Simple Minds- Don't You (Forget About Me) (playing in an empty shopping centre)

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[@Vaporvice84]

Considering how all the malls are disappearing, and how much of a staple of the 80's the shopping mall is, I can think of no other song that fits this theme more perfectly.

[@rebelrailz.]

I'd agree. Even though I never got to see it, the Rolling Acres Mall (picture was taken there) was something I would have loved to go to. To me, it's gone (now demolished) but never forgotten

[@mikejones3912]

Each and every abandoned mall crying out: Don't you forget about me.....

[@sincerecinnamon]

We have two active ones in our atea, id say they are far from dying, even in s pandemic

[@pepsi_man4962]

@@mikejones3912 damn thats just…. I don’t have words😞

[@sopaipillita199]

I guess that this happens in United States because in my country malls still exist and there you go to buy all the good things (food, videogames, clothes)

[@BalancedEarth]

This is actually really sad if it's playing in an empty shopping centre.

[@GrOOvedelta93]

WhirlwindSkies It's the mall's very own lament that you hear.

[@BalancedEarth]

Oooh that hit a chord damn...

[@nicklol328]

thats actually pretty dope

[@boysurfs]

cogubaleek Rolling Acres*

[@chefboiarby304]

It's the mall asking not for help, but for people to remember the fun they had.

[@guy_does_nothing_productive]

Do any of you have that one pair of headphones that when you twist the jack, anything would sound like this?

[@IzzyDashbeatyoass]

Yupp

[@Remis_]

Wish i had

[@PMMillard]

had one back in 1998 but it stopped working

[@ellajanek]

Yep

[@royalrat2496]

do they have a name bc I really want a pair

[@leahs2068]

I didn't know these kinds of videos existed but they make me feel things and I'm obsessed

[@tz100k6]

Makes me miss a time i never experienced.

[@Saucer500]

@@tz100k6 same

[@mehpainter]

I sort of experienced the era, I was born right in the middle of the 2000’s so it’s fuzzy but I experienced the era myself

[@sydneygail]

i saw one of her there delilah playing in an abandoned toys-r-us and honestly it made me happy and sad at the same time. these kinda videos give me so much serotonin and sadness all at the same time i can’t explain it other than that

[@edgarallanswoll]

EXACTLY

[@Lenoh]

*raises right arm, fist clenched*

[@shredmonkeymatt96]

LANDO GRIFFIN!

[@stanthedemon1263]

Breakfast Club was a good movie

[@TheHightower92]

I actually did that once as I left school through the football field after something particularly good happened

[@sephora69420]

yesssssirrrrr

[@81OH4Z4RD]

smoke up johnny

[@andrewcampbell3554]

How can music sound so much like bittersweet nostalgia with undertones of crippling depression!? What is this strange acoustic voodoo?

[@bigboss4178]

vaporwave

[@eliseoroman6298]

😂🤣☠

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

Andrew Campbell yes

[@jorgejorgejackson6159]

It could be the liminal space, it makes you feel strange and even sad, maybe it's that.

[@oonabrunswick6750]

This song makes me sad and pumped at the same time!

[@dr3wbarker]

Most of these videos of songs playing in an empty mall give me a nostalgic feeling, but this one almost feels a bit eerie...

[@siderumii8758]

It’s ironic because the shopping center has been forgotten

[@thayse7744]

Siderum II lol true

[@bambibloggerfantage]

Lol

[@rebelrailz.]

Yep. It's the Rolling Acres Mall, now demolished. I'm a new 'dead mall' fanatic.

[@smithys_exploration]

This mall isn't forgotten the great memories Rolling Acres Mall in Ohio made will be remembered for years.

[@smithys_exploration]

​@@rebelrailz. why is every train, retail or geography enjoyer interested in the other 2 things as well?

[@icylite1774]

Why does this make me feel so sad and scared at the same time?

