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Saints Row: The Nightmare Chorus

By way of beautiful/monstrous coda to today's (well, yesterday's. I'm up toooooooooo late) Advent Calendar entry, please enjoy this taste of the Saints Row 2 videogame's singular madness.

Occasionally, your self-designed character will sing along to what's playing on the in-game radio. That can be strangled enough by itself, but this... This is what it sounds like when doves die. Or, more accurately, when all six possible main character voices' howling, babbling versions of A-Ha's Take On Me are composited together into a freakish but highly chucklesome chorus of mangled Scandinavian pop. Don't have nightmares.

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As shared in comments by comrade Larington. Tharington.

And, because it never gets old, here's how it should have sounded...

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Now to bed I go, before my housemate wakes up and inquires as to why I'm loudly playing A-Ha at 2 o'clock in the morning.

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Alec Meer: Ancient co-founder of RPS. Long gone. Now mostly writes for rather than about video games.
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