Reaction to The Stupendium | THE DATA STREAM | Cyberpunk 2077 Song feat. Cami-Cat!
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- Reaction to The Stupendium | THE DATA STREAM | Cyberpunk 2077 Song feat. Cami-Cat
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I don't think anyone's mentioned it yet, but that part of the song where stupes is listing off various things like "daily commute" is actually a list of things Facebook collects on their users.
I pity the people to whom that is a surprise.
And now you discover the brilliance of Stupendium. Each song is about a video game, but not JUST *about* the game. It's about the themes, and often how they relate to the real world. He's amazing.
Art imitates life, and far to often life imitates art.
Hey Ian!
Oh crap, it's Insane Ian!
@@dlunas81 my usual intro 😅
Exactly
The part at the end where Arasaka would like to know your location: They made it very clear that they already know this, based on the lyrics of the song. They're not actually looking for that information. They want to know if you'll cooperate and bow down once more, just out of a show of submission.
*ARASAKA WOULD LIKE TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*
Y/ -N- Y
I live this song. Its a bop, but it's also just do fucking menacing when you hit the halfway mark and realize he's not really talking about the game anymore. All of the things he listed are real bits if data about you that social media sites gather and sell. It's chilling, but so catchy
I also can't get anyone into it that doesn't immediately get it.
When you learn that bridge is made of actual data that Facebook collects…sends a shiver down your spine.
That's Stupendium in a nutshell. "The Fine Print", "The Data Stream", "Wool Over Our Eyes", each one hits that point where the content from, respectively, The Outer Worlds, Cyberpunk 2077, and Cult of the Lamb just becomes set dressing, and the actual criticism of the hamster wheel of the modern labor-to-industry relationship, the malevolent benevolence of social media, and even the exploitative nature of organized religion become the primary subject matter. And they manage to do it with a strong hook, deep bars, complex lyrical construction and captivating music videos.
Really, about the only song that's about a video game, and stays just about the game through the entire thing is "Open the Sky", for Stray. But even that manages to rip your heart out with empathy for the robots.
"Each time you selected our products and services, we were elected in each of your purchases."
Me side-eyeing Disney like 😒
There are entire departments dedicated to finding ways to make a profit off random data sets. The daily commute is actually one of the easier ones.
Using public transport? Maybe you do it because you can't afford a car - which they could sell you. Maybe your CHOICE of public transport is inefficient and they could suggest one affiliated with their corporate empire. Maybe you'd like to consider lift share or a rental property closer to work.
Maybe you often get hungry on the way and two of the fast food joints on your route are affiliated. A well-timed coupon for one of them might entice you to frequent them instead of a local competitor.
A little bit less direct would be tracking how often you and others travel along the same specific stretches of road and at which times to quantify the value of renting or purchasing billboard space there or how useful opening a franchise there would be for one of the bigger chains.
Knowledge is power, after all.
This was very well put
Crikey.
I'm aspiring to be a data scientist/analyst in the future so this and the whole song is just my favourite thing ever.
Honestly, as much as I hate them corpo choomba bastards, gotta respect how smart everything behind it is
Came here to say this, and add: which buisnesses do you pass, which billboards, who gains from advertising to you and how much will they pay to directly do so as you pass the store
In capitalism, there is a saying: "If the service is free, you are the product, not the consumer."
Edit: You should watch the end of the video. He gets in a few last jabs at the game as well as a few references to that side gig series you mentioned.
At the end of the video, he sometimes tell little tid-bits about the production as well. Which could be interesting. And most times he'd talk about the game, or like that guy said, get a couple jabs in. It's interesting
yeah, That's Stupendium... he's good at weaving in social commentary into his music
one of my favorite parts of the stupendium's style, honestly.
It was Delimane, and no worries, you hit on exactly what Stupes was saying he even makes a reference to another of his songs "the Fine Print" with the "honestly, did you not read the company policy?" he's big on warning about the ills of rampant consumerism
The Fine Print is probably tied for my most listened from him.
Next you need to do the other collab with Cami-Cat "Slide into the void" it's one of his most loved song and the work he put on it was impressive to say the least
This
Was that the one about Control?
@@dlunas81 yep
100% its REALLY good
@@AlephSharp Since then he as reacted to it
oh no, you're not overthinking. in fact, you might be underthinking it slightly.
because that list of data arasaka collects? it's pulled from the list of things facebook tracks.
future is now baby, welcome to the dystopia!
