Toto - Africa (playing in an empty shopping centre)

[@sofiagoheen4788]

why does this fill me with both an extreme calmness but also the feeling of impending doom what the whole fuck is this

[@seaverjanderson]

Sofia Goheen the calm before the storm

[@nsane6581]

I guess impending doom just is calming, the feeling of knowing what is going to happen and being ok with it.

[@rahfu3174]

I'm gonna say it has to do with the emptiness of the imagined shopping center.

[@charlie5thumbs351]

I know what you're saying. Wonderful song, but this is creepy as hell.

[@4345ghee]

It’s the Shining Effect

[@memespam1839]

This video has single handedly created a brand new human emotion.

[@dr.dandyphd4968]

It's called m o o d

[@z-592-z4]

A mixture of nostalgia and sadness

[@GenesisBish]

Melancholy

[@TheJSJosh]

Anemoia; nostalgia for a time you have not lived in.

[@SexyFace]

did u feel it during birth

[@f.b.i2768]

I’d buy an entire abandoned mall just to play 80’s hits over the intercoms.

[@somecynic808]

FBI then purchase Sunset mall in Corpus Christi, Texas. I used to shop there frequently but now it's a ghost mall. Interesting fact: the mall scene from "The Legend of Billie Jean" was filmed there.

[@perhapsitsnoelle]

If you don’t BLAST thunderstruck by AC/DC keep it

[@BoringSupreez]

There's lots of empty malls you could buy in America

[@pingu7271]

New Order songs all day long!

[@satka2mau487]

good for a super rave!

[@Eli-vj8vo]

I feel like I’m just looking at someone else’s life and memories

[@o0GrayMatters0o]

anyone that's ever worked in a mall, pretty much anywhere in America, will get the feels

[@PJEllison]

that is a really good thought.

[@tpal3243]

this scares me

[@carmel_bear4654]

Same

[@Skidmaster9000]

I'm scared 😸

[@katietoast3749]

This is honestly how it was meant to be played. Why am I crying, I don’t even know if I’m sad

[@Comuzzy]

Katie Toast same im crying at the club rn and i dont know why bro help

[@kensmith9292]

There's nothing that 100 malls or more could ever do.

[@thecookjourney3299]

1000th like 😭 now I’m crying for no readon

[@joshooahh]

You are not crying

[@brownmetal]

You're remembering the past....

[@elisebrabyn6169]

This song played at Kmart when I was one of last people there , and it kinda had this weird eerie calmness , exactly like this

[@lukespook1232]

Elise Brabyn k mart sucks

[@captainrobots1]

Theres a few kmarts in the world now since they've been closing for good.

[@imalittlebitch9754]

captainrobots I’m guessing you’ve never been to Australia 😂😂

[@isabellayoung6579]

Elise Brabyn honestly I would have love to experience that lol 😂

[@lorf8282]

Was that a rain man reference?

[@Jopig]

For some reason, this makes me feel like I’m in a different time. It feels comforting. I’m not even sure why, because I never lived in the 80s.

[@ireviewshtuff]

I read you're not missing a specific time or period, just the feeling of sheer hope and optimism this song embodies. Like I never heard it, but it makes me think about when I used to hang out till late with this girl in highschool, doing nothing but staring at each other, knowing at least for now we didn't be have anything to worry about but each other.

[@videopsybeam7220]

This also makes me feel like I'm in a different time. Only that time is the post-apocalypse, and this empty shopping mall has been playing Toto's "Africa" for years, possibly decades uninterrupted.

[@ivyssauro123]

Video Psybeam , best comment

[@videopsybeam7220]

Thanky~♪ !

[@arcadio2385]

I don’t know why but I just started to cry for some reason missing a time I never experienced

[@stevetyrell8721]

This video makes me cry so hard. It transports me to a world that existed long ago, a world full of hope and discovery. It delivers me from the world of today where there is no hope or anything to look forward to.

[@y_a_e_l.]

[•__•]

[@rebeccalembcke5365]

@steve Tyrell I hope you're okay friend

[@monicad5270]

Way before Corona. I feel your pain. :'(

[@lucariothehero500]

The 80’s was a great time! Miss those days. Wish I was born in the 60’s, 70’s or 80’s. Ended up being born in 2006 and now I’m just bored because of Covid-19. May God Help us All :(

[@everettrailfan]

What do you mean there's nothing to look forward to?

