Opera Singer Reacts to We All Lift Together & For Narmer || Warframe OST 

These two songs are absolutely intertwined in such a glorious way. Such powerful use of chorus here.

Notice how in "We all lift together" it's many singers slightly out of harmony but in "For Narmer" it's many singers in almost perfect harmony.

For Narmer kind of rubs it in that you didn’t fail a mission. You lost a war. I welcome to the aftermath.

For context, the first song is, as you guessed, a work song sung by a group of debt-enslaved people in the game's world, it's supposed to be this expression of determination and hope for a better future for them and their families. Later in the game's story a certain evil emerges and takes over the solar system from the other warring also-evil-but-not-as-evil-as-them factions using trickery, propaganda, intimidation and quite a lot of brain-washing to subjugate the people and break their spirits. When you arrive at the slave colony for the first time you hear the people's hope as they sing "We all lift together". When you arrive for the first time after Narmer's conquest all hope is lost, there is only Narmer.

“Heal the pain of independence” is such a great line

Something not talked about is how "We all lift together." Starts as one voice, where people then *willingly* join in with the song. But "For Namer." Starts with many voices, all *forced* into action by something above them now.

In the game listening to For namer after you lose in protecting everyone is a punch in the stomach.

What I love most about For Narmer is how fully it inverts We All Lift Together. While We All Lift Together is a song reminiscent of a chain gang song or something you'd hear in a field of slaves at work, For Narmer is the total subjugation of free will and spirit. From "we all lift each other up" to "we serve this mighty being as one entity, devoid of free will and hope". Even without the lyrics, the dissonance in For Narmer screams "SOMETHING IS WRONG" and I love it.

I LOVE your facial expressions during For Narmer. "Hell yeah, this is just the same kind of inspirational, uplifting tone as before." "But wait... this... nope, there's the uplifting again." "Nope, no, no no no, why does this feel so creepy? Something's not right." This is why I really love watching reactions to various music.

The world of Warframe is a very dark place. And the Narmer arc turns that up to eleven.

I am so fascinated by how with his interpretation of the songs he could tell the story of the Fortuna guys fairly accurately.

The way you look like someone just kicked you, when that "declined resolution" in For Narmer hits. It just rips your heart out, melodically.

Something I’m surprised you didn’t mention between the two songs is that in We All Lift Together, the singers aren’t in sync, they’re just singing how it comes to mind. . .people united in their imperfections seeking freedom from servitude But with For Narmer, the voices are perfectly synced, nobody out of place, driven to sing for their conqueror. . .people united in servitude to perfection that do not want freedom

When this first came out, the huge difference really threw me off at first, but I viscerally felt the, 'Working til we *FALL.'* I was working warehouse jobs, watching coworkers come away maimed. I was 'falling' a lot myself, due to stress-induced seizures. I was ready for that to be the stinging end of the verse. I gritted my teeth. Then, 'we all *LIFT.'* I felt it viscerally. Just as I was accepting 'this is it for me,' these people and their sense of camaraderie went 'No you fuckin don't!' Like they caught a collapsing support beam before it could spell my execution. I felt resignation to death turn into renewed hope in real time. I will never forgive Narmer for trying to take that away. "We all lift together" -> "Now we lift alone."

If you knew who Balas is, then you would totally understand why the second song feels like that.

We All Lift Together and For Narmer are also (I believe the term is) in reverse chord progression, so if you played them at the same time basically, the chorus would have one side fall and another rise, back and forth. It sounds like two opposing crowds yelling at each other, overpowering and rising in turn to one another. However, For Narmer is the longer song, and also, the most oppressive, so it in turn will win over We All Lift Together, falling to a deathly quiet as all voices fall silent.

Just recently finished the New War and the recently released Veilbreaker. Visiting Fortuna again and looking at the once proud people of Solaris United succumb into a mindless sheep in praise of Narmer is just heart-breaking to see. These two songs are weirdly paradoxical yet sung with the same fervor by the same yet different people from a different Era and for wildly different purpose. Thanks for the video as always.

Warframe has some really great tracks, listeneing to these songs always makes me wanna go back to the game. "Sleeping in the cold below" is also a great song to check out.

A cold, indifferent universe: "Do you even lift?!" Warframe: "We all lift together."

Never played Warframe but 'We All Lift Together' is one of my favorite songs ever made, and it echoes through other games so easily.

Yeah you are almost right its not gold mining, but instead its people working off their debt in a debt-internment colony. It makes me chuckle when you are able to visualise something from an OST without having the visuals, you did it really well in the Alicorn video and you have done it here as well.

