This song is all about how society and the media,how they control you and when you finally see the real world it's not what you wanted it or expected it to be.
@@DarkAngelEUPerhaps it's just me, but I believe it's about more than that. In my opinion, it's about what we are fed by the people in control of our Culture. I regard it as being symbolic rather than literal.
For those of you who missed it, the text before the eye-removal television set reads "per mi caeci vident," or "by his son, the blind see." Just thought that was cool, and that it may be easily missed.
It feels like this song understands me, my mind and my worries. I can't describe it... I can listen to it again and again. This beat, this amazing sequence of electronic sounds! It is so brilliant. The song, the music video and how they complement each other. I'll buy the Single of this song.
Another nice touch in the scene @1:30 is, the reference to the Owl of Wisdom, emblem of penetrating sight and intelligence, (reference to the lluminati Conspiration). The latin text means "through me, the blind become sighted", an ironic way to mentionate how the "Big bosses" (politicians?) can control whatever they want us to think, just by picking our eyes, through the Mass Media. @0:21 the owl simbols control their brainless puppets through the threads. @0:44 the owl is showing his apprentices how does the "Human Circus" work. @1:20 both owls are making use of their "penetrating sight" and the Owls puppet is controlling the Mass Media as tool. @1:30 comes the mentionated scene, where our eyes are picked out. Again the mention about the Owl of Wisdom through the latin text P.M.C.V (per me caeci vident). @1:44 those eyes are being given as food, the feed the apprentices owls. And i could keep explaining the rest of the scenes, but I´m too lazy to do it :P PD: Sorry, my english isn´t that good, but I hope everyone could understood, what I mean.
Grotesque, bleak, beautifully animated, brutally honest. Whatever they are trying to make a statement about here (from the too-obvious song-title possible "meat is murder" issue, through social issues like corruption, conformity, lies and denial and hypocrisy, wars, solitude in a seemingly lawless inhumane insane world, and even rape- especially the lyric: "these boys, they just wanna have fun...")- they spit it like dirt in the face, which they were always great at, like in the legendary "Bullets". The techno beats sounds just like a morbid circus, designed perfectly for the song
The scene @1:26 of the television plucking out the eyes implies that the TV, i.e. Mass Media, is not meant to inform and enlighten, but to make us blind and ignorant to the truth of our world. This ties in with the final scene where he drops off the assembly line (a reference to our modern society) and recovers his eyes, goes outside the 'temple' (notice the Giza Pyramid in the backdrop behind the building) and starts to sob as he realizes the true state of the world. This video is jam-packed with so much esoteric symbolism it's amazing. Whoever made it is a genius.
Great... personally, I find the rhetoric against the "mass media", at least in terms of the news, to be a fabrication of conspiracy theorists, "alternative media" (aka propaganda networks), and people who have much to gain by discrediting the mainstreme media because the truth hurts their causes. So reading your analysis and pointing out that scene kinda disheartened me about the video, and because of that I decided to look into it and see if I could get another interpretation of what was being said. Big mistake. So, I managed to figure out what it says under the TV - Per Me Caeci Vident. That's latin for "Through me the blind become sighted". Searching this lead me to webpages referencing.... the Illuminati. :( Great. So that makes sense with the rest of the video showing the pyramid at the end and all that... Personally I just want to see the video as a representation of what industrialization has done to humanity and that nothing has become more industrialized and fake than humanity its self. Everything else is done to keep that machine going by keeping the masses ignorant. I'll leave the conspiracy crap to the nutjobs that love the internet "...because that's where you can find the truth! Not on the lamestream media!". There's enough actual BS happening in the world in front of our faces that any educated person can figure out, there's no need to theorize about wilder conspiracies than those. This is the only real relavent "conspiracy", and its not a theory, its real and obvious and anyone who thinks clearly for a second can figure it out: There's some guy that a lot of people have really taken a liking to. He's not like the other guys, he's like you and me, and he's gonna save us from all the people who he says aren't like us. But then someone finds scientificly-sound data that contradicts him and a recording of him showing us that he's lied to us all. This info ends up on the news. He's caught, but in order to save himself he tells us that our own eyes are lying to us and that he always tells the truth and the news always lies. Because we want to believe him, we decide to believe that the news is the one telling lies. This is just one example. There are many people doing this, repeatedly, anyone who gets caught by the truth... it happens so many times that eventually all the bad guys are seen as right, and the only one telling the truth is bad, or we just give up and dont believe anyone. The truth doesn't sell because it tastes too bad, its hard to swallow. Just like vegitables... they dont taste like candy, but they're healthy. Naturally. Candy is delicious, but it's bad for you.
