Love, Me Normally [Official Video] 

I love the idea of Will pulling various rats out of his pockets and gently placing them onto the table of an interviewer

*gently places a rat on your desk* *gently places a rat on your desk* *gently places a rat on your desk*

after seeing interviews with will wood, i can say that this is exactly how he acts during an actual talk show

"...the beautiful eyes of the beautiful boy, girl, neither, both, or in-between that you brought with you tonight." I'm not crying, you're crying.

THE LEGS KICKING UP ONTO THE TABLE THE RATS THE WHOLE GENERAL THEME AGAHSJFL I LOVE THIS

I love the doowop ghosts. Why are there doowop ghosts? Can we have more doowop ghosts? I love the doowop ghosts.

This song speaks so much to me, the idea of loving "normally" not understanding the normal way, pretending to understand to fit in, overall an apathy for being put on earth without having a say in it, it's just so much truth and I love it. This song is really beautiful

"i was nothing before so i couldn't have asked to be born. i'll be nothing again, so what am i between now and them?" IT HITS HARD BRO

Random detail: at 0:20 Norm goes to shake his hand, but Will confidently puts forth his left hand instead of his right.

There's a masterful secret, if you look carefully during the sequence of screaming and psychedellia, the sign that nomally says "The Night Mic With Norm Brenner" says in the same font, "Jesus Fucking Christ Can Someone Help Me? I'm Scared." A clue that this is all a fever dream or hallucination of the main character, one Will Wood. Really cool moment of cinematography that I just noticed and l love it.

i absolutely adore the way the drummer kept tossing his drum sticks up during the performance

THE ARTIST RETURNS TO HIS ART, AS A PERFORMER SHOWS IT OFF.

"my child is fine" your child's favourite song is love, me normally by will wood and they can't tell whether it's for the nonbinary acknowledgment or the song itself

Will Wood: 100x words a minute Subtitles: "APPLAUSE"

I adore Will’s bridges because they’re fast enough for my ADHD brain to stay interested even though it’s such a long song. I think that’s the reason I also love BlackBoxWarrior so much

at first I thought the mic stand flying offscreen at 1:05 was one of the rats and got very upset for a split second

i’ve been here for 30 minutes trying to think of a good comment but nothing can describe this perfection

All I see is just another Will Wood appearance on a talk show.

Rofl. Legit my favorite part is the very end before credits where he tells him "see you here in two weeks?" long dramatic pause with look of disdain on Will's face, then "Arriiiiight!" lmao omg.

florida man brings jimmy kimmel gift of rat - more at 8

There are so many particular lines in Will Wood songs that make me want to cry by themselves, and this whole song had me in tears the first time I heard it, even more with the visuals.

I love how everything progressively gets more and more insane as things go by, by the way. It starts with a talk show and ends with absolute and utter *CHAOS.* Perfect. Mwah. Love it all.

a man in a suit playing with rats. i didn't know that i needed this.

i love the ending at 6:18 why is no one talking about that, the death stare will gives the therapist to the way the therapist says "alrightt"

I love the detail of when will wood first enters, he extends his *left* hand towards the news man for a handshake instead of his right hand and for a second the news man is confused This is kinda showing how will wood is not "normal" which is why he *wants* to be normal, as the song says

god at first i was so happy for this song to be so calm........then will wood does what he normally does and i fell in love with the song even more

as someone's who aroace, this song doesn't have anything to do with being aroace but I feel like I relate to feeling like I have to love someone to be normal even though It's something I'm capable of. I've forced myself to get crushes when I was younger in order to fit in. the line "rather you love them exactly the way that everybody else is." feels too close to home 😭

The singular comma in the title perfects the song

Idk if it was intentional but the fact that he yoinks the microphone/chokes the talk show host with a "poison ivy noose" is really interesting to me

I don’t care if this isn’t the meaning behind this song, it really helped me with my autism and the isolation it gave me

This just feels like the average Will Wood interview. Like, the feet on the table, the yelling, the amazing outfits. Surprised the interviewer didn't expect it.

HIS RATS!!!!!!!

I'm not telling you how to live your life, but if you wrote a book i'd buy a million of them.

little rattos are such good actors!!!

