Preach CRYING over Soken's LA HEE Performance

[@tashikat9040]

It takes an incredible amount of skill and talent to be this shit on purpose.

[@lucasrosa1108]

And even then, the bastard is playing two instruments simultaneously AND singing. Like yeah they all suck but good lord that takes a LOT of talent.

[@Jabarri74]

@@lucasrosa1108 And they both sound broken

[@sagetheinferno]

Well to be fair they didn't let him practice. He was winging it and played pretty well considering LOL.

[@JohnYoo39]

Yeah, it's actually really hard to sing off-key if you're a musician.

[@everyonethinksyoureadeathm5773]

@@JohnYoo39 this was the greatest shitpost of all time. The video still leaves me in stitches because of how forced he sounds to be offkey.

[@Mochachocakon]

Shout outs to the camera crew for nailing those perfect awkward shots

[@Alnora]

Soken composed the original song, destroyed the cancer in his body, found out the song was a meme and performed a shitpost to an empty auditorium. What a man.

[@Noki_Kelevra]

This man literally composes one of the best soundtracks in RPG history from his hospital bed, proceeds to kicks cancer's ass, gets released from hospital and this is the first thing he does in public. He's not only an absolute madman, he's OUR absolute madman. He's the actual Warrior of Light.

[@UrbanCohort]

And we love him for all of them.

[@spiritas5372]

Fucking legend!

[@rpglover101]

The best part is you can hear him "mess up" and go on key. Man is literally so genius he can't play the song wrong at some points.

[@iantaakalla8180]

I love that by the point he is singing and playing both otamatones Soken is hoarsely singing on key.

[@scottwagner2566]

I loved Soken before this performance, but this moved him into “True Legend” status. He must be protected at all costs.

[@flamingosalad3541]

This is what it is to be alive, to live in the moment, after dealing with something that could have snatched his life away so swiftly. One of the many moments that shine that will be immortalized for an eternity.

[@Salt_Mage]

From previous fanfests where he played the Lost City of Amdapor using a cardboard box as a kick drum, this man is absolutely chaotic.

[@Section.9]

Oh my god do yourself a favor and look up his rendition of Yanxia 😂

[@AuspexAO]

Yoshi P: "He wants to do what?" Coordinator:

[@MarthSR]

"B-but--" "Whatever. He. Wants."

[@MrBenaire]

Legend says that Keiko is still sitting there as her soul left her body frozen in time!

[@ねこ男の子]

Yeah it's only the top comment of every one of these videos lol. Still lucked out tho

[@lostempyrean]

To simultaneously be the mastermind behind some of the most diverse and fantastic music in a game ever AND be able to go on stage and be purposely this awful is mind blowing

[@PAcifisti]

He loves trolling on the fanfests, but I think this one also scores one of those "Scratch off the bucket list" type of things for him, given the circumstances. After facing death and making a comeback, what do you have to lose anymore?

[@Zeppelee]

Soken was battling cancer, and resting in a hospital bed when he wrote "To the Edge". The man has a free pass to shitpost whenever he wants.

[@omegagilgamesh]

I like to accredit this to Yoshi-P, I like to think he promotes a non-toxic work environment. When Heavensward released, the team swore off crunch, and it sounds like they never used it again, and in order to release consistent quality like this they have to retain talent and prevent burnout, so yeah, I think silliness like this is one perk of working there.

[@Caen-MK]

This was such a great moment, but it was rather bittersweet. The next day he had announced he had been battling cancer since before 5.3 was released. I remember how shocked everyone was in the livestream. Glad to see him doing a lot better these days. He has a true gem. Also, Keiko (The pianist) was a pure professional during all of this.

[@FreshLexo]

How is that bittersweet?? The man beat the shit out of cancer.

[@notjefflee]

​@@FreshLexo You don't beat cancer permanently, unfortunately. At least not in any certain terms.

[@Caen-MK]

@@FreshLexo It was bittersweet for us, none of us knew, not even the developers of the game knew of the secret war he was raging. Yoshi P breaking down talking about he wasn't able to see him was heartbreaking. Yes, he did beat cancer, and that is probably why he did the act. Given a new lease on life, he wanted to bring us joy in that moment.

[@FiendMatadorSlayerOfNoobs]

And even better, when Yoshi-P announced the Endwalker delay, quite a sizeable amount of people were like "OH NO! Has something happened to Soken or one of the devs?!" The most surprising thing was the fact that the first thought people thought about was the devs, not the game or the expansion. It was amazing.