This video left me gobsmacked. Verily this is one of those rare moments when a song is perfectly paired to the video representing it. Surreal, fantastical and emotionally enthralling, I was mesmerized by its surging style and thumping momentum. Thank you! This is on level with Pink Floyd - The Wall. Masterpiece!
And how do you see and think of the world we live in now, it's only getting worse. Too many people who refuse to see the truth, they're happy living in a delusion. I wonder why suicide rates are up, those of us who kept our eyes are horrified, just trying to wake those around us but to no avail and just want out. I feel like the dead horseman trying to warn everyone but no one can hear me, I'm already dead.
This is brilliant! People say Editors take temselves too seriously but when they have a medium like this to express important views why not use it? I love to see a band with a concious. I loved their last album, I love this one. When you can comment on the state of our world, why not? we are viewed as profit machines by these mega-companies. We are destroying our planet! Maybe it's too late but there is no reason not to try and save this amazing planet!
think this convinced me to buy the album... starting to make sense of their new direction... the best kind of music i find isn't obvious at first... a sense of discovery makes it so much better!
I listened to this song when I was 10 years old and I'd always nightmares about this video and this sound, I was afraid of cartoons and the word "blood" triggered me, and now 6 years later I don't know how to feel about this. So uncomfortable
Things that scared me just enough as a kid tend to become among my favorite things as an adult. I think part of fear comes out of a lack of understanding, being too young to understand, but the fear can lead to fascination and can compell you to try to understand it better. If it can be eventually understood, then it suddenly seems profound... if it cant ever be understood, then you were probably right to be scared.
When I understand the given messages in a song, I feel good. You're just sitting, watching the video and listening to the song - actually no effort at all- but you're learning, improving your knowledges in a short time. Cool!
This song/ video has so much more deep, hidden meaning. Fantastic. Be that as it may, I find the animations a little bit eery and creepy to watch at 1:00 in the morning. Still wonderful
its really a bit strange to see, that such a good video has no million clicks. Those cranc videos often got 2 or 3 million clicks after a few month. But i also like this, because its no mainstream-video
This song is all about how society and the media,how they control you and when you finally see the real world it's not what you wanted it or expected it to be.
Idk I think it's about people eating raw meat and being a bit indecent about it by passing it around for some reason
@@DarkAngelEUPerhaps it's just me, but I believe it's about more than that. In my opinion, it's about what we are fed by the people in control of our Culture. I regard it as being symbolic rather than literal.
@@Maldoror2112 Nah, raw meat drool smells kinda funny. Sure attracts a lotta flies for white guys.
@@Maldoror2112 bruh
this is by far one of the best music vids I've ever seen.
and it reminds me of another brick in the wall video by pink floyd
I can't describe how amazing this song sounds live, especially at 3:41!!
EXACTLY!! The drum beat gets harder.
The idea of this is amazing. It shows how our brains are "poisoned" from birth.
There's so much to see in this video! An astonishingly dense and structured story telling. No useless frame. It's in my hall of fame of video clips!
😊 It's up there with "Evil" by Interpol for me.
For those of you who missed it, the text before the eye-removal television set reads "per mi caeci vident," or "by his son, the blind see." Just thought that was cool, and that it may be easily missed.
+fruit_name The text on the television simply displays the first letter of each Latin word.
"Per Mi Caeci Vident"
"P M C V "
Thanks, totally missed that
It feels like this song understands me, my mind and my worries. I can't describe it... I can listen to it again and again. This beat, this amazing sequence of electronic sounds!
It is so brilliant. The song, the music video and how they complement each other. I'll buy the Single of this song.
Another nice touch in the scene @1:30 is, the reference to the Owl of Wisdom, emblem of penetrating sight and intelligence, (reference to the lluminati Conspiration).