4:00 I was almost expecting a Rickroll with that beat

I've been listening to this guy's music for a few weeks now and this is the first time I'm seeing his face (aside from the normal album's cover) and I'm obsessed w his style. The way he holds himself, the way he dresses, the Elton John suit when he's playing the piano near the end, his earrings. The socks. Can't wait to make my friends sit through the entirety of the normal album

The guys playing the instruments looked so dead in the inside at the beginning xd I love it.

the band members eating pizza while will talks is an exact portrayal of what it feels like to be in the rhythm section of your high school band when the band director is working with every other section but your own

As an individual struggling with bipolar, this song really speaks to me. Why should I have to conform to your idea of normal and take meds that make me feel numb just so that I can fit a better picture of what you want me to be? You have as much of an idea of why I’m here or why I am the way that I am as I do. Why is it that when I try to do what I feel is normal its any less valid then what you think is normal?

"is there nothing to fear? cause shit's getting weird; so to god who made this man, you better have one hell of a plan" holy fuck???

In lipstick on the mirror Are the lyrics to my obituary In iambic pentameter, followed parameter Crossing my eyes, dot my T's I was delivered holding scissors I live deliberately, I'm a quitter And a winner anyway Cause I never agreed to participate in this game Won't follow my dreams No, they've all got me waking up screaming I can let them go from me After all there is no "I" in team And I'd rather be normal. Yes, so normal I suggest that we keep this informal Cause a normal human being wouldn't need To pretend to be normal to be normal Well I guess that's the least that I owe ya To be normal in a way I couldn't be C'mon, c'mon, and love me normally If I could live in third person Well I don't think life would be much worse than it is In the current tense, presently This sentence ending with question marks or dot dot dot Is it courageous or escapist To leave the quarantine when you're contagious It may just be a cold And besides I don't wanna get old I drank myself to death to be the afterlife of the party When the afterparty came, I was rolling in my grave And I'd rather be normal. Yes, so normal I suggest that we keep this informal Cause a normal human being wouldn't need To pretend to be normal to be normal Well I guess that's the least that I owe ya To be normal in a way I couldn't be C'mon, c'mon, and love me normally Now this is the part of the song where I like to talk to my audience I like to tell 'em there's something I want from you hep cats tonight I want you to look to your left, look to your right Your 12 o'clock, three o'clock, six o'clock, nine o'clock, rock around the clock tonight And I want you to find those points of no return, those singularities Those burning rings of fire in the beautiful pupils of the beautiful eyes of the beautiful Boy, girl, neither, both, or in-between that you brought with you tonight And I want you to tell 'em how you really feel I want you to tell 'em that you love the way they so seamlessly, like a dreamfully So beautifully, oh so dutifully Jam that square peg in the round hole in their heart I want you to tell 'em that you love the way That they don't stick out like sore middle fingers That they crawl their way up the side of the bell curve Stick their flag in the peak, and slide their way back down I want you to tell them that you love the way that they're not maladaptive Not malcontent, not malignant or maleficent, but rather that you love them Exactly the way that everybody else is I was nothing before so I couldn't have asked to be born I'll be nothing again, so what am I between now and then Is there nothing to fear? Cause shit's getting weird So to God who made this man, you better have one hell of a plan I'd rather be normal. Yes, so normal I suggest that we keep this informal Cause a normal human being wouldn't need. No To pretend to be normal to be normal Well I guess that's the least that I owe ya To be normal in a way I could never be C'mon, c'mon, yeah, I said c'mon, yeah C'mon, c'mon, yeah, I said c'mon, yeah C'mon, c'mon, and love me normally

Guys... I cannot even begin to express how much I love the ghosts with trumpets at 4:28

I think I discovered Will Wood on yt like 3 weeks ago and since then I've been in awe of every creation of theirs

I hope this new album is what gets him noticed

i love how the sign switches to "The Jesus Fucking Christ with Help me in so scared"

This song threw me into a depressive episode after reading the lyrics and feeling them too hard. Thanks, I love it.

I like how the little jumpscare at the end was what they used it "The Real Will Wood" Edit: I just found out that "The Normal Album" is coming out on my b-day, woo hoo!

Imagine if this was the only song Will Wood ever made? Like he just drops this banger and dips off the face of the earth.

how many times does his hat fall off in this video

This video feels like the sort of musical number a chaos god would do on national television before opening a nightmare portal to the Sixth Dimension* through Jimmy Fallon's eye sockets. *Which I hear living in is rough!

