An emote has been released by Epic Games in Fortnite with Avicii’s worldwide smash of 2013, “Wake Me Up,” and the reactions have been very mixed. Some have been very thrilled; some have been trashing it; some cannot even come to an agreement about who holds the rights to Avicii’s music nowadays. The emote is priced at 500 V-Bucks and is said to belong to the “Keep it Wild” set, but not everyone feels that vibe.
As for the song itself, Wake Me Up was the biggest thing in 2013. I.e., It was everywhere- clubs, radio, loudspeakers in the park during your cousin’s graduation party. So, when it was announced that the song would be put in Fortnite as an emote, the people should have been excited. Well, bad luck; there was a messy outburst of comments instead. Somebody just bluntly commented @DarkPulse28: “This song was so good in 2013 your mom and dad was probably fuc…ing to this song.” That is pretty harsh! Accurate but harsh!
A few adjectives would have been nice if they were true to the song, but most of them lament in this emotional discourse about how the dance should not go with the song. Really, intune dance is a recurring problem with Fortnite icon emotes. @Ham0Ween tweeted, “Can they like actually take their time making these dances? The last 5-10 emotes have songs that do not go with the songs at all LMAO.” @dioxide_39 added, “I think Epic is actually allergic to making icon emotes where the dance actually goes with the song.” That stings.
But a few just went crazy for it. @Fizzy_uwu commented, “IM SO FREAKING HAPPY!!!!! ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS EVER 🥹💖💖💖💖💖 WE WON.” @caimanamiac posted his own glistening “instant cop!! RIP Avicii 🖤🖤.” For many, this isn’t another kind of emote. It is a portal to the nostalgic time when days were simpler.
Then the legal squabble. Once again, @DarkPulse28 jumps in the thread to ask, “I wonder who own the right to Avicii because he die in 2018.” A very valid question indeed. Avicii (real name Tim Bergling) died in 2018, and since then, his music has been managed by his estate. So yeah, somebody is going to make money from this emote; probably not Avicii himself.
Each of the other riots that are so fundamental to Fortnite followed forth. @tayo67_ screamed into the void, “NOOOOOOOOOOOOO I JUST BOUGHT A EMOTE💀 PLEASE SOMEONE GIFT ME!” Which was followed by @officialwolvezz: “Good song bad emote.” Classic. That lot is never dull.
So… verdict? If all that matters is nostalgia, and you could have the dance not quite cut on the beat, then it’s for you. If you’re all about results that match perfectly… Well, maybe pass on spending your V-Bucks for this. In any case, it has certainly been able to get everybody talking with this one, and that is so Fortnite. And just like that, who wants to swamp themselves with the next drama wave when Epic throws an unexpected one at them?