The latin text means "through me, the blind become sighted", an ironic way to mentionate how the "Big bosses" (politicians?) can control whatever they want us to think, just by picking our eyes, through the Mass Media.
@0:21 the owl simbols control their brainless puppets through the threads.
@0:44 the owl is showing his apprentices how does the "Human Circus" work.
@1:20 both owls are making use of their "penetrating sight" and the Owls puppet is controlling the Mass Media as tool.
@1:30 comes the mentionated scene, where our eyes are picked out. Again the mention about the Owl of Wisdom through the latin text P.M.C.V (per me caeci vident).
@1:44 those eyes are being given as food, the feed the apprentices owls.
And i could keep explaining the rest of the scenes, but I´m too lazy to do it :P
PD: Sorry, my english isn´t that good, but I hope everyone could understood, what I mean.
Thats actually a good analysis
Ancient Romans were geniuses. ergo everyone who spent years learning a not-so-dead language...
If that is the only symbolism you pick up on, god bless your innocence and please keep it as long as possible as it truly is a gift.
2:31 - 5:10 is the reason why editors are my favourite band, exquisite piece of music
The ending is heartbreaking
Grotesque, bleak, beautifully animated, brutally honest. Whatever they are trying to make a statement about here (from the too-obvious song-title possible "meat is murder" issue, through social issues like corruption, conformity, lies and denial and hypocrisy, wars, solitude in a seemingly lawless inhumane insane world, and even rape- especially the lyric: "these boys, they just wanna have fun...")- they spit it like dirt in the face, which they were always great at, like in the legendary "Bullets". The techno beats sounds just like a morbid circus, designed perfectly for the song
This is exactly what we face in 2019-2021. Exactly the same shit.
You nailed it. The Raw Meat is the vaccanation now...
Why do I keep coming back to this song and its symbolism?
Good question, and myriad of answers. a reflection of our past and a statement upon our present values,
i guess Im pretty randomly asking but does anybody know a good place to stream newly released series online ?
@Muhammad Brantley i would suggest Flixzone. You can find it by googling =)
@Conrad Ezequiel Yup, been using FlixZone for years myself :D
@Conrad Ezequiel Thanks, signed up and it seems to work :D I really appreciate it!
This song is definitely in my top 10 editors songs and it sounds incredible live, love this video also
Fuckin' love it!! One of the most intelligent videos I've seen so far!! Makes me appreciate the Editors a lot more!
Greatest animation by far on any song.
So much depth
This video would deserve an HD version of it! Please @Editors!
It doesn't, its low resolution just makes it better honestly.
It's on vimeo
One of the most powerful and amazing music videos I've ever seen, not to mention how equally amazing the song is. This is why I love Editors.
wtf I remember liking this song when I was a bab but I never knew the name of it.
Now that I find again..
Man, what a throwback..
The scene @1:26 of the television plucking out the eyes implies that the TV, i.e. Mass Media, is not meant to inform and enlighten, but to make us blind and ignorant to the truth of our world. This ties in with the final scene where he drops off the assembly line (a reference to our modern society) and recovers his eyes, goes outside the 'temple' (notice the Giza Pyramid in the backdrop behind the building) and starts to sob as he realizes the true state of the world. This video is jam-packed with so much esoteric symbolism it's amazing. Whoever made it is a genius.
+phaedris I agree, always nice to see people who are awake producing music/art that's both exceptional, and terrifying
Great... personally, I find the rhetoric against the "mass media", at least in terms of the news, to be a fabrication of conspiracy theorists, "alternative media" (aka propaganda networks), and people who have much to gain by discrediting the mainstreme media because the truth hurts their causes. So reading your analysis and pointing out that scene kinda disheartened me about the video, and because of that I decided to look into it and see if I could get another interpretation of what was being said. Big mistake.
So, I managed to figure out what it says under the TV - Per Me Caeci Vident. That's latin for "Through me the blind become sighted". Searching this lead me to webpages referencing.... the Illuminati. :( Great. So that makes sense with the rest of the video showing the pyramid at the end and all that...
Personally I just want to see the video as a representation of what industrialization has done to humanity and that nothing has become more industrialized and fake than humanity its self. Everything else is done to keep that machine going by keeping the masses ignorant. I'll leave the conspiracy crap to the nutjobs that love the internet "...because that's where you can find the truth! Not on the lamestream media!". There's enough actual BS happening in the world in front of our faces that any educated person can figure out, there's no need to theorize about wilder conspiracies than those.
