dodie - Human 

One of the best things about Dodie's music is how the lyrics can change meaning over time. I feel like when this was written it was about being excited to get to know someone, feeling drawn towards them and wanting to unpick their brain. Now it feels like the message has changed to the dangers of the human condition- wanting to be loved so bad that we fall in love with the idea of someone, and not who they truly are. We fill the gaps in our lives with manifestations of who we need other people to be.

Jon Cozart flashback. Great song.

This is so detailed. I love how ‘his’ voice isn’t harmonising with hers, it’s like a shadow, it’s just an exact mirror of how she sings. He doesn’t have any original thoughts. Even tiny vocal flourishes are exactly the same as hers. He doesn’t have anything she didn’t give him. And she’s gazing at him with all that love, waiting for him to respond to her meaningfully, and she’s so disappointed that he doesn’t. But when she leaves him in the attic, he turns to watch her go, but she doesn’t turn back in time to see it. I love watching this. The worldbuilding is so rich and the song is so beautiful that I can’t get tired of it.

Anyone else notice how Tom is singing even when the boy isn’t talking, almost as if she’s thinking his words do him? Idk just an idea.

i think this is about someone that’s fallen in love so deeply with someone that doesn’t love them back that they’ve made their own kind of fantasy for that person.

This feeling of innocent optimism with an underlying feeling of desperation... damn. Dodie you kill me every time ❤️❤️❤️😭😭

Human - I'm so human Monster - I guess I'm human no more

Computer: Confirm you're not a robot Dodie: Im. So. Human

I love when dodies music videos take a perfectly good love song and makes it unsettling and dark. 10/10

is it just me who got toy story vibes when she’s painting that eye ?

i love how dodie's songs can have a thousand very different meanings

1:37 totally acceptable reaction to being kissed by dodie

This reminds me of an idealized relationship. Like loving the idea of being in a relationship but not it in itself. You think you’re happy, but it’s just sort of empty. I always used to think this was a love song, and now it makes so much more sense. Almost like thinking you’re in love but you’re really not. I've had an experience like this a few years back, so watching the video really struck a chord. But seriously, this is absolute art.

I find it hard to believe that the same Dodie and Hazel goofing around and facepainting are the same people who created this amazing art.

Ever since Hazel pointed it out on the behind the scenes video, I can't get over the seemingly continuous deep breath across two shots at 2:20. Dodie does breath along to the swells of the music and it's all too perfect

Me at the beginning: Oh this is kind creepy, kinda cute Me at the middle: Oh no he doesn't, oh no it's sad Me at the end: Oh no wait it's creepy again.

the last scene gave me chills ohmygod!!! it's got such a beautiful meaning, even though she was trying to build herself someone perfect, there is no such thing like perfection, we're all just *humans*

it's moments like this when i think of "pasta is good life is SAD". and i couldn't be prouder.

Okay, so it looks like people are taking this music video poetically, which is way cool. I took it rather literally. To me it looks like some girl is unable to find the companionship she wants among real people (either because she's just a bit demented or because of a post-apocalyptic scenario) and she has convinced herself to create the companion instead. She has the power to do so, driving herself mad by being able to create everything about a companion except companionship, making me horrified both by her and for her. It's very ray bradbury to me and I love it. It has a flavor from the episode of the Twilight Zone called "the lonely" where a man is banished to a planet alone, but has been granted a robot woman companion, and convinces himself that she is a real person.

It’s kinda weird how this song feels like how I find relationships. I’ve never been in one but I’ve always liked the idea of being in one. So I think of the first person I see, convince myself I have a crush on them and my “feelings” run wild. But since I really don’t have a good grasp on reality it takes me a couple months, even years to realize it was all lies. One time I ended up hurting someone because of it. I feel awful that this happens and I can’t tell when I actually have feelings for someone or if I just imagine that I have feelings for someone. .....But oh well.

Thank you for all the kind comments, folks! I couldn’t be prouder of Dodie for writing this masterpiece and I couldn’t have chosen a better video to direct for her. Everything just seemed to fit so perfectly and I’m honestly honoured to have had the chance to work on this project with such an incredible team 🖤

ok but the fact that the sculpture never actually looks at dodie until the end makes me so sad?? like he looks in her direction but never at her until he's being abandoned, and she doesn't even notice when he does. ughggh i love this so much

Being asexual, I always projected this song to be about someone ace trying to find a relationship in this overly sexualised world. I always knew the song isn’t actually about that, but the lyrics fit surprisingly well and it has vibes I can relate to a lot.

