Massive Attack - The Spoils ft. Hope Sandoval 

Omg I wish

Yes, she's got a beautiful voice, don't know how recent this is but never heard it before till now. I love her voice in Help yourself, from a group called Death in Vegas, don't know if anybody's heard of them, the albums called Scorpio Rising from 2002.

@@Jenna2023 'Fade Into You' Mazzy Star (1994)

Also 4 walls with hope, MA, and burial, uh mazin!

@@Jenna2023 love that song!

What is grief, if not love persevering

Wise words.

Maybe there exists a superior form of Love, beyond time and space where there is no Separation.

@@mashiachadonai Yes, its called maternal love.

Usted le ha dado sentido a todo mi dolor ¡

Have you ever heard the studio version of "First time ever i saw your face" by Roberta Flack?

Dobry wieczór, się zgadzam. Piszę po polsku bo jestem zbyt leniwy żeby napisać "I agree wholeheartedly" jak sam skurwesyn. Pozdrawiam i życzę miłego dnia.

thanks!@@HappyHands.

Absolutely!

yess indeed here also

It's such a shame the shows legacy was destroyed

@@Ralph_Sandwich I was gonna write a comment defending the last season but then I remembered how sad Kit harrington was when talking about it. Really a gut punch to a loyal fanbase and he knew it.

rajat sharma I relate to that. So so much.

rajat sharma nailed it

Wow Rajat, I've never heard this feeling put so well before

Your words have touched me so deeply. You put words to something so personal and intangible. I am so emotional over this right now! It brings to my mind a couple of lines of See Emily Play by Pink Floyd. "she's often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams till tomorrow" and "gazing through trees in sorrow, hardly a sound till tomorrow"

It hurts, but you described it perfectly. Even when I'm aware of it, it's not the truth or reality..

same here

Me too:-)

Eu também! Rainha sem defeitos ❤️

🤩😄

I see Blanchett, I run away...

An angel has Hope's voice.

Yes! She and Enya 💖

si, cate blanchett Que Hermosa mujerrr !!

The amount of pain this song awakens in me.

what you said made me cry

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I3pE9yf3dW0.html

very deeply and profound...i felt the same..

The struggle between permanence/loss is heartbreaking, and inspiring...

It's called legacy.

All those little things that make up a memory.

I love this logic. I hold onto it with a tighest of grasp.

When the relationship starts you fall in love with their story and when it ends it’s because their experience shows instead

i would say it's a marriage

Massive Attack always produce amazing work female vocalists but Hope and Elizabeth Fraser are definitely my favourites

CherryEM Yea, they both are amazing vocalists. I listen to Mazzy Star religiously. I discovered them a few years ago, so that's the catalyst for my love of Hope. First my brother introduced me to M.A. after the first Matrix movie ( remember "Dissolved Girl"?) - I was just a kid at that time and from there on out every single M.A. song I loved. There wasn't and still isn't one song by them I don't like.

+Gabriel McCarthy yes yes yes Dissolved Girl is definitely one of my favourite tracks by them; I was personally introduced to MA about three years ago by my dad, in 1992 he went on tour with them to play a gig on Italian TV promoting Blue Lines and when he heard me listening to other trip hop like Bjork he told me to give Mezzanine a try

+CherryEM That's cool your first introduction to the band was the Mezzanine album too. I love me some Bjork. I was just thinking to myself how much Hope's lyrics here remind me of something Bjork would write. Blue Line's incredible chill rap feel - such an inimitable vibe - "blue lines", and "five nation army". My bro and I would jam to em as kids. All of blue lines is gold. I still haven't checked out their rap music when they were a different name before MA did indeed become Massive Attack. Haven't even checked to see if it's available online. You can hear how chill their hip hop was and how the perfection of this debute studio album burgeoned into their trip hop eminence and sprechgesang .

I love this!

Omgosh😢

True!😮‍💨🩶

I have brain damage, and someone decided it would be funny to burn my house to the ground. This is what it feels like to lose those you’ve loved and lost, and have nothing tangible to hold onto of them.

Indeed Cate's Blanchett's image should be kept in a museum as an ideal. :P

so sorry for your loss. what a bittersweet memory that must be..

Im so sorry. Thats gut wrenching. I hope you're doing okay. ❤

May he rest easy.

