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.
Dobry wieczór, się zgadzam. Piszę po polsku bo jestem zbyt leniwy żeby napisać "I agree wholeheartedly" jak sam skurwesyn. Pozdrawiam i życzę miłego dnia.
"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." - Nick Cave
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.
the timeless agony of being in love with an image or an idea of a person that exists in your head. Even though the person is a different being than that of the idea of the person's existence you lock and save in your head, only you love 'that idea' in silence and the person remains unaware
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"
I listened to this song when I held my son close to me before he died, it is the sweetest memory I have but also the most moving. The most beautiful song ever.
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 once fell so deeply in love with someone, and when our relationship ended, I felt this song with all the pain in my soul. Years have passed, and now that I keep listening to this song, I feel like I understand it better every day. I will always love that part of the person that I once fell in love with even though it no longer exists, people change and it's okay. Every day I don't know you more but still I thank life that one day we were the most passionate and connected lovers in our youth. Edit: I realized that I had fallen in love with a psychopath who hurt me a lot, almost to death, luckily I was able to get out of there and I am healing now. Be very careful of the predators of society, they abound a lot and there are many who know how to use their masks perfectly to deceive us. Indeed I was in love with a lie, an illusion. It made no sense to feel such deep and incomprehensible pain. In the end I learned that I do know how to love. And I am learning to love myself again now.
This is one of the most beautiful songs ever written and recorded. The production is flawless. It's a true masterpiece. And of course it's Massive Attack.
@@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.
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.
You know a song's profound when, at the end of the vid, you don't just automatically click on another song, but sit taking in what you've just experienced🙏💞Just sublime.
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.
This song is about the erosion of the detailed memory of a person, yet simultaneously how permanent the impression is that their essence leaves in your life.
Do you like 'Roads' by Portishead? If you haven't heard it,then please give it a listen. I've only just found this song but I've a feeling it's gonna grow on me. The trip hop genre is the deepest most emotionally charged music I've ever heard,and I love it. I used to listen to it in the late 90's on the radio on a chill out show every night for 3 and a half years while I was locked up,and I'm really rediscovering it.
My own interpretation: the video represents how we slowly lose our identity after we've been hurt/forsaken by someone we love. Many of us create an outer wall to protect ourselves, and look like we've turned into a stone without any feelings.
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
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.
The song is called "The Spoils", which comes from the phrase "To the victor go the spoils". The speaker in the song is in love with a person who is in involved with another woman. This other woman is the victor; to her go the spoils. The person they both love is "the spoils". Out of pure love and a desire for her love's happiness, she lets him/her go. The speaker is dealing with the pain of that loss and the infinite emotional distance there must be between herself and the person she loves; and across that distance, over time, the painful image of the person she loves ossifies, fades; but she's still holding on to him/her. That hopeless love -- it never leaves her.
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.
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.
Life is such a crazy roller coaster... Spent most of my 20s all alone totally miserable, then got my first girlfriend at 27 and after one years and a half, she broke up with me because of too many flaws in our couple... And for the first time in my life I get to feel what is sorrow, grief, loss, etc... Coming from a very hardened, stone-cold character developed over the years, now I feel like the most vulnerable thing emotionally. That's crazy. But you know what ? I also enjoy it, made me understand what deep love is and how beautiful it is. And know I understand how people could move mountains to get their lover back. That's 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.
Mazzy Star and Massive Attack had such a profound influence on my teenage years. This song has made my life come full circle in a sense, especially having my first baby at such a late part of my life.
I got that feeling That bad feeling that you don't know I don't even know her But I hope that She comforts you tonight Nobody here that keeps you in the shade And ever owned you Some sentimental tears or someone else's girl That drips away But I somehow slowly love you And wanna keep you the same Well, I somehow slowly know you And wanna keep you away I got that feeling That bad feeling that you don't know I don't even know her But I hope that She comforts you tonight And I somehow slowly love you And wanna keep you this way Well, I somehow slowly know you And wanna keep you away Away And I somehow slowly love you And wanna keep you this way Well, I somehow slowly know you And wanna keep you But I somehow slowly love you And wanna keep you the same Well, I somehow slowly know you And wanna keep you away
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
This song invokes the memory of one who had been previously loved & cherished: slowly being eroded, and dissolving into nothing. This band still makes epic songs :)
So I have heard a few songs of Massive Attack and loved them but didn't explore further. Just stumbled upon this song and it has stirred so many emotions. I miss my mother. I miss how much I used to miss her. I miss my grief. I miss mourning. Feels strange.
