Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine (Official HD Video)

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  • Опубліковано 24 жов 2009
  • Official HD Video for “Closer to Fine” by Indigo Girls
    The Indigo Girls are an American folk rock duo from Atlanta, Georgia, United States, formed in 1985. The duo consists of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. They started out playing gigs on the local folk circuit in coffeehouses and schools and self-produced their first album, titled Indigo Girls, in High School. They are known for their hits "Closer to Fine" and "Galileo", as well as their collaboration with Sarah McLachlan on the song "Dear God". Together, they have released 14 studio albums, won multiple Grammy Awards, and have been active since the 1980s.
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    [Chorus]
    And I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
    I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
    There's more than one answer to these questions
    Pointing me in a crooked line
    And the less I seek my source for some definitive
    (The less I seek my source)
    Closer I am to fine, yeah
    Closer I am to fine, yeah
    #IndigoGirls #ClosertoFine #OfficialVideo #HDRemastered

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  • @theiammike123
    @theiammike123 Рік тому +2772

    Brace yourselves, Indigo Girls. The Barbie wave is coming.

    • @damaracarpenter8316
      @damaracarpenter8316 Рік тому +44

      I was just about to comment the same!

    • @jessicac4751
      @jessicac4751 11 місяців тому +39

      Lordy, I'm not sure we can prepare for that, lol! :)

    • @AdelineCowgirl
      @AdelineCowgirl 11 місяців тому +209

      Yep. All of the top comments will say "Barbie brought me here." And "Thanks Barbie for introducing me to this gem." And then everyone who already knew this song before Barbie will be defensively and proudly declaring their superior fandom status lmao.

    • @2degucitas
      @2degucitas 11 місяців тому +31

      ​@@AdelineCowgirl Nailed it

    • @chrisezelle
      @chrisezelle 10 місяців тому +9

      😎🤘🏼

  • @davidnussbaum4639
    @davidnussbaum4639 10 місяців тому +1286

    Indigo Girls are getting some well deserved shine thanks Barbie.

    • @spankynater4242
      @spankynater4242 10 місяців тому +1

      Not just because of the movie though, more because of their amazing racks.

    • @lisacarmack6113
      @lisacarmack6113 10 місяців тому +5

      About time!

    • @dawncrowe2076
      @dawncrowe2076 10 місяців тому +6

    • @seanhall6317
      @seanhall6317 6 місяців тому

      Felt very bashful when that joke came up lol

    • @bennybogusperry2827
      @bennybogusperry2827 5 місяців тому +3

      What do you even mean? This song is in so many movies… it’s only noticed when it’s in a popular movie that people killed to watch :/
      Thanks Barbie? ❤

  • @michaeldonovan3959
    @michaeldonovan3959 10 місяців тому +694

    Great for Greta Gerwig and her team for putting this indelible song front and center in a huge hit movie.

    • @christiemitchell7249
      @christiemitchell7249 9 місяців тому +6

      Best part of the movie. Is the music. Lol 😊

    • @kathybarry835
      @kathybarry835 9 місяців тому +2

      ⁠bullshit reply, great movie great song

    • @feiery
      @feiery 8 місяців тому +2

      Agree 💯

    • @mollkatless
      @mollkatless 4 місяці тому +4

      @@kathybarry835 nah, the movie sucked

  • @dante340
    @dante340 10 місяців тому +314

    I hate it when I'm driving and jamming out to this song, and Ryan Gosling randomly pops up in my backseat... Startles me every time.

    • @cosplayandmusicfreak8795
      @cosplayandmusicfreak8795 10 місяців тому +21

      I wouldn't mind Ryan gosling randomly popping up from my backseat , I mean He's Ryan gosling 😅🤭

    • @dante340
      @dante340 10 місяців тому +8

      @@cosplayandmusicfreak8795 Oh I agree... but it's still startling tho

    • @cosplayandmusicfreak8795
      @cosplayandmusicfreak8795 10 місяців тому +1

      @@dante340 ya lol 😅

    • @lokiofasgard379
      @lokiofasgard379 10 місяців тому +14

      Did he bring at least his roller blades with him?

    • @FloydGirl51
      @FloydGirl51 8 місяців тому +1

      😂😂😂🥰🥰🥰

  • @bb6640
    @bb6640 10 місяців тому +622

    May sound like hyperbole but I believe Closer to Fine is one of the best folk-pop songs of the past 50 years.

    • @peach7210
      @peach7210 10 місяців тому +16

      It's one of my all-time favorite songs.

    • @reneeesper1270
      @reneeesper1270 10 місяців тому +14

      No lie. I loved this song when it came out when I was in college and it sounds AMAZING still ❤

    • @glenneric1
      @glenneric1 10 місяців тому +6

      It definitely has a throwback 60s vibe. Well done!

    • @petersage5157
      @petersage5157 10 місяців тому +13

      It's the opposite of hyperbole. It's understatement.

    • @rjbullen8932
      @rjbullen8932 10 місяців тому +2

      Agreed

  • @killerbee4229
    @killerbee4229 10 місяців тому +638

    So thankful this was in the barbie movie, I've been trying to remember this song for years! My mom used to play this on cassette in the car all the time, especially when we'd all drive to yellowstone, I miss her tons ❤

    • @stickyandsweet20
      @stickyandsweet20 10 місяців тому +9

      WOW! ☀️!

    • @jayleen1966
      @jayleen1966 10 місяців тому +21

      Your comment brought tears to my eyes. I feel you. ❤

    • @ffm595
      @ffm595 10 місяців тому +10

      I love stories like this, thank you for sharing ❤

    • @rosie1522
      @rosie1522 10 місяців тому +6

      🥹

    • @17joren
      @17joren 10 місяців тому +12

      Aw that’s so special, and fitting that it was Barbie’s driving song 😌

  • @jayfury420
    @jayfury420 3 роки тому +1006

    I will never forget sometime in the early 90s my grandmother came home and told me The Indigo girls came to her Senior Center in CT and did a small show for the community of old folks that day. She was so excited to tell me about it..... At the time, I thought "big deal".... Now 21 years after she has passed, hearing this song is bringing fond memories.... The point I wanted to make was that these girls were on the verge of Stardom at that point, however, made time to stop in to a community senior center and do a free show.... That right there says alot about the people they are.

