Lyrics: Sunrise It's time, it's time Step out into the new normal Embrace the day with your new shame Goodbye to those who cannot join (us ?) Their voices are still heard in (every?) word that we say As we blend into new normal Familiar path, different (lanes ?) You donned yesterday's smile Decorate your new face
the visual with the two lil guys is actually so sad and scary to me like theyre accepting death but one dies first and the other one is scared- your visuals in this song give me spiritual psychosis tbh but its nice
Me too. The face of the guy as he keeps hanging on to his companion, even as the death spreads to him feels so sad. Gives off "When the Wind Blows" Honestly.
@582 the way I see it. it's more about the two being 'connected'. The two people were a married couple with one of them dying first. Then the other one was left to face the reality that the person they thought they'd be with forever is gone before eventually dying themselves
i think its something about the poorer dying killing off the rich, possibly represented by the skinnier one dying first (i can see the ribs) and then the fatter one, though they are connected.
For animations like these, Jack draws them on MS Paint, and after compiling them in order to make the animation, he *then* goes to put it in a VHS tape. That could mean that there is a version out there, somewhere in Jack's many files, with decidedly better resolution.
@@knowinglack I'm pretty sure that he does, in fact, actually load them onto VHS tapes in order to get that static-ey stuff on there, but for me it's not clear enough to know for sure if this means there's an HD version of New Normal.
Imagine 20 years later not knowing who jack stauber is, you step into an abandoned house and find a box full of Jack Stauber VHS tapes. And this is what you watch, I don’t know about you guys but i’d be pretty terrified...
As someone who recently lost my sister, I get this. It feels like everything has changed and nobody wants to talk about it. Like we just have to accept it as normal now. I feel for you and your family. May his memory be a blessing ❤❤
[Intro] Sunrise It's time, it's time [Chorus] Step out into the New Normal Embrace the day with your new shape Goodbye to those who cannot join us Their voices are still heard in every word that we say As we blend into New Normal Familiar path, different lanes (Let it sit, let it sit) You've donned yesterday's smile Decorate your new face (Let it sit, let it sit)
Probably the chord progression. It's similar to A Space Oddity David Bowie, and Creep Radiohead. But I completely get it :3 it just hits the feels button in a familiar way :')
I remember when this video first dropped. It was 10 days after the COVID lockdowns started (at least here in Michigan). Everyone was so scared and confused and deaths were just piling up at an alarming rate, and then we got this haunting depiction of the "new" world. The screams, the rising bodies, the shriveling lovers, the feeling of isolation, the very concept of the phrase "new normal" - all of it outlined the true horror of this time we lived through. It clearly outlines a dark time in our history, and I hope people use this in teaching for the future in relation to the culture at the time. Well done, Jack. You got the world to sympathize with your pain.
Oh yeah. I always think of the start of the pandemic when I think of this song, and like you I heard the song just when the lockdowns started. It wasn't anything any of us in the world have lived through -- not on such a global scale, at least -- and I felt like the whole world was a breath away from changing into something horrible. And we'd all just have to learn to deal with it. Luckily, the world survived the pandemic, but this song always evokes my memories of that time.
the weirdest part is...due to the vast time and effort that goes into animation, i would bet that jack started working on this project well before anything related to the pandemic started. the fact that every single scene of this animation can be connected to the pandemic in some way is just an eerie coincidence...
It's not over. That period of history is still ongoing. The government is just trying to sweep it under the rug. Covid isn't over, but the government decided it should be, and that we should start banning masks even in hospital settings where we always had them before. That at least should cause you to raise an eyebrow. They don't even want you to see a mask and think about a pandemic anymore. The government did very little to protect us and now they are abandoning us. Millions of Americans have died due to poor administration failing to address this in the way it should have been.