Am sorry for your heartache x

My condolences for the loss of your beautiful Son

Hope Sandoval is the vocalist of MAZZY STAR. She is also the voice from PARADISE CIRCUS.

,

you are correct

Be cool but I dont think Mainstream Music will play it let alone the average modern day music consumer

Hope Sandoval is fucking awesome.

Thank you! I needed this ❤️

something like that

Man maybe is this but in other way: the "Cate Blanchett" seems to have depersonalized herself in favor of the loved one. Anyway there are certainly less songs chanting us the ENDING of love than those millions of silly songs about the COMING of love, right? This is a case of a depressed woman ending of love... Did this long review, if you will, thks! A new generation of video makers has been feeding us with the most astounding cleeky concepts. So much so you cannot separate visual from track, don't want to. It would be like tasting food with your eyes closed. It's a whole. A bright confident woman's face live and skin tender is engulfed in shadows and will keep drowning into the dark abyss. It's not a human face actually. Is a model copy head of the live original. It's empty. Lifeless. Disconnected. Locked inside our screen glass. Decomposing in so many possible ways. In just a second the visual symptoms of deep psychiatric depression set all over in. And even so it will keep trying to make eye contact, haunting someone said here, the deep velour bass drum beats like a failing dying heart and higher tones drifting deeper and deeper into muteness. The slow and cruel dissolution experiments with what would be like comings and goings. An archaeological reconstruction from facial bones gets stuck middle way. A digital rendering shows failures, or an empty casket. A Pluto surface texture from a low-def probe turns into a moon and then meteorite surface. It will be an ancient statue corroded by thousand years of acid rain. Or maybe a million decades on from here. Roman and Greek statues being a faint attempt to eternize people and concepts we love unchanged. It's a stalagmite. We would lovingly embrace it in it's helpless coldness. It seems pretty random, but actually underline each verse with brain surgery precision, an excellent example of rhythm in film editing. And a warning of why we should never dissipate our souls in favor of the other, a true loving relationship should be balanced and self nurturing and ever renewing not stagnant. Finally, the entity using Hope Sandoval's voice could be a virtual intelligence behind a custom relationship motor, those ones in every damn Netflix everywhere now, that will slowly come to know you by applying statistics on a database formed by collecting your clicking habits over the years and then getting so completely into your consumption habits and preferences that will actually try to simulate a sort of love by just offering the things you like most, in a total failed way to fidelize you because it will insist in keeping you more and more like that, away from everything else. This is ultimately boring. And that's when the other one got so totally depersonalized and undervalued in the relation, you will cut out the ties and proceed to more interesting exchanges. So Google don't ever never love me like this, ok? Database selling will turn us all into stalagmites sitting in front of our notebooks.

Or maybe it represents how the memory of someone you've lost is slowly distorted and eventualy fades, having more and more trouble remembering the facial attributes correctly until it all comes to vague idea

Miroslav Kyurkchiev I respect your interpretation.

or maybe the idea in our visually oversaturated world that when you love someone at some point it does not matter how this person looks like and how will look like, how the body will age, how it might get sick or damaged, how it will turn into a stone, or soil, or sand.

ruan5649 the truth

aww haha, thanks for the picture. Love it

lekkki1 and John Hillcoat!!

i fail to see how kate adds anything to this lol. but sure. 😂

@@cecicestmoi You certainly did fail to see it

@@cecicestmoi She's just all over this video, but OK.

So true!

I do not believe they have ever said that they took the title from that phrase.

Never said they did. It's an interpretation. Nevertheless, they probably did title the song as "The Spoils" knowing that the phrase "to the victor go the spoils" is a popular phrase (in fact, the only real context in which anyone ever says "the spoils"), and that the title would evoke this phrase in the audience's mind.

Well in your original comment, you specifically say "the speaker in the song is..." which is you saying the song is about something rather than clarifying it's your own interpretation. And while yes it's possible they took the title "The Spoils" from that phrase, you are making an assumption again but originally phrased it as fact.

Of course I'm making assumptions. Of course it's just my interpretation. Relax.

WeigandDX I think you nailed completely!, That phrase is not common in today’s world. The lyrics match precisely what you speak of here. Good job!, the wonders of being literate haha.

congratulations!

Her voice always does mate, makes my soul resonate!

She has a voice purely born of soul...

