We got married in West Memphis 12 years ago. My son committed suicide 2 years ago at Christmas. We seem to be on similar paths. Good luck on yours. God's Peace.
Mrs. Yebba my son Joshua died last week. He was humble, respectful, and loving. He was homeless in L.A. . He was found in a sleep position. Joshua was an October baby. This is all I hear since I got the news. I wish I can sing this song for him. This is my son's song. Thank you Mrs. Smith
October Sky builds a quiet symphony around a particularly potent memory of Yebba’s mother-a high school science teacher who sometimes brought home the bottle rockets her students had constructed for class. “I wrote this whole story about remembering her sliding down the hall and telling us ‘Come outside we’re shooting off bottle rockets,’” Yebba explains. “That memory came to me and the words just spilled out: this story of her and the promise that she broke, in a way, because she killed herself in October. I genuinely feel like she was standing there in the room with me as I was writing it, in my studio apartment in Brooklyn.”
You can see she's sitting near a cemetery when the camera pans to the left (gravestones and a white cross). It's very subtle, but poignant. Much love & respect to Yebba. 🙏
I never felt anything more in my life. My mom passed away on Christmas morning 2013. Haven’t been the same since. When you lose a parent you almost forget who you were before the grief. I’m with you. 💜
My mother also committed suicide recently. This is just... So much. I don't really have the words. I feel that pain and confusion and betrayal and sadness wrapped up in this song. Yebba, your music makes me cry and those tears are such a release. Thank you for your artistry, vulnerability, and strength
My alcoholic father inadvertently killed himself (while extremely intoxicated) in February. So much different, but in a way, I share your pain. This album has been very healing and cathartic for me. ❤️🩹 Praying for your healing, sweet lady.
I’m a 60 yr old Brit bloke 😂, and only found Abbey a few days ago, I’ve been falling down the Yebba rabbit hole ever since, her vocals are truly Astounding😮😮😮😮 but also the ‘story’ she tells with her looks to camera in this vid, show how much she ‘feels’ everything she sings. There are other examples particularly the SOFAR NY session version of ‘My Mind’ just one of the most emotive performances I’ve ever seen. Hope Yebba comes to the U.K. I’d be front row 😊😊❤❤
As a mother. This song brings me to tears every time. I am a suicide survivor and it’s is just so beautiful to see this woman perform with so much heart and strength. I wish I could comfort her the way I comfort my own, but nothing will ever replace the loss. I just know her mom is so Fucking proud of her. 😭 I am a river of tears and I will replay this song till I’m dried out. Because crying is healing ❤️🩹
Thank God you survived. No matter how heavy,cruel & tremendously unfair life could be. Remember every moment of life is worth living. Not only for you but your loved ones.
Yebba, I know you're reading this so wanted to let you know Evergreen helped me process my grandpa's passing in 2017. He's my lucky penny. Anywho, I love you.
My grandmother, Rose, and my dog, Penny, both passed in the same week in Nov 2017 and I heard Evergreen just a few days later and it helped me sooo much! Now this week I’ve lost my Aunt and a family friend in the same week and she’s released October Sky. It’s amazing how our lives can parallel with some artists. Also, my Aunts birthday was Sept 10th which Yebba just announced as the release date for her album ❤️
@@melroseface1819 wow, I am so sorry to hear your story but I love hearing how music bonds us altogether. Hope the album continues your healing process.
Same! My grandma passed mid August. Didn't saw her for 2 years and I'll never see her again. Evergreen was my rock! Thank you for sharing your story as it helps us feel less alone. Many blessings.
I’ve been around for 61 yrs. This young lady is the best . Her runs are second to none. I feel honored to have been here long enough to witness such beauty. Simply angelic. Enjoy her people she is a real “ mensa on the mic”. Let’s hope her genius will not be quieted by the industry.
I don’t know if anyone will really read this, but as I’m laid up here in bed, watching this, I’m crying because this hit me all the way deep. Never have I felt so articulately touched in my life. A triumph. A masterpiece.
Yebba has one of thee best voices in the world rn and I'm left in awe every time I hear her sing... I can't wait for this album... September seems so far away😭
Green with envy. This level of talent, writing and arrangement almost makes me mad. I want Yebba to blow up on the charts, so everyone can see what a true singer/songwriter can do with pipes that won’t quit.
The song makes me severely nostalgic about younger days, when grass was greener and you had your whole life ahead. and the countryside I lived in looked almost the same.
