Good Kid - Summer (Official Video) 

luvin this song and the animation, soo so good

Dang that was such a cool animation. My personal interpretation is its about how draining creative works can be, you truly put your heart and soul into it, and sometimes it feels like it just crumbles apart regardless. But in the end your creation is a part of you and the journey's worth it :)

The urge to leave behind a legacy, tearing at yourself until you crumble only to be reminded that you are worth enjoying today. That no legacy can make up for the peace of enjoying the moment. I like it.

My interpretation of this is that You can give all of yourself to fix something , or to repair someone, you can run yourself ragged and even be completely selfless but in the end nothing is owed to you they may give a simple thank you and disappear. And only when all of the hard work you do is for you do you truly become whole.

The way Nomu kid just finds himself again and melts with his clay version is just such an interesting concept. Feels like that was the point all along.

Bro hearing this after Akira Toriyamas passing is making me sob the “this can’t be the end” line is truly hitting rn. Ik that isn’t the point of the song but it makes coping with his loss a lot easier

Watching this music video has really resonated with me as a cancer survivor. I didn't know whether I was going to live or die since it felt like my body was falling apart at times. My life may have temporarily fallen into pieces, but I tried to pick up the pieces I could reconstruct. Similar to the clay structure constructed by the boy, I felt like I fused with the clay structure after beating cancer and recreated a slightly newer, improved version of myself after falling so far. What a beautiful piece of art. You guys should be proud.

2:00 I can't believe I genuinely started crying. The music and the animation together just tore me apart. Giving so much of yourself away for something that they cared about, for it all to finally be given back with a love that saved them. I'd formulate my thoughts better, but there's just too many tears in my eyes right now. Amazing Animation and Amazing Song

Xray alpha charlie is such an incredible animator, can't wait to see the MV (and the song, of course)!!

“premieres at 11:59pm” we not makin’ it to school with this one 🔥 🔥 update: I did in fact not make it to school with this one🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

What I saw was basically you putting your efforts into this fake persona of yourself (doing your daily tasks and living out life) that you can’t keep up with and it crumbles away at your being. In the end you were always enough and just as good as the image you were trying to be and you can do anything you want to

Lyrics: Like a hand reaching for a handle But to find that it was never there Candidly I can't handle knowing That it's all up in the air I thought the world ended in March Until I heard the doorbell ring Can't keep from falling apart But I'll glue back everything again This can't be the end This can't be the end This can't be the end This can't be the end Of all that summer had to say What little time has gone away I'll glue it all back anyway I'll glue it all back anyway Like the wing of a sparrow or a plane Drops down a couple feet again To catch the wind that still remains But I'm left breathless anyway I thought the world ended in March Until I heard the doorbell ring Just me here standing in the dark But I'll light up everything again This can't be the end This can't be the end This can't be the end This can't be the end of all that summer had to say What little time has gone away I'll glue it all back anyway I'll glue it all back anyway (I'll glue it all back anyway) (I'll glue it all back anyway) (I'll glue it all back anyway) I'll glue it all back anyway This can't be the end This can't be the end This can't be the end This can't be the end of all that summer had to say (This can't be the end) What little time has gone away (This can't be the end) I'll glue it all back anyway (This can't be the end) I'll glue it all back anyway

"playlist updated" 🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥

I fell in love with "Bubbly" and haven't stopped listening to Good Kid for days now.

I love the story this told so much! My personal interpretation was how destructive and self-detrimental tearing yourself apart or changing who you are for someone else can be. It feels like no matter how much of yourself you take and rip out to try and mend the friendship or relationship new cracks still form and things fall apart. It makes you feel empty, like you're falling apart and slowly slipping into a deep sea of despair with each piece of yourself you give up to try to keep them. In the end letting that toxic friendship/relationship go and accepting yourself for who you is how you heal those cracks and wounds you inflicted on yourself trying to change and tear yourself apart for that person. It's something I and most people in this world struggle with and I think this animated music video along with the lyrics paints the fact beautifully. To anyone reading this: know you are loved and cared for. You are genuinely beautiful just the way you are. Never change yourself or tear yourself apart just to keep someone else. Stay true to yourself because that's when you shine the most.

