one time i had gone to bed and my brother accessed team viewer to my computer and this started playing so loudly and i woke up in pitch black darkness thinking it was the end of the world...I remember the street lamp light coming in through the gap in the curtains and thinking the sky was opening up...it was a beautiful form of fear
Oneohtrix Point Never is one of the best musical discoveries I've ever made. Never before have I heard any as original and interesting as his work. His sound can go from ambient soundscapes, straight to looped grunting samples in the blink of an eye, and I love it all. Honestly, one of the most important electronic musicians of modern times.
+Gene McBeats Exactly, I believe if everyone listened to him, music as a whole would see a completely positive, progressive shift. I dare say we might even see a positive shift in humanity itself. I agree, I kick myself for not discovering him sooner. From his spacey ambiance to glitchy plunderphonics, I find myself in awe of where his music transports me. G.O.D. was just insane. I hear something different almost each time I listen to it, which is practically daily, a month later. You should check out his Dania Shapes and Chuck Person pseudonyms. He pretty much launched the Vaporwave genre with Eccojams. OPN, Clark, CFCF, Tim Hecker... Fucking pioneers, man.
still life (betamale) is a masterpiece. this video pales in comparison. this video is mere concept art, designed merely to prove both the shallowness and expressive capability of emojis. still life (betamale) accesses the core of NEET isolationism, internet subculture, internet-age fetish pornography, fantasy, and escapism. How far down does the rabbit hole go? The opium den of the 21st century, a realm of paradoxes. Is it transcendence into paradise, or descent into hell? Have we lost or found our true selves? As this world grows ever more infinite and lush and immersive and indistinguishable from the old world, and we creep closer to a transhumanist reality, as we abandon our ostensible fleshy selves, as we gaze through the glass of our monitors, we must ask ourselves: which me is the real me? Where am I freer? Will I be reborn or will I reach terminus?
does anyone else find it insane how every slight change in the rhythm of the synths represents each stage of this tragic relationship depicted with emojis so damn well. after watching the video, listen to the song with your eyes closed, you can distinguish exactly what feelings are associated with each shift. im high as a kite right now so idk if im making sense but i know someone has to get what i mean.
I think there's sort of an irony that emojis - what seem like a superficial, light and/or cartoonish representation of emotion/things - can convey such tragedy in an impactful way (for me at least, and many others it seems). Having dealt with some of the things conveyed in this video in my own life directly (I just somehow lucked into surviving - barely), when I first saw this it honestly really had an emotional impact, which again is kind of surreal because at the end of the day - it's just emojis.
This was the song I listened to before going under for cancer surgery. That was almost six years ago, and ever since OPN has been there to help me process some of my best and worst feelings.
I come back to this song once every while, it's definitely one of my favorite few minutes of the month searching for the song's name and losing myself in the middle of the screen specially at the end. ❤
The first comments on this video (not trying to preach that I saw it first or that I am better) were pretty much all negative, some good comments come along and it snowballs to pretty much all praise. It looks like people need the confirmation from other people before they are able to praise things like this. idk I just think its interesting.
Such a unique and minimalistic music video, squeezing the full potential out of the modern emoji-based communication. I think this tells a linear story of an unhappy person, who spends his time on his phone, waiting for someone to contact him. Up until 1:33, we only see the ticking clock, a sad face and a phone. But one day, the person gets that message he has been presumably waiting for. He meets a girl and his eyes become shaped like hearts, he is ecstatic. It makes me think that this person had been lonely and trying some dating app with little success. Anyway, they talk to each other, and he seems to hit it off with her, until the person gets rejected by her. This shatters the person and sends his mental health down. He starts using drugs, gets in fights and spends his savings. Gradually his state gets worse, until he gets close to death. Flashes of possible life paths go through his vision, until he dies, implicated by the skull. I'm just surprised that such minimalistic style could make for a compelling story.