Yebba, how do you get through this song without crying? You really are a Warrior and We truly thank you f or the shedding it takes to sing, from a place of Transparency. Much Love & May God continue to Bless you & pour Abundant Favor unto your Life ❤️❤️❤️
Hi Yebba - my dad also took his life when I was a kid. I also lived in NYC when I was 18 - this song took me through so many emotions and phases of my life. Thank you for creating beautiful, vulnerable art that heals. Fan since jump, Cassy 💖
Dear Yebba, My mother died at the very height of the jacarandas flowering abundance on 21st November 2012 (Sydney). I don’t really know how I survived it all, shielding my young children from my pain, letting them express all their needs, and keeping their lives child focussed and happy was intense. I needed a mother my whole life. Being young, and a primary teacher and mother of young children. My Mum was my only other living adult family member (I am the only child of two migrants and am a single parent). There have been a number of intergenerational family suicides, and a grandfather taken away to the asylum forever. No one talked about the suicide and mental health impacts inside or outside of my family. I have felt alone with it. Listening to music, and others' musical outpouring has been an endless relief. Especially your visceral music Yebba! Yet in reality, my Mum was as needy as an infant, and also as brittle and fragile as broken glass. Over her life Mum had many suicide attempts, and had wanted to go for years. I did everything I possibly could to make her happy, and never could. My childhood was walking on eggshells, always trying to please and help her and lift her spirits. Mum was artistic, a great writer, intelligent, but totally self absorbed and lived with the bottle to numb her mind. Decades later she even asked her friend, and my young children to help her achieve her death wish. The morning after she died, I sat outside on my balcony garden. Immediately giant dragonflies Giant dragonflies (ABC Sciencewww.abc.net.au/science/articles/2005/02/03/2575942.htm ) flew and sat on my cup. For the next few days whenever I was outside, as I sought comfort in nature, giant dragonflies came and settled right beside me. With their huge multifaceted eyes. There had not been rain to attract them? Nor was I prey? Yet they selectively (Dragonflies have human-like 'selective attention' -- ScienceDaily www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121220143224.htm ) followed me from one spot to the next. I was enraptured. Y E B B A hearing your stunning songs. So beautiful, I could listen to you for hours…. I really do adore your songwriting and voice!…..and noticing your dragonfly tattoo allowed my tears to silently flow for the idea of my mother, noting I will never have that need met. The dragonfly on your hand awoke me to the memory of peace and communing with dragonflies and nature. It feels like yesterday that I became a motherless mother, and yet, so long ago too. Yebba a big hug to you xox you are doing great things and I wish you the very best of the best! xoxo Warmest Regards Sez. Your dragonfly tattoo also inspired me to nerd out and do a little dragon fly research scientific and other… The dragonfly signifies a path to new world's. They are about transformation and a change in perspective, maturity, depth of character, power and poise. A dragonfly encourages you to dive into your emotions and asks your spirit to soar with your true colors. Have you seen a dragonfly in the sunshine? It is gorgeous! What do dragonflies mean? A dragonfly asks us to break free from our illusions. As it reflects light, it asks us to reflect our inner light. Dragonfly Symbolism & Meaning (+Totem, Spirit & Omens) | World Birds www.worldbirds.org/dragonfly-symbolism/
This song haunts me. Since I first heard it I can’t get it out of my brain. I listen to it everyday and never get tired. And this is the best version of it. Sending love and hugs Yebba all this sadness and beauty wrapped up in one
It does feel haunting even hear it while I’m dreaming sometimes. For me it’s the story behind the song and how visual it is. Like a song from the saddest part of a movie.
Yebba’s voice makes me spontaneously cry in gratitude that I ever had the opportunity to bare witness to the infinite power of her voice to express dimensions of emotion and existence I haven’t experienced this entire lifetime. What a fucking tremendous blessing to receive. And to think how the pain of her mother’s passing was transmuted into such powerful healing and beautiful word sounds being spread far and wide for us all. I fuck with Yebba forever.
I'm 62 and chronologically my musical discography has been T-Rex, Elton John, Bowie, Jazz-funk , Jazz, all the greats from Miles Davis, Coltrane, to more contemporary artists like Chris Potter and Snarky Puppy, Robert Glasper along with many R&B artists like Jill Scott, Mary J, Erykah Badu, etc but my favorite genre has to be Jazz because of its ability to fuse all the aforementioned styles. However, 2 bands/singers Yebba and Hiatus Kaiyote have opened up a whole new genre that has given me joy listening to them and renewed my thirst for original, new, exciting music.