💕

Me feels

Agree, if u feel deep, u'll never forget this song

true

you mean galadriel

its LADY Galadriel for you :))))

It is a reconstruction of the love that existed a thousand years ago. Now we know it only from the beauty of the sculptures. Cate is like the first woman on earth, an icon, a timeless sculpture of the beauty and love.

Lubo Mirchev I like that view

I totally agree with you

Moi aussi.

And hope is the cherry on the top 🔥

It's heartbreaking in a fundamental way I can't really articulate. And beautiful.

Well, almost 2 years after that comment. Time heals. And it heals wounds relatively quickly. I am totally healed from that breakup but now I am striaght back into my default mode, plus all the spiritual awareness acquired during the high pain phase. But still, It's not enough, if you think a deep breakup will change you, you might be wrong. What I've found in the meantime is that change is trully done within your own core self. Of course you'll NEED traumatic events of some sorts but you'll change only from within yourself. If you are that kind of person like me (I believe) that needs way more than just a "breakup" to change you, then be prepared. The feelings and awareness you felt after the breakup it just the FIRST STEP. Then you might be in NEED of a system. 1) : support 2) accountability. That's coming from a long-life loner. You will NEVER be able to change unless you have people/groups supporting you and making you accountable during your change. If you stay alone and within the realm of your ego, you will simply recreate similare experiences. Indeed, the absolute BIGGEST thing I've learn personnally, is that you need a system to hold you acountable for your change and also somekind of support. Trying to overthink life by yourself is INSANE. And insanity will bring you only pure negativity. All I have learned during that post breakup phase is that love, hapiness, and all the good stuff are created within YOU first. You do not need anybody or anything to be happy. But to reach this place, you need to LET GO and GET HELPED with competent people.

From my experience, the love you feel for your partner pales in comparison to the love you feel for your child the first time you hold them... Like I said, from my experience, others may feel differently. The word profound doesn't cover it, it just grows and grows from there. To love someone more than literally anything else is both brutal and the essence of being a living being. Don't ever give up. I hope one day you find out for yourself. It's worth the struggle, it's worth everything.

Hope Sandoval is a good singer.

that's exactly what I said

I love it!!!!!!x

so true

She doesssss! Every time I hear her this heavy sublime weight consumes my heart. Like being on the verge of tears or in the middle of bliss

jean jeanie72 And think about the love you wish you had with that person❤️✌🏼

Yeah that feeling

I just press replay

Heard this song for the first time today. It hit me hard. I had to see who else felt this way, and was amazed that I did exactly what you said. I just sat there and took it in. Wow.

Profound is the word, this track brings me to tears every single time.

Agreed

EXACTLY

Well, have you heard other songs from Hope Sandoval...

Truth...built on truth and true love

Mark Barrett exactly

lol I like how you put it

Heartbreak never sounds so creepy but beautiful at the same time

😂

I love you and thanks.

it does precisely that

I have lost Loves this makes me wonder if I ever really found it.

Hillcoat - Mind

We (here/now) - Souls

@@clau853 for sure

It's special... 👍

The Dead Don't Die! Cate is phenomenal!

👀👨‍👦😏

@@alirezashsevarishsevari4114 yes I see you agree.

Touching connecting pleasuring

@@jaimhaas5170 lmao

Omg thats me!

Without a doubt That’s why people like us Appreciate Massive Attack 💯👍🏻

underrated by who??

Not at all underrated.

💔

I do love him though... And I miss us, both.

These words are amazing, wow

It's grief for a future that never came to be.

@@billie6814 Drop me in the shallow water before I get to deep. I like the way you think Billie.

me 2

Indeed

I know

Kinda her thing!

Memory is all we have

Missing the miss is both a good and a bad thing. Time is the great equalizer. Be brave my friend.

This comment hit me🥲

I' think ive came across this before but i'm not sure if i clicked on it. This is a beatifully stuctured song.

I also lost my mother 2 years ago and I totally understand what you're saying

Jeez Cate you are godessing here.

It is terrifying. You are not alone.

I think it's the abject brutal loneliness we all at some point feel. Or maybe that's just my projection.. but I find it terrifying to think about, and this song especially the video reminds me of this. Idefk though, just my random 4AM thoughts bro, lol

For me it's someone else but same

Ghosting is trivial social media garb. This, to me is on another level altogether

Woah!

Wow

thanks!

Thats so cool. Thanks.

2:04 made me think of Micheal Myers or the creepy mask the BTK serial killer wore during reenactments.