[@specialnewb9821]

She really did her part to make this legendary cringe! 🤣

[@jaesaces]

Keiko is trying SO HARD not to laugh.

[@rpglover101]

I wonder how much she helps him come up with the act.

[@ArmageddonEvil]

@@rpglover101 Err, in terms of everything SHE HAD No idea that Soken was going to do that. AT ALL. Those are 100% Real Reactions and they didn't *rehearse it at all.*

[@Whit3_Tig3R]

@@ArmageddonEvil look at her face at the start.. she suspected

[@DameonStarflame]

@@Whit3_Tig3R He had done Yanxia's theme at a previous Fan Fest, so she likely had an "oh god what's my boss doing now?" type of thought, but beyond that had no idea.

[@omensoffate]

How do you know. Oh you like farming

[@JenDeyan]

Her face is the best thing in an already amazingly, hilarious performance.

[@randalica92]

If I were in her place I would have corpsed so soon into this masterpiece, respect to her for holding it in.

[@askeladd6115]

lol

[@GearheadPrime]

@@randalica92 They do this with the meme song of the expansion frequently. The Xanxia theme was similar.

[@sijrichters]

Poise under bullshit xD

[@omensoffate]

You do know this is scripted

[@SagittariusAyy]

You gotta love Keiko’s expression in this…She clearly is on the verge of corpsing, but she manages to keep her composure, as if to say “Yep, this is the man I work with.”

[@omegagilgamesh]

When people say, "This performance will move you to tears," this isn't what they expected.

[@Nobrev]

I love how Soken is so confident in his skill that he can just go up on stage and perform badly on purpose as a joke and everyone just loves it

[@dayaralattar54]

Bridge 4 brother, bridge 4

[@anyacarlson5219]

Soken does these silly performances at every Fanfest. My personal favorite is when he came out dressed like Elidibus and accompanied the Amdapor theme by kicking a box with bells taped to it.

[@kieragreywolf546]

:X You wouldn't happen to know a link to a video of this, would you? Elidibus playing 'box bells' with his feet sounds hilarious.

[@kuromatsu7892]

@@kieragreywolf546 Can't post link, but search for : FFXIV 2016 Fan Fest Masayoshi Soken Piano Concert or Soken playing his box at Fanfest 2016.

[@LameMule]

@@kuromatsu7892 Thank you.

[@emetanti]

Thats a sentence and a half to process.

[@kieragreywolf546]

@@kuromatsu7892 Thank you!

[@vexxiv]

her face kills me every time ahahaa

[@Violent_Wolfen]

It's like her Japanese side is telling her, "HOLD IT IN, HOLD IT IN!!!" Her normal side is saying, "CAN'T HOLD IT, CAN'T HOLD IT!!!"

[@RoughToughTonkasGotTheStuff]

unironically one of the most powerful performances of our generation

[@tomefilho3902]

They recognize how meme La Hee is. This is absolutely great.

[@everyonethinksyoureadeathm5773]

But wait there's more, the community made a dance meme on the Twinning's dungeon music. Well the creator of the dance was honored and the community meme ascended into legend status when the community team did the dance. Fan Fest 2020 twinning.

[@scotty110]

Soken also did this to the Yanxia theme back in 2019, La Hee wasn't the first.

[@WithoutException]

Soken really did just dual wield otomatones. I wish that were a weapon for ninja

[@andrebetita]

Would be awesome if they honked every time you hit something. Bards better watch out; here comes the competition!

[@elixwhitetail]

I have not leveled rogue far enough for it to turn into ninja. If they were to let ninja dual wield otomatones or legally distinct not-otamatones I would level it to 90. For Soken.

[@andrebetita]

@@elixwhitetail They should be called "Notamatones" to avoid trademark issues.

[@elixwhitetail]

@@andrebetita Garlond Ironworks Mark CXIV Vibrocouple Melodymaster

[@elgatochurro]

Viper too

[@BWA85]

Soken is both a Musical Genius and a XK-Class Shitposter. The Endwalker roadshow trailer clearly shows that he simply don't give 2 shits... And for that we love him

[@Rhodair]

That run at the end is the cherry on top, him running off the stage like Napoleon Dynamite

[@pumpkingamebox]

That’s the main composer. Stand in awe and cower.

