some of those bills.

[@13g0man]

@@Cornu341 Don't worry if you can't pay them off, your children can pay them in addition to your debt. Aren't I so generous?

[@superdimentiobrolyX]

i would say the vibe of we all lift, you nailed it with "optimistic but not positive". its like, things are hard and the corpus are oppressing the solaris but the solaris are still strong, still hopeful

[@shingshongshamalama]

It's a song not of revolution but of resistance. We know we're going to be crushed, inevitably, by the weight of the system above us. But that doesn't mean we're broken. That doesn't make us weak.

[@KategariYami]

Everyone experiencing Fortuna for the first time is always a great moment in WarFrame history. Vibes 4 days

[@hartantoanggoro]

And then the suffering comes

[@MattR8605]

It was cool getting there, and then the grind became apparent…

[@JadonTheEternal]

​@MattR8605 you just described all of Warframe 😂

[@MattR8605]

@@JadonTheEternal nah, the grind for bonds in Fortuna is notoriously horrible

[@JadonTheEternal]

@MattR8605 yeah I know, I was mostly kidding. Tho there was some truth to it lol.

[@Margonxp]

I still can't believe that this game is free. I lately received 10th anniversary reward and I'm so happy that this game is still alive with great community and amazing devs. I still can't forget the feelings after I finished Second Dream quest when I was young.

[@nat_sukashii]

I remember singing it in vc with my clan member friends back in 2018, time flies Outworlder... but we still lift together! Clem! Your enthusiasm about the game is really going to make me reinstall the game Marco haha!

[@yammoto148]

CLEM!!

[@Kalasdra]

There is a new operation until the 15/01/24 about the new quest and other things. The rewards are Arcane. Recently, DE added a new mechanic on melee and also arcane for it.

[@majorasmask5523]

As an Umbra main, the Sacrifice music continues to be my personal favorites. Warframe has a fantastic composer.

[@fantabulisticous]

to those not familiar with Warframe, the story behind the place is a debtors colony where the people are in such debt to the ultra capitalist Corpus faction that they are essentially slaves, so this is a work song in the vein of a Slave Spiritual.

[@DarkRavenhaft]

To add to that: They are originally fairly close to baseline human. The robot additions are simultaneously prosthetic, tools of the trade, and their chains of debt. They do not own those bodies, Solaris does.

[@spdcrzy]

​@@DarkRavenhaft yeah, if there was ever a massive game that was more vocally anti-imperalist and and anti-late-stage-capitalism and inclusive than Warframe, I can't think of it.

[@Iron_Cutlass]

My favorite part about this whole cutscene is the flashing of that happens with some of the command consoles (not all of them though) only happens when the lyrics are being sung (not with the beat of the song) which implies that some of the computers are singing, which is either really funny or really grim if you understand the Corpus and REPO program.

[@bagel040]

I absolutely cannot wait for you to reach the for narmer scene. It is absolutely chilling to hear that for the first time in context.

[@Kserijaro]

This is optimistic and uplifting. That is why its MANDATORY you hear "For Narmer" sung by the same people of Fortuna

[@diagnosisninja]

FIrst time seeing it in context, but this is great! I always read it as "Things suck right now, but if we keep working at it, we can make things better for those who come next, and that's worth something". Hardships are to be endured, and we can face them if we're together. Dunno if that applies to the game, but I've always found it to be sad and hopeful.

[@Ashurman666]

3:39 Excalibur Umbra, AKA Edgy Swordboy. Fantastic frame if you like melee. Also I don't know how far you got in your stream as I didn't watch but honestly I hope you also post your reactions when you hear For Narmer in game

[@OfficerPorkchops]

His stream is posted under the live tab on his channel

[@sylvastreak]

You can't do screamdad dirty like this D:

[@Ashurman666]

@@sylvastreak Is that what people call him? Screamdad? I mean I get why but still.

[@thealchemistking4063]

*its gunna be a WHILE before he hears that…*

[@Ashurman666]

@@thealchemistking4063 I mean, depends on how good he is at the game

[@ThatSilverDude]

I'm glad to see this video.. nice to see I'm not alone in having such great memories about this song and this update. Can't believe it's been 5 years. I started a whole career in this time. So excited for crossaves.

[@alexsawchuk5371]

One of us, one of us, one of us!

[@TheIndigoEclipse]

I can't wait for Marco to get to the ingame For Narmer song that harkens back. The Feels.

[@fnat123]

i love how marco looks at umbra and says "that's some fucking drip". you will get that eventually and it is from my favourite quest ever "the sacrifice". hope you'll get to that, because i have the feeling you'll love that.

[@hijodelsoldeoriente]

Don't spoil him 😂 he hates it.