Mantap bu

Thank you

🖤🙏🏾

@@ekawinata8415 wah music taste nya bagus, suka massive attck juga?

"It seems to me, that if we love, we grieve. That’s the deal. That’s the pact. Grief and love are forever intertwined. Grief is the terrible reminder of the depths of our love and, like love, grief is non-negotiable."

💗

Hope all is at least a lil better for u now

I hope you’re doing better now❤️

The feelings of despair go away, and you will only remember feeling them.

,still, !?!

Try Tricky too - he's great, and a big part of Massive

The Bristol Sound ! 💙

Sarosh well put sir

Sarosh yeah

Sarosh big differences when people use to express their opinions about art and the other people when only come here to gain likes , for example: "2018, anyone?" It's very pleasant to read actually smart and meaningful comments.

Perfectly said.

I hope my penius can satisfy you i will one day bring back order to this broken universe

ASeeker I agree.

100%

As someone with poor recolective skill, aka bad visual memory, this is very accurate for me. Could take a couple of days, weeks or a month, but I forget people's faces and voices. This is worse when you love someone and they take "a break" from you. You know you love the idea of them but you can't accurately picture them or hear them.

To forgot feels similar....just in silence possible to remember ❤....

Cate is INCREDIBLE ❤️

Cate is so beautiful.

Lizzy Ari bliss masterpiece

Lizzy Ari agreed. You paint a nice picture. I always let it go in the car. Just crank it

Indeed!

Oh I'm going to do that alright.. as soon as I get back home.

Dark room and headphones... absolutely!

-hmmm, massive attack, nice music -- but hope wrote the words. .

What a pain in the ass being alive, isn't it?

Cate is has really great original taleent and unique beauty

She's also done some lesser projects, but even in those she's a overwhelming presence (to me) :)

@@vokkkkov2634the uniqueness is gone since she had ridiculously bleached teeth, a nose job, is lifted and has injections in her lips and botox. She looks artificial and not good anymore. Also she is fake and dishonest and only lifes for fame and money.

Enya Teebrook Cure for cancer is Moringa Oleifera and Kombucha. Good luck.

Please look into the new Immunotherapy drugs being released (Keytruda, Opdivo, etc). Depending on the type of cancer, these may offer legitimate hope.

I hope he's doing well

my thoughts exactly

It always will...

@@streetlevelaudio4388 fr

Lucky devil

You know, jezz.

Didn't know it was her. Thanks for that ♥

Mazzy-ve Attack

"Paradise Circus", you're right though!

Passion makes us idealize people, when we truly love someone, all that passion fades and we are just delighted by the person's existence. And it's a privilege to truly love someone such as mothers loves their children and old couples love each other.

@@felipesoares1787 that's right...

I can see your point of view. For me, the song is about letting go of someone you love romantically even though you still love them and watching someone else fall in love with them

and what if being a human is only an experience in the infinite story?

I really like your interpretion Metzly

beautifully said

@@OceanMetTheSky Yeah, of course. I was talking more about the video since I'm personally experiencing it with lost loved ones; I remember them through photos and some core memories, but I'm afraid I've forgotten some traits, gestures, or even voices. The song is beautiful, but the video takes it higher.

Same

I never cry. But this and the Elephant man film from 1980 both get me every time.

Real

@@bobbibueno5902 it truly is food for my SOUL ...

Wajg3l that is for sure! )

the soul says thanks massive attack

Yes yes...listening over and over, tears, sublime pain...x

Amen.

So damn true. This song makes me really emotional 😭😢

ciaociao

I know why

Brings back many happy memories of listening to Mazzy Star!

Jenni Elina Holopainen thank you for these words. It has the same effect on me.

Wonderful

saumya shukla that's genious, thank you

I go i a little further on that, this song gives me a taste of the eternity, on the stoned face at the end after thousand of years, and how futile is any attempt of tricking time to make something or someone to endure through it. It is just what it is, doesn't know mercy, don't care about history, and less about love. Everything is meant to have it's own tiny space and then eventually dissapear without trace, even though how great it was, and that feeling makes it through my ears directly to my bones and soul. That's the final feeling that makes us search for religion, love or science and perdure until the end of time, but finally remains as a helpless and unavoidable truth.

saumya shukla brilliantly perspective.

Like tears.. in rain.

she will never be forgotten...