I'll never get sick of this record. I'll never forget the first time I listened to it, it had just come out and I was in Tokyo and I went to Tower Records and listened on big headphones from start to finish. So incredible.
It only just now strikes me that this video was made before the emoji overhaul. It used to feel somewhere on the cutting edge and one simple shading change has forever set it in the 2010s. Hits a little different now.
This dude literally told a story of a man getting his heartbroken and ended up dying after the pills and alcohol with EMOJI'S and it had more emotional depth than the actual Emoji Movie!!
Pause this music video at any given second and you just see an emoji devoid of any greater meaning and you can't ascertain its context, but together the flow of the sequence of specific emojis turns into a narrative that tells a story and conveys emotions beyond that of any one emoji, and much deeper. In the same way, if you take a look at someone at any one point in their life, you're only getting a small slice of the overall story, devoid of much context. So to really understand someone, you'd need to know more of their story. Just a random observation!
This is actually quite simple: consider the title and the idea of a life lived in emoticons. The relative paucity of meaning in an emoticon (compared to even a selection of anesthetized stills [Problem Areas]) shows the ultimate tragedy -- a life unlived, with most of its meaning lost in the aether of telecommunications -- the birth of a boring angel.
i like to think of this album as an old english epic. this whole album is just a legend of a journey. boring angel is the perfect intro track because, like a video game (in a sense), it shows you the kind of textures and transitions the whole album is gonna have in an elementary way. also the album starts with an organ and ends with an organ, which is why i love chrome country.. i just love this whole album, 10/10.
I suppose with an infinite lifespan, you'd eventually go through every possible phase of existence. Being an angel would suck, no sense of identity. You'd forget who you were every couple hundred years.
so the dude meets a girl and hangs out with the girl they become a couple then she suddenly just dumps him and hes left with a huge void in his heart he quickly resorts to alcohol and cigarettes to fill that void because hes in a catatonic state where basically anything self-destructive can help him actually _feel_ something cigarettes lead him into harder drugs and he becomes increasingly more problematic even with a cop going after him he eventually dies of an overdose and as he lets go of the grip of consciousness he starts having memories and flashbacks he sees his life flash before his eyes like when youre about to die except he starts imagining what life wouldve been like if she never rejected him with them having a child and growing old together and then when you least expect it he dies
Sometimes I feel like getting bored! But I must admit that the best boredom, which I enjoy the most, is in solitude; the social one still costs me to take it. Peace ✨
one time i had gone to bed and my brother accessed team viewer to my computer and this started playing so loudly and i woke up in pitch black darkness thinking it was the end of the world...I remember the street lamp light coming in through the gap in the curtains and thinking the sky was opening up...it was a beautiful form of fear
+Hannah lovesglitter lol
+Hannah lovesglitter Would pay to see this happen on video
+Hannah lovesglitter Haha, awesome, thanks for sharing that!
+ValorousFogey haha no worries m80 :)
how dare you speak to me like that!
Oneohtrix Point Always
art.
Oneohtrix Point Never is one of the best musical discoveries I've ever made.
Never before have I heard any as original and interesting as his work. His sound can go from ambient soundscapes, straight to looped grunting samples in the blink of an eye, and I love it all.
Honestly, one of the most important electronic musicians of modern times.
hes right up there with aphex twin and daft punk. i know thats kind of a stretch but you get me.
+CDRIIVE Visuals please don't forget the others, like Clark for example, who is truly one of these kings
+Gene McBeats Exactly, I believe if everyone listened to him, music as a whole would see a completely positive, progressive shift. I dare say we might even see a positive shift in humanity itself.
I agree, I kick myself for not discovering him sooner. From his spacey ambiance to glitchy plunderphonics, I find myself in awe of where his music transports me. G.O.D. was just insane. I hear something different almost each time I listen to it, which is practically daily, a month later. You should check out his Dania Shapes and Chuck Person pseudonyms. He pretty much launched the Vaporwave genre with Eccojams.
