Reading that description literally ruined my day. Keep it up Xiu!
This was hard to watch. I teach high school kids and I never ever want any of them to fall into the clutches of the monsters who run sites like these.
Wasn't expecting this, thank you for this glorious masterpiece.
Edit : knowing this album Forget hinted about prostitution, and seeing it's primarily around these kids is absolutely heartbreaking. I wasn't ready to feel like this today.
So haunting. I read the description about halfway through the video and my heart dropped. I watched it twice in a row.
heavy
This legit hurts to watch after reading that description.
Thank you for the insight into the inspiration for the song, visual and the outro to the album. I've been listening to Forget a lot since its release, truly moving record.
thank you xiu xiu for making deeply emotional art. It seems these days most of the stuff thats circulating doesn't really even attempt to elicit the kinds of emotions you are able to articulate. Very refreshing to consistently be moved by your work!
i actually started fuckign crying thank u jamie
Thank you Jamie Stewart for blessing this world with your essential art. You are truly magnificent. Please never stop. (I am being deadly serious)
i can’t stop crying
Song sounds sad in a scary way lol
Never mind, I read the description. I'm heartbroken, now. This is probably the first time art transcended itself and meant something to me. Jesus. Have any of them been found?
My wife told me not to listen to such crazy songs. But I love this song!
Love this song
Petite
Purposeful like a pillbox
Nothing is wrong
For nothing does matter
Spelling trouble in the clouds
And making trouble in clouds
This isn't something your heart needs to know
A world of trouble falling down as snow
You feel worry and you should
You feel forced because you are
Where did your love for living go?
Recited off of your headstone
[Chorus]
It was not my wish to be a slave
What God wants She does
Empress of Blood and
Murderess of Fools
What God wants She does
Sweet Petite
Resolute as a rainbow
What it was and why it won't be
Spelling trouble in the clouds
And making trouble in clouds
This isn't something your heart needs to know
A world of trouble coming down as snow
You feel senseless and you should
You feel pointless for you are
Where did your hate of this life go?
Rubbed it off from your headstone
[Chorus]
It was, oh, not my aim to be a slave
What God wants She does
Duchess of Blood and
Murderess of Fools
What God wants She does
What's sad is that these girls are underage but their worn expressions from painful decisions make them look 1000 years old wise and broken
"from painful decisions" Let me correct you, *It was NOT their decision* that is not how sex trafficking or prostitution works, especially of minors. They are not broken they are survivors.
Can't tell if I feel less or more suicidal. It sounds great it just is touching me too deep.
Things that touch us deeply at least make us sure that we're not alone in the way we're feeling. Sometimes I just prefer to listen to "sad" songs when I'm "sad" myself, it's actually healthy and might just help you feel better. Hope you're alright :)
CoffeeCup it was an enriching experience listening to and watching this. Maybe I'm just trolling but I got a lil too emotional hearing it.
This is one of the most depressing music videos/songs ever jesus fucking christ
thank you xiu xiu
this is fucking extreme, but good...
really good
wow.
Saddest music video ever goes to...
stunning, arresting.
The melody of this song reminds me of the melody beginning of another xiu xiu song I can’t remember and it’s driving me crazy the melody not finishing
FUERTE, pero hay que visibilizar estas cosas para cambiarlas.
MEGA NICE
oh hi there another video
Can I like it twice?
big fan
is it sort of unethical or antithetical to the care of these girls?
i "enjoy" the sentiment and the art
This video is very sad, but recognize on the flip side, backpage was also home to a lot of legitimate, not underage sex workers. Coming from a community of squatters and punks and I knew a lot of people who lost many clients when that site shut down. Sex workers are really getting screwed recently....Well, actually they're not getting screwed, which is the problem. Craigslist Personals, Backpage, shut down. Where is a legit sex worker supposed to go?
Also, please keep making solid music. I've been listening to your stuff forever.
The sex workers should denounce the indifference from sites like that - anyone who not denuntiative of illegal sex work is complying with it in some sense, even more in cases of child abuse. I would never contract any kind of job from someone like that.
sex work is not real work; it is entrapment for the vulnerable at the behest of entitled men.
This hurts. I am taking it all in. The world is Pain, Naruto.
I listen to xiu xiu because I'm emo deep down but I want to feel cultured and exotic
One time my band made music video in Xiu Xiu's stylistic, but our bassist pleased us deleted it(
terrifying
So much hate.
im a massive xiu xiu fan but i really feel that this video is ill-conceived and potentially irresponsible. how is revealing these girls' identities going to help them, or others in their situation? we don't need to see their faces to feel empathy, and i think this video risks undermining both the song and the poem at the end of 'faith torn apart'
@@patriciaallen5830 you wrote the original comment? If so, what made you change your mind?
0:45 looks like rihanna without makeup
as someone who escaped this life i really depend heavily on your music to help me cope, no other musicians have really accurately laid these feelings and truths bare. i'm forever grateful
You have a lot of courage and strength, you are a warrior for surviving all that torture
I hope everything is going better