Favorite fruit? That tells them what nutrient you have the most/least of, which tells them what diseases you're most likely to get, which tells them what medications/treatments to sell you. All information is useful.
Most of his song are also a social commentary while being about a game
Yeah... I always wished they weren't, but they are still fun tho.
@@SpecterNeverSpectator well most of the games he does songs about has social commentary in it, so it can't be avoided
I love hearing the takes people do on some songs like this, even if they aren't familiar with the game, which can lead to insights I might not have thought of. And let's be honest, Stupendium's attention to detail/presentation is immense. Also, he definitely makes feather boas work ;)
He loves those stupid boas. Hard to make those things work, even while being goofy.
Stupendium songs go deep, detail is fire, and all his rapsongs are bangers. That's Stupendium, a one man show.
The writing in this is nothing short of incredible. Too real.
Fun fact: everything he lists off at the end he pulled directly from Facebook
"Fun" fact, that list of things they collect in the end is the actual list of data Facebook mines from your profile.
Stupendium is so good, he's got so many amazing songs that I think you'll enjoy. And yeah he does a lot of social commentary in his songs, stuff that goes outside of the games the song is about
Cyberpunk as an entire genre is about judging the potential corporatocracies in our future.
That is one of the main points of cyberpunk as a genre, big companies taking over, making the individual life worthless. Usually, the heroes are the one rebelling against this, trying to get individual freedom from wage-slavery. The whole genre is designed as a social commentary.
One of the most accurate descriptions of modern society ever put into a rap format.
This was the first Studendium song I've heard and I was amazed how concide he painted a picture of what Cyberpunk is. It was actually scary. At the end when the repeated "Arasaka would like to know your location" came up I had a seconds reaction to shut off my computer and cut the internet. That should tell you enough..
The stupendium is a great artist and did a lot of great songs like: Slide in to the void, the fine print, the house always wins, art of darkness etc. would love to see you react to more of him in the future
I mean, even with just daily commute. They know what time of day you're out and about (coffee vs dinner, Events you'll be open for), what businesses you pass/are within3-5 minutes of, how long you spend stuck in your car (Audiobooks vs Streaming apps), and likely more that I can't conceive of right now.
*nods* People who go through Starbucks? Or drive-thru for a lunch? Perhaps they decide to take a longer route to work...any bit of date could be ripe for exploitation.
I'm late enough that you've figured this out, but it is VERY difficult to think too hard about Stupendium songs. Especially if you smell anything "corporate dystopia". Hearing people's interpretations of their work is always deeply entertaining and always says so much about the people involved.
I truly love them so much, they are one of my favorite artists, just an astounding lyricist, truly STUPEndous
Gotta watch the outros! They tend to be really funny and most of them are actually done in character!
The frost punk song with dan bull is a masterpiece, swell as his bendy and the inkmashine videos, that kickstarted his channel
He did two with Dan Bull, didn't he? I suggested Faith and Order, but can't remember the other one.
@@dlunas81 they have been workin together for multiple years, they did death stranding, an erb, frostpunk, little nightmares etc.
The list of collected data he raps about? That's all information that Facebook collects now, it's where he got the list.
Favorite fruit could be used to market flavors, like “NEW ENERGY DRINK SPECIAL AMNGO FLAVOR” or something
That would work because i love mango.
I love how he dove deep into that saying "vote with your wallet"
Can't wait to see more Stupendium! His stuff is criminally underrated, you're one of the first big folks to react to it!
8:49. Best way to explain that is that if the know your daily commute and favorite food. They me more inclined to give you adds for a supermarket that's already on your commute. Meaning or more likely to notice that store. Then you see the ads for a sale on part of your favorite food. So it may make you more inclined to spend that money on that product. Every little bit of information about a person is important. And it builds a powerful picture of who you are and they can use it to improve their profit from you alone.
Stupendium is a lyrical master. ^.^
Yoooo, The Stupendium has some really great content. It is all high quality. I'd love to see more reactions!
His Spider-Man, new Vegas, and outer worlds songs are my faves
9:17 Fun little detail - the Pansexual flag is displayed front and center when sexual orientation is mentioned. Stupendium is pansexual IRL.
