"Overcoming fear of dancing at the club" and "overcoming fear of the infinite all-knowing uncaring beauty and terror of the cosmos" is a hell of a thematic parallel, I tell ya hwat.
@@tomcardy1this music is too good I’m still listening to it (I started at 9pm. It’s 1am and I’m still going aaa i realy need to sleep I dot. Know how much time I have left before this message collapses but I a see autocorrect is doing d good job one I need sleep aaa bye shot I cannot stop listening aaa ok I realy need to stop typing this message)
God bless the animator who heard a song about an indescribable maelstrom of reality bending mind obliteration that was also a cha cha dance party and said "I could animate this.".
Things I love about this: 1. The fact that, by sheer coincidence, the human arrived at the exact time that the music sounded normal to humans. 2. The way the DJ, a multidimensional musical being, sounds, at least in the range of sound we can hear, like he has an accent of some sort. 3. The DJ is a multidimensional being who can perceive more than 3 dimensions, more sound& light waves than us, and more knowledgeable than us, is still kind enough to help the human adjust to the craziness of the club. Not the music overlord we deserve, but the one we need.
My personal theory that this club is an interdimensional rehab for socially anxious.Once in a while someone gets dragged in, and gently nudged in the direction of shifting perspective That's why all the club participants are so eager to dance with a newbie, they've ALL been in the same situation, and are now happy to pass the bravery onto our 3-dimensional fella Maybe, for sake of keeping the simple mind -+- stable, the only type of creatures that is allowed to be in the club while newbie is joining in, is similar to theirs, aka visible enough, material enough, and preferrably with similar inner structure
Seeing just how much the DJ helps the guy, maybe he takes humans (and in general beings similar to us) to his club everytime the music can be heard by them. The cha cha cha being his favorite style of music apparently
The benefit of being an omnidimensional being is that if a billion visitors materialise in the club, you can simply split yourself into a billion instances to give each one a personalised introduction.
I still find it endearing, that cosmic dj, fully knowing that there IS a version of a guy that would destroy the dancefloor, decided to invite this shy version, specifically to teach him to enjoy the cha cha cha
@@TheLangenator Considering the "alternate dimension" shows a crescent moon compared to the shy dude's dimension showing the sun, I could see that being the case.
@@CassiDSI'm pretty sure that disproves the theory that it's the same dimension but in the future, since the moon is in the sky while the sky is sunny, if it was the same dimension the sky would definitely be dark.
This absolutely broke my mind, I hadn’t realised the video was about this - and saw another comment tying the fact that he starts off in grey, sees all space and time, and comes back in colour
Dude really hit him with the "imagine an alternate reality where everything is exactly the same except you're not a buzzkill loser that is afraid to dance, lmao" absolutely brutal
Sometimes you need that harsh eye opener. "This dude is exactly like you. He's lived the same life, he acts like you, walks like you, talks like you. But when it comes to boogie-ing it down on the dancefloor, this guy does so with no hesitation... so why can't you? Go out there and dance your heart out, bub!"
@@alainbcdefghijk”What are you worried about? Social embarrassment? Before you were born you spent an eternity in unthinking oblivion, and you’ll return to unthinking oblivion within a fraction of the indifferent universe’s heartbeat. This version of you has stolen an instant of happiness from the all-devouring maw of infinity. Now get out there and wave that tuchus.”
I'm convinced this is based on a true story, and that Tom was actually kidnapped by interdimensional space DJ. That is how he gained the ability to produce banger after banger.
I love the implication that this dimension is some sort of always changing babel/monkeys-and-typewriters music, but today is the first day in infinity it has sounded like a cha cha
The song implies that at one point across all dimensions and time, all forms of reality. There was a single moment where an old man was able to get a sick solo for 5 seconds that all realities experienced.
One detail I haven't seen people talking about is how, in the begining, the "main character" of the animation is gray. But at 02:19, after he loses his fear of dancing, he becomes yellow, just like his alternate version. Nice touch!
I love how the whole song is just al these higher beings accommodating the poor 3d guy so he can enjoy the song of the universe just as much as they do. It's incredibly wholesome and I adore the journey he takes to eventually just enjoying his time at the cha cha
@@oomusd I like to think about the specific Space Opera concept where Earth is the only metaculture where overwhelming pleasure through social gatherings is a thing, and thus aliens with more elevated consciousness or higher tech lose all their shits when they experience what an Earthlings' "party" feels like (or when an Earthling does the equivalent to put a bass boost to their "radios")
@@isaackinsley1662 The Mass Effect game series is the closest I can think of as far as entertainment goes. Otherwise it was mostly through speculative discussions online, sry :x
It's like if Lovecraft's extradimensional non-Euclidean entities were really cool and friendly, instead of uncaring incomprehensible sanity-blasters for whom a human existence doesn't register on any level whatsoever.
I love that about Tom Cardy’s music, it’s always stupid or insane but never negative in its messaging. Like literally, this song is in an eldritch horror dance floor between time and space filled with bloody old gods but the messaging is literally just getting over stage fright. Love it, 10/10
Same! He has several songs that make me think "this is bizarre framing for a really uplifting message", and I love that. e.g. "Level Clear!" (using Mario to have a strong existentialist message) or "H.S." which uses Pluto as a way to be confident. And who can forget "Get Louis (Theroux)", about utopia.
@@bane2201 My favorite is a song that starts out being about a cowboy who flips people off and ends up being a beautiful story about a man trying to protect his family being reunited with a long lost daughter he thought was dead.
I love the fact that in the beggining he says “a little warning to the dancers that only perceive in three dimensions this next one’s is a bit of a doozee” I MEAN THEYRE MANIACS AND MULTI DIMENSIONAL ENTITIES BUT THEYRE CONSCIOUS ABOUT EACHOTHER’S LIMITATIONS THATS SO CUTE
Agreed, it’s a 7th Dimensional DJ’s job to make sure the tunes are bumping and guests on the dance floor(?) are jumping… Minus Xertarid… they know what they did
Damn, Shoocharu's ability to draw fucked up guys really coming in clutch here. I love the designs of all the creatures. And the song's a banger too, of course.
I knew _immediately_ that it was Shoocharu, that lovely bastard has an ability like no other to capture absolute mind-melting, chin-tripling blissful, euphoric insanity
I really, REALLY love the little blobs at 2:22 that go "LLLAAA!" I hadn't picked it out of the song until I watched the music video, and now I hear it each listen and it makes me laugh every single time.
This song is a very obvious example of just how much tom has TRANSCENDED over the years, from "funny tik tok audio from that one time" to "HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK??" like over the years there has been banger after banger after banger and somehow tom keeps getting better and I am here for it
I just realized- towards the end, when one of the guys tries to take a drink, it flows upwards- earlier in the song, the human had been hit with a stream of liquid that looked like that same drink. My dude just had someone spill their drink on him across space time.
I'm wondering why the specifically mentioned champagne after space-time and gravity in 0:24. Like, is it such a good drink that it has the same importance in the universe as space-time and gravity or what?
'Now you can see what we see; Now that you've been where we be!' I find this portion of the song and video especially uplifting and powerful. Someone else put it in the comments and I saw earlier, but can't find them in the pile now - this is like the opposite of cosmic horror, 'cosmic comfort' basically. An inscrutable eldritch entity whisks you off into their realm, surrounded on all sides by equally impossible and absurd cosmic abominations, completely untethered from the reality you'd known your whole life... ... and then the eldritch being in question hands you a drink and shows you a version of yourself who is having the time of his life busting a move at the very same cosmic dance party you're attending right now, to convince you to loosen up and enjoy the ride.
Fr, it's an incredibly sweet concept that grooves with this whole song so it just feels, like, natural. I like how the human is just bobbing his head and relaxing by the end and the DJ considers this to be a win; it doesn't have to be a huge change, just A change.