It was genuinely sad hearing this beautiful song of hope, survival and relying on others to survive against an opressor, to being enslaved by a different opressor where you don't even have the luxury of free will.

For Narmer is a defiled version of We Lift Together on so many levels... I was genuinely furious when I 1st heard it :) The working song with so many different voices empowering each others to fight against the rudeness of their life was changed into a song of servitude where the minor notes are sang with a perfect, almost soulless, ensemble...

You know it's good music when even without context of where these songs appear, you can pinpoint the message and tone of both of them

Warframe’s music is incredible. Another two I’d recommend checking out is “Smiles from Juran”, also called “To Take Its Pain Away” and “Sleeping in the Cold Below”. Maybe not together since they’re quite different and not related , but both incredible

Definitely a good call to go over these two songs together. It's always incredibly how the *emotion* of a story can be condensed and relayed like this through music. We All Lift Together - The singers, the "we" of the chorus, are full of hope, trust in one another, *determination*. A community rising together. Really gets out a "we can do this" feeling. For Narmer - The singers are solemn, feel beaten down or broken, but sound devoted (not in a good way) to these names they have dedicated themselves to.

Haha omg I hate that I didnt think of suggesting either of these. Man when fortuna came out with We all lift together I couldnt get it out my head for AGES. Must have been many months. Its amazing how far this game has come and the music it has brought us is something so special, unique and just fricking awesome.

For Narmer: Healed the pain of independence Strong our wise and trusted friend We united in one vision Rise to sing our sorrows end He the bringer of the vision Bids you answer to his call Praise the wise and mighty Ballas Heed the ruler of us all For we're all one And the work's begun For Narmer And we all run To our golden son For Narmer For Narmer Here today we sing our story With Ballas we have found our home Virtue once was work together But virtue now is lift alone Free we are now from each other Brothers, sisters, daughters, sons Where once we dreamed of independence Now we stand and dream alone We were all for one Now the works begun For Narmer And we all run To the golden son For Narmer For Narmer

I stopped playing warframe for years but the music is always in my favorite playlist. Transition into Fortuna and the scene of snow mountain(I think it's the war within) are one of the most unforgettable scenes of all games I've played beacuse the music really hit my heart

For Narmer is sung like a mockery to We All Lift Together, as it is the opposite of everything it is supposed to be. But it also shows us the consequence of you, the tenno, failing in your mission to protect the system. When the war started, every major factions (beside infestation) banded together but all they could put up was a futile last stand while it was the tenno that was bringing the battle to the invader. However in a moment of weakness, we were defeated and were removed from battle, and the system was swiftly taken over by a new power, Narmer. The Solaris (the ones who sung these 2 songs), originally sung with the hope of making it through the darkness of hardship together, now they sing as if they're content with being in that darkness together. A darkness made of blissful lies.

Every time I hear we all lift, I always get emotional, for the fact of more then just the game, if only everyone heard this song as a word for humanity. To unite us all in these new trying times in darkness. And I have a feelings of uniting us all for another golden age for us all. But a wish calling out into the void of pain and anger in our world. We are fractured, we all need to lift together. Do not let the hands of old men have the power over humanity we all are one voice and move in one body to let go of all of our differences need to say past for we are all equal under one roof of this world we call home. ~Break the system~

"For Narmer" does its job perfectly its gives the message, "you did'nt fail a mission, you lost a war".

One of the coolest bits in For Narmer is the little melody in the background which is from This is What you Are, it's subtle is sneaks in just for a moment, which mirrors a section of the quest, you are sneaking in...to save them

after a few years knowing each npc in fortuna, this song was a punch in the guts after failing our duty. the song was as hard to hear as it's pretty, but i couldn't stop myself from tearing up a bit when they sang "virtue once was work together, but virtue now is lift alone" their whole personality, what they are got broken down to rebuilt them up for Narmer.

Keith Power is an amazing composer.

For Narmer feels like a corruption of We All Lift. The latter was standing tall in the face of oppression, while the former is what happened when you lost. It was absolutely heart wrenching when I heard it in game the first time.

Ever since I saw you listen to Warframe I was waiting for "We All Lift" review, I'm happy you took your time to do it. The sound track and general sound design is one of the reasons I keep playing Warframe for years, and it makes me happy to see when others like it

I love the people of Fortuna and hearing We All Lift Togather really got me happy, after playing New War, and hearing For Narmer, being sung by them, literally broke me. It showed how Narmer ripped away all individuality, hope for a brighter future, and care from the people. The fact that it is in the same key as We All Lift Togather, makes it feel even more hopeless. I can't help but shed a tear whenever I hear For Narmer. The Foil, I think that is the right word, of the 2 songs is amazing.