Beautiful. Was suggested this video by a random youtube comment when I mentioned my mother took her own life Oct 3rd 2021. October sky ❤️🥺. Miss you mom
No one sings loss like you, Yebba. And that's because you're a true artist. Forget that your voice is perfection, forget that you're a talented songwriter, forget that you have a musical style that's all your own. It's your ability to sing from your soul and touch our souls and spirits. And that's the magic, magic that only a few artists possess. I hope your music is brings you as much healing and beauty as it brings us. With love.
You pour your heart and your soul in your music and we all recognize that and appreciate you for sharing the deepest parts of your life! Thanks Yebba, Ill keep coming back for more!
Your MOTHER is blessed by the best God.that i know, my parents have passed resently and i think you know that she wouldn't want you to be mad at her,that was your world you bilult around her. I miss them so much i know it's just not right they way they exit the game of life. I love you keep it up go harder i am .She left us the best Song Bird EVER , I'm 63yr old Black Man an i love all your Songs . May Yashua be with you.
I've been walking around for two years telling everyone I know pretty much that they have to listen to Yebba because she is THE best singer out there. Still doing it while eagerly waiting for her to get the acknowledgement she so absolutely deserves. Hang in there Yebba fans, international acclaim is coming...
Brilliantly done. Not a lot of comments about the "Alone" reference, which works so well at the end of this song. Yebba takes the (vi IV I V) chord progression [normally played once at the end of of the chorus, starting at the word "sky" and including several "la da da" vocalizations], but changes it in the final chorus so that the progression repeats and morphs into "Alone" with the lyrics hitting even harder than they ever did in Heart's original version. Just expertly done live musicianship.
Never would have expected a single song to weave together two of the most tragic events of my life. I lived in Brooklyn when 9/11 happened. Lost a couple friends from our local fire house who were first responders. Also witnessed a family friend fight to survive 3rd degree burns sustained when she ran out the exit doors of Tower #2 as it collapsed. The other event is unspeakably horrible, can't put the details in writing, but I was a first responder to my dear cousin's suicide. There exists simultaneously intimate minutia of each event yet at the same time an unfathomable, incomprehensibly abstract vapor wrapped around them, mocking rational thought, just out of explanation's reach. Why, how, what if. So incredibly personal but as universal and transcendent literally as life and death. I think this is the first time in my 60 years that I've heard a song even come close to conveying this. Thank you.
Intimate, authentic, and raw. Not overly produced, sung, or fussy. Just some beautiful vocals, clean instrumentation, poignant lyrics, a catchy tune, and stunning cinematic visuals. Thank you for Yebba, for shining a little light into the world during these dark, dark times. One question though, how did he manage to keep those sneakers so white in that field of grass?! He's a brave soul. 😂
It’s insane to me that this has only had 2.5M views. I feel privileged to be responsible for a few of these views, to be one of the 2M people who know this song exists. Beautiful voice, beautiful song, beautiful songwriter.
The way I've played this more than 10x straight, because the words and sentiments are pure. From one motherless daughter to another, this song resounds deep in my spirit.
Nice sneaky nod to one of the greatest female rock acts of all time, Heart, and pure voices ever - Ann Wilson - at the end of that song... 'Til now I always got by on my own, I never really cared until I met you'. I saw what you did there, Yebba...
I'll forever be proud to call myself a yebbite. Her journey has been amazing to watch so far and I know she will only grow from here. So so inspiring!! Your mom will be so proud of you Yebba 🥺🤍 So excited for the album!
This is beautiful. I got to see you in nashville with John Mayer in April. . My dad killed himself in the TN River in 2008. I loved your song before I knew what it was about. Now I love it even more.
Absolute first time i have clicked on an unsolicited song ad during my workout music. Astounding voice. Never heard of this person before. Unlikely I will now forget.
"As I go back home to memphis" - literally goes to memphis just to sing it in a field.
You're amazing ✨
We got married in West Memphis 12 years ago. My son committed suicide 2 years ago at Christmas. We seem to be on similar paths. Good luck on yours. God's Peace.
Does this hint a full body work ? Because I feel teased.
What a lovely song. Love you yebba 😭😭😭
I would pay so much money to watch you play in a Memphis field.
