The Blasting Company - Candy (Official Music Video) 

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War

Amen to that

Ill see yall in the Cavalry

Same!

Same haha

Yes! I watch that shit every year between Halloween and Thanksgiving. So glad it brought this group into my life ❤🙌 A thousand blessings

Right

Goes hard

I read that line as a beautifully dark reflection on the war's legacy of rising confederate sympathies and reactionary racist movements that dominated the south and are still felt today. That long shadow still hasn't been undone to this day.

@@kylehart8829 More than that, its a reflection of war's legacy all over the world. Similar inescapable cycles in Bosnia, Palestine, Afghanistan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Chechnya before and Ukraine now, so on and so forth. People and societies struggle to move on, and things go unaddressed. This pain is terrifyingly universal.

​@@kylehart8829Very poignant. I'm usually *very* shaky when it comes to anything involving Confederate stuff in music. But I respect that the lyrics did not try to decorate them in a heroic or mythic light

Thank you so much for this much needed encouragement, we really appreciate it. More music forthcoming ASAP!

@@BlastingCompany Very glad to hear it, but please do not rush the music. I wish to see another masterpiece like this, even if I have to wait like half a year or more.

@@BlastingCompany its been a year where song

It would seem that way from the lyrics, but the animation would seem to reveal that the kids are in the union. The kid is holding a union flag and the city was pretty industrious, which wasn't all that common in Southern cities during the civil war. Been questioning the disconnect between the two a little bit, but it's a great tune.

@@NeillGuitars pretty sure that's the Stars and Bars (csa), and the south had industrial towns/cities, just not to the same extent as the North. And side note though I'm not particularly sure how to articulate this, but the song is pretty clearly a southern one both musically and lyrically. I haven't ever been able to find anything about it online, but there's a certain sense of "Southern Sorrow" that persists even today from the aftermath of the Civil War. Not to bring any sort of justification either way, but a lot of innocent people suffered during and after the war, and we continue to feel it today. The south was already behind Industrially/economically in 1861, but the war set us back easily another 50-80 years. Add in a good deal of bitterness, spite, and poor planning, and that leaves us in the situation we're in now. The city im in had an unemployment rate of more than 25% for males my age before covid. I have nothing against people from the North, hell I even family in Ohio, Maryland, and elsewhere, but I wish there was more understanding for what the average,working class people here have to endure just to make it, only to be stereotyped as stupid, ignorant, racist, inbred, ect. It hurts sometimes, and I really wish we could all put aside our preconceptions and treat each other as human beings instead of enemies to overcome. If anyone actually reads this, I just want to say that I love you, from the bottom of my heart, and I hope you find happiness in whatever it is that you do

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300 thousand Americans, 320 thousand traitors.

All that death, all those lives lost, for what, a people’s right to subjugate those they see as lesser. So many people, HUMAN BEINGS, lied to, led into a war, to kill their own countrymen, and all for what.

And that's only counting the military deaths. That's not counting those innocent civilians lost in the direct fire, on both sides. Nor the ones lost from disease, famine, and general displacement. The American Civil War will always hit close for me, as a reminder for how truly fragile peace is, even amongst brothers and sisters, fathers and sons, etc.

@@hewhoplugwalks Why wouldn't you sacrifive your brother's life when there are black people unhappy?

EXACTLY

RIGHR

Wait they had an album?? I must listen to it 😭😭😭

@@sombra2310 Yeah it's called A History of Public Relations Dilemmae

@@anainbed Thank you sooooooo muuuuch!!! 😍😍😍

I know! I hoped every day that I would hear something from them then finally we did!

Yeah I really looked forward to it anny

Haha, hit hard. Pun intended?

American folk, brother. Won't find it anywhere else

speaking as a southerner, be grateful there isn't. the generational trauma of the civil war did inspire some incredible music, but it came at a cost that no one should ever have to pay

Gracias hermano...

Chords: tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/the-blasting-company/candy-chords-3128630

@@janopa9719 Tysm

I'm guessing he said "beat" at the end but was cut off by the musical sting.

hey can u describe me some? my english is quite poor so can u help me? i cant understand what he tryna say in " drag the living back" and "limping from the darkness with our hatred in our tracks" and latsly " a long and lonely shadow there can never be undone" thanks already now.

I think that was maybe the first time we ever played it live all the way through!

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Unless it gets cut off because that's when the attackers kicked down the door. Or a cannon ball hit, like how the animation shows.

