music video for Kimya Dawson's "The Beer." Animated with a dry erase board and expo markers. fan made. For more artwork check out my instagram @Weirdlingink / weirdlingink
im an alcoholic. I dont know how I got to this point, but I got to it. this song had driven me too wanting too get sober. I dont know if getting sober is something I am capable of, but thanks to kimya, I want to try.
It's been 5 years. I'll tell you right now that no amount of suffering on earth is even close to the torture of "hell", Jesus Christ called it outer darkness where there will be weeping, gnashing of teeth and unquenchable fire.
Alcoholism/addiction affects millions of people across the world. I know many alcoholics who are now in recovery and their stories are very similar to what This song portrays. Kimya is amazing,
Six years. I discovered kimya from that movie Juno. All of her music is fantastic if you ask me, but this one really has shaken me. Its really eerie how off-putting this masterpiece is. Def my fave song from her now, taking the place of 'I will never forget'
My extraordinary friend who took her own life shook our town to the core. We had a memorial for her and someone sang this song, it really hit hard then, like I finally realized she was gone and it was for nothing just being young and impulsive. I really miss her everyday.
@@willowtree3854 i think she took it off to show who she was and to convince him she wasn't going to shoot. He was really scared and her seeing his fear mad her feel sad.
Constantin Valdor but then she proceeded to shoot? And she made the promise prior to taking off the wig so my thoughts is that she as Tina Turner made the promise not to shoot but she herself didn’t, so when she took off the wig the promise was irrelevant and she shot herself. Just a thought but who knows honestly.
"First I cried for him, then I cried for me, haunted by the ghost of the girl used to be. But the rock with wholes are warm in my hands and I buried my toes in the hot hot sand, and the silver pink pony kisses me and says 'you've come a long long way and you deserve to be really happy..."
that line kind of resonated with e because today I realized that I really am a different person that I used to be. glad drugs and alcohol weren't involved in that change, though. I fear those cause my mind is bad enough without them already and anything else and I feel I would become a pitiable husk
This song is incredibly sad, reminds me of 2008....But more importantly it reminds me of my mindset in 2008. A part of me wonders if some of these lyrics are unapologetic descriptions of actual events. For you see, whenever you are going through hell, it is really easy to be brazenly candid about lived events. You recount them exactly as they happened. The more outlandish these events seem, the better. Your reality is so crazy that is unbelievable to most. You speak the truth and everyone hears an allegory. A perfect disguise put in plain view. There are just too many specifics in this song for me to pass them off as clever lyrics...I know...I know what this is. And for those out there who can relate to this song....you know exactly what I am talking about.
you, my friend, have a profoundly accurate view of this and what it is, and your comment resonated with me almost as much as the underlying and overlaying nuances and raw blunt truth wielded with a sledgehammer hand that is the song itself props
3 days and then another 2 to redo all the ones I hated, not including editing and storyboards. Note: If you are going to be drawing with Expo markers all day, open a window.
I shocked myself when I started bawling like 30 seconds into the video, I tried to catch as much as the lyrics and by the end of it I kinda knew what it was. I wish you all guys a good day/night.
Z. Chase a kid in my school said I would burn in he'll and I replied with this "as if I would be scared of burning in hell while I was already there" then he ran away and told the principle what I said and she just went into her office and cuntinued with her work XD
my dad died like a month ago due to alcohol poisoning or alcohol withdrawl we dont knowz but something alcohol related. it's summer where I am and he told me that this summer he was going to get sober. he never got the chance to get clean. he was my best friend. I was the one that found him. please try for your loved ones to get clean, and have a few extra years with you. I would kill for one more conversation with my dad
I was 9 when this video came out and I used to listen to it with my older cousin in her computer room. Listening to it 11 years later and being able to actually relate to the lyrics along with the nostalgia is such an emotional trip
I used to listen to Kimya a LOT back in 2005- 2013. Didn't know it at the time but I'm an alcoholic and suddenly it all makes so much sense. I didn't know alcoholism would lead to psychosis and seizures, mine did. Sober since Jan 7th 2023
padiddle is a car game (like punch buggy, when the first person to see a VW bug can punch the other) wherein the first person to see a car missing a headlight has to call padiddle and hit the roof. Some versions make you strip if you re the last to call
I am crying because my newly minted adult daughter is hanging by a thread. Life is hard for them. We both love Kimya Dawson. They say they want to live but have dark thoughts all the time.
I got to meet her once after a set at some awful bar with some people I think I still hate to this day---she was just the most genuine person ever and. Wow. What a gal.