[@katrina7679]

Rip that's my old childhood mall :( Miss Rolling Acres Mall

[@hughjass6011]

As long as you don't forget about it. :)

[@divideindustries7591]

Chanel Donut at least it is not forgotten.. A person by the name of bright sun films did a history of it

[@DatFalloutFan-df4ce]

Chanel Donut im sad too,I went there almost every Friday,

[@frankiemueller6576]

The 80s were amazing. This video actually portrays what's happened to the memories and tearful nostalgia of all the generation X-er's. I miss those days

[@NatetheNerdy]

The bad kid, the one your parents and teachers always warn you about, asks you out on a date. You say yes before you even realize what's happening, and regret it almost as quickly. "Cool, I'll give you a ride after school tomorrow." You know telling your parents what you're actually doing will just result in a long argument, so you tell them you're hanging out with your best friend instead. As the two of you drive around town, you can't help but feel a bit off. You know the two of you won't work out, you're completely different people. As they convince you to sneak into the old abandoned mall, you finally voice your thoughts. "What if we get caught? I don't want to go to jail. I don't even know anything about you!" They calm you down, "trust me, no one will know. Just come in here for a few minutes, then you can leave if you want." The view is stunning, nature slowly retaking a place that couldn't have been abandoned for more than a year. You're amazed by how much was left behind as the stores left. Your date pulls a CD player out, and Don't You Forget About Me starts playing. "Didn't I tell you this would be worth it? I know things would never work out between us, I can't even begin to imagine what you told your parents to let you come with me, but I just wanted a moment with someone I've never hung out with, to escape my life for a second or two." You know the feeling, as if you're trapped in life and no matter what you do things will never change. The two of you spend some time in that mall, alone and with no one to watch. The next day they don't come to school. A friend tells you he heard some people in the hall gossip that a teacher said your one time fling ran away from home, that they left a note on their locker talking about how their parents abused them. For a long while afterwards, you try to recapture that experience the two of you shared. None of your relationships make you feel the same way that one moment did. Until, one day, you meet someone who is able to make you feel even better.

[@hana-um6do]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@Kale-as-in-kaleidoscope]

tHIS. My gODDAMM HEART H U R T S -

[@marinal3960]

MY HEARTTTT :,((((

[@NatetheNerdy]

@@unicornguts I have no idea who that is, but no it's not a copypasta or stolen.

[@NatetheNerdy]

@@unicornguts I didn't want it in a blog or anywhere else. Much like how someone chooses to spray paint a building knowing they could put it on a canvas, I wanted to leave my story in a KZbin comment where anyone could stumble on it.

[@CosmoKo_]

Then your parents forget you in a shopping centre

[@Bugingas]

Sam o.0 big band is waifu

[@FonzysRevenge]

Here lies Phillip J. Fry. Named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit

[@PMMillard]

I was depressed today, I read this and now I'm better. thank you sir.

[@CoutaLove]

FonzysRevenge I see the Breakfast club and I know this song because Philip J Fry XD

[@superawes0meguy151]

“Ironic.... he could save others from death, but not himself.”

[@crazyguy_1233]

If anyone is curious the mall picture in this video is of Rolling Acres in Acron Ohio now demolished for an Amazon distribution center closed in 2008 abandoned for 10 years.

[@ThePsycoDolphin]

"Don't you forget about me" The song sang over the tannoy system, as the last human sat quietly on a bench, every other human on earth dead from "The Incident", bereft of any company, wondering what to do next with itself. It cradled a small, damaged photo, creased and torn, the folds from where it had been opened up again and again now almost ripping it to pieces. It was of a loved one, from happier times. It whispered to itself, in tones so soft it was barely audible, as if even the mention of something from the World Before was some kind of forbidden language, a set of ancient rites no longer having any meaning or purpose in the World After, and that like an immaculately preserved mummy when it was allowed to be ripped open and exposed to the air would dissolve immediately upon impact. Nevertheless, this scared little ape, in gentle tones more comparable to a religious prayer than a song, thumbed the little picture in its tiny hands, and sang: "...Don't you...forget about me..."