"Cosmic Comfort" is a great term, and I'm gonna keep using it. I also definitely like that tone: "OH GREAT MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, WHAT KNOWLEDGE AND SECRETS OF REALITY DO YOU HAVE TO REVEAL!?" "Take this cocktail, go onto the dance floor, don't think about it."
my head canon is, if time is simultaneous, that the host gives every patron the attention needed to awaken their perception and loosen their inhibitions so they can groove shamelessly
I mean it kinda makes sense with the “now you can see what we see, now that you’ve been where we’ve been” line? Like now you’ve done the hazing so you can party like the rest.
Idk if this was the intent but the idea of the void just being so much better than you feels kindof fitting that not matter how hard you try the void will inevitably beat you. Plus its gotta have a break from work sometime
I was a little bit dissapointed that in the end Void had pants back on. Oh well, nothing's perfect. But besides that it's a goddamn MASTERPIECE. Sounds and visuals are just mwah!
It feels like that moment where everyone except one person in a call has nothing to say and everyone shuts up to listen to the one banger comment/joke the one person makes. Absolute chaos until sudden clarity then immediately back to the chaos once its over.
It briefly gave me existential dread, but then it pulled me away from that and I let the beat consume my mind again. Quickest I've ever snapped back from the dread
I really like the implication that, despite there being countless dimensions that hold entities that are limited to seeing a set number of them, and despite the impossibly vast distances and differences across the entirety of reality, music is still a through-line that lets anyone and everyone connect. This time, it just so happens to be a Cha Cha.
It also presents the healthiest reaction to the Total Perspective Vortex: stop clinging to your limited perception and start dancing to those cosmic rhythms!
Absolutely wild when you relisten and try to catch all the little background things supporting the thread. The development of the piano riff, the left-right split in the chorus to give the hectic vibe of people shouting at you from both sides, the perfect little hoo-hoos, the gradual buildup of the big band backing to full-on System of a Down grandiosity at 2:37. And then god-tier animation to match that quality. 🤌
Wholeheartedly agree. The complexity and detail is just fantastic, so much is packed in but it all works together so harmonioualy, matching the perfect chaos of our reality. If I'd just listened to the track first my hopes for a video to do this glorious track justice would have been very low, but Shoocharu nailed it with this masterpiece of an animated vid! Brb, going to listen to this song whilst transcendentally cha cha-ing continuously for the next few days
The little breaks like "But if you're scared to dance..." and "Sometimes this song goes [***]" also give contrast to enjoy just how overjoyously HECTIC the whole thing is :)
Some of Tom's more recent songs have had a hard-to-describe "hopeful" effect on me. Like they erase some of my fear and anxiety, reassure me that everything is fine, and then replace that with hope of a better future. I can't think of any other artist that does this quite so potently. He has a unique talent. It's like the polar opposite of cosmic horror.
I have come to refer to it as "existentially gratifying". Putting things into perspective in such a concise way, your entire life is a blink in the cosmos's eye, so why not HIT THE DANCE FLOOR, CHA CHA CHA
The fact that it's elevated to the power of 42, 42 being the meaning of everything in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, therefore zumba is the meaning of everything and i think it's amazing 0:39
I live in constant fear of the moment I pass from this mortal realm into the next, but at least I will know that before that happens I danced my heart out
THAT FUCKING NOTE! The one he starts at like 2:33 and carries on until 2:48? It blows me away every time, I get chills. It's amazing and it's my favourite part in the song and I'm so excited for it every time.
Not enough of this song is about how cosmically important it is that, despite all statistical probability, every single planet in the multiverse got Zumba. Thank god they all did, imagine living on a planet without Zumba. Be enough to drive you crazy!
Every populated planet also has CrossFit, but on all planets except Earth bragging about your CrossFit regimen is a crime. We have a ways to go before we’re ready to join the galactic community.
It feels oddly appropriate that UA-cam says this was released 6 minutes ago, yet the first comments say "2 days ago". All time and space exists at once, I suppose. (tom's enlightened subscribers have opened their third eye and embraced an expansion of consciousness, clearly.)
More accurately the video was unintentionally made public for a short time two days ago, as a premiere, then immediately slammed back to private. *_Or rather this is the answer the universe has retconned into existence to explain what cannot be. We are impossible, and yet we are inevitable._*
"Let's break this man's perception of reality to see some dance moves!" I had no idea what this was going to be when I clicked on the video, I still dont, but I've now watched it 50 times and had it stuck in my head for 5 days.
Cosmic Comfort really does fit. The scene with Void especially. The DJ basically says "Ya, The Void consumes everything eventually, but even the Void likes to dance and enjoys fruity cocktails, and gets a little wild now and then." It's the fact the DJ makes the effort to not just open the MC's mind to the universe, but to show there is no real hostility to it. That fact if you Vibe to the Universe, the Universe will Vibe with you that takes it from low-key cosmic horror to the as-named Cosmic Comfort.
I listened to this for a week straight after it came out, went to the gay bar after work, and danced so hard that I dislocated my knee. Worth it, though, bc this me is no longer shit scared to hit the dance floor. Thanks, Tom & co!
This video is like a job fair of warlock patrons. If the cosmic DJ isn’t hiring, you can grab a pamphlet from the “giant blob that contains a slice of pizza and whispers secrets about the heat death of the multiverse” booth.
The idea of an omnipotent cosmic entity that perceieves all of space and time throughout the multiverse simultaneously becoming a DJ to weave the chaos of everything into song is fantastic
You're only perceiving him that way right here and now because you slid to the left. When you slide back to the right, he'll have turned into something different. The Transcendental Cha Cha Cha will have become in your eyes a Transcendental cookie and the DJ will be the baker whose face is never seen, but whose presence you must infer because the cashier clearly didn't bake this thing.
I think this cured any and all existential crises I've ever had. Whenever I feel the universe is cold and uncaring, I just remember that just because that may be the case doesn't mean the music is ever gonna stop playing.
Ok if you look carefully, you can see that slowly he gets more and more comfortable, but it isn’t until 2:57 that he actually falls in love with the song and it happens when he sees Ricardo. I think it’s Ricardo that finally got him out of his shell. Props to Ricardo.
If you actually payed attention you would see that he is comfortable once he goes back to the club because thats when his character changes from grey to colored. Way to miss the point.
I was thinking, who could have animated this ineffable, multidimensional thing that breaks reality, and I saw it was Shoocharu. And I knew, Tom chose well
I like the idea that it's just a random homeless guy who plays the keyboard for money, that's been suddenly transported there but is still jamming it out
I love how the human starts out with dull, almost Gray colours. Then as the song goes on he starts being affected by the colours in the room, and then by the 2:21 he's become a brownish/orange colour. Then by the end is overly saturated like the rest of the creatures in the animation! It's such a fun detail
I think it also represents the human’s ability to literally _see_ the colors that constitute that plane of reality. The line at 2:23 basically confirms it. The DJ character could be speaking metaphorically, but… that’s less fun, honestly.
@@meltingmugI mean, I feel like in the world this music video builds, the metaphorical interpretation and the literal ability to perceive all the colors are one and the same
I can't get this song out of my head. It is silly, absurd, but also subverts the idea of unknowable cosmos and dimensions as not something of a mind-destroying horror, but as a upbeat uplifting source of wonder. It is the Infinite Improbability Drive from the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, but as a Jukebox and no matter how often i've listened to it. It keeps managing to put a extra bit of spring in my step and every frame of the animation is burnt into my head to the point i don't need to watch the video to see it anymore.
This, exactly! And best of all, we START with the protagonist reacting like it's cosmic horror. He's barely clinging to his sanity as incomprehensible creatures accost him from all sides. Then the DJ intervenes to help him loosen up and dance to the rhythm. Metaphorically, it's a story about not being afraid of the unknown, and accepting the absurdity inherent to our existences. Poor old Lovecraft never could've wrapped his head around such notions, as his mind was too tangled in anxiety, trauma, and xenophobia for such ideas to be anything other than frightening.
