Tim Cole (aka Chucks) of The Correspondents passed of a pulmonary embolism on the 18th October 2020. He was brilliantly inexplicable and will be missed.
I love how everything they've done here is practical effects and camera tricks, not CGI. Even at 3:43 when he pops his head through the photo, you can see where the makeup gets smudged from it's impact against the paper and I LOVE it
Additionally, you can see some reflections in his glasses occasionally in color, and his mouth is not de-saturated. Both may seem like odd choices at first (I initially thought the video was done digitally due to the quality of the makeup) but are testaments to them sticking to their guns and doing this practically rather than just using a filter or black and white film.
@@elg94 Every single time you don't resolve a situation with violence, you condition yourself to accepting that you can't. Make of this information whatever you want.
@@Clancy_R Yup. You can tell in certain shots - the color around his eyes, the patch of natural skin coloration after he hits his head through the board, the light off his glasses (though that's much more difficult to see, especially depending on your screen), certain shadows in deeply concave areas like his ears, his teeth, tongue, and gums, etc.
@@rateeightx Except Loki's only mentioned being a 'trickster god', not a god of chaos. And even then, it's up for debate whether the scholars, that say Loki's a trickster god, are right. He's known for being a jötunn child who swapped blood with Odin and essentially became a god because of that. He's known for being the father of the wolf Fenrir, the world serpent, and the goddess of the underworld Hel, and mother of the horse Sleipner. He's also known for being the cause of Baldr's death, and a ton of other things. But it's still never stated he's a god of chaos, just that he's jerk.
Not only was this video filmed in colour, all the effects are practical. The only editing in this is cutting between scenes. It is a true testament to the art of videography. I'm sad that we won't be getting any masterpieces from them soon, if ever.
Unfortunately Chucks (he wrote a lot of the music) died in 2020, but Mr. Bruce (the dancer and singer) went on to make his own channel called Mr. Bruce where he still makes amazing music and videos
@@GlitchyBastard No, I'm pretty sure it's a real paper cut-out. You can see it fade from the in-camera footage to the paper cutout about 2 seconds before he picks it up. As for the 'tracking errors' that I think you spotted, I think it's just that the paper cutout is positioned about half an inch behind the hole in the 'mirror' which makes it appear to have a different perspective.
"I attempt to distract the guard by regaling him with a story of my youth." "Uhh okay, you succeed astoundingly. Proceed to- wait, are you painting yourself monochrome?"
>DM explaining to the player the difference between suggestion and mass suggestion to the player. >Player just wanting to convince a cleric that their God would want his character to have the money. >His character in the front of the church:
This is one of those songs that creeps into your recommended sidebar whenever you listen to music, but you never click on it because it doesn't seem interesting, but it keeps getting reccomended and eventually you listen to it just to make it stop being reccomended but then it turns out the song slaps
@DEEPFOXJUDE The correspondant is a Duo, one of the member died last year due to unforseeable circumstances. Maybe he refers to this verse? Faulty magic whispered to the man who can mend I tricked myself in thinking he could cure my best friend Two weeks in, his insides gave up
@@Danaile1 if you're referring to Tim Cole's death (the Corrospondents member who died suddenly), he passed in Oct 2020, this video and song came out in 2016, four years prior. I admit it's weirdly psychic and more than a little foreshadow-y but this song isn't referencing that
Am I the only one kind of mesmerized by this man? He has an odd quirky beauty reminiscent of silent movie stars. The way he moves is fascinating- both graceful & erratic & unsettling at the same time. Plus the concept for the video is a masterpiece. I love the whole thing.
@@znightowlz6585 I can just imagine walking through the woods and then falling into a pocket dimension where this chaos is happening 24/7 wherever you go
yesterday i discovered IDKHOW because i wanted pan!c but pan!ic wasnt doing it for me so i scrolled in the sidebar to find them, then i got this song recommended cause viewers of IDKHOW listened to it, so its really just an algorithmic breadcrumb trail
(Don't pay me attention, I'm just writing this for myself) Inexplicably high, inexplicably low I think I know what I want but I don't know where to go And all the while it seems that I'm living in my dreams Not in the now, no, not in the now When I was four I raised my finger to a moving car It crashed so I assumed I had a superpower I didn't raise that finger until I was nine When a schoolboy attacked for the 25th time Down I went, my index still up So convinced that he would just drop Powerless to make it stop Powerless to make it stop Inexplicably high, inexplicably low I think I know what I want but I don't know where to go And all the while it seems that I'm living in my dreams Not in the now, no, not in the now At nineteen, I still just about believed in God I guess that I was pretty late to shake it off Faulty magic whispered to the man who could mend I tricked myself in thinking he could cure my best friend Two weeks in, his insides gave up If drugs can't help, why would words bring him luck? Powerless to make it stop Powerless to make it stop Inexplicably high, inexplicably low I think I know what I want but I don't know where to go And all the while it seems that I'm living in my dreams Not in the now, no, not in the now Now my hands are pulling at the donkey's reins I feel I've gone the wrong route down a dusty lane The grass could have been greener down the first road I took I'd give half my happiness just for one look My lust to win is eating me up The game I can't win up against my own clock Powerless to make it stop Powerless to make it stop Inexplicably high, inexplicably low I think I know what I want but I don't know where to go And all the while it seems that I'm living in my dreams Not in the now, no, not in the now Inexplicably high, inexplicably low I think I know what I want but I don't know where to go And all the while it seems that I'm living in my dreams Not in the now, no, not in the now Inexplicably high, inexplicably low I think I know what I want but I don't know where to go And all the while it seems that I'm living in my dreams Not in the now, no, not in the now
This song is made all the more sad when you think of the lyrics of the second verse, and realize that this band will never made any music again after one of the two members, Tim Cole, inexplicably and unexpectedly died in 2020. :(
What's interesting is, the video is actually shot in color, but made to look like it's black and white. You should check out the making of for the video, it's really cool.