[@jumblemanjumbleman]

Now don't go making me cry!

[@janetplanet4595]

The new haunted gothic of our time. Replacing victorian mansions and ghostly old inns are shopping malls and haunting cassette tape hiss

[@aniikems4664]

The last thing my brother said to my family before he left on his LDS mission for two years was,”in the words of simple minds, don’t you forget about me.” And this reminds me of the days after that because I would play this song and cry in my basement

[@shredmonkeymatt96]

I feel ya, my friend. I'm LDS, and time scares me too. It seems to go by too slow when we need it to be fast, and too fast when we want to cherish life...

[@carson8724]

It’s present day and you walk past this mall from the 1980’s and it looks as if it has been repaired. You get a bunch of your friends to go with and you’re the only ones in there and you guys are having fun playing games and go into the ice cream shop and steal some ice cream. And then...this music starts playing and you hear a little girls laughter, then lights flicker and you see this. The mall has been abandoned for 30 years and all the doors slam. The lights flicker again, one of your friends goes missing. You guys scream out his name, but there is no response. Everyone is panicking, you guys have no escape so you attempt to run. The music gets more and more intense until the point where you have a mental breakdown crying on the floor. You cover your ears and close your eyes, but when you open them your friends are just dead zombies and they grab you and take you to the office, where you see the little girl to what seems to be crying, but she is not. You don’t know that and you go to help her but then she stands up laughing hysterically and then grabs your neck and chokes you to death...

[@jamesmonroe7903]

This deadmall reminds me of a dead mall in my hometown of STL-Northwest Plaza(the world’s largest when opened in 1966-it had 5 anchor department stores at one time including Sears!)! It closed in the late 2000’s and was torn down and rebuilt as an office park and outdoor mall with a Menards! One mall that came back!!!

[@deathbydank3206]

Truly an ode to the 80’s

[@dylancastano2013]

Its 3005, the world is over populated and as a result, everyone turns into cannibals. You take refuge at the only mall still built from 1987. This song is playing to remind everyone that mall will never be destroyed.

[@charlottesmith4576]

This gives me very ‘zombie apocalypse hits a small town and you find an empty shopping centre after all your friends get eaten or bit so you lock yourself in and sit on the halted escalators and light a cig, just staring all cool n shit’ vibes

[@sneakykng768]

I can just see in a zombie movie some guy walking and this song starts playing triggering a hoard

[@hell0jed1]

Vitamin C - Friends forever, in an empty school hallway

[@ifonlyeah]

Leo Burke aw!

[@IzzyDashbeatyoass]

Oh my goddd

[@HolyGoddessMotherAnne]

Something something tasteless school shooting joke something something.

[@shredmonkeymatt96]

This was one of dad's favourite songs. Enjoyed my monthly grieving session to this song. Miss u dad. 1969-1996

[@ItsMylesJ]

This is distressing listening to this, but it is slightly comforting knowing that some form of video is going to immortalize this era :)

[@Olimar73]

When I was a child, my parents used to go to alot of DIY warehouses for building materials, and this was what I'd hear. You captured it perfectly

[@simonarmstrong7478]

Maybe it's the photo of the abandoned mall paired with the music/how the song sounds, but this video makes me feel like something is off or wrong. Sort of like I'm in a different dimension I wasn't supposed to be able to reach.

[@xMetalhead2000]

How it was meant to be listened to need that echo

[@ryno1472]

Imagine just entering an empty mall with your friends, Then this song plays. You then turn around to see no one. You think that they maybe are just playing a trick on you so you try to leave the mall. You then realize the doors are locked. You sit there screaming for help. No one can hear you tho. Your all alone begging to not be forgotten.