[@CakeorDeath1989]

Sees the default Umbra: "That's some fucking drip." 😂 He's not wrong, though. Umbra is one of the sickest looking default frames, IMO.

[@Ithirahad]

I guess the warning about materialism didn't quite sink in :D I do appreciate that Warframe doesn't make ALL the good stuff paid, though I wish they were less restrictive with the colour palettes.

[@lukewilliams1323]

Can we appreciate the transition from cutscene to gameplay on tenno entering that was seamless

[@JiryStark]

If you liked the original version, I recommend you to hear the Freya Catherine cover. Is flippin glorious.

[@felixrowan646]

Do you mean Freya Catherine? Can't find a cover by Freya Allan.

[@JiryStark]

@@felixrowan646 OH GOD sorry, my mistake. Recently watched The Witcher S3 and names got mixed. Yeah, I meant Freya Catherine.

[@TotallyDapper]

Or the Longest John’s version. There’s a lot of good versions out there!

[@StarboyXL9]

@@TotallyDapper Amen

[@gctypo2838]

When I first played and stumbled my way through Venus and clicked Fortuna, dropped in to see THIS, absolutely floored. A masterpiece of presentation here in a game where (at the time) I had seen so little of the story.

[@Nomis90000]

The timing of the player hitting the ground with the music hits so perfectly after the prison reveal. 1st time I saw this was a complete suprise. Went from thinking I clicked the wrong button to fully invested new sheriff in town. Happy to see Warframe gradually mutateing into a full musical.

[@Allurmage]

I'm glad you finally got to hear this track in-game, Marco! Straight up one of the most powerful songs in Warframe. I hope you have fun in Warframe. It's one of a kind.

[@sketchysketches381]

This has to be one of the most iconic things to come out of the game. I mean beyond the game play and character design or story. This song was everywhere, and friends that never touched warframe would sing it.

[@judythepunk461]

Ooooh its so awesome you're playing this game! I cant believe fortuna is 5 years old now, i started playing in 2015, i feel old now xD

[@cushvonrich4873]

It's my first time seing the context from where this song come. I have it since a longtime as favorite in my youtube playlist but I never check from it was. I always imagine something more like a nomadic tribe song or village song in a harsh environnement. It's a pleasant surprise.

[@mandalorianmanic9525]

On the topic of this being or not being a chain gang song, if I understand the concept correctly, they certainly are prisoners. Not sure how far into the story you'll go or if you already put it together, Marco, but the people there are financially enslaved to Nef Anyo, a Corpus big-wig. You'll see if you get through the game a bit more just how dire their circumstance is, but even still they *do* remain hopeful, so the song does remain hopeful but is absolutely under the weight of their situation. Strong united, working 'till we fall.

[@darthplagueis13]

I'd argue that at least contextually, it makes sense to categorize them as a chain gang song, after all they are doing forced labour.

[@Defixio.]

yea without spoiling they have to toil and if they don't they can't ever be free, normal, or free their families. there was a temporary event (which maybe you can still do?) that spelled out the haunting phrase "Even the Dead Have Depts" which illustrates how serious the currency worshiping corpus are about you working off your dept.

[@tyuigkn5366]

I;ve been watching your videos you posted about the warframe songs about a year ago, and just now I find you playing warframe man hell yeah. Good luck with the grind.

[@WDGabe]

Absolutely peak music.

[@Ziyanani]

Optimistic is a good word.. it came across as so hopeful to me.. 'we know we are screwed but for the others we carry on' kind of thing

[@kfizz]

This was a insane time to play during this with hover boards and stuff.

[@ChillySkells]

Him being a music man means he is really gonna feel the new war version

[@thecasualsperspective]

Everytime I hear the Fortuna song I literally tear up. It's really touching that even though they're literally all indebted, poor, and struggling... they find some amount of peace in the fact that they are still a part of a community that understands them and that's enough for them to get up and persevere each day.

[@mikakimchi]

a neat thing is that their lights on their bodies blip on and off to when they are singing which is a neat touch

[@Joe-it2dh]

I can't wait til you do the Chains of Harrow quest. The sound design is next level.

[@selensewar]

Spending evenings, sitting in Fortuna's lobby and chatting with randoms has to be one of my favorite memories of this game. Those were fun days.

[@ryshazeux4099]

This is the song that got me started on playing Warframe.

[@LuciousLoire]

"They don't seem like a chain gang." Not all chains come in one form, debt is but one of many.

[@hallelion]

Oh, Fortuna... Holds such powerful vibes and soundscapes. So great!

[@Arachnid-scribe]

I started warframe when Fortuna launched; what a beautiful introduction

[@hartantoanggoro]

Playing Warframe for the first time? Welcome to the game Tenno. And when you reach "Call of Tempestarii" quest, please rate "In the Cold Below".