This is the only real relavent "conspiracy", and its not a theory, its real and obvious and anyone who thinks clearly for a second can figure it out: There's some guy that a lot of people have really taken a liking to. He's not like the other guys, he's like you and me, and he's gonna save us from all the people who he says aren't like us. But then someone finds scientificly-sound data that contradicts him and a recording of him showing us that he's lied to us all. This info ends up on the news. He's caught, but in order to save himself he tells us that our own eyes are lying to us and that he always tells the truth and the news always lies. Because we want to believe him, we decide to believe that the news is the one telling lies. This is just one example. There are many people doing this, repeatedly, anyone who gets caught by the truth... it happens so many times that eventually all the bad guys are seen as right, and the only one telling the truth is bad, or we just give up and dont believe anyone. The truth doesn't sell because it tastes too bad, its hard to swallow. Just like vegitables... they dont taste like candy, but they're healthy. Naturally. Candy is delicious, but it's bad for you.
@@nighthoodlupin3500 the eternal midwit
What do you think the looming figure in the background at the very end is supposed to represent?
Man your comment... great ... i gave the 33th like .... matrix? :D :D
This is so relevant in 2020
This video left me gobsmacked. Verily this is one of those rare moments when a song is perfectly paired to the video representing it. Surreal, fantastical and emotionally enthralling, I was mesmerized by its surging style and thumping momentum. Thank you! This is on level with Pink Floyd - The Wall. Masterpiece!
This is depressing and enlightening at the same time...
We must never forget to see and think for ourselves!
And how do you see and think of the world we live in now, it's only getting worse. Too many people who refuse to see the truth, they're happy living in a delusion. I wonder why suicide rates are up, those of us who kept our eyes are horrified, just trying to wake those around us but to no avail and just want out. I feel like the dead horseman trying to warn everyone but no one can hear me, I'm already dead.
That is without doubt the most original ,and darkly disturbing music video I've seen in quite a while if not ever...love it!
A song so good even Steve Cutts couldn't fuck it up.
Awesome animation for an awesome song.
Holy shit this video is a masterpiece
certainly the best song of editors!
What's more disturbing? The "twisted" things in this video- or the real shit they symbolize?
both
"i will end the reign of the six-pointed star"
"i will end the reign of the six-pointed star"
"i will end the reign of the six-pointed star"
@@DanCuthnama what are you quoting?
@@jackworthington4660 Antisemitic/nazi rhetoric.
@@DeathOfDelta yeah where from? This video is interesting, and this sounds interesting too
this vid has actually the best animation i've seen among the music vids!
this hits so good in 2022
A truly amazing video making an extremely powerful statement!...
This is brilliant! People say Editors take temselves too seriously but when they have a medium like this to express important views why not use it? I love to see a band with a concious. I loved their last album, I love this one.
When you can comment on the state of our world, why not?
we are viewed as profit machines by these mega-companies. We are destroying our planet! Maybe it's too late but there is no reason not to try and save this amazing planet!
think this convinced me to buy the album... starting to make sense of their new direction... the best kind of music i find isn't obvious at first... a sense of discovery makes it so much better!
Am I the only one who thinks this music video is cool?
it is not cool it is demented
esta increible este video nada mas que la realidad, cada vez sale mas a la luz lo mal que estamos
it tells the same as in 'the matrix' but i prefer these one. editors = heroes
I listened to this song when I was 10 years old and I'd always nightmares about this video and this sound, I was afraid of cartoons and the word "blood" triggered me, and now 6 years later I don't know how to feel about this. So uncomfortable
Things that scared me just enough as a kid tend to become among my favorite things as an adult. I think part of fear comes out of a lack of understanding, being too young to understand, but the fear can lead to fascination and can compell you to try to understand it better. If it can be eventually understood, then it suddenly seems profound... if it cant ever be understood, then you were probably right to be scared.
Its because you are living in the world it depicts but you are kept unaware of it.
I saw them do this song in Exeter. Nothing has been quite so electrifying as Smith's performance of this song.
