A Comedy Musician Reacts | COUNT TO THREE by The Chalkeaters & FIEND LIKE ME by The Stupendium

Insane Ian is a comedy musician and comedy music fan. This week he's reacting to TWO songs by or featuring the Stupendium! First up it's COUNT TO THREE, the Valve song by The Chalkeaters featuring Ellen McLain (the original GLaDOS), Stupendium, and Gabe Newell, followed by FIEND LIKE ME, Stupendium's song about and sponsored by EVIL GENIUS 2! Like, share, comment, and subscribe!

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[robertjamesgillan]

Fun Fact: As you asked Ian, I did actually ask Stupendium on his community post personally on this and got a reply, unfortunately he did not write any of his lyrics for the Chalkeaters's song "Count to Three" which is why his lyrics writing style is non present :) Not that the Chalkeater wrote bad lyrics whatsoever, but still he did a amazing job performing as always tho :)

PS: Peabody and "Atlas" were the names of the co-op protagonist for Portal 2 :)

[GamingPlush]

Fun fact, the word “3” is said in the song 2 times.

In its 2.59 minute runtime.

[Calimbandil]

I would love to see some more chalkeaters, their library is not that big yet they kind of exploded in popularity quite recently.

[Vladimir_Kv]

They should make the Stupendium into a villain for their game as a part of a DLC or in a patch, honestly. With a sub-title card "Vibrant Tyrant"; likes - "Mind control, Rube Goldberg contraptions"; dislikes - "Disobedience, World Leaders"; focus - "Style". Doomsday Device - "Globe Cutter".

[gabrielhermes]

Ian: pauses video to talk about how much he pauses:
Me: bit ironic innit?

[Gramorn]

Count to three is 2:59 long. I refuse to believe that was an accident. But Fiend like me has been basically I listen to in the past week it's so catchy.

[FloridaMan]

Stupendium gets everything perfect his evil laughs, jokes, puns, and music

[X-SPONGED]

Everyone : "Valve can't count to three"
Me waiting for the 7th TF2 Comic :
"Why are we still here ? Just to suffer"

[Mathtron]

I love how all of the characters in the video are hesitant to say "three", but the crowd of the fans doesn't have a build up and just says it immediately

[gabrielhermes]

Just realized it's a bit ironic that the game about dominating the world with a doctatorial regime is made by rebellion, uh.

[jobot]

Kinda sad you missed the flip of
"Can't see no schemes" and
"Casino screen",
that's my favorite flip in the entire song.

[_]

The part with dan bull's play button got me, I didn't notice it the first time I watched it.

[seanmontgomery]

I only just noticed when he says "forget the summer sale" he throws the pyro's mask and we briefly get to see the pryo's vision for a sec, until the rhyme was broke with alyx

[the_furf_of_july]

I love that the first Glados section is in the sentence structure of Want You Gone, the credits song for portal 2.
Also the lines:
“He said it’s worth the wait”
“His weight keeps pressing harder”

[tehdappermudkip]

With the whole expected rhyme thing, we had a chant at school for the games: ra ra ree, kick 'em in the knee, ra ra rass, kick 'em in the other knee.

[latech]

(Unfortunately some Spoilers for Half-Life Alyx)

Oke, here are my favorite lines as a Fan of Valve:
8:39 The first time Three is called and what is shown right after is probably the Key to an actual Half-Life 3 being made
8:49 "Well here we are again / It's always such a pleasure" are the first 2 lines of the Endcredit-Song of Portal 2 (Want you Gone)
9:01 "But Alyx gave us hope we'll rise and shine" Again shows that Half-Life Alyx has made it more possible that new games will come out, but this time it is based on Portal and not Half-Life. The Reason is that before Alyx shipped Valve was in no fit state to ship any game as their Engine was not finished and they simply couldn't concentrate on one project for long enough (which is because of their Work-Culture where everybody can pretty much work on whatever he/she wants)
10:50 "For soulless Card-Games and Hardware Releases" is obviously a wink at probably Valves worst game, Artifact, being released during their big void of games and a lot of Hardware that didn't quite catch on being released during it.
12:32 "Life gave you Lemons take them out the freezer" is based on Portal 2 where Cave Johnson uses Lemons as an Metaphor for "Opportunities in Live" and they are obviously using this here as well saying: Take your opportunities out the freezer where they have been stuck in for the last years Valve
12:45 "When everyone's anticipating another Masterpiece of Art" is I think the most direct callout at how hard it is to be working at Valve and making any new game in any of their franchises (especially one with a 3 at the end) as you can almost not live up to expectations (except I think Half-Life Alyx would have done for me, even if it was called Half-Life 3, which it could have easily been called SO Great Job to all the Devs on that Project)
12:50 "If this machine keeps playing dead we may end up on the other side" with the other big publishers being the other side I think clearly shows that if Valve never did any other games but only collect money with Steam everybody would see Valve as just another of these Money-Hungry publishers BUT connected with the other part before about how hard it would be to live up to expectations you can really see the problem Valve has. If they release nothing they will be seen just like all other publishers making no games because it is the cheapest way to make the most money but if they make a new game and it doesn't land well, it will basically result to the same as they are now not seen as a good developer anymore but one that has left it's good days behind.
13:16 "The Valve been stuck corroded by the Money" At the one hand the way many people in the industry see Valve today but in a weird way also the way Valve actually is, because Valve has basically infinite Money and infinite Time for whatever Project they want to work on which results in them simply not finishing a single project. Sometimes not having time or other restrictions is the best motor for creativity.
13:24 "We can't believe the Engine started running" is in one way a continuation of the "Valve" of this engine being stuck and now finally working again but can also be taken literally because (as I said before) Valve had a hard time over the last years (I think basically since Portal 2) because they didn't have a finished engine and many projects they started didn't make it because the Engine was not ready BUT with Half-Life Alyx they finally (mostly) finished of Source 2 and it is now actually working. This is my favorite part of this song ;)
13:28 "This time he's bound to count to three" Basically the hope of the community that with the Tech now finally being up to scratch again (mostly) that Valve will finally make a 3-Game (Half-Life or Portal mostly) and I think even Valve thinks the same as Developers have said they really want to make more Games in the Half-Life Universe and connected with Half-Life Alyx's Ending this has only elevated the Communities expectations. Then again, Expectations where one of the problems all along
13:54 "We've got some work to do" with Alyx handing Gabe the Crowbar is basically a rehash of the Confirmation from Valve that they really want to make a Half-Life 3. It is taken from the After-Credit Scene of Half-Life Alyx where BIG SPOILERS!!!!
Eli gives Gordon the Crowbar and says: "We've got work to do"
14:05 I think the To Be Continued... is more of a joke on Valve who always have cliffhangers as endings for Half-Life Games and therefore pretty much always say "To Be Continued..." after every Half-Life Game. This tradition alone pretty much means that there will never be an End in the Half-Life Series.

[carpedm]

Ah on the subverting rhymes, there was an undertale lyric song that went
"Rage twitch- rage itch- time to die you little- Dummy!"
Which is probably my favorite.

[starlepus]

imagine if valve secretly does have half life 3 done and theyre waiting for part 2 of count to three to announce it. thatd be a cool way to announce it!

[Calimbandil]

Stupendium really knows how to sell a game. Bought Evil Genius 2 yesterday just because of him.

[DigiDuncan]

You have very quickly became my favorite reactor. Your experience in the scene and your tendency to catch flips is so fun to listen to, and you legit have so much fun with it it's intoxicating. Looking forward to every video of yours man. Keep it up, dude!