[@Sarge23]

Having the player show up in the end so flawlessly is perfection

[@dragden851]

fair points against the comment of it being a "chain gang song" it does feel inspired by that... i was that person so long ago that mentioned it but i think it was just giving me vibes from the begging of "o brother where art thou?" however such memories for me are old and from my childhood so makes sense i may have gotten a little mixed up with how i was feeling it to be akin to a chain gang working song.

[@TheNefastor]

Those moments, combined with the fact that this game's monetization system is basically "you pay what you, including nothing", is why this is the only MMO I play. DE always comes up with something special that surprises you out of nowhere. 11 years I've been playing, on and off, I always come back eventually.

[@jacobdavis6916]

I will say this about Warframe: with the music, the maps, the story and amount of content that has been pushed out; it may be one of the few freemium games, that I know of, that actually reinvents it's MTs back into the game proper. And it really shows. I've hung it up a while back (kinda ruined my life for a bit), but I still keep this song in my playlists.

[@krabulon7575]

i love how, its almost a shared feeling of whistle with the song

[@deoranferguson5657]

We allllll lift together together

[@psycoNaughtplaysMCPC]

Smiles From Juran will always leave a mark on me, its sooo hauntingly beautiful

[@tyr573]

The open world ost is just so calming too

[@itslit1998]

This is probaly one of the best things in all of gaming ever

[@Blooming.Grove1]

Oof, can't wait till he hits For Narmer in game

[@maximinnow6627]

Warframe had some remarkably powerful music, thematically appropriate and with individual flavour. Will never tire of hearing it or This is What You Are. On another note. Saw some of your earlier videos reacting to game music and a friend of mine a very long time ago did a computer generated orchestral version of the Alchemist (ZX spectrum) soundtrack. Would be curious to hear your thoughts on the technical arrangement as he did most of it by hand rather than using pre-arranged tracks. If you like can give the link, don't want to be rude.

[@birubu]

I love that the Singing Console at 1:11 is still there. I got a whole headcanon for her as “Vox” and the namesake of “Vox Solaris”. Imagine getting so much repo’d that all that’s left is a brain, yet your voice still rings with hope.

[@craneboy11]

Yeah, I remember commenting the chain gang thing. I might’ve been a little off, but I think you get where I was coming from. They sing an optimistic kind of song, in which they also admit they’ll be worked to death. It’s a debt colony, they’re not quite there by choice is all. It makes me want to buy out all their debts in game.

[@mohdnazimrosli8535]

Anyo got slap hard when Parvos hates his guts n method . Best in game dialog for sure!

[@methanoI]

Never knew you played Warframe, hope to see you on Whispers in the Walls OST's!

[@TheMojaveLamp]

God, you're going to have an ear-gasm when you reach the Whispers in the Wall content

[@XCanG]

I've taken a peek into your stream and you seems to like Shawzin, so I want to tell you (if you don't know about it yet), so that anyone can create track here and share it on internet (it a bunch of text), so you should definitely look into it and find interesting tracks to play and may be save them in memory as well.

[@extantcadence2707]

Ahhh the colors in that area

[@ladiesman2138]

Too bad we cant replay this song anymore after the story mission🥲

[@SorinVladimir]

Somg has an antipod in form of "for narmer" If you listen than back to back you understand the fall....

[@joshlewis8860]

Everyone seeing Citrine for the first time- “Oh, wow…”

[@thomasedgar8612]

cant wait for you to encounter for narmer in game, its gonna be great!

[@wreckitraf8765]

Man, I miss the vallis looking like this. With this much snow. What a pretty open world. Then came the new war. lmao

[@nolram]

OMG you are finally playing Warframe! AMAZING!

[@victorabregu1718]

also if you walk up to seme of the non merchant npc sometimes you hear them humm the song!

[@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece]

It's optimistic but acknowledging that no one get out of this alive.

[@legodude9]

Just as a note you can tell they are all singing this in scene as their lights on their bodies are flashing

[@proudlarry8225]

They are chained, but not physically. Their body parts and loved ones are held hostage after their colony got taken over by a con man that turned them into a debtor colony.

[@Sci-Fi_Freak_YT]

Yoooo! Marco been too long dude! Glad to see you actually play the game for yourself. I do a lot of warframe content myself but I’m more than happy to help out a new Tenno. If you are interested im ecstatic to help out a new player👌

[@teabee5168]

"We All Lift Together": 😀 "For Narmer": 💀

[@TrashParty]

Now just wait till you come back later to this. and " For Narmer" starts playing

[@bluprint27]

Please react to the music from the new Whispers in the Wall update if you can. It's probably the most gorgeous part of the soundtrack I've heard from the game next to the Angels of the Zariman soundtrack. Just to tickle your interest, it does contain choirs and throat singing.