[@MrGnuh]

'twas the very day soken won countless hearts, wishing him nothing but the best of luck and a whole bunch of fluffy kittens to cuddle

[@Blagno4]

This might be the worst comment I've read today

[@vivishii_]

lies, he already had us with his Yanxia performance years ago

[@KooriGraywolf]

Keiko's poker face is a skilled form of comedy in itself. Also the feedback at 2:33 fits so well with the goofyness of everything

[@psymar]

She legitimately wasn't in on it

[@FtanmoOfEtheirys]

I can never NOT laugh at Keiko's reaction

[@AuspexAO]

"I'm a part of this now. Forever..."

[@JackgarPrime]

Oh man, is this the first Fanfest video he's watched? Somebody get this man a whole playlist of Fanfest moments STAT!

[@kratosgow342]

Nope and this is not the first time he did this in 2019 he butchered Yanxia theme like this as well

[@thefbat5847]

@@kratosgow342 you misunderstood what op meant, he meant that if this is the first fanfest video preach watched.

[@Skyblade12]

Yeah, if Preach hasn't seen the Twinning video yet...

[@TheAkashachi]

He also watched the one where Yoshi-P said "step on me please" for the Yotsuyu cosplayer

[@HadeaRin]

Even the 14 hours Livestream have their share of wtf is happening. Mainly Morbol's costume..... Preach needed to get on the program for BCU3 silliness

[@Seedmember]

First came the laughs, then came the tears. I hope Soken is fully healthy now, so that we can enjoy more of his masterpieces.

[@Hornswroggle]

He's doing interviews and projects around FFXIV Sounds like the new Immersive Sound system they released with END and I've recently seen him on for another sound project as well. So he seems to be back in the swing of things.

[@Seedmember]

@@Hornswroggle This is amazing! Hopefully he doesn't overexert himself.

[@Scarheart76]

Now you know, whenever you're in the forest where this song plays, zone chat be like, "La Hee!"

[@bangormc3rd562]

I don't blame him for crying. This is the kind of beauty that touches your very soul.

[@Doctor_Yiggles]

Preach discovering the masterpiece that is LA HEE! I love it!

[@HISPANOMEGA]

Soken: “I battled cancer, meanwhile wrote one of the best tracks for a trial in FFXIV………TIME TO MEME!🎤 🤪🎶LAHEE🎶” what a fucking legend.

[@noxelohim]

This will never not be funny. Much love and respect to Soken for doing this. And being able to keep a straight face. My eyes water every time I watch and sides hurt from laughing so hard. But I mean, he was rocking those instruments. He really is incredibly talented. This was just priceless. Her face that entire time

[@PureRandumosity]

I was up till 4am watching the entire fanfest, I’ve never watched the Primals concert after and it was a real joy. I was ugly laughing with tears at this. Then this hits even harder after they all get up on stage for closing and Soken reveals to everyone he was battling cancer and composing music from a hospital bed. This was the performance he chose to come back with 😭😭😭 it was so amazing

[@crimsonpotemkin]

The moment he said Lahee the tag "Ultimate Legend" should've appeared above his head. Forever.

[@kieragreywolf546]

I literally just got to this zone in game for the first time today and immediately shouted, "IT'S LA HE!" and spent five minutes laughing because I couldn't stop thinking about this performance.

[@JackgarPrime]

Now Preach knows Lahee

[@PicnicDeficiencySyndrome]

Me : poor mrs pianist, having her boss shit posting right in front of her for around the world to watch. Im happy im not her Narator : he is lying, he is envious of her. Today battle outcome, soken wins Yup, soken is her boss.

[@GlunkTheLegend]

Love the Kaguya-sama reference. Best Narrator ever.

[@WardOfSouls]

You mean, soken is A BOSS.

[@PicnicDeficiencySyndrome]

@@WardOfSouls right, soken is not her boss, it's our boss *garlean anthem start playing

[@TheAndedande]

I tried my best to hold my laughter during the performance, but when he ran away I just fell of my chair and died laughing.

[@amethonys2798]

The pianist is just thinking "aw shit Soken off the meds again"

[@artra1019]

Damn this hits double after Soken revealed he had just beaten cancer

[@cas6382]

Soken is an absolute legend and I'm glad he's been feeling better he's such a great guy

[@texanjoecoffeehouse8141]

Soken is a global treasure. Must protect at all costs

[@maggikrissi6526]

Props to the lady that sat there with a straight face. Thats some real dedication and strong will

[@anniel9416]

Love Soken. Guy has such a great sense of humor and makes such great music.