[@Copy_Right_]

It's a late night. *It seems no sign of human, or animal life is around.* You see an old mall, you approach the mall. *As you walk near thr entrance, the neon logo turns on...* You walk in, looking for a breaker or light switch. *Nothing seems to be there but you hear something-* As you find the light switch in the utility room, you start turning things on. *Only the bright florescent lights turn on, but not any other one.* Soon, as you move deeper and deeper into the mall, passing a sears by sears, boscov's by boscov's you hear the echoes of shoppers, and the loudspeaker comes on *'simple minds- don't you (forget about me)'* And other assorted 70s/80s mall tunes *But you pass the food court, and see the neon lights are on. Infact, the only bright thing you see is a pair of bright blue eyes, and a chattering sound behind the pizza stand's register* You run. But you realize, I've passed the same JC penney multiple times. *I've been down these escalators before-* You're in a loop. *The Palm Springs Mall loop*

[@enriquevasquez8473]

Imagine walking into this empty mall and you look up to see a maintenance man listening to this and cleaning the windows and he tells you of a hidden artifact locked deep away in one of the stores

[@ripsnip5336]

Ask the window cleaner politely which row leads to The Holder of Loss he will reply with another question. Regardless of the question, you must not state your intentions of finding the holder, only feign curiosity.

[@joshuasamuels7654]

I can see this in an apocalyptic movie, where the guy just dont care about all the shit goin on. So he turns on his favorite playlist onto the PA system walkin through scavenging for supplies... while eating an apple.

[@software927]

I remember hearing the song "Runaway Train" in a pharmacy when I was around six at least? Have no particular reason for sharing this but it changed me and had the same vibe this video radiates.

[@Flutronko]

Why is this so unsettling you may ask? It’s because these ares were once familiar and monotonous with people bustling and talking and talking. The mall was fun place, but we have grown, and now look at these familiar, now devoid and empty, knowing that the past is gone.

[@blaketherealest]

this makes me wanna go inside of an abandoned mall and put on my 80s headphones and play this song really loud off of my cassette player and dance around like Guardians Of The Galaxy.

[@adamtherenegade2001]

I can imagine myself sitting in the center just chilin to this song. I dont mind the emptyness

[@josephchambers2000]

And once the song finished, the lights went out one final time, never to function again. Years of dust built up until it was knocked down to build an internet deliver services warehouse. Yet another victim of online shopping.

[@punishedsnake6141]

Should of had it played in an empty library brah.

[@gabrielgomez1395]

*should have

[@candicoated2001]

Heyy, this is library!

[@francis484]

Cream of the Crop yesss

[@rudydesi]

I figured this out. Why these hit me. Its a past feeling in life that reminds me of days that were big in my life that were filled with people now gone and places now gone. Good memories. This peticular one feels like this place is a ghost

[@SwissMarksman]

I think what you search is called "anemoia"

[@ValeriaCarranza24]

This is scary but good

[@indimcs]

*chills, literally chills*

[@RexCapulet]

Evoking the spirits of our teenage parents.

[@hawktalon7890]

As much as I love things like this, they're all also weirdly anxiety-inducing.

[@CoyoteManW]

Forgotten...

[@thefool5259]

Destroyed..

[@LethaWolfStudios]

I wouldn’t say forgotten... after Dixie Square was demolished this became one of the most popular abandoned malls in the world

[@Tanner42711]

2012, the schuylkill mall. Stores closing, security gates closing, for the last times. This playing. Destroyed a couple years ago. RIP.

[@toonangel1723]

Sincerely Yours, *The* *Breakfast* *Club*

[@goldinho]

Why does this make me feel things?!!

[@TheRealTTDeal]

I NEEDED THIS SO BAD

[@MegaCobra14]

Reminds me of the days I worked at a mall and was there before it was open and this song would be playing

[@BedroomScenesMovie]

Having heard this while walking on the (totally vacant) top floor of Century 3 Mall - yes, it IS creepy hearing it in a dead mall. XD

[@skylerrubin9506]

how did you capture the sound so perfectly jesus

[@MegsMansion]

If there's anyone wondering, the picture in the video is from Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio.

