Tim I Wish You Were Born a Girl 

this is so awesome sauce i love this!!!

This feels like the kind of video you'd find and realize it's 11 years old

The spaghetti thrown in the trash to represent rejection hurt

falling for a straight friend is the worst

What really gets me is Tim's indifferent/bored expression during all of this while the narrator spills his heart out. Like Tim couldn't care less about whether the narrator is there or not

Late bloomer bi men be like

This gives 2010's youtube and I'm here for it

i LOVE this, the fact that this song came out so long ago and you're using it now + the modern details and all the ideas you used for the visuals

Every 10 years 2 dudes make a live action music video of this song. It’s deatiny

The narrator walking away from the table while the spaghetti is left sitting there is really heartbreaking, because it shows he understands the relationship is never happening, yet his feelings still remain. I think we’ve all been there tbh.

You don’t know HOW MUCH I love this. The way at the end all the shots are the same as before, but without the Tim guy, was just so heart-breaking.

The bit where the spaghetti was thrown in the bin was heartbreaking

why the fuck am i getting emotional. i love this, the imagery, especially of the spaghetti as a metaphor was honestly beautiful

i can’t get over the way that over the entire music video the singer and tim flash together in the same shots to show the illusion that they’re together while never truly being close, at least not in the way the singer wants. that makes it even more heartbreaking how, after the spaghetti rejection scene, you just see the singer sitting in each shot from before. but he’s alone, without tim flashing there.

the way theyre not in the same shot (and the bed they're sleeping on is a single) until the end and time throws the spaghetti out and doesn't make eye contact OH MY GOD the yearning is real

This is what true love is: lying in bed being dumb, having spaghetti, taking the day off work when they’re sick, getting engaged Why can’t we love our homies as they are, as we are? This was done really well btw! 😍

what a way to end the pride month

I absolutely love the subtle differences between the two's poses and eyes to get the grasp of how different their personalities are

ik im reaching let me reach. i like how the narrator leaves without dumping his spaghetti, which strikes me as him finally giving up on the friendship but his love for tim is still ln the table should tim ever wants it. love the video !!

I love how all the shots were Tim and the person singing in the rooms at different times as if they were still somewhat close, and then it was just the guy singing in those places 😭

This is a great re-creation of the original song. Making the actions described in the lyrics appear in the video was a nice touch to me. I'm also glad that each time this song is being recognized more and more despite how old it is.

HOW DARE TIM THROW OUT THE SPAGHETTI YOU MADE HIM. TIM DOESN’T DESERVE YOU 🫵 💔

oh my gosh this gives so much "high school film class project vibes" in the best way possible-- it's so simple yet conveys the story so well this is gorgeous thank you for sharing!

Why is Tim a hater fish that spaghetti with a touch of oregano out of the trash right now tim

This is so fucking good holy shit? I really love the general unresponsiveness of tim until the end where he throws away the spaghetti

The way the narrator was looking at Tim as he stood up to throw away the spaghetti but Tim doesn’t look at him the whole time makes me so emotional, I can't

dude wtf he threw out the food you cooked for him >:(

When I first saw the thumbnail I thought this was a video about how Timmy Turners parents wanted a girl and dressed him in pink

i love this music video sm, love all the details of how unreciprocated the lyrics are and how distant they feel with the camera position and such, which just makes the poor pining singer's rejection all the more harsher, happy pride month to you as well

I love Of Montreal so much this is the best thing to pop up on my feed in sooo long😭😭

I love this song, falling for a straight friend is heartbreaking.

this feels a lot more emotional than the og video, it’s amazing

don’t mind me just watching this on loop for the next few hours-

Probably my favorite interpretation of this song

This song is so funny to me, because it's my dead name. In other words, so do I buddy

This may be your magnum opus. Banger song but damn the video just makes this hit so hard. I just thought "oh silly song fun times" until it clicked for me at the end and I had to rewatch it 3 times to really think about everything. Very well done and absolutely heartbreaking and very much relatable. Thank you for this

This feels like an allegory for my internalized homophobia before I came out as bisexual. This speaks to me on such a personal level. It genuinely nakes me tear up. This is so beautiful.