I wanna pick you up and scoop you out I want the secrets your secrets haven't found Paint me in trust I'll be your best friend Call me the one This night just can't end Oh Will you share your soul with me? Unzip your skin and let me have a see Paint me in trust I'll be your best friend Call me the one This night just can't end Oh Oh, I'm so human We're just human Lean for me, and I'll fall back You'll fit so nicely, you'll keep me intact Paint me in trust I'll be your best friend Call me the one This night just can't end Oh I want to give you your grin So tell me you can't bear a room that I'm not in Paint me in trust I'll be your best friend Call me the one This night just can't end Oh Oh, I'm so human We're just human

THE LAST SHOT GAH 👏🏻💚

now I can die in peace💖

SHE. IS. UNDERATTED

After watching the new Venom movie the phrase ‘unzip your skin and let me have a see’ has a WHOLE new meaning

THE END WHEN HE TURNS TO LOOK AT HER BUT SHE DOESN'T KNOW THAT BC SHE'S TURNED AWAY AND NOT LOOKING AT HIM SO HE STOPS LOOKING AT HER AND SHE LEAVES HIM BEHIND GOD THIS CONCEPT IS BEAUTIFUL it's VERY pygmalion-esque and gorgeous

SOOOOO PROUD to be a part of this truly beautiful song. Massive congratulations to the amazingly talented and lovely dodie. I absolutely adore this tune.

AAAAHHHHH I just realized that my favorite Dodie song was remade on her EP! (will always love the simple acoustic version with Jon Cozart too though)

Thiswas my favorite love song. My ex's favorite song was PERFECT MACHINE by Starset. Recently I noticed how beautifully complementary those songs are if you consider them as the perspectives of each partner in a toxic relationship and I can't stop thinking about it. (I'll use him and her because that's the singer's pronouns and it's simpler to write ok, I'm not even straight.) One starts with "I wanna pick you up and scoop you out , I want the secrets your secrets haven't found", while the other starts with "Show me your insides, show me your secrets, show me what you desire, I can fake it" So you have this idea of her to figure him out organically, this craving for intimacy and being true to one another, while he wants to artificially shape the situation into what she'd like it to be through means that don't involve any vulnerability on his side. 'Paint me in trust, I'll be your best friend'' "I didn't want you, I wanna watch you change from a butterfly and into chains", how differently they see each other, how they want something entirely different from that relationship, how unilateral it is. "Lean for me and I'll fall back, you'll fit so nicely you'll keep me intact" and "Lay your heart into my perfect machine, I will show you what you wanted to see" as if she'll desperately hold on to whoever she finds and he agreed to play that role. Like she's searching for words of comfort and he'll just say whatever she wants to hear, not even knowing if he means it, leading to a toxically codependant situation. "Unzip your skin and let me have a see" and "I will never let you see what's beneath", again, vulnerability. He doesn't want anyone to get too close and that's the one thing she wants the most, the one thing he won't give her. "I want to give you your grin, so tell me you can't bear a room that I'm not in, call me the one, this night just can't end" and "Even you know this was all for nothing, just a sad show, just an ego, I suppose though, as far as I know we were both pretending, I suppose so, but what do I know" as if to say, "this meant everything to me", "We both know that's a lie". "I loved you", "No, you didn't. You loved the idea we made of me in your head." Like she wrote herself a fairy tale and cast him in the main role, and wasn't he the best actor in town? The very opposition of "I'm so human, we're just human" and the perfect machine, and how the music itself expresses it, how dodie's voice is so soft and organic while Dustin's so sharp and clear, and don't even get me started on how beautifully harmonized each element on those songs are and how they reflect all of this. _Just the vibes bro,, the vibes._ Given the difference in style, I'm probably the only one who noticed, so I had to share. I could go on, but to sum it up, I'm really glad I got out of that relationship.

She looks like a Disney princess aww this video is beautiful

I love everything about this video. It’s the most pure and emotional representation of my biggest struggle as an enneagram 4- making up who people are in my head before even getting to know someone. It’s a struggle to meet someone and involuntarily mold and shape him to be who I want him to be, regardless of whether he’s even close. It makes relationships impossible because it’s comfortable to live in fantasy. Just thank you dodie, thank you.

I love the line "im so human"to me its saying "im so flawed..but im still worthy"

The myth/ story about the Greek sculptor Pygmalion who fell in love with the female statue he made ...

Freaking superb you funky little musician

From 2:20 to 2:45 are my absolute favorite moments of the video. The way Dodie lined up her breathing with the swells of the cello and violin. It's such a fine detail that made a huge difference to me. Then when she gets to "I'm so human" again in the minor key, I always get chills. The way her face says all we need to know about how the relationship is going. She knows it's not what she wanted nor what she could ever learn to love but she doesn't want to admit to it quite yet. 25 seconds of absolute beauty. Damn

The song and the way Hazel directed this video fits so well together. Props to everyone who worked on this

black mirror in under 4 minutes, I loved it.