OPN, Clark, CFCF, Tim Hecker... Fucking pioneers, man.
Gene McBeats cringe profile pic
Word, Chirko.
Best music video of the year.
still life (betamale) is a masterpiece. this video pales in comparison. this video is mere concept art, designed merely to prove both the shallowness and expressive capability of emojis. still life (betamale) accesses the core of NEET isolationism, internet subculture, internet-age fetish pornography, fantasy, and escapism. How far down does the rabbit hole go? The opium den of the 21st century, a realm of paradoxes. Is it transcendence into paradise, or descent into hell? Have we lost or found our true selves? As this world grows ever more infinite and lush and immersive and indistinguishable from the old world, and we creep closer to a transhumanist reality, as we abandon our ostensible fleshy selves, as we gaze through the glass of our monitors, we must ask ourselves: which me is the real me? Where am I freer? Will I be reborn or will I reach terminus?
production cost = 0$
emotional impact = 100%
Hey I am not trying to be famous but he is blocking my UA-cam channel
I stand by my sister but this is interesting 😃😃😃
the perks of creativity
FLORENCE oruh what?
@@Octambulism bc.
the final part actually gave me goosebumps
Filippo Nunziale same
Same
Better than the Emoji Movie
Having cat shit tossed in your face is better than the emoji movie
damn. beat me to it.
Everything is better than The emoji movie
Let’s just say this is the REAL Emoji Movie.
This is the original Emoji Movie
Never knew emoji could fill me with so many feels.
this video has made me cry before
not even joking
I feel you Daniel.
Unlike a particular movie that got released recently....
Simple concept, beautiful execution
does anyone else find it insane how every slight change in the rhythm of the synths represents each stage of this tragic relationship depicted with emojis so damn well. after watching the video, listen to the song with your eyes closed, you can distinguish exactly what feelings are associated with each shift. im high as a kite right now so idk if im making sense but i know someone has to get what i mean.
I think there's sort of an irony that emojis - what seem like a superficial, light and/or cartoonish representation of emotion/things - can convey such tragedy in an impactful way (for me at least, and many others it seems). Having dealt with some of the things conveyed in this video in my own life directly (I just somehow lucked into surviving - barely), when I first saw this it honestly really had an emotional impact, which again is kind of surreal because at the end of the day - it's just emojis.
I feel like this is one of the greatest film clips I've ever seen.
Dude I feel you, had the same experience years and years ago when first watching this. It's one of my all-time favorite music videos
I cried
me too
Me three
At what point?
This actually makes me cry.
Made Me cry too
me too@@MelBerrYil
This is what happens when your life flashes in front of your eyes, granted your whole life was spent behind a smart phone.
sad
This comment hit me way too hard
makes you think
for me it would be a computer
i am not joking when i say that this one of my favorite music videos of all time
I can't believe it. I just had a more intense emotional response to that than perhaps any other music video in my entire life. Brilliant.
i have a tear in my eye
Genius!!! A story we all know so well... Fall in love > Break your heart > Take uppers > Take downers > Do 8 ball > Die... Classic. Great music
This was the song I listened to before going under for cancer surgery. That was almost six years ago, and ever since OPN has been there to help me process some of my best and worst feelings.
hope u doing well bud
damn dude. hope you're alright
Daniel really said "💀" ahead of time than any others
skullemojiiiiiiiiiii
I come back to this song once every while, it's definitely one of my favorite few minutes of the month searching for the song's name and losing myself in the middle of the screen specially at the end. ❤
The first comments on this video (not trying to preach that I saw it first or that I am better) were pretty much all negative, some good comments come along and it snowballs to pretty much all praise. It looks like people need the confirmation from other people before they are able to praise things like this. idk I just think its interesting.