The diversity of interpretations in this video is what renders art truly captivating and enriching. To me, it's about our perpetual pursuit of an idealized self, driven by a sense of inadequacy or imperfection. We often embark on a journey to mold ourselves into this flawless image we've concocted, sometimes at the expense of our values, beliefs, and even our very essence. This relentless quest can feel stifling, leaving us yearning for transformation and occasionally seeking in desperate need of external assistance in our pursuit of self-improvement. Yet, amidst this, embracing our authentic selves is paramount. Rather than striving to embody an idealized persona, we must come to terms with our true identity and nurture a genuine acceptance of who we are.

I'm excited for another music animation, The one with Mimi's delivery service was incredible.

Spoilers for this comment Never expect a story about a wax kid trying to give a life he never had before he dies, but in the end, they fused together to give him another time to enjoy life. It's really a wholesome story, in my opinion. Good job, guys Edit: go to the comments theres a better explanation.

I find it as a soul trying to fix a body, sacrificing itself over and over for a perfect image.. yet in the end, both are needed to make oneself.

The desire to make something that you’ll be proud of but slowly ripping yourself apart piece by piece has happened to me a lot. The last 2 years I was tearing myself apart because I was learning to produce and write music and I was failing until I accepted that I’m not going to immediately succeed but it’s a long and drawn out process which takes time. Your music has helped me with all of that and I greatly thank you. 🙂

we're making it out of seasonal depression with this one.

THIS CANT BE THE END!!!! OF ALL THAT SUMMER HAD TO SAY!!!!!!!!! ILL GLUE IT ALL BACK ANYWAY!!

I freaking love the animation. I’d honestly pay to see a full film/tv show in this art style. The song slaps as well, but that goes without saying :p

My favorite band by far, I can’t say there’s one song I think is “bad” and the vast majority id consider great. Please keep continuing to make incredible songs like this one ❤❤

WE FOLLOWING GOOD KID’s CAREER FOREVER WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🗣️🗣️💯💯

I LOVE THE ANIMATION STYLE OMG

First bubbly was my new fav from them and then they released this one. I love how many interpretations people are making and personally this is the most upbeat sounding song that's made me cry. They're really popping off right now 🔥🔥🔥

Don't strive to make yourself perfect but instead learn to love yourself and who you are in life (which will make your flaws less pronounced and heal your wounds). That's what I got from the music video, great work from all involved!

A summer song to help winter depression! 🔥

Good Kid has been my most played artist on Spotify the last couple of weeks when i've been at my lowest, i'm so happy there are artists out there like Good Kid i'm so glad to see more amazing songs being produced much love from Sweden

Idk what made RU-vid put this on my recommended but that was an amazing song and video. Definitely a new fan here.

i can't get over how well made these are. fantastic animation and storytelling!

Makes me nostalgic for the times in High school when I was just shooting the shit with my best friends. Ever since the pandemic, we graduated online and went our separate ways to different universities and colleges. We still keep in touch, but I miss those insane Summers where we hung out every day for weeks on end.

staying up till 12 AM on a school night was totally worth it! Love you guys and your music

I saw this as always giving and never receiving. You may not realize or see its effects in the beginning, but as you give away more and more, and you realize what you’ve done, but you’re in too deep to get back out. But all you needed was to actually receive something in return for all you’ve done. This is how the song connected with me, I loved reading everyone else’s interpretations :).

How I interpret this song is like how you tear yourself apart to try and fix flaws about yourself and only end up hurting yourself more and how you should just accept your flaws anyways. Genuinely a beautiful song and I’m so happy I came across it.

I'm so happy having discovered this one of a kind band

I bet I'll be listening to this all summer!

To anyone thinking “Gosh I wish these people got more attention” don’t worry on Spotify they have 2 Million followers, they’re getting the attention they deserve

This was an amazing song with great visuals to go along with it, it’s cool that xrayalphacharlie was the one who animated this.

This about to premiere in about half an hour when I'm commenting, and I can't believe Xray alpha charlie is doing another animation for Good Kid. I already know this is going to be a banger! After the premiere: This was a amazing song! A cool thing I noticed at 1:39 was the witch hat, the crown, and what I believe is the Mimi's delivery service robots in the corner, they all remind me of past Good Kid's songs.

