PUP - Matilda (Official Music Video)

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Directed by Jefferson Dutton
Produced by Rob Hatch-Miller
Starring: Mike Mitchell, Michael Edwards, Willa Pitts, Leonora Pitts, David Garcia, Aristotle Acevedo
Director Of Photography: Stephen Tringali
Editor: Matt Mayer
Production Designer: Kris Saldana
Set Decorator: Caitlin Nunes
Production Manager: Arturo Corces
Hair & Make Up Artist: Danielle Haxton
Steadicam: Gio Barot
1st AC: Alexandra Cason
Gaffers: George Sugar, Giovanni Palacino
Key Grip: Nathan Trumbull
G&E Swing: Christopher Grajales
Colorist: Luke Cahill
Visual Effects: Justin Saraceno
Production Assistant: Matt Crouchley
Toronto Crew -
Director of Photography: Alex P. Smith
1st AC: Joshua Din
Lighting Tech: Don Kitchen
Lyrics:
Left in the corner collecting dust
Patiently waiting while my fingers rust
I was locked in the coffin case
Not even on display
As you fret my frets decay
You pick up your other and you strum away
I listen from the other room
Try to pull you out of tune
Thought I was everything you need
Thought at least you’d want to see this through
I was caught in between
Giving up and calling out to you
Am I coming through?
Now you don’t even write the chords down
You don’t even play me anyhow anymore
Now you just keep cranking them out
Like you’re trying to numb yourself
With all this work but it’s just not working out
George and his lover they gently weep
But I don’t even get to breathe
I hardly make a sound
I’m totally unwound, it’s like
All my flaws have become the things
That make you want to destroy something
And the reasons you started are lost
now that the feeling has worn off
Thought I was everything you need
Though at least you’d want to see this through
Your voice follows me
You sing perfectly out of tune
I thought we had more time
I thought I could make it up somehow
I try to weave between the lines
I try to turn myself up loud
Can you hear me now?
I’m just a different drug, something that you took for granted
Another love that you abandoned right when
It starts to count you don’t even write the chords down
You don’t even play me anyhow
Because it’s only work and it’s just not working out
Produced by Peter Katis and PUP
Recorded by Peter Katis and Greg Giorgio
Additional recording by Nestor Chumak and Kurt Leon
Assistant engineers: Erik Paulson, Jake Gray
Mixed by Peter Katis at Tarquin Studios
Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound
Additional keyboards by Thomas Bartlett and Peter Katis
Written by PUP
PUP is: Stefan Babcock, Nestor Chumak, Zack Mykula, and Steve Sladkowski
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[@Jamhol3]

I definitely did not expect a heartbreaking love song from the perspective of an old guitar. I fucking love it. Can't wait for the new album!

[@Etzionid]

Am I the only one who got emotional? This clip moved me, the song is awesome

[@MarkSmith-wj5bp]

This song is going to make me bust out my SG and start playing again.

[@brucemcwilliams9847]

You are the only one...

[@Duckhead3000]

Nope

[@peterhart7812]

i had to recently sell my favorite guitar and my entire pedalboard to make ends meet and this video and song made me weep, you arent alone homie lol

[@michaelthejames]

I cried like a fucking baby. PUP videos are like pixar shorts for punk nerds.

[@robertfrost8264]

Ahh just like a classic PUP music video - *hitting hard in the feels.* And shoutout to Mike "The Spoonman" Mitchell!!

[@andrewdendel7068]

Mr Slice!

[@adamkeyes5406]

I did the Leo point at the screen meme. SPOON!

[@CJSandfoss55]

Pup? More like Pup corn

[@andrewdendel7068]

@@CJSandfoss55 I hate how mitch says popcorn

[@robertfrost8264]

@@andrewdendel7068 Pupcorn, hutdog and mum.. I love the show, but it makes my skin crawl every time hahah

[@BearAwesome]

90 bucks for a vintage Gibson Les Paul Special double cut?! What a steal!

[@birdleaf1496]

First a song from the perspective of a dog, then a robot, and now a guitar. Love the weird direction PUP is going on this album.

[@randomjosh7476]

Don’t forget about Mabu it’s about his Car

[@Sad-Noodle]

Sleep in the heat is actually about his chameleon that passed away 😭

[@sox587]

@@Sad-Noodle i’ll do you one better, kill something was based from the perspective of stefan’s dog

[@Novabeam]

@@sox587 what happened with that?

