So, if you want to find out what your own saviour song would be to help you escape Vecna's curse (of course you do!), head over to Spotify and search for the 'Upside Down' playlist – and the first song on the list will be your special jam.
Thanks to Spotify , you don't need to answer that question yourself. Spotify has created an Upside Down playlist for everyone to check out their No. 1 "savior song." Whatever song is at the top of your playlist is your "savior song." Find your Upside Down playlist here.
If you select a song, a pop-up of Vecna himself should appear on your Android or desktop and the progress bar will light up like a torch, taking listeners on a journey through the Upside Down.
Stranger Things' season 4 introduced the vicious Vecna, who kills people by infiltrating their minds and killing them from the inside. He can be stopped, however, if his victim listens to their favorite song.
During the episode, Nancy and Robin learn that music is the only thing that can save people from Vecna's wrath. This bit of information proves useful as the gang is able to fend of the upside down demon and save Max using her favorite song Kate Bush's 1985 hit "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)."
So, if you want to find out what your own saviour song would be to help you escape Vecna's curse (of course you do!), head over to Spotify and search for the 'Upside Down' playlist – and the first song on the list will be your special jam.
When beings from the Upside Down like Vecna or the Mind Flayer take control over Stranger Things' characters, music and happy memories have the power to snap them out of it and bring them back to reality in a similar manner due to these psychological connections.
There, Vecna taunts them, rejoicing in their heartache and sorrow, before killing them. Vecna's victims die in an agonizing way, lifted high into the air. Their every joint is twisted out of shape by Vecna's telekinesis, making for a horrific spectacle.
As Vecna, he uses these mental abilities as a way to psychologically weaken and lure in his victims – much in a way that Pennywise, Freddie Kruger, and Pinhead do. (All of which have been cited by show creators the Duffer brothers as inspirations for the villain.) But he does have a surprising weakness: music.
In the real world, he makes the victim levitate while in their trance, before snapping their bones and neck, and crushing their eyes. The murder site then becomes a small gate into the Upside Down, as part of a long term goal to apparently bleed both dimensions into one.
This can be accessed by searching for the “Upside Down Playlist” on Spotify. The list contains the 50 songs your friends should try in the likely event you're pulled into the Upside Down. The Spotify description reads: “Discover your personal playlist to help you escape from Vecna and the Upside Down.”
If you wait 11 seconds on the playlist's homepage (while on your mobile device), you'll be rewarded with a spooky surprise. After your first three visits, the Easter egg will appear every 11th visit to the playlist.
If Vecna has you in a trance, listening to your favorite song can help pull you out of it, as we saw when Vecna attacked Max only for her friends to pull her out his trance using the synth-tastic stylings of Kate Bush, specifically her 1985 hit “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God).”
If you're already logged into Spotify on your desktop or phone, the link will immediately take you to your playlist. The Upside Down playlist consists of 50 songs, combining some of your favourite and most played tracks with some of Stranger Things' most iconic bops.
At his empire's height, Vecna was betrayed and destroyed by his most trusted lieutenant, a vampire called Kas the Bloody-Handed, using a magical sword that Vecna himself had crafted for him, now known as the Sword of Kas.
Vecna was the original child studied by Dr. Brenner and the son of Victor Creel. He's the infamous Number One, but had his powers blocked and worked as an aide in the Hawkins National Lab.
As Vecna continued to go after young victims in order to open more portals, he set his sights on Max Mayfield, since she was investigating the deaths of Chrissy and another student named Fred Benson with help from her friends (including Dustin, Steve, and her boyfriend Lucas).
And while his usual modus operandi is to embody his victims' negative self-talk (another very real psychological phenomenon), this time he is telling Nancy his plans and then releasing her so she can report back to everybody—Eleven included—that the end is nigh, with the goal of discouraging and disempowering them.
In the visions of her trauma induced by Vecna, Chrissy's mother appeared both mentally and emotionally abusive towards her daughter - and it's implied her comments about Chrissy's figure caused her daughter to develop her eating disorder.
Together, their powers combined are the exact powers of 001/Henry. Fans are now theorising that the powers of both 011 and 008, who have the combined power of 001, is what is needed to finally match and defeat Vecna. To put it simply, 011 + 008 + [with the combined power of] 001 = 020, a.k.a. Erica's critical hit.
He is terrifying because he has access to secrets and the guilt that accompanies those secrets. Vecna's use of his victims' guilty conscious to terrorize his prey is an obvious tool in his arsenal.
In anticipation of Stranger Things season 4's return, Spotify is finally allowing users to find their song to defeat Vecna similar to Max. As Vecna makes his way back to the screen, Spotify is letting you find your song to defeat the Stranger Things season 4 villain.