Dishonored 2 - The Coup (song + lyrics) ♫ as seen by the two street performers in Karnaca. * Previous video: Dishonored 2 - New York Event: “ • Dishonored 2 - New Yor... ”
For everyone asking about the singers. I contacted Copilot, the studio behind the songs. The composer answered me: "I’m sorry, the singer asked to be uncredited on these songs. But thank you for reaching out, I’m glad you’re listening."
These street performers were taking their lives into their hands singing this song and they knew it. Other than their courageous singing we know almost nothing about them and yet love their characters. lol
These void-damned street singers, forcing their personal politics into their music! The public is tired of having political agendas shoved down their throats! :P
Damn I love this. Hey. Let's start a coup! After whiskey and cigars of course. And you will even get your own squad after the night we start the coup in! Don't worry, Choffer will blow off aswell. Because when you find him, it's gonna be bad...
Beautifully haunting melody, perfectly sums up the titular "coup" that takes place in the game, not to mention the hopeless state of Karnaca by the time of the player's arrival.
Dishonored 1 is the best. They dropped the ball with the story in dishonored 2 and didn't flesh out the villains properly. As for the dlc they destroyed the mystique of the outsider and made one of their most memorable characters Daud completely pointless. If my mentor told me I'm dying, the first thing I would have asked is: what's wrong with you??
For those who really like the kinda rustic raw sound of the singers voices, you may like the band Ghostfire. The guy similarly has a really rough voice and an interesting folk sound. The last steampunk waltz and Vaudevillain are probs my favourite by them.
Does it say anywhere who sang this? I got a kind of Leonard Cohen vibe from the male voice, but I haven't quite found out anything about them yet :/ Anyone know anything more?
I'd love to know more about the performers - The end credits say music produced by Copilot but I think they're a production company that wrote the song for the game. The vocals sound so much like Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay from July Talk I was convinced it was them for a while but I've relistened and now I'm not sure.
"Im just a poor singer recounting this tale if im singing it wrongly im dead as a whale" + there no officers near by in the game its in front of a few shops hence the reason for there quiet like voice.
I wonder what they would sing when the Journalist shows them what happened and that Emly took back her throne? Would they know that she did it alone? Would they know why she went so far to take back her birth right? Shame I would not know cus this world is fictional.
Anyone know if the woman is the same one who tried to kiss meagan on the dreadful whale . theres a note to meagan from a singer who left the serkonan guitar
Yet you listen to this chanell witch has the song in the month of darkness witch WITCH EXPLANES THE BACKSTORY OF THE OUTSIDER so quit your screeching about heresy as you are much as a heritic as I am
Timely comment i know; They released it on Spotify under "Copilot Music + Sounds", they do more work for Bethesda games (also did the Nuka World DLC theme).
Just started playing the game - yea, I'm late, but I'm well past the urge to buy every game upon release - and noticed that this song is pretty similar to Spoon, a 1971 offering by German progressive rockers Can: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YGTF80shoO4.html - or is it just me thinking it's similar?
Woman sounds like a siren ( they were the best singers because they lured the sailors with their songs and beauty) and goddamn the dude has so good bass voice. Gotta admit I only listened to it for the achievement but I was fing wrong
Honestly i hate the way it sounds, rhythm is off, voices don't mesh well together, sometimes the girl is singing flat and floating around different pitches, and it doesn't fit the setting and sounds too pop-like with the lyrics and melody. I love the game, but specifically the street performers, I hate.
Youssef Mohammed I don’t. No one made her be a demented and manipulative person. She met, and painted under, Anton S.. She had literally endless potential but she was deeply corrupted with the idea that the entire empire owed her. She totally deserved the crown but she totally could have done all of it without dragging more than half of the Empire down into chaos. Not to mention she slaughtered countless innocent and let her coven and the Duke run wild. And she screwed over Daud back in the DLC for the first game. She doesn’t really deserve pity especially when you consider she most of what she did just for the reasoning of doing it.
I don't know if it has any meaning, but this is my interpretation. The song asks: "A coup, what is it to you?" And then suggests the answer: "A feast or a famine", and then also adds that the feast and the famine might be the same, by saying "A nail or a screw?" (two slightly different things that pretty much do the same thing). As in, people might think that it will be a feast for some, a famine for others. My second interpretation is that it might be asking "Does the coup even make a difference? Does it matter?" as one would ask "Would a nail or a screw do the job differently?".
Building on that, I think the "A nail or a screw?" line is a reference to the coup meaning nothing to the lower classes, whose lives are fucked regardless of who sits on the throne.
I believe it all symbolizes that where someone will be profiting another will be suffering from the coup. As between a feast or a famine which would you rather have? And what does the coup mean to you? Which meal are you going to be having? Same for the nail and screw. Which will the coup be giving you? It all pretty much is saying will you be profiting or suffering from the coup cause they is a thin line with no middle ground