The feels are so strong with this one and the animation art style is so cute. Beautiful work.

i love this ! theres are the reasons 1. the boy loooks like finn from adventure time 2. fits for a chill vibe 3. so smooth animations

I'm crying lord have mercy

Summer and childhood go hand in hand dude⚡️💚 I wish neither would end, but there's always another summer, and we can always be kids deep down

STOPP IM CRYING AT WORK

This made me tear up, the emotion in the animation is so good! Music is perfect as always

This really got me tearing up! What a beautiful animation to match an EPIC song!! There's many ways you could interpret the story i feel like, but all lead to the conclusion of inner peace. CERTIFIED BANGER 🔥

This was absolutely beautiful. The art, the story, the music, everything is perfect. 12/10 Amazing job to alpha.charlie

WE MAKIN IT TO SUMMER WITH THIS ONE!!!!! BEST EARLY BIRTHDAY PRESENT EVER

"This cant be the end..." wow, it really resonates. Love this song.

The drain of putting yourself in your art can be taxing but worth it in the end

HECK YEAHH!!! IM SO EXCITED

ANOTHER GREAT SONG FROM GOOD KID AND ANOTHER AMAZING MV FROM XRAY ALPHA CHARLIE!!! LOVE YOU GUYS!!!

Such a cute animation style. Really well done!

Adventure time vibes from the animation

HYPE!

Really great song and animation! Love your style, greetings from Mexico😄

THIS CANT BE THE END

You have the power to be the best version of yourself through dedication and self love

I shed a tear, I'm not afraid to say it

That ending made me tear up holy hell. Such a lovely song and animation

An amazing story, to be interpreted in many ways, love the animation, and all your music is amazing guys

We all have an internal image of ourselves, something we like to build up, who we think we are. Often we get absorbed in building up this idol of ourselves, putting so much of whatever real version of us there is into making it more clear, defined, unbreakable, that we lose who we were in the first place. Change is good, sometimes we're falling apart at the seams and these artificial visions of ourself through an introspective mirror give us comfort. The comfort becomes sickening though, as the nagging feeling rises that we don't know who we're looking at in the mirror anymore, and we latch more and more onto that theoretical ideal that let us build so many masks and filters, that got us so many friends, that gave us that bit of peace at night. We fall apart ourselves maintaining an impossible figure. At one point or another we'll always feel like it's leaving us behind, but the strongest decision we can make in the shoes of that impossible ideal is to reach out and grab ourself that's left behind in shambles, to take it on, become imperfect, let ourselves ugly cry, let ourselves be frustrated, use the language we've told ourselves is unbecoming of us, let ourselves fall apart in our own arms, so we can embrace that broken, imperfect us, and realize it's the exact perfection we sought after, that just letting both versions of ourself coexist becomes a new us that is both perfect and imperfect, that can feel when it needs to feel, filter when it needs to filter, to both shatter and to build masks so they help us without hiding us in the mirror. The hurt us we all try to hide is no less us than the us we want others to see. It's okay to be ugly, it's okay to be afraid, it's okay to be wrenched with fear and guilt towards everything. We deserve that right in this world, and strangely enough, to be happy again, we need to let loose, and embrace ourself when we turn around and see the mangled mess that built us. The very person we see in the mirror.

Im inexplicably excited for this song!

That was so emotional and symbolic I love animated music videos like this ❤

This is so good omg the ending gave me chills

I cried because there’s a deep meaning to this song that I saw while watching the video Basically, it’s when someone dear to you is feeling sad, and you give your happiness away for their own well being, and once they realize, they come and help u, restoring all of your happiness in the end and giving u more love than u felt before

THIS CANT BE THE END!! 🗣🗣🗣

Im excited! So far this year has been amazing with all the songs, and summer so far doesnt seem to disappoint! :D

love the attention to detail that when half of nomu kid's face melts off the music video reflects that by having us only be able to see from the eye thats open as well as when he becomes whole he gets both eyes and therefore full vision. KEEP IT UP!

I almost cried- this is such a good song and animation. I’m so proud of you and you are very talented. Keep up the good work!❤

Destroying yourself to make a seemingly perfect image of yourself then realizing the only person who can save you from that is your self 10/10 song reminds me of Adventure Time animation.

AAAAAAAHHHHH I Don't know how to express how amazing this is, the beautiful smooth animation and the music

Guys beautiful work I was so excited for this and you completely delivered!!