    • @edbac333
      @edbac333 3 роки тому +11

      That is so great to hear ! Thank You!

    • @laurad324
      @laurad324 3 роки тому +18

      They were already big in early 90s! First big song/album was 87. I fell in love with them in the 80s! Amazing they went to your grandmas old age home!

    • @callmeacab
      @callmeacab 2 роки тому +24

      I'm not crying...you're crying

    • @judytripp2914
      @judytripp2914 2 роки тому +8

      You didn't say big deal,to her, did you?😳

    • @danielgautreau161
      @danielgautreau161 2 роки тому +38

      An egotistic musician, performing at a retirement home, said "Does anyone here know who I am?" An elderly lady in the front row said "No, dear. But if you go to the nursing station, they can help you."

  • @timothyburke6949
    @timothyburke6949 2 роки тому +706

    Wonder what it's like the first time you harmonize with somebody and realize the two voices together just happen to be freaking perfect.

    • @danielleoconnell7513
      @danielleoconnell7513 Рік тому +24

      I never knew this, but I googled and they know each other from elementary school!!! What are the chances?!

    • @TheReal1953
      @TheReal1953 Рік тому +16

      I had this happen ONE time in my life and I stupidly quit singing after. It's like dropping fast in an elevator....you wanna stop and say something, but you'd lose the moment. Then you both smile as you're singing.....cuz you know you're knocking it out of the park. Talent is a mix of perspiration and being in the right place at the right time. Yet, I've met people on the street who could out-perform the best popular artists out there. Some things just are the way they are........

    • @dougbarlow2182
      @dougbarlow2182 Рік тому +19

      An odd couple of sorts, my friend and I met 20 years ago at karaoke. I'm a white male he's a black male. He heard me sing, I heard him sing, and somehow we decided to start making "duets" out of hard rock songs. We would come up with ridiculous harmonies that weren't in the original songs and people went nuts!!!
      We both were students of music, so we understood keys and scales, and we just fed off each other... No performance was ever the same, we just improvised...

    • @ICRA95
      @ICRA95 Рік тому +2

      @@danielleoconnell7513 They were meant to be

    • @joecrowaz
      @joecrowaz Рік тому +5

      Magic... That's how It feels ❤

  • @NagoyaHouseHead
    @NagoyaHouseHead 2 роки тому +749

    The 90's was a golden era for female acoustic singer songwriters: Indigo Girls, Melisa Etheridge, K.D. Lang, Tracy Chapman, Suzan Vega, Sheryl Crow, 4 Non Blondes, Natalie Merchant, Shawn Colvin, Sarah Mcglaughlin, Nora Jones, Jewel

    • @denneyandthejets7833
      @denneyandthejets7833 2 роки тому +31

      I would have loved Lilith Fair tbh

    • @kristina.5453
      @kristina.5453 2 роки тому +11

      Yes! I'd forgotten about some of these artists. Off to listen to Melissa and Natalie and Nora... Thanks for the brilliant list! :)

    • @NagoyaHouseHead
      @NagoyaHouseHead 2 роки тому +3

      @@kristina.5453 My pleasure. Enjoy.

    • @playrewindff
      @playrewindff 2 роки тому +48

      Tori amos, desiree, erykah badu, sinead oconnor!

    • @playrewindff
      @playrewindff 2 роки тому +42

      Fiona apple too

  • @markebbers
    @markebbers 5 років тому +1245

    I cannot prove it, but this is probably the best song ever.

    • @Treebard
      @Treebard 4 роки тому +12

      I agree! 💖

    • @lesliecinmongrl2001
      @lesliecinmongrl2001 3 роки тому +10

      It really is

    • @ArtofFreeSpeech
      @ArtofFreeSpeech 3 роки тому +24

      Insanely, ridiculously, even criminally underrated by so many!

    • @jstohler
      @jstohler 3 роки тому +6

      Not even the best song on the album.

    • @capersmith
      @capersmith 3 роки тому +20

      Exhibit A: “Well, darkness has a hunger that’s insatiable”.

  • @meredithaprobert
    @meredithaprobert 10 місяців тому +128

    As a queer person, this song has been an anthem for me since my days coping with and then recovering from attending a Christian college. I just saw the Barbie movie in Argentina with my fiance. Only person in the theatre who laughed at the teenager going, "What is with this song!?" Brought me so much joy. Thank you Greta, and thank you to Indigo Girls for writing one of the best, most therapeutic and healing songs ever. Legends forever.

    • @brittelyse9418
      @brittelyse9418 9 місяців тому +10

      My experience with this song was very similar! I also was cooing with all the bullying & homophobia (got called a Dyke when I was F-12 years old). My dad actually introduced me to this song and it’s something that not only makes me feel connected to him, but also to myself. I’ve been a fan of this song since before I even knew I was gay, and it’s gotten me through so many stages in my life! Might have started happy crying when I saw Barbie singing along to this song for the first time. Not to mention, I only had Barbies as a kid, Ken’s were beneath me, and my Barbies would date & get married constantly. In ✨hetrospect✨, I think that was a bit of a clue 🔎 😂🌈

    • @nateboy123
      @nateboy123 9 місяців тому +3

      What’s wrong with going to a Christian college?

    • @IcePrincessWHN
      @IcePrincessWHN 9 місяців тому +7

      ​@nateboy123 I suspect quite a lot, when you're a young, repressed, confused lesbian.

