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Publication date of the original Japanese article<\/a>: 2021-05-17 17:37 (JST)
Translated by. Ari Clark<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


On May 16, Square Enix broadcast a special live performance by their official band, THE PRIMALS, during the Final Fantasy XIV Digital Fan Festival 2021 digital event. Of all the songs they sang live, including new songs added for the Shadowbringers <\/em>expansion and other songs from the franchise, there was one particular song performance that really got the playerbase talking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The dance performance that caused such a stir was done by four members of the game staff, who appeared onstage wearing t-shirts during the broadcast of the song \u201cA Long Fall (The Twinning)\u201d. The dance they performed has actually been making the rounds for some time now as a beloved internet meme that has transcended international borders among players of FFXIV<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The song \u201cA Long Fall\u201d plays as background music while traveling through an instanced dungeon called The Twinning, which was added as part of the Shadowbringers <\/em>expansion. It particularly excels as an exquisite arrangement of previous BGM from FFXIV<\/em>, functioning like a tour through the history of the game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was first unveiled in a Job Actions video for Shadowbringers. <\/em>At the time of the Job Actions video\u2019s release, it was still unclear whether this song would be used as BGM somewhere in the game, but it still received a lot of breathless praise online, with fans saying things like, \u201cIt\u2019s like a medley, that\u2019s so cool!\u201d \u201cWhat a cool callback, it really hypes me up!\u201d and \u201cThe BGM is too good, I can\u2019t focus on the content!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, soon after the release of Shadowbringers, <\/em>posts started popping up on Twitter and elsewhere from players who\u2019d found themselves instinctively fired up by the BGM when they actually heard it for themselves in-game. At first, the song merely showed up here and there as BGM in various online meme videos, but it reached full-blown viral meme status after a particular player posted a video called twinning.mp4 that went viral.
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