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Still Alive
"Still Alive" is a song featured in the 2007 video game ''Portal''. It was composed and arranged by Jonathan Coulton and was performed by Ellen McLain, while portraying the ''Portal'' character GLaDOS. The song originated in a meeting between two Valve developers and Coulton about him writing a song for the company, which Coulton accepted as he was a fan of the ''Half-Life'' series. It is the end credits song, and plays after GLaDOS is defeated by Chell (the game's protagonist and player character), with the lyrics suggesting that she (GLaDOS) is "still alive". The song received significant praise for its humour and the quality of its performance. It has been featured in multiple venues, including at the 2009 Press Start -Symphony of Games-, a yearly Japanese concert event to showcase the musical works of video games. It was also featured as a free downloadable song for the ''Rock Band'' series, originally released on April 1, 2008. A rerecorded version, with Sara Quin on lead vocals, appears on Coulton's 2011 album ''Artificial Heart''. The sequel to ''Portal'', ''Portal 2'', also ended with a song written by Coulton and sung by McLain called "Want You Gone".
==History and recording==
The song "Still Alive" was written by Jonathan Coulton and performed by Ellen McLain for the ''Portal'' video game. McLain also provides the voice for GLaDOS, an artificial intelligence for the fictional Aperture Science Enrichment Center and the game's antagonist. "Still Alive" is sung from the perspective of GLaDOS and used as the song that runs over the game's credits. By the end of the game, Chell, the game's protagonist who has been misled and placed in life-threatening situations within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center, the setting of the game, by GLaDOS, will have finally encountered and defeated GLaDOS. However, the song and portions of post-credit scenes suggests that GLaDOS is still functional, and despite having been apparently destroyed by Chell, is "not even angry" at that prospect, having considered the monitoring of Chell's performance through the test chambers as a "huge success", regardless of the destruction caused by Chell and the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device being released into the outside world, for those that are "still alive". The Combine invasion of Earth from the ''Half-Life'' series was also hinted in the song by GLaDOS ("Go ahead and leave me, I think I'd prefer to stay inside. Maybe you'll find someone else to help you. Maybe Black Mesa. That was a joke. Ha Ha. Fat Chance."). The song itself is also present as a samba instrumental version through in-game radios at certain points within the game.
Coulton got involved with Valve after two developers approached him following a concert in Seattle, Washington. They asked him if he would like to write music for the company, and because he was a fan of ''Half-Life'', he immediately accepted. After discussing what they should do, he and the developers settled on working on ''Portal''. By this point, a few months before the release of ''The Orange Box'', Valve's writers had created a large amount of backstory for GLaDOS and other aspects of ''Portal'', which Coulton was able to use to write the lyrics. The overall process to complete the song took about six weeks.〔 Coulton stated that GLaDOS's passive-aggressive nature, which he shared, made it difficult to get her voice out of his head. When asked why more video games don't end in song, Coulton stated that while movies have been well used to convey story, "we're still learning how to do it in games". However, as the player has grown accustomed to GLaDOS by the end of the game, her singing is something that "feels almost natural". The song's title suggests that GLaDOS is "still alive" after the events of ''Portal''. Kim Swift explained that they chose to play this song during the ending so that players would leave the game happy.
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