We All Lift Together has always been my favorite song in Warframe. So seeing the same people who showed such resiliency being cowed under Narmer... I dont know why but I legitimately grew misty-eyed. Even now with all the Narmer Aftermath... it just reminds me of For Narmer so much its painful. I didn't realize how much I'd come to love that faction until that point.

Fun fact: these songs overlay on top of each other lyrically really well! For Narmer feels like it was built as a response to We All Lift Together's call.

For Narmor is meant to crush you, realizing that this happened because you failed, when you have the context it wrenches your heart out. To this day makes my stomach drop and eyes tear up

Hearing this song, during the story was the turning point in the story, Edit: Spoiler warning ig for below "*you lost*", "*your friends are gone*", and "*you are now alone*" was a great sinking feeling to have for a story.

Both these songs talk about the strength of comradery and resilience. I loooove how they both emphasize the togetherness in two totally different ways. Almost like they're bracing for the storm together, whether it be in a town/village sense like We All Lift Together, or the rebellious darker tones of For Narmer.

I remember the first time listening "For Narmer" in the game, the song was absolutely perfect for the context of the story, you lost the war, the song reflects that exceptionally well.

The first song I feel is the chant of people who strive to make it through the tough times together, in pain but in unison. The twisting of "We all Lift Together" in For Narmer is in tune with who Ballas was, one of the main antagonists in the game, he subjugated an entire galaxy for his own narcisistic wishes. It sounds cultish.

these are literally two halves of a song if you look up both of them played together it sounds amazing

I always saw lift as the sort of indentured worker or chain gang chant. Think 1800s industrial revolution, pre unionization. Always gets me teary, because I see us slipping back into those practices in the modern era. Losing what desperate workers bled and died for.

Damn it is so weird hearing those songs without the MV sfx, but again Marco is on point with the analysis! If they is ever a Space Meatball Warframe clan: I'M IN!!!! :D We all lift together Outworlder!

I never noticed that "This is who you are" motif in For Namer! The composers of Warframe's music don't get enough credit. Such a neat touch. Edit: 7:30 YES, GET IT TENORS! NAIL THAT HARMONY 👏👏

The reason he said "Cowboys in space" in the beginning was because the first thing that might've popped up in his mind could've been 'Railroads' as they have a strong connection with Western Culture hence -> 'Cowboys' the sounds of pounding metal must've sounded that way to him.

Now that you've covered these you MUST absolutely see them in context with the cinematics associated to each of them.

Hey, just popping to give a small info, trying not to spoil too more than the songs do. We All Lift Together is basically the hymn of a region. It's about the people there having a strong sense of solidarity, working together in hope of getting through everything to live another day. For Narmer is about the exact same region, a bit later, who have kind of been sold an illusory "perfect solution" for their problems so they can live in peace withing a "perfect community" in a way. Again, trying not to spoil so my words may not fit exactly to what happens, because I cant find a better way to describe it being a non-native english speaker, but all in all, they got stripped of their free will and essentially everything that's assiociated to being a person. Instead, they basically became a sort of mix between robots, and slaves, working without questionning anything as they believe they are in a perfect world where everything is fine.

I will never forget how hard We All Lift Together hit at Tennocon.

Once you play through the game and look back with context on what each song truly means, it's a truly heartbreaking story. It's one of the few things that can still make me cry

I get tears in my eyes everytime I listen 'we all lift together'.

Other comments have explained the context for these 2 songs but i really love they are 2 sides of the same coin both musically and narritivly. To add on to it, the first one while not a "happy" song given the context is hopful and encouraging and the visuals match it you see all the workers helping each other and getting into the beat a bit. Then later in the game with Narmer, all the physical motion that existed before is gone and its also accompanied with a slow eary elevator ride down into the city. Also i theres a ton of other warframe tracks you could check out, but id sugest smiles from juran or sleeping in the cold below if you want to check out another

I love how much lore about a game professional musicians can tell JUST from the music

I love watching someone not know the context for For Narmer. When you said they were both uplifting at first, I thought, "Just wait, you'll see." AND YOU NAILED IT!

What’s really cool is how despite him not knowing Warframe or it’s story, he still manages to somewhat grasp the story behind the music. It shows how well the music fits into its respective part of the story.

I love so much of the music you’re reacting to. You provide so much insight as someone versed in classical music. Hearing the reactions to so many OSTs I and many others have fallen in love with is so great. Love the content man. You’re also pushing videos out like a madman. Amazing creator I wish more knew about you. I also hope you don’t burn out as I know content creation at the pace you’re going can be a lot of hard work and time. Keep it up man. Looking forward to more.