Woah, this is really good. I loved the parallels of them being in the same place at seperate times

This is so awesome! You capture the feeling so perfectly, my partner and I agree that this is exactly what the music video for this song should look like. My partner even said that your video made them like the song even more. Great job with this :)

I love this! Good job! One of my favorite albums of all time being done the justice it deserves! 🤍

This is incredible. The framing and cuts?? Super cool to look at. Plus, a great song. You definitely did it justice! ❤

i love it, towards the beginning when it showed them in the same locations, but never together in the frame at the same time. very heartbreaking and cute little video for my favourite of montreal tune

one of my favorite songs of all time, your video really captures the loneliness and sorrow in the music

YES A (high quality) LIVE ACTION VERSION OF THIS SONG IVE WAITED FOREVER ♡THANK YOU!!!♡

i LOVE this song so much man, I'm very happy to have seen this video that was released literally yesterday, and not 5 years ago

I really love this video :> I also really love this song so I've seen a whole bunch of different versions of videos + animations of it and I think this one hits at a different feeling than the other ones. The animations I've seen of this usually depicts the two people as guys and plays into the very twee and cutesy, homey atmosphere described in the singer's thoughts, eventually concluding in the two guys realising they like each other. Similar to this video, 'Tim' is never actually depicted as a girl because the whole point of the song is that the singer doesn't actually want Tim to be one but wants to justify their confused feelings towards him. This type of video ends in a very cutesy and nice way. One older video I saw was of a guy (not Of Montreal) singing this live to an audience and they basically were just laughing all the way through at it, thinking it's a joke, which in a meta way kinda links to the singer's view: this audience, at the time, saw an actual gay relationship as entirely outside of the realm of possibility (like the singer does). While the singer rationalises this contrast between their worldview and their feelings by imagining Tim as a girl, the audience rationalises it as a ridiculous joke. It was quite depressing to watch Another music video basically interpreted the song way too literally and depicted Tim as an actual girl and was basically about how the singer was weird and how their desire for that relationship was ultimately weird, implying this by depicting Tim as bored and kinda disgusted by the singer. You could really feel the complete lack of empathy the RU-vidr had for the original song and it was also depressing in its own way But this video hits on something different!! As other commenters have said, I also think it's about unrequited love and the way you visually convey the separation between the singer and Tim (which none of these other videos have done), alongside Tim's blank + bored expression is really powerful. I especially like this part between 0:45 and 0:48 where in each shot when it comes back to your character looking more and more towards the floor, as if they're starting to realise that this fantasy won't come true. uhh my apologies for the essay and also how clunky it is (i wrote it in a rush lol) but thank you for making this video! it's great :3

I headcanon that I/Me/Myself by Will Wood is the song from Tim’s perspective

i literally thought this is like reverse pink triangle and then at 1:30 i see a pinkerton poster…..

my ex boyfriend had this on a playlist for me when we were "together" and this video really reflects how my relationship with him was. thank u

another one for the folder. great work!

I love this a lot and I am surprised that this came out a day ago bcs I've been kind of listening to this song recently. As a trans woman I genuinely really love this song, also sidenote: your hair is the hair I really wanted as a kid

Aw.. I remember this song.... I would listen to it in high school

I bet this is randomly gonna go viral in like 6 years or something

Nice to see people still listen to this song- The transitions/angle at 0:46 was probably my favorite honestly really fun albeit simple cinematography

i have loved this song for years and i’m glad to see it recognized and used in this way! beautifully haunting work

This video is literally perfect. It feels so personal and like I’ve just walked into someone else’s life and I can feel all they feel and see all they see. It is absolutely amazing !!

jim's actor has the delicate aura of a closeted trans girl. that's good casting

happy pride

Wow incredible work!!! I absolutely love the simplicity of this! It communicates the message in such a real and personal way! I also love how the cuts never have both characters in the same place as one another until the end which just amplifies the rejection even more. The one time they’re in the same place together and one of them clearly doesn’t feel the same way. Oof agh ow ouch o(-(

The dimmer colours, the thrown away spaghetti , the way he stopped fidgeting, I think I’m gonna go bawl rq

holy shit i’m early but i wanted to say the editing on this is absolutely stellar, you hit every beat/strum perfectly dude, and the lighting for a lot of these shots is stellar!! also i love the magik poster at 0:19 lol

THIS SONG MEANS THE WORLD TO ME!!! its like that other video of this song!!!!