Whats up yall its yebs. ima be in the comments when this thang premiers. see u in a little while. love
Hi Queen, can’t wait for midnight!!! Xo
we love u queen
can’t wait! you’re literally my favorite artist ❤️❤️
we love youuuuuu babe!
Best of the year, cutie!
2016: I cannot WAIT for her debut album
2021: I cannot WAIT for her debut album
As we see, yes you can!
Sept. 10
😩😩😩
@@Fabiocaet lmfaooo
For real
Still here in 2024 and this performance is just as hauntingly beautiful as 3 years ago ❤
Mrs. Yebba my son Joshua died last week. He was humble, respectful, and loving. He was homeless in L.A. . He was found in a sleep position. Joshua was an October baby. This is all I hear since I got the news. I wish I can sing this song for him. This is my son's song. Thank you Mrs. Smith
❤❤❤
Sending love ✨️ I'm so sorry for your loss 🕊
✌️♥️🤗😇🙏s..
❤ 🕊 🕯
🕯🙏
There is not one song from Yebba that doesn’t leave me with goosebumps. This song is so beautiful. So much love for you 🤎🥂
Its soooo beautiful, listening to it for the 5th time now, ill patiently wait for your cover babe❤❤❤❤❤🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
You live us with goosebumps too when you cover her songs too
YESS! THIS THE COMMENT
Very true. I actually cried listening to this in the car. So pure and beautiful.
The control of the voice to tell the story! The consistent change in vocal inflection that drives you to feel. I love this woman!
October Sky builds a quiet symphony around a particularly potent memory of Yebba’s mother-a high school science teacher who sometimes brought home the bottle rockets her students had constructed for class. “I wrote this whole story about remembering her sliding down the hall and telling us ‘Come outside we’re shooting off bottle rockets,’” Yebba explains. “That memory came to me and the words just spilled out: this story of her and the promise that she broke, in a way, because she killed herself in October. I genuinely feel like she was standing there in the room with me as I was writing it, in my studio apartment in Brooklyn.”
Wow!
Now I’m crying
🥺😭💔
You can see she's sitting near a cemetery when the camera pans to the left (gravestones and a white cross). It's very subtle, but poignant. Much love & respect to Yebba. 🙏
I am crying……..
This live version is just on another level. Bonkers.
Always love her lives !!!
Every live performance of hers is like a whole different artist!! AMAZING ❤🔥🎯
I think this live performance is better than the studio version
Yebba soothes the wounded child in me that just misses her mother.
This comment literally brought tears to my eyes. Sending you my love and a warm hug 💕
THISSSSS.💖
Ditto!😪❤
😭😭😭...wow such a profound statement... and very relatable.
I never felt anything more in my life. My mom passed away on Christmas morning 2013. Haven’t been the same since. When you lose a parent you almost forget who you were before the grief. I’m with you. 💜
My mother also committed suicide recently. This is just... So much. I don't really have the words. I feel that pain and confusion and betrayal and sadness wrapped up in this song. Yebba, your music makes me cry and those tears are such a release. Thank you for your artistry, vulnerability, and strength
So sorry for your loss. I hope you find peace and solace to help you cope
I’m sending you so much love. I hope you give yourself so much grace and find peace - whatever that looks like for you. ✨♥️
I'm so sorry for loss ❤ sending you lots of love and comfort
🙏🏾❤️ sorry for your loss
My alcoholic father inadvertently killed himself (while extremely intoxicated) in February. So much different, but in a way, I share your pain. This album has been very healing and cathartic for me. ❤️🩹 Praying for your healing, sweet lady.
the "Alone" part is FIREEEEE!!! WOWWWWWW
Agreed! Interesting way to weave another sing into her own.
YESSSS‼️😩👏🏽
there isn’t a single song from Yebba that i will not play on constant repeat
Same, fam. For days on end 🙌
Oh yes another Jas!!! Same :)
I haven’t play any song, i did not get bored whatsoever from this masterpiece
I swearrrrrrr
I swear!!!