    • @nateboy123
      @nateboy123 9 місяців тому +1

      @@IcePrincessWHN why would a lesbian go to a Christian college in the first place (no disrespect or anything. I’m just wondering)?

    • @IcePrincessWHN
      @IcePrincessWHN 9 місяців тому +5

      @nateboy123 many reasons. Most likely is family pressure. My first thought would be that they were raised in a sheltered Christian household and told they could only go to a Christian college or no college at all.

  • @mcrowson93
    @mcrowson93 Місяць тому +10

    Those beautiful pre cell phone days.

  • @waceymurley
    @waceymurley 6 років тому +943

    Who came here because their co-worker kept singing this acapella during our overnight Sales Report Consolidation meeting?

    • @stupidalien18
      @stupidalien18 2 роки тому +70

      TUNA!

    • @jamesgilmore7955
      @jamesgilmore7955 2 роки тому +10

      Actually, I went to REM's song " It's the end of the world as we know it ".

    • @mutenroilazaro3824
      @mutenroilazaro3824 2 роки тому +29

      No more acapella, please, Andy.

    • @edweer670
      @edweer670 2 роки тому +9

      Yes and an annoying killjoy woman kept trying to stifle the moment

    • @linzzyy
      @linzzyy 2 роки тому +31

      TUNA! are you kidding me?

  • @twoyoots8417
    @twoyoots8417 Рік тому +197

    I am thrilled that the trailer for upcoming Barbie movie includes this incredible Indigo Girls song. It roped me in 40 years ago and still holds up. And as the movie will tell, it sends a message that is opposite to Barbie, yet real world Barbie loves it. Hallelujah! Congratulations, Amy and Emily.

  • @davidwilson2887
    @davidwilson2887 10 місяців тому +107

    It only took me 13 years to discover this because of Greta Gerwig and her Barbie movie. Wow! What an American treasure! Fantastic music and lyrics! Thank you Indigo Girls!

    • @withastone
      @withastone 9 місяців тому +4

      Not sure if 13 years old or thinks this song is 13 years old 🤔

    • @borntoteachw4028
      @borntoteachw4028 9 місяців тому +3

      It fits so perfectly, just like everything in the movie 🩷🩷🩷

    • @jnt6239
      @jnt6239 9 місяців тому

      ​@withastone Or has been searching for it for 13 years?

    • @lkav1313
      @lkav1313 9 місяців тому +3

      My daughter did not know this song. So glad it was in the Barbie movie so she could experience it!

    • @KateLate____
      @KateLate____ 9 місяців тому

      ​@@lkav1313i was born in 1984 so I had no idea what it was. Was it even famous in 1989? Maybe just in America?

  • @rocknrollsetmefree
    @rocknrollsetmefree 10 місяців тому +19

    Saw Indigo Girls live tonight. Q&A was encouraged between songs. First one: “ARE YOU SISTERS!?” Emily instantly zinged, “Uhm, did you find us from the Barbie movie?”

  • @mariacangi5586
    @mariacangi5586 3 роки тому +434

    "I wrap my fear around me like a blanket, I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it" words to live by

    • @kristina.5453
      @kristina.5453 2 роки тому +17

      Word. The line slammed into me when I heard it. I relate to it a little too much.

    • @scootermom1791
      @scootermom1791 Рік тому +7

      Very relatable! I keep my blanket of fear around me. It has become my ship of safety. I won't sink it.

    • @birgitsterlingwood1131
      @birgitsterlingwood1131 Рік тому +3

      Exactly

    • @bookemdanno5596
      @bookemdanno5596 Рік тому +7

      You forgot the cherry on top of those lyrics, and that's: "I'm crawling on your shores" at the end. It completely gives hope to an otherwise hopeless statement. I feel sad for anyone who would want to "live by" the lyrics you mentioned without the entire line.

    • @rebeccap5538
      @rebeccap5538 Рік тому +10

      I like " Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable and lightness has a call that's hard to hear" ❤ 🙏

  • @svarthjerte
    @svarthjerte 10 років тому +787

    One of my all time favourite lines: The best thing you've ever done for me
    Is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all. There's neverending comfort in those words.

  • @staceyfranks01
    @staceyfranks01 4 місяці тому +11

    It is so cool that a whole new generation is finding you ❤

  • @OrionHusky
    @OrionHusky 10 місяців тому +30

    I caught the NPR interview with the Indigo Girls today about "Closer to Fine" making into the Barbie movie. I hadn't heard that song in decades. It brought me to tears. So many memories from the year that song came out, so many memories of listening to that song that year. Thank you, Indigo Girls, for being such a beautiful part of my youth.

  • @kesleycottrell1416
    @kesleycottrell1416 4 роки тому +292

    We really need this song now more than ever. Who else is here to escape for a little while?

    • @cocokittyanimates3825
      @cocokittyanimates3825 4 роки тому +4

      watching during 2020 riots and covid19

    • @DC-jw3pl
      @DC-jw3pl 4 роки тому +1

      Me

    • @kateinsley7377
      @kateinsley7377 4 роки тому +5

      Me ...... covid 19, lockdown, riots.... happy to listen to the wonderful indigo girls 😊

    • @sheilahayden816
      @sheilahayden816 4 роки тому +2

      I just saw them on the TODAY show this morning and here I am.

    • @michellekranz1439
      @michellekranz1439 4 роки тому +1

      Andrea Dragonfly from f

  • @lgrichard32
    @lgrichard32 10 місяців тому +84

    So proud their song is in the Barbie movie for all the world to discover the ladies! I was introduced to the Indigo Girls in 1990 by a fellow Navy Woman and they have been one of my all time favorites ever since!!

  • @unakennelly
    @unakennelly 2 роки тому +37

    "I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind - got my paper and I was free" - love that.