Me and my friend use to listen to this song all the time. Now I cry everytime I hear this song and sometimes it's the only way I can cry. We drifted apart now because life happens. The worst times of my life she was there. This song reminds me of who I use to be and drops an anchor that keeps me from drifting away from who I am...
my mom was an alcoholic since before my older brother was born, and was all the way until she passed. i started drinking when i was 11 and quickly became an alcoholic for 5 years. i learned some pretty bad coping skills when i was young and they just stuck. my dad always told me i would “end up like my mom” when he wanted to hurt me, and i held onto that. if everyone else sees it, might as well make it happen. self fulfilling prophecy. i’m sober now, have been for a while, but last time i drank, i really thought i could be okay, but instantly fell back into the hole within that hour. i feel horrible when i drink, it’s a good feeling on the surface but inside it’s fucking awful. i first listened to this song last summer, and i immediately got that awful feeling i get when i’m drunk. i feel gross, almost dirty, and a type of sadness that isn’t recognizable, a sadness i haven’t felt outside of drinking. but the ending of this song, it makes me hopeful. my mom was so close to being sober, but it was taken away from her so quickly when she died. i still have time to change my “fate”. throughout all my trauma and shitty childhood memories and years of loneliness and being lost, i know i still have a light. the good memories of my mom, and her hopes of soberness, they guide me to a new happiness. we can all make our own decisions, even if they are extremely difficult and impossible seeming, we push through all of the shittiness and trouble, so we can find a light at the end.
one of the few songs that make me feel something, also as well as the other comment somewhere below i don't usually like fan-made music videos but this one rules.
I'm sure lots of people say this but i have never found a song that I can relate to more than this one. particularly "haunted by the ghost of the girl I used to be". I'm grateful to kimya Dawson for writing such honest music :)
im an alcoholic. I dont know how I got to this point, but I got to it. this song had driven me too wanting too get sober. I dont know if getting sober is something I am capable of, but thanks to kimya, I want to try.
i am so proud of you for trying , i know you can do it . you are strong and loved and cared about
Please be careful and seek a doctor. I hope you make it, friend!
im 13 days sober today! it's not much but its progress, baby steps yanno
@@lunarlunna3452 I hope it is going well still
you can do it my friend
Fave Lyric = And the christians gave me comic books as if I would be scared
Of burning in hell well I was already there.
Omfg why did i read this as " fake lyrics: and the christmas gave me sonic books as if i would be scared"
And the christians gave me comic books as if I would be scared of burning in the hell when I was already there
It's been 5 years. I'll tell you right now that no amount of suffering on earth is even close to the torture of "hell", Jesus Christ called it outer darkness where there will be weeping, gnashing of teeth and unquenchable fire.
@@Rat-mk6fk😂😂😂
@@Rat-mk6fk fuck your hateful, harmful religion. if god is love, why are you all such assholes? why is HE such an asshole?
This will always be the darkest song I know.
QueenOfAmber
You want some darker ones? Listen to Johnny hobo....
I know
+QueenOfAmber I feel th e same way
+QueenOfAmber let's make love
+QueenOfAmber i will never forget also by kimya dawson is pretty dark too
Alcoholism/addiction affects millions of people across the world. I know many alcoholics who are now in recovery and their stories are very similar to what This song portrays. Kimya is amazing,
"...a box of clementines. I ate every single one without noticing the mold..."
Moldy Peaches. *brain explodes*
lmao
Big brain moment
They say "you're gross my darling,"
I say "No, I'm rock n' roll..."
Clementines are oranges though
Same
whenever i hear dawsons songs they all sound like theyre filled with pain
This whole song just sounds like some fever dream I would end up having. Love this song so much.
OMG WJW YES THAT IS SO TRUE
this song sounds like my childhood
@@sMyMe9540well that’s not good :/
I've had this song on repeat for almost a week now.
Same!!
@@erikdeeNOSPELLSNO yep
4 years and still can't get it out of my head.
Six years. I discovered kimya from that movie Juno. All of her music is fantastic if you ask me, but this one really has shaken me. Its really eerie how off-putting this masterpiece is. Def my fave song from her now, taking the place of 'I will never forget'
My extraordinary friend who took her own life shook our town to the core. We had a memorial for her and someone sang this song, it really hit hard then, like I finally realized she was gone and it was for nothing just being young and impulsive. I really miss her everyday.
I’m sorry that happened dude, wish you the best
He said "don't shoot"... I said "I won't, I love you're my friend". I handed him my wig and then I shot myself in the head.
Boxed Terrapin is that about her taking off the wig so she wasn’t that person anymore, making that promise not to shoot irrelevant?
@@willowtree3854 i think she took it off to show who she was and to convince him she wasn't going to shoot. He was really scared and her seeing his fear mad her feel sad.
