Hasn't everyone wanted be welded to someone else's forehead?

[james_davis_nicoll]

"Of Monsters And Men - Little Talks (Official Video)" (Watch on YouTube)

As close to a Valentine's Day video as you are likely to get from me. I think the morals here are "synchronized walking is a skill nowhere near as useful as pyrokinesis, and the best route to a person's heart is to allow them to weld themselves to your forehead."

The lyrics are super-depressing (try to just enjoy the music). Yhe optimistic version is the lyrics are two living people talking past each other. The more depressing version is that one of them is dead, and a ghost. I don't if the lyrics are more gloomy if he's the ghost, and aware of it, or if she's dead and just doesn't realize it.

(I also try to fit all of Of Monsters and Men's fantastical videos into one coherent world because life, lack thereof)

Comments

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

Here, I offer a better version.

I read that, btw, as "one of them is dead, and a goat."

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I am as big a Pink fan as the next person, provided they are not a bigger Pink fan than I am, but how is it better as opposed to similar themes, different treatment?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Oh, we can learn to love again
Oh, we can learn to love again
Oh, oh, that we're not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again

Sunk cost fallacy.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

I happen to think it's a better song, but for similar themes.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Now there's a crew that shows a wide range. I vaguely remember hearing this on the radio once. And I definitely remember the tune that Marvel and Netflix used for the Jessica Jones ads.

As to the welding question...

[dewline.livejournal.com]

...I was reminded of a very minor DC character I could've done without ever hearing of again.

Re: As to the welding question...

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

A dog lover then? :)

I say it's some sort of symbiotic relationship.

Re: As to the welding question...

[dewline.livejournal.com]

A member of Section Eight. Garth Ennis and John McCrea created them for satirical purposes, but they strike a more horrific note with me.

Re: As to the welding question...

[phantom_wolfboy]

The Dogwelder was the one member of the team everyone was terrified by.

Re: As to the welding question...

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It was a toss-up in my mind for that title between him and one other.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Thank you, now I have today's writing music.

I like this one too.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Re: I like this one too.

[maruad.livejournal.com]

I am rather fond of Dirty Paws myself.

edited to add that the video isn't that special but I like the song. Perhaps because there was an animal who had a son who would mow the lawn. I get wistful.

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

Another that I always assumed was about a dead lover:
"You'll never sleep alone
I'll love you long after you've gone"

[magedragonfire.livejournal.com]

The depressing version of events is the one the songwriters were aiming at:

OM&M’s Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir explains

“How we usually make our lyrics is, Raggi and I, sometimes we come up with stories or situations. That one is about a relationship. It’s about a couple and the husband passed away and it’s from the conversation between the two of them. We don’t know if she’s going crazy or if someone’s actually there. We’ve kind of been inspired by people that lived in my house. This old couple that lived there for 30 years. The woman passed away, so it was kind of different.”

[elusis.livejournal.com]

May I offer Ladytron, which posits that what is good is to be part of a frozen mountain?

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

I want a flying blimp-house-viking ship of my own.