She’s an icon, she’s a legend & she IS the moment 😍
yessir
Now come on now
I’m a 60 yr old Brit bloke 😂, and only found Abbey a few days ago, I’ve been falling down the Yebba rabbit hole ever since, her vocals are truly Astounding😮😮😮😮 but also the ‘story’ she tells with her looks to camera in this vid, show how much she ‘feels’ everything she sings. There are other examples particularly the SOFAR NY session version of ‘My Mind’ just one of the most emotive performances I’ve ever seen. Hope Yebba comes to the U.K. I’d be front row 😊😊❤❤
As a mother. This song brings me to tears every time. I am a suicide survivor and it’s is just so beautiful to see this woman perform with so much heart and strength. I wish I could comfort her the way I comfort my own, but nothing will ever replace the loss. I just know her mom is so Fucking proud of her. 😭 I am a river of tears and I will replay this song till I’m dried out. Because crying is healing ❤️🩹
Glad you survived...❤
Thank God you survived. No matter how heavy,cruel & tremendously unfair life could be. Remember every moment of life is worth living. Not only for you but your loved ones.
Suicide survivor I'm dead
@@eriazshelby7839 yea she means attempted suicide survivor but still a grammar mistake doesn’t take away from the validity of the statement
glad you're here
Yebba, your voice is like a spiritual transportation into another universe. Every single song. Every single time.
baby, YOUR comment is the gospel truth
YES!
So true!
Yebba, I know you're reading this so wanted to let you know Evergreen helped me process my grandpa's passing in 2017. He's my lucky penny. Anywho, I love you.
My grandmother, Rose, and my dog, Penny, both passed in the same week in Nov 2017 and I heard Evergreen just a few days later and it helped me sooo much! Now this week I’ve lost my Aunt and a family friend in the same week and she’s released October Sky. It’s amazing how our lives can parallel with some artists. Also, my Aunts birthday was Sept 10th which Yebba just announced as the release date for her album ❤️
Yes, it helped me cope with my Daddy passing on Feb 8, 2018
@@melroseface1819 wow, I am so sorry to hear your story but I love hearing how music bonds us altogether. Hope the album continues your healing process.
@@jerrikajones6030 I'm so sorry to hear about your dad, I can't imagine your pain. Hope Yebba's new album brings some joy back into your life.
Same! My grandma passed mid August. Didn't saw her for 2 years and I'll never see her again. Evergreen was my rock! Thank you for sharing your story as it helps us feel less alone. Many blessings.
Love that little piece of Heart's song Alone in this. Your voice is hauntingly beautiful.
Totally agree. It's chilling 😌
I just made the connection! I started searching the comments to see if anyone had and found yours, too. Awesome.
The way she sings "butterknife" just blows me away every time I hear it
I’ve been around for 61 yrs. This young lady is the best . Her runs are second to none. I feel honored to have been here long enough to witness such beauty. Simply angelic. Enjoy her people she is a real “ mensa on the mic”. Let’s hope her genius will not be quieted by the industry.
What runs? She skips all of them and just sings over them
@@sammythesalmon745Are you possibly on heavy drugs? Do you know what a run is?
@@genasmith5817 yes she skips them in this version. Nothing like the album version.
@@sammythesalmon745 This song is not heavy with runs even in the album version, so I’m not sure what your complaint is.
@@genasmith5817 Yes it is. You need to re listen to the album version.
The line “... so I stand on the street and get high”
Yebba sings it so beautifully!! I have goosebumps.
Just hit that “Set Reminder” button. I don’t wanna miss not one thing.
I don’t know if anyone will really read this, but as I’m laid up here in bed, watching this, I’m crying because this hit me all the way deep. Never have I felt so articulately touched in my life. A triumph. A masterpiece.
Yes, we will read it. I feel you totally. This is a SONG.
I'm with u on that💯
I agree Jarrod. A masterpiece it is!!
Lovee
this is pure medicine
Can’t wait till this is in a HUGE movie soundtrack
She is outstanding. One of a kind. She deserves millions of views.
Keep streaming! Share it in ur social media!!
Billions, maybe? Adele routinely gets into the billions, why not Yebba?
Yebba has one of thee best voices in the world rn and I'm left in awe every time I hear her sing... I can't wait for this album... September seems so far away😭
Green with envy. This level of talent, writing and arrangement almost makes me mad. I want Yebba to blow up on the charts, so everyone can see what a true singer/songwriter can do with pipes that won’t quit.
The song makes me severely nostalgic about younger days, when grass was greener and you had your whole life ahead. and the countryside I lived in looked almost the same.
No BUT the way their hands move in sync playing the guitar😍
I just noticed
So much imagery. The words paint vivid pictures and a feel of warmth mixed with extreme sadness. You sang it beautifully in the field
Yebba, how do you get through this song without crying?
You really are a Warrior
and We truly thank you f
or the shedding it takes
to sing, from a place of Transparency.