So in the credits it says Bally, Bowie, Marcel, and Wednesday. Are those the rats? If so, they did an excellent job and really contributed to the video as a whole.

I genuinely can't believe it's only been a year since this version of the song has been out and I definitely have to say that it still hits too close to home as much as it had when it first premiered I've been told practically all my life to 'act normal' and anything a kin to that so I don't embarrass my parents in public situations and have been called weird by a good amount of people in my childhood to the point I eventually made my entire identity revolve around being 'The Weird Kid' of both every friend group and every class I was ever in. In turn, I've eventually ended up bottling up so many different emotions because I was the 'funny weird kid who was happy all the time' and that I would 'just be acting out' if I were to shed even a single tear or get mad at something, which then slowly lead me to genuinely start wishing I was as normal as some kid you'd see walking down the street. I'm currently trying my best to get better at not bottling up my emotions as much and this song has definitely helped with reminding me that these emotions and feelings are, indeed, normal. I highly doubt Will himself will ever actually see this, which is honestly completely fine, but if he does: Thank you for reminding me it's okay to not be normal by the definition the world holds And to those who ended up reading this, I hope you have a good day, afternoon, evening, or whenever you're reading this and stay safe!

Idk if anyone's posted the lyrics to this yet, but here's me doing it. Someone can correct me if I get anything wrong, especially on the spoken part, thank u In lipstick on the mirror Are the lyrics to my obituary In iambic pentameter, follow parameters Crossing my eyes, dot my t's I was delivered holding scissors I live deliberately, I’m a quitter And a winner anyway 'Cause I never agreed to participate in this game Won't follow my dreams, no they've all got me waking up screaming I can’t let them go for me After all there's no I in team And I'd rather be normal Yes, so normal I suggest that we keep this informal 'Cause a normal human being wouldn't need To pretend to be normal To be normal Well I guess that's the least that I owe ya To be normal in a way I couldn’t be C’mon, c’mon and love me normally If I could live in third person, well I don’t think life would be much worse than it is In the current tense, presently, this sentence ending in question marks or dot dot dot Is it courageous or escapist to leave the quarantine when you’re contagious? It may just be a cold And besides I don’t wanna get old, yeah I drank myself to death to be the afterlife of the party When the after-party came, I was rolling in my grave And I'd rather be normal Yes, so normal I suggest that we keep this informal 'Cause a normal human being wouldn't need To pretend to be normal To be normal Well I guess that's the least that I owe ya To be normal in a way I couldn’t be C’mon, c’mon and love me normally Now this is the part of the song where I talk to my audience. I like to tell 'em there's something I want from you hep cats tonight. I want you to look to your left, look to your right, your twelve o'clock, three o'clock, six o'clock, nine o'clock, rock around the clock tonight. And I want you to find those points of no return, those singularities, those burning rings of fire in the beautiful pupils and the beautiful eyes of the beautiful boy, girl, neither, both, or in-between that you brought with you tonight. And I want you to tell 'em how you really feel . I want you to love the way they seamlessly, like a dream, so beautifully, oh so dutifully, jam that square peg in the round hole in their heart! I want you to tell them that you love the way they don't stick out like sore middle fingers. That they crawl their way up the side of the bell curve, stick their flag in the peak, and slide their way back down. I want you to love the way that they're not maladaptive, not malcontent, not malignant or maleficent, but rather that you love them exactly the way that everybody else is! I was nothing before, So couldn’t have asked to be born I'll be nothing again, so what am I between now and then? Is there nothing to fear Cause shit's getting weird So to God who made this man You better have one hell of a plan And I'd rather be normal Yes, so normal I suggest that we keep this informal 'Cause a normal human being wouldn't need , no To pretend to be normal To be normal Well I guess that's the least that I owe ya To be normal in a way I couldn’t be C’mon, c’mon yeah, I said c'mon, yeah C’mon, c’mon yeah, I said c'mon, yeah C'mon, c'mon and love me normally C'mon, c'mon and love me... normally

“The beautiful eyes of the beautiful boy, girl, neither, both, or in-between that you brought with you tonight” I’m crying I feel Appreciated. Thank you Will Wood ;w;

0:00 - 6:55 is the best part!