@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworthwell, until a couple years before he died of cancer and open sourced his work, yeah. Shame that it took facing his own mortality for him to loosen up a little bit, but that's unfortunately how it goes for a lot of us mere humans.
0:45 I like how this isn't just a reference to hitchhikers guide to the galaxy but an answer, the preceding question, the response, and the context to THE question. In a place where all reality collides and exists all at once, what is inexplicably constant across all of them? And what are the odds of that happening? So apparently the outcome of the question for which the answer is 42, is Zumba.
but doesn't knowing both the answer and the question at the same time reset the universe into a more complexe iteration to make knowing both the question and the answer harder ? but I guess it does not apply in a place where the void do breakdance.
Why did I cry 😭?? No literally why am I crying though 😭😭 I've been struggling so much mentally & existentially & spiritually and I needed to see this so bad. I'm just in tears I don’t even fully know why. This song and video made me feel cosmically comforted. And I've been otherwise feeling so stranded scared and alone. Idk why it has to be this deep. Thank you Tom Cardy you save lives. Dammit my face is just soaking itself.
You are not alone. This song, regardless of the seemingly silly tone, has grabbed so many people so strongly in exactly that way. Existential gratification.
Everything all at once, the DJ has witnessed perfection, despair, meaninglessness, the beginning and the end and even sees a version of you not scared to dance and has decided to show you the reality of reality in order to show you that you should just dance and go with the flow
Ooooooh, there is SO MUCH going on in this song, I didn't catch that. The amount of detailwork that was made on this song to give it varied... texture goes SO hard, this is the peak of feel good songs :)
I can also smell it, but can't really describe the smell or taste, are you getting a thick mouth texture of just me? Ever had powdery stew residue, I'm getting something close to that thickness and partial graininess, kinda paste like how tomato paste is
I'm not sure whether this was fully intentional (but considering Shoocharu's insane attention to detail, it wouldn't surprise me) but the golden record that the DJ holds/throws at 3:13 seems very reminiscent of the Voyager Golden Record, a real record sent into space that contains languages, images, sounds, and *music* from all over the world, as a kind of record of the human experience. It's a super cool project and a reference to it in a song like this is super fitting :) also, this song is incredible. Tom Cardy really knocked it out of the park with this one and Shoocharu's animation style fits it PERFECTLY!
Ah, I see Tom and Shoocharu have invented a new Tumblr Sexyman. Accidentally? Intentionally? Who knows. Does it matter? Also, the song slaps and Shoocharu is an absolute madlad for animating unknowable cosmic entities and also _multiple full-body characters dancing._
What I find really impressive is that when you listen to this with headphones, it sounds like you are literally flying through this whole adventure at a rapid pace, because of how he mixed multiple "voices" and spatial audio.
I was about to enhance this comment by saying that it doesn't only bang but [...] Buuuuut I don't think UA-cam would be happy with me listing increasingly intense synonyms for sexual intercourse ^^'
2:28 is where this song goes so INCREDIBLY hard. The whole song is good, but Tom's greatest talent is to make the bridge slap so hard it allows you to transcend time and space. Bravo.
Thinking about it, I think one of many parts that make this absolutely addictive to me is that, like Bohemian Rhapsody, the song jumps from one style to another. It's not just the usual modern Verse-Bridge-Chorus, we're jumping between different verse tempos and using absolutely wild breaks... Meanwhile the chorus seems to always be the same tempo and key, but it's SO WILD without checking back-to-back I thought there was a higher intensity each time :')
full volume on headphones isn't enough, I need this song to hit my whole body with the power of giant concert speakers also I am in love with the DJ's design
I've been hearing this on repeat the last days, I guess they really meant that *The music is always playing from the start to end of time. It's always playing in your mind.* Pls help me, I can't stop it
@@jaywilkey1323 Not quite The answer was calculated by a much smaller computer, Deep Thought. It's because they had the issue of not having the question that they built Earth :')
@@NWolfsson oop. Yeah, you're right. I always get it crossed because we don't know if the answer was wrong but we're fairly certain that the question is.
@@Whistlingrover7 It was posted in an alternate universe where this video was posted 2 days ago and then it leaked into this through the Transcendental Cha Cha Cha.
This goes with "Level Clear!" in my "Daily dose of existential crisis: listen to at least one a day" playlist Edit: Ya know what? I'm actually gonna make this playlist! I can only think of 3 songs right now so any suggestions are well accepted 😊 ua-cam.com/play/PLNODVGmTxcsPJKl5Xu1eH5y9OqkYIED-C.html&feature=shared
I know there's a little bit here for everyone, which is the beautiful chaotic point, but anyone else keep replaying that "Blink! You're an old French dandy" part? The suddenness of the tone change AND the art style shift really gets me.
What the DJ doesn't tell you is that as soon as you enter the club you are split into infinite variations of yourself all in a state of quantum superposition where you both exist and not exist at the same time until observed. Lucky for you the DJ chooses to observe the version of you having the best time of your life!
i mean it IS literally that. it has more layers of abstraction but the whole thing can be summarized by "this guy is afraid to dance at the club" and the song is literally just a very exaggerated, "transcendental" way for him to get over that fear
![A Comedy Musician Reacts | Tom Cardy//Transcendental Cha Cha Cha [REACTION/ANALYSIS]](/img/n.gif)
"Overcoming fear of dancing at the club" and "overcoming fear of the infinite all-knowing uncaring beauty and terror of the cosmos" is a hell of a thematic parallel, I tell ya hwat.
One in the same baby!
Can't argue with that!
shit
@@tomcardy1omg dude, i loved this new song!!
@@tomcardy1this music is too good I’m still listening to it (I started at 9pm. It’s 1am and I’m still going aaa i realy need to sleep I dot. Know how much time I have left before this message collapses but I a see autocorrect is doing d good job one I need sleep aaa bye shot I cannot stop listening aaa ok I realy need to stop typing this message)
God bless the animator who heard a song about an indescribable maelstrom of reality bending mind obliteration that was also a cha cha dance party and said "I could animate this.".
Shoocharu IS a reality bending mind obliteration. You should see their Game Grumps animations.
@@SpectrumAnalysisoh my god is is Shoocharu. I know them from legends of avantris
@@KingOfOnes tom: "I need a video that defies the constraints of our known reality."
Shoocharu: "I got you, fam."
Shoocharu is the fuckin man bro
While this is the sort of stuff i imagine on a daily basis i envy the animator who can animate it.
When you stare into the Void, the Void tears off it's pants.
The void's got a bit of a fetish i see
relatable
This comment made me wheeze
And then it breaks it down
Ooo la la, yes please.
Things I love about this:
1. The fact that, by sheer coincidence, the human arrived at the exact time that the music sounded normal to humans.
2. The way the DJ, a multidimensional musical being, sounds, at least in the range of sound we can hear, like he has an accent of some sort.
3. The DJ is a multidimensional being who can perceive more than 3 dimensions, more sound& light waves than us, and more knowledgeable than us, is still kind enough to help the human adjust to the craziness of the club. Not the music overlord we deserve, but the one we need.
My personal theory that this club is an interdimensional rehab for socially anxious.Once in a while someone gets dragged in, and gently nudged in the direction of shifting perspective
That's why all the club participants are so eager to dance with a newbie, they've ALL been in the same situation, and are now happy to pass the bravery onto our 3-dimensional fella
Maybe, for sake of keeping the simple mind -+- stable, the only type of creatures that is allowed to be in the club while newbie is joining in, is similar to theirs, aka visible enough, material enough, and preferrably with similar inner structure
Seeing just how much the DJ helps the guy, maybe he takes humans (and in general beings similar to us) to his club everytime the music can be heard by them.
