Incredible breakdown of this epic break up song. I couldn’t tell if this was just a random mishmash of other songs or had a larger purpose.

car seat headrest, caralho <3

great awesome amazing analysis thank you for your service

It’s hard to focus on what you’re saying with wills dissonant screaming in the background dude

Great video but i feel like the background music is quite loud I keep on vibing 😭

This is excellent. I hope to see more.

hey i really appreciate this video! as much as i love will's screaming, i wish the bgm were a tad quieter! much love

good vid ❤

how are you this underrated? Incredible video!

Fantastic analysis of a beautiful piece of art. Thank you for this video. I recently made my own piece of art heavily based on this song and the painstar concept; I may cite this as a source in my written assignment about it.

this is exactly what youtube is for

probably the most informative video ive seen in a while. im covering the entirety of this song for the credits of a movie i'm making and now it is going to be wayyyyy easier. so thank you kind sir

Holy shit, this was incredibly well-done!!! ^^

Stars is SUCH and improvement from Minds from a lyrical standpoint. There's just too much pseud nonsense in there. Like, "the leviathan was powerful and inevitable." First of all, are you sure about that? Second of all, relevance? Then he yells sorry in Hebrew like it makes him cultured or smth. Kings 19 goes kinda hard tho. Also, if you're gonna play a song with lyrics in the background, you need to mix it REAL low or else it gets hard to hear what you're saying

Favorite song of all time. I have listened to this 1 song a total of 200 hours. i even have my own fanmade merch based on it

here for when you make it really big and i can be like “yeah well i knew them before they were popular”

A video essay of my favorite song of all time holy moly🤩🙏

Thank you specially for the piano notes of Famous Prophet (Stars) , you deserve a lot more view !

man this guys voice is really cool it would so awesome if he sang the words "would you stab me in the church"

call it blackstar, call it painstar.

i really want to watch this video but my extreme tism is NOT letting me focus on what you are saying with the song playing in the background the dual vocals are really fucking me up :(

I feel like the writing in the third movement refers to the listener when he says “let me tell you what happens when you touch it” implying that the slow part and the 4th movement is all what it’s like to touch the painstar/he is showing all of the pain he went through

wowowowow this such a well thought out analysis. everything was thoroughly explored

Note the acoustic guitar uses the same rythmn as the original chord progression making it congruent with the I feel so haunted melody. It's important to recognise that the two different chord progressions are ruthmicallt tied.

Finally someone making information I care about

i love this song so much

Great video and analysis! I agree with a lot of the points made, but I think that cliche is in reference to the open/over grave sections. Will is falling into a repetition, or a cliche, where he keeps burying his emotions only for them to resurface. Will wants to escape this cycle, and asks questions on how avoid the looping feelings. Will rolling the stone over the grave is him giving in to the repetition, once again burying the emotions that will always come back. Overall great video! Hope to see more of you soon

brilliant

This is one of the best videos I have ever watched and really made me think. Thank you so much for putting so much effort into such an amazing video

wow, awesome video! so glad i clicked on this in my recommended. in reference to the line at 31:35, i always read rolling the stone over the grave as a more direct bible reference (the burial of Jesus). i think this also works well with the following line, showing a distaste for jesus that plays off the mention in the outro of nervous young inhumans. now that will has had the time to reflect back on his experiences, perhaps his journey in self discovery has lead him to some other famous prophet. may be taking it a tad too literally though lol. ty again for such an amazing vid and best of luck in whatever future ventures you embark on!

Such a well written video, potentially my favorite song ever

What’s the recording of bodys in the background of the beginning of the video??? I need to hear this full thing so so so much

Excellent video immediate sub, but you really need to work on speaking slower and more clearly.

