Holding out for a Hero BUT ITS EPIC - Cover by Lydia the Bard feat Alex
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Published 2024-02-17
Our protagonist confronts her love interest about the plan and he assures her the best thing to do is follow orders, no ones dying today. She trusts him and ignores the warning signs.
And so they fight, with everything they have, they fight. Our protagonist looks around the battlefield, watching as friends fall left and right. She focuses her mind and continues striking through enemy after enemy. Eventually the battle quietens, the foes are fewer and she stands alone on the field breathing hard, sweat and dirt coating her skin.
She spots a figure in the distance, her love interest stalks towards her with a knowing glint in his eye. At first she’s relieved to see him alive but then hesitates. The eyes she trusted implicitly look different to how they have before. Before she knows it he lunges forward and a sword has been plunged into her side, her knees buckle beneath her and her love guides her to the ground. He had been fighting for the other side all along. Slowly she begins to pass from this life to the next, heartbroken and calling out for a hero with her dying breath.
Hope you enjoyed my far too dramatic cover of Holding out for a hero! You can tell I live on booktok. It wouldn't be a Lydia the Bard cover if there wasn't tonnes and tonnes of DRAMA
Thank you so much to the gorgeous Darragh for helping create this song snd to Mitchie for the incredible art!!
(Yes to the eagle eyed few i did a silly and accidently released this on spotify a week or two ago, you didnt dream that)
Another Hazbin cover next week?
Byeeeeeeee
PS: Really super duper fun links below!! The FUNNEST of links! I’m talking discord server, social media, patreon, music streaming, the list goes on… go have a gander!
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✨STREAM THIS SONG✨
Listen to this song on streaming services here - ffm.to/holdingoutforaheroepic.OYD
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✨CREDITS✨
Vocals - Meee and Alex
Instrumental - Darragh Chaplin - check out his music! open.spotify.com/artist/7d88Vm34cYnlxVXc89N4yU
Art - Mitchie de Ruiter - www.instagram.com/mitchyblue?igsh=MTcxeXNhZjM1OWll…
Inspired by Reinaeirys cover of Eat your Young - • Eat Your Young (Female Ver.) || Hozie...
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✨SOCIALS✨
PATREON - www.patreon.com/Lydiathebard
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✨END SCREEN CREDITS✨
End screen/ Channel art - instagram.com/tomorrows.problem?igshid=MzRlODBiNWF…
If you’d like to use this song in an animatic or art project go for it please do just credit and tag me! Please do not simply repost this video on YouTube, TikTok or any other social media.
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All Comments (21)
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Title should be ‘Holding out for a hero but Lydia got carried away with an idea at 3am and ran with it’ Stream this song here! ffm.to/holdingoutforaheroepic.OYD
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See this. This is how you get an undead vengeance paladin. "Even in death I needed a hero. And the only hero around was myself."
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Huh, very versatile song. Original: a lighthearted song about wanting a man. Shrek: the backdrop to a climatic action scene. This: a dramatic tragic end.
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I love that it makes this song sound like they are actually waiting for a hero to save them instead of just waiting for a man to sleep with.
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This brings us to the age old saying you either die a hero or live to see yoursellf become a villian
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Guy, calm down. This is a different flavour of epic. This one will make you sob.
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This makes me imagine fictional scenarios that make me sad
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The rough panting, the soaking blood dripping from the brow. Lingering memories of duty, of orders among the chaos of her mind. "72 hours... just hold out for 3 days." roaring over and over, for motivation? Desperation? No, survival. Clenching, a slippery grasp on the hilt of her steel. An unwavering horde bellowing forth. The ever dark night, a fortnight spent lost without light. The remaining time lost among the never rising sun. Brothers and Sister lost, only to rise up in arms once again under the beckoning everlasting night. The shattered steel of comrades strewn about, coated in glistening starlit crimson drool. The shambles and clanking of bones risen again. They claw, they scream... they eat.
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This could definitely be used in a musical, and Lydia’s character is the main one that dies in the last scene. And the “I need a hero”s after Alex’s line (until the last one) are sung by the narrator as we watch the dramatic death scene
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The sounds the way a lone soldier would feel in the middle of a seemingly pointless battle Trying to cling to hope Another great song Lydia! 💚
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I LOVE lydia videos so much because it is so obvious that in addition to being a beautiful singer, she is a storyteller. her videos are the perfect things to inspire others, they're like writing prompts with hauntingly angellic chords
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I didn't remember the Fairy Godmother to be this touching and sad...
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With the way the art is drawn it really looks as if she looks at us, the audience. Pleading to send someone with her dying breath, but we can do nothing but helplessly witness everything.
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Now imagine hearing reving motors and chainswords approaching menacingly and shouting "FOR OUR COMRADES, FOR THE EMPEROR!!!"
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*Orbit above Malevelon Creek* "This is Spartan Team Omega. If they want war, we'll give 'em war."
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I don't know how a cover can be more epic than the original, but I'm here for it Edit: I said this before it came out. The original and this are both epic but in different ways.
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It says something about the versatility of an original, when not one, not two, but THREE covers manage to live up to the original. (The other two covers are the medieval cover, and of course the one in Shrek 2). Lydia, you've done it again, amazing!
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Animatic Ideas go brrrr
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Very unique take to a song thats almost always been interpreted as one for helpless damsels in distress. This one sounded like an honorable final stand. A final hope, a final cry for survival. Truly grimdark.
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I did not expect to be on the verge of tears but here we are That so absolutely gorgeous!!!