AMANDA PALMER - DROWNING IN THE SOUND (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2019
- hi, i love you. this is the official patron-funded video for "drowning in the sound", directed by long-time art-brother michael pope & choreographed by coco karol. dancers: effy grey, alexi transparent, yeman brown, miguel angel guzman. to read more about the backstory & creation of this video, go here: / 28477634
i am going to be TOURING sept-december 2019 in the U.K., Ireland & Europe. amandapalmer.net/shows
“drowning in the sound” is from my second solo album There Will Be No Intermission, which came out march 2019. produced by john congelto, feat. musicians jherek bischoff, max henry & joey waronker.
the album is here on bandcamp for $1: amandapalmer.bandcamp.com/alb..., or you can join my patreon for as little as $1 & get a mp3/WAV download of the album here: / this-is-it-there-25037722 .
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VIDEO CREDITS
Director: Michael Pope
Choreographer: Coco Karol
Conceived & Written By Amanda Palmer, Coco Karol, and Michael Pope
Performers: Amanda Palmer, Coco Karol, Yeman Brown, Alexi Transparent, Effy Grey, Miguel Angel Guzman
Makeup Artist: Regina Harris
Hair Stylist: Gerald Decock
Costume Designer: Andrea Lauer
Editors: James Holland, Michael Pope
Cinematographer: Benjamin Knight
Asst Camera: Dan Mason
Gaffer: Daniel Hourihan
Key Grip: Dan Peck
Grip: Matt Kehoe
Producer: Allen Smithy
Executive Producer: Amanda Palmer
Asst Producer, UPM: Christina Bryant
Assistant Director: Eddie Hollenbeck
Production Consultant: BriAnna Olson
Key Production Asst, Driver: Bimini Wright
Production Assistant: Stephanie Bryant
Props Master: Christina Bryant
Head Carpenter: Mike Cooter
Assistant Carpenter: Ngo'e Crossan
Hair and Makeup Asst: Harumi Yonemoto
Costume Asst: Anna Metelina
Documentarian: James Holland
Stills Photographer: Krys Fox
Asst to Amanda: Michael McComiskey, Hayley Rosenblum
Manager: Jordan Verzar
Lighting & Grip Equipment: FastLights
Craft Services: Provisions Woodstock
Piano Movement: Loren Rose
Lifeguard: Sam Burt
Special Thanks: Augusta Ogden, Kim Ross, Janette Johnston, Assa Sacko Zarcone and Utopia Soundstage, Bill Young & 100 Grand Dance, Allways Moving
lyrics:
You worship the sun and you're aching for change
But you keep starving your heart
You used to have sisters
You don't anymore
You worship the sun
But you keep feeding the dark
And I'm out in the yard
With my son and my daughter
And the sky is all black and I think we should start running...
Running from the water
And everybody's yelling
Yelling that they're coming
But I don't see a single soul
They're all so busy yelling
Not one of them is hearing
The hissing from the bottom of the boat
I got some feelings up my sleeve
I got a compass in my arm
I got a needle in my heart
It's gonna tell us where we are
SXSW
Two miles from town
I can't get out
I can't look down
If you can hear
If you're around
I'm over here
I'm over here
I'm watching everyone I love
Drowning in the sound
You worship the sun
But the moon's in the way
So get your armaments out
She's always looking for trouble
She's gonna get what's been coming to her
She's switching the tides and we can't have that shit around
The television they're blaring out a warning:
That our natural state is drowning
That our natural state is burning
And you're trying to help
And you're clicking for change
And you're calling it out
And you're adding your name
And you're marching for peace
But you're lynching the bitch
That got up in your face
How else they gonna to take you seriously?
SXSW
Two miles from town
I can't get out
I can't look down
If you can hear
If you're around
I'm over here
I'm over here
I'm watching
Everyone I love
Drowning in the sound
And your body is a temple
And the temple is a prison
And the prison's overcrowded
And the inmates know it's flooding
And the body politic is getting sicker by the minute
And the media's not fake
It's just very
Inconvenient
Do you ever feel like this should be officially the end?
And that you should be the one to do the ending but you can't?
And do you ever feel that everyone is slowly letting go
Do you ever feel that... that incredibly alone?