I love how the "deep dark" section of the song where they tell you what data they have on you is immediately followed up with the bright and flashy main verse, almost like its trying to make you overlook that part, its genius as that is what a company might try to do lol
"Arasaka would like to know your location"
We have all lost count on how many times that has been asked to us.
Stupendium has Legit the best flow I've ever heard
I'm a very literal thinker so a lot of times I do very much just take things at face value, so like with these songs where I only ever really think about them in regard to the games, but that's why I've appreciated finding your reactions, you have a lot of interesting thoughts and your perspective is always a new look on these songs I've liked for a long time. I'm enjoying these a lot.
Other thing, he is suppose to release a new track tomorrow (Friday) on the game Life is Strange: true colours. Even if you don’t know the game or opinion you don’t want to be spoiled, he is normally really good at making a song about the topics of the games without being too tied up with the story of the game itself
People don't react to the Stupendium enough. He does great work from the music to the actual video.
If a company has the daily commute of enough people they can choose where to put their advertising in the places where they will reach the most people
That final verse where he lists off a bunch of data about you?
That's a real list of what companies like Facebook collect from you NOW.
We aren't as far from this future as a lot of people think.
I love seeing reaction videos where people genuinely consider the content they're reacting to. ^.^
knowing your daily commute, knowing what businesses you pass on a regular basis to hit you with those places' adds. favorite fruit for ad images, ex. say they want to advertise a mixed drink, which fruit should be most prominent displayed in that image to get the higher chance of you purchasing that item.
and nah your right, stupendium almost always puts in parallels to things happening or just deeper meaning into things than surface level. that is frankly one of the reasons i enjoy his work. and catching things that i or others have missed that where mixed into the lyrics, pronunciations, the video, or just the song style itself is why i like to watch peoples reactions to his productions.
im glad you enjoyed the song dave. im glad you enjoyed the song
Dude I just randomly found your channel and you blew my mind. There's maybe 10% of the population that understands the truth of Cyberpunk and even less who can not only understand basic fucking economics let alone eloquently explain it and you did both. Dude if I ever ran a Cyberpunk TTRPG again you'd be welcom at my table.
so gunna watch further after i make a note, talking about corrupt power corporations and companies, and then you mention bananas. you should watch Sam O'Nella Academy's video "The Banana Republics"
The idea of the Reciept line is about how you vote with your money. By purchasing a company's product, you are saying "I approve of what you are doing."
Your reaction is the same I felt for this song everytime I hear it aha!
I think what you were trying to say at the favourite fruit is: They can't do something with that specific information, but it makes you wonder what information they could get
I will literally comment every stupendium reaction
On scrolling to the end just to get to accept: for 6 months Larian Studios had a line in their T&Cs saying the first person to read this and tell us wins $1000. Nobody won.
I think there was a company that added a line about selling them your soul as a joke. Nobody noticed either.
heck yes I thought that deep! so glad Im not alone
love your reactions, can't wait for more reactions of stupes
Aww Dave.. you are really so wonderful ^_^ ;ove you artistic level appreciations... you are fantastic dear ♥
If you're not selling something.... you're what's being sold.
You should definitely react to Onlycans, it was the song that initially introduced him to me.
"Not just about the game" cant wait for your reacion on stupendium's onlycan song. Bdw I did enjoy the video, good job.
Someone told me in a comment on my reaction for this that the list Stupendium read out of all the personal information someone might put in a profile or search for is all data real life internet sites collect on people daily. It actually is very scary when you see it listed out like that
in regards to the daily commute and favorite fruit, I think I'm pretty sure why they know it and how they use it
if they know who you are as a person, not just as a consumer, they can sell to you better, and sell you better.
What you said about how he isn't just writing a song about a game, the game will be based on real life elements so it's all cyclical calling out the themes and making you think. Love Stupes he's so talented
10:29 not seen anyone mention this so i'm not sure if you noticed but the "terms and conditions" here are actually the lyrics to his song "the fine print" which is about the outer worlds game.
NIce!
You should absolutely check from The Stupendium - Control and Death and Taxes.
Also check Dan Bull&The Stupendium - Faith vs Order, and Little NIghtmares 2.
All of those are amazing.
in the daily commute part they need that info to see which routes have the most people take to make better billboard ads
When you analyze the better you get at doing it
Cyberpunk may have not lived up to what was promised, but it like this song did a fantastic job of showing the direction we are heading in reality, just without all the futuristic cool gadgets.