The cha cha cha being his favorite style of music apparently
Well that's the thing, It's not that it sounded normal to humans, Just the part of the sound he can perceive sounds normal to humans.
The benefit of being an omnidimensional being is that if a billion visitors materialise in the club, you can simply split yourself into a billion instances to give each one a personalised introduction.
I still find it endearing, that cosmic dj, fully knowing that there IS a version of a guy that would destroy the dancefloor, decided to invite this shy version, specifically to teach him to enjoy the cha cha cha
How else does the dance floor destroyer come to be?
He was prophesied. DJ is the mentor. Much Yoda, I’m sure.
I headcannon that the "alternate dimension" was just the same dimension but 2 minutes in the future
@@TheLangenator I mean, some version of Time travel are more akin to your hypothesis
@@TheLangenator Considering the "alternate dimension" shows a crescent moon compared to the shy dude's dimension showing the sun, I could see that being the case.
@@CassiDSI'm pretty sure that disproves the theory that it's the same dimension but in the future, since the moon is in the sky while the sky is sunny, if it was the same dimension the sky would definitely be dark.
It was so sweet of the DJ to force cosmic perspective through that poor man's head just so he would be less nervous to dance. What a pal.
well whats the point of cha cha if you arnt enjoying it
This absolutely broke my mind, I hadn’t realised the video was about this - and saw another comment tying the fact that he starts off in grey, sees all space and time, and comes back in colour
I want to master that ability OHHHH Void BARDSTER DJ
nothing cures anxiety for something like introducing something far more terrifying in comparison
So, Arrival but instead of learning alien language he's learning how to dance.
Dude really hit him with the "imagine an alternate reality where everything is exactly the same except you're not a buzzkill loser that is afraid to dance, lmao" absolutely brutal
Sometimes you need that harsh eye opener. "This dude is exactly like you. He's lived the same life, he acts like you, walks like you, talks like you. But when it comes to boogie-ing it down on the dancefloor, this guy does so with no hesitation... so why can't you? Go out there and dance your heart out, bub!"
@@alainbcdefghijk”What are you worried about? Social embarrassment? Before you were born you spent an eternity in unthinking oblivion, and you’ll return to unthinking oblivion within a fraction of the indifferent universe’s heartbeat. This version of you has stolen an instant of happiness from the all-devouring maw of infinity. Now get out there and wave that tuchus.”
Love that line so much - Tom's hit that sweet spot right between nihilistic dread and therapeutic empowerment yet again.
Truth can hurt babes 😂
@lukasschrage8935 existential dread from an undergrads first philosophy class meets their first frat party 😂
I'm convinced this is based on a true story, and that Tom was actually kidnapped by interdimensional space DJ. That is how he gained the ability to produce banger after banger.
He's got The Funk
Every Tom Cardy song is based on true events
He is the interdimensional space DJ
@@theghostbeatmakes sense
@@flowerchild2496brother met old greg
Going absolutely bonkers. Going positively wild. Losing all of my marbles. They're gone. I can't find them. Bring them back.
Tom can only lose your marbles for you.
He cannot bring them back, nor will he.
That is the gift that he gives.
Why two days ago?
OW! I just slipped on some marbles on the dance floor! Who the hell left these here??
Yeah i wonderd too@maxbt
thy r min
I love the implication that this dimension is some sort of always changing babel/monkeys-and-typewriters music, but today is the first day in infinity it has sounded like a cha cha
it was very urgent for all the transcendental dimensional space entities to involve a human, then.
First, and apparently last
@@oomusdOf course, someone has to experience the cha cha cha.
How is it an implication when it's stated explicitly?
"This is the only time in existence that we ever know so far that this song has sounded anything like Cha Cha"@@CrashSable
Love how invested the DJ is in making sure that three dimensional guy is having a good time at the eldritch dance party
They’ve had problems before when somebody got their mind shattered
What a heckin buccaroo
Well he wants to make sure everyone is having a good time
This whole vibe is probably my favourite part about this video tbh, I love it
The DJ is honestly to sweet
The song implies that at one point across all dimensions and time, all forms of reality. There was a single moment where an old man was able to get a sick solo for 5 seconds that all realities experienced.
Perfection
THE DESIGN OF THE DJ IS EVERYTHING
REAL!!!!!
I'm not alone!
Agreed
I love his expressions! Peak design
or everything is the design of the DJ I get them mixed up
One detail I haven't seen people talking about is how, in the begining, the "main character" of the animation is gray. But at 02:19, after he loses his fear of dancing, he becomes yellow, just like his alternate version. Nice touch!
Actually an animation mistake but thank you!
@@tomcardy1 hah! must've been meant to be!
Love the idea that the alt dimension is actually the same but but 3 mins in the future when the guys vibing.
@@tomcardy1 nothing is a mistake. take the win, mate
@@baconultimate6045yeah that's what I'd assume was goin on
I love how the whole song is just al these higher beings accommodating the poor 3d guy so he can enjoy the song of the universe just as much as they do. It's incredibly wholesome and I adore the journey he takes to eventually just enjoying his time at the cha cha
well, for one time the infinite song was chacha, they needed to invite a human to it, immediately.
@@oomusd I like to think about the specific Space Opera concept where Earth is the only metaculture where overwhelming pleasure through social gatherings is a thing, and thus aliens with more elevated consciousness or higher tech lose all their shits when they experience what an Earthlings' "party" feels like (or when an Earthling does the equivalent to put a bass boost to their "radios")
@NWolfsson could you provide any examples? That sounds interesting.
@@isaackinsley1662 The Mass Effect game series is the closest I can think of as far as entertainment goes. Otherwise it was mostly through speculative discussions online, sry :x
It's like if Lovecraft's extradimensional non-Euclidean entities were really cool and friendly, instead of uncaring incomprehensible sanity-blasters for whom a human existence doesn't register on any level whatsoever.
I love that about Tom Cardy’s music, it’s always stupid or insane but never negative in its messaging. Like literally, this song is in an eldritch horror dance floor between time and space filled with bloody old gods but the messaging is literally just getting over stage fright. Love it, 10/10
Same! He has several songs that make me think "this is bizarre framing for a really uplifting message", and I love that.
e.g. "Level Clear!" (using Mario to have a strong existentialist message) or "H.S." which uses Pluto as a way to be confident. And who can forget "Get Louis (Theroux)", about utopia.
@@bane2201
My favorite is a song that starts out being about a cowboy who flips people off and ends up being a beautiful story about a man trying to protect his family being reunited with a long lost daughter he thought was dead.
@@danielstachowiak568 Ballad of Smokin Joe Rudeboy!
I love the fact that in the beggining he says “a little warning to the dancers that only perceive in three dimensions this next one’s is a bit of a doozee” I MEAN THEYRE MANIACS AND MULTI DIMENSIONAL ENTITIES BUT THEYRE CONSCIOUS ABOUT EACHOTHER’S LIMITATIONS THATS SO CUTE
IKR
Agreed, it’s a 7th Dimensional DJ’s job to make sure the tunes are bumping and guests on the dance floor(?) are jumping…
Minus Xertarid… they know what they did
bwhahhahah that's right XD
The way i want someone to open a dj set like this IRL lol
Screw the 2D dancers though.
Damn, Shoocharu's ability to draw fucked up guys really coming in clutch here. I love the designs of all the creatures. And the song's a banger too, of course.
I knew _immediately_ that it was Shoocharu, that lovely bastard has an ability like no other to capture absolute mind-melting, chin-tripling blissful, euphoric insanity
Am I crazy or did Shoocharu make the executioner Ninja Brian?