    • @TheGruntski
      @TheGruntski 2 роки тому

      Yeah, that feeling when you have your degree and can leave the university and actually do things.

    • @joetraw2110
      @joetraw2110 2 роки тому +1

      One of my favorite lines of all time.

    • @marypuls8337
      @marypuls8337 2 роки тому +1

      I remember them fir the old days when I had so many dreams and so much hope. I realuze in some ways I have changed the world in my own way. I love this song ! Keep being your true self because you reallybdo matter and your voice deserves to be heard as much as this song does!

    • @marypuls8337
      @marypuls8337 2 роки тому +1

      Sorry I can not see well I can spell.

  • @kensquibb6907
    @kensquibb6907 22 дні тому +2

    I think I was a late comer to this song, the first memory I have about hearing this song was in grade 9 (1994) art class. It was a rainy, gloomy fall morning in a cinderblock room lit by unshaded florescent lights, and floating through the air amidst the smell of water color paint was this song played on an old 1980s boom box. I feel simultaneously old and young now lol

  • @BTom16
    @BTom16 Рік тому +179

    This song continues to do the business in 2022. Love it.

    • @stacyconaway
      @stacyconaway Рік тому +16

      2023 now and it never sounded better. These women made magic. 👏

    • @ginabattz9716
      @ginabattz9716 11 місяців тому +1

      That’s the truth

    • @bighand1530
      @bighand1530 7 місяців тому

      2023 now

  • @paulamorton9380
    @paulamorton9380 3 роки тому +171

    “Darkness has a hunger that’s insatiable, and lightness has a call that’s hard to hear.” Terrifying. Other parts of this song make me laugh out loud. At the end, sort of a “Let it Be” tone. Brilliant. And a beautiful video.

    • @steve760
      @steve760 2 роки тому +2

      "Let it be" is really the central theme of the song. As in, "There are going to be a ton of unsolved mysteries, and each one may have more than one solution, so don't dig too deeply."

    • @rebeccap5538
      @rebeccap5538 Рік тому

      I like that part too

  • @Littlestraincloud
    @Littlestraincloud 10 місяців тому +15

    My mom used to play this in the car for me all the time growing up on the way to school and let me tell you, seeing a very similar moment in the Barbie movie was not what I expected

  • @dr1204
    @dr1204 2 роки тому +330

    Its just one of the most perfect songs ever, the lyrics, the music and harmonies, period.❤

    • @shaunabraham2799
      @shaunabraham2799 2 роки тому

      clearly you have never heard the anthem of the soviet union

    • @johnpalmer4425
      @johnpalmer4425 2 роки тому +6

      It certainly is up there. It is one of those songs that holds up 30+ years later (Christ that makes me feel old).

    • @silvermainecoons3269
      @silvermainecoons3269 11 місяців тому

      @@shaunabraham2799 oh please, you must be joking, bootlicker. 🙄

    • @bradmikeshaw
      @bradmikeshaw 11 місяців тому

      Uh hello, penny whistle?

    • @Libbydoh
      @Libbydoh 5 місяців тому

      It has helped me judge myself less harshly for decades.

  • @maryh9545
    @maryh9545 9 років тому +825

    These ladies totally saved my life when I was in college. Their music gave me so much encouragement and hope.

    • @kpolidoro
      @kpolidoro 8 років тому +7

      +Mary H Me too!

    • @chancethedog
      @chancethedog 4 роки тому +3

      I'm sorry

    • @kristiemerson370
      @kristiemerson370 3 роки тому +26

      I wonder just how many people they, and this song especially, have helped pulled back from the brink of despair. I was one. And I need them again now, during COVID19 (/20). We love you girls! And we thank you.

    • @Stamenu88
      @Stamenu88 3 роки тому +14

      These ladies saved my life and they don't know it. Awesome indigo girls.

    • @yoremothra9838
      @yoremothra9838 3 роки тому +2

      @Big Bubba How? How did Cheers do it for you? Was it the back and forth between Sam and Diane? Was it the theme song? Or did you just enjoy bars, and as such, enjoyed a show about a bar? Genuinely curious.

  • @jitters458
    @jitters458 9 місяців тому +27

    This song is perfect. Happy Barbie brought it forward, it needs to be kept close in our hearts.

  • @jeanninel4178
    @jeanninel4178 Рік тому +13

    This song gave me so much hope. As I was raised in an evangelical hatred religion I set myself Free. And they gave me so much hope.

  • @angelicareal7381
    @angelicareal7381 10 місяців тому +14

    Back in 1989 when this song came out, I don’t think anyone could’ve imagined it ending up in a successful movie about Barbie. But here we are.

  • @danielblackwell3318
    @danielblackwell3318 4 роки тому +42

    "The less I seek my source for some definitive, closer I am to fine..."

  • @landyachtfan79
    @landyachtfan79 5 років тому +37

    Lyrics:
    I'm trying to tell you something about my life
    Maybe give me insight between black and white
    And the best thing you've ever done for me
    Is to help me take my life less seriously
    It's only life after all
    Yeah
    Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
    And lightness has a call that's hard to hear
    I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
    I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it
    I'm crawling on your shores
    I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
    I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
    There's more than one answer to these questions
    Pointing me in a crooked line
    And the less I seek my source for some definitive
    (the less I seek my source)
    The closer I am to fine
    The closer I am to fine
    And I went to see the doctor of philosophy
    With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
    He never did marry or see a B-grade movie
    He graded my performance, he said he could see through me
    I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind
    Got my paper and I was free
    I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
    I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
    There's more than one answer to these questions
    Pointing me in a crooked line
    The less I seek my source for some definitive
    (The less I seek my source)
    The closer I am to fine
    The closer I am to fine
    I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m.
    To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
    And I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
    Twice as cloudy as Id been the night before
    And I went in seeking clarity.
    I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
    I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
    Yeah we go to the doctor, we go to the mountains
    We look to the children, we drink from the fountains
    Yeah we go to the bible, we go through the workout
    We read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout
    Theres more than one answer to these questions
    Pointing me in a crooked line
    The less I seek my source for some definitive
    (The less I seek my source)
    The closer I am to fine
    The closer I am to fine
    The closer I am to fine

    • @Paslayas
      @Paslayas 5 місяців тому +1

      Thank you for posting the lyrics ☺️

  • @janky477
    @janky477 Рік тому +4

    This is now the THIRD Time an upcoming Movie trailer has included a 90s song I COMPLETELY forgot existed. Thanks Barbie.