I remember getting chills when I listened to it the first time cuz I didn't expect them to drop this song out of nowhere, like I barely know anything about fortuna but I certainly can feel and understand it. Later it became the first syndicate that I maxed. (Also I think there's a cutscene/cinematic for both songs) Anyways great vids!

I really like We All Lift Together for the simple reason that it’s designed to sound like a bunch of people from all walks of life and skill levels singing together. It takes effort to sound good, but it takes a hell of a lot of effort to make the rough edges combine into something smooth.

As some mentioned, it's really nice hearing them together, since both chorus gets mixed pretty well, like one single mirrored song. Awesome video!

absolutely love u doing this with all types of games, We All Lift Together is one of my favourite pieces of music in all of gaming music

This first song made me wanna go "Hey, partner"-ing and "Howdy"-ing on the wild west with a big iron on my hips but in reality, I probably gonna be a coal miner and dying to dysentery.

Oh my god, I love these two. I always get super emotional with these as well (wipes away tears of unclear emotions). Damn, these are good. What I love is how you picked up on what these songs mean and transport in the greater scheme of things without truly knowing the context. Because you're right. We All Lift Together (written in Corpus speech it's "Je App Pitp Pojepket, by the way (fun fact)) is the song of a people who work in unison under the rule of the Corpus overlords, trying to cut out a piece of the world for themselves. For Narmer, on the other hand, takes this concept and drives it into a downwards spiral with the populace working exclusively for their overlord and all they get in return is being alive (albeit mind-controlled, which makes the piece even darker), following a great catastrophe. And you heard that. You're that good. I love you man. Thanks for sharing your feelings with us and thanks for bringing attention to the fact that these two songs share a motif which I didn't notice before. Cheers!

Lovely stuff as always, Marco!

Love seeing folks getting back into one of my favorite games by way of the incredible soundtrack! Would love to hear this revisited after experiencing the story of these songs in contrast!

I love how you always give such amazing insight. Even though I've never played this game, the things you talk about make listening to game ost so incredible!! I hope you'll have take the chance to do some Super Mario Galaxy OST. That game's music has always been special to me.

We All Lift Together literally makes me wanna work, that's how awesome it is! 😂 Also context for those who don't play Warframe. We All Lift Together is a song that was created by a group of people that are in debt to an enemy faction called the Corpus & they have to "work off" their debt by purchasing tools & augments to make them more efficient at their jobs & thus pushing themselves into further debt... For Narmor is a song by the same group except their resolve & fight has been taken from them by a veil & they now all serve Narmor Together & all work as one with no free will or thought to speak of... Yeah Warframe is something 😂

We All Lift Together a song about coming together as a community to overcome hardship, it's for the players who band together to help one another AND the workers at Fortuna who are being practically enslaved by the corpus

Im so excited to see u listening to warframe because I've been playing the game for 4 years and the music is so amazing. Great job Marco:Dmy favorite btw is for narmer. Its kinda darker or something like that.

I think I clicked on this video even faster than I did for signora... well done opera man, you have my attention :)

now, spoil warning, major spoils, but I really wanna paint the scenes behind both songs we all lift together paints the scene of the first time you enter fortuna, you hear this song, this song that tells you "there is more to these people than just your common corpus worker." and as the story progresses, you learn, learn of the pain they've suffered, the horrors they've seen, the fact that with just one bad day in their work, their limbs, both mechanical and biological can be taken and sold in an instant. they are suppressed by giant machines, capable of withstanding anything that can be virtually thrown at them. yet, they still resist, and with your help, they topple mountains, they take down these giants, one by one, and with each victory, they grow closer to you, trust you, share secrets with you, from the kids hiding in the vents to the more, spoilery stuff, they become family. for narmar, on the other hand, is during the new war quest, sung on your return to fortuna after the events of the new war. theres a level of hope, a sliver, of it. how couldnt there be? these are the rebels, theyve been fighting oppressors for ages, fighting for their freedom, their lives, for years before we met them, surely their still putting up the good fight, after all, we know someone else is resisting, how couldn't they be fighting? than you hear it, and that fortuna went without a ounce of resistance, that every person you know in there is converted. even the vent kids are wearing their mask and singing as well. and that's when the songs true meaning should dawn on you, you're no longer fighting the new war, because you already fought the new war... and you lost, and everyone else paid the price.

i Played warframe like... 1 month 5 years ago, and i never forgot this song. Was 1 of if not the only one that caught my atention.