Hope's voice. Are there any words to describe it? She has such a lonely sadness in her voice. What Massive Attack did with the music is so perfect. It's a song that makes you want to cry and you don't know why.
This song is pure poetry, raw emotion. Hope's terribly soft voice that penetrates my soul, and this way Massive has of making his violins cry, shivers. And what about this clip so simple and cerebral at the same time. A masterpiece because music is an art and it must remain so for eternity
In my view, this a women who lost the only one she ever loved. She loved him so much that’s she not angry. She wants him to be happy. She waits. And her love is so strong that it transcends time. She waits. She dies, and still her love, waits. A very powerful message. Nice job Massive Attack!
I listened to this a hundred times when my dad was dying this time last year. In the car, in bed with head phones, everywhere - where it was just me and this song (personal). Tears in my eyes every time the big strings come in. So pleased everyone feels the same!
This song reminds me of how our minds work. How when someone who we deeply love dies and our memories are still fresh in our heads. But with age, the images of their eyes and their lips, the sound of their voices, the memories that we've created together start fading away. I think this video truly represents memory loss/Alzheimer. Thank you for this.
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
@@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.
Every single beat matches my heartbeat, or maybe my heart adjust the rhythm. I'm speechless, as soon as this song ends, i start it over and over again. ❤
The string arrangement on this track is incredibly beautiful. I have times when I just can’t listen to this song because it’s too emotional. This morning I listened, and felt a calmness. Current goings-on are recalibrating outlooks and memories. Music is just so powerful. 💓
This is the best description of ghosting. When you are just being left afloat, drifting into nothingness, becoming an abstract sculpture from past. Absolutely brilliant work of art.
I once loved, and lost. I thought the pain never goes away. Now that I hear this song, there is no pain, I remember, but the face is not there, the pain is not there, and I felt just love.
Some songs are so beyond beautiful but so heartbreaking, you never want to relate to them. This is one of them. The torn feelings caused by betrayal & loss - I wish these upon no one.
The constant background sound when visualised seems traveling in space freely like its going through a large void uninterrupted, like the void left behind by people we still love
I love the way how she says the very last 'Away' in this song. Like it's the last memory u have and u clearly know that this is the time to finally farewell, after all this years/months/hours, to just let it go
i know some may make fun, but i just found out who Hope Sandoval is, for those as me who didn´t know, she was the vocalist of Mazzy Star, now i get why this is one of the best songs ever to be played on earth.
I came here to watch Cate Blanchett, lately I'm into her and it is fascinating that the song exactly addresses what and how I feel about her. The idea of her existing in my thoughts.
I hope this comment section never changes, it's great to see so many ideas about it being the image of her being forgotten, her trying to cling to the image of her lover while it fades, life and death, becoming stone after heartbreak, etc, all of it makes this song much more beautiful
I hear this song and my heart tightens. I feel this lump and it's hard to breathe. Its haunting and just utterly beautiful. A kind of painful understanding. You literally feel the struggle in her voice and the music just pushes this heartbeat and tone. F&^%in work of art.
One of the best things I've seen, heard and experienced in my life. Thanks Massive attack, thanks Hope Sandoval, thanks Cate Blanchett, thanks John Hillcoat.
words simply cannot explain how beautiful and touching this song is. i have heard a lot of beautiful music but this...this is so unique. i cant listen to it without some tears dropping from my eyes. they are not tears of sadness. they arent tears of happiness. theyre just tears from being moved so much by this song.
They're both excellent artists! I'm a huge fan of Massive Attack and Hope Sandoval, respectively. And I so agree with what you've said, there's this rather unique feeling to the song... Some kind of deep trance, as if our thoughts slowly dissolve into a pool of our own existence; it's not sadness, nor is it happiness - but some greater force that sweeps through our soul and leaves us moved beyond the singularity of a particular feeling.
J Marin i truly could not have worded that any better. an integration of our deepest feelings is called awareness and acceptance. we can feel all the feelings at once and be aware of the range of them and move with them,, learning to accept the "negative" ones. you cant feel light without feeling darkness, and music like this allows you to embrace allf facets of human emotions.
Oh I definitely like Royksopp! "Melody AM" is still one of my favorite records. Such great songs! I love artists like Björk, Air, M83... and other musicians that have that ease to convey moving, emotive and thoughtful vibes with their music.
