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- WOOL OVER OUR EYES | Cult of the Lamb Song! - The Stupendium Reaction
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i love how the whole song starts with a "sad little guy chained and crying for being a sacrifice " and at the end of the song, the brainwash is so successful, that now same little guy is not even chained nor crying, but actually happy to be sacrificed
two things yes your right hehe but that's the point of the game. and that sad little guy is Sstupendium's avatar for this music video. most of the time he plays the lead character in the video but for this the lamb had to take centre stage.
The tarot card guy’s voice is ON POINT. In game he just makes funny animal noises but it sounds exactly like him but just…with words
Yeah cus that is the voice actor look up the name in the creditd
The Stupendium said they rerecorded the tarot card guy's voice (2nd verse) after the lamb screaming (3rd verse), because their voice was all hoarse from that.
@@hexlith why do you go on the internet and lie
@@iratetrolls look in the credits of the vido its the litteral voice actor
@@hexlith what name should I look for then
The best part about this song is in Cult of the Lamb you dont have to sacrifice anyone in your congregation. It can really just be a fun festival like island where everyone can live peacefully
It’s just Stupes loves playing a villain
If you had a chance to have a million dollars, but people must die, there would be many unmarked graves. Unless you simply are above/ separate from human emotion, we all would do something horrible to further our own leads/homes. And would definitely see if anyone would agree with us. And and soon as any proof that “we did that right thing” comes out, any worry about what was sacrificed for it would be gone.
not really happy.. its still pretty messed up, but yes certain truly vile things are optional, but not all
The lore: cult leader who doesn’t care for any of their followers
Me playing it: *cleaning and cooking* I work hard to make this cult a home!
During the part with the Tarot cards he says;
"The cards you want are OFTEN DRAWN but SELDOM EVER DEALT" - You have an idea for your future but are never given the opportunity to see it (a dealer draws your cards but only deals the ones they want)
Great reaction btw!
I saw "The cards you want are often drawn but seldom dealt" as in like "You rarely start with everything you want and need, but they can be attained down the line.
I interpreted it as you draw them often but there aren't that many to draw so you run out quickly. (What I really think it is meaningless on purpose)
Did you notice that the bird who leads the chorus and is eaten at the end is Stups' feathersona from the Freddy song?
the birds name is Cosmo, i believe
feathersona
Huh
His fackin what?
All the ones in the chorus are other creator's sona's
I feel like another thing with that "For whom love is unconditional" line is that you have to pay your way into the "unconditional" love. If you're part of the "In" crowd, the people that are truly devoted, then you get treated exceptionally well, but as soon as you falter you get tossed aside for those who are more willing.
I currently believe (although I haven't played the entirety of the game) that the being talking to the Lamb over the tarot cards isn't truly a mentor or patron figure, just an amoral bystander to this universe who can see that the Lamb is both a being semi-willingly possessed by the Red Crown and a figure being controlled in a video game and is asking what the Lamb's (and indirectly the player's) beliefs on free will and destiny are out of legitimate curiosity rather than any interest in manipulating events.
... you haven't played it but you got claunecks character right
I love the effects he used like the whispery nature of the first line of the second chorus. Also the hilarious subscribe end read where he talks like the sheep and "baa-ing" his words
It always funny how even after the song's over, he still keeps the character when the credits roll XD
Funfact a sheep doesn't 'baa' it's called bleating~
@@cartoonmaster2401 Yeah, I also love that! :D
Stupendium put on a master class on lyricism with this track
The tarot card guy's name is Klaunek, and hes actually pretty chill, a breakdown of the lyrics are essentially calling the lamb just as much of a slave to the one who waits as the cult is.
Around 12:30 what you may be referring to is 'word salad'; confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases. If a person's speech use of it is unintentional, it's usually a sign of a possible mental disorder.
However in this instance (and in context of the purpose of it in the song) 'narcissistic word salad' is a type of purposefully confusing speech, using circular reasoning, logical fallacies and other rhetorical devices to disorient and manipulate a person or group. Which makes sense considering for most of the song the happy notes, fast pace, and tones can distract from a lot of what's being said until the end of it. That 'point of no return moment' when a casual listener can actually follow the lyrics now, and they're grim, but it's the 'end' of the song (and the audiences' involvement in the cult) so it's too late.
Omg, I laughed at the Ghost Rider comment... it isn't as far off as you might think! The Sheep wasn't evil (at first), he was about to be unjustly killed, and was saved by "He who waits beneath". But he was possessed by the crown which gives him great powers (ghost rider power) in exchange for killing the "Old gods" who imprisoned him (Hell''s bounty hunter).