[@sashabrownpants3979]

Legend has it, that Africa still plays through out the abandoned shopping mall to this very day...

[@barbaro267]

lol, the shopping mall isn't abandoned, it's merely closed for the night ;)

[@Jamie-or8iq]

Cameron McClellan i fucking hope it does

[@surythecat9993]

Fun fact Toto Africa is playing on loop in the Namibian Dessert for eternity:)

[@ToyAdventures]

I’m surprised it didn’t start filling up with people when it started

[@alejandrohernandez3767]

Its a picture

[@alejandrohernandez3767]

Its 3d sound its meant to sound like its inside an empty place

[@SomeKidsAtHomes]

TheLinkster no shit, really?

[@shannonpho7049]

that would have been beautiful

[@sirsupesafro7637]

Jokūbas Stankaitis Can't tell if sarcasm or...

[@gc7720]

Videos like this really do create an emotion so complex that no words could explain it... I just want to be there, I feel like I have been there...

[@TexasRed117]

Captain Crunch yet have never been there before

[@Schimml0rd]

My heart bleeds

[@yamitekudaSTOPplease]

@@TexasRed117 I feel the saaaame

[@zachsmith1270]

SAMMEEE!!!

[@ABG1020]

YESS

[@monzo9999]

For 4 minutes , I closed my eyes and somehow traveled back in time to the 80’s and saw myself strolling in a mall during closing hours

[@wittykittywoes]

*i wish i could, but i can’t*

[@glitzyglam7827]

Omg that’s exactly what I did. Idk why but it brought tears to my eyes 👀

[@JohnAckerman31]

Same here. It’s just sad as to what is happening to the retail industry and malls. It’s all because of a thing called the internet. Everyone is buying off of Amazon, which puts a lot of stress on retailers who are trying to compete with the changing market. I remember when malls were packed with people, and now most of them are just abandoned. Everyone says that soon we could probably buy homes on Amazon. They now have a pharmacy, which will put stress on pharmaceutical companies. I just wish we could go back to the way things were before. More money for everyone, no Amazon, just very simple things. The other problem is people have no money nowadays. The reason is because we are spending it on nonsense. Our leaders especially take our hard earned money, and spend it on garbage that we don’t need. Let’s go back to simpler ways, and dump Amazon.

[@user-ejxomyq]

Even though I wasn't born in the 80s, this gives off weird vibes

[@icannoteven]

i hear the drums *e c h o i n g* tonight

[@heypassthecheesecake4413]

Home Sweet Alabama

[@ItsKam]

IT'S REVERB

[@DavidAddonizio]

@@Tweeks_Coffee_02She’s coming in 12:30 flight

[@DingoXBX]

I feel nostalgic from this but I don't recall anything like this

[@YourDrunkStepDad]

there are terms for this. Anemoia, which means being nostalgic of a life youve never lived. and Hiraeth, which is to be home sick for a home that doesn't exist anymore. these terms are kind of the reason why genres like vaporwave exist.

[@themarvellord6474]

@@YourDrunkStepDad ur smart

[@devilstar3476]

Damn fam. Probs remembering a past life? Lol

[@jonfleck8687]

I recall things like this but I don’t have nostalgia.

[@belle369]

Me too. Have I had a past life??

[@edgarbanuelos6472]

If Toto by Africa plays at a mall and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Damn straight.

[@aleksandar4756]

It does, sound is a vibration therefore it "exists", there's just nothing with an eardrum to hear it

[@nerdycatgamer]

/r/woosh

[@scottwilliamlamaster]

Edgar Banuelos africa by toto lol

[@laser901]

Vsauce, michael here

[@mcfixer9503]

its not a sound its fuckin magic

[@magic1699]

perfect soundtrack for: "mall is closing soon and you lost ur mum"

[@thsoup2353]

IKR

[@rosalinamacarita01]

@@thsoup2353 this freaks me out a lot

[@burnt968]

But then the last 5 minutes remain and you see your mum exit a fashion store about 100 feet away. Your run and jump into her arms, good thing you're only 6 years old because any heavier and you would have broken her back.

