This song is a reference to the Portal game franchise by Valve. In the game, the player is a woman who had been cryogenically sleeping in a deserted test laboratory ("I don't know much about your life beyond these walls,
the fleeting sense of love within these God-forsaken halls") and is suddenly woken up ("This girl who's slept a hundred years has something after all") by the lab's artificial intelligence system - GlaDOS - which has a female voice ("since you've awakened her again"). Later it is revealed that GlaDOS killed all the scientists in the lab ("Who survived? Somebody new? Anyone else but you?"). The song's name "Sad Machine" refers to GlaDOS.
The first line ("Is anyone there?") is famously repeated by the game's security drones. Also, the girly robotic voice that says it sounds very much like the voice of said drones.
@Kelvets It really is a direct reference to GLaDOS? I always made the connection in my mind, but I didn't think it was deliberate. In his commentary album, Porter doesn't mention GLaDOS to my knowledge, but he does say something about human/robot love. So maybe the song wasn't written specifically to be GLaDOS, but either way, it describes her pretty dang well!
@Kelvets It really is a direct reference to GLaDOS? I always made the connection in my mind, but I didn't think it was deliberate. In his commentary album, Porter doesn't mention GLaDOS to my knowledge, but he does say something about human/robot love. So maybe the song wasn't written specifically to be GLaDOS, but either way, it describes her pretty dang well!
This song is a reference to the Portal game franchise by Valve. In the game, the player is a woman who had been cryogenically sleeping in a deserted test laboratory ("I don't know much about your life beyond these walls, the fleeting sense of love within these God-forsaken halls") and is suddenly woken up ("This girl who's slept a hundred years has something after all") by the lab's artificial intelligence system - GlaDOS - which has a female voice ("since you've awakened her again"). Later it is revealed that GlaDOS killed all the scientists in the lab ("Who survived? Somebody new? Anyone else but you?"). The song's name "Sad Machine" refers to GlaDOS.
The first line ("Is anyone there?") is famously repeated by the game's security drones. Also, the girly robotic voice that says it sounds very much like the voice of said drones.
@Kelvets It really is a direct reference to GLaDOS? I always made the connection in my mind, but I didn't think it was deliberate. In his commentary album, Porter doesn't mention GLaDOS to my knowledge, but he does say something about human/robot love. So maybe the song wasn't written specifically to be GLaDOS, but either way, it describes her pretty dang well!
@Kelvets It really is a direct reference to GLaDOS? I always made the connection in my mind, but I didn't think it was deliberate. In his commentary album, Porter doesn't mention GLaDOS to my knowledge, but he does say something about human/robot love. So maybe the song wasn't written specifically to be GLaDOS, but either way, it describes her pretty dang well!