I know that this song is about the futility and meaninglessness of life and all that, but the melody and dancing makes me think that the singer embraces it, makes peace with it. It is what it is and you can't do anything about it, might as well enjoy it in all its weirdness. Strangely uplifting.
I don't think this says anything about life being futile or meaningless. My interpretation was that by holding on to the dream of magic/divine solutions to his problems he was keeping himself from fully interacting with reality, and from finding his way in the world. To me, this song is about accepting that there will be things outside of his control and that bad things can happen despite his (and others') best efforts (such as when best friend died, and when he inevitably dies). He is powerless to stop these things, but by accepting that there are some things he can't do anything about, he is able to starting figuring out what he can do to make the most of it.
"I think I know what I want but I don't know where to go And all the while it seems that I'm living in my dreams" "Powerless to make it stop" Me too man.. me too.
All you need in a dreamscape is your concesness your body is optional rules are how you restrict and make games and confine experoences and points of view for enlightenment
Normally, I don't like music videos or dancing. However, you, The Correspondents, have seriously blown my mind. This video, and especially Fear & Delight, have me entirely entranced. I can't stop listening and I can't stop watching. The music, the lyrics, everything. I'm in love. You're definitely a contender for my new favorite band of all time.
I think my favorite thing about this track is that there’s a clear place where it sounds like it’s going to end, and then Mr. Bruce just decides “No, hell with that, I want another 2 rounds of the chorus.” And it makes it even better. Like I was already getting a delicious Belgian waffle of existential despair and then he brought out the strawberries
I so vividly see a substitute teacher who’s stuck in a room so dark it’s like an endless void, surrounded by the floating heads of students and dancing monsters and holding a cross
Every time the power went out at the elementary school, you can hear the the cafeteria kids scream their lungs EVERY SINGLE TIME. "sigh" Those were the days.
I wonder if other people know the Bauhaus school references. Maybe it is just cause I am a design school and art school student... but I am sure other people recognise the style even if they cant put their finger on it. This is so perfectly in the style of that time but twisted and perfected so it still feels like its own thing.
there is only one male hes up in the front and you can tell cause he's the only one with a bulge (Edit)-on second viewing there is a second he is just lacking compared to the other
I ALWAYS get shivers from “now my hands are pulling at the donkeys reigns, I feel I’ve gone the wrong route down a dusty lane. The grass could’ve been greener down the first route I took, I’d give up my happiness just for one look.” It reminds me of when I was biking around at night, listening to this, and I took a major detour. But my playlist ended right as I got to where I needed :)
Did you guys know that most lyrics websites misquote your lyrics? Specifically. "When a school boy attacked father twenty five times." "Down I went, my index still low."
@@PsylomeAlpha If I had to guess, I bet a good number of shit-tier lyric sites are run by people that do not speak English well and struggle to get the lyrics purely by audio....but yeah, the lyrics are in the description, so laziness is also a factor.
Well, it’s been demonstrated that lyrics sites just copy eachother. Genius hid the message “red handed” in morse code in the lyrics to a song, and lo and behold, it showed up in countless other sites. Even Google plagiarizes from Genius.