[@Wonback]

Dude you MUST hear the music from the last update that just dropped

[@MakutaSighkonus96]

Has the same vibe a Misty Mountains Cold from LoTR.

[@lycanyte5898]

Can't wait for him to hear for narmer, even if it will be a bit before he encounters it

[@siskohwat473]

Marco is now only 200 hours away from "For Normer"

[@destreak]

whoa you play warframe? thats awesome!

[@aralanstradivari2841]

In regards to in game context, the way Armored Core 6 does this with Steel Haze (Rusted Pride) is actually quite good, as in one context, it is more uplifting, and in the other, the optimism is overshadowed by a sense of sorrow. It’s interesting, and as a result became my favourite besides Stargazer of that game

[@aldeonuwu2634]

Damn i miss the old fortuna 😢

[@thejames11]

I cannot wait for you to meet the narmer

[@EternalVirgin]

Ah, the song of Tomboy Mine

[@wesleyward5901]

Marco, you should check out Sevagoth's Lullaby, it's an official remix of Sleeping in the Cold Below made for Sevagoth's deluxe skin added with the new update. Unfortunately no lyrics, but it's still really good.

[@zaccoogle3719]

I can't wait till he gets to se "for Namar" in context give him like a week to a month and I think he'll go wild for it. so many subthemes in that one song

[@vond5829]

Fortuna: Space Australia

[@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg]

It's not optimistic - it's determined. They're slaves, bound by a debt they can never recover from, and they're finding unity and identity, but while they dream of freedom, they never expect to find it.

[@alexitrinune]

I guess it still count as chain gang, they are after all prisoner to their own debts.

[@tiagopatricio3805]

Think of it as Warframe's answer to the song the 7 Dwarves sing in Snow White!!!

[@HomicidalTh0r]

Solaris is a Debt Interment camp, where you are supposed to "work off your debt". It's practically only one step removed from a Debtor's prison. And the only difference between a chain gang and Solaris at the time of your arrival is the lack of physical chains. There is indeed an invisble one around each and every one of their necks. Nothing that you havent gleaned by now of course. But it gets much, much worse. The song is definitely uplifting and hopeful but makes sure to illustrate the oppression too. The uptick is the main theme. They're in this together, where the sum is more than the individual parts. Its a great song

[@soulvagabond9655]

The proper genera would be Gandy Dancer. Songs made to work to a rhythm (like what railroad workers would sing) are in that genera of music.

[@MarcoMeatball]

that's not a music genre: that was a name for workers: Gandy dancer is a slang term used for early railroad workers in the United States, more formally referred to as "section hands", who laid and maintained railroad tracks in the years before the work was done by machines. The British equivalents of the term gandy dancer are "navvy" (from "navigator"), originally builders of canals or "inland navigations", for builders of railway lines, and "platelayer" for workers employed to inspect and maintain the track. In the Southwestern United States and Mexico, Mexican and Mexican-American track workers were colloquially "traqueros".

[@soulvagabond9655]

@@MarcoMeatball huh. Interesting. When I looked it up a while back wanting to know what the genera for the music was called what came up said that was the music. Welp, at least I know now.

[@tarta5844]

i remember it having a discord event

[@FeroxSchattenwolf]

Oh no- I can read myself in the Chat. :O ;D Was a cool stream tho!

[@taktika4764]

The battle theme from the new warframe update is so good, check it out too!

[@HuckyalmL]

here is an idea, trying to guess what theme goes with what character with a couple of league of legends splasharts and themes

[@CombatZAK]

Did you spend platinum on Stropha? I think that's the only way to get it without going through a LOT of content first. Also waiting for this lad's reaction to This is What you are in-game, with what it actually means, given how much it affected him just hearing it on its own.

[@shaundevine8020]

you should listen to the green and red versions of "final stand" from tc2.

[@forgot-to-log-out]

We need you to make a video on the soundtrack from whisper from the walls

[@nossiro90]

Now wait till he has to witness "For Narmer" for the first time

[@SkeithSheep]

He already did tho, did it before

[@PolymurExcel]

Yo, he remembers my comment from so long ago. Lore wise, Fortuna is in practice, a giant debtor's colony where in order to help cover their debt owed to the Corpus, they work as indentured servants and even sell off their body parts and replace them with robotics in order to lessen their debt old. Not quite like a chain gang, but it does sound like one. Edit: yeah, 8 months ago. It went like this "We All Lift Together always reminded me of US Depression era chain gangs working on the railroad. The banging are hammers slamming in the spikes and they based the whole rhythm off of that tempo. Love it." For reference, this was what I was comparing the song to: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aniYfKeHrtOKrMU