Opera Singer Reacts to the Portal 2 Opera Song: Cara Mia Addio 

You are now legally obligated to listen to want you gone, it’s the end credits song to portal two. A wonderfully passive aggressive song

Bravo

It feels better with context of the game, you can try to play it in free time. It's not too long and gameplay is good

Thank you for your voice.

Very much enjoyable 😊

"Was"? I'm pretty sure she's still alive

@@Irreverent_Radiation by "was" I mean she did a lot of opera back then. I know she's still alive cause you can still see her on the TF2 sandvich saga.

@@noox13 I know, it just read weirdly and I had to check if she was alive. Also I wanted to make the "Still Alive" reference.

The same voice for The Witch in L4D franchise. If you don't know,now you know

@@smolpp1708 as gladOS would say "thank god youre still alive"

Or Even better, playthrough both games and Then watch the cutscene

@@LOBricksAndSecrets i dont think hed do that

It’s dorky, but that scene reliably makes me cry, haha

@@rip1597 it's a good game that held up decently well, not too long either, don't see why not

@@dariominiello9934 he doesnt play or at least upload the games he plays the games he reacts to

it is also such a refreshing tonal shift you have just spent hours doing puzzles and then a intense boss fight and you get hit with this song before the credit rolls. it just hits right as a contrast

@@HarithBK And then the credits roll beings the levity back with "Want You Gone"

Then follows it up with “Want you gone”

@@mrtoast244 Ah, the classic GLaDOS irony.

I’ll always support the fan theory Caroline was Chell’s adoptive daughter. EDIT:(meant Chell was Carolines’s daughter)

Funny you think it's the finale. ;-)

​@@Nimoot i mean... Valve can't count to 3.

Na Glados be trolling chell IN ITALIAN (well hey she is an ultra computer megaorganism)

Supposedly Want You Gone was written to be a breakup song about a bad romance, implying that GlaDOS had romantic feelings for Chell rather than the mother/daughter theory.

@@Khotetsu what do you even say?, in the song GlaDOS call chell " little Caroline, is a mother/duaghter song in a GlaDOS way

@@cristiansotelo514 Caroline is GlaDOS, not Chell. Caroline was Cave Johnson's secretary, who he had his scientists put into GlaDOS when he died. You hear this narrated through the lower parts of the facility. As Cave gets more and more sick, he talks about how he's got his scientists working on a robot that they're gonna put his brain in, but eventually says that if he dies before it's complete, to put Caroline in it. Something along the lines of having her run the place because she's always been the brains behind the operation or something. It's a pretty big piece of the plot and GlaDOS' character arc in the second game. At the end of the game, GlaDOS says that saving Chell taught her a valuable lesson. Where Caroline lives in her brain. And then she "deletes" Caroline before sending Chell off to the surface. But the song lyric is "now little Caroline is in here too", implying that she lied about deleting Caroline, the human part of her.

daughter/mother relationship? What in tarnation

seconded!!

Thirded. As soon as I saw he was watching/listening to the soundtrack version, I thought 'He's never played the game, and he's totally missing all of the context from this lovely song'.

Exactly

Because voice effect and some sfx, I can't find full music and without sfx or Vocal effect

@@KazanaAoi I felt the EXACTLY same way.

Yeah, iirc she admitted that the "que la stima" part is spanish that she slipped in there, not actually italian, therefore adding a different meaning.

@@Raptorworld22 que lastima* which can translator to "what a pity" but the way she sings it sounds more like the meaning of "hurt" essentially saying "Which hurts" given the tone of the song I am going to skip syllables and go for the more literal meaning If I am understanding the Italian correctly it basically translates "Dear beautiful one, My dear beautiful one, My little girl, Oh Chell, What a pity, what a pity, oh my dear one goodbye"

@@ralexcraft990 Okay, but what does it mean in spanish, which is what it's supposed to be?

@@Raptorworld22 I already said, it’s either “what a pity” or “which hurts”

@@ralexcraft990 Oh i thought you were talking about if it's italian, since you were talking about the italian later. I think the "what a pity" is considered the canon translation but I'm not sure, I don't speak either language, which is why I was confused by your first comment. Sorry

me too friend me too...

Same here

It's not GlaDOS' song; it's the turrets. GLaDOS sings Want You Gone. The turrets sing Cara Mia Addio.

@@thegardenofeatin5965 GLaDOS is in control of the whole facility. That includes the turrets. If they sing, it's because GLaDOS let them, or made them. And Chell never even hears the first note of Want you Gone. That's a credit song that plays only for us and Wheatly (the Space core didn't listen.)

​​​​@@minasthirith6314This probably Caroline singing toward Chell to stay away from science and lived a freedom life. Glados may or may not deleting Caroline. It can goes both way. Either this is Caroline final song toward her child before get deleted by Glados OR Glados just bluffing she delete Caroline so Chell won't come back there and the turret orchestra just showing to us Glados Caroline truth feeling in foreign language.

@@mr.nobody896 I simply interpret the song as GLaDOS having made an orchestra to say goodbye e to Chell. With or without bullet at first, I can't tell. Might even be that they were supposed to do the first notes, then she gets to the final floor and gets shredded. But Want You Gone is sung by GLaDOS, with both her trademark voice and insults. So it's GLaDOS saying "I miss you please never come back". As for deleting Caroline, I'm of those that believe she didn't, but there's no way to tell, so whatev's.

