"We All Lift Together"

About

"We All Lift Together" is a song from the multiplayer third-person shooter video game Warframe. The song was originally released on July 7th, 2018 to promote the then-upcoming Fortuna update to the game. The song's lyrics spread throughout the Warframe community shortly after its release.

Origin

On July 7th, 2018, Warframe's annual Tennocon event was held in Ontario, Canada, showcasing upcoming content for Warframe. Among other announcements, such as the Nintendo Switch port that is due November 20th, 2018, Warframe developers Digital Extremes announced Fortuna, an upcoming content update set on a terraformed Venus. The introduction to Fortuna was accompanied by the song We All Lift Together, a chain gang-styled song showing the titular colony and its inhabitants set up beneath the planet's surface. The colony itself is home to the Solaris, people who are indebted to the Corpus merchant cult^[1] and have been transferred to Fortuna in an attempt to work off their ever-increasing debts.

According to Creative Director Steve Sinclair,^[2] he pitched a rough outline of Fortuna to composer Keith Power, who based the song's lyrics on said outline, showing the Solaris' refusal to give in to despair and determination to keep fighting the Corpus, knowing full well that they will not live to see their debts paid.

Spread

Following Tennocon 2018, "We All Lift Together" saw a very positive response from the Warframe community, who made comparisons between the song's lyrics and Warframe's ever-present grinding for rewards and resources, as well as Fallout 76's use of Take Me Home, Country Roads in its E3 trailer. In response, the official Warframe YouTube channel uploaded a standalone version of "We All Lift Together" and the song was included with the Warframe OST when it was released on various streaming services such as Spotify on August 31st, 2018.^[3] On July 18th, 2018, voice actor Lucas Schuneman – who provides the voice of Nef Anyo,^[4] the Corpus executive in charge of Fortuna – uploaded "We All Praise Together" to his Youtube Channel, as an unofficial in-character parody of We All Lift Together.

Various YouTubers and fans would make their own covers and parodies of "We All Lift Together." For example, Warframe Partner Quite Shallow released a Bongo Cat -themed "cover" of the song (lower left), with the cats using hammers as instruments (shown below, left). The High on Music channel posted an upload that gained over 15,000 views (shown below, right).

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