Reminds me of the episode of black mirror where the woman brings back her dead husband but it just isn’t the same

This is my song for my dog. Every day since his cancer diagnosis he gets nearer to his night that "just can't end." He's been my best friend, kept me in tact, and seen me completely unzipped but still trusted me. He has taught me more about what it is to be human than anyone I've ever known.

dodie’s music is watercolour painting on a raining day and tea and shortbread with a friend and the sun coming out from behind clouds. it’s walking on a warm fall morning under the red and orange and yellow trees and it’s sleeping in in a bed that smells like lavender and lemongrass and it’s a sunny spring morning in the countryside.

this is so beautiful and sweet but also so lonely and empty at the same time

Was it ever explained what happened to her and Jon's friendship

their voices go sooooooooooo well together and i love howthey arent trying to harmonise its jsut a perfect little match

*wig has left the chatroom*

Aw. This used to be a duet with Jon Cozart.

When you're so lonely you BUILD a boyfriend. *MOOD* I love dodie ❤️

i’m just now realizing how much the boy & dodie’s body language mirrors that of jon and dodie in the original video. even down to the boy finally looking back at her in the end. it’s incredible.

Is this an episode of black mirror? Seriously though how AMAZING is this 👏🏼

did this make anyone else think of the way the "IS THAT ALLOWED" vine was exposed and it was a mannequin??

You can make a person from scraps, but no matter what you do, you can't make them love you.

I can't stop coming back to this song. A masterpiece lyrically, melodically. Even the video is a true artwork and I absolutely love every inch of this song.

This reminds me of that Black Mirror episode where the woman buys/makes her husband perfectly in a robot form after he died. Hauntingly beautiful

I loved this. The idea that she was building someone immaculate; someone idealistic. Hoping that he would be the one. How she learnt that we’re human. Perfection cannot be defined. This is so beautiful. Hazel, you did amazing. But Dodie, you too. This song pours emotions out. But well done to everyone who pitched in. The end result of this music video is wonderful.

The emotional rollercoaster of a Pixar movie condensed into a 3 minute song

Oh my god. Dodie, this is an amazing song. It has so much meaning behind the catchy lyrics and tune, and it made me cry. Love you Dodie

I love how dodies music videos range from beautiful to mildly disturbing. It exactly my aesthetic

perfectly represents what it's like to fall in love with the idea of someone

the transition at 2:19 with the inhale is amazing

I feel so safe with Dodie's music, like being in my mum's arms💛🧡💙

*EVERYBODY GIVE IT UP FOR HAAAAZEL HAAAYEEES* **cheerings and love yous**

Who put onion juice into my eyes

Can I just say, the gradual realisation that who she has imagined for herself will never be true is so beautifully visualised, it gives me chills. Amazing ideas (letting go of his hand and his still being moulded into place) and gorgeous acting, agh.

Oof I'm a girl and I have a huge crush on this other girl. I am lucky enough to be her friend (she's a famous cosplayer and I'm a semi-sorta-famous cosplayer). I liked her when I first started following her, but I thought I'd never be noticed. Then once became friends, all I could do was daydream. Now we have several other friends and talking to her through group video calls makes me want to love her even more. I also found out that she's gay, and my age. That should sound great, and while it is, I know nothing could even work. First of all, in our friend group there are much funnier, cuter, and nicer girls than me. Girls she can get close to and look after, and none of them are me. She calls my straight friend instead of me, she comforts the cute bi one when she's down, but after I got traumatized she didn't say a word. I think she likes me alright as a friend, but nothing more. To make matters worse, she lives on the other side of the country. The only relationship I've ever had is this one girl who aLSO lived on the other side of the country, and that didn't work out. We said goodbye and haven't talked again since May. I don't want that to happen. Plus the worst thing about long-distance is not only the hour difference, but the fact that they can't hold you, and you can't kiss them, and, facetiming gets hard, and you feel things slipping away, you can't tell when they're lying, and it's sort of like your seatbelt coming loose on a rollercoaster. You just hang on as long as you can until you slip away. I don't want to lose her. I don't. I know she's sitting in a school somewhere, probably smiling like always, not knowing nor caring that I'm in love with her. My straight friend (previously mentioned) has been trying to get me to ask her out, or to get us together, and while she's so nice, I know I can't. I'm not ready for another long-distance relationship, I'm *not* doing it again. It feels human to be in love, because it hurts. People who fall in love together are lucky. I say I'm alone forever and people say that's not true because I have "hundreds of people who like me" and they know people who do. I do, too, I think. The thing is, they don't like me for me, they like me because of my looks. They're my friends, and that's the reason why they're friends with me. And they always say it's guys who like me. But I don't want a guy. I want a girl. I want her. I want her right here next to me talking about her day and I'll talk about mine without a million better and more interesting people with us. Maybe if she was here, I wouldn't be crying. This always happens, I fall in love with anyone I meet. I think I experience random heartbreaks more than anyone. I don't know. Maybe I miss waking up to "I love you" texts. Maybe I miss the joy of seeing a crush in real life. Maybe I miss feeling like I have a chance. I don't know. I just know that I want someone I can't have. Being friends with her is going to be hard, but I'll just live it out. Distract myself. I hope she ends up with someone amazing because she deserves it. Love you.

