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Check out Genshin Impact here: Thanks to Genshin Impact for reaching out to work with me and making this project possible! #ad ----- When I was first approached to work with Genshin Impact on a promotional song for their next big update I would be remiss to say I wasn’t sceptical. Just what would I DO with it? It’s for certain not my typical fare here on the channel but there’s nothing I love more than a challenge. (Arguments could be made for a good, strong cheddar but Big Cheddar have yet to reach out about a song). So Liz and I set about playing and researching the lore of Genshin Impact to try and find an angle that would be a good fit for the channel. In our research of the lore we discovered two key things; Number one: There is a LOT of it. Like, wow. There’s a lot to get your head around. How would I pick one thing to squeeze into a song? Number two: There’s an entire region of the game devoted to the pursuit of knowledge with a grand academy at its centre. Well if we’ve proved one thing over the past five years it’s that if you give me an establishment where some sort of authority figure could conceivably lecture a listener on a given relevant topic, I can squeeze that through my noggin's song nozzle and extrude a jam from it. So what if… I tried to cram as much lore as possible into as little time as possible? Now THERE’S a challenge. This song could easily have been five times longer and still not covered everything so it’s far from comprehensive, but as a fun race through the history of the continent of Teyvat it is, as the kids say, a bop. A huge thanks to everyone who helped pull this project together! To Jemma for returning to the channel to make the costume after her fantastic prior work on The Toybox, to Stargirl for her work on the makeup, To Kitnxi and Xoriak for their work on the CG and as always to Oxygen for his work on composing the music and mixing the track! A lesson learned on this project? A big fake moustache glued to your lip that stops your upper lip moving plus amore subtle physical performance to imply age plus the fact that said moustache also hides half of your mouth PLUS half the time trying to balance on a moving treadmill in a full length trip hazard of a robe whilst also performing in character to incredibly fast lyrics... Equals A: a very hard time lip syncing and B: the fact that even using all the best takes you can't see my mouth moving under all the facial hair half the time. Trust me, it is! Stay tuned, folks! There’s another big project on the horizon! (And Big Cheddar, if you’re listening, call me.) #genshinimpact ----- Check out the full Stupendium originals playlist for all of my original songs! STUPENDIUM ORIGINALS: THE STUPENDIUM ON SPOTIFY: THE STUPENDIUM ON iTUNES: ----- Lyrics, vocals by The Stupendium Video by The Stupendium and Lizzy CJ Song produced by @OxygenBeats Costuming by Jemma Locke Seamstress: Makeup by Stargirl: 3D environments by Kitnxi: CG Lighting, Camera and Rendering by Xoriak: Genshin Impact, its world and characters are the property of HoYoverse. ----- Grab your official Stupendium Merchandise! Shirts and mugs and hats, oh my! You can support The Stupendium on Patreon! Join the official Stupendium discord server! Drop me a tweet? @TheStupendium The Stupendium is a musician, animator and content creator, creating weird, wonderful and usually incredibly nerdy songs and animations. Join them on their journey to obscure, niche internet stardom! They have some pretty decent videos, wonderful facial hair and a great sense of discomfort describing themselves in the third person.