[@sox587]

@@Novabeam directly from stefan, his dog is apparently very violent and likes to destroy his toys, but the song itself makes me believe that it’s stefan’s dog wanting to kill/harm stefan during a depressive episode just to elicit a response.

[@toothcweam]

Came for Mitch, and Dutton's directing, and stayed for this FUCKING HIT!

[@maxm745]

Didn't know Dutton directed it! He's so cool

[@arinstaal5388]

"George and his lover they gently weep, but I don’t even get to breathe" Love this line!

[@PooNagoo]

So good

[@PooNagoo]

He’ll never give himself enough credit for how good of a writer he is lol

[@CarlMakesVideos]

@@PooNagoo Legitimately very clever lyricism throughout their whole discography.

[@TheMegabam5]

Maybe im being super dense here but I don't get the reference here

[@Jamhol3]

@@TheMegabam5 George Harrison's (of the Beatles) most famous song is called "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

[@m.h3846]

So proud of you guys. Been listening since the beginning, will be here at the end.

[@ericpeterson6766]

this could be that. hopefully not.

[@jeremym4551]

@@ericpeterson6766 what are you talking about?

[@legendofFranktheTank]

That's ominous, what do you know?

[@boarderking133]

@@legendofFranktheTank album title

[@boarderking133]

@@jeremym4551 album title

[@projectno5]

ok. i just watched this music video for the first time while holding/playing a guitar i had in high school, sold and always regretted it. 15 years later, i found it in a complete state but spent the last few months getting it working and it kinda hit me. thanks for making another music video that makes me cry guys.

[@nathanwilliams3877]

Hell yeah, man.

[@patchiezero]

which guitar was it i now have to know (also nice story makes me wanna go hug my guitar)

[@projectno5]

@@patchiezero it was a 1996 fender jaguar in candy apple red. i sold it because my bandmate at the time was constantly saying "that gay guitar" and "that pedo guitar" and i know i shouldn't have sold it and just decked him but i did. then it came up for sale locally 15 years later. i was recovering from the covid booster and felt like shit, looking through facebook marketplace and i seen the telltale paint burns near where the top control plate should have been and made it my duty to go collect it even though i could barely walk straight. but it was worth it. spent the next month getting all the parts and calling friends to see if they had any spares. most of my guitars have names but i can't think of one for this one. but i'm just glad to have it back.

[@nickl2854]

that's so sick @@projectno5

[@churchmomsband]

Cried A LOT when I watched this

[@chadbeck4139]

This was a tearjearker like Sleep In The Heat! 🤙 Too good, guys!

[@Imdone13Gaming]

A song about an old guitar. Who would’ve known. This makes me feel like all guitars have a soul, and I would believe it.

[@ericmiller1102]

BIRTHDAY BOY MIKE MITCHELL LETS GOO

[@MikeMorton]

While my guitar gently weeps in the tab at 0:47 🥰

[@pmatcha]

Guy who once dated me used to say, “Baby, do you have the geese?“ whenever I heard music that got to me. This song and music video gave me the geese.

[@saiwestfield]

Hell yeah, New song! Can’t wait! It’s gonna be so fire

[@matildacool3949]

can’t believe PUP wrote a whole song dedicated to me 🤟😩🤟

[@pep6598]

ive never been more happy for an instrument in my life

[@cameronccarter2010]

Good job Dutty and Mitchy

[@chrisavril]

Never heard of Pup before. But saw the screenshot of the Gibson double cut and HAD to watch. What an awesome song. Almost no one writes songs like this anymore. Can't wait to listen to more from this band!

[@michaelaiello9525]

Are you kidding me? This is my dream guitar! A TV Yellow Les Paul Junior. I’ve spent my life walking into thrift stores daydreaming about finding one of those. It just needs a proper set up. Those are like 15K original and 4K reissued. Gotta be stoked for the hair dye kid. Rock on next generation! Good tune.

