Mother Mother - The Sticks (Official - Animated Video)
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- The Sticks by Mother Mother. Animated, produced & directed by Chad VanGaalen
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I can do my best. I've been listening to this song a lot lately, and I believe the title "sticks" is replacing "The River Styx", the river of death. With the lyrics, this means the person wants to escape humanity (the 'new world shit') but the only way to do that is do either run into the wild (sticks) or die (Styx). Either way, it's an end to that person.
I believe the video simply shows that, even if humans left the world, someone else would inherit their sins in the relics left behind.
That is actually a very interesting analysis of how the lyrics are tied to the animation. I applaud your ability to come up with a reasonable explanation.
I'm 9 years late but holy shit this is the best interpretation of this song's lyrics I've read so far‼️and it perfectly explains what's happening in the video
When your parents enter the room while your watching this. "I can explain."
All you have to say is It’s ✨art✨
I would just laugh if my mom walks in 😂
Oh god ikr
I can explain. I won't, but I could.
this is way too underrated, its like one of the best mother mother songs
YESS ONG
people in 2020 are getting back into mother mother but still sleeping on the sticks :((
The sticks is the best album 😤
I know right
I know I’m late but I’ve been on the sticks since mid-2020 and 2 years later I still wish this album or eureka blew up and not O My Heart
I’d say Little pistol and all gone are two of their all time best IMO
This reminds me of the art style in the school journals we had to study about 17 years ago.
Two creatures get jacked while the other one gets fat from coffee? Nice!
I still cannot believe this video is from 8 years ago! EIGHT YEARS and this would still be a high quality animation today. Loved the video btw!
11 years now
Did you think animation wasn't a thing for decades before 8 years ago? What a strange comment. This is a great music video, it's very creative and well done. But your comment is silly. We weren't in the stone age 8 years from when you posted this comment.
I gotta watch this while I'm on drugs lmao
Taylor McCormick yeah lol
Taylor, this is your boss. Maybe you forgot you added me on Google Plus, but don't come into work tomorrow.
Date😨😬😇😰😴😈
im high enough by watching the video
Same
This song honestly fills me with so much joy that I can't explain it.
this was made because in 2012 alot of people thought the world was going to end thats why the animation is post apocalypse
Oh wow! Thanks for telling me this!
Well, they weren't wrong at all
@@jesus99G1 It's just that the date was a tad-bit wrong.
Well it it happened :,D
The world will be ending soon though... The world as we know it anyhow
is it just me, or does the brown thing with really long things remind anyone of flapjack...?
Oh I miss it!
ac4pic Same
Absolutely not, except maybe the lil mouth and eyes / face if you mean that??? The whole thing reminds me of the style of flapjack tho
The video reminds me of Rick and Morty and Adventure Time
@Fallen Fellows si
@moriweem you give me big nostalgia
yeah-
Gives me some salad fingers vibes
Agreed
_Dude i`m fukin tripping out right now_
+Tamara the world's saddest potato SAME
This song hurt my neck
ya same dude so weird i was like WTF
I'm listening to this song while writing a battle scene
Fits perfectly :)
Help.The walls are melting.Why is that cactus talking to me?!
XDDDD
XD
What are you on
hes on acid
felt like a fever dream. was flabbergasted and grossed out. love it.
That was weird and incredible, more than I could have hoped for.
This song has a huge relationship thematically with their song Bit By Bit, in the lyrics.
Mother Mother forever man- been with you guys since 2012-glad you guys are getting the attention you deserve.
the build and energy this song has......should be recognized
Nah man, i just interpreted it as a gang of monsters gettin high on 5-hour energy and steroids.
the song is PERFECT but the video is trippy & creepy as fuck
Gimme Shelter it's perfect
the art style in this video is so unique
Chad Vangaalen animated this video. His animations are great, and his music is, too. Search his name on UA-cam, if you haven't already.