And they're saying not to panic
And it's like a broken record
As if anybody knows what that is
And they're saying that we'll manage
It's the hottest one on record
And they're saying that that's just the way it is
Now I can taste it coming
I can taste it with my tongue
And my children are so heavy
But I pick them up & run
And I know I'll have to swim soon
When the water gets too high
I'll keep on holding them above me
I'll keep on holding them & crying
SXSW
Two miles from town
I can't get out
I can't look down
If you can hear
If you're around
I'm over here
I'm over here
I'm watching
Everyone I love....
Drowning in the sound.
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"My children are so heavy but i pick them up and run" 💔😭 that line will never not break me.
I'm watching this again but I'm 3 years older now, and everything makes so much more sense. From what I gather, I'm losing everyone I love to the "sound," and the "sound" would be the media that is swallowing up those I thought I knew. This still rings true, so I'm glad to have come back. Thank you!
when people in the future ask what it was like to live through this period of history, we can show them this video to explain what every single person was going through emotionally at the time. thank you, amanda
Try living through the Second World War in England when bombs are dropping round your house and going out of your front door only to see horses blown to bits in the street and some of them landing dead on peoples roof tops, how did they live through that for nearly 6 years! My old mum told me that, CRISIS what CRISIS.
That's a bit dramatic
ya think
Truth! We on the same frequency, vibration and wavelength! Happy to know you all and Amanda my friends💜💜💜
i know this was 3 years ago but even then i don't think everyone was going through what this video depicts emotionally. in fact, what the video seems to depict is a highly individualized experience (which isn't to say that it's not relatable, in a lot of ways it is) that is essentially a persons reaction to how polarized everything has gotten. if everyone -did- feel this way, the message in the video likely would have much less resonance since we would make the change necessary for the message to no longer be relevant
Beautiful. Amanda is one of those artist that can open her mouth and put words to that emotion I’m feeling but can never quite express.
Lyrics
"Drowning In The Sound"
You worship the sun and you're aching for change
But you keep starving your heart
You used to have sisters
You don't anymore
You worship the sun...
But you keep feeding the dark
And I'm out in the yard
With my son and daughter
And the sky is all black and I think we should start running...
Running from the water
And everybody's yelling
Yelling that they're coming
But I don't see a single soul
They're all so busy yelling
Not one of them is hearing
The hissing from the bottom of the boat
I got some feelings up my sleeve
I got a compass in my arm
I got a needle in my heart
It's gonna tell us where we are
South by south west
Two miles from town
I can't get out
I can't look down
If you can hear
If you're around
I'm over here
I'm over here
I'm watching everyone I love
Drowning in the sound
You worship the sun
But the moons in the way
So get your armaments out
She's always looking for trouble
She's gonna get what's been coming to her
She's switching the tide and we can't have that shit around
The television they're blaring out the warning:
That our natural state is drowning
That our natural state is burning
And you're trying to help
And you're clicking for change
And you're calling it out
And you're adding your name
And you're marching for peace
But you're lynching the bitch
That got up in your face
How else they gonna to take you seriously?
South by south west
Two miles from town
I can't get out
I can't look down
If you can hear
If you're around
I'm over here
I'm over here
I'm watching
Everyone I love
Drowning in the sound
And your body is a temple
But the temple is a prison
And the prison's overcrowded
And they know about the flooding
And the body politic is getting sicker by the minute
And the media's not fake
It's just very
Inconvenient
Do you ever feel that this should be officially the end?
And that you should be the one to do the ending but you can't?
And do you ever feel that everyone is slowly letting go
Do you ever feel that... incredibly alone?
And they're saying not to panic
And it's like a broken record
Not like anybody know what that is
And they're saying that they'll manage
It's the hottest one on record
And they're saying that it's just the way it is
And now I can taste it coming
I can taste it with my tongue
And my children are so heavy
But I pick them up and run
And I know I'll have to swim soon
When the water gets too high
I'll keep on holding them above me
I'll keep on holding them and crying
South by south west
Two miles from town
I can't get out
I can't look down
If you can hear
If you're around
I'm over here
I'm watching
Everyone I love
Everyone I love
Everyone on earth
Drowning in the sound
You worship the sun and you're aching for change
But you keep starving your heart
You used to have sisters
You don't anymore
You worship the sun...