Of course, just like the Devil likes to use honeyed words to corrupt, over the course of the game you get tons of ways to do evil in exchange for quick and easy power. Most sheep fall, because gaining that power through normal means takes a LOT longer, and without it you wont succeed in killing the Old gods. You CAN take the Power of the crown and use it for good, but that is the hardest way to play.
The good cult leader is my way to play even if it is harder I just can not be bothered to be the bad or evil cult leader my cult is a family that's why I'm sad that in every song and everything he is just evil with his good side just being a mask
The sheep is also canonically a girl
Mh I don't know everywhere they are considered genderless or unknown and every follower refers to them as they/them but the devs use he in the steam forums I mean he even has horns so it would make sense unless it's species is special...don't get me wrong this isn't a argument and I would love some clarification but to be honest I just consider them as none of my business and stop thinking about it...
@@GameGuy667 (joke, not serious, it's a sheep) unless it takes off a suit of power armor and is wearing a swimsuit, I'm not going to argue it's feminity.
Also an interesting line at 9:48 "we've never met an yet we meet again" which is actually said in-game, though it may be a reference to how he knew you'd show up due to him basically using the tarrot cards to predict the future or something.
"The cards we want are often drawn but seldom ever dealt" is probably saying the chance for what you want to happen is often possible, but rarely occurs.
The guy in game does offer advice and uses the cards to boost your abilities in combat areas, but doesn't really take any direct action in-game.
"Ne're the wealthy ever left ground"
The amount of cleverness that line has is amazing:
Jesus _did_ say it's impossible for a rich person to enter heaven.
A cult leader would twist that to get all of their followers to give all their money away.
kill-ecting up the mess. He doesn't want to tell his new recruit that if he opposes him he will kill him on the spot. A slip of the tounge because he was going to say dissenters will be killed. So he quickly switched it to collecting
Yup, stupes excells in encapsulating a subject and elevating undertones. The closing line before the last chorus was great.
I like how every time the Lamb does something overtly evil or manipulative to his cultists, he's shown in the red-eye look. The brief glimpse of it in the confessional is very much telling, since many real-world cult leaders use "confidential" discussions like that with their followers to manipulate and blackmail them into doing their will. It's a blatant violation of trust but by this time the convert is so indoctrinated and brainwashed that they have no defense against it.
Overall, Stupes' portrayal of a cult leader is terrifyingly accurate.
Man I swear Stupendium has some of the greatest lyricism for a TH-cam creator
Darnell Bradley kept saying he could hear specifically *slim shady* hop on this beat
Glad to see everyone hopping onto this, and of course your reaction is twice as long which entails good content, let's see-
So what did you think.
@@whatitdodave well I think it’s great, as is all of the reactions I’ve watched on your channel
Well, there are a few types of reactions, those who mumble over the song and don't say anything else, those who comment about the structure of the song and look at it from a musician perspective, then there's yours, looking at what the song is actually conveying and thinking on that. I like yours the best. Keep doing what you're doing
@@FineUndDandy there’s also the, looks at the screen with mild face changes and then tells you to subscribe for more “reactions”
Something I like is that the 2 first times of the chorus you see changes in the totem and they have White eyes too
11:17
In other words, if the Kool-Aid slaps hard enough.
This is my new favorite song
i found you maybe about a month ago but have fallen into a hole of your reactions because i just love the way you get indepth with what you think and pull from the bars and lyrics even looking deeper past them just being about a video game cause i love stupendium and dan bull and have always looked past the lyrics just being about the games and finding grounds to relate them to the real world and you heart all the comments which is just amazing. you have now become what runs in my youtube when i just have it playing and i just find myself enjoying every video
Thanks for the kind words homie! 🙏🏾😁
The Outros are always amazing.
Religious undertones? Sir I think you mean religious overtones.
Hey man this vid is awesome, I’m a new viewer, just found you yesterday, and want to say your voice is really soothing, and I like how in depth you go during the video, so we don’t lose your train of thought, really good TH-camr, and you have definitely earned your subscribers
In the game all of the followers have an age and I don't think I've ever seen one younger than like 27
So the guy with the tarot cards says something a long the lines of "Your cards are often drawn, but rarely dealt." This basically is telling me that you make your own chooses and aren't bound by a destiny. As the song goes on to ask if the Lamb even believes in the idea of destiny or fate, I would say that is a good take of lyrics.