Constantin Valdor but then she proceeded to shoot? And she made the promise prior to taking off the wig so my thoughts is that she as Tina Turner made the promise not to shoot but she herself didn’t, so when she took off the wig the promise was irrelevant and she shot herself. Just a thought but who knows honestly.
@@willowtree3854 yes but we hurt ourselves every day with thoughts and self hate. But we never want to hurt anyone else but ourselves.
That's what he said....
You said "your gross my darling" I said" no I'm rock&roll"
"First I cried for him, then I cried for me, haunted by the ghost of the girl used to be. But the rock with wholes are warm in my hands and I buried my toes in the hot hot sand, and the silver pink pony kisses me and says 'you've come a long long way and you deserve to be really happy..."
that line kind of resonated with e because today I realized that I really am a different person that I used to be. glad drugs and alcohol weren't involved in that change, though. I fear those cause my mind is bad enough without them already and anything else and I feel I would become a pitiable husk
This song is incredibly sad, reminds me of 2008....But more importantly it reminds me of my mindset in 2008. A part of me wonders if some of these lyrics are unapologetic descriptions of actual events. For you see, whenever you are going through hell, it is really easy to be brazenly candid about lived events. You recount them exactly as they happened. The more outlandish these events seem, the better. Your reality is so crazy that is unbelievable to most. You speak the truth and everyone hears an allegory. A perfect disguise put in plain view. There are just too many specifics in this song for me to pass them off as clever lyrics...I know...I know what this is. And for those out there who can relate to this song....you know exactly what I am talking about.
you, my friend, have a profoundly accurate view of this and what it is, and your comment resonated with me almost as much as the underlying and overlaying nuances and raw blunt truth wielded with a sledgehammer hand that is the song itself
props
This was never just a song
this seems like the elephant in the room, but only some of us see it
Absolutely the same
Thank you Kimya Dawson for helping me get through these dark moments.
this song is so fucking sad
olive lavender I don't get what it's about. Ik it's about alcoholism but I don't understand the story
i think it's a bit more personal so you have to understand it the way you want to
I have had this song on replay every single day ever since I found this song which was about a week ago.
It's been a year now and I still listen to this song constantly.
@@heyguysimsleepy3955 what teh fuck is that pic?!
lol
he said you're so gross my darling
i said no, im rock n' roll
my new favorite lyrics.
redemption 864 from what Eyedea song?
3 days and then another 2 to redo all the ones I hated, not including editing and storyboards. Note: If you are going to be drawing with Expo markers all day, open a window.
Lololol thanks buddy. I got a dry erase board and markers because your video inspired me:) thanks for the pro tip!
This is so beautifully done, thank you!
🎶 The beer I had for breakfast had the scent of Expo marks;
Spent the day trapped in my head,
I'm not yet ready to embark... 🎶
I shocked myself when I started bawling like 30 seconds into the video, I tried to catch as much as the lyrics and by the end of it I kinda knew what it was. I wish you all guys a good day/night.
As if I would be scared of burning in hell, while I was already there.
Z. Chase a kid in my school said I would burn in he'll and I replied with this "as if I would be scared of burning in hell while I was already there" then he ran away and told the principle what I said and she just went into her office and cuntinued with her work XD
Makes me cry all the time. Such a specific feeling - dreamlike, dark and horrific
my dad died like a month ago due to alcohol poisoning or alcohol withdrawl we dont knowz but something alcohol related. it's summer where I am and he told me that this summer he was going to get sober. he never got the chance to get clean. he was my best friend. I was the one that found him. please try for your loved ones to get clean, and have a few extra years with you. I would kill for one more conversation with my dad
Ouch, This song hit me right in the feelings. What an incredible artist.
I'm an old-time traditional rock and roller listening to this for the first time--I thoroughly enjoyed it!
this video was made 1 day before i was born and is my favorite song
I have 4 years Clean and Sober and this song has always hit hard in exactly the right way
This might have been the level of relatable that means I should get therapy but my insurance won't cover it
this is punk(?)
acustic punk(?)
More like anti-folk
@@cabgirl12 folk punk xx
Likts like folk punl befor it was cool
I was 9 when this video came out and I used to listen to it with my older cousin in her computer room. Listening to it 11 years later and being able to actually relate to the lyrics along with the nostalgia is such an emotional trip
Still one of my absolute favorites remember listening to this song ten years ago for the first time and fell in love with this woman!
This song changed me a lil bit
"I cried for him, and then I cried for me, haunted by the girl I used to be." That shit is really deep for me, and others
This is the most indie song that was ever sung by an indie band.
never fails to make me cry
2020 anyone?
I used to listen to Kimya a LOT back in 2005- 2013.
Didn't know it at the time but I'm an alcoholic and suddenly it all makes so much sense.
I didn't know alcoholism would lead to psychosis and seizures, mine did.