Let me deconstruct the song as much as I can. I think this is the story of a man who thought himself as powerful but again and again saw his and therefore human's fragility and feebleness. Due to some concurrence when he was four, he thought he could move heavy objects by pointing his finger - which implies omnipotence (in 00:39)-. (This omnipotency by the way is a very good example of how a baby makes sense of the world. Until 6 months, it cannot separate itself from mother and assumes that it is omnipotent). Then starts the events. The events which again and again shows him his fragility and feebleness. He can't stop being bullied and realizes the truth - his finger does not do the thing he thought it would do. (00:54) He watches his friend dying (which has a deep effect on him and will remind him of his mortality when he will look in the mirror (in 2:45)). He sees that we humans not only are not powerful but fragile and weak. And those who claim power and superiority are deceivers (eg. priest, therefore religion) (Which probably evokes his power claim when he was four which he realized to be non-existent which led him to disregard other power claims which promises supernatural effects). Once, he thought he was almighty - at least very mighty. But he now realizes he can't even control his own instincts. Even his own instincts have power over him. His lust is eating him up and he is powerless against it (in 2:42)). *(A game I can't win up against my own clock)* while looking at mirror and his image (in 2:45) - Mirror is a very good sageway to communicate the idea of death. Our body which is getting disfunctional day-by-day is a very good proof of mortality. So it is for certain the death is coming up. And there is nothing to do which he also knew from his sick friend's destiny. - Just like Gilgamesh learnt his destiny from his friend Enkidu -. *(And all the while it seems that I'm living in my dreams and not in the now)* -- *(I think I know what I want, but I don't know where to go)* Finally, he is not dreaming and believing but living in the reality and actuality. He knows his fragility and mortality as a human being - . But yet again he does not know what to do with this knowledge. There are more to tell but you get the point. *_Summary: Realization of human impotency and human fragility. Unescapable despair, hopelessness and acknowledgement of upcoming death._*
This is a great analysis! I have always seen the song as an instinctive exploration of mental health; specifically Bipolar disorder, and Dissoatation disorders.
I think the big addition I'd make here is the lines/verse you skipped over. The first two verses position the singer as a bit of a victim - he puts his faith in things that ultimately let him down and rails against them - but the third verse establishes a bit of a realization/acceptance: He's trying to divert from the course he sees coming, not because he's made any mistake, but because he feels like whatever he doesn't have must be better. "The grass could have been greener down the first road I took/I'd give up half my happiness just for one look". Not only is he wrestling with his choices/trying to do them over, he's apparently only here because he already waffled from a decision. He can't shake that feeling that there must be a 'right' way to go, and he's so obsessed with it that he lets it draw him away from making the best of his current situation - even when he's 'happy', he feels like he should be getting more, winning more. Even with age/death looming and the realization that the past is behind him, he can only obsess over how he's wasted it and be anxious over preventing future disaster, rather than ever acknowledging what's right in front of him.
Can I just say that the composition and sound design are wonderful? Like, besides it being a fucking BOP, it's got a great range of sounds without it feeling crowded.
The phrase, "and all the while it seems, that I'm living in my dreams, not in the now.. not in the now" is stuck in my head because it has no gosh darn ending.
@@sagecolvard9644 Sorry english is not my first language, maybe I wrote it wrong. I meant the whole text since it is a story and would be less if I pick just one phrase don`t you think?
@@sophieh.2986 Ah, that makes sense. Usually, in English, when you say "a lyric", that usually means at most a single verse or just a few lines. In this case, you could just say "lyrics" to refer to all the lines in the song".
I recently discovered this somg and it's just so perfect for everything im processing. My delusions, my mental health, custody battles, that broken feeling of being dropkicked so many times that you're starting to learn helplessness. It just feels like im either stuck in an inescapable hole or so happy that nothing could break it. And im always wrong. My reality is wrong. My opinion is wrong. Im constantly being told that im wrong. Powerless to make it stop.
The practical effects and choreography of this are amazing. Very well thought out imagery with interesting intent behind each scene, plus some fun in between.
Although I keep coming back for the music, I have to admire the artistic vision and technical skill in this music video. It is beautiful in its subtle, understated brilliance.
Cannot express how much I hope you find success, this is the second song i have heard, immediately after the first, and holy hell. Hope a record label picks you up but lets you do you and gets the word out!
My high school theater group did something like this every year, but with bright florescents under black lights, I never participated on stage just made costumes but god this video amazes me cause I know just how much of a pain it can be to get that makeup and costumes work well both visually but just being able to dance and move smoothly
This song is helping me get throw the worst break up of my life I loved her so much so so much but she just decided we where over with five words and I’m say this cause I know no one will ever see it here in the comments of a song from ages ago but yeah I’m still doing this cause I feel like crying and stuff
I'm right there with you, I'm crushing for one of my ex's hard right now and I'm super sad right now and the correspondents are really speaking to me right now
I totally get that feeling of yours. Went through the same thing and this song oddly comforts me, with it's realization that you don't have any control, are 'powerless to make it stop'. If we can't stop the tragic happenings in our lives, we may as well lay back and wait for better times to come
I've been listening to these dudes for a couple months now, and I love them so much. They're the first band in a long time to hit me hard with their music. I never find myself capable of skipping this song or Alarm Call because they just hit me so hard and make me feel strange emotions I didn't know I was still capable of feeling. Which is a little weird since I RU-vid randomly recommended Fear & Delight to me one day, and I only stuck around for the mesmerizing dances. Honestly, though, I can't stress enough how awesome this is.
Everyone talking about the rad video, but honestly this is probably the most relatable song I've ever heard. Just this morning I was dwelling on decisions I made a few months ago, wondering what it would have been like if I'd made different ones. But it doesn't matter, because I can't go back.