This was goosebumps from the beginning until the end. A masterpiece in every sense, every word, note, image. Too much perfection between the band, the singer and the visuals. Hope, Massive Attack and Cate... too much for me!
I have listened to this tune so many times this last month. I love all the comments, it seems to mean so many things to so many different people. Massive attack, delivers again.
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Hope Sandoval needs to do a whole album with Massive Attack.
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!
One of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard. The strings, the lyrics, the vocals, the synths, I mean come on. Absolute masterpiece.
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 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."
- Nick Cave
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 ¡
For me this is all about how our memory of people fades away, and how the pictures in our mind become distorted with time. Beautiful and deeply sad.
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.
That's exactly it.
This is not a song... This is a timeless Masterpiece 💞👌😊👍
the timeless agony of being in love with an image or an idea of a person that exists in your head. Even though the person is a different being than that of the idea of the person's existence you lock and save in your head, only you love 'that idea' in silence and the person remains unaware
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..
It’s totally proustian. Marcel Proust, à la recherche du temps perdu.
Hope Sandoval and Cate Blanchett and Massive Attack. Just, wow. Brilliant.
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!
This song makes me cry because its so beautiful.
I listened to this song when I held my son close to me before he died, it is the sweetest memory I have but also the most moving. The most beautiful song ever.
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 and Massive Attack. My top two most favorite artists on planet earth collide again.
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 .
Hope Sandoval has an angel's voice.
An angel has Hope's voice.
Yes! She and Enya 💖
This clip must be in a museum. It is a masterpiece. So many concepts to explore.
Indeed Cate's Blanchett's image should be kept in a museum as an ideal. :P
yes.the concept is paradoxically timeless .
BWAHAHAHAHAHA , oh , wait , you serious?
I once fell so deeply in love with someone, and when our relationship ended, I felt this song with all the pain in my soul. Years have passed, and now that I keep listening to this song, I feel like I understand it better every day. I will always love that part of the person that I once fell in love with even though it no longer exists, people change and it's okay. Every day I don't know you more but still I thank life that one day we were the most passionate and connected lovers in our youth.
Edit: I realized that I had fallen in love with a psychopath who hurt me a lot, almost to death, luckily I was able to get out of there and I am healing now.
Be very careful of the predators of society, they abound a lot and there are many who know how to use their masks perfectly to deceive us.
Indeed I was in love with a lie, an illusion. It made no sense to feel such deep and incomprehensible pain.
In the end I learned that I do know how to love. And I am learning to love myself again now.
si, cate blanchett Que Hermosa mujerrr !!
The amount of pain this song awakens in me.
what you said made me cry
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very deeply and profound...i felt the same..
I love it when Massive Attack pairs up with female vocalists. This might be my track of the year.
Hope Sandoval is the vocalist of MAZZY STAR. She is also the voice from PARADISE CIRCUS.
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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.
This is one of the most beautiful songs ever written and recorded. The production is flawless. It's a true masterpiece. And of course it's Massive Attack.
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.
Cate Blanchett does some truly incredible films and projects. I’m amazed.
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.
0:08 - Modern Day Actress
1:51 - 18th Century Death Masks
2:54 - Human Structure
3:54 - Pompeii ( A.D. 79 )
4:21 - 3.000 B.C.
5:09 - 10.000 B.C.
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.
I saw Hope Sandoval playing live with Mazzy Star, back in the 90‘s. She was so beautiful and stoned that the heaven would fall down to the stage.
aww haha, thanks for the picture. Love it
Wow man, i literally just listened to a mazzy star song then this and read this. boom
Same. Saw Mazzy Star at The Great American Music Hall in SF
A music video so minimalistic, so human, so universal and so horrifying. Massive Attack are artists.
something like that
I see Blanchett, I click.
same here
Me too:-)
Eu também! Rainha sem defeitos ❤️
🤩😄
I see Blanchett, I run away...
One of the best songs I've listened to in my whole life, this is a masterpiece.
Those last few statues really wrench at my heart. They truly magnify what being forgotten feels like.
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 ❤....
Massive Attack is the best group ever. Everytime they release a song it touches youre soul. You cry. This song is so good and sad
You know a song's profound when, at the end of the vid, you don't just automatically click on another song, but sit taking in what you've just experienced🙏💞Just sublime.
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.
This song is about the erosion of the detailed memory of a person, yet simultaneously how permanent the impression is that their essence leaves in your life.
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
This is the most excruciatingly heartbreaking song I've ever heard..