But you keep feeding the dark
Thanks 💋
Thank you ☺️
Amanda, thank you for giving voice to our breaking hearts. Thank you for making fierce art that matters.
incredible - I teared up at "my children are heavy"
my children are so heavy...but i pick them up and run. this is the line that makes me tear up when i play it live, too. xx
That line gets me every. single. time.
@@amandapalmer Hearing this, the tourniquet fell from my heart & I surrendered in weeping. This line, it is a dream of warning all mothers have, and a nightmare some are living. Thank you for naming the grief. It gives us strength to keep holding each other up with love. 💘
Oz Key fathers too!
@@brndgtl for some reason I never got a notification of this reply, so I just saw your comment from months ago. Sorry for the late response, but yes! Of course fathers too. If you are a father I'm sure you look upon your child(ren) with wariness & readiness & grace. A strong spirited father with a wide awake heart is an absolute blessing.
This song is just so beautiful... And this video... I'm in love
Thank you Amanda
Love you... You helped me to heal so many of my scars
you're welcome. i love you. xxx
i heal my own scars when i make work like this. we heal each other. (that is why we have art).
"The media's not fake it's just very... inconvenient."
Word.
Tired.
The Hersey Family I love your picture of “life”
Honestly that’s a mood
Hmmm, I actually think fake is a better word than inconvenient. There is a lot of falsehood and sensationalism being pedalled by the media - we have to confront that.
@@eidothea I think she was referencing it in the way that people shut down anything they dislike and claim it's "fake news"
I already said this on the original video before. But you releasing this song when you did was one of the most cathartic experiences in my life. I was evacuated from Florida during Hurricane Irma and terrified and mad and lost in the world. I love the land I hail from. My soul is attached to the Southern Florida environment. And I hated being away from my family. Who were sitting in their house, kayaks packed and inside the living room, ready for the worst. Hailing from a state where our government officials refuse to utter the words climate change and where rising waters and more frequent tropical storms due to warming waters are going to hit us hard, and sooner than most places made me so terrified. And so angry. I was taking shelter in Pensacola when this was first put out and debating on meeting Rick Scott who was flying in there the next day, with a sign and a middle finger. Hurricane Harvey had just happened and I didn't know if I'd have a home to come back to. This song spoke to me in the middle of a terrible storm like a mother would to her child. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for sharing, and giving me the good cry I needed to let happen in order to not go into a panic attack again. Your art means so much to so many.
Thank you, Amanda.
If anyone has the chance, go see her on tour. The song is amazing live.
Everything about her live shows is amazing
thank you. tell everyone in europe.
i’m seeing her when she’s in the UK :)
I'm going in Germany! I can't wait to go again and experience it again. I just hope there's no curfew and that she'll sign my ukulele in Frankfurt!
I've been a fan since Girl Anachronism, and even after all these years when I hear one of your songs it's like a breath of fresh air. Thank you!
No one makes me cry like you do amanda. Absolutely brilliant
I'm realizing that Amanda Palmer really does have her pulse so perfectly on where we are as a country that she just might help.
This song and video hurt so much and I love them. The choreography reminds me of Bowie's Blackstar. Really happy I joined the Patreon; this art is so important.
True!!! I didnt notice. And yes, it hurt so much and it's beautiful
Shades of Pina Bausch:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pina_Bausch
A bit of Bowie, A bit of Tori Amos, ALL Amanda Palmer!
Same.
Total film geek comment but I love that this was shot so wide! That and the incredible music, the movement, the water. Amazing.
True. The space was used masterfully. This extra wideness of the shot just goes to nourish that feeling of trying to grasp for something in the dark, but never quite reaching it.
Emotion and motion, music, choreography, visuals...I just love all of it!
I'M CRYING THIS IS BEAUTIFUL. It looks as though if you kept walking into the starry shadows of the background you'd fall of the edge of the world. Thank you for this exquisite portrayal of this powerfully moving song!
This song makes me feel like I am crying heavy sobs and enjoying a calm relaxing moment all at once. Like I am breathing underwater in an ocean of my own tears.
