“If the future never happened, would you ever believe?” Fucking chills. Back then many of us consumed you like an object. Too young to understand or know what the industry could to do a young person. This record is brilliant. Thank you 🙏🏼
"To understand how you grew up, you have to go back" When I first heard Freak, it blew my mind and I won't find a better one and now listening to this version of Freak I realize how much Daniel has grown creatively. His music is too brilliant for our time. And phrase "Boy's a Freak" fully confirms it. Daniel, big respect and thanks for your music!
I agree Lucy. We need to acknowledge ans mourne what was lost. Burying it, well it just comes alive and bites you. Acknowledge and process and then get to a point where you have no regrets and realise everything was mean to be just as it is. Then you truly start to live. I've been free and living like this since December 23rd 2019. It feels amazing.
From a freak to other: Just a freak of nature could do such a masterpiece 💜 Only you to transmute pain in beauty. That's not strange at all that I thought, back in my teens, you were my soulmate (me and other millions of girls around the globe). I realated to you in making poetry out of pain. Gratitude for this present, Dan 🙏
Really haunting version. I love it so much but it also makes me sad too. People were very cruel to you. But for what it's worth, you were never a freak to me Daniel, and over 25 years later, you're still the best ever. Forever my favourite. The new album is beyond words, truly out of this world. 🔥
this is amazing...it's as if you were seeing reality (or freak) being slowly disintegrate...like swallowed by a vortex or a black hole...you recognize the things, the music, even tho it sounds wrong. Literally a "deconstructed" version of freak. it's just, gorgeous
Dear Daniel, thank you for being my hero... you started in rock n roll, but everyone in the world can hear that you are more than rock... when you starting exploring how to write for musicals and mix story with music I'll bet you didn't expect that life would have to make a hero out of you first. As an Australian muso, I have felt the pain that floods towards someone who works to inspire others. It is like a game of rugby in which there is only you on the team and the whole world is on the other team. This song and this album, is basically a testimony that even though you were grossly outnumbered in this game... you got to the other side and got a goal. I can join you in the sadness of there being less people to celebrate. The world is filled with cold and hurt people - but they needed you. That's why you had to come. If this album is the last goal you ever get in this weird sport, it would be enough for me... It has given me strength to try again. I also turned away from rock and set my eyes on musicals... and I learned the hard way that a story doesn't work unless it has a hero. I can't just write my story. But YOU... as far as I can see... are a hero. Thank you for being my hero, the hero of many musicians, the hero of many suffering, the hero of Australians, even the hero of the planet. Nobody can tell the truth like Australians, and you are sharing more hard truths than anyone... you're amazing... if your soul decides to stick around to try and kick another goal, I think that goal should be an Australian Musical... Because "Matilda" was okay, but Tim Minchin isn't really Australian. He's British in disguise... so even though he's an idol, he put a few too many long English words into our "Australian" Broadway musical... You on the other hand, can speak the language of music. You could orchestrate the sound of the universe cheering and the whole world would understand. That score would be the most beautiful thing ever left behind by a human. Especially at this time when humanity is being dunked into an age of digital weirdness. Your music, your story, your connection to the universe would leave a solid mark... for a long long time. Sending calm vibes to you. PS. Did you ever try 10 days Vipassana? It's hell... but those who face it... get to calm. Take care
Happy birthday daniel ✌️❤️🎂 thankyou for the new album it's amazing and thankyou for your talent. I wish you all the best with your life and strugles. I quit drinking 13 years ago it's was the hardest thing ever but it's not impossible I know that you can do it. I also have anxiety and depression and drinking always made that worse for me. I also quit the cigs. stay sober and never give up on your music and life.
Mental health is the struggle that needs to be the focus of his recovery. The alcohol is used as a coping mechanism. I don't preach to be a no it all. But I'm unfortunately a heroin, cocaine, ice addict, Xanax, valium. Though I have 5 years soberiety in July this year. I'm always labled with the stigma of being an addict. It's hard, it's very hard.
Certamente ele não vai desistir, Daniel é um sobrevivente! Ele se reinventou para continuar nos presenteando com seu talento! Vida longa a Daniel Jhons!