[@AndersonFerrara]

If he didn't already, Preach should also check Soken playing music with a cardboard box in the 2016 Fanfest

[@dannyorsa]

Literally 13 seconds in and I'm already howling laughing like a mad man at: Mike: What is this?

[@gianghuynh9570]

You know someone is a consummate musician when he has this as his masterpiece.

[@shadowcat1606]

The fact that people like Soken are willing to get on the stage at FanFest and do ridiculous stuff like this or the Twinning-Meme-Dance (and don't forget that Japanese culture, afaik, has rather strict views on the importance of keeping up a respectable public appearance) tells you a lot of things about this dev-team and all those things are great. Now, sure, when Blizzard devs go on stage, they might get laughed at as well, but that's usually for different reasons... Honestly though, the best thing about this is that that poor woman on the piano seems like she wasn't informed about this AT ALL :D

[@psymar]

They've reached a level of respectable that even this can't breach.

[@DoomTrooper90]

One of the finest orchestras on the planet, with one of the most well known pianists of our times, in front of an audience of a few million people. Soken looks at all of that - and decides that he's gonna do the musical equivalent of a shitpost. While being wracked by cancer that he's told to fuck off. What an absolutely legendary chad.

[@Jvcdark09]

Soken the absolute shitpost god

[@Maggpieify]

it takes real talent and guts to not only suck this bad on purpose but also use a giant stage with countless people watching and the backing of one of the biggest entertainment IPs in the world to basicly commit musical shitposting. what a true legend!

[@chainclaw07]

I'm stunned!! He composes some of the modern industrys most amazing musical pieces for a living ... yet he WANTS to perform these things.... LMAO A true gem of a person, you love to see it.

[@kosif]

you think this shit was weird, i woke up and tuned into the live stream right when this was going down. I wasn't even sure if I was awake.,

[@GoobleGaming]

I am lost for words!

[@Sketch_EM]

After his hard truth life battle this was a perfect performance funny and good spirited just like him

[@adamosborne9440]

IRL shitposts are BEST shitposts

[@Canucks4us]

FFXIV devs are very in touch with community memes haha Love this whole team man.

[@Reyn_Roadstorm]

All hail our Meme Lord & Savior, Soken-san!

[@hayhay2640]

Stun locked seems like a appropriate term for this performance idk what to do as a musician i understand the pianists visible confusion but as well its just awesome in general

[@BM03]

The legendary day of Soken's greatest IRL Shitpost yet.

[@Rebel3000]

Soken is a god amungst men

[@HezrouDhiaga]

I get secondhand embarrassment for him every time I watch this gem x'D But I love it so much. I still vote they sell a orchestration roll of this randition. I would buy it so fucking fast lmao

[@atomictoaster3393]

blizzcon: "pls dont badmouth our game, pls dont joke about our game, we make this game with sweat and blood, yadayada" FF14 fan fest: "iam gong to sing lahee as worse as i can, enjoy" this is why i love ff14, they just having fun... thats it, thats all they do, FUN.

[@RummerChan]

The part where he bows then runs off the stage like a child that just got yelled at by their parent... lol it gets me every time 😂

[@Keneset88]

So, as of almost a year and a half of posting this and the LV's virtual fanfest the fact that Preach going into London's event is within weeks away and really exciting time ahead. Preach, I do hope you get to meet Yoshi-P even more of their staff as well! May you have the best time ahead!

[@KnightmareGalahad]

I like these highlight videos. As someone that doesn't get to to watch the stream much, would love so see more compilation style of highlights.

[@punishedbung4902]

There was another fanfest where Soken BECAME the otomatone.

[@Syrzan86]

Yeah, during Stormblood. His first Otamatone stage performance.

[@Raenas]

And remember. Japanese culture is, to my understanding, a lot about public perception and 'face' -- Shame and embarrassment are anathema and to be avoided. The sheer balls to look silly on stage and not give a damn, and in fact, totally 100% commit to it, is incredibly impressive.

[@wzx6x6z6w]

Dude has literally beat cancer, he chose to not give a fuck anymore.

[@mosselyn5081]

I mean, this is the culture that gave the world karaoke, after all. You're not wrong about "face", etc. but Japanese culture isn't humorless, IME. It has it's silly side, too.

[@AHylianWarrior]

This kind of humour is pretty common in Japan though. The public perception and "face" has to do more with businessmen and presidential figures say, for example, the Square Enix president rather than Yoshi P and his crew. Silly humour like this isn't uncommon to see amoung game devs, musicians, voice actors etc in Japan

[@Mennion3]

The whole notion of Asian culture and face is the remnants of orientalism.