@@Haze01Smash o thanks for telling me ill check him out :D
I watched this sometime when I was in middle school and it freaked me the fuck out. Watching it now I can see why it freaked me out
the best underrated song ever too much feeling
Oh man this song is so good. As Tori Amos described the feeling, I needed to hear this as if I was starving and this song was pizza. Love to mother mother. Hope you got to enjoy Australia a little bit. Was amazing to see and meet you guys.
You know, sometimes you see something you just have to laugh at because *_what the fuck._*
This song is so slept on
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman" - bill clinton
Wait, what does that have to do with the music video?
the comment is from 7 years ago and I can't understand it
@@anotherone8941 same
This is still my favorite music video of all time
i love this song but this video is weird as hell! is there a meaning behind it or were the animators just trippin balls?
the animator is Chad VanGaalen. he writes music (or he did a few years back) and animated his own videos as well. this is pretty normal for him. i think it goes great with Mother Mother's style, and DEFINITELY goes great with this song :)
i love how no one has said anything in 6 years
@@camila7148 lol fr
@@camila7148 yea
@@camila7148 lmfao fr
Chad Vangaalen!!! This is fan-tasticks
Actually, it is on par with the song. The song is sort of allegorical for getting away from societal constructs, and in this video the "creatures in the woods" find the remains of society, adapt to it, and fall to it (interesting to note that coffee has become an icon of societal contructs; what used to be a virtually free item has in the last 20 years turned into an expensive status symbol).
this just kinda blew my mind, first time hearing this band
How did I not know that this video exists?? I love it
This is by far my favorite.
It's so similar to Bit By Bit but they're both so different and great. But I see what they did there... With the heart to break, a book to read, and going out into the sticks to get away from it all...
YES! Chad VanGaalen and Mother Mother working together...now if only Islands could get in on it...
SS I was wondering...like...this looks just like the animation on Chad videos!
I'm looking at mountain ranges, I'm looking at islands, baby
Oh, archipelago take me
I'm looking to isolate me, terra incognita, baby
I'm getting away from all the
La-di-dah, la-di-dah ...
I'll be gone for good, out there with the creatures in the woods
And I'll be understood, make friends with the pagans in the nude
I'll be no different, just a little less interested
In all that new world shit
'Cause there ain't no new world in the sticks
I'm getting on a mountain, baby, yeah
I'm thinking of an island, maybe
Oh, archipelago, take me
I'm looking to isolate me, terra incognita, baby
I'm getting away from all the
La-di-dah, la-di-dah ...
I'll bring a book to read, Crusoe to get me in my theme
Might bring my heart to break, gonna find some pretty Wiccan thing
I'll bring some chocolate, ain't no way she could resist
And I'll bring my papa's tricks
'Cause there ain't no help line in the sticks
La-di-dah, la-di-dah ...
whoa,this band is out of this world:) x
"The Sticks" is just slang for outside the city - like deep in the woods. He's talking about getting away from everybody and going to the woods.
I LOVE the animation ^^ and the music too of course(just found you guys a couple of days ago and you.are.AWESOME)
i can not think of a more epic collaboration then 2 of my fav Canadian artists,Chad Vangaalen and Mother Mother.Amazing and ultra disturbing.
One of my favorite gritty M&M tunes.
This is a good example of why I generally avoid watching music videos
this vid rocks my brotha no hate appppprrrreeeessshhhhhhh E HATE
same, it have nothing to do with the video, its just random junk thrown together and call it a mucis vid. But their are some really awesome ones by other that aren't official and some official one's like Little game, and shake it off corals a lot with he words and the beat of the music.
PaperDragon this is a good example on why I do
yup :(
@@prehistoricorchid3455 If you think this video has nothing to do with the song you really need to take a closer look at the song
I have 0 clue why this video is so weird but I’m living for it 🙄✋🏻
This song is my soul
simply amazing... as they always are.
I think this might be their darkest sounding song.
Yep...now my brains have Diarrhea..
Gonna have to take a fiver before I continue any more Mother Mother music videos.