[@Jessikoe]

But then it turns out that it's not your mum, it's a lady whose hair looks just like hers and they have the same puffy red jacket. The lady just looks surprised and when you realize it, you start crying. And then your actual mum walks up at you. Relieved and a bit angry at the same time. All is well again.

[@redphoenix2561]

​@@Jessikoe Untill she's bitten by a Zombie and suddenly an horde come out from the surrounding shops.... a group of boys on a dune buggy blast the entrance and shoot everywhere and show up the title Zombieland 3

[@markanthony1425]

The only thing missing is a janitor dancing with his mop.

[@asmrindawoodsasmrindawoods8555]

"for the longest time"

[@humphreysmiggens3881]

This comment renders all others obsolete

[@gilbertvargas74]

Bruuuuh 😂😂

[@Taijifufu]

Custodian dick!😾

[@silviadornelles2779]

I'm the janitor.

[@brielle9198]

Ok but why did I subconsciously imagine this song being played like this every time I heard it?

[@0cujo0]

Brielle because your life is a simulation, and you are actually unconscious in this mall - We all are in the mall...lol

[@MarcoPolo-mm6ro]

Cuz feels old and like if it were played by a radio

[@totallycarbon2106]

Brielle Maybe because you first heard it in a mall, or a place with similar reverb and speakers. So then that left an impression on how it should sound to you.

[@SundayGravy812]

TotallyCarbon Yep.

[@trentonyoakum1627]

Ann Oynmous. Please don't say "bud" you mongrel.

[@kylie1522]

This is oddly scary yet comforting...

[@morningstarcoffeecompany7893]

My Brother Jason passed away 2 yars ago, he was 30. In months leading up to his passing he was on an 80's music kick. And this was one of his fav tunes. We played it at his wake and funeral. Everytime my wife and i hear this song were quick to change the station as the song stirs up emotion. This particular video and the comments hit home hard!

[@jsnxbskscnskcnskcjbzjzjbvd]

May he rest peacefully, I'm truly sorry for your loss. You'll see him again some day, up in Heaven.

[@victoriacorcoran1258]

I am so sorry for the loss of your Jason, this song stirs up emotion for me too, two colleagues of mine took their own lives years apart, both jumped from a building in two different cities while working with them both here in Australia...after hearing the tragic news, this song came on the radio both times during my drive home in both locations. I cry whenever I hear it. There is something about this song Albert.

[@phibbykaden]

Wow. Talk about memories.

[@leroyfong4037]

早登極樂🙏🏻

[@bag_of_cheeto_puffs]

sorry for ur loss. r.i.p

[@alyshagoode9515]

I'm getting "convinence store at 3 am with weird teenage boy as cashier rolling a joint behind the register" vibes

[@federicacasisa3475]

im getting a good book vibes here

[@CerealGraph]

Alysha Goode I want to write a book simply because of this comment just to have a scene like this in it

[@SuperSaiyen64]

Hey I'm not weird 😧

[@evesning]

we need an animated gif of this with the audio in the bg

[@isabellayoung6579]

Alysha Goode haha I was thinking that too!!!! 😂

[@h1nkle]

This video gives me a weird feeling of nostalgia even though I’ve never lived in that time period

[@alyssa-fw2gn]

Kounter literally same.

[@WizardClipAudio]

I did. :(

[@nathandefelice4695]

Same

[@juanfersilva5804]

me too

[@TheJSJosh]

Anemoia.

[@sage9849]

This gives me a feeling from a memory I don’t have???

[@issasultan2896]

Gta vice city?

[@caise3910]

That's vaporwave, right?

[@KiraPlaysGuitar]

@@issasultan2896 Beat me to it.

[@juppukun]

@@caise3910 Exactly. I'm old enough to know about VHSes and all that nostalgic graphic, tech and music that makes the genre so cool. Hits me in the feels and this is why I love it. Reminds me of more innocent days...

[@xlovelygi]

This gives me vice city vibes

[@stevenc5509]

This is probably what are playing at malls that are closed because of corona

[@SG179E]

True.

[@rachelwagner4434]

except they're shopping centers so they're essential

[@TheAskTrixieChannel]

@@rachelwagner4434 Nope, malls closed! (Reopening now, though.)