Clauneck, that's tarot guy's name
14:43 i never really payed attention to this line before, but "sowing seeds preceeds a reaping, start a line, now who's the first? you all decided to convert so tell me, *WHY'RE YOU SO NERVOUS?"* actually really fits this game. most followers you find (like you saw at the start of the vid and the game) were about to be sacrificed until you showed up and kidnapped them. they never chose to come with you, you gave them no other option, they HAD to convert. plus they were at their LOWEST point, and they quite literally dont have any other options, so they decide to join after some... light indoctrination*. (*indoctrination may not actually be light)
after turning them into your own worshippers, a game mechanic you see at the end of the vid and in the marketing is straight up sacrificing some of your members to get power boosts, loot or even revive you if you died, reaping the reward of indoctrinating them.
im not sure what the "start a line, now whose the first" could be a refrence to, i think its cause if you play the game well and you want a power boost, some loot or you died you have to pick some poor shmuck to sacrifice to get what you need. the better you play, the more choices you have, but you cant pick someone not converted.
"you all decided to convert, so tell me, *why're you so nervous"* i already explained this one, but ill repeat for those who didnt understand my ramblings.
the people you get in your flock dont actually convert on their own. they dont approach you, YOU hunt for THEM.
they were supposed to be sacrificed to their gods, but you saved them, so they were already at their lowest point. however when you bring them into your camp they dont actually travel there with you hand in hand like this vid and the marketing show you. instead, you use your spooky crown to create a black and red portal to YANK them off the floor with a black tentacle and yeet them into your camp.
after that, you use the crown to fry their brain to basically brand them and convert them... this is not a painless process. like jt music said in their rap of this game: "why read your mind, when i can do the writing". so the lamb saying "YOU decided to convert" is him planting more seeds of doubt, adding more to the sunk cost bias and anchoring-bias the cultists already deal with, and if those two arnt bad enough, they also consider the fact the others look more confident then you about their choices, adding to the bandwagon effect.
this is only amplified with the "why're you so nervous" bit, as this makes you doubt yourself way more. "why AM i nervous? i put all this effort into being a member of this religion, and i already knew about this, so why am i nervous? no one else looks nervous... am i failing this? am i a failure? no, i cant be... right?"
l also love that line due to "the serial position effect" which basically states you dont pay attention to anything in the middle of a speech. try listening to that line with that fact in mind, it kinda sounds like "something something seeds, something something you decided to convert something something why ARE YOU SO NERVOUS?!", you kinda start losing focus till he screams "why are you so nervous". it grabs your attention immediately and makes you pay attention again cause it sounds important.
yeah, i kinda keep forgetting how much effort gets put into even the smallest bits, and thats saying SOMETHING about the quality of stupes' song
Good to see you understood the concept of a Cult to a T.
The tactics used to gain followers and keep their mind in hivemind have been used for ages to keep people in check.
Even groups that do not want to admit to using these tactics have at some point in history used them.
It is impressive how all those tactics can be used all in one game.
Kinda intimidating how thoroughly you understood this... 😅
y'know, now that you say it, this song *does* remind me of The Real Slim Shady
The resemblance isn't wrong since from a bit of looking, it's an Eminem x Dr. Dre Type Beat called "Mirage."
Also i believe the preaching segment your thinking of is the brimstone sort of speak, building to the fervor. Reminds me of the frostpunk battle he had with Dan bull
What scares me most about this song is how good stupes is at convincing me to join a cult. Like he's so convincing.
adding some extra analysis for tarot guy's bit incase anyone's interested:
the tarot reader is this owl man named Clauneck who believes fate is nothing but an unchangeable straight line, as told to him by the cards. what he's saying in the lyrics is essentially "are you doing this because you want to or because you have no other choice?" alongside just overall questioning the lamb's moral compass. the line "pray that they may shift amidst the rhapsody of haro's wings" refers to the fact that the character Haro provides context to *why* the one who waits is imprisoned in the first place, which happens to reveal that toww is mainly the one in the wrong and not the bishops. i think he's speaking in a complete nonsense way because of his weirdly poetic way of talking ingame.
The line about "Pray you might remain upon the list of all the cherished chosen children for whom love is unconditional" isn't saying he's recruiting literal children but refers to the habit of religions and cults to call the faithful the "children" of god or to call the head priest their "father". Using the template of a parent and child relationship encourages blind devotion and obedience on the congregation's part with the promise of being cherished and protected like a beloved child in return by the god or cult leader. After all, children are young and far too naïve to make big decisions for themselves, so it's best to leave the decisions in your "father's" hands since he's so much bigger and wiser, right? /s It also carries with it the unspoken agreement that your "father" has the right to punish you for disobedience.
The beat reminds me of every Disney villain song that tries to recruit the hero or at least explain why they are better (more powerful) than the hero.
whats ironic is the ghost rider comment is more close then you think you do have the option in the end to submit you your diety after freeing him in which he consumes your entire cult to regain his godhood OR you can turn on him and usurp him in direct combat keeping your former god behind as a immortal shadow of there former shelves looking like the other cutesy animal acoltyes forced to follow your will absolutly.
idk why this got me so much, but at 11:00, the lone "DEEP" when he puased nearly made me bust out laughing
Thanks for this reaction.