The universe we occupy is but one of an infinite number of potentialities of nothing. Our sense of time creates the search for meaning and consistencies in what is meaningless and forever changing. The other, the viewer, that is reality, and reality is nothing...
A light so bright it turns to black so dark it turns to light.
Thank you Mr. Hawking for sharing this mind expanding verbal imagery.
Nice, thanks for sharing..
And what exactly is your point? I fail to see how your evaluation is relevant to this, or any, music video.
Tom Bombadil
yes I too can write pseudophilosophical bullshit on youjewb
"I used the big science words all the scientists are using! Am I smart now?" ~ Tom Bombardil, probably.
No, man, you also have to use them in a way that actually makes sense.
This song is about having an eargasm because it's so amazing!!
His stuff disturbs me like few cartoons do, but I can't stop watching.
Can't get enough of this song! and all Mother Mother songs!
I had no idea there was an animated music video for it but I’m glad I found it since it reminds me of adventure time
Chad Vangaalen animated this video. His animations are great, and his music is, too. Search his name on UA-cam, if you haven't already.
heard this song live on the 16th, it was amazing. happy that I met you guys,
Chad VanGaalen is such a good graphist! go look his other vids, he does the music on it too! especialy search for Molten Light, you wont be disappointed
These drums make me think of "when the leave breaks" everytime
gotta love the cockroach at the end lol
I am posititive this video means somthing more than a (jokey video) someone find out.
I think it might try to reflect how life is in rural areas, the sticks. Things are slow, weird, and dead out here.
Simply amazing !
I agree with Molly, this is the best album.
This video should have been bad ass not just... Weird. It didn't fit with the music in my opinion it looked more like a funny cartoon short
+Dani K. Just what I was thinking. It was a cool animation, but not really for this.
I know this comment is four years old, but I love all that is weird and I love this song. I love this.
D B I have to disagree , I think if it was badass it would be to predicable
looks like a 2010 flash game
Lol I like how the weight plate says "Big Deal" on it
Life post covid... lol. But this song is amazing. Saw them with Said the Whale in 2019!!!
love this song!
Yep, that's how truck stop cappuccino was meant to be imbibed.
blows. my. mind. every time.
this video...just blew my mind....
This band is on the brink of superstardom!
So, is this song just a rewrite of Bit by Bit (or vice versa)?
basically but the animation is more disturbing so maybe its supposed to represent the darker side of isolation, that everyone else might as well be dead as far as you're concerned
I love the animation
Sometimes a cockroach duct tied to a wooden board is just a cockroach tied to a board.
2:50 MMM COFFEEE
The huge cockroach at the end KILLS me! XDDD
Found this by accident, but damn this is amazinggg
Chad VanGaalen is legend.
Thank you, it makes everything even more awesome !
This vid is so abstract and different.... I like it. 💀
Is it just me, or do they look much better when they enter the gym?
😂
What do you think the video means?
It seems to be plant creatures following the footsteps of man in pursuit of vanity.
The cockroaches seem to be almost worshiping them.
3:14 looks like some kind of subservience system. Then at the end the cockroach is following the plant creatures. Maybe some kind of cycle.
First time listening to this song. Not gonna lie, the beginning freaked me the fuck out.
Chad is so good
Chad VanGaalen animated this? Surprise! It's terrifying...
I get double king vibes from this
why do i feel like i tried weed for the first time watching this
more like shrooms
"i respect your opinion as you surely have excellent taste in music," said no one.
Wow, what an amazing video
the sticks is just a slang term for the woods or any rural area that's far from the cities. Cmon now.
great song,great video!
Im looking to isolate me. Cuz there aint no fukin new world in "the sticks"! AAAAAW!!!
Another normal day for Fin and Jake.
how do people not know this?
this lyrics takes 1126 characters
I can see a distorted and warped Alice walking towards a twisted wonderland to this. Ladida Ladida
i totaly agree sad part is we r never going to stop expanding till its a desret wastland everyone talks about another war ...its comingg
I love this.
this is so deep right now
People gonna say this music is in 2023
I don't understand the comment, but I agree with you