I'm 38 years old and I've just finished reading The Art of Asking. I had never heard of Amanda Palmer or the Dresdon Dolls before that. It's regretful that it took this long for me to find this music. It feels like the start of something :)
Gosh, the burden of child-rearing in a world racing towards destruction, climate chaos, the fatigue of information saturation and the desperation of migration - all just from the first listen. Powerful.
yes
stop believing all the propaganda
this is ART. this is the MEDIA. it hurts and it’s beautiful and enigmatic. truthfully. thank you. grazie. dankeschön. i would thank you in all the languages. thank you, Amanda, Coco, Michael .. everyone who helped create this. the patrons. i am so happy a few of my dollars helped make this come to life. we love you xx
YAAAAAAAASSSS I LOVE YOU TOO
I love this and I love you. It's so perfectly "over-artistic" and I think it manages to capture the many complex, moving parts of panic, grief, awe, and everything in between. Such a good companion piece to the beautiful song.
thank you. making music videos is so weird and hard. x
@@amandapalmer That's why we pay you to do it! I can't even take a Snapchat video without cocking it up lol
I love your lyrics Amanda Palmer.
I'm in a weird place with my... fandom? I haven't connected with much of your previous musical work. I recognize it as "good", but I don't find myself listening much. Maybe our personal experiences are too divergent for me to internalize it much. But even if I'm not necessarily a big fan of what you do, I'm a huge fan of how you do it. I'm a fan of *you*, as a person-of the crazy, beautiful, wonderful person that you share with us. That said... this one... this one socked me in the gut. I did more than just hear it. Thank you for this. Thank you for it all.
I'm right there with you on all those levels. This is also why I continue to follow Amanda's work. There's a weird, deep, natural, and relevant beauty to it.
Same here. Though I'd highly suggest to go to one of her shows. Just got back from her show in Amsterdam and it's incredible. I loved every second of it. This song also was one of the highlights for me.
It was the ted talk on asking that got me into the person and artist, less the body of work previous, but agree this video and song were quite powerful. No offense Amanda, but the clips of you snarling at your piano were too sexy, omg...power, precision, emotion, expression, it was everything...just wow...
Yes! I love this whole thread 😍
This is how all our pets must feel while we stare into our 'black mirrors'
Amazing stuff, Amanda. ♥
When you first released this track, I spoke to some friends who volunteered during Hurricane Harvey. One friend in particular said that you captured exactly how it felt. Risking your own life for people risking theirs, and it seemed helpless at times because it was this massive chain of risk that no one had prepared or signed up for, in reality. Nobody thinks, “I love living in a place that may just totally wash away when nature wants to be a twat.”
This video encapsulates everything I was watching my friends go through, and what they were showing the survivors go through. It’s brilliance out of despair.
Oh my goodness it's beautiful! That doesn't do it justice, I'm lost for words. So often I think 'wow, Amanda has made the most wonderful thing I ever heard/saw' and then you go and do it again and there's all these beautiful wonderful sad all encompassing things and I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to support this art directly, not feeding the pocket of another executive. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Absolutely perfect 💜💜💜
It's so fucking amazing!! Ooh, the moment I realized that drowning in silence could be about this social media nightmare we're all living, we're all talking about, but no one seems to be taking seriously. But still, we can still make meaningful conections.
“If you are around, I’m over here I’m over here-“ hits me right in the chest every time
Amanda has just been killing it with her videos for the past year or so. Amazing stuff :)
thank you. i've been trying. x
@@dan_mnght 🤣 Nice 🤣
for the last decade, you mean! ♥
I love the amount of silence in this song. It's especially effective with the title in mind. The chorus just coming in and filling in those silent spaces is so powerfully done.
Everything I could've wanted for my all-time fav AFP song! This is indescribably beautiful in its darkness and humanity. Thank you.
MOST BEAUTIFUL AND IMPORTANT SONG OF 2019
This entire album is so beautiful and profound. But this song... and now the video... OMG! Thank you Amanda
Dear Amanda. We are the media. We are the patrons. You create the art. And I am so happy and proud that my small contribution makes your art possible. And what a great piece of art this is! Congratulations!
