In the game, this song plays after you meet a character who tells about her family's small space station being destroyed, and floating in her suit among the dead who had not been able to suit up in time. She tells of dreaming she can still hear them singing, and of her rescue before she had died as well.
@@jonadabtheunsightly They are a semi religious culture... There is heaven above, And space below. Basically , imagine what it will be whenever the religious faithful here on earth get off of the planet. They still believe in a heaven somewhere above, and the cold below being the "cast out" equivalent of hell. Left to drift forever in "the cold below".
Geoff has gold, Eli's are bright blue, Layne's are purple, Omar Cardona and Cesar split their pairs of colored lenses for a real alien look. I love Geoff's sassy in-your-face "huh" at one point.
I'm not a gamer either, so this song, like all of the gamer themes they do - are initially unknown to me. I still LOVE their performances - the arrangements, the voices, the rhythms. It's just TASTY. They make my ears happy.
VoicePlay is on replay in my brain. Powerfully catchy space hook here; definitely dangling an earworm. I don't have to understand the game to know how delightful this is.
That giant LED. Screen is killer. Geoff with the yellow Witcher contacts, Eli has blue, Omar and Cesar with the opposite white and black, then Layne with purple. They do the best video game theme covers.
I think the cold below is sleeping in cryogenic suspension in the belly of a spaceship. Wind wouldn't blow in cryogenic suspension, nor does it blow in space. As for the nautical references, space travel and ocean travel are both generally spoken of in nautical terms. Edit: I'm no expert, but I think this song refers to both cryogenic sleep and death. Just at different points in the song.
You're an expert in my book. You explained it beautifully. Not sure why most people say sea shanty, instead of space shanty. All that's needed to guess where this takes place are the uniforms, eyes and space backdrops. I fell out of my seat when one reactor said the song refers to Davy Jones\ locker...LOL! I personally like learning new things, so keep your insight sharp and the knowledge flowing. I value your contribution. Have a good one.
They do a lot of music that I don't know, but I think they are wonderful every time. I checked the original after I saw this, out of curiosity. It is slower, less intricate, sung by a solo woman. I like Voiceplay's better. Great reaction!
The original song in-game has a bit of a 'shanty' feel as well - with heavy Celtic vibes including what sounds like a bodrun and fiddle. Sung by a woman as a female character in the story line. Not having played the game, I have no idea why they added the Celtic feel, however 'space travel' themes often relate to sea faring. There's the similarity between exploring the unknown of space and the discovery of the seas back when shanties first began. The 'ship' references. Here 'below' could relate to deep in the sea in past days and in-game it seems to be referring to the void of space and death. For me, VoicePlay's video, seems to imply Cryogenic Sleep (based on that last white blank space) for the "Cold Below" And I should add that VP also sped up the song a bit, giving it a more rocking feel and beat.
@@ginger_snapz_369 As I understand it, the character in-game sings it surrounded by her dead ship mates after the ship was attacked. So - certainly death and void of space in-game.
I've never played it, but I've done a little research on Warframe since this came out. It's a sci-fi game where characters seem to end up with a lot of cyborg or bio-mechanical implants/suits, hence the colored contacts (which no one in VP seems to enjoy using, LOL!) and the masks and suits they were wearing. The original song is sung (at a much slower tempo) by a female lead, with a (mostly) female chorus behind her, which explains why the "sisters" lyric is used so much. VP also dropped the final verse of the song from the version I heard from the game (available on YT). I'm not high enough on VP's patron tier to be able to ask them questions, but I'd really like to know why they decided to drop that verse. It is even slower than the rest of the original song, so they may have just wanted to keep the energy up, but I could also see them making a final verse that slowed everything down - like things tend to do "in the cold below", whether cryo-sleep or death.
woah. Alan Doyle was part of a group called Great Big Sea (they broke up a while back and he has continued solo since). GBS were known for doing modern takes on traditional Scotch/Irish sea shantys and folk songs.