Daily commute in my minds helps it placement of add and targeted adds. Like a billboard or ad for a food place near by.
Thank you for the awesome video, take care, keep up the good work and keep cuddling the world with your vibe! Felt exactly the same about the song and the Stupendium as you! Huggies and have an awesome new year, at least as awesome as you are! >:D
You'll likely enjoy nearly all of Stupendium's stuff. He's insane with his word play in all of his songs. He works HARD, and it shows. Some personal favorites from him are The Apex Featuring NemRaps, So We Fall, and nearly all of his stuff with Dan Bull.
I gotcha, no matter how small you think the data on you is or how significant you think it is, there someone who can manipulate or process it to make profit. It can be either good or bad for you, but one things for sure. It's basically unavoidable.
Stupendium is always great, mixing entertainment with scathing social commentary (he made a revolutionary song out of friggin Fall Guys!). And his collaborations with other artists are always worth the watch.
There are already many great recommendations in comments, I'll add one more - "Apex", Hitman 3 song with NemRaps.
I got a bloodstream dave. I GOT A BLOODSTREAM, DAVE.
Love it you fuckunv nailed it on the head
Stupendium has a a great catalogue, and each of his intro's have a new logo, so don't forget to have a good look at 'em!
More 'Mega-Corporations/Governments Are Evil' Songs?
-Outer Worlds: The Fine Print
-Fallout: The House Always Wins
-Animal Crossing: Nook, Line and Sinker - Rogue's Gallery
-We Happy Few: It's a Joy REMASTERED
Evil but Genius Songs?
-Evil Genius 2: Fiend Like Me
-Surgeon Simulator 2: Losing My Patients
-Bendy and the Ink Machine: Art of Darkness
Fun or Funny Love songs?
-OnlyCans: Vending Machine of Love (probably my fav)
-Doom: RIP AND TEAR (My way to your heart)
-Cuphead: Milk, Milk, Lemonade (How many drink punts can you catch, Dave??)
-Untitled Goose Game: What a Fowl Game! (Silly and good)
-TF2: The Most Fashionable Faction (You like hats, right?)
Hope to see all of these!!
You Describe His Music PERFECTLY!
Based On Videogames, But Not Stricktly Restrained To People Played It/Play Games At All, and also including hints and reminders of real world problems and struggles people face; weather it be
emotional struggle, war, monetary issues, breaching of privacy, government enslavement, revoking of freedom, etc.
Tho you did had me a tad confused when you mentioned his "Subtlety" in this song, as the way I see it there is absolutely NOTHING subtle or open ended about the obviously Anti-Corporate, Anti Anarcho Apo-capita-lyptic-ism themed messages that this masterful song displays in every frame and lyric.
Reminds me of my other favourite song of his, "The Fine Print". Idk what genre of music this is, but I know it's my favourite.
We have been saying it for years "vote with your wallet".
You should check out Grandson’s “Identity” Really underrated artist that I’m sure you’ll like
4:35 This is perhaps the most stinging line of the whole song...we created this monster...we "Bought into" consumerism and thus gave it it's power...is it any wonder that those with such power exploit it? Life is funny in that way...to quote Hawkeye Gough from Dark Souls, "One's demise is always of one's own making."
The stupendium has a a lot of winners but two of my favorites are the red dead redemption 2 one and the spiderman one.
Good Show
If you enjoy Stupes' choreography, he does some really attentive stuff in his Fallout 76 song!
crazy thing is i live near a pizza hut when i moved here i started to get ads the next day i get pizza couple times a week
Yo you gotta do his "Onlycans" song
LOL, that dumb song got me to listen to it far too much after it came out.
na na na na theoryman!!!!
8:38 "How would you use (daily commute) to profile me in a sale?"
Marketing professional here. There's a lot of demographics you can fit into and we can gleam from with just your daily commute.
Driver? The make, model, and routes your car takes can help us learn how often you use it, what type of person you are (vans are popular with families/electric cars are appealing to environmentally conscious), what businesses you pass by, which ones you frequent. Cross referenced with said businesses that cater to drivers (pickup orders/ drive thru/discounts tied to customer loyalty at gas stations), that's one way to market to you.