1:15 still hits me the most because the figure looks over the empty chair which symbolizes someone they know or are close with gone probably due to the lockdown preventing them from meeting or that person died from the disease. Either way, the figure, even if it didn't have a face, shows a sense sadness of missing someone. Truly summarizes the grief during the pandemic.
the deaths displayed in this music video are absolutely traumatizing. there was no blood, there was no audio, just the pure, raw expression of hope leaving the mind as people take their last breath, their bodies crumpling to dust never to be found again.
I don't think it's about quarantine I think it's about how ordinary things can seem frightening and irregular when things change The new normal, things are different but it's still normal to people- Just different, new and confusing for you
Can relate. All my friends are into drinking and partying now that they're in college but I still stand with a firm anti-alchohol mentality (for personal reasons) while have to accept the normality of it
which can include the impact this whole pandemic has had on people. It's uprooted people lives completely, which can be really scary, but it has to be normalized due to safety.
0:43 i take this part as theyre just accepting their fate like they have this hopeless but bittersweet expression like "yeah were gonna die but atleast we have eachother" but then the other dude dies first and now the fat one had to accept he was gonna die alone which gave him a severe anxiety or some shit, sad stuff man
Tbh I find this more PETRIFYING than any other piece of horror media I’ve ever seen or heard and yet I still can’t find what makes me so scared almost 4 years later.
for me its terrifying because it feels like its related to evolution and ancestry, stuff like that gives me an existential crisis and i know that theres some part rooted deep within my brain that is still connected to my very very very very very distant ancestors (basically cavemen) i dont know how to explain it that was probably a very bad explanation
0:43 that... Hurt me. Watching two souls, both knowing, dreading, what's to come, die with each other. Only one got off easy and died first, not having to die second, not having to watch the energy sap from his friend, not having to die alone, cold, and terrified holding the hand of a dead friend. Jesus, Jack.
Lyrics: Sunrise It's time, it's time Step on into the new normal Embrace the day with your new shape Goodbye to those who cannot join us Their voices are still hurting every word that we say As we blend into new normal Familiar path different place You don yesterday's smile Decorate your new face
I've always enjoyed the way Jack Stauber's videos sound and really enjoyed his music but goodness, this video hits me in a way that makes me finally understand what everyone says about him. To me, it conveys the sheer horror you feel when everything around you has changed so much that the person in the mirror doesn't even look like you anymore. And yet it's still optimistic, pushing you forward, begging you to keep going and embrace the way things are now. It's lovely and I'm crying
The opening lyrics "Sunrise... It's time... It's time" perfectly encapsulated the feeling of days after experiencing new normal like "Damn we have life tomorrow again"
This is my favorite thing he's ever done. Combined with the lyrics, the screaming in the back, and the haunting visuals, this is my favorite song of his, _ever._ 0:44 really hit me hard, the poor thing watching its friend die and shriveling up alongside it. This is a gorgeous song.
in the background among the distorted screaming and sirens, you can faintly hear a voice saying "ill miss you" at certain parts. Edit: There are two, one is at 0:54 and the next is at 1:09. Also if you look up the lyrics it is there for anyone wondering.
This song's double meaning is so fascinating. It represents both the new world we've found ourselves in after 2020 and also grief and losing somebody close to you. It fits both of these meanings perfectly without leaning towards the other
My dog died only a few weeks ago. He was such a lovable little dude. He was the grandpa of all the pets in our family. Everything feels a bit different without the taps he made when he walked. No more of his bark after you'd stop petting him. The fact his fur would end up everywhere. He was one of the few things I had before I was even born. He was basically my big brother. Rest well, Koda. You will be severely missed. But for us, We'll have to bitterly accept... Our new normal. Shoot, I just wrote emo poetry-
I lost my cat and the association of this song with grief made me think of her. Its been a bit over a year since she disappeared. It wasnt a quiet goodnight. She just disappeared while old and i never got a proper farewell.