Agreed
EXACTLY
Well, have you heard other songs from Hope Sandoval...
Truth...built on truth and true love
One of the most beautiful songs ever written. Makes my heart ache.
Do you like 'Roads' by Portishead?
If you haven't heard it,then please give it a listen.
I've only just found this song but I've a feeling it's gonna grow on me.
The trip hop genre is the deepest most emotionally charged music I've ever heard,and I love it.
I used to listen to it in the late 90's on the radio on a chill out show every night for 3 and a half years while I was locked up,and I'm really rediscovering it.
Massive Attack + Hope Sandoval + Cate Blanchett = Perfection
My own interpretation: the video represents how we slowly lose our identity after we've been hurt/forsaken by someone we love. Many of us create an outer wall to protect ourselves, and look like we've turned into a stone without any feelings.
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
The song is called "The Spoils", which comes from the phrase "To the victor go the spoils". The speaker in the song is in love with a person who is in involved with another woman. This other woman is the victor; to her go the spoils. The person they both love is "the spoils".
Out of pure love and a desire for her love's happiness, she lets him/her go. The speaker is dealing with the pain of that loss and the infinite emotional distance there must be between herself and the person she loves; and across that distance, over time, the painful image of the person she loves ossifies, fades; but she's still holding on to him/her. That hopeless love -- it never leaves her.
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.
Life is such a crazy roller coaster... Spent most of my 20s all alone totally miserable, then got my first girlfriend at 27 and after one years and a half, she broke up with me because of too many flaws in our couple... And for the first time in my life I get to feel what is sorrow, grief, loss, etc... Coming from a very hardened, stone-cold character developed over the years, now I feel like the most vulnerable thing emotionally. That's crazy. But you know what ? I also enjoy it, made me understand what deep love is and how beautiful it is. And know I understand how people could move mountains to get their lover back. That's 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.
Happy to be alive and listen to this
The song ends and I wanna die again
Happy to listen to this but not to be alive.
Me too...
Same here
This song makes me cry...
Dream team right in there. Massive, Sandoval and Blanchett! Just amazing.
Warning: Hope Sandoval's vocals and that string arrangement is probably going to hit you in the feels. Just so you know.
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
Mazzy Star and Massive Attack had such a profound influence on my teenage years. This song has made my life come full circle in a sense, especially having my first baby at such a late part of my life.
congratulations!
I can't even begin to put in words how beautiful this song is.
The very 1st time I listened to this as the string section started I absolutely uncontrollably burst into tears such a powerful song
Same
I never cry. But this and the Elephant man film from 1980 both get me every time.
I got that feeling
That bad feeling that you don't know
I don't even know her
But I hope that
She comforts you tonight
Nobody here that keeps you in the shade
And ever owned you
Some sentimental tears or someone else's girl
That drips away
But I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you the same
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away
I got that feeling
That bad feeling that you don't know
I don't even know her
But I hope that
She comforts you tonight
And I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you this way
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away
Away
And I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you this way
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you
But I somehow slowly love you
And wanna keep you the same
Well, I somehow slowly know you
And wanna keep you away
Thank you! I needed this ❤️
I feel so broken right now, and this song makes me cry and understand my feelings and how human I can be and how sensitive I am.
💗
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.
I appreciate so much having been born, raised and lived in an era where music exists as Massive Attack.
Cate Blanchett- Face
Massive Attack- Body
Hope Sandoval- Voice
Truly a beautiful combination of talent. Absolutely love this song & video 💯💯
Hillcoat - Mind
We (here/now) - Souls
@@clau853 for sure
It's special... 👍
The Dead Don't Die! Cate is phenomenal!
The song and the video are so haunting. There's something about it that really terrifies me at some primal level.
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
The lushness of those strings at 2:49 is one of the many reasons I keep coming back to this masterpiece 😍
This song invokes the memory of one who had been previously loved & cherished: slowly being eroded, and dissolving into nothing. This band still makes epic songs :)
my thoughts exactly
So I have heard a few songs of Massive Attack and loved them but didn't explore further. Just stumbled upon this song and it has stirred so many emotions. I miss my mother. I miss how much I used to miss her. I miss my grief. I miss mourning. Feels strange.
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
It's not only that you still love and miss "them"... it's that you love and miss, "who you were."
They're both gone, that's the hardest part.
💔
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.
4:08 This part to the end is...no words, the orchestral strings, the voice, the lyrics, everything is perfect.