  • @tinagiordanella3212
    @tinagiordanella3212 10 місяців тому +17

    I just heard this song in the Barbie movie for the first time in a long time. Then I went home and started watching a show called Tiny Beautiful Things on Disney+ and heard it playing again in the end credits. That's twice in one day that I was reminded of the awesomeness of the song!

  • @brookeyarber957
    @brookeyarber957 3 роки тому +280

    These ladies made it ok to be gay when I was a teenager. I will forever be grateful for them.

  • @oldtimehockey7123
    @oldtimehockey7123 6 років тому +184

    I bought the tape and, while playing it in the truck, had to pull over and cry it was so beautiful. Wuss achievement unlocked.

    • @charki40
      @charki40 3 роки тому +14

      Your comment, made me cry as well. Such an earnest and beautiful comment, like you

    • @Kinypshun
      @Kinypshun 2 роки тому +3

      Right there with you.

    • @carrieullrich5059
      @carrieullrich5059 Рік тому +2

      Y'all need a friend in the car to sing this with you. ❤

  • @nordy213
    @nordy213 2 роки тому +298

    I can't make it to the end of this song without tears rolling down my face. It reaches to the depths of me.. just how much I focused on things that meant so little in the end.

    • @kimduhaime502
      @kimduhaime502 Рік тому +11

      @@elmdixon Me too!

    • @madcows2009
      @madcows2009 Рік тому +19

      The irony is that by the time we realize it, it's too late.

    • @armcchargues8623
      @armcchargues8623 Рік тому +22

      Darkness has a hunger that's insatiable and lightness has a call that's hard to hear. You're exactly right.

    • @hydrangeaism
      @hydrangeaism Рік тому +11

      ..."twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before, and I went in seeking clarity..."

    • @jenniferscott375
      @jenniferscott375 Рік тому +4

      Same

  • @laurenp2548
    @laurenp2548 10 місяців тому +8

    This scene was so wild because I almost always play this song on road trips when my connection goes out driving in the middle of nowhere bc of downloaded Apple Tunes or whatever. I felt seen tbh.

  • @alejandra_asfa
    @alejandra_asfa 11 місяців тому +5

    I love that KT Tunstall is singing this song on her concerts!!

  • @BillMcSciFi
    @BillMcSciFi Рік тому +6

    I saw them at the Congress Theater in Chicago. I was one of two males in the crowd. The other was there with his daughter and he was trying to understand her. Bless him and they were fucking amazing.

  • @mindylepooh
    @mindylepooh 10 місяців тому +5

    Amy Ray, on NPR's All Things Considered, July 25, 2023:
    "The song is such a great song and a great sing along. And, you know, this is the kind of thing where it's like - you hope generations, you know, pass it down to each other and the community just expands because it's all about that. It's all about people sharing music and feeling good and joy and feeling good about themselves and just, you know, realizing life is a - can be a beautiful thing and try to believe in yourself."
    Amen.

  • @QuantumBraced
    @QuantumBraced 7 років тому +2832

    Tuna! Are you kidding me??

    • @jeffsperandeo
      @jeffsperandeo 7 років тому +69

      Glad I'm not the only one! Hahha

    • @Awe.someness
      @Awe.someness 6 років тому +62

      it's more like: Tuunaah! are you kidding me??

    • @timduncan2211
      @timduncan2211 6 років тому +46

      Precisely why I'm here!

    • @hendrix1759
      @hendrix1759 6 років тому +26

      Yep! Same here...LoL

    • @homeyiommi1921
      @homeyiommi1921 6 років тому +57

      Andy, ANDY....no a capella, okay?

  • @chrisoquinn5196
    @chrisoquinn5196 2 роки тому +150

    this song was the first duet my mother and I ever did together. now that she's gone, the song means more than ever.

  • @AmericanGirl6128
    @AmericanGirl6128 3 місяці тому +9

    Still a fan 30 years later . And I know this by heart 💗

  • @lifeisgood6074
    @lifeisgood6074 10 місяців тому +23

    Hi Barbie!!! This song is the perfect song to have in the Barbie movie, a movie embracing and supporting women and all the challenges we have to face in balancing the many aspects of juggling career, motherhood, stress… I loved it when it came out in the 90s, and love it even more now! It’s literally a perfect song lyrically and musically.

    • @lifeisgood6074
      @lifeisgood6074 10 місяців тому +2

      Oops sorry it was released in 1989…

  • @soulsurfer639
    @soulsurfer639 2 роки тому +25

    Was my last year of high school, and my entire gym class was on a camping trip. One camp site over, a gathering of young hippies got together at that site to celebrate an eclipse. I remember joining them by the fire and a young woman sung this song while playing her guitar. I'm a guy but remember tearing up because the song was so beautiful. Whenever life is hard, i listen to this song to remind myself of how beautiful the world can be
    🌎 ☮ ❤

  • @ChiTheLight
    @ChiTheLight 8 років тому +143

    college years. my lesbian soccer friends introduced me to the Indigo girls lmao.....god bless them. we are still good friends to this day. Class of 2000...

    • @ronnieacors4803
      @ronnieacors4803 5 років тому +3

      I was born in 2000. I'm married and have a full time job. I watched this video on my nth rewatch of the office.