I’m so sorry for your loss, I’ve had someone extremely similar happen when I was a ‘wee lil’ gal. If there’s a heaven, you’ll know Koda is up there. Shit, he’s probably chilling with my long dead dog Sasha playing ball🤙🏻
I lost 2 cats this year, one on February 26th and one on may 21st. On February I lost my cat Jetta. I don’t know how old she was. A gum disease was spreading everywhere in her body so we had to put her down. Recently, I lost Kitty, a cat that I’ve had for my whole life, every single second. He had cancer in his jaw, it spread to his throat, and then to his lungs. The day we found out about him having cancer, we put him down because soon he wouldn’t be able to breathe. I miss them so much. I know how painful it is. Nobody really cares because it was just an animal, but it feels like you lost everything. I’m so sorry for your loss
Yes, the visuals are terrifying and is what my sleep paralysis demon bops to, but can we just appreciate this beautiful song. When the full version comes out this is definitely hitting my playlist immediately.
Lyrics: Sunrise It's time, it's time Step out into the New Normal Embrace the day with your new shape Goodbye to those who cannot join us Their voices are still heard in every word that we say As we blend into New Normal Familiar path, different place You've donned yesterday's smile To decorate your new face
This will always be my favorite song produced by Jack Stauber. The song, paired with the visuals, is something that will always remain in my mind. It's incredible.
0:43 this part probably hits the hardest for me. the pure, desolate expression on their faces is heartbreaking, and the way the one on the right just curls into a ball, horrified at death... it's really haunting and depressing.
It's so agonizing, the way that the one on the right is afraid, the necrotized enmeshing. To be washed away by the rain is the only relief in this section. It makes me hope I can love myself and live on my own so that I don't die like this. Because I know one day that people I love will die too. Of course it helps to have a community and people close to you to support each other, but the fact that they are connected to the point of being the same being in the video shows me that they cannot live without each other. It's very poignant.
I think this is really reminiscent with the Covid-19 pandemic, but also just in general life. One thing I love about Jack's music is that there are tons of different ways you can interpret it.
This song hits hard after losing my Dad and my Grandma to coronavirus in 2021. They were two of my best friends in the whole world. We lived next door to my grandma so you can imagine I spent almost every day with her and her old house was practically a second home. She acted more like the fun neighbor kid than a grandma lol, 100% would choose to hang out with her over any of my friends. She was the type of grandma that is still active enough to play basketball with you, but still loved sitting in the living room and watching cartoons with you (and actually enjoying them lol, she loved SpongeBob and Courage the Cowardly dog the most I think), and then make the best tasting food you’ve ever eaten and send you home with a warm hug and kiss. I can still remember every inch of her house, it was like a time capsule from the 70s. Analog TV’s, VHS tapes, a floral pattern couch, that artificial wood paneling they put up in all of the houses back then, you name it, all of it was straight out of the 1970’s and she kept it PERFECT. It even had an old SNES console on an 80s Magnavox TV upstairs in probably the warmest comforting bedroom you’ve ever seen with all of my uncles old toys still lying around and their childhood clothes still in the dresser. Thank God I managed to save that old Magnavox and SNES when the house sold, me and my dad spent so many hours playing on that thing. My heart would have died if it had faced the same fate as the rest of her house. The new people who moved in have trashed everything, it looks like a junkyard down there. Tearing up her gardens and cutting down trees just so they can put piles of scrap metal in the freaking front yard to sell like Sanford and Sons. This hurts even more because of how much she took care of everything outside, not a single weed in the yard, let alone what these people have done to it. And that’s not even mentioning watching everything on that property that I grew up cherishing as a kid rotting and getting sold off for pennies. And the fact that we essentially lost half of our property because she lived next door we essentially lived on both properties interchangeably. There’s not much I can put into words about my Dad. My life was ripped in half when he passed. He was a man of few words, but a big heart. There are so many things I wish I could show him every single day. He was a big gamer, and every time I play a game on my