Everyone's talking about the rats or simping for Will here, and I donth think enough people are appreciating the lore that is being created with this album.

i love the theatre kid vibes this song has and the "beautiful boy, girl, neither, both or any in between" god I want to scream this song at the top of my lungs

People is talking about the rats... But can we please talk about the tarantula??? It's so fucking cute

the line about leaving quarantine while contagious really hits different under the current circumstances

3:58 sounds like a very particular celestial form of Rick Ashley coming down the the heavens, falling down the stairs, and preforming Never Gonna Give You Up

This song has always been one of my favorites but THIS. This is what has put it at the top of the podium for me. I think about this song's message every day, no shit, and now it's all grown up. Ya really have outdone yourself, Mr. Wood.

i literally cannot simp for u more, will. its impossible

WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THE CREDITS- I was scared half to death-

I LOVE THE RATS!!!! YIPEE.

Idk why but this gives me asexual vibes. Feeling pressured to be "normal" and provide what is supposedly "owed" in your relationships but understanding that it's not really an option for you. I feel that.

I’m putting all my thoughts on this song down. This is musically and lyrically the best song to me. It sings to my soul. Every time I listen to this, I want to sing and burst out, no matter where I’m at. I just want to cry this song out passionately. This video is absolutely beautiful and all of the symbolism makes it one of my favorite videos as well. The social commentary if “normality” and conforming is extremely well executed. You can see the faces on the musicians faces as they play music that they don’t care about. It’s almost like corporate music. They break out with emotion and passion later on, playing along and expressing themselves, being “abnormal.” One of my favorite characters is actually the interviewer and psychologist. He’s the perfect example of someone who tries to be “normal” and judges other people. I don’t see it so much as he’s dying as much as I see his “normal” self being “infected” and he’s trying to fight back against it. Or it could also be symbolic of the psychologist listening to Will Wood/his character and their problems. He’s a fantastic example of society and also a wonderful characacher of the interviewers Will has had to deal with. They are stuck in this shell of the character they’ve made who is a bi-product of societal dogma. The talk about mortality speaks to me and my beliefs on life and death. We’ve been “not alive” before. The verse “I was nothing before, so I couldn’t ask to be born. I’ll be nothing again, so I’ll live life between now and then.” Are absolutely gorgeous. Talk about not wanting to get old. Now I’ll talk about musically. This song is so beautiful an the sound makes my soul cry. The different styles that all come together into this beautiful piece. There’s “corporate” news-ish music to symbolize society an that sense of “normality.” The section after the bridge where he talks about loving people exactly the way everyone else is (very true. There’s got to be an exact replica of your personality somewhere in the world) there’s synth or electric organ and it’s such a beautiful sound to me. It all has meaning and emotion behind it. I love music and am trying to get better everyday. Things like this that express ideas I already sympathize make me eager to express my own emotions. I’m typing this on my phone by the way, if that explains why it’s just a regurgitated mess of my feelings on the screen. There’s also the fact that my mind is going through multiple thoughts and feelings and trying to put them all down at once. Then there’s the actual love aspect of the song. I’ve felt love, heartbreak, and had to break someone’s heart. This song perfectly embodies the feeling of loving somebody being so utterly obsessed with the emotion. There’s so much to say about this song and so much I haven’t even touched on. Some of my emotions about this song can’t be said with the limitations of verbal language. Just listen to the music, that’s the best way to describe those emotions. Making music is how I put the unspeakable emotions into “words.” I love this song, I love Will Wood as a beautiful human being, and I love all if you as beautiful human beings, all experiencing this unexplainable, strange thing called life together. This is just a chaotic cluster of emotion, so I’ll just leave it off with one last line of thought. In life, which is so strange in and of itself, there are no such things as normal. As long as you don’t hurt anybody (without consent), do whatever you have to to make this life bearable. You are all beautiful humans and it doesn’t matter what you look like, what your gender is, what your sex is, your race, I love you all and will treat you with human decency. If this was hard to follow, I understand. It’s just an explosion of emotion.

I just discovered this song on spotify by accident. It's INCREDIBLE, it's art. I don't hear this in today's music. It's Jazz, rock n roll with Elvis influences. Will Wood is a breath of fresh air for todays music and I know I'm going to be a fan for years to come. I have no idea if Will or the tapeworms will ever see this comment but please, DO NOT conform to being normal. You are artists, you give me hope.

i like how it's clear there's something not right at the very start. norm brenner begins with "ladies and gentlemen, the sensational will wood" which isn't a proper sentence, but it's the bare minimum sentence for a talk show intro, hinting to the fact that this video is a hallucination.