Much Love
& May God continue to
Bless you & pour Abundant Favor unto your Life ❤️❤️❤️
Because I damn sure can’t get through listening without crying
Seriously considering putting a pile of pallets out in my yard to see if Yebba shows up to serenade me…😍
That note on "butter knife" sends shivers down my spine. In a good way.
it is absolute disrespect that this masterclass of song writing only has 1.5 million views
Absolutely insane, the ending with “alone” woven in caught me off guard and just made this even better WOW
Hi Yebba - my dad also took his life when I was a kid. I also lived in NYC when I was 18 - this song took me through so many emotions and phases of my life. Thank you for creating beautiful, vulnerable art that heals. Fan since jump, Cassy 💖
I always say my favorite songs are book marks in my life. Some good, some bad. All lessons nonetheless. Much love to you fellow Yebba fan 💞💞💓💓
Losing a parent is unlike any emotion I’ve ever experienced. Sending you love...
Stay strong love 💗💕
The simultaneous hand movements on the guitar are so satisfying
U noticed it too??!!!!!!💯
Yebba deserves more recognition. SHE NEEDS MORE RECOGNITION. She deserves a Grammy, a “song writer of the year”, and a “best vocalist”
Yebs won her first Grammy last year!
The little hommage to Heart's Alone is just... *chef's kiss*
The way me and my friend I haven’t talk to since middle school bonded over Yebba 😂 who knew we had the best taste in the school
“With a butterknife🎶🎶” my lord 🙌🏾
Dear Yebba, My mother died at the very height of the jacarandas flowering abundance on 21st November 2012 (Sydney). I don’t really know how I survived it all, shielding my young children from my pain, letting them express all their needs, and keeping their lives child focussed and happy was intense. I needed a mother my whole life. Being young, and a primary teacher and mother of young children. My Mum was my only other living adult family member (I am the only child of two migrants and am a single parent). There have been a number of intergenerational family suicides, and a grandfather taken away to the asylum forever. No one talked about the suicide and mental health impacts inside or outside of my family. I have felt alone with it. Listening to music, and others' musical outpouring has been an endless relief. Especially your visceral music Yebba! Yet in reality, my Mum was as needy as an infant, and also as brittle and fragile as broken glass. Over her life Mum had many suicide attempts, and had wanted to go for years. I did everything I possibly could to make her happy, and never could. My childhood was walking on eggshells, always trying to please and help her and lift her spirits. Mum was artistic, a great writer, intelligent, but totally self absorbed and lived with the bottle to numb her mind. Decades later she even asked her friend, and my young children to help her achieve her death wish. The morning after she died, I sat outside on my balcony garden. Immediately giant dragonflies Giant dragonflies (ABC Sciencewww.abc.net.au/science/articles/2005/02/03/2575942.htm )
flew and sat on my cup. For the next few days whenever I was outside, as I sought comfort in nature, giant dragonflies came and settled right beside me. With their huge multifaceted eyes. There had not been rain to attract them? Nor was I prey? Yet they selectively (Dragonflies have human-like 'selective attention' -- ScienceDaily www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121220143224.htm )
followed me from one spot to the next. I was enraptured.
Y E B B A hearing your stunning songs. So beautiful, I could listen to you for hours…. I really do adore your songwriting and voice!…..and noticing your dragonfly tattoo allowed my tears to silently flow for the idea of my mother, noting I will never have that need met. The dragonfly on your hand awoke me to the memory of peace and communing with dragonflies and nature. It feels like yesterday that I became a motherless mother, and yet, so long ago too. Yebba a big hug to you xox you are doing great things and I wish you the very best of the best! xoxo Warmest Regards Sez.
Your dragonfly tattoo also inspired me to nerd out and do a little dragon fly research scientific and other…
The dragonfly signifies a path to new world's. They are about transformation and a change in perspective, maturity, depth of character, power and poise. A dragonfly encourages you to dive into your emotions and asks your spirit to soar with your true colors. Have you seen a dragonfly in the sunshine? It is gorgeous!
What do dragonflies mean? A dragonfly asks us to break free from our illusions. As it reflects light, it asks us to reflect our inner light.
Dragonfly Symbolism & Meaning (+Totem, Spirit & Omens) | World Birds
www.worldbirds.org/dragonfly-symbolism/
The sound quality is phenomenal
This song haunts me. Since I first heard it I can’t get it out of my brain. I listen to it everyday and never get tired. And this is the best version of it. Sending love and hugs Yebba all this sadness and beauty wrapped up in one
It does feel haunting even hear it while I’m dreaming sometimes. For me it’s the story behind the song and how visual it is. Like a song from the saddest part of a movie.