[@RTuga02]

Sorry, but Japan has comedy and sense of humor. Also, silly comedy and slapstick comedy are very common in Japan culture and media. This notion that japanese are always serious, or all about "face", reputation, is a bit out of it. Soken has done this kind of silly performance in various fanfests.

[@KiraAotsuki]

This man made it through cancer recovery and walked on stage with a giant shitpost just for us The man is a Legend

[@TheDeliciousMystery]

I love that he didn't appear to have told anyone bar one sound guy he was going to do this and this is for one of the biggest brands in videogames with a 35 year history and like 100 titles and you can just imagine the ceo of square enix watching going "what the fuck is he doing?" AND HE GETS AWAY WITH IT CLEAN. The absolute madman.

[@LerThiL]

Imagin having fanfest on the 2nd monitor at the same time you do the Rabanaste 24man, and Soken starts Lahee.... That was me and other 23 that stopped raiding and wipped at the boss, imediatamente telling everyone to check the stream, we couldnt belive what was going on.... Amazing, the Man, the Legend, never laughed so much after a wipe, #bestwipeever

[@HiIThinkImReal]

If we are ever contacted by an alien species, then this should be the first thing we show them.

[@AnvilMAn603]

0:37 oh i have wasted my life

[@rajabuta]

Her face is the best part 🤣

[@pearhams2]

Loved your reaction. Saw this one coming. Soken is even brilliant in his comedy. lmao

[@bahamut416]

I love how you can see the moment the pianists soul leaves her body and she dies a little inside.

[@UmatsuObossa]

I feel like Soken must have come to this idea when considering songs to play with The Primals, then thought how effing bad it'd sound with him singing it....and decided to share it with the world XD

[@muuhnkin4611]

And here ladies and gentlemen, the composer of basically 90%+ of all music in FF 14

[@veksar]

How good is it that these guys have a sense of humour and can laugh at themselves.

[@mismismism]

Lol I swear, they need to replace the Rak'Tika music with this for April Fools without telling anyone. And change a mural to an ancient cave painting version of Keiko's face lol.

[@BazzFreeman]

Now you need to watch Soken and the boys doing the end concert. He truly is a master musician.

[@mywhitevoice4276]

This is the man who makes the music that touches my soul so deeply 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@UltimaKeyMaster]

Preach went from this to actually getting a one-on-one chat with Yoshi-P. What an evolution.

[@Daecoth]

In the hands of a master, even a child's toy can sculpt art from clay.

[@lyconxero457]

Anytime I’m feeling down in the dumps, I just play this clip and laugh my ass off. SOKEN was absolutely AMAZING at this fan fest absolutely living his best life…possibly for reasons we discovered at the end of fan fest but the event overall was great.

[@Mortal_Indeed]

Video Length land at 4:20, what a beautiful length for this amazing performance.

[@krilektahn8861]

This sounds like me torturing my daughter when I sing her choir stuff back at her. 😄

[@bainbonic]

The pianist's face just makes this for me.

[@brob797]

Soken running off at the end makes me think of napoleon dynamite when he does his skit for Pedro 😂

[@RainCityWhispers]

You can see the exact moment Keiko's soul leaves her body.

[@themissingpeace7956]

This was the day Preach learned about the Legend of Soken.

[@yaru50]

Soken is a genius.

[@BestoFriendoCassidy]

SHE COULDN'T HANDLE HIS MAJESTY.

[@BazzFreeman]

Keiko trying not to laugh through this is brilliant.

[@FlorenceFox]

I would unironically mod this into the game if I wasn't terrified of breaking it.

[@88calistar]

welcome to the community my friend. :)

[@July-gj1st]

Everytime I watch this clip I imagine Keiko thinking "Have I seriously practiced 40hrs a day for this?! Ah well wth..."

[@Karloss00]

One day; they'll make this an April fools gag in the Greatwood.

[@OldManInternet]

One of my friends brought up the Otamatone because he was going to get it for one of his nephews to piss his sister off. He also had never seen this before, so I got to share it. Still kills me every time

[@Fan-wj9mx]

unironically such a banger

[@ChrisMorray]

Just imagine. This man just recovered from cancer. And his first public act was this. Before even announcing he had cancer. And it's not like he can't sing either. He's a backing vocalist for the Primals pretty often.