19:46 i saw something else in this line that i like to imagine is the intended meaning. the "dont predict your death, cause i like you the best" line to be specific. throughout the album the lines "the ocean washed over your grave" arent literally about dying its about a memory and the past, and i like to see this as a similar comparison. "dont predict your death" is referring to wills own memory of the person and love for them, their "death" is more about will forgetting them and not caring. so "dont predict your death" is telling his partner to not think that he doesnt care or that they will just become like the rest of his past relationships, because "i like you the best" is saying that out of all of his relationships hes had this one is his favorite one. i dont think the line is about literal death, more just a reassurance from will to his partner that is basically saying "i wont forget you and you were better than anyone else has been." of course this is just my personal thing i dont know if this is the exact meaning but this is what i always got out of it, referring to past relationships as deaths like in the whole "the ocean washed over/open your grave" line thats repeated. death isnt literally dying its being forgotten and not cared about. "dont predict your death, cause i like you the best" is a final reassurance from will to his partner that they werent like the rest and they were more important than they think. and of course the next line being about their art is reassuring things that he did love about them and why they wont "die" in his mind. just my thoughts but its how i always thought of the line and wanted to share

litterally so in love with this omg

KZbin KNOWS WHEN IM BEING CATERED TO!

your vids are fucking crazy. keep it up pls

i love this song and the way you explained this

would you ever make a video like this for Beach Life-in-Death?

thank you professor! I think I will do well on next week's car seat head-test.

earlier i looked up an analysis of this cause it’s my favorite song, and i couldn’t find one. checked my recommended and i’m so glad i found this

Doing such important work here thanks! Watching your stuff has reignited the song writer in me and has encouraged me to think about music critically again. None of my friends can stomach my interest in cshr lol, I gotta apologize when I have the aux, I had forgotten how important the music was to me.. Also, as a side note, it's hard to hear your voice in the parts of the video that will is singing at the same time, the music is loud but it's not super distracting- until will starts.

this needs so many more views

great job!!! <3

i'm gonna probably leave multiple comments if i don't do this so i'm gonna list thoughts while watching: 1. thank you for doing an analysis i listen to the full song every time it comes on!! 2. I thought it was interesting to hear the first interpretation of "the ripping of the tape hurts my hears" as i've never actually taken that lyric literally. I always thought it meant that the tape was what was holding them together, and him finally accepting the end of the relationship (ripping the tape) hurts him and especially his ears because he doesn't like the way it sounds. But the cassette thing makes sense too! 3. I HAVE A THEORY ON THE I REMEMBER YOU LYRIC: maybe it's that he's thinking of his partner before he created such an idealized version of them; the "fantasy," and it's him accepting that that's why it ended? He's reminiscing on the beginning where he didn't idealize the partner maybe but now it's the end so he can only remember that time and not experience it. They had a body, SEPARATE from his. Idk if that makes sense but yeah 4. i bet your english teacher LOVES you. your explanations are so well thought out!! the beatles thing was really interesting 5. THE PAINSTAR/MTM CONNECTION I DIDNT KNOW THAT OMGGG that's so cool i love his lyricism 6. the thoughtfulness you mentioned during the piano part reflects the mirror to mirror/face to face version so well (oops you just said that too lol) 7. this is making me want to get back in to music theory again youre so knowledgeable i miss it final thoughts: this was an AMAZING analysis. I could listen to you talk about this alllll day long. this is being added to my favorite videos folder (along with the maud gone with banjo version). Please continue to make these videos !! I'll definitely make sure to check out your music too/go on the discord. I have a car seat related server rn too (This is kind of embarrassing but you're evidently a nerd so it's fine). anyways THANK YOU FOR THIS MASTERPIECE. sorry for the long comment. tldr: great

haven’t watched this yet but just dropping a comment while i remember to- car seat headrest is my all time favourite band and while i have spent hours analysing the lyrics i am completely lost when it comes to actual musical theory, so i love love love hearing someone who knows what they’re talking abt analyse it. ty for these videos <3

your videos are so sick; i love how into car seat you are. i wish we were friends irl so we could just sit and talk about this band all day. so much to talk about

honestly, great video and analysis! i know next to nothing about instruments for songs, but this was absolutely great to watch!

Really good video and amazing analysis, really made the song even better for me!

Wow this is a really cool video, I can’t imagine the amount of time and effort that went into creating this.