Doddie and tom walker's vocals together phew

Make this a movie with the song being its soundtrack.

Enoch from miss Peregrines home for peculiar children after he's really honed his power.

I like how the song transitions without really changing at all- where the kind and gentle “I want your secrets.. I’ll be your best friend.. this night can’t end” sounds sweet and then the desperation kicks in with the “tell me you can’t bear to be in a room I’m not in” And the “this night just can’t end”

*_when the guy comes in i get major oh wonder vibes but it's still so much YOU i love this omfg_*

Why is dodie’s voice so calm, it’s so soft! I love the concept of her making a doll/mannequin to know what really makes to be truly human. To have a best friend, someone to love, to know the secrets and call them the one. In the end, she knew that they couldn’t really make her exactly human, maybe she got bored of them because they were all just the same. All in all this was so beautifully made :)))

2:39 is my favourite shot in the entire video, just for that eye flicker. The amount of emotion conveyed in the smallest of actions always impressed me. You can see her searching for something in his eyes, a hint of recognition, or humanity. Eyes are the window to the soul and it’s as if she can’t find that soul- she’s just seeing her own reflection looking back at her. That one eye flicker is the pivotal moment for me that shows that’s she’s suddenly realised how she’s been projecting everything she wanted him to be onto him.

Oh wow. I knew the song, but I didn’t know the song. This is hauntingly good.

I think we all project onto others what we want them to be. In time, that illusion gets shattered because their true selves aren’t what we expected them to be or wanted from them.

0:53 reminds of that one scene in toy story 2 when woody is getting all cleaned up by the toymaker dude.

I've listen to the live acoustic version of this for the longest time now, SO happy there's a studio version. It's amazing.

Dodie is one of the most beautiful and inspiring artists I know. I love this. It was absolutely amazing in every sense and really touches on something many of us struggle with. I love how the lyrics adapt and mean so many different things.

WOW. This is STUNNING - the music, the vid, everything. ❤️

Theory that the original husband died, so dodie has been spending years trying to replicate the man he used to be, but has to start all over when one tiny detail, or he’s not “human” enough. She’s in pain, but whenever a new sculpture is made, she’s momentarily overwhelmed with happiness because she thinks this can finally be the perfect one

The last shot gave me the chills

How have I never heard your music before??? Your songs are so beautiful I could cry

What are you doing friday? Watching dodies new song

its actually alarming how much I love this woman and how stunning her art and creativity is. she's so unique and see's the world so differently from most. I'm so happy she has friends like hazel and Sammy etc to fuel her ideas and make them into such a deep and intricate art form. its so nice to see artists presenting their work in a way that stands out from the crowd and allows for deep interpretation- that allows people to receive it as they need to. well done to all who worked on producing this magical creation.

I've listened to this song so many times, and I'm just now finally watching the video. Definitely crying, seeing as I just went through a breakup and this hits so close to home. Beautiful.

Dodie youe done the most with the best on this one. You pay homage to your sources so well. It’s perfect.

This is beautiful. Love the song, colours, concept, direction, so good! X

JESUS the ending

Hazel Hayes, Jack Howard, Sammy Paul, Guy Larsen...so many amazing people worked on this. Great to see it come to life❤

Whenever I'm sad or nervous I always listen to Dodie's song because they're so calming and just make me forget about everything. She has such s calming voice aaaa

*Everybody please rise for our national anthem* 😩

Reminds of that one black mirror episode

Dodie you are not human, you are angel who blessed Us with wonderful songs 💖

i love this soooooo much. thank u Dodie for creating amazing works

2:38 the way the song dips into the minor key as she realizes gives me chills every time

the fact that the rhythm of the drums resembles a beating heart makes me very emotional

You can tell that there is not much auto tune because her vocals are so good I'm so proud of you dodie

This song & this video really hit hard. So much love for Dodie and the way she can write songs about everything I feel.

black mirror i’ll be right back who????

Not seen anyone mention it yet, but Dodie looks so differently beautiful in this. New, fresh, happier. Absolutely glowing as well. Agh Dodie, how do you do it. You have the heart of a million and more, whos hearts skip a beat when they hear your voice, see you in a picture, or hear your name from someone else’s mouth. This world does not deserve you.