computer I can’t help but think of him and the pain of wishing he were there to play with me. I still have a half dead windows XP computer with a few dozen Need For Speed type games on it we played constantly when I was growing up. I have no room for it and it doesn’t even really work anymore because the hard drive is dying, but I couldn’t imagine ever getting rid of it. Just like that SNES it would kill me to see it go. He loved golfing too. We would go golfing almost every week. He was the worst best golfer I’ve ever seen lol, he would hit the ugliest shot you’ve ever seen but it would hit a tree and bounce onto the green or something lol. I haven’t been able to golf since he passed. I went one time, and didn’t even finish the game. It felt disgusting to play without him, and I haven’t touched a golf club since. It hurts even more because we had just bought him a new set of clubs for Father’s Day and he didn’t even get a chance to fricking use them. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to play again, which is sad considering the thousands of dollars we spent on clubs because I was serious about it for a while but now it just makes me sick. And I’ll never feel the same about Ford Ranger pickup trucks again either. He had this old ranger truck from the late 90s. It was an absolute piece of crap that refused to die, until he passed. And I swear everything on that truck went bad. We ended up selling it to a junkyard almost a year later, and that truck miraculously started up and drove that day (with a dead transmission mind you) to the junkyard under its own power, parked itself among the other cars, and then from what I could tell, it basically died. Even the hood latch broke and they couldn’t get the hood open. What’s so stupid too, my dad loved call of duty as long as I can remember and he tried to get me into it, and I had no interest. Then 2 years after he passed I downloaded warzone 2. I loved it. And I hated it because I could have downloaded any COD game while he was still alive and played it with him, but I missed my chance. My only chance. These are the things that hurt the most. I guess this was sort of a therapeutic brain dump of everything I’ve accumulated since their passings. I just thank God I had 18 years with both of them, and I’m trusting Jesus I’ll see them again in heaven. If you’ve read this far, I apologize for dumping this onto you lol. I hate the new normal, it isn’t normal at all.
Such words full of love and disperation. Probably this is the first time we will encounter, idk, not us, our minds? our words? I know that is easier to say than to do, at least you had them, better to have had them and lost them than to never have had them? I know this sound insulting Idk, I never had someone as them and they sound so good I've never lost anyone important yet , I'm still oblivious to the mistery of death, or feeling it around me Yet I know the overwhelming sensation of feeling a naufragee in the waves of life I recall Gilgamesh coercing everything on earth to grieve for his friend, Enkidu, even grass But unfortunately our world is inside ourselves, the inner reality just flows They loved you, idk nothing changes the fact that they loved, even if they are gone You probably in your life would have a son or a nephew to bless with your mere existence
My heart…the love of my life lost his brother during covid. He sent me this today after…I can’t talk about that it’s messing me up too much. I can’t decide now how much a blessing or curse it was for me now. I wouldn’t have met someone who did unspeakable things to me and still is. I was able to spend more time with my grandparents than I had in endless years though. I wouldn’t see the rest of my family and they never went over due to that. Because of covid I was able to have Christmases with them and see them many times a week. He was very sick and a couple years ago they passed away two years apart. No one saw it coming with my grandma. They were my mom, dad, best friends, and saviors. I was so scared I would lose them due to covid…I should have had more time with them, but I am glad I had the time that I did have. Sending my love.
The scene with one of the two conjoined twins dying and rotting away which in turn killed their sibling in the process gave me literal chills… I think it had to do with how after the first sibling died the other just distraughtly curled up into a ball and sobbed as his flesh rotted and flaked away.
Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton (famous performers, perhaps most well known for appearing in the movie Freaks) actually died this way. They didn't come into work and were found dead in their homes eventually. Evidence suggested that Violet had died two or three days after Daisy. They were attached at the hip. They died of the Hong Kong flu, which was "a category 2 pandemic" (though I don't know what that means).