I stumbled upon your channel today and your reactions and interpretations are really fun. I will say that it might be cool to have you react to the full context of these songs too. Video games songs tend to be very intertwined with the experience or at least the visual component of them. The twinned nature of we all lift and for narmer is even more chilling when you know who's signing them and what it means which is only available if you watch the videos of the songs as well. You reacting to what you inferred correctly and how the songs change with the addition of the visual media would be cool to see.

I highly suggest "sleeping in the cold below" next from Warframe as well. Great song.

We All Lift Together makes you feel courageous For Narmer makes you feel vengeful Keith Power is one of the greatest composers of our times IMO and definitely an underrated guy, his ability to come up with his music in such short spans is incredible

I've never even watched a trailer for Warframe (I've seen screenshots of some character models and thats it) but I've still been listening to We All Lift Together for yeeeaaars. Its SUCH a good song, I didn't know they had other lyrical songs in the game. Definitely will be checking out the full OST. Now on to your This Is What You Are video!

Love these songs, videos, and reactions. If you haven't seen them yet, highly recommend looking up the combined version of these two.

Please check out 'Sleeping In The Cold Below' also from Warframe. Its awesome!

I don't really know if anime OSTs are in your radar of reactions, but I would really recommend reacting to Made in Abyss OSTs; "Rebirth ft. Takeshi Saito", "Rumble of Scientific Triumph" and "Transcendence and Hanezeve" and etc. Almost all of the ost's of that anime (which, according to the mangaka, was originally a concept for a video game, and now recently, got its own video game) are composed by Kevin Penkin.

why do i get chills every time i hear we all lift together 😭

I just love how composser mix orchestra with electronic elements, truly a modern art of video game music

Wait wait wait... I just realized your name is marco MEATBALL 💀

I really love the resonance and how well the multiple voices complement each other in “we all lift together”. I love the tune, and I love the style, and I love the meaning as well. It’s currently probably my favorite song.

We All Lift Together is a working song...the footage/video for it is set in a factory/working place of sorts with hammers and welding machines and stuff and I love that we hear that in the background and that the music and words all like have accent/punctuation at the end where it feels like it's supposed to line with a hit of a hammer of pound of cilinders in machines...

Lift together in my eyes is a song of hopeful independence a drive to suceed and narmer is basically a song of loosing control to the status que and loosing your independence and drive

I just wanted to say thanks for keeping the original channel data for the songs.

Keith does an amazing job putting the right touch to warframe songs. Another one you you listen from warframe is "Sleeping in the cold below" . it is sea shanty style

Playing Warframe over the years I didnt realized the similarities in these two and how actually connected they are because of the crazy amount of time between the two coming out.

So many people have already said it, but man, hearing For Narmer for the first time is so perfect at forcing you to sit down and face the fact that you not only lost, you were crushed, and now you're faced with all the people you failed. Everything you couldn't accomplish is now sitting in front of you as this seemingly insurmountable wall. There are very few games that I get sucked into the story with, but warframe does an amazing job at drawing me in.

Im impressed how much figured out from songs alone

These songs will give me chills forever! The Story is soo deep and so depressingly sad

with some of these songs I would like to recommend watching the cutscene/music video with these as they explain a lot, especially warframe songs but you are quite on the mark with most of the comments of the songs and it's nice to hear and see your reactions to this

I am very late to this video but I just wanna say, Warframe has such amazing music! Both these tracks are some of my absolute favourites. I really love this kind of music characterized by deep chorus and powerful lyrics. It elucidates such a sense of unity.

I love how well you picked up on the correct context of the songs without (I assume) any background context! I'm not gonna explain the context because I see that it's been perfectly explained here already (Nave Tal). Cool to hear that you've given the game a shot as well, through its music no less! This is a cool time to jump in as well. Give the story quests a go, there's an experience to be had. I have over 2k hours into the game so I can't speak for a new player, but based on what I've gleaned from the update notes over the years, it seems that it's now easier to be a new player than ever, as the confusion of the new player experience has always been a major stumbling point for the game.

an interesting perspective on the humming in we all lift together that i cant for the life of me remember where i heard- humming used to be used as a threat of mutiny on a ship the crew was dissatisfied on, for a few reasons: its easy to do while still doing labor, its not identifiable by voice, and that whenever an officer was near the people they were close to could stop to pass suspicion while the rest of the crew continued. the way we all lift together cuts to humming at the end is reminiscent of that, as a colony of indebted forced laborers they had very strict supervisors and taskmasters that wouldnt let them get away with singing like that

We all lift together still gives me chills and I heard it many times.

“Cowboys in space” Good sir that’s what the warframe Mesa is for