[@dr.austinmelendez8743]

I feel like I need to pop a Prozac after watching these vids.

[@juanrobles5607]

En Granada hay un centro comercial llamado Neptuno que abrió en 1993 y tuvo mucha gente y después en 2012 empezó su decadencia y a día de hoy es un escenario perfecto para walking dead, mientras caminas allí suena esta canción y una impresión y nostalgia paralizante te invade mientras ves su sala de juegos cerrada con muebles por el suelo y como si fuera el fin del mundo.

[@momspaghetti420]

RIP rolling acres mall ❤️

[@cookie903]

These videos always remind me of a post-apocalyptic era

[@isaiahbryant8327]

I drove through this mall! Don't worry, the walls were already torn down. I stood in that fountain too!

[@kingkazma3246]

The world felt more... complete, back then...

[@warmwolf4548]

I have a feeling that when this mall used to be open and it was Christmas, a big tree would've been put in the middle of those red stairs

[@lothean]

It's Rolling Acres Mall !

[@katrina7679]

Yes! Someone else here that knows it!

[@lothean]

Chanel Donut knew it at the first sight

[@SirChubbyBunny]

Ah, it takes me back to a more wholesome time when I wasn't alive.

[@vortaex4135]

I’m living for these oldies songs

[@bee3231]

Pov: you're the main character in a transformers movie and you're showing your Autobot buddy your favorite music in an abandoned mall

[@CallMeOpia]

i feel like the shopping center is singing to me

[@minecat1839]

Congratulations! You were quoted in a book titled Meet Me by the Fountain An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange. Your quote is on page 209. Funny I found this comment :)

[@pswitch9553]

That interior reminds me of Creekwaters Mall in Wiedrich. That closed down in 06/2009. So many memories :(

[@Hughesy0507]

This shit inspires me as a filmmaker

[@nicohammer6372]

Thank you for doing my request :)

[@andrebelefleur4965]

The year is 2021 most malls have closed or have been bankrupted by countless lockdowns. You’re sneaking past curfew to smoke with your friends in an abandoned mall instead of being in quarantine.

[@jp6009]

Man curfew sucks. Cops in my area are like the Gestapo. They will hunt you down if they catch you outside past 21

[@philrivera1163]

I have this dream all the time, I’m just walking though an empty mall and the song is just playing on repeat… the dream never ends until I wake up. I do t know what it means but it creeps me out

[@generalelectricmotor9084]

Rolling Acers after being abandoned for years and bought by multiple companies that gave up on it: "Don't you.. forget about me"

[@miavanhelsing6088]

"In a few minutes the last nuclear bomb will go off, and obliterate us. We are too far gone to try and survive, our wounds are infected and our hearts sore. As you can hear, Jackson, in his last moments connected the interome, bless his heart., and is playing us a send off. If this is the end of the world, i'm so glad to have spent it with you all. Now, lets dance!"

[@TheSlenderman]

this is very terrifying to me.

[@ilivemylifeforthestarsthat3140]

This reminds me of the opening of some 80s/90s film about teenagers

[@rudydesi]

Wow! So sad and telling

[@firefoxant14073]

This is the song I'd listen to if I was in the upside down

[@Agoonga]

Walking away from school after a really deep conversation in detention then getting trapped in an abandoned shopping center for over 30 years feeding on rats and rain water through the leaky ceiling. Construction worker opens the door before demolishing. It's bright. Too bright. It blinds you instantly and the shock gives you a massive heart attack. You don't have a pulse. They rush you to the hospital. They announce you read on arrival. Rest in peace buddy

[@niamh3907]

The breakfast club owns this song.

[@cenisfatum9003]

Do Johnny Mandel - Suicide Is Painless. I think the echoing sounds of a shopping centre would evocate the feeling of crippling loneliness those who want to commit suicide in quite a perfect way, specially in this day and era.