@@Penquinn14 Shoocharu did a lot of animations for Ninja Sex Party, so a Ninja Brian cameo isnt that far fetched
im like so proud
@@Penquinn14 that is 100% Ninja Brian. Got the same snakes emblem thing
That DJ is 100% a Tumblr Sexyman now. I'm here for it.
THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT
I love their design so so much
My immediate thought: that DJ is going to have an entire fandom
Bro stoppp, how did we think the same thing.
I’m so glad someone else said it AND that we’re all thinking it.
I really, REALLY love the little blobs at 2:22 that go "LLLAAA!"
I hadn't picked it out of the song until I watched the music video, and now I hear it each listen and it makes me laugh every single time.
I totally agree with that statement 😄👍
They’re my favorites
It tickles my brain, I just love it
This song is a very obvious example of just how much tom has TRANSCENDED over the years, from "funny tik tok audio from that one time" to "HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK??"
like over the years there has been banger after banger after banger and somehow tom keeps getting better and I am here for it
Watching his ascendency has been a true privilege
He's gone from Weird Al to Lemon Demon lol.
@@haleyzwaal4183 seriously, this could be a lost track from Spirit Phone
@@haleyzwaal4183 Weird Al is peak bro
Absolutely agree. I’m so happy that his career went this way so far.
I just realized- towards the end, when one of the guys tries to take a drink, it flows upwards- earlier in the song, the human had been hit with a stream of liquid that looked like that same drink.
My dude just had someone spill their drink on him across space time.
That is an impressive catch.
True! And both times it happens when the chorus goes “ _CHAMPAGNE_ “
Yooooooo
How the HELL did you catch that
Also, when the image of the two identical universes shows the identical city, in the sky one universe has a moon and one has a sun like the DJ’s eyes
Everyone's freaking out over the tumblr sexyman DJ and I'm just here obsessed with the way the slug says "Rumba" at 0:18.
*R U M B A*
I'm wondering why the specifically mentioned champagne after space-time and gravity in 0:24. Like, is it such a good drink that it has the same importance in the universe as space-time and gravity or what?
@@Mememan_lamo of course it is 🥂
I thought I was the only one! that slug is so statisfyingly animated somehow.
I actually thought it said "Goomba" when saw it for the first time on tiktok-
ok, real talk, i love the fact the dj isn't upset that the dude is scared, he's understanding and helps him not be scared
'Now you can see what we see;
Now that you've been where we be!'
I find this portion of the song and video especially uplifting and powerful. Someone else put it in the comments and I saw earlier, but can't find them in the pile now - this is like the opposite of cosmic horror, 'cosmic comfort' basically. An inscrutable eldritch entity whisks you off into their realm, surrounded on all sides by equally impossible and absurd cosmic abominations, completely untethered from the reality you'd known your whole life...
... and then the eldritch being in question hands you a drink and shows you a version of yourself who is having the time of his life busting a move at the very same cosmic dance party you're attending right now, to convince you to loosen up and enjoy the ride.
Fr, it's an incredibly sweet concept that grooves with this whole song so it just feels, like, natural. I like how the human is just bobbing his head and relaxing by the end and the DJ considers this to be a win; it doesn't have to be a huge change, just A change.
I think I had come to this peace before this song in my own quest to try to understand existence...
WHICH IS WHY I AM TOTALLY VIBING TO IT NOW! 🤘🥰🤟
"Cosmic Comfort" is a great term, and I'm gonna keep using it.
I also definitely like that tone:
"OH GREAT MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, WHAT KNOWLEDGE AND SECRETS OF REALITY DO YOU HAVE TO REVEAL!?"
"Take this cocktail, go onto the dance floor, don't think about it."
very hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, i love it
fuck it imma make some cosmic comfort AND NO GOD NOR DEMON SHALL STOP ME
This feels like a Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy setpiece in the best way possible
that’s because it’s based on the Restaurant at the End of the Universe
@@-FutureTaken- I imagined so but the way Tom pulled off this specific brand of comedy is amazing
If tzeench from 40k became a dj
42 is the answer calculated by deep thought, Earth calculated the question to be "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
0:42 To the power of 42!
my head canon is, if time is simultaneous, that the host gives every patron the attention needed to awaken their perception and loosen their inhibitions so they can groove shamelessly
That is actually a really fun interpretation!
That is… so cute wtf
There's no way that's not exactly what happens/is happening/will happen forever.
I think that's kinda the idea here
I mean it kinda makes sense with the “now you can see what we see, now that you’ve been where we’ve been” line? Like now you’ve done the hazing so you can party like the rest.
It took me a few listens to get it, but I adore that the opening line says _"psychotaneously"_ instead of "simultaneously".
The void wearing tearaway pants and breakdancing somehow goes against everything it should be but fits so well
Idk if this was the intent but the idea of the void just being so much better than you feels kindof fitting that not matter how hard you try the void will inevitably beat you. Plus its gotta have a break from work sometime
@@llamarama6976 its gotten the dancing skills of everyone its absorbed
@@luckytrap8998 and the confidence of 7 billion bellinis
I am convinced that The Void is an extremely attractive being and will not be persuaded
I was a little bit dissapointed that in the end Void had pants back on. Oh well, nothing's perfect. But besides that it's a goddamn MASTERPIECE.
Sounds and visuals are just mwah!
2:48 For a few seconds, the entire universe stopped its madness to listen to the gentleman.
And the universe enjoyed it.
Well the gentleman is really... dedicated... to playing that keyboard
the entire MULTIVERSE
It feels like that moment where everyone except one person in a call has nothing to say and everyone shuts up to listen to the one banger comment/joke the one person makes. Absolute chaos until sudden clarity then immediately back to the chaos once its over.
He must had been the only member of the band to know what a cha-cha actually sounds like. ;)
This song is amazing, and somehow lessened my cosmic dread?
That was the aim!
@@tomcardy1 I'm so hyped you're back, legit one of my favourite musicians and can't wait for the album🙏
It briefly gave me existential dread, but then it pulled me away from that and I let the beat consume my mind again. Quickest I've ever snapped back from the dread
I didn’t notice till reading your comment but this absolutely eases the horror for me too, at least while this is playing.
@@tomcardy1Tom entering his existential yet uplifting musical era, we stan
I really like the implication that, despite there being countless dimensions that hold entities that are limited to seeing a set number of them, and despite the impossibly vast distances and differences across the entirety of reality, music is still a through-line that lets anyone and everyone connect.
This time, it just so happens to be a Cha Cha.
Tom Cardy boldly asking daring questions nobody considered, like: "What if the Total Perspective Vortex had rizz?"
this. this is the best comment.
That's the flying party.
It also presents the healthiest reaction to the Total Perspective Vortex: stop clinging to your limited perception and start dancing to those cosmic rhythms!
This has to be Tom's most well-produced song yet. I mean, goddamn, talk about musical texture. The sheer amount of stuff going on here is insane
Absolutely wild when you relisten and try to catch all the little background things supporting the thread. The development of the piano riff, the left-right split in the chorus to give the hectic vibe of people shouting at you from both sides, the perfect little hoo-hoos, the gradual buildup of the big band backing to full-on System of a Down grandiosity at 2:37. And then god-tier animation to match that quality. 🤌
Wholeheartedly agree. The complexity and detail is just fantastic, so much is packed in but it all works together so harmonioualy, matching the perfect chaos of our reality. If I'd just listened to the track first my hopes for a video to do this glorious track justice would have been very low, but Shoocharu nailed it with this masterpiece of an animated vid!
Brb, going to listen to this song whilst transcendentally cha cha-ing continuously for the next few days
The little breaks like "But if you're scared to dance..." and "Sometimes this song goes [***]" also give contrast to enjoy just how overjoyously HECTIC the whole thing is :)
I still have a big spot for Beautiful Mind, which becomes better the more we try to think about the backstory of the therapist.