Yebba’s voice makes me spontaneously cry in gratitude that I ever had the opportunity to bare witness to the infinite power of her voice to express dimensions of emotion and existence I haven’t experienced this entire lifetime. What a fucking tremendous blessing to receive. And to think how the pain of her mother’s passing was transmuted into such powerful healing and beautiful word sounds being spread far and wide for us all. I fuck with Yebba forever.
I’ve never related to a comment more in my life!,
Yeah man me too
Thank you for saying the words i was struggling to find as they relate to this woman. Over the last 5 yrs she has become a part of my being
ah, me too, "My Mind" oh, about 4.20-something, I tear up xoxox
Yebba, Adele & Kelly PRYCE did it for me. This is lovely 🎉
I'm really not ready 🥺 i feel like i'm witnessing history
I'm 62 and chronologically my musical discography has been T-Rex, Elton John, Bowie, Jazz-funk , Jazz, all the greats from Miles Davis, Coltrane, to more contemporary artists like Chris Potter and Snarky Puppy, Robert Glasper along with many R&B artists like Jill Scott, Mary J, Erykah Badu, etc but my favorite genre has to be Jazz because of its ability to fuse all the aforementioned styles. However, 2 bands/singers Yebba and Hiatus Kaiyote have opened up a whole new genre that has given me joy listening to them and renewed my thirst for original, new, exciting music.
Beautiful. Was suggested this video by a random youtube comment when I mentioned my mother took her own life Oct 3rd 2021. October sky ❤️🥺. Miss you mom
I’m glad everybody with a sense of music taste is here😂
That little giggle after that run in “ now I work in the city and I blend into the crowd” 😅❤️ Yebba, you know you badass. Sheesh
Man, Yebba you are a breathe of fresh air. The instrumentation, the words, the vocalsss, SPEECHLESS! 🧘🏾♀️
A recording and a live performance!? I love you YEBBA
Everything you do is a masterpiece!
Love you dude!
That's the correct word for it I was looking for. .. a Masterpiece!!!
Well didn't expect to see you here Unmesh!
Pleasant surprise, this comment haha
Unmesh, cool to see that you have a good taste for great music!
I love the "Heart - Alone" part at the end.
No one sings loss like you, Yebba. And that's because you're a true artist. Forget that your voice is perfection, forget that you're a talented songwriter, forget that you have a musical style that's all your own. It's your ability to sing from your soul and touch our souls and spirits. And that's the magic, magic that only a few artists possess. I hope your music is brings you as much healing and beauty as it brings us. With love.
if you’re looking for an angel in the flesh, here she is.
This makes me feel like I’m frolicking through flowery fields on the hills of Ireland on a partially cloudy day. 🥺❤️
When she sang the chorus of Alone by Heart(the band) towards the end😍🔥
thats so fucking ridiculous this girl got one of the best voice in humanity and is completly underrated lol proving ppl are deaf
You pour your heart and your soul in your music and we all recognize that and appreciate you for sharing the deepest parts of your life! Thanks Yebba, Ill keep coming back for more!
This song has a Ireland 🇮🇪 mystique to it! It’s deep and contemplative 🤔!
These are the kinds of artists I’d get tattooed on my arm
Your MOTHER is blessed by the best God.that i know, my parents have passed resently and i think you know that she wouldn't want you to be mad at her,that was your world you bilult around her. I miss them so much i know it's just not right they way they exit the game of life. I love you keep it up go harder i am .She left us the best Song Bird EVER , I'm 63yr old Black Man an i love all your Songs . May Yashua be with you.
GREATNESS 👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Lord give us strength for every time this woman opens her mouth to sing, that we would not immediately be slain.
So powerfully, simply beautiful, with Yebba's complex vocals.
I've been walking around for two years telling everyone I know pretty much that they have to listen to Yebba because she is THE best singer out there. Still doing it while eagerly waiting for her to get the acknowledgement she so absolutely deserves. Hang in there Yebba fans, international acclaim is coming...
Yebba is an instrument
Biggest robbery for this to not be a Grammy nominated song
It's the giggle for me after she says crowd
WOW ✨It’s like female Simon & Garfunkel if they could do crazy riffs. This is the best release of 2021 easy
Yea I listened to October sky and boomerang 1 million times💯 I’m addicted to the tiny desk performance. I’m such a fan it’s sooo crazy 🔥
I’m a man of simple needs. Yebba releases a video and I need to watch a few hundred times.