[@existentiald562]

Cenis Fatum they didn't actually play that song in malls idiot youre fuckin up the meme

[@cenisfatum9003]

P0LiTiKZ smd

[@mr.cowboy982]

Please Make Dont Stop Belevin playing from another room

[@thewhatorwhy]

in another house.

[@aleksandargeorgiev9572]

EXCITING NEW OFFERS AT ISLE EIGHT!!!

[@Doenerprophet]

Imagine going through this mall, this music, no people to be seen, rifle on the shoulder, chewing on bubble gum, one of the last people on earth.

[@lepsonical4763]

I'm Chris Copperfield. I work for the local police department, and I have been assigned to take down a drug deal going on in an empyt shopping centre. This is my story.

[@rgalactic1017]

This mall is called rolling acres mall for anyone wondering

[@kawaiipanda4013]

2 lovers decide to break into an abandoned shopping mall. As their walking through the courtyard one mentions that the mall is haunted making the other nervous. The first lover ensured that she’ll protect her and they start to kiss before they are interrupted by the beginning of Dont You forget about me, the nervous lover starts to leave while the confident one wants to enjoy the music. Frustrated, the nervous lover continues on before stopping dead in her tracks, she collapses and bloods starts to pool from a large and grotesque wound on her abdomen. She had been slashed open an gutted, entrails spilled onto the floor and she reaches for her lover who is in utter shock. She lets out a blood-curdling scream as she runs the away.

[@carolineroh9536]

_jarring feedback, followed by static-buzzing. A cool, chiming voice begins:_ Attention shoppers, the time is now 4:15pm, and this mall will be closing for the last time in just five minutes. Please leave all your memories behind and bring all final -moments- purchases to the front for check out.

[@JadeEyes1]

Rolling Acres!

[@binx414]

So many abandoned malls they should just tear down and plant trees

[@SMAXZO]

"OK, we're doing a headcount. Jenkins? Check. Adams? Check. Burton? Check. Sanchez? Check. Vanko? Lagging behind, Vanko. Brickner? Brickner? Anyone know where Brickner went? Ah crap....we lost Brickner? There you are...wait, Brickner you idiot, that kid's one of them!"

[@hollygarfield123]

it feels like im witnessing a moment in some stranger's like that weirdly parallels my own

[@StevenMcFlyJunior]

Dude, this is god's work! I need you to make cassettes of this & sell them on Etsy! or something.

[@carmellolb200]

Woah, this makes me feel so sad and I never even lived in this time

[@user-ju2bk9ut8b]

You and Alex enter an abandoned mall, searching for medical supplies. Her weak legs can barely support her own weight without your help. Blood spilling out the side of her stomach. You seem to spot a store no longer recognizable due to the damage of other people. Scavenging with what you can find, you stop by a bench to place down the gauze and bandages. Alex is laying on the floor pale as can be. You start wrapping the gauze around her abdomen, crying as she winces with every breath. She knows she's not going to make it. She knows the little oxygen you have. You look at Alex hoping she's doing fine. She starts rummaging through the small plastic bag beside her for the mp3 player. She smiles as she turns on the music and attempts to disconnect her oxygen tank from her gas mask. You prevent her but she continues to do so. You don't want her to use too much energy so you stop resisting. Alex hands you the nozzle as she uses the last of her breaths softly singing to the tune. Tears fill your eyes as you sing along. You peer over her, seeing her eyes filled with such content as she has never heard you sing. Her eyes fade as the music continues on.

[@bootlegsanesss]

This is so sad Alexa play Despacito, In a empty shopping centere

[@kingbateman1192]

Don't forgot about the world when it ends

[@flagmond]

ugh i just wanna go to the 1980's

[@What_a_goal389]

Me screaming and singing

[@solarhailey]

I played this song leaving detention 😂