    • @buddyfats4768
      @buddyfats4768 5 років тому +9

      @@ronnieacors4803 you were born in 2000 and are already married???

    • @waytoobiased
      @waytoobiased 2 роки тому

      Are you good friends or “very good friends”?

  • @DJdext
    @DJdext 10 місяців тому +8

    I truly hope these Barbie fans listen to the rest of the Indigo Girl's catalog. They have many more great songs.

  • @vickiotway4669
    @vickiotway4669 Рік тому +14

    Best song ever. Saw these beautiful women at Lilith Fair in Toronto in the 90s,with my best friend ,Paula. Rest in Peace,my beautiful Paula.❤❤

  • @kegbot1
    @kegbot1 4 роки тому +127

    As a guy with Borderline Pers. Disorder who has spent his whole adult life in therapy and finally fired my last shrink, I have always, always, always cherished this beautiful song.

    • @Logan-wv8qf
      @Logan-wv8qf 3 роки тому +9

      As a guy who worked in psych hospitals for my first 20 years of adult life, before becoming a teacher (for another 20 years now), I would suggest that you quit firing therapists.
      Yes, there are a lot of mediocre ones out there, but chances are, at least one of them was a good one.
      My experience has been that the more right they are, the less you like them.
      In your case it is your own perception of everything that is drastically colored by powerful emotions, making you think that things are true that are not.
      You must learn to trust a close circle of friends (yes, they are the people who have tried to tell you this). You must trust them more than your own perception. You must learn to catch yourself before launching into emotional overdrive tirades.

    • @Raven-yj5pp
      @Raven-yj5pp 3 роки тому +11

      @@Logan-wv8qf you're the first thumbs down I've ever given. Apparently you don't like to listen to other people's truth. Many times too much of this contributes to a disorder. The black and white of it all. Therapists stop listening to their clients, if ever they did in the first place. They start listening to other doctors and forget, completely about listening to the person that is affected most by them.
      I really wonder sometimes who is actually f*****d up? A person gets up the nerve to finally fire a crappy therapist and someone, without knowing the circumstances and thinking they have some authority, throws an absolute at it. Maybe you should listen to the music and stop judging. If the music isn't therapeutic for you.... Maybe you should go get some therapy!!!! Stop ruining it for other people... Dick!!!!!
      Get it straight!!!!!!

    • @Raven-yj5pp
      @Raven-yj5pp 3 роки тому +5

      You have the right and responsibility to do that for yourself. I'm glad you did. I hope you're doing well and respecting yourself. ✌️😎

    • @Logan-wv8qf
      @Logan-wv8qf 3 роки тому +4

      @@Raven-yj5pp Wow, ok then. Hey I’m just offering 25 years of experience with many, many, people experiencing bi-polar disorder. I will try to break it down for you, with compassion. Maybe you will be able to help someone.
      Being bi-polar means having “changing brain chemistry.”
      All of our perceptions of the world are based on that brain chemistry (which for most of us is “non-changing.”
      If I am bi-polar, and my brain chemistry begins to change, the change is so subtle that I will not be aware of the change.
      That means my perception of everything and everyone around me is quietly, subtly changing too (without my awareness). My judgement is changing, without my awareness.
      I will not notice my slowly increasing change in perception and slow loss of judgement. It will all look normal to me.
      My family and friends will begin to see the changes first. They are seeing my degraded judgement in my attitudes and actions, from outside of me.
      If they can catch me and connect me with treatment early enough, with help, I can get medication to bring my brain chemistry back to the normal range.
      Left unchecked, my perception and judgement begins to rapidly erode and I become increasingly irrational, with no awareness of my loss of judgement. This could have potentially disastrous social, relationship, financial and even legal consequences. I see many bi-polar people in prison, connected to things they did while their judgement was gone.
      That’s why having a therapist and friends and family, who will tell you what you need to hear, and insist that you take action immediately, is critical, whether you want to hear it or not.
      As my judgement erodes, l will have a tendency to reject therapists and/or family and friends who are giving me honest and important feedback about how I am actually degrading in judgement (as they can see it in my increasing hostility and rejection of feedback).As I lose more judgement, I will become increasingly angry, and hostile, with anyone who tries to give me feedback that disagrees with my “altered perception.” Eventually, as my brain chemistry continues to shift, I completely lose touch with reality, possibly leading to a forced hospitalization (5150), or possibly an arrest.
      There you go, 25 years experience, no charge, friend.

    • @Raven-yj5pp
      @Raven-yj5pp 3 роки тому +4

      @@Logan-wv8qf I'm not doing this right now. I have way more than 25 years of experience. But if you can't just enjoy the music f*** off . It's just music. Can you let anyone anyone enjoy it or do you have to flex your narcissistic muscles???????
      Just so you know... Last Dance said Borderline, not bipolar..... Just goes to show how much you people, that think you have some sort of authority, can f*** it all up by not listening. You proved my point. Now... F*** off!!!!! Dick

  • @Criscross292
    @Criscross292 4 роки тому +47

    “And the less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine”
    Interpretation: The less I search for meaning and happiness, the sooner it will find me.

  • @grammat.7494
    @grammat.7494 2 місяці тому +5

    You guys are so awesome, I appreciate you for being such an old soul! Been married 40 years and your songs touched me!! YOU ARE MY FAVORITE!!!!!!!!

  • @scottrohrbeck7672
    @scottrohrbeck7672 10 місяців тому +5

    Now I'll never be able to hear this song again without thinking of Barbie being freaked out by Ken and the car doing a total 180 in the air. Thanks Barbie :P

  • @tracieguyett
    @tracieguyett 7 років тому +678

    This song is making me feel so many things right now. You ever hear a song for the first time at such a defining moment in your life and it just clicks and everything makes sense? Music has so much power, my God.