@@Barlakopofai yeah, i don't really like it when people try to stick up for him by saying stuff like "don't tell him to extend songs, let him do what he wants, he is a busy guy!!" when he is surely reading lots of the comments and seeing which ones his fans want him to extend. _edit: for the record, i'm not saying the original commenter is one of those people_
Yeah ive seen em all, or most at least. Chokfull of body horror, existential dispare, consequences of addiction etc... thought i was used to it by now. This one just hit different.
I found this song a day before someone i cared about passed away. And a year before that a family friend that we loved killed himself. I was afraid of listening to this song because I didn't want to relive those memories, but now i realize it was one of the only ways I could grieve their deaths on my own, as i never felt anything when they passed. I still find it hard now, but this song helps me cry when i need to. I thank Jack for making this.
I think this is absolutely about the loss of a loved one, when the two people come out from the other guy's mouth, one shrivels up and then the other cries and shrivels up after, the empty chair at the end. def got those vibes from it the whole time.
Guys this wasnt a "boredom" thing. This is art that jack made in response to what's happening around him. Because what he makes is art, with meaning. And not just weird shit to scare you. Edit: if this came off as self righteous or douchey- I could 100% be wrong. Maybe its meaningless nothing that he made on a whim, I dont know him and I am not him. I will never truly know his intentions and that's fine. To me its art and if you disagree that's cool! You dont have to agree with me. Stay safe out there
This is weird shit to scare you. It's meaningful and meaningless at the same time. I'm tired of people pointing at art they like and saying "This is art". It should go without saying. You may as well say "This is a video on RU-vid". It is indeed art, and so is every shitty painting ever made. You liking a piece of art isn't what qualifies it as art or meaningful art.
Broulio 7w7 I think if it were to be like any Radiohead song, it would be like morning bell. They’ve both got wacky modulations and mainly the piercing, distorted noises.
As someone who remembers watching this during quarantine and coming back to this 3 years later (11-14) with my grandpa and friend dying it’s kinda a wake up call to realize I’m never seeing those people again and no matter how much I make jokes about it I’ll never be able to talk to them ever again and this is the new normal. She’s never gonna be at my lunch table again. He’s never gonna buy me stupid gifts.
Lyrics: Sunrise It's time, it's time Step on into the New Normal Embrace the day with your new shame Goodbye to those who cannot join us Their voices are still heard in every word that we say As we blend into New Normal Familiar path, different lanes (I'll miss you, I'll miss you) You've donned yesterday's smile Decorate your new face (Miss you, I'll miss you)
watching the conjoined twins die together was so scary and chilling to look at. jack portayed the sadness and fear of an inevitable death so well in the 3 seconds of that scene. (0:43)
It wasn’t that scary to be honest, I’ve seen worse shit in a movie that traumatized me as a child called the dark crystal, where this dude had his life sucked out of him and shriveled up and turned pale like those unborn conjoined fetuses did.
This honestly is my favorite Jack Stauber song. His other songs are great, but this song hits different and I really don't know why. It's just something about this song just makes me feel so good.
@@David_Franco that doesn't mean anything, none of them ever start off as being extended. Those eggs aren't dippy didn't have any audio cuts, and it's extended.
Jordan Guy To me the thumb nail look like a banana! look back at the video picture the mouth is a banana peal and the eyes is a small slice os a banana 🍌
One of those songs that makes me think of my dog. I can't believe she's gone. Ten good years, this is a new normal. One with pain i must embrace. And that's the beauty of it.
Man I remember when this came out, just as the pandemic started. To me this song is the only one that truly captured how it felt, and how it still feels. No day has felt real since 2020, as the year seems to hemorrhage into the following years, never truly ending.
same here, god, it feels like ages ago, and yet, no time at all. it's weird looking back. I've been sick these past few weeks, distancing myself from everyone, and it's reminded me of those times. I honestly have no idea how any of us got through. I remember when everything first started opening up again where I lived. I gave a high five to a stranger, and it felt like climbing out of a void. it was the most amount of human contact i had had in literally over a year. I never fully caught up with everyone else after covid. I've been in a sort-of stasis, unable to truly move on. nothing feels the same anymore. it's as if the world ended back then, and we're still picking up the pieces. I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop, for the next catastrophe to hit.
