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If you’re curious about how this came about, we were discussing the 3rd anniversary piece (which will come out on Dec 9th this year) and then we realized “wait we never did a year 1 piece” so we agreed to sit down real quick and do one! This is the rough sketch of it (image 2 is our year 2 piece and third image is our reference)

what to expect?

- artists: Weeknd, Gaga, Billie, James, Karol, and Snoop (with a reference to Juice Wrld)

- stage: the season 1 Weeknd stage

- auras WILL be included

Will be posted here when it’s done!

As I’ve said in previous posts the idea we were going for with Cupid was a young and fine as shit look. During the rough sketch he ended up becoming one of the artists favorite designs, so ofc when they wanted to do action art tests they instantly picked him lol

artist note as well for this piece is: “the song on the radio is Heartless by Weeknd”

I’ll also chuck in a fun fact, this was NOT the original design idea for Cupid. He was originally gonna just have a button down with a chain. However when the artist read his scenes he changed it to a turtle neck, with an overcoat, and a chain. After one sketch with it everyone loved it so much we never went back

Before the trailer the Tetris channel had only 423 subs, however since Fortnite co-posted the trailer it grew by whopping 100+% percent😭

I’ve been seeing a good amount of people say “how dare they remove Creed’s name” or “that’s just scummy” in regards to how a bit ago they had to repost the week and remove the name from the files. However that is not Epic’s call they HAD to remove it or they could’ve been sued

this version of the song by Atliens is not made in collaboration with Creed, Creed owns no part of this song, and Creed would not have been contacted for the rights in this case. This remix is purely owned by Atliens and their label

Creed did not give permission for this song’s addition, nor did they give use of their name in Fortnite. If Fortnite would’ve kept the name in they would’ve been opened to be sued by Creed‘s label for stealing the IP

it was most def a mistake that they were included originally and they removed it because they didn’t want a lawsuit. They didn’t do it as an F u to the band or something

So if you didn’t know Ed earlier this year took an interview, he was asked about Fortnite and confirmed he was offered a skin by Epic however he denied it due to him not really feeling like Fortnite fit his image. Power to him, and at least he has allowed his song as tracks and emotes, however by following some details he gave, it’s likely he was intended to be one of our first headliners

whilst not giving any specific date/year he was offered, he actually said due to him rejecting Fortnite, it lead to “Celestial“. A song he made for Gamefreak in September 2022, that was used in the end credits for Pokemon Scarlet/Violet. Assuming he had to have a few months to create and have the song approved, this means the latest he could’ve been offered Fortnite was mid 2022

From what we know a collab takes roughly takes 9-12 months to fully make, and the year 1 headliners were licensed far before. What’s also interesting to note is that Ch4 had 0 music artists added (likely due to all licensing being Festival focused at that point). Which means a few things: he couldn’t have been intended for the rest of Ch3 (too short to make), likely wasn’t intended for Ch4 (why release a music artist right before you drop Festival), and there’s no way he could’ve been just shop (didn’t become a concept till S6).

With all that it means Ed Sheeran was likely intended to be licensed for 1 of 2 things.

1- The original reveal artists (instead of Eminem)

or

2- One of the original 6 headliners

Now yes while this is technically speculation and unless Ed Gives more details of what Epic offered him we will never really know. However it seems very likely considering how the timeline he gave would’ve had to go

My personal thoughts: he was the original Season 2 instead of Gaga. I guess this for 2 reasons:

1- Lady Gaga was the only of the original 3 headliners not tied to advertising in some way (Weeknd had a music video and Billie had a new album)

2- Shivers by him released during Season 2

Thoughts?

I think everyone knows “Die With A Smile” that he made with Lady Gaga, that put him among other headliners who have worked with another artist that headlined Festival. However yesterday that changed (update: I forgot he worked with Snoop, so he’s worked with 3 all together)

Karol G dropped her new album, which included the song “Still” which is made in heavy collaboration with Bruno. With the release of that song he has become the first headliner to have worked with 2 other artists that headlined

this means you can run a full squad of headliners that have worked with Bruno. Bruno, Snoop, Karol G, and Lady Gaga