Don't Lose Your Way Goes with Everything

About

Don’t Lose Your Way Goes with Everything is a series of YouTube Poop videos that play any footage with a segment of “Before My Body is Dry”^[1] in the background, a popular song from anime Kill la Kill^[2], where the line “Don’t lose your way” is sung. It is done in a similar fashion to Guile’s Theme Goes with Everything, making the footage to appear greatly more epic^[3].

Origin

The first known mashup video using the song was posted by a YouTuber Stalker Humanoid^[4] titled “Kill la Eddie” on January 5th, 2014. The video contains a scene from television crime drama series Miami Vice^[5] in which Eddie gets shot with a shotgun while “Don’t lose your way” segment plays in the background, parodying how the song is used in Kill la Kill. On January 7th, a redditor defearl^[6] posted a link to the video on Kill la Kill subreddit^[7], coining and popularizing the phrase “Don’t Lose Your Way Goes with Everything” among the anime community.

Spread

Following defearl’s thread, many redditors on Kill la Kill and anime subreddits began creating and posting similar videos, stating “it really does go with everything”. The used footage range from television shows and other anime to video game clips.

Notable Examples

External References

^[1]YouTube – Before My Body is Dry Preview

^[2]Wikipedia – Kill la Kill

^[3]TV Tropes – Soundtrack Dissonance

^[4]YouTube – Stalker Humanoid’s Channel

^[5]Wikipedia – Miami Vice

^[6]Reddit – defearl

^[7]Reddit – Original Thread