IT THICC
Some of Tom's more recent songs have had a hard-to-describe "hopeful" effect on me. Like they erase some of my fear and anxiety, reassure me that everything is fine, and then replace that with hope of a better future. I can't think of any other artist that does this quite so potently. He has a unique talent.
It's like the polar opposite of cosmic horror.
I have come to refer to it as "existentially gratifying". Putting things into perspective in such a concise way, your entire life is a blink in the cosmos's eye, so why not HIT THE DANCE FLOOR, CHA CHA CHA
Cosmic delight?
Cosmic relief?
@@RayAleciana oh, I like that one better!
Instead of meeting cosmic horrors, we made cosmic friends!
The fact that it's elevated to the power of 42, 42 being the meaning of everything in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, therefore zumba is the meaning of everything and i think it's amazing 0:39
And he starts that part on the 42nd second of the song (The entire probability part, not just the 42)
Plus, if you calculate it out, you get 1.0127E420, which has the funny haha weed number
@bigdaddyg3529 that had to be intentional
02:32 Can we just sit back and take a moment to fully appreciate Tom holding that note for an absurdly long stretch?
THANK YOU I've been looking for someone appreciating that note it goes so crazy
and then transitioning that note into vocal chops for the rest of the music to take focus, good stuff
This is genuinely my favorite part of the song.
@@cecilharvey0352 right? I wish there was another 5-minute song taking off from that high point -- going even HARDER
2:33-2:48 is a solid _15 fucking seconds_ bloody hell
I live in constant fear of the moment I pass from this mortal realm into the next, but at least I will know that before that happens I danced my heart out
I hope when I ascend this DJ is waiting for me and just starts spinning interdimensional bops until the end of time.
I’m missing my peach Bellini but aside from that this multiverse is looking kinda enticing
Be not afraid
Wait, yeah, this whole song is metaphysical beings convincing a human to "BE NOT AFRAID". Just in a different sense than normal.
I do not fear death, and yet hearing this has uplifted me in terms of my other fears, thank you kind stranger! :D
"theyre playing rock, theyre playing trance, they're playing a string symphony" Holy shit, they got queen?
but of course :3
Better, they have queen 13.
I need the sequel: Transcendental Rhapsody
Freddie Mercury is a multiversal constant. A lot of people don't know that.
@@leeshajoiyup. he didn't die, he just went home. o7
THAT FUCKING NOTE! The one he starts at like 2:33 and carries on until 2:48? It blows me away every time, I get chills. It's amazing and it's my favourite part in the song and I'm so excited for it every time.
The amount of sheer, unquantifiable rizz condensed into that "If you're too scared to dance, don't worry. Just relax." is making me weak
Really putting the "Love" in Lovecraft, eh?
Too accurate, help me!
As it turns out I am very easy
I GOT CALLED OUT WITH THIS ONE 😭
babe wake up new tumblr sexyman just dropped
Not enough of this song is about how cosmically important it is that, despite all statistical probability, every single planet in the multiverse got Zumba. Thank god they all did, imagine living on a planet without Zumba. Be enough to drive you crazy!
Every populated planet also has CrossFit, but on all planets except Earth bragging about your CrossFit regimen is a crime.
We have a ways to go before we’re ready to join the galactic community.
…crazy?
@@dallasmishey9779😂
I don’t even know what Zumba is
I LOVE that you could go to an alien world and hear/see/experience things you could never hope to conceive and also zumba
It feels oddly appropriate that UA-cam says this was released 6 minutes ago, yet the first comments say "2 days ago".
All time and space exists at once, I suppose. (tom's enlightened subscribers have opened their third eye and embraced an expansion of consciousness, clearly.)
Commenting from 2035: this music still rocks
More accurately the video was unintentionally made public for a short time two days ago, as a premiere, then immediately slammed back to private.
*_Or rather this is the answer the universe has retconned into existence to explain what cannot be. We are impossible, and yet we are inevitable._*
Also on Spotify it says the album was released on October 7, 2024
Members of a channel can see video early
@@JacksonJinn Exactly. What _was_ must naturally shift to conform to what _is_ .
"Let's break this man's perception of reality to see some dance moves!"
I had no idea what this was going to be when I clicked on the video, I still dont, but I've now watched it 50 times and had it stuck in my head for 5 days.
It's always playing in your mind don't let it twist up your insides
@@pedrokys218Frfr
I have found a new aesthetic and it’s cosmic comfort
my favourites of toms music is perfectly summed by this
...you know my term so far has been anti-cosmic horror but cosmic comfort fits a lot better
Cosmic Comfort really does fit. The scene with Void especially. The DJ basically says "Ya, The Void consumes everything eventually, but even the Void likes to dance and enjoys fruity cocktails, and gets a little wild now and then."
It's the fact the DJ makes the effort to not just open the MC's mind to the universe, but to show there is no real hostility to it. That fact if you Vibe to the Universe, the Universe will Vibe with you that takes it from low-key cosmic horror to the as-named Cosmic Comfort.
Ironically reminds me of a video called “cosmic horror…but cosy?”
Casually drops some of the hardest character designs I've ever seen
DJ is truly a masterpiece of a design. (Smash)
You ever finish a song and think to yourself "Fuck, I'm going to be listening to this one for the rest of my life, aren't I?"
Me but with Otonoke
rest of time, really!
DANCE FLOOR
CHA CHA CHA
Only every time I listen to a new Tom Cardy song. How does he do it?!
At least for a month or more
I listened to this for a week straight after it came out, went to the gay bar after work, and danced so hard that I dislocated my knee. Worth it, though, bc this me is no longer shit scared to hit the dance floor. Thanks, Tom & co!
This is so amazing,congrats on the dancing ❤
Absolute fire from start to finish. And firmly lodged in both my head, and the version of my head that likes dancing in the alternate universe.
oh hey it's the guy
Seeing your comment here… yeah, this totally seems like a you thing to watch now that I think about it!
OH MY GOD its the guy that creates manmade horrors beyond my human comprehension
No fucking way it’s that guy
It is oh god he probably has a test tube baby in his basement
Babe, wake up. New Warlock patron just dropped!
Oh, stealing that FOR SURE
Could also work as a Bard's muse, Thanks, I didn't think About those possibility before Reading your comment
This video is like a job fair of warlock patrons. If the cosmic DJ isn’t hiring, you can grab a pamphlet from the “giant blob that contains a slice of pizza and whispers secrets about the heat death of the multiverse” booth.
MUTLICLASS A BARD AND A WARLOCK TO CREATE TRANSCENDENTAL CHA CHA CHA
@@dallasmishey9779 In the Compendium of Forgotten Secrets there's a warlock patron that's a living song called The Perfect Chord
The idea of an omnipotent cosmic entity that perceieves all of space and time throughout the multiverse simultaneously becoming a DJ to weave the chaos of everything into song is fantastic
The DJ is God and the universe is His banger mix
You're only perceiving him that way right here and now because you slid to the left. When you slide back to the right, he'll have turned into something different. The Transcendental Cha Cha Cha will have become in your eyes a Transcendental cookie and the DJ will be the baker whose face is never seen, but whose presence you must infer because the cashier clearly didn't bake this thing.
I think this cured any and all existential crises I've ever had. Whenever I feel the universe is cold and uncaring, I just remember that just because that may be the case doesn't mean the music is ever gonna stop playing.
also, you're here for only a temporary amount of time, so you should just HIT THE DANCE FLOOR, CHA CHA CHA
Not only is the song an infinite banger, the DJ's character design is fucking awesome
He looks so familiar but I can’t place it
@@_b1ack0ut4 Reminds me of Count Bleck from spm or the curse chest guys from ttyd
@@_b1ack0ut4 Black hat from Villainous?
basically a mix of Snatcher from hat in time, Collector from Owl house and DJ subatomic supernova from NSR
@@codebracker ooo forgot about snatcher, love that game.