Thanks for the background. I probably won’t remember it, at least not in its entirety, but I love hearing these little snippets of history that other people can provide.
They are all wearing colored contacts, but Omar and Cesar being the crazy kids that they are decided to split their contacts so one has a very very light blue and the other is a green which doesn’t show much because their eyes are both dark. It gives some sort of a Borg look to me which ties in with this outer space alien vibes they’ve got going. They did a great job of making the tempo of the song match the imagery on the LED screens that are both behind them and (appropriately enough) below them. On a few of the belts, the images “explode”. From what I’ve read, some of these are from NASA and the Hubble telescope which is also very cool. For the costuming, Geoff searched for “Japanese streetwear”. I thought that was odd and checked it out. Some of the stuff advertised as Japanese streetwear makes these outfits look like 9 to 5 suits. Some very interesting things being worn on the streets of Japan these days apparently. And they really need to release action figures based on that last photo shoot - for Patrons of course!!
I think the cold below is sleeping in cryogenic suspension in the belly of a spaceship. Wind wouldn't blow in cryogenic suspension, nor does it blow in space. As for the nautical references, space travel and ocean travel are both generally spoken of in nautical terms. Edit: I'm no expert, but I think this song refers to both cryogenic sleep and death. Just at different points in the song.
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In the game, this song plays after you meet a character who tells about her family's small space station being destroyed, and floating in her suit among the dead who had not been able to suit up in time. She tells of dreaming she can still hear them singing, and of her rescue before she had died as well.
Wow! Very interesting. Thank you 🙂
So "below" is just the space where the station used to be?
@@jonadabtheunsightly They are a semi religious culture... There is heaven above, And space below. Basically , imagine what it will be whenever the religious faithful here on earth get off of the planet. They still believe in a heaven somewhere above, and the cold below being the "cast out" equivalent of hell. Left to drift forever in "the cold below".
Everything about this is amazing ❤
Geoff has gold, Eli's are bright blue, Layne's are purple, Omar Cardona and Cesar split their pairs of colored lenses for a real alien look.
I love Geoff's sassy in-your-face "huh" at one point.
Eli and Omar split their pairs.
Space shanty...ear worm. Great reaction.
I'm not a gamer either, so this song, like all of the gamer themes they do - are initially unknown to me. I still LOVE their performances - the arrangements, the voices, the rhythms. It's just TASTY. They make my ears happy.
VoicePlay is on replay in my brain. Powerfully catchy space hook here; definitely dangling an earworm.
I don't have to understand the game to know how delightful this is.
That giant LED. Screen is killer. Geoff with the yellow Witcher contacts, Eli has blue, Omar and Cesar with the opposite white and black, then Layne with purple. They do the best video game theme covers.
The floor is made up of LED tiles as well.
It’s a space shanty, because why not?? Great reaction!
I think the cold below is sleeping in cryogenic suspension in the belly of a spaceship. Wind wouldn't blow in cryogenic suspension, nor does it blow in space. As for the nautical references, space travel and ocean travel are both generally spoken of in nautical terms.
Edit: I'm no expert, but I think this song refers to both cryogenic sleep and death. Just at different points in the song.
You're an expert in my book. You explained it beautifully. Not sure why most people say sea shanty, instead of space shanty. All that's needed to guess where this takes place are the uniforms, eyes and space backdrops. I fell out of my seat when one reactor said the song refers to Davy Jones\ locker...LOL! I personally like learning new things, so keep your insight sharp and the knowledge flowing. I value your contribution. Have a good one.
They do a lot of music that I don't know, but I think they are wonderful every time. I checked the original after I saw this, out of curiosity. It is slower, less intricate, sung by a solo woman. I like Voiceplay's better.
Great reaction!