[@numelegent7162]

When pup got that new album!!! 🔥

[@moviesandsmoothies3600]

This song is an example of why pup is the best band in the scene

[@mercurialmara7216]

I always cry watching pup videos either bc I’m laughing too hard or the video is a tearjerker

[@ricardoacosta2151]

I have got the philosophy that "the things" have feelings, in the part that says "I was everything you need" I couldn't stop crying because there is a lot of "things" which I loved but they are now in trash, and I fcking regrets a lot ... Don't ever lose anything you love (person or not) because that feeling is unique for both parts...

[@RattlesnakeJakey]

I feel like Mike Mitchell in a PUP video is a weird crossover of stuff I love that I can't get my friends to look at.

[@s7dney844]

The funny thing to me is that any guitar enthusiast knows that guitar is worth WAY more than $90 XD. Fucking love this video and I will be sure to never sell my first guitar ever

[@tehdopefish]

Oh shit, is that Mr Slice?!

[@NeilFennell]

He's gud!

[@GBNFTV]

Pup is the Band that 2022 desperately needs. I hope everyone takes notice. Can't wait for this album.

[@porkchop604]

For once, I'm happy I woke up today. Wouldn't have been able to listen to this otherwise. Keep up the good work.

[@peachy1392]

it'll all be alright someday and you'll be happy to wake up every day. it'll be great someday, i promise

[@Javi1man]

I don't know you, but from human being to another, I love you ❤️

[@smoot2337]

im happy you woke up too

[@timwysocki6837]

I cried…really..I love guitars

[@dylan0wn5]

SPOONMAN!!!

[@grahamistearingup]

They’re playing “Spoonman” in the flashback scenes

[@Smythester123]

That guitar for $90 is a steal. Payed many times more that in pounds for mine, and i tell it i love it daily after watching this.,

[@evilscience13]

Lovin' the tangentially related Birthday Boys content

[@H3ll0rd.rAze9]

Im so excited to see them at download on Friday!

[@gabelstapler19]

I watched the video while enjoying the song, then went back and read the lyrics and now I'm crying. I think I owe my pawn shop bass an apology...

[@iceboundwings6107]

Find it. Get it back.

[@jameshampton3102]

I remember when I saw PUP on the last show of their Full Blown Meltdown tour, Stefan actually lent Matilda to their opening act because their own guitar broke. Awesome to see her immortalized in my new favorite PUP song.

[@skribble7187]

So being the guitar in a loveless relationship with the owner whom has a new lover... Sounds healthy

[@OBGrollout]

One more month until I get to see these guys live. I can’t fucking wait!!!

[@tomdeblonk]

Yeah

[@derekandre31]

The guitar tab website really took me back. Long live PUP!!

[@vongills]

my favorite podcaster in a music video for my favorite band? what a fantastic day!

[@_unregistered_hypercam_2]

I'm really sitting here at 5am waiting for a song to come so i can listen to it then go to sleep right afterward

[@_unregistered_hypercam_2]

It went unbelievably hard

[@gibusgiver2231]

I've noticed on all my favorite pup songs that the intensity follows a pattern. It goes 1,2,1,3 And i can really hear it in this song and in robot writes a loves song. Can't wait for the new album guys!

[@chrisbelknap3167]

The toys going off in the background sets off the ending, bravo!

[@outlawrailfan129]

I have no idea who you guys are, or why youtube told me to listen to this song. But I am so glad I clicked on it. It's a like and a subscribe from me.

[@matthewward5295]

best band ever tbh

[@jadew9446]

Love this! Cannot wait for the new album! And also this trilogy is shaping up nicely... Mabu, Matilda...!

[@pikselsu883]

I had to sell my amp and my guitar so that I can afford my moving abroad expenses better. This video reminds me of Heather. I will miss her forever.

[@MaxVanderploeg666]

The intro hits hard.

[@DragynFyre12]

Damn I was passively watching the vid for the song mostly, but when the kid strummed the guitar it hit me hard. You guys are awesome, please keep going

[@periarreguin1494]

When that prechorus hits though!

[@space_quartz]

Everyone, I'm here before they blow up. Awesome!! 🤘‍🤘‍

[@ParleyPCat]

goddam, every fucking video you guys put out makes me weep.

[@teaganlilliebjerg9014]

How is this band so goddamn good?!?! It is truly unbelievable and I'm so glad I exist at the same time as them.

[@wodar925]

matilda the guitar i love you forever

[@madvic93]

"The guitar chooses the wizard")

[@TheNintendoWizrad]

I like this theme of loss in one song from every PUP album. Mabu rings a bell here

[@meowskullsreal]

PUP is love, PUP is life.