Dude at this point Tom Cardy should produce a musical
"The Dance Club at the Side of the Multiverse"
In the universe nearly like ours Tom's musical is magnificent and definitely happens
I want it so bad after this video!
I would pay so much money to see a Tom Cardy musical
Hitch Hiker's Guide the Musical, songs written by TC. I'd watch it.
Ok if you look carefully, you can see that slowly he gets more and more comfortable, but it isn’t until 2:57 that he actually falls in love with the song and it happens when he sees Ricardo. I think it’s Ricardo that finally got him out of his shell. Props to Ricardo.
Ricardo was able to bend his mind enough to free up his shyness!
RICARDO DOBRANDO MINHA MENTE
There is no one more powerful in the multiverse than Ricardo Dobrando Minha Mente
If you actually payed attention you would see that he is comfortable once he goes back to the club because thats when his character changes from grey to colored. Way to miss the point.
@@TheKetzorbeen a while since I’ve seen a reply this Reddit
I was thinking, who could have animated this ineffable, multidimensional thing that breaks reality,
and I saw it was Shoocharu.
And I knew, Tom chose well
I love how intently everyone is witnessing the fine gentleman tearing it up on the keyboard. True admiration for the arts.
Out of all the cosmic randomness going on, I found that bit the funniest. Some little old raisin of a prune playing keyboard.
I like the idea that it's just a random homeless guy who plays the keyboard for money, that's been suddenly transported there but is still jamming it out
@@Noirxirebro's a regular, he knows how it works.
That's one of my favorite bits! Especially the short bit right at 2:52 where the MC looks up at the DJ and is excited.
ngl i could see the DJ skyrocketing to Tumblr Sexyman status lmao. anyways, time to squeeze every last drop of dopamine out of this absolute BANGER
I'm already going feral over him. He can take me on a trancendental trip across spacetime any day of the week if yk what I'm saying.
that was my exact thought when i saw him lmao
DJ may be fine, but if anyone gonna get to the top it's gonna be the VOID. Damn he's got moves.
100% Gaster vibes and I'm here for it
@@thatstrangewriterperson3050 GASTER AND SNATCHER FROM HAT IN TIME MIXED is LITERALLY him i love it
3:04 ok but this little moment is so sweet
ikr!!
It’s like the DJ is just checking in on the guy to make sure that their having a good time
1:55 that "LA LA!" for some reason just perfectly itches my brain
I love how the human starts out with dull, almost Gray colours. Then as the song goes on he starts being affected by the colours in the room, and then by the 2:21 he's become a brownish/orange colour. Then by the end is overly saturated like the rest of the creatures in the animation! It's such a fun detail
I think it also represents the human’s ability to literally _see_ the colors that constitute that plane of reality. The line at 2:23 basically confirms it.
The DJ character could be speaking metaphorically, but… that’s less fun, honestly.
I never noticed that. Thanks for pointing that out!
@@meltingmugI mean, I feel like in the world this music video builds, the metaphorical interpretation and the literal ability to perceive all the colors are one and the same
@@meltingmugfurther confirmed by 1:21 where the alternative him is super colorful as he dances
apparently its an animation mistake? i saw him mention that in a different comment thread.
I can't get this song out of my head. It is silly, absurd, but also subverts the idea of unknowable cosmos and dimensions as not something of a mind-destroying horror, but as a upbeat uplifting source of wonder. It is the Infinite Improbability Drive from the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, but as a Jukebox and no matter how often i've listened to it. It keeps managing to put a extra bit of spring in my step and every frame of the animation is burnt into my head to the point i don't need to watch the video to see it anymore.
This, exactly!
And best of all, we START with the protagonist reacting like it's cosmic horror. He's barely clinging to his sanity as incomprehensible creatures accost him from all sides. Then the DJ intervenes to help him loosen up and dance to the rhythm.
Metaphorically, it's a story about not being afraid of the unknown, and accepting the absurdity inherent to our existences. Poor old Lovecraft never could've wrapped his head around such notions, as his mind was too tangled in anxiety, trauma, and xenophobia for such ideas to be anything other than frightening.
@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworthwell, until a couple years before he died of cancer and open sourced his work, yeah. Shame that it took facing his own mortality for him to loosen up a little bit, but that's unfortunately how it goes for a lot of us mere humans.
0:45 I like how this isn't just a reference to hitchhikers guide to the galaxy but an answer, the preceding question, the response, and the context to THE question.
In a place where all reality collides and exists all at once, what is inexplicably constant across all of them? And what are the odds of that happening?
So apparently the outcome of the question for which the answer is 42, is Zumba.
Love that
LOL, that's perfect!
0:33 the start of the joke
@@subaru4920 well it can also be at the 42 second so that fits
but doesn't knowing both the answer and the question at the same time reset the universe into a more complexe iteration to make knowing both the question and the answer harder ? but I guess it does not apply in a place where the void do breakdance.
Why did I cry 😭?? No literally why am I crying though 😭😭 I've been struggling so much mentally & existentially & spiritually and I needed to see this so bad. I'm just in tears I don’t even fully know why. This song and video made me feel cosmically comforted. And I've been otherwise feeling so stranded scared and alone. Idk why it has to be this deep. Thank you Tom Cardy you save lives. Dammit my face is just soaking itself.
You are not alone. This song, regardless of the seemingly silly tone, has grabbed so many people so strongly in exactly that way. Existential gratification.
Hang in there friend
I somehow felt enlightend for 3:28 minutes
Same. Same.
You explained what I could not
The DJ being understanding of the random guy being scared to dance was honestly cute asf
Everything all at once, the DJ has witnessed perfection, despair, meaninglessness, the beginning and the end and even sees a version of you not scared to dance and has decided to show you the reality of reality in order to show you that you should just dance and go with the flow
The way the little red guys sing the chord at 2:21 itches my brain in a way I can’t explain. This song is chaos made music and I love it
I havent even realiced they were there untill i read this comment xd
There is just way to much going on
That’s what I call pasión
For me it's the part right after that as he sings "inside" for an extended time. Gives me goosebumps every time.
It tingles
Easily my favourite little thing in the whole song.
The "alternate you" fanning himself at the 1:28 mark...
2:40 it's really cool how their singing gets this cutting out effect as if they can just do that with their voice
Ooooooh, there is SO MUCH going on in this song, I didn't catch that. The amount of detailwork that was made on this song to give it varied... texture goes SO hard, this is the peak of feel good songs :)
Huh
Are people not able to do that?
@@Deleted_Eevee not that much xD
I had no idea others couldn’t do that..
I have no idea what I just watched, the rooms getting a touch non-euclidean, and I can now smell dark matter. Great job!
what does it smell like
I mean, technically Every room is non-euclidean when they are on a sphere...
Try the purple, tastes like slap.
Only if the rooms themselves adhere to spherical geometry, which in our universe, neither the rooms, nor spheres do
I can also smell it, but can't really describe the smell or taste, are you getting a thick mouth texture of just me? Ever had powdery stew residue, I'm getting something close to that thickness and partial graininess, kinda paste like how tomato paste is
I'm not sure whether this was fully intentional (but considering Shoocharu's insane attention to detail, it wouldn't surprise me) but the golden record that the DJ holds/throws at 3:13 seems very reminiscent of the Voyager Golden Record, a real record sent into space that contains languages, images, sounds, and *music* from all over the world, as a kind of record of the human experience. It's a super cool project and a reference to it in a song like this is super fitting :)
also, this song is incredible. Tom Cardy really knocked it out of the park with this one and Shoocharu's animation style fits it PERFECTLY!
plus the fact they chucked it like a frisby lol
You probably are correct.
Humans, sending unsolicited nudes to the cosmos since 1977.