That's life for ya
This says a lot about our society 😔🙏
or they just need time
@@ayle1312 we live in a society
The word "Friends" upside down means "Sdneirf" which is "Friends" but upside down
-jocker 219
This just crazy, stare at the middle of the video for about a minute and everything around you looks trippy.
Uh, that was,,, emojinal?
Such a unique and minimalistic music video, squeezing the full potential out of the modern emoji-based communication.
I think this tells a linear story of an unhappy person, who spends his time on his phone, waiting for someone to contact him. Up until 1:33, we only see the ticking clock, a sad face and a phone. But one day, the person gets that message he has been presumably waiting for. He meets a girl and his eyes become shaped like hearts, he is ecstatic. It makes me think that this person had been lonely and trying some dating app with little success. Anyway, they talk to each other, and he seems to hit it off with her, until the person gets rejected by her. This shatters the person and sends his mental health down. He starts using drugs, gets in fights and spends his savings. Gradually his state gets worse, until he gets close to death. Flashes of possible life paths go through his vision, until he dies, implicated by the skull.
I'm just surprised that such minimalistic style could make for a compelling story.
I once witnessed a hedge
One time I had a cold and I accidentally coughed out a phlegm on somebody’s back so I simply walked away
Life Changing
Can't believe it. This is too intense, it is like nothing else. I love it. Wow, congrats.
A N G E L P L E A S E D O N ' T G O
I ' L L M I S S Y O U W H E N Y O U G O
T H E Y S A Y
Now, this is art.
made me cry
I'll never get sick of this record. I'll never forget the first time I listened to it, it had just come out and I was in Tokyo and I went to Tower Records and listened on big headphones from start to finish. So incredible.
It only just now strikes me that this video was made before the emoji overhaul. It used to feel somewhere on the cutting edge and one simple shading change has forever set it in the 2010s. Hits a little different now.
A fine example of making it simple but significant
HEY POP UPS RUIN THE END OF THIS VIDEO NOW. SAD.
Any way to turn them off?
@@benprendergast9868 vimeo
@@benprendergast9868 uBlock Origin
@@Naudins the true legend among blockers since it's very beginning, it keeps me safe from annoying ads for years
Pop up ruined erything
This dude literally told a story of a man getting his heartbroken and ended up dying after the pills and alcohol with EMOJI'S and it had more emotional depth than the actual Emoji Movie!!
THIS....MEANS SOMETHING!
ENthinee fintahnoh heahr
hello, sagittaly crestano. didn't expect to see you here.
theneedledrop Every time i listen to this song i think of you saying this now. Ruining my music experience one comment at a time.
+theneedledrop fuckin melon
obviously ... you pretentious fuck
POWERFUL AS FUCK
Damn, wish I'd thought of that.
I can't get over how good that was just by using emoticons and sound.
Filming is so 20th century. I had not realized that until now. You are making me have a professional crisis with your perfection.
one of the best music videos ever made
This is beautiful and makes me emotional everytime
Sounds like Koyaaniqatsi soundtrack speed up
+yan008 Spot on
yan008 i think it's more like naqoyqatsi
Me recordó lo mismo.
Glass influenced..yes
Pause this music video at any given second and you just see an emoji devoid of any greater meaning and you can't ascertain its context, but together the flow of the sequence of specific emojis turns into a narrative that tells a story and conveys emotions beyond that of any one emoji, and much deeper. In the same way, if you take a look at someone at any one point in their life, you're only getting a small slice of the overall story, devoid of much context. So to really understand someone, you'd need to know more of their story. Just a random observation!
this music video is far better than it has any right to be
at a point its like you're in a trance
This is actually quite simple: consider the title and the idea of a life lived in emoticons. The relative paucity of meaning in an emoticon (compared to even a selection of anesthetized stills [Problem Areas]) shows the ultimate tragedy -- a life unlived, with most of its meaning lost in the aether of telecommunications -- the birth of a boring angel.
iiklaa well said
we always gunna be boring angels. ...