This is the best video ever made! Such a macabre combination of Steamboat Willy and Melies! Wonderful!! It such a shame it has so few views :S
When I understand the given messages in a song, I feel good. You're just sitting, watching the video and listening to the song - actually no effort at all- but you're learning, improving your knowledges in a short time. Cool!
I remember when I first saw this video. Wow time flies !!
Video was very moving.
Perfect example of how the gears of the world turn, or will.
a sick masterpiece! both video and music
Loved this since it was the free iTunes song of the week a few years ago
"weaving spiders come not here" nice touch about Bohemian Grove
Not only that but all the fuckin Owls in the video
TheSoulCollector13 no it's actually about electromagnetic quantum interference.
@@amiclarehutton8689 ....No. It's definitely about the Bohemian Grove.
This song/ video has so much more deep, hidden meaning. Fantastic. Be that as it may, I find the animations a little bit eery and creepy to watch at 1:00 in the morning. Still wonderful
I love this clip so much
This is how our world works.... sad but true.... Awesome video and song!
I keep returning to watch this video.
the oddworldyness of this music video is still awesome. :3
wow this video has such great meaning, one of the best videos i've ever seen
Absolutely great.
Pure genius...song and video
My God, this video is so powerful and creepy at the same time
Ahh this song is amazing
great song and video.i love the editors
esta cancion es increiblemente buena, el video es asombroso!!!
best of the album
Great sound, powerfull voice and really amazing Vid! Like this song so much!
Waaaaaa finally!!! Been waiting for the video for forever! 10+!
Directed and animated by Lee Lennox, official music video commissioned by Sony BMG
I have bin watching this song when I was 3 And i still watch it now that I am 9
"i give a little to you, i give a little ti him, a give a little to her" omg the text is awesome
Well this video will be my nightmare fuel forever now.
the style of the figures reminds me too the old disney movies because the eyes got these long black pupiles and dynamic arms and legs...
"machines everywhere" recommended this video, I am speechless...I got awaken 2 years ago.
Great song, great voice and the video is creepy and frightening - love it. =)
the end makes me cry every time.
Brilliant!
i feel so alive watching this!
that just blew my mind...
the truth will set you free
From the moment we're born we are controlled, manipulated, and led astray from what really matters in life - freedom
:D! There fucken amazing..
A través de ni los ciegos ven...... Que video tan impactante y perturbador!!!!!
Grandes Editors!!!!
this song made me to inform more and read some books about conspiracy theories..i feel tingling in my body when i m listening it
a sick masterpiece
Wow what an amazing Video to an Amazing song. Kudos!
This is a song I would listen to if I were going insane.
Great video, great song! Amazing :)
I have to say this song is pretty badass! along with the video despite it being REALLY creepy.
Awesome band and the video says a lot......!
ps everyone wants their pound of flesh...one way or t'other! rat race! :-/
Awesome song and video clip, I wish it was in better quality since it deserves fullHD!!!
Please re-release this song and video !! The world needs this right now ... I would love to remix this too ;)
what a fucking great song !
4:10 that`s the same motto like in the Bohemian`s club, right? "Weaving spiders come not here". I wonder, what does that mean...
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4:49 What was that creepy dude expecting to find outside any ways?
GREAT VIDEO
the funny walt disney-spider at 3:52 always sings "aha-aha!!" xD
@drvertigo I agree the new album grows on you. I wasn't sure at first but now I can't stop listening to it.
Hopefully this will propel Editors back into the mainstream where they belong.
It didn't.
its really a bit strange to see, that such a good video has no million clicks. Those cranc videos often got 2 or 3 million clicks after a few month. But i also like this, because its no mainstream-video
why couldn't I find this song on here for the longest time
I love this ❤
Excelente!!!
3:13 A star of David in the flames and Mickey Mouse, defined by Hitler as "the personification of the jewish race"? A reference to zionism perhaps?
We need this in 1080p though. >:(
Man seeing this now hits different bc of whats going on...
Never heard anything from them before ... but this vid and the song is great ! Like that kind of creepy stuff ;) ... !!!
This video is like... cuphead meets cyriak.
Pete Thank you for reminding me of Cyriak
That's actually a really good description now I think about it!
That’s so true Oml and thanks for reminding me of Cyriak!!
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