THE DATA STREAM | Cyberpunk 2077 Song feat. Cami-Cat!

In CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 you take on the role of V, a gun for hire in the dystopian metropolis known as Night City. Choose your life path; Corpo, Nomad or Street Kid and embark on a quest to uncover the secrets and conspiracies of the city and the Arasaka corporation all the while dodging magical teleporting police officers and hoping your car doesn’t sink through the asphalt.

It goes without saying that the much anticipated Cyberpunk has had a… rocky… first 6 months of life.

The nature of my videos means they take months to make and most of the time I need to work ahead, start making them long before a game releases. Sometimes that means a game releases in a poor state and I already have a song prepared. It happened with Fallout 76 and it’s happened again here!

Late last year I had this song ready, the props and costumes bought and the video planed all on schedule to be ready for the game’s release. Then Among Us happened and I decided ‘Cyberpunk is big enough to wait an extra month, I’ll squeeze in an Among Us video first!’

…Then Cyberpunk released. In the firestorm of response to the game I opted to shelve the project to return to at a later date in the hopes things would calm down and the game might improve. Well here we are! Has the game improved? Possibly. But I had a free slot in my schedule and all of the props and costumes ready and waiting to go so I decided it was time to make this thing happen! I already have too many other projects in long-term limbo to let this one wait any more!

This song focuses on the ‘Corpo’ world of Arasaka. (Are you surprised I took the corporate corruption approach?) My initial concept for the song was more about the world of corporate espionage, but as I wrote about this interconnected digital corporate world the idea shifted into the themes of data collection and privacy and how these issues that we are already facing today might take form in a world where the corporations so keen to know everything about you have direct unfettered access to the inside of your head.

It’s another ‘this is a song about the world of the game and using that world to explore a real world theme’ kind of song. Sorry if you were hoping for a song about shooting folks with laser guns and Keanu Reeves. ;)

A huge thank you to Cami-Cat for lending her stunning vocals to this track! I’ve wanted to work with her again ever since she joined me for ‘Slide Into the Void’ and I’m stoked to have her on this track. This might be one of my favourite choruses I’ve ever had and it’s in no small part thanks to her!

Another huge thanks to DefendTheHouse for generously allowing me to use their gorgeous Night City footage in this video. Link to their channel below for more awesome game captures!

#Cyberpunk2077 #Corpo
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Lyrics, vocals and video by The Stupendium
Guest vocals by Cami-Cat:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGkof8LRvN62anVl3O6xCcA
Cinematography by Paul Marke:
https://www.paulmarke.com/
Custom costuming by CosFia:
https://www.instagram.com/fia_cosplay/
Night City footage courtesy of DefendTheHouse:
https://www.youtube.com/defendthehouse
Set fabrication assistant: Nick J. Henderson
Mixing by oo Oxygen:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxWsEk2r3NF5XVyETPL2PrQ
Beat Production by The Artisans:
https://www.beatstars.com/theartisans/

Cyberpunk 2077, it’s world and characters are property of Mike Pondsmith and CD Projekt Red!

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