😂
Hope's voice. Are there any words to describe it? She has such a lonely sadness in her voice. What Massive Attack did with the music is so perfect. It's a song that makes you want to cry and you don't know why.
Amen.
So damn true. This song makes me really emotional 😭😢
ciaociao
I know why
Brings back many happy memories of listening to Mazzy Star!
Massive Attack + Hope Sandoval = Heaven!!!!!!
Blanchett Attack. Perfect mix.
massive cate
mazzy attack
Massive Blanchett?
De massive cate attack
Hope Attack Blanchett
This song is pure poetry, raw emotion.
Hope's terribly soft voice that penetrates my soul, and this way Massive has of making his violins cry, shivers. And what about this clip so simple and cerebral at the same time.
A masterpiece because music is an art and it must remain so for eternity
Heartbreak never sounded so beautiful
Mark Barrett exactly
lol I like how you put it
Heartbreak never sounds so creepy but beautiful at the same time
In my view, this a women who lost the only one she ever loved. She loved him so much that’s she not angry. She wants him to be happy. She waits. And her love is so strong that it transcends time. She waits. She dies, and still her love, waits. A very powerful message. Nice job Massive Attack!
-hmmm, massive attack, nice music -- but hope wrote the words. .
What a pain in the ass being alive, isn't it?
This has to be one of the most beautiful yet sad songs ever made, no matter what genre you prefer.
Wajg3l that is for sure! )
I can listen to this song 1000 times and still love it as I did from the 1st time!!!
I listened to this a hundred times when my dad was dying this time last year. In the car, in bed with head phones, everywhere - where it was just me and this song (personal). Tears in my eyes every time the big strings come in. So pleased everyone feels the same!
nick thompson Sorry bro, peace to you and find happiness in everything you do.
nick thompson, sorry for your lost
nick thompson sorry for your loss
Rest In Peace. I hope we all get to listen to this song in heaven
Same here. The song reminds me of my dad who recently died. I cry every time, but the song and video together, it's just too beautiful.
This song reminds me of how our minds work. How when someone who we deeply love dies and our memories are still fresh in our heads. But with age, the images of their eyes and their lips, the sound of their voices, the memories that we've created together start fading away. I think this video truly represents memory loss/Alzheimer. Thank you for this.
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.
the privilege of singing with Massive Attack is not for everyone.
Hope Is Amazing.
Every single beat matches my heartbeat, or maybe my heart adjust the rhythm. I'm speechless, as soon as this song ends, i start it over and over again. ❤
Glad to hear Hope.
Jeez Cate you are godessing here.
Unimaginable.....how is this possible? Still trying to fathom. Epic piece of art.
The string arrangement on this track is incredibly beautiful. I have times when I just can’t listen to this song because it’s too emotional. This morning I listened, and felt a calmness. Current goings-on are recalibrating outlooks and memories. Music is just so powerful. 💓
I feel exactly the same
Devastatingly poignant. I LOVE this song - it's all about that voice and those strings.
I feel same
Yeah, that flat A they hit just melts you. It's incredible!
This is the best description of ghosting. When you are just being left afloat, drifting into nothingness, becoming an abstract sculpture from past.
Absolutely brilliant work of art.
Ghosting is trivial social media garb. This, to me is on another level altogether
Oh God! The end is so haunting and beautifill at the same time.
You feel the menssege.
I know I feel the menssege.
sure you do ;)
I had a menssege in Bulgaria once. The guy looked like a shotputter and was built like a brick shit house. Luckily it didn't have a 'happy ending'.
Ive been listening to this song for almost a month every day ..
its awakening...
After countless listens to this over the past two years, this song hasn't aged a day.
Real
@@bobbibueno5902 it truly is food for my SOUL ...
The video is a master piece, The music is amazing. Massive Attack are iconic. Walk past their studio in Bristol occasionally, 65 year old in awe.
I once loved, and lost. I thought the pain never goes away.
Now that I hear this song, there is no pain, I remember, but the face is not there, the pain is not there, and I felt just love.
Jenni Elina Holopainen thank you for these words. It has the same effect on me.
Wonderful
I feel this song, cant live without anymore. No words can describe how crazy beautiful, lovely, perfect this is.
Some songs are so beyond beautiful but so heartbreaking, you never want to relate to them.
This is one of them. The torn feelings caused by betrayal & loss - I wish these upon no one.
She has the voice of an angel.