Love this song so much. Keep rocking Goodkid

Song of the year

This may or may not be seen but here's my interpretation of it; Of course, it follows Nomu attempting to recreate himself to continue 'living', or continue his legacy. Yet, being that Nomu is visibly made of clay and is easy to tear I think it represents acceptance and the breaking of a cycle. It's likely he's a recreation of himself as well, and as he starts to crack (just like clay would), he tears himself apart to rebuild a new him as the 'him''s before did. And now, instead of making the new him a replacement, he finds healing.

fire as always This song is about making things work and that's what I love about the song. The part when the clone of the kid fused to fix him really touched me deep inside.The visuals also look good.

Love your shorts as always, and a soul touching animation about self sacrifice, idolization, and forgetting to take care of ourselves as we rip ourselves apart to try and cling on to the past!

Thanks, RU-vid. This was a good recommendation.

An amazing video with great animation and a sweet story and even better music

stumbled on this video and decided to watch it bc i like the animation style. it ended up being so deep. great music and great video!

I have seen many explain this meaning to be of how a perfectionist mindset and take over someone or how a talent can consume you, though I think this means something different. I think its about not being happy with yourself, you try to reinvent yourself but you can't change who you are, by the time you think you have changed yourself you realize how unhappy it makes you feel and how you are just a shell of your former self if you become someone your not.

beautiful animation and song, i love life rn 😭 ❤

New fan, loved the song!

"added to playlist" 🔥🔥🗣🗣💯💯 Amazing song as usual, you guys are tied with kessoku band for all time favorites for me

Been listening to this song nonstop since yesterday. Love it !!!

Amazing music , AND amazing animation! I bet blind people AND deaf people can enjoy this

As someone with severe hypochondria , who makes art, this spoke to me. The constant putting yourself into your legacy , the panic of it being the end, and you havent left anything to properly tell others how youve felt. The 100% readiness to kill yourtself for your craft, the urge to create and put this strawman version of you into situation youd never be able to enjoy again. What makes it frustrating is the ending is the truth, once I except myself and move on , I can be whole.

THIS IS SO SICK- the whole concept is so cool and the song is amazing, great fit

Damn, what a tune. The animation was so well done ❤

Love the song, love the animation, love the story! Ah it’s so good! ❤ I think if I could sum it all up, I’d say… You are your best creation.

This song is great as always from good kid.

Another banger! And not only that but the thing is, this isn’t even the end! 🎉

You really captured a feeling I dont think other people think of, that a lot of people experience. Thanks.

*Traducción español* *Verano* 0:02 Como una mano alcanzando una manija Pero descubre que nunca estaba ahí Sinceramente no puedo soportar saber Que todo está por el aire 0:14 Pensaba que el mundo se acababa en marzo Hasta que escuché sonar el timbre de la puerta No puedo evitar desmoronarme Pero pegaré todo junto otra vez 0:25 Esto no puede ser el final Esto no puede ser el final Esto no puede ser el final Esto no puede ser el final De todo lo que tenía que decir el verano Qué poco tiempo se ha ido 0:41 De todos modos, lo pegaré todo junto De todos modos, lo pegaré todo junto 0:55 Como la ala de un gorrión o de un avión Cae unos cuantos metros otra vez Para poder atrapar el viento que aún permanece Pero de todos modos, me quedo sin aliento 1:07 Pensaba que el mundo se acababa en marzo Hasta que escuché sonar el timbre de la puerta Solo yo aquí parado en la oscuridad Pero yo alumbraré todo otra vez 1:19 Esto no puede ser el final Esto no puede ser el final Esto no puede ser el final Esto no puede ser el final De todo lo que tenía que decir el verano Qué poco tiempo se ha ido 1:34 De todos modos, lo pegaré todo junto De todos modos, lo pegaré todo junto 1:50 De todos modos, lo pegaré todo junto De todos modos, lo pegaré todo junto De todos modos, lo pegaré todo junto De todos modos, lo pegaré todo junto 2:01 Esto no puede ser el final Esto no puede ser el final Esto no puede ser el final Esto no puede ser el final De todo lo que tenía que decir el verano Qué poco tiempo se ha ido 2:17 De todos modos, lo pegaré todo junto De todos modos, lo pegaré todo junto

definitely didn't expect this as a story to how nomu-umon mixture came to be but it's so cool

You guys never fail to astound me with every release, what a work of art

Great birthday gift 🖤 I love listening to your guys' music and it's been a really rough day.