    • @teriphelps686
      @teriphelps686 5 років тому +4

      So true.

    • @peternicholson233
      @peternicholson233 5 років тому +1

      Yep Sultans of Swing 1978. I don't invoke God though.

    • @davidrichardson7466
      @davidrichardson7466 5 років тому +29

      This song shook me to the core and put everything into perspective for me in 1995 or so. I had let go of the beliefs I had been born into and was exploring meaning. This song was such a comfort. Now, it is an old treasured friend, bringing a tear to my eye. I can remember who I was and feel the journey I have been on. The Indigo Girls music has been such a gift.

    • @ladyofthelake1123
      @ladyofthelake1123 5 років тому +13

      I know- I was about 18 when this song came out, just starting college. I wish I could go back to that year and change a few things.

    • @friedcash9815
      @friedcash9815 4 роки тому +3

      rocky mountain high had that effect on me...

  • @kevinkozisek3903
    @kevinkozisek3903 4 роки тому +20

    College days. When you appreciated all kinds if music back then.

  • @kammie3118
    @kammie3118 2 роки тому +3

    Here from the 9-1-1 season 5 finale montage, and I love it

  • @stopkvmoore
    @stopkvmoore Рік тому +12

    I am 53. I heard this song maybe 33 years ago lol. My daughter just took me to see them in Savanah, GA. Awesome and sweet. It was great!

  • @pansimp2754
    @pansimp2754 3 роки тому +65

    this song makes me think of my mom
    this was our favorite song
    I shouldn't be crying right now

  • @tr1667
    @tr1667 10 місяців тому +8

    Let's go Barbieland!!

  • @mummificationpls
    @mummificationpls Рік тому +14

    When I first heard this group in around 1989, never would I believe I would get to be back stage after an incredible 1000 seat benefit concert they did for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. I freaked out meeting my idols. Then quickly realized they are human just like you and I. So love the music they put out.

  • @AM257.
    @AM257. 10 місяців тому +6

    Going to see Barbie for the 3rd time and so HAPPY it introduced me to this masterpiece.

  • @jamesgabriel1814
    @jamesgabriel1814 6 років тому +46

    4 years prostrate to the higher mind got my paper and I was free!!! So true

  • @josephkidd2722
    @josephkidd2722 2 роки тому +122

    These ladies music helped my through a period of my life where my mental health was very precarious. Love you girls.

    • @madgentvids
      @madgentvids Рік тому +5

      I'm walk the same journey now, also inspired by this song.

  • @shtumf
    @shtumf Місяць тому +2

    I'm 52, the Indigo Girls Album this song is on, was a revelation to me when it came out all that time ago. Do yourself a favour and listen to it

  • @jennifersides9116
    @jennifersides9116 7 місяців тому +5

    I've loved Indigo Girls since 1990. Free Spirits, not singing about lost loves or revenge for love. Honest and a good example for girls everywhere.
    And being in the Barbie Movie was such a great surprise! I can't wait til you hit Sactown!

  • @stephenmoleski8726
    @stephenmoleski8726 7 років тому +290

    Reminds me of a more simple, happier time when I was a better version of myself.

    • @squamish4244
      @squamish4244 5 років тому +15

      Yeah. The 20 years since the 90s have really kicked my ass. Not that I was particularly happy back then, either. But I had a lot of hope for turning things around once I got the hell out of Dodge. And the fact is, I was still a better version of myself than now.
      However, mental health treatment back then was very primitive compared to today (if you can pay! - which, the one great blessing I have, is I can). And I couldn't really start to get better until the last few years or so.

    • @jpmacoo
      @jpmacoo 5 років тому +5

      @@squamish4244 No shit, man

    • @michelemaxon9711
      @michelemaxon9711 4 роки тому +5

      Stephen Moleski totally understand....me too ...

    • @rtree99
      @rtree99 4 роки тому +1

      ouch

    • @katc5051
      @katc5051 4 роки тому +24

      That version is still inside of you. You know what you need to do to get back there. But because you are still alive, you've got the chance for redemption. Go for it

  • @eileenp288
    @eileenp288 6 років тому +72

    I am only 11 years old but I love this song so much!

    • @MrCountrycuz
      @MrCountrycuz 3 роки тому +1

      Listen to Chris Williamson and see how you like her.

    • @evadoucette7578
      @evadoucette7578 3 роки тому +7

      I'm also 11 and love Indigo Girls so much!

  • @XxbeargroupxX
    @XxbeargroupxX 3 місяці тому +3

    My mom loves this song❤

  • @karaanne8929
    @karaanne8929 Рік тому +64

    This song and “landslide” hits me straight in the heart every single time. Makes me remember the ones that I’ve lost but it also gives me hope. ❤

  • @kirbywehr
    @kirbywehr 10 місяців тому +27

    So good!!! Makes me so nostalgic!

  • @kaywaits4616
    @kaywaits4616 11 місяців тому +10

    Ya know, I’ve been to lots and lots of concerts. On a whim, my girlfriend and I decided to go see them at the Gwinnett Convention Center(not sure the name of the venue but it was in Gwinnett County, Ga). This concert is def one of the most relaxing and enjoyable I’ve ever been to see. I was absolutely enthralled with their talent! And the harmonies? Omg! Like listening to angels sing!!!!

  • @buffymcmuffin5361
    @buffymcmuffin5361 11 місяців тому +28

    So Awesome. Impressive to be reminded they created this song out of thin air.

  • @seanian8986
    @seanian8986 10 місяців тому +6

    This Barbie loves lezzie folk rock 🥰

  • @coralreefkeef
    @coralreefkeef 8 років тому +163

    Andy and Jim brought me here

  • @UnusualTastes
    @UnusualTastes 9 років тому +13

    Ahh, this is so 1989. And that's a good thing. Gives me a vacation from this Facebook/iphone/Nissan Cube/Toyota Prius/Dubstep/e-cigarette/Playstation 4000 decade we currently inhabit.