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
The constant background sound when visualised seems traveling in space freely like its going through a large void uninterrupted, like the void left behind by people we still love
I love the way how she says the very last 'Away' in this song. Like it's the last memory u have and u clearly know that this is the time to finally farewell, after all this years/months/hours, to just let it go
Beautiful song, beautiful Cate Blanchett and beautiful voice of Hope Sandoval.
i know some may make fun, but i just found out who Hope Sandoval is, for those as me who didn´t know, she was the vocalist of Mazzy Star, now i get why this is one of the best songs ever to be played on earth.
I came here to watch Cate Blanchett, lately I'm into her and it is fascinating that the song exactly addresses what and how I feel about her. The idea of her existing in my thoughts.
For me it's someone else but same
Massive Attack and the lead-singer of Mazzy Star, what a combination!!!
You know, jezz.
Didn't know it was her. Thanks for that ♥
Mazzy-ve Attack
"Paradise Circus", you're right though!
I hope this comment section never changes, it's great to see so many ideas about it being the image of her being forgotten, her trying to cling to the image of her lover while it fades, life and death, becoming stone after heartbreak, etc, all of it makes this song much more beautiful
I hear this song and my heart tightens. I feel this lump and it's hard to breathe. Its haunting and just utterly beautiful. A kind of painful understanding. You literally feel the struggle in her voice and the music just pushes this heartbeat and tone. F&^%in work of art.
One of the best things I've seen, heard and experienced in my life.
Thanks Massive attack, thanks Hope Sandoval, thanks Cate Blanchett, thanks John Hillcoat.
I want to hug that song so tight and never let it go
Away
Man those lyrics, and Hope's delivery - killer.
Hope Sandoval's voice and Massive Attack's music touches deep in my soul.
This is the kind of song I can listen to 500 times it still give me the same feeligs as the first.
words simply cannot explain how beautiful and touching this song is. i have heard a lot of beautiful music but this...this is so unique. i cant listen to it without some tears dropping from my eyes. they are not tears of sadness. they arent tears of happiness. theyre just tears from being moved so much by this song.
They're both excellent artists! I'm a huge fan of Massive Attack and Hope Sandoval, respectively. And I so agree with what you've said, there's this rather unique feeling to the song... Some kind of deep trance, as if our thoughts slowly dissolve into a pool of our own existence; it's not sadness, nor is it happiness - but some greater force that sweeps through our soul and leaves us moved beyond the singularity of a particular feeling.
J Marin i truly could not have worded that any better. an integration of our deepest feelings is called awareness and acceptance. we can feel all the feelings at once and be aware of the range of them and move with them,, learning to accept the "negative" ones. you cant feel light without feeling darkness, and music like this allows you to embrace allf facets of human emotions.
Julie Davis Yes, it's an overwhelming feeling. Light without darkness couldn't exist. I like the way you word your thoughts :)
J Marin i think youd really enjoy listening to royksopp. have you ever listened to them? and likewise, your writing is beautiful too
Oh I definitely like Royksopp! "Melody AM" is still one of my favorite records. Such great songs! I love artists like Björk, Air, M83... and other musicians that have that ease to convey moving, emotive and thoughtful vibes with their music.
Every time I listen to this song I cry. Not a sad cry but because its such a beautiful piece of sonic art. Amazing.
This track actually makes me cry. Absolutely beautiful.
This is astonishing,the voice,the music and Cate's face
I'd have this play on my funeral. It captures the sadness and emotion setting the mood exactly right.
This was goosebumps from the beginning until the end. A masterpiece in every sense, every word, note, image. Too much perfection between the band, the singer and the visuals. Hope, Massive Attack and Cate... too much for me!
Hope Sandoval. WOW. this is intense in the most beautiful way.
I have listened to this tune so many times this last month. I love all the comments, it seems to mean so many things to so many different people. Massive attack, delivers again.
One of the most moving tracks ever. Bless Massive Attack.
This one and Paradise Circus are my favorites Massive Attack songs.
Thanks Hope Sandoval.
Love Cate 💙
One of the most underrated artists
Without a doubt
That’s why people like us
Appreciate Massive Attack 💯👍🏻
underrated by who??
Not at all underrated.
Absolutely brilliant. Will stay with me forever.
this gives me goosebumps, it cuts the strings of your heart, so deep, hope sandoval has the most beautiful voice
I love Hope Sandoval since Mazzy Star, and this song is simply amazing ❤
What a beautiful masterpiece!
So beautiful that it hurts.