I like it when art speaks the truth to me as an equal, and speaks it so beautifully and urgently. Let's keep at it, fellow humans! Gently but with persistence. We've got this.
Magnificent. The effect in the crescendo with people drowning in the pool was so intense. Bravo Pope!
Your work reminds me that humans are actually so so beautiful. And it's really easy to forget nowadays. But like, we can communicate through so many channels, create so many things, we are so beautiful in our diverse forms. Why do we forget what makes us human? Anyway, I loved it. Great work 💖
Big mood for what's happening now.
Hands down, Amanda’s best song to date.
I can't stop watching it over and over...
And most of the time I cry, when I see that masterpiece.
Thanks for all you're sharing with us, Amanda and friends.
Thanks for saying 'Stephanie, you're not so strange.'
And my children are so heavy, but I pick them up and run.
Easily one of the most powerful and stunning music videos of all time.
Oof. That hit me where I live. Beautiful work.
Thank you Amanda. Your creation resonates with my heart's experience of ongoing terror, rage and deep deep concern for life on our planet and all things I love so much. I can hardly breathe not knowing what to do about it. Amidst all this, you have created a work of art, a work of love, that reaches out and touches the cheek of beauty, truth and goodness.
Probably my favourite of her recent works. I'm glad this has finally an official video-clip to go with it.
I've been living through this exact feeling for years now. Still searching for the answer to that one.
Thanks for doing this.
I can't say enough about Amanda Palmer, her music is great but she also cares very much about us.
There has been times when I really needed a song or two but didn't have money to give her for them, she gives what is needed. When I have money I give back, because friends give to each other.
Stunning, incredible art. Thank you.
I adore the black lighting with the water. Not only does it give a general void and scary environment but it leaves it to the viewer to see if it’s just a small body of water or and wide endless expanse of blackness.
This is really and incredible song and video, thank you Amanda 💜
This is gorgeous, raw, real, and exactly what we all needed. Thank you Amanda for continously showing up as the courageous, uninhibited, fearless beauty that you are💜
I am completely fucking blown away by this. This is everything I love about music videos, and I found it when I needed it most. A perfect piece of Palmer-Art. Thank you to Amanda and everyone involved.
This is my favourite song off the album, and I always listen with a lump in my throat. With the video, it just made me cry. Beautiful, it’s just beautiful. Thank you ❤️
Brilliant and heartbreaking. "My children are so heavy but I pick them up and run... " :'( This mother is crying.
I’m literally crying; this is beautifully done. Amazing work.
It warms the heart to see a light from those little pubs in NH and MA reveal what the soul of art truly is about. I hope the world sees your path and follows it back to their own souls.
This is beautiful and painful. It made me so emotional. I think the world is having an existential crisis or maybe just me.
Brazilian fans thank you. It's mesmerizing. 🇧🇷🌈
What a perfect encapsulation of the modern era
I've always been so awed and intrigued by your style, music, your art..thank you for sharing your soul with us
As I have said before such a gorgeous song and to see it with such an equally gorgeous video is just beautiful. A sad beauty but beauty all the same. Thank you for this.
As terrifying as it should be, amazing!
This is honestly my favorite song and I’ve been listening to it ever since you released it over and over again, but this video... gosh it’s so beautiful and it makes me cry. I’m not entirely sure why but thank you for all the hard work you put into your music/performance/everything! I look up to you so very much Amanda Palmer! Thank you!
I have been waiting for this video, its my favourite song on the album and it did not disappoint!! 👏🖤
What a time to be alive. Everything about this is beautiful.
I can't stop watching. This is art at its finest.
This is amazing. You can truly tell Amanda put her heart and soul into this
I am interpreting this as being about climate change, having children, fearing for the future, political unrest... loss.
How does this not have over a million views yet? I feel like I've watched about a thousand times myself
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. The song was already amazing & now there's an amazing video to match. Proud to be a patron! :)
I reminded myself I have to check Amanda Palmer other songs because I was listening to "In my mind" for years. First one I checked was this one.
I'm speechless.
I love music. I listen to a lot of it. I don't think any artist I've heard in my life so far has moved me like Amanda has. The raw emotion in her lyrics and voice has made me cry to more of her songs than any other artist I've listened to, and I don't cry easily. She's an insanely talented artist.