I've recovered pretty quickly from the lockdown and social distancing and all but, my perception of time is still messed up. The pandemic feels like lifetimes ago, and at the same time feels just like yesterday, so distant and so close simultaneously.
Heartworn Fox I feel like it’s all up for interpretation. It could easily be about COVID-19 or the feelings and mental challenges that are being brought along with quarantine, or even references to the fact that the rapture is probably gonna come because this year is shit so far. I just love that there isn’t a clear yes or a no to what we all think his stuff is about
if jack extends this song, i can guarantee that i would be one of his strongest songs (the short is already really powerfull by itself, so imagine an extended version)
The two people holding hands that die one at a time is so gut wrenching. I love my wife so much. Part of me wants to die first so I don’t have to hold myself in waiting. But also... i never want her to have to go through that.
New normal : banalisation of the pain. The animation make me think of cycle of pain brought to the humanity. First of all the screaming man looks in immense pain, this eary animation where there is spermatozoids comming out of his screaming mouth looks like a simbolism about the pain of the humanity being given to the newborns. Also, if we pay attention to the green tree roots that appears for a brieve second in the first part of the song, we can notice those roots becoming red, a bloody and painful red who signify for me the essens of the humanity being corrupted by the death and the pain. Also i think the peoples going through the sky is abviously a symbolism of the "eternal slumber" a remanent theme of the song. It's almost as the ☠️ was becoming the only escape "goodbye for the ones who cannot join us" Is this a sentence for the ones flying in the sky that are unable to bear the pain or for those who cannot bring them to "let go of there life to fly up in the sky" Finaly i like how there is a little man who look at the screen in the end of the song "the last intense look in the end of a movie is often use to warn the spectator of the arival of a (followup) or that in the canon story is not ending where the movie end" maybe it's saying that our story as a human still continue afterall, the looking-man at the end could signify that the following is within our hands and i like how he's sitting on a chair in a field of other of empty chairs "like in a sort of spiritual therapy in a parallel world where the minds of all people could make a connexion through a sort projection of ourself" this man in the end could look at us and say a thing like : what will you do now. or : it is your turn to change your own painful destiny
''Goodbye to those who cannot join us Their voices are still heard in every word that we say'' this part of the song makes me more depressed than 9 months ago
I think it's kinda beautiful, like "we are connected to every human through all history in all the traits we share, all the music and culture and language, and though they can't join us they are still heard and felt now"
I remember i watched it with my best friend like 3 years ago , i was creeped , now my friend died in a car accident , i watched it again and im creeped again , something never change huh
I don't think I've ever wanted a full version quite as much as I do now. I seriously don't know what it is about it, but those twangs suck me into the weirdness, but also a strange and unfamiliar serenity. Eugh but at the same time mmmm.
The part of the video that really got me was the attached creatures, when the left one died the expression of the one on the right, I could feel it in my soul. Grief is indescribably hard.
This is crazy that its been 4 years ago since I watched this during the height of the pandemic. It feels like a decade ago at times, but also like it could have happened yesterday. Listening to this at the time felt so cathartic. I was about to freshly graduate college into what felt like “the new normal”. At 22/23 just starting out in the world it all felt incredibly heavy. Even though this was only 4 years ago, Ive grown so much and now all I feel is nostalgia with a hint of sadness. All the friends I had at this time have moved on so we no longer speak. The fear and sadness many felt during this time will be spoken about for years to come. Artwork like Jacks is so powerful and has a lasting effect.
This is, in my opinion, the most HAUNTING thing that Jack has EVER made. The screams in the back of the song and the horrifying visuals are just absolutely haunting, yet the song is so oddly calming, like an aura of acceptance and comfort. 10/10 Mr. Stauber, keep being awesome.