I was not sure what to expect from another Freak song, but this is overwhelming. Best Freak version ever! It's just amazing!!! Music and lyrics nailed it and the childrens singing makes it perfect. Be proud🙏♥️ wish you peace
My God. 😭💔 This is the saddest, most haunting song I've ever heard. My heart just breaks for Daniel all over again! I hope this album helped heal some of those deep wounds Dan. 😭 You never deserved what the industry did to you... No one does! 💔
Bruhhhh.. to come full circle in this way and reinterpret this iconic song.. I'm so glad you've evolved in the way you have and stayed true to your artistic integrity. inspired forever
I love this SO freaking much! I'll never forget "performing" Freak in front of my class. Daniel made me feel like I belonged to something bigger than myself. I wasn't like "them" but if the boy is a freak I want to be one too
A force of nature to be reckoned with. You're absolutely brilliant Daniel. I'm so grateful that you continue to share your fantastic talent with us all. Lots of love and light your way, Mr. Genius! 🇧🇷♥️
This new version of the song Freak is a genius idea! The whole idea of having a choir of children singing the original lyrics as a chant at the beginning and at the end, like they were playing around a bonfire while holding hands, and the fact that a eleven years old girl is singing the song is brilliant, because these children symbolize innocence and this song is like a funeral to the innocence of Daniel's childhood. The modifications in the lyrics are also brilliant, because they perfectly tell his story, what happened and what could have happened, even worse. The lines “and if the FutureNever happened/would you ever believe?”, “if only the world wasn't cruel to you” and “what if the FutureNever came/and the boy didn't want to go?”, really hits you in the feelings. The way he also appears in the song using the vocoder is like he came from the future to leave the question “What if the FutureNever happened?” in the air, like what could have happened if something had been different. His life could had been better or not? I also love the way that Daniel´s backing vocals in key moments of the song merge with purplegirl´s voice. I get the feeling that the song ends with the dead of Daniel´s innocence, but with the dead of it something is now ready to be unleashed. Someone that was someday a innocent, not a “freak”, now embraced it, and the Freak is born. Then we have the version FR22K, when this happens. Being a “freak” isn´t now seen in a negative way, but like a superpower, ready to be unleashed if provoked. I feel that the loud drumming when the Freak symbol in its original colour appears, preceded by a really loud guitar that seems that is going to last, but then disappears, is like a announcement that something is near to be released, but that doesn´t happen yet in this version. It only happens in the FR22K version. Then it ends again with the chant of the children, playing around a bonfire while holding hands. After all this, i can´t help but think that this version is like a ritual. I heard the two new versions of the song Freak together and this is now my interpretation. I think that something like this may happen in the featurette, after the scene in wich “young Daniel” was beaten. That can cause something inside of him “to breake” and then the Freak is unleashed, with superpowers. I also get the feeling that the Daniel from the FutureNever will avoid that something really bad happens to the Daniel from the past in the scene that he is seated on the cliff. I also love the detail in the brackground artwork! Only in this lyric video the blue light that symbolizes FreakNever is missing and instead of that we have white, symbolizing that the Freak hasn´t been released yet. I must also say that purplegirl has a beautiful voice, full of emotions. I think that she will make great things in the future, but only at the right time and only if she wants it.
I think 'Talk' is a better album overall (at least I like it more than FN at the moment) but this song has to be one of the best pieces of music he's ever recorded. I hope he finds happiness someday, any person with a good heart deserves it.
This is a classic. I keep coming back to it to see if am over it. I never am. It has so much in it. Daniel gives all of himself with such brilliant musical sensitivity n depth n color n passion n life n love n devoted musical commitment with every single second he plays creates performs. OMG so grateful he is an Australian. New album f en greeeaaaat!!! Such intelligence w music. Blows me away. Love it craaazy!!!
Wow it’s been 25 years since Freak was released what an phenomenal way to celebrate and also vent out so much more frustration 25 years later through a collaboration with another artist helping u to find some sort of healing, the world truly has been deeply cruel to Dan and he has always been a tortured artist which is totally (insert the proper word here we finally come up with in the futurenever to appropriately name this specific tragedy)
I really hope revisiting this classic has been completely therapeutic for Dan. I only heard truths in these lyrics, beautiful work, touching! F R E A K N E V E R ❤️
I think this is my fave song on the album :) I've always been an outsider, the odd one out, the one always picked last for teams, the one who is picked on, so the original 'Freak' always resinated with me. This version, is almost like a cocoon for me. A quiet place that I can reflect on the past, before I evolve and emerge into the FutureNever....
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9x2cbPG4aK4.html I do this remix for aerial love, a lot of years ago for the competition, but I never uploaded, because, i feel a little i secure in that moment, I hope you can hear it someday, greetings with love.
The Lyrical changes on this. Musical changes on this... Two of the best "remakes" I've ever heard. I am guessing I know why the lyrical changes exist, and what they were in the first place, but I'm not going to commentate on them. It's incredible, though. Purplegirl did a fantastic job too. Love it.
holy nfvueuwinweip. Thank you for this. Daniel, hope you find ways to heal. I've grown up with Silverchair pretty much as a soundtrack through my own (quite different) journey. It is beautiful, scary and confronting to see and hear you reflect on Silverchair. Thank you. you're a beautiful human being.