Well, at the point of writing the best thing anyone could be watching or listening to this year has about 75,000 views. I almost don't want it to blow up, but at the same time more people need Amanda Palmer in their lives.
I've been a fan of Dresden Dolls since 2006 when I was a teenager. Now 13 years later, I finally hear about your solo music. This song and this album is so goddamn passionate and real and so beautiful. It's amazing.
Thank you for making it.
ooh i found them in my mid 20s!!
WOW! Drowning in the Sound is, to me, one of Amanda's most addictive songs. Passionate, intricate, technical, and while busy as hell with so much going on, very easy to listen to. The video definitely does it justice.
I am in complete awe of the fact that you make so many feel SOOO much and that they let you know it. I sing. I write. I play. I’ve never aspired to to anything with. It just makes me feel good. I guess that’s what the whole point is with music. Allowing it to make you feel good. That’s something this world gets less of and that is why you are so very important. Be blessed Amanda P.
This is art, gritty and hard hitting, and I love you for it Amanda please never ever stop making me cry, it is far to needed in this day and age. Love you!
So glad I found Amanda Palmer today. Such beauty.
this is making me feel so many things! 💜💜💜 i can actually feel the water up to my neck
Here's a plank to keep you afloat a while. You are not alone.
I have been following the art Amanda palmer creates for a long time. I remember watching a video of her working as a street mime. She is such an original natural performer. Pure inspiration.👨🎨
brought to tears....your ted talk first then this...bawling...
I've replayed this video 3 times already. Everything from the movements to the wardrobe to your enchantingly gut-wrenching voice!! Thank you for creating this.
I don't understand why this isn't a global no.1 it's just wonderful... so prescient. I love it.
And now I'm crying. Beautiful song, compelling video. Thank you, Amanda, I love you.
Amazing powerfully! Just love it. Thank you Amanda.
I had forgotten how much I love you. Thank you for existing.
This was a stunning video and song and I am always so impressed by your work!
I have played this song on repeat today.
I can't count the loved ones I have spoken to in the last 12 hours who either have Covid; or they have loved ones who are dead, or dying, from Covid.
This song has been the only thing holding me together.
What a masterpiece! Thank you so much for creating your amazing art, in love with it!
Can't stop watching this video. Everyone involved has done a fantastic job putting this together!
This is why I love Amanda Palmer, so beautiful and not afraid to be dark and real. Gives me so much strenth.
Amanda Palmer is one of the most important artists of our time. She speaks for the great masses... all of us Who will either stand up and fight or get steamrolled.
Words cannot explain how beautiful and amazing this song and music video is. Thank you for this
when i'm feeling very scared, like tonight (or almost sunrise), i somehow end up coming to your songs. i either cry, or calm down, or i just feel less alone.
This is beautiful! So happy you are making more music!❤
I've been a fan of yours for a few years now, and it's a joy to see new productions coming, you taught me a lot and inspired me to believe in things I do and feel, thanks a lot for giving us something to think and dream about!
I saw you on Between The Sheets and then I literally listened to the whole album today for the first time and I am absolutely in love with this song and the entire album. You're fucking badass!
i’m so glad you found me and my merry band of weirdos. i’m so grateful to matthew and brian and everyone over at critical role for befriending me. stick around. it’s bound to get interesting. xx
So glad I could put my little something in there to make this beautiful experience possible. I can totally feel it and the atmosphere is gorgeously created. My regards to all the beautiful people involved in this process. Keep creating art your way! So glad that I can contribute to you being able to do WHAT you obviously love just the WAY you love it
I'm here because Neil Gaiman was trending on Twitter and I think I've fallen in love
Her and Neil are perfect for each other in all the best possible ways
If you're new to Amanda, you have a glorious journey ahead!
@@kevinthefabulous1118 Whoops!
Love this amanda...well done everyone who worked on this ...its on point .😍
😱😱😱😱😱😱 it’s like I remember seeing this before I saw it. It felt all too eerily familiar. And at the same time I was blown away by the magnitude of this film. So amazed by the choreography, so impressed with the setting. Thank you Amanda and dancers for sharing your gifts with the world! It’s so important to keep art alive