8:21 Yeah, like in Catholic churches we all go to the confession to repent our sins to the priest, or sometimes we confess our sins in prayer at home or anywhere else.😌
Cult of the Lamb is a very fun game! I highly recommend it
the seer is interesting, he's neighter good nor bad, he's just there offering his services to all. as long as you don't fear your own fate.
7:40
Remain on the list of chosen children who love is unconditional.
Remain Unconditional
No one who is on the list has unconditional love because you have to work to remain on the list.
This song slaps
U should checkout JT Music. They have a cult of the lamb song. They also have some doom ones too that are great
yo my boy! this songs pretty sick, the games better than ever and on sale
You have a very soothing deep voice
Maybe it's just me but I swear this sample sounds like a stretched version of that song "Havana"
Bro always looks so happy :)
looks like I found the one who waits beneath
this guy can ASMR bro
Pretty sure the line that calls them "children" is in the religious sense, calling them his/her/their children regardless of age. Religion and cults both infantilize their members to aid in controlling them.
so the story of the game is like this you are a victum murdered by a vile cult revived from death by a more ancient and powerful diety than the cult that kills you, and from there its your choice to run the cult as a bastian of safty prosperity and compation or as a power hungry vicious would be god yourself.
It’s almost like some charismatic con man in an age or area where the common person was not so well informed of the world or not that well off, walked in with a tome or slab or stone or something like that, of do’s and don’t, that if you follow his lead and pay him his dues without question you could eventually go some where really really great, but just don’t ask difficult questions, search for knowledge and just turn a blind eye to the hypocrisy of the “faith” or else you will suffer forever! Wait, I think I have seen this some where before?🤨🤔😮
please use they/them when you are refering to Stupes, good reatction tho. I am every time few days after the song releases reactions, to see what other people got to say
Talking about deep songs where’d your nf journey go?
You got me pretty nervous with your mind and the words it brings
A primal reading compared to others with less given in the end
The words presented give more than binary correlation
Mainly in the words expressed of yours the tarot expressed simply don’t match up
With your conclusion of trickery to simply put the wool up
Has lead many down a different path from these beats have tuned up
Yes the lamb action are out of place but the tarot reader has carried a natural pace
Leaving the oil at the door as he discusses the fate
Talking on the cult leaders choices as what path the lamb will take
Mayhaps a result from swimming to shallow in a pool biases
Quick to latch onto meaning setup by higher things
I perceive a moral evaluation has has been the focus on your reactions
As a lack of bar bring broken is first thing that drew me to this reaction
It was was a reaction so perhaps I should be more gentle
But problem I saw and issued I called as I see them without such stall
Ill enjoy a worthwhile reposed but that’s all
I reach a lot, many times I’m wrong, sometimes I’m right. Regardless I’m having fun 😁
Literally everything in this video can apply wholeheartedly to Christianity, or any religion, really.
1:29
11:00 sorry but your thoughts on this are utterly wrong because you don't know the character the lamb is talking with, that character is a neutral figure in the game, he starts out by saying "we've never met before but yet we meet again" then he puts foreword the choice "will you remain loyal to the god of the red crown or fallow your own path"
also it's not clear if the old god in chains is a dark god or more evil then the other four, he was one of a pantheon of five but the other four ganged up on him and bound him, Then to halt of prahpace that would free the red crown they other four started massacring any sheep/lamb they could find.
Well of course they are wrong haha. I’ve never played the game so that’s a given.
@@whatitdodave I haven't ether lol but I have watched others play, aside for some misunderstandings your brake down of the music was good thumbs up to your work.
HAVEN WHAT COMMUNITY?!
Man, Clauneck's part in this goes so fuggin hard. it makes me giggle like a child in a candy shop every goddamn time xD just tickles my autistic brain perfectly i guess with how perfectly it flows and how perfect the voice fits the ingame "voice" xD
How many times does this dude pause every video?!-
About a million times 🤣. Thanks for watching what you did 🙏🏽
As many as he needs to. He reacts and breaks down, and that needs pausing otherwise he'd be talking over the video and missing stuff, which is just lame.
:D
16:53 stupendium needs you to buy his t-shirts. he says so in the final part of the vid, which is kinda hilarious "remember, the heretic burning is at 9 pm and our dark master also said to buy some t-shirts, thank you~"
I thought that was just a funny line, something to make the Cult seem less evil
It's vaguely like Em's We made you.
"We made you"?
Coincidence??? I think NOT!!!