Brilliantly done. Not a lot of comments about the "Alone" reference, which works so well at the end of this song. Yebba takes the (vi IV I V) chord progression [normally played once at the end of of the chorus, starting at the word "sky" and including several "la da da" vocalizations], but changes it in the final chorus so that the progression repeats and morphs into "Alone" with the lyrics hitting even harder than they ever did in Heart's original version. Just expertly done live musicianship.
Proud of you for addressing this!
@@criketyvonricket3252 Thanks, I am proud of my comment as well.
I'd like to imagine her mother liked the heart song. ❤
@juana_bpino
TY, I recognized but couldn’t place it.
This is a fucking masterpiece. Every riff is perfect. Her tone and seamless agility is the best I’ve ever heard. Just give her all the Grammys
Never would have expected a single song to weave together two of the most tragic events of my life. I lived in Brooklyn when 9/11 happened. Lost a couple friends from our local fire house who were first responders. Also witnessed a family friend fight to survive 3rd degree burns sustained when she ran out the exit doors of Tower #2 as it collapsed. The other event is unspeakably horrible, can't put the details in writing, but I was a first responder to my dear cousin's suicide. There exists simultaneously intimate minutia of each event yet at the same time an unfathomable, incomprehensibly abstract vapor wrapped around them, mocking rational thought, just out of explanation's reach. Why, how, what if. So incredibly personal but as universal and transcendent literally as life and death. I think this is the first time in my 60 years that I've heard a song even come close to conveying this. Thank you.
my heart breaks reading this but I also know how you feel. and I'm so grateful we both have this song to listen to and as a place to share our stories
this gives me "Hometown Glory" by Adele vibes ❤️ I would honestly be satisfied with life if they did a collab😍❤️
yessssss
I'm obsessed!
the hands in sync are as hypnotic as the song
Intimate, authentic, and raw. Not overly produced, sung, or fussy. Just some beautiful vocals, clean instrumentation, poignant lyrics, a catchy tune, and stunning cinematic visuals. Thank you for Yebba, for shining a little light into the world during these dark, dark times.
One question though, how did he manage to keep those sneakers so white in that field of grass?! He's a brave soul. 😂
WAIT. I just noticed they shot this at dawn... yeah imma go cry
OMG the Heart sample 🙌❤️😭 Ann Wilson is a goddess and Yebba is queen
It’s insane to me that this has only had 2.5M views. I feel privileged to be responsible for a few of these views, to be one of the 2M people who know this song exists. Beautiful voice, beautiful song, beautiful songwriter.
Yebba with long hair looks so peaceful and beautiful 😍😍
Do lovely to hear Yebba reinventing herself again. Is their a genre she hasn't perfected?
The way I've played this more than 10x straight, because the words and sentiments are pure. From one motherless daughter to another, this song resounds deep in my spirit.
Nice sneaky nod to one of the greatest female rock acts of all time, Heart, and pure voices ever - Ann Wilson - at the end of that song... 'Til now I always got by on my own, I never really cared until I met you'. I saw what you did there, Yebba...
A new era of Yebba
I love the homage to Heart at the end..You are an inspiration Yebba
I'll forever be proud to call myself a yebbite. Her journey has been amazing to watch so far and I know she will only grow from here. So so inspiring!! Your mom will be so proud of you Yebba 🥺🤍 So excited for the album!
Yebbite. I love that 😂
The way she sings the second “there’s a picture of us”... All of this is magic.
Her live versions are always so much more stunning that the recorded ones. This is why I need tickets to see her immediatlely if not? SOONER!
Why oh WHY am I just discovering this angelic genius?
God sent Yebba to bless us yall
OK TIME TO GO TRY AND COVER THIS AND STAY UP TILL 3 AM TRYNA REPLICATE YEBBA'S RUNS
This is beautiful. I got to see you in nashville with John Mayer in April. . My dad killed himself in the TN River in 2008. I loved your song before I knew what it was about. Now I love it even more.
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From one Motherless Daughter to another - the peace that you have given me in this song you will never truly know - Thank you
Absolute first time i have clicked on an unsolicited song ad during my workout music. Astounding voice. Never heard of this person before. Unlikely I will now forget.
I get lost in her songs. Beautiful