[@em_m5989]

first time i'm able to feel anything at all in months

[@dawn6082]

"Okay, love you." made me smile, always does

[@geraldj.1943]

I'm pretty sure that Matilda will become a legendary guitar icon soon - like Old Black, Pearly Gates, The Phenix, Old Boy and Greeny.

[@awesomfog345]

Can’t believe PUP are still hitting their stride. So damn consistent.

[@noahrules7146]

this song makes me feel bad for all the instruments i told myself i'd master then abandoned

[@cryaesthetic3603]

That guitar is, so cool.

[@ssusggus]

Been a big fan for what feels like 3 years but looking at it now it’s been like 6 years with covid up to this point. Crazy how I look back at things and covid feels like life was put on pause. 2.5 years just gone lol

[@joestack1921]

Mom, these guys made me cry with a song about a sad guitar. Can you come get me?

[@dirtytacos89]

This song hits especially hard right now. What impeccable timing music has.

[@Reychel2022]

Yes

[@m.a.l.u.m]

I set an alarm last night just for this. I have no regrets at app

[@michaelbaird4769]

I just got my bass out of the pawn shop 30 minutes ago and this pops up, never again baby

[@ishlaurennx]

I don’t even play music but this got me tearing up, got me feeling sympathy for a guitar

[@Flip-a-dip-dip]

Aww this makes me want to dust off my old guitar and start playing again.

[@spaceant2919]

DO IT!

[@DorfOnCrack]

April 2nd can't come soon enough!

[@joshuamartinpryce8424]

A young girl is great because of the potential of influence. Spirituality is influence, it makes us all like young girls.

[@alexdenny1394]

So excited for the new album, I can see it will be a great one!

[@AlexPinage]

This song got me so emotional omg

[@marciecats]

crying rn

[@MrWorsterLike]

Huge fan for over 5 years and you do not miss, met all 4 of the boys are they are the kindest and most earnest lads. Huge love Sloppy Steffy, Nasty Nestor, Steve "Notes" Sladdo and Zack Attack

[@new_at0m]

You can’t convince me this song isn’t an elaborate homage to Mr Brightside. I swear, the opening notes remind me of Mr Brightside. Then them playing in suits in front of the red curtain also feels like a reference to the Mr Brightside music video.

[@georgesonofgeorge3771]

That’s the beauty of it, many’s first song is Mr. Brightside. Maybe it was Stefan’s 👀

[@thebenschor]

best music video/song by far

[@GG-ik6it]

I have recently come to terms that i will be pawning a comic record and gear collection. I treasure my junk but i have to say goodbye. I hope it all brings someone else joy i once had

[@MrRadok83]

great tune love the track...

[@GhostFactoryRecords]

We cried over here. We are that guitar if it was a record label, cheers from Italy.

[@mrjacobhorton]

I am in tears

[@Sandybowls_9001]

If you guys ever gave away a precious object, it was sentient and now it hates you.

[@idiotDB]

This is how my guitar that's been sitting in a case for 2 years feels about me...sobbing rn

[@juliarodrugs]

Amazing💙💙💙💙

[@2abug]

PUP always have the most creative music videos

[@Tom-li1og]

Every song is a 10/10!!!!!!!!!

[@arianamougoubi8392]

J’adore l’instrumental C’est exceptionnel !!😀

[@johnsnyder9842]

Saw an article about this on Reverb. This actually really touched me. I have a yellow single cut Gibson Les Paul Special… I can relate to this song like most do not understand.

[@dawsonberardi973]

Love what you guys do. I met you all in Lansing, MI a few years back and It changed my damn life. You guys are the most Grounded Musicians I've ever Met. I'll be a pup fan til the day I die

[@jobinkle7117]

Love pup, love doughboys, love Jeff Dutton, win x3

[@BirchTree66]

Just heard they're coming to Scotland this Autumn - Can't wait to see these boiz again!

[@omgicantwait6895]

Cannot wait for a new album.

[@marcowolfgang582]

so painfully nostalgic

[@Dudeidkmypassword]

PUP da 🐐 no 🧢

[@fdonnally]

Came here for Mr. Slice (aka Spoonman), left with the feels. Great song, great video.