    • @hayleydoesthings
      @hayleydoesthings 6 років тому

      CosmicPentastar yet you're using some kind of modern device to comment on a UA-cam video. It's a wonder you can type so well with your head shoved so far up your ass.

  • @aliyamoon80
    @aliyamoon80 3 місяці тому +2

    I totally forgot about this lovely song! Been living under a rock for a minute. I might have to see this Barbie movie.

  • @DearMoonProject
    @DearMoonProject 10 місяців тому +5

    9.1 M before Barbie ❤😂🎉let’s see where it comes! I’m so happy 😁 the Indigo Girls deserve it and they’re the best :)! Got to see them in Austin at the Backyard ❤❤❤

  • @twelveytwelve
    @twelveytwelve 4 роки тому +39

    This never gets old.

  • @SageNemesis
    @SageNemesis 6 років тому +17

    Who's here because of their awesome mothers? Thanks mom, for everything!

  • @ardala3922
    @ardala3922 10 місяців тому +4

    The BARBIE movie brought me here!😊 I'm glad! How have I never heard this great before!

  • @Narwhaltat
    @Narwhaltat 10 місяців тому +6

    Great that a whole new wave of women are discovering the Indigo Girls. I'm going to see them live for the second time later this month - can't wait!! :o)

    • @jbcleere
      @jbcleere Місяць тому

      Why just women? I'm a hetrosexual male in my 60s and I've been listening and enjoying them for 30 years!

  • @chrisstarkey7845
    @chrisstarkey7845 10 місяців тому +5

    I can’t explain how much this album meant way back when. I’m very happy that they’re getting some love in the Barbie movie. 😊

  • @solinpookie69
    @solinpookie69 5 років тому +36

    ...I remember seeing this video on "120 minutes" on MTV in 1989, rushed over to the Wherehouse and bought the cassette!!...I was already a HUGE FAN of 10,000 Maniacs, REM, Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, Cowboy Junkies, and so forth!!...then and now, the Indigo Girls KICK SOME SERIOUS ASS FOR DAYS AND DAYS!!...LOOOOOOOOOVE THEM!!...

  • @celliott8784
    @celliott8784 2 роки тому +46

    Had a really bad day. All in all a terrible day, and I dont have many of those. This song turned my day around. It's only life after all. The power of music. #love

  • @jacklowe3429
    @jacklowe3429 4 місяці тому +3

    I remember this from my wonderful early 1990s! Wish I could relive those days. Best times of my life.

  • @TheBigCheeseSauce
    @TheBigCheeseSauce 4 роки тому +28

    Til this day I'm still shocked at how powerful this song actually is, for an acoustic-styled song. 🤘

  • @matt88collins
    @matt88collins 3 роки тому +8

    Wonderful. I saw the Indigo Girls in Boulder Colorado with my wife right after I got my ass handed to me at work...their words helped out quite a bit. It’s only life after all :)

  • @jasonwoolley5341
    @jasonwoolley5341 2 роки тому +5

    1989 Toronto Canada they opened for REM at Maple Leaf Gardens and stole that show, I was 18 and have loved them ever since.. such a part of my youth. Thank you Ladies

  • @sharonrussell7799
    @sharonrussell7799 10 місяців тому +6

    I love that so many people will be hearing this song for the first time because of Barbie. Welcome to the Indigo Girls! So beautiful.

  • @kevibo75
    @kevibo75 5 років тому +17

    Who remembers when this was just a novelty in all the alternative music. And now it is a classic tune

    • @charlesbolton8471
      @charlesbolton8471 3 роки тому

      Who remembers that there was a resurgence of this type of much that was going on simultaneously to the rise of alternative rock.
      There was nothing “novelty” about it.

  • @Ziebenator63-jj9ej
    @Ziebenator63-jj9ej 7 років тому +116

    Sometimes the simplest guitar chords and brilliant lyrics make the best songs.

    • @TigerPrawn_
      @TigerPrawn_ 7 років тому +2

      Definitely!

    • @settheray2jerry1
      @settheray2jerry1 7 років тому +3

      true words

    • @40mmea
      @40mmea 7 років тому +1

      AGREE

    • @cortesione
      @cortesione 6 років тому +2

      alhalhalal1 I've been struggling to master this song forever on guitar.

    • @markm102
      @markm102 6 років тому +1

      Well Stated.

  • @paisleyprincess7996
    @paisleyprincess7996 10 місяців тому +4

    I heard this was in the Barbie movie, and I remember seeing this video when it hit. I couldn’t understand why it didn’t get a lot of airplay, but it is now!

  • @deepblueharvest
    @deepblueharvest 3 роки тому +8

    Even though it came out in 1989, this song personifies the '90s to me

  • @ericbeaulieu4843
    @ericbeaulieu4843 7 років тому +37

    This song speaks to me in oh so many ways ! I'm turning 50 in a couple of days.Ifound some answers,other times I didn't but the sum of it is be happy,do your best and treat others with kindness and respect ,y,know the way you'd want to be treated .God bless the Indigo girls and y'all-Eric xxxxx

  • @cyndiaraujo1976
    @cyndiaraujo1976 Рік тому +32

    INDIGO GIRLS - there is only a once in a lifetime for this type of talent. They are perfectly in tune with each other and the performances are superb!

  • @carol-anneturner7863
    @carol-anneturner7863 10 місяців тому +3

    Was so happy to hear this in Barbie!

  • @crazyadrienne05
    @crazyadrienne05 10 місяців тому +4

    Barbie brought me here❤ what a beautiful song!!

  • @ImmaFlamingo
    @ImmaFlamingo 10 місяців тому +5

    It’s been bugging me since I watched The Barbie Movie a few days ago. I was like… I know I know this song.
    Ugh. It’s a great song.