Oh man, that was incredible. Simple idea beautifully executed ♥️
Absolutely superb music video, only wish I'd thought of it.
Moving.
absurdly good video
What an interesting video. Thanks for sharing.
Just genius period
Awesome!
awesome two
it's like ascending to the afterlife in an amiga computer
Life comes at you fast
Life in the blink of our electronic lives.
This is pure Masterpiece, yet so sad :(
i like to think of this album as an old english epic. this whole album is just a legend of a journey. boring angel is the perfect intro track because, like a video game (in a sense), it shows you the kind of textures and transitions the whole album is gonna have in an elementary way. also the album starts with an organ and ends with an organ, which is why i love chrome country.. i just love this whole album, 10/10.
video still gets me after all these years.
The life and death of a smiley.
Feels being felt.
*life and death in smileys
It's like an entire Safdie bros film, condensed into emoji format
Sickest visual accompaniment.
I love this video, damn, it's so simple yet I have to watch it again and again
amazing music video
I wanted to make this as my ringtone, then realized how good is the video. Felt like 20 seconds
I suppose with an infinite lifespan, you'd eventually go through every possible phase of existence. Being an angel would suck, no sense of identity. You'd forget who you were every couple hundred years.
Like your thought, hate the logic.
+Gregory Crump I was very drunk when I wrote that.
Just like in Stranger in a strange land
literally just a bunch of emojis but hits harder than any other music video in existence
Put this in the Criterion Collection
This song is about what could have been
That high five in the end lol 🙏
Thank you, I cried.
that is really good.
Another innovative Oneohtrix track, another innovative Oneohtrix video.
so the dude meets a girl and hangs out with the girl they become a couple then she suddenly just dumps him and hes left with a huge void in his heart
he quickly resorts to alcohol and cigarettes to fill that void because hes in a catatonic state where basically anything self-destructive can help him actually _feel_ something
cigarettes lead him into harder drugs and he becomes increasingly more problematic even with a cop going after him
he eventually dies of an overdose and as he lets go of the grip of consciousness he starts having memories and flashbacks
he sees his life flash before his eyes like when youre about to die except he starts imagining what life wouldve been like if she never rejected him with them having a child and growing old together
and then when you least expect it he dies
no idea what the hands mean tho LMAO
really great comment dude
@@Alix777. this was a lame ass comment
I think it means they died and were taken in by the hands of god, or possibly he didnt die and just OD'd and had a revelation/recovery
I didn't see a cop... but I saw the ambulance? And the ATM and burglaries...
*crying*
*Angel please don’t goo*
Haha love the 8-ball of coke at 3:20
I really like this music video. It's the best one I've ever seen. No irony.
Idk why I like this, I just need more
Jackpot!
POWERFUL...
the real emoji movie
Typical life of 21th Century human in 4 min and 17 seconds. Gorgeous work!
Crazy, Amazing. Good stuff.
God damnnn bro dope music video fr🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥
All my feels...
incredible way to show whole life! daniel you are genius
one of my favorite albums of 2013. Cannot fucking wait for the next album!
Life out of balance
Holy fucking shit.
RhythmAddictedState 40.000
+Kastell i see what you did there
After this I ate an 8 ball and injected myself with Kool-Aid and got married
The last part srlly scared me! Wow this video really suprised I smiled at the and I don't know why😀😇😱😰😮😶😶😶☺
Cheers Daniel !!! You did it.
Buenísimo, y la musica tremenda,
Sometimes I feel like getting bored! But I must admit that the best boredom, which I enjoy the most, is in solitude; the social one still costs me to take it. Peace ✨
"Simply" amazing.
fiRST TIME i noticed the alien at the end, combined with other oneohtrix data its very meaningfull
this made me cry
This is amazing! Coolest video i've seen in a long time.
I honestly think this is the most dramatic emoji I have ever heard
fukking amazing
this video will always be important