This has to be an accurate observation, very very well done thanks for pointing that out
Shoocharu's chaotic exaggerated style and bizarre designs are such a perfect fit for this song. Absolutely sublime pairing of art and music.
I absolutely love that when the void tears off it's tearaway pants it just stands there waiting for the dj to give it a belini
Ah, I see Tom and Shoocharu have invented a new Tumblr Sexyman.
Accidentally? Intentionally? Who knows. Does it matter?
Also, the song slaps and Shoocharu is an absolute madlad for animating unknowable cosmic entities and also _multiple full-body characters dancing._
i'm already drawing bro in the margins of my work, it's too late for me
Honestly, I love the eldritch horror dance party that transcends all reality
the writer H.P. Lovecraft told us than in a weird space from eons dance the stupid and amorph Azathoth , now chacha !
What I find really impressive is that when you listen to this with headphones, it sounds like you are literally flying through this whole adventure at a rapid pace, because of how he mixed multiple "voices" and spatial audio.
The part at 1:06 got me ascending so high, I felt like I was one of the space creatures in this music video.
Hard agree, the harmonizations sound so good!
I literally couldn't agree more. I come back to this often just for that one part. The whole song is really good, but that part is just incredible
It has me repeating like 10 times
It’s arguably the best part of the song
This song doesn't just slap, it backhands, punches, drop kicks, clubs, 360 no scopes, thermo nuclear air strikes, and super novas!
I was about to enhance this comment by saying that it doesn't only bang but [...]
Buuuuut I don't think UA-cam would be happy with me listing increasingly intense synonyms for sexual intercourse ^^'
It exists in a quantum superposition of slapping and not-slapping until you hit Play and collapse the waveform.
all at once, too
I wanna cosplay that funky DJ!! Amazing as always!! Cha cha cha! 👏🤩🌙☀️
You should!
Also Halloween's just around the corner so... xD
Idea: using galaxy pattern fabric as a cape for the tail
Making plans! 🤩 Gonna need a green screen!!
After seeing this as an aging geek, I am pledging fealty to Tom for eternity.
2:28 is where this song goes so INCREDIBLY hard. The whole song is good, but Tom's greatest talent is to make the bridge slap so hard it allows you to transcend time and space. Bravo.
I left my body, cha-cha'd, and returned at that moment. Like I have chills
i think you mean the 400th verse
@@i_wholeheartedly_refuse Ah yes, my mistake. It's simultaneously the bridge, 400th verse, chorus, and 1,000,000th inverted cascade refrain.
The song was already going so hard and then it hit this moment and just threw gasoline on the fire
I really like how the Void is just a really cool guy that knows how cut a rug.
Although Void might have a bit of a drinking problem, considering he's had 7,000,000,000 bellinis.
@@TheLangenator Sounds like a lot, but it's been around for 13.7 billion years. I think having a bellini every 2 nights is pretty reasonable.
3:27 I don't feel like I'm on drugs. I feel like I *AM* drugs!
I have joined the war on drugs *ON THE SIDE OF THE DRUGS*
And zumba
This is how i imagine tzeench would be if in 40k there was no war
Thinking about it, I think one of many parts that make this absolutely addictive to me is that, like Bohemian Rhapsody, the song jumps from one style to another. It's not just the usual modern Verse-Bridge-Chorus, we're jumping between different verse tempos and using absolutely wild breaks... Meanwhile the chorus seems to always be the same tempo and key, but it's SO WILD without checking back-to-back I thought there was a higher intensity each time :')
"it feels like being drunk"
"whats wrong with being drunk?"
"ask a glass of water"
This is proof Tom Cardy is insane and not just a genius. He's both.
full volume on headphones isn't enough, I need this song to hit my whole body with the power of giant concert speakers
also I am in love with the DJ's design
i need it to be played loud enough it rotates my body in 6 dimensions simultaneously
I already blasted it on my headphones for an hour
So loud you'll still hear it in your soul after going deaf
i need my tombstone to be a solar-powered boombox that plays this on repeat.
I've been hearing this on repeat the last days, I guess they really meant that
*The music is always playing from the start to end of time. It's always playing in your mind.*
Pls help me, I can't stop it
help me too.. pLEASE I CANT STOP
Same
But I don't want to stop it :D
Same
don't let it twist up your inside
The extended operatic note starting at 2:33 sent me to another dimension 😦😩😱😍🤩
Literally
It is a fucking masterpiece. That's what autotune was made for
No one will ever convince me that the DJ is straight.
fool that you are, thinking concepts such as straight or not matter to the Cosmic DJ
he is every gender and sexuality all at once and never
@@starboundMagicianHe is also every gender and no gender all at once. Including all the different sexes fungi can have.
The fact the math problem is to the power of 42, the number that's apparently the answer to everything, very good reference.
Ah that's just the answer that the computer that is earth generated.
In addition the album I presume this will be part of is called The Dancefloor at the End of the Universe, in reference to Hitchikers Guide 2
@@jaywilkey1323 Not quite The answer was calculated by a much smaller computer, Deep Thought. It's because they had the issue of not having the question that they built Earth :')
@@NWolfsson oop. Yeah, you're right. I always get it crossed because we don't know if the answer was wrong but we're fairly certain that the question is.
you can aproximate the result as 1.012e240 btw
Tom "The Bard" Cardy is dropping a new track? Oh no... I don't think I'll be able to contain my excitement. That's it for me, lads.
How was this comment posted two days ago when the video was posted one hour ago
@@Whistlingrover7 It was posted in an alternate universe where this video was posted 2 days ago and then it leaked into this through the Transcendental Cha Cha Cha.
@@Equiliari Huh. That *would* explain why I don't exactly remember leaving that one...
Try a whole album. 18th of October
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This goes with "Level Clear!" in my "Daily dose of existential crisis: listen to at least one a day" playlist
Edit: Ya know what? I'm actually gonna make this playlist! I can only think of 3 songs right now so any suggestions are well accepted 😊
ua-cam.com/play/PLNODVGmTxcsPJKl5Xu1eH5y9OqkYIED-C.html&feature=shared
Same, I sometimes just put it in repeat for a few hours😂😂😂
could we please have the playlist, Sir?
I hope he releases Level Clear on this album.
Yeah its equally if not more absurd
Yeah, would really love a playlist like that :)
Dude this NAILS and goes above and beyond the hitchikers guide to the galaxy vibe.
I know there's a little bit here for everyone, which is the beautiful chaotic point, but anyone else keep replaying that "Blink! You're an old French dandy" part? The suddenness of the tone change AND the art style shift really gets me.
For me it's the part where Ninja Brian's doing the guillotining, there.
I mean, of course he would, but it's a pleasant surprise just the same.
What the DJ doesn't tell you is that as soon as you enter the club you are split into infinite variations of yourself all in a state of quantum superposition where you both exist and not exist at the same time until observed.
Lucky for you the DJ chooses to observe the version of you having the best time of your life!
*You stare into the void*
*It stares back*
*And also begins breakdancing*
And tears off his pants while consuming all realities starting with drinks
Now all have stuck in my head is “HIT THE DANCE FLOOR, CHA CHA CHA”
I was expecting another comedic vent of real life situations taken to the extreme and instead I got a cosmic banger that had me dancing. 10/10 mate.
It's the only viable progression after "Hot Shit"
i mean it IS literally that. it has more layers of abstraction but the whole thing can be summarized by "this guy is afraid to dance at the club" and the song is literally just a very exaggerated, "transcendental" way for him to get over that fear
It’s giving Weirdmageddon in the best possible way
Glad to see I’m not the only person who instantly thought Bill would LOVE this jam
0:09 bill’s like riiight there in the left hand side… ish
a wholesome weirdmageddon
Wake up babe, Tom Cardy just dropped another banger about existential dread at midnight
Idk there's a fair amount of existential joy here as well
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