@@minasthirith6314 fan theories all the way down at this point. but caroline isn't, after all, something that 'lives in her brain' she is caroline. the testing addiction and every other thing they did to 'make her' run the facility indefinitely is the extra stuff. You can't really delete system32...or else.

Legendary song

Of note, the bullets are never actually fired properly from the turrets since aperture doesn't seem to understand the idea of chemical propellant, so they're probably quite cold.

@@CrazySleel "We fire the whole bullet! That's 60% more bullets per bullet!"

@@CrazySleel And it also neatly explains why Chell can take so many bullets before dying.

He's a giant bass.

And it just goes to show how much talent she has, honestly.

I don't know if you already know this, but in the original Portal with developer commentaries on, there is a commentary by Ellen McLain herself, where she talks about how Still Alive is quite different from how she usually sings, and provides an very short example of her opera singing.

She also did the turrets, and two of the personality cores, as well as Caroline

maybe wheatley wasn't having trouble with the translation software at the end of chapter 5 because he was dumb, but because it's just bad translation software ^^'

@@hydrogen-8 Great, now I have that headcanon that Aperture used Google Translate in the state of the time Portal 2 came out...

Well...they were written by an AI.

​@@stormshadow_6477 I mean this is cave Johnson we're talking about here. So it wouldn't be that surprising

@@jacthing1 Very true

"THAT BITCH SHES ... letting me go??"

Agreed. There were a full three moments in the ending where I thought I was gonna be executed by firing squad. One was at the beginning when the four turrets are drawing a bead on you. I was pleasantly surprised when they shut off their targeting lasers and started humming. Just a last little goodbye from some little guys who had grown fond of me. The second moment was coming up on the giant room full of turrets and thinking, "Ah, THIS is the firing squad. Glados always was a dramatic bitch." Then the Soprano started singing and that REALLY threw me off. It was like the whole facility was seeing me off. Then I noticed the Beast King Turret in the background opening it's weapons up and I was like "Damn, Glados is just fucking with me at this point," only for the Beast King to come in on the Baritone. It wasn't until the elevator really started moving that I realized it was a sincere goodbye, and it wasn't until after the Companion Cube showed up that I realized it was Glados herself bidding me farewell. It was an emotional rollercoaster.

​@@skyleryarroll2369 I subscribe to the idea that the first four turrets actually do kill Chell. It's left intentionally ambiguous of course, but that's the most likely interpretation to my mind. But regardless of whether or not one believes that Chell lives or dies, it is almost irrefutable that the writers were indeed referencing Greek mythology and death in the final scene. In Greek mythology, when a hero dies, they ascend to the Elysium fields, accompanied by the sound of a chorus, as well as the presence of a friend. That's almost exactly what happens to Chell. She ascends up the elevator to the sound of the turret opera, into a large and idyllic looking field, where her "best friend" the companion cube joins her. The smoking gun for me is that it's literally the incinerated companion cube from the first Portal. Again, they clearly leave it open to interpretation, but I think it's the only way it can end for Chell. :(

@@robertholt3996 The only reason I disagree is because Want You Gone plays immediately afterwards, which repeatedly states how Chell has her "short, sad life left" and was supposedly written as a bad breakup song about how GlaDOS had grown to love Chell and resented seeing her go.

That ending scene made me tear up back when I finished the game. It felt like a punch in the gut, in a good way.

Good luck with conjugations lol.

might I recommend to you Outer Wilds if you have not played it already, a deeply touching game that will make you cry at the very end, despite it not being that emotional of a game throughout the gameplay

@@NewsofPE I did play it earlier this year, it was very emotional but I didn't cry, I'm just a hard shell to crack haha. Such an incredible game in any case, I'll be playing the dlc very soon!

Thank you so much!

What blood relation lol, Glados is a robot (and [REDACTED] was always too busy for relationships in the lore afaik]

@@mibadada Well, we don't actually know her marital status, really. And since we see Chel's name on the "bring your daughter to work" exhibit, we know that she's a daughter of SOMEONE in aperture. Probably someone smart, too, with the way her creation looks. And the lyrics to cara mia addio sing something along the lines of "my beautiful girl, my little girl, O chell". While we don't have any confirmations or otherwise, portal is known for it's subtle storytelling through different mediums. At least I believe so.

@@tediumlacie We do have confirmation, actually. Ellen (the singer, voice of Glados, etc) has stated she was told to make up the lyrics based on the single idea that it's Glados saying goodbye to Chell. She's also stated she had very bad Itallian, and that not all of the lyrics were actually in Italian at all, which led to many mistranslations of the song. She's clearly trying to get across the idea that Chell is someone she loves, but when you combine it with her other 4 songs written for the series (Still Alive, Want You Gone, You Wouldn't Know, and Don't Say Goodbye) which all have romantic undertones, it becomes clear the reading of the song as maternal likely wasn't intentional at all.

Thank you

:)

Hahaha thank you :) and I'm glad it reawoke for you!

I’m glad you appreciated it!!!

Lmaooooooooo i saw you let me know on twitch huh

Thank you so much!!