Sober since Jan 7th 2023
When you get every fucking word
Fantastic song, great visualizations. Helped me better understand the words, thereby better understanding the meanings behind them.
this video was made before i was born- and i love it.
this is art- this is gorgeous
This is beautiful ❤
as a person who grew up with a very alcoholic father , i fully hear this song differently than i did years ago
sweet! international recognition!!! i love it!
i never thought that cute and sad could work together until i saw this. i love it!
the art is the cutest thingbever
videos like these should let you like it more than once.
That was metal asf
thank you!!
You ever cry and laugh and dont know which one is covering up which
this is awesom!
this animation+editing is hella cool and well done
Deep.
padiddle is a car game (like punch buggy, when the first person to see a VW bug can punch the other) wherein the first person to see a car missing a headlight has to call padiddle and hit the roof. Some versions make you strip if you re the last to call
anyone from Jordi? itslikelymakeup
Fay yess! she's the best
Fay YAAAAAS
Keep them coming,I love your songs 😎
thinking about how this song came out 17 years ago
Litteraly this has been stuck in my head 4 a month
such an intense song, never fails to give me the chills
I am crying because my newly minted adult daughter is hanging by a thread. Life is hard for them. We both love Kimya Dawson. They say they want to live but have dark thoughts all the time.
i hope everyone in these comments are doing okay rn❤️
I got to meet her once after a set at some awful bar with some people I think I still hate to this day---she was just the most genuine person ever and. Wow. What a gal.
GENIUS!!!
The Christians gave me comic books as if i would be scared, of burning in hell, but i was already there
Very special song.
Me and my friend use to listen to this song all the time. Now I cry everytime I hear this song and sometimes it's the only way I can cry. We drifted apart now because life happens. The worst times of my life she was there. This song reminds me of who I use to be and drops an anchor that keeps me from drifting away from who I am...
i ate every single one without noticing the mold
10 years and we all still come back to this, when things get awful, unreal, unbearable. Just to feel some reasonable solace..
this is weirdly comforting to me.
that was so amzziingngnggggg
Reminds me of walking home from my friends house in the snow in 2003.
First I cried for him then I cried for me
best fan video ive seen yet :)
This is history but a legent
I really enjoyed this
this is so bloody impacting
my mom was an alcoholic since before my older brother was born, and was all the way until she passed. i started drinking when i was 11 and quickly became an alcoholic for 5 years. i learned some pretty bad coping skills when i was young and they just stuck. my dad always told me i would “end up like my mom” when he wanted to hurt me, and i held onto that. if everyone else sees it, might as well make it happen. self fulfilling prophecy. i’m sober now, have been for a while, but last time i drank, i really thought i could be okay, but instantly fell back into the hole within that hour. i feel horrible when i drink, it’s a good feeling on the surface but inside it’s fucking awful. i first listened to this song last summer, and i immediately got that awful feeling i get when i’m drunk. i feel gross, almost dirty, and a type of sadness that isn’t recognizable, a sadness i haven’t felt outside of drinking. but the ending of this song, it makes me hopeful. my mom was so close to being sober, but it was taken away from her so quickly when she died. i still have time to change my “fate”. throughout all my trauma and shitty childhood memories and years of loneliness and being lost, i know i still have a light. the good memories of my mom, and her hopes of soberness, they guide me to a new happiness. we can all make our own decisions, even if they are extremely difficult and impossible seeming, we push through all of the shittiness and trouble, so we can find a light at the end.
this is wonderful, one of your friends showed me this, btw i like the doodles :P
This is... hypnotic.
Oh fuck, this is REALLY hypnotic
Very hypnotic, no doubt.
Lol welcome back.
This song is my life.. :/
I'm here if you want to talk.
wow i dont usually like fan-made music videos but this one....it kinda rules
That is a brilliant piece of animation to an amazing song, you've done Kimya proud
This is my favorite song
this is brilliant holy jesus.
one of the few songs that make me feel something, also as well as the other comment somewhere below i don't usually like fan-made music videos but this one rules.
Omg I loved it!!
excellent work, ashley!
this is really cool
i feel like this song fits bojack horseman
IT DOES OMG
in love with the lyrics
i love love love it
This song is such a wild ride start to finish
WOW this smacked me right in the feels
2024 coming strong
kimya dawson's songs make me feel every known emotion
It's a wonder how something so bad can be something so good :I
Damn that was awesome.
So good
this song is what it feels like to have finally lost it all
Great work. Awesome Job!
I just love this song n nice video been looking for it for the longest time
I'm sure lots of people say this but i have never found a song that I can relate to more than this one. particularly "haunted by the ghost of the girl I used to be". I'm grateful to kimya Dawson for writing such honest music :)
This song is... wow. Shivers.