You don't think that it was meant as a cliff hanger? The video says otherwise

@@user-xb4pu4gr3q the video ends before the flame goes out, before he sings, before she falls asleep. I don't think the moment where the lyrics are cut off is actually depicted in the video

@@LeightonsLibrary Agreed. Earlier in the song, it describes the setting that the animation ends at. I'm on mobile now so I can't easily relisten and type the lyrics as I hear them but sings something about them together, him hesitating to touch her and, like you said, the candle flame going out. I think the lyrics cut off and implied the word "beat." Again, I can't listen again easily at the moment to say exactly what the final lines were but "beat" would have rhymed and made sense given the following instrumental.

It sure does bruh.

Well, I don’t think so. Candy stumbles on the stairs, presumably the cannonballs. And then the rest of the song their fine :)

You are too kind, thank you for taking the time and for your words of support

Hey I see that this comment is a year old so I don't suppose that I will get a reply but better ask than not- have you got this playlist still? This is my favourite song and I've been desperate to find something filled with the same honey of sorrow!

@@ronanevans941 Yes, I do! Here: ru-vid.com/group/PLRCu8-3enllY2xI4t8oKAQUMDrACQoc0Q It's still a work in progress because I have the same problem where seeking out this kind of full-bodied sorrow in a folk tone is a fairly difficult task, but I've amassed some things. They're not all exactly like Candy, but they should all be along the lines of breaking your heart or breaking your heart open, a little or a lot, either to the pluck of a guitar or the beat of a drum. (Plus just a ton of Blasting Company to embody that feeling of the gentle autumn.) Go forth and be forlorn!

@@druidforhire oh my goodness! Thank you!

@@druidforhire i appreciate all the hadestown music-great musical! Definitely similar tone

we watched it many times without music, it's still very good!

Im trying to sleep but just keep listening to it on repeat and crying

@@andrewcabrera505 absolute mood

Also I notice the spelling of "G-d" to which I say shoutout to fellow members of the tribe lol.

thank you!!

Mark!!! So great to see you here! We miss you guys!

Hmmmm

Thank you! We usually just say "folk music" because it gets a little complicated sometimes...

Folk

please email us that reharm! we'd love to hear it.

I believe that was Justin's idea! And huge kudos to Peter for making it into a reality

thank you! more to come

Thank you! Hopefully many more to come

The exact and emotional same. What a time.

I don't think it shows the union being in the wrong. It just demonstrates how the war sucked for southerners. The union laid waste to the south, but the planter class invited them.

It portrays how war sucks for everyone, even the one's that aren't involved in war

It’s meant to be about the children who couldn’t help being born in this bad place and being brought up in a terrible system, not glorifying the Confederates. I think it shows just how devastating war is for all involved, especially those who didn’t ask to be put in it.

thank you for the support! Hopefully we'll have new things for you soon :)

Thank you so much for the kind note (and the blessing!). We hope to be able to bring more music to you soon

we are big fans of The Band, thank you!

It's certainly been a tough one. We're hoping to release some more before the year is out.

Thank you for stopping and listening when it popped up

You can purchase this song, as well as the OTGW soundtrack, the Tiny Star concept EP, and our first record all on bandcamp!

Since it was all tracked live in the room together there's no way to cleanly remove the vocals...but hopefully when this pandemic is over we can get everyone back in the studio together!

I didn't write the words (my brother Justin did) so I may not be qualified to answer this but yes it is definitely the American Civil War, although I'm pretty sure it was really inspired from his experiences traveling in ex-Yugoslavia and hearing people's stories from that civil war.

@@BlastingCompany first thing I thought about was Sherman’s March to the Sea, you don’t hear many songs about the civil war and even then, none are this beautiful. Wonderful song.

@@BlastingCompany that’s really cool, did you have a story ending for Candy? Did she die or is this based off of a real persons story?

@@squatchin6787 my first images in mind were the destruction of Atlanta as well.

we do too! more music in the works...

@@BlastingCompany I love you guys ❤❤❤❤

yes, soon! August 14

Oops! When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Not Battle Hymn of the Republic. Wrong song.

@@jackrutledgegoembel5896 I’ve always known that song as “The Ants Go Marching” I guess it makes sense it originated as a war song

Hi! Honestly it is mostly based on our experiences working with kids in ex-Yugo countries over the course of a few summers. If you have time please send us an email through our website, we'd love to hear a real history professor's perspective!

@@BlastingCompany Found your website and emailed you guys. I'm a public school teacher, not a professor though ;)