I love how the intro before the “interview” is a sped up version of -ish

I love how the interviewer starts like “okay so” to “WTF” to “okay so..” to “IMA CRAZY OF HES CRAZY” to “WELL NOW EVERYONE IS CRAZY”

As a reccently out nb, it means so fucking much to me that my current favourite artist specifically mentions us. Like us, acceptence, this is good.

Here before 1,000 Views & way before total world domination by mr will wood.

finally.. serotonin

0:55 the way it slowly fades to a red lighting is so fucking scary for no reason

instructions unclear, i now hate strangely

* hands you a rat * * hands you a rat * * hands you a rat * * hands you a rat * * hands you a r

mr will wood u have done it again u funky little dude

3:42 My mind in school

the way he slams his feet on the table got me so hard

I think the funniest Will Wood related thing I’ve ever done is there was this edited picture of Crowley from good omens looking into a mirror with the word wh-re written on it and I commented “In lipstick on the mirror, are the lyrics to my obituary”

THE ENDING WITH IT JUST BEING THE STUPID MED DOCTOR MADE ME SCREAM I HATE IT IN A GOOD WAY. like hh I know they're supposed to help you but they don't fully grasp what you tell them. Then they just keep giving you higher and higher doses until you've become an empty shell filled with medicine and a need to leave the world

I'm dying over how similar some of these shots are to actual interviews he's done

I love how he just keeps on pulling out rats in the beginning and putting them on the desk while the host is just slightly amused and confused lol

This went from 0 to 100 rEAL quick. Couldn't be more happy about it.

Really love the ending of this video. I was on a prescription of lamictal & wellbutrin in high school myself. Didn't take to it well, to be honest. I went into rages for the first (and last) time in my life on that cocktail. I didn't even tantrum as a baby, but there I was doing it at 14! I had a corner in my room during this period which I would throw things into so they'd break, and I'd just leave the mess there. I've been on many other drugs since then and the treatments have gotten more effective, thank fuck... The process of medicating in itself creates distance in a person. You completely lose touch with what it is to feel "normal" versus what are symptoms of your illness, and you spend all this time analyzing your emotions from a detached position. I felt like the petri dish and the scientist at once. As a kid, my mom would go with me to all my appointments, and around that time (14) I remember saying to her, 'I don't know where I stop and the pills begin.' She had no answer for me, of course, all she ever wanted was for me to be happy and, well, *normal* So when I hear the line 'love me normally,' I think about how I wanted to be loved as I was, all the while believing that I could only be loved if I performed normality successfully. Most of that was my own projection due to guilt I felt for being neurodivergent - I've been pretty lucky in that my family aren't assholes about mental illness. But you wonder: if my symptoms were worse, would that still be the case? Just one of many times I've heard my own experience played back at me while listening to Will Wood.

1:05 dear god I thought he sent one of the rats flying I nearly screamed

This entire music video is like an episode of the podcast, it just descends further and further from anything touched by light and I love it

I love how the intro and outro to the video are both the melody of Self- and -ish

""Now That You Got That Big Hit With Love Me, Normal-""

HAHAHAHA I THOUGHT HE THREW THE RAT WHEN HE GRABBED THE MICROPHONE

The rats, the rats, we're the rats

I am choosing to believe that will wood has powers over rats and plants and chooses to use his powers for this reason. No one can tell me otherwise.

oh i already know i’m gonna break this replay button

ngl, this is the first time watching the music video ofter months of listening it on spotify....and can confirm that at 1:20, I act like that too on bed XD

The saxophone and guitar at 1:38 is so amazing

The way the “plot” (uhhh… events?) of this music video are structured and the visuals remind me of the course of a bad shroom trip. Especially the unnerved expressions of the psychologist, in fact everyone in this video looks like they’re tweaked the hell out lol.

Someone get Will Wood on the Eric Andre show

I just noticed that at 3:33 there’s pills on Norm’s desk! Those details, I swear

my favorite part is at 4:40 when mario just leaps up and attacks vater for no apparent reason Like okay guess he took the words on their bass literally

The host a real one for not interrupting