This song was my favorite for so long and you guys did it SO much justice with this holy shit

both of them have really pretty eyes

happy pride month!! absolutely wonderful video - equal parts heartbreaking. 10/10 work. both you look really good too. banger song.

This song never fails to make me cry ☹️

my favorite part of this is that Tim is never shown in the same shot as the other guy until the very end, when he gives Tim the spaghetti (confessing his feelings) and Tim throws it away (rejecting him)

Perfect video for this song, the settings all feel very intimate and personal and the cuts between the two characters fit both the music and lyrics.

the shots on this were insane i loved the way you portrayed this story

Here until It'll get recommended to everyone in 8 years. Great video!!

wonderful!!!! so very well done!! and i love the timing on the shots of the narrator and tim! also i love how the narrator looks at where tim is and tim just never reciprocates, it makes the rejection of it feel so lived in!

God this music video is less than 2 minutes long and I teared up a little at the implications because of how many times I've been through this with my straight friends.

Amazing work. Love everything about this.

this is one of my favorite songs and now this is gonna be my favorite video. i really loved it!! the spaghetti being thrown out at the end kinda hurt a bit, i could just feel the rejection. and the hopeless that y'all managed to show in visuals was amazing. the constant switching between and not showing both guys at the same time up until the rejection had me feeling the distance between tim and the singer. amazing!!

I love the editing style and the fact that you used one of my favourite songs! Can´t wait for more videos like this!!

Not me actually tearing up- Happy pride ig

NOOOOOOOOOO THE END WAS SO SAD NOOOOO 😭

This is my version of The Notebook. I’m going to be thinking about this video with an aching heart for way too long

you did a great job of the cinematography in this, I especially like the rim lighting for these shots 1:12 nice editing too.

I've seen other takes on this song as a music video but this one really hit well! good job on this, i really like how you had the camera split the "characters" up throughout, like splitting reality from fantasy.

this video introduced to me to your channel, and then i watched your other ones, my favorite being the weezer sucks video. great production and was genuinely surprised you had less than 1k!! you deserve way more!! subscribing for more videos like these because i haven’t seen a youtuber that’s really caught my attention in a hot while lmao

i don’t know why youtube recommended this but i’m not complaining. it feels nostalgic

I love this more than words can describe!! Such beautiful cinematography, I love how you portrayed the story through the camera shots! Beautifully heartbreaking, great job!

Absolutely crisp camerawork.

0:41 spittin bars

perfect!!!!! such a visceral encapsulation of every emotion in the song!

i cant explain just how much yearning this vid makes me feel ... great job!

But he’s not even girly enough can’t you love him as a boy ❤

woahh!! Loved this!! You really made the two people feel so close yet so distant from each other v cool, v gay

This truly spoke to me, I can’t say how explain it but I feel seen and heard while watching this. This made my week, thank you.

This whole thing was shot so well! I've never heard the song before so I actually thought it was the offical music video for an indie band. Great job!

absolutely phenomenal

I love this, short song stories are great 👍 (:

This is probably my favorite Of Montreal song and you did such a good job capturing the one sided yearning of it all. Great job!

Popped in my recommendations wasn't really expecting anything and was blown away with how simple yet very complex this was

this is incredibly well made

0:28 the colour of that spaghetti. ONG 💀💀💀

Can I just say you're brilliant? This was extremely well done and well thought out. I love the visual storytelling. You really have a knack for this sort of thing. Keep on keep onning with this stuff, man. This rocked.

i’ve had this song stuck in my head for days without opening youtube, and the first thing on my recommended was this when i opened yt!! awesome video!

I hope you get the recognition you deserve