The original song in-game has a bit of a 'shanty' feel as well - with heavy Celtic vibes including what sounds like a bodrun and fiddle. Sung by a woman as a female character in the story line. Not having played the game, I have no idea why they added the Celtic feel, however 'space travel' themes often relate to sea faring. There's the similarity between exploring the unknown of space and the discovery of the seas back when shanties first began. The 'ship' references. Here 'below' could relate to deep in the sea in past days and in-game it seems to be referring to the void of space and death. For me, VoicePlay's video, seems to imply Cryogenic Sleep (based on that last white blank space) for the "Cold Below"
And I should add that VP also sped up the song a bit, giving it a more rocking feel and beat.
Awesome! I totally get those similarities you highlighted and that helps me make some sense of it all. Thanks a bunch!
@@ginger_snapz_369 As I understand it, the character in-game sings it surrounded by her dead ship mates after the ship was attacked. So - certainly death and void of space in-game.
I love this. I really enjoy their "stompin'" ones - even if I have no idea what the underlying meaning is.
This one is so fun! I hope you'll consider reacting to Geoff's newest as well!
I've never played it, but I've done a little research on Warframe since this came out. It's a sci-fi game where characters seem to end up with a lot of cyborg or bio-mechanical implants/suits, hence the colored contacts (which no one in VP seems to enjoy using, LOL!) and the masks and suits they were wearing. The original song is sung (at a much slower tempo) by a female lead, with a (mostly) female chorus behind her, which explains why the "sisters" lyric is used so much.
VP also dropped the final verse of the song from the version I heard from the game (available on YT). I'm not high enough on VP's patron tier to be able to ask them questions, but I'd really like to know why they decided to drop that verse. It is even slower than the rest of the original song, so they may have just wanted to keep the energy up, but I could also see them making a final verse that slowed everything down - like things tend to do "in the cold below", whether cryo-sleep or death.
Sounds like a space shanty! I don't know the video game but for space travel, cryo-sleep is done regularly in sci-fi.
woah. Alan Doyle was part of a group called Great Big Sea (they broke up a while back and he has continued solo since). GBS were known for doing modern takes on traditional Scotch/Irish sea shantys and folk songs.
Thanks for the background. I probably won’t remember it, at least not in its entirety, but I love hearing these little snippets of history that other people can provide.
Thanks for the info! That explains a bit of maybe why the song in-game has such a Celtic feel to it - complete with fiddle and bohdran drum.
🧊🧊🔥🔥 - space shanty!
Contacts
yeah their favorite thing...😉
They are all wearing colored contacts, but Omar and Cesar being the crazy kids that they are decided to split their contacts so one has a very very light blue and the other is a green which doesn’t show much because their eyes are both dark. It gives some sort of a Borg look to me which ties in with this outer space alien vibes they’ve got going.
They did a great job of making the tempo of the song match the imagery on the LED screens that are both behind them and (appropriately enough) below them. On a few of the belts, the images “explode”. From what I’ve read, some of these are from NASA and the Hubble telescope which is also very cool.
For the costuming, Geoff searched for “Japanese streetwear”. I thought that was odd and checked it out. Some of the stuff advertised as Japanese streetwear makes these outfits look like 9 to 5 suits. Some very interesting things being worn on the streets of Japan these days apparently.
And they really need to release action figures based on that last photo shoot - for Patrons of course!!
Cesar and Eli both have one colored contact and one white. Omar has one green and one blue. I think the three of them collaborated.
Yes, the eyes have to do with the game. I don't know how, but they all have one blue eye and one white eye.
Space Shanty lol
I am not a good English speaker, so what does "cold below" mean? Death? I was wondering, but I am relieved to see that you were as confused as I was.
"PromoSM" 🤭
I think the cold below is sleeping in cryogenic suspension in the belly of a spaceship. Wind wouldn't blow in cryogenic suspension, nor does it blow in space. As for the nautical references, space travel and ocean travel are both generally spoken of in nautical terms.
Edit: I'm no expert, but I think this song refers to both cryogenic sleep and death. Just at different points in the song.
Fascinating! Great take! I would've never thought of any of that 😎