Commuter? That's where your phone comes in for which forms of public transportation you get that can be tracked. But you know what type of marketing is visible the most with public transit in and out of metropolitan areas? Apartments and homes. Have you ever notice HUGE ad signs for real estate are only on highways, at train stations, and on bus routes? It's no accident that they're stories high enough that pedestrians can't see them. But a person who most likely would like, and consider, a shorter commute would notice.
Or, if you have a WFH job now, you'll see and be bombarded with so many 'modern professional' style apartment buildings with an office, a rec center, a pool, a pet park, scheduled events, and even a cafe for the 'best' new lifestyle for modern professionals like you!
And it'll all be provided with the brands that partnered with that building's management team: Designated dog treats, affiliated trainers and gym equipment, all the events with 'free' items have a 'free trial' you can sign up for so easily! Just think it over at the cafe where we only sell one brand of coffee that isn't Starbucks yet. We only want to make your life (and selling your life to you via. the brands we sell your data to) easier.
I'm sure there's more, but that just off the top of my head.
And here you've seen the first in one of The Stupendium's most common themes, Anti-Capitalism! He has so many songs surrounded this idea while pretending that theyre about video games
I always feel he comes across like he's less anti-capitalism than just pointing out the dangers of it. Like I'm not anti fire or knife, but there needs to be a warning to kids or absent minded folk.
less anti-capitalism and more anti-corporatism, or anti-consumerism.
Capitalism is just the optimal means of orchestrating the exchange of goods in a universe that is now and always will be faced with scarcity of resources in one way or another.
When the freedom to chose who you exchange goods and services with is restricted via such things as monopolies, or people fail to be aware of the consequences of their choices in regards to those exchanges? That's when things get bad.
As it is now, you could claim we live in a cyberpunk dystopia already. And typically of one run by big companies, it's so low-budget and cheap we didn't even get commercial cybernetic augs.
@@johnj.spurgin7037 Plus they promised us the corporations would have cool names like WEYLAND-YUTANI CORPORATION or TYRELLCORP, not dumb shit like "google" and "facebook"
@@teamcybr8375 I liked Stark-Fujikawa
The AI driver, Delamain. Yeah.
But nah man, you got it. Studpendium wasn't **just** singing about Cyberpunk, innit? Nah, that's about Capitalism. You're on point with it. Then again, Cyberpunk is about capitalism gone rampant, wrong, and absolutely sideways and out it's sandevastating when it goes wrong, so there's a bit of overlap to be sure--but ya know, us living in late-stage capitalism my guy, it really hits home.
Love the content, earned a sub.
you should react to more of his videos
Stupendium is one of the all time greats. Have you seen The Fine Print, Faith and Order, or Nook, Line, and Sinker? Also, either video for Why Did I Say Okie Dokie is great. Also also, you might get a kick out of Rogue's Gallery with Red trying to sell you some shit.
you should check out his new song
If you don't think your daily commute or favorite fruit can be used for something sinister, well let me just give you an example for each:
If I know where you go every day, I know exactly where to find you, to do whatever sinister thing I want to do to you.
And if you don't think your favorite fruit means anything.. just ask APPLE computers, BLACKBERRY phones, and BANANA Republic.
You need to do his fallout new vegas rap. It hits diffrent
What scares me most is that even thou cyberpunk 2077 is fiction I feel like if we don't or rather not be as careful weight just end up in a world where what happens in this game becomes closer and closer to real life
*With* sorry
Hey check out his Hitman song!
What do you know dave? TELL ME DAVE
Of course it's about more than the game. Aesthetics aside, what defines the entire cyberpunk GENRE is this kind of criticism of mega-corporations, absent privacy, consumer over-indulgence, loss of identity to technology and products, corruption and greed that rise alongside one's position in society, etc. If you're not pointing out these very real issues that have kinda always existed, then you're not really doing cyberpunk.
Ok a bit of data broking knowledge here. You’re thinking of the “profiling method” where someone developed a full profile for a person. But it’s much more like getting tons and tons and tons of data, some utterly useless and sorting them into lists. Say “people with mesothelioma” or “dog people” or “African Americans with dreadlocks” it can literally be anything and it can very easily be offensive/racist. Then they just find a buy or 4 and sell them a list. For example dog food companies would like lists of people who have dogs, or health insurance for mesothelioma. The trick is we have no clue who buys what list. Whose to say this list of names can’t get on a terrorist table or anything else