[@oiltycoonbillionaire]

The Ask Trixie Channel wiener

[@monsoon3220]

Bin Laden’s Toe Sucker u look like jotaro

[@michael120.]

I can’t tell if this is meant to be surreal or nostalgic

[@charleswinkler5998]

Both.

[@Spearmph2]

yes

[@ronnickels5193]

It is meant to be A E S T H E T I C

[@perpetualMess.]

🅒 All of the above

[@valkshortss]

I mean I’m finding this in a reality being altered playlist soooo

[@misterchief3338]

From the 80s to 2009, you can’t really relive this experience anymore.

[@Yorrito.]

OMG yes I thought I was the only person who thought life after 2010 sucked

[@LM-ix7pk]

Yorrito Kun nah 2010 was good. after 2013 it all went down hill

[@Yorrito.]

noodlili w/ hot sauce to each his own my dude we all lived different lives 🤗

[@SaurianStudios1207]

after 2016 everything went to shit actually

[@sirkayda7205]

@@SaurianStudios1207 - You mean turned amazing.

[@Brookzplayzmuzic]

You can literally be so hypnotized by this that you visualize yourself back into the year it was made. Like an adult but with a childlike mind for me.

[@stevetyrell8721]

And it seems like things were much happier then

[@PacificBird]

THE CRUST IS ELUSIVE WHEN IT CASTS FORTH, TO THE CHILDLIKE MAN.

[@maggieamendolare5329]

Brooks Smith.

[@Gee-xb7rt]

Padan Fain I wouldn't say happier, I would say different. That you could leave real life behind and go to the mall made it a popular destination. This video sits in the uncanny valley of the false optimism of the era, its just a little too real, making it creepy af. my local museum has car shows and sneaker exhibits, romancing consumerism is still a popular past time.

[@malihachowdhury4825]

I was born in 2003 but this song floods me with nostalgia from an unclear event

[@starrydaze_]

This feels like remembering a memory from a life I've never had. An era past my time, yet I have a fondness for.

[@saladelektra]

If I were at an empty shopping mall with this song playing, I'd literally be so overwhelmed with how beautiful it sounds and cry

[@nickdavis965]

Elektra records.

[@nickdavis965]

Elektra (ur name is a record company so i used it to my advantage to say Elektra records)

[@PikminandOatchi]

But then the mall wouldn't be empty.

[@MrLeva115]

This fills me with some type of feeling, It’s some timeless feeling, impossible to describe

[@thevideos-rj8bo]

This is probably the song that would be playing when you're just about to go and have a great journey

[@dylanthomas9749]

Everything went wrong after 2009 it feels odd like something has happened, no one remembers now everyone is depressed

[@uroi.]

The feeling of waking up from a dream that felt so real it seems more like a memory

[@kang6088]

@@dylanthomas9749 2016 is when it really started to change, miss the good old day's

[@chemicalvolt2978]

To me it’s honestly kind of scary when I think about that feeling and about time like that.

[@HaSTaxHaX]

Next level audio experience

[@Carbonmancer]

There's something magical about 80's and 90's malls.

[@Ashlin7747]

This makes me remember the smell of going to a airport at 4:00 am

[@louistapon2788]

Same, coming from Okinawa to PBI Florida, this song was playing at my 1st stop in haneda

[@angele548]

Ooohh I get that a lot too... just randomly remembering smells and feelings..

[@jensimcic_music]

Never been on an airplane, but I somehow know this feeling.

[@louistapon2788]

Jennifer Simcic you should fly one time, it’s the best experience to me, being as close as I will ever be to space

[@louistapon2788]

6 more months and I’ll have served my enlistment , it’s been a great journey.

[@rogertaylor742]

this... makes me really calm and also makes me feel something inside that i'm not sure what it is

[@Erik-iz1rs]

Kyra-Lee H it's called autism

[@lavyrinthco]

Erik-chan OH MY GOD IM CACKLING

[@Loland_The_Cracked_Silence]

Kyra-Lee H Perhaps True happiness... Or you might be having a heart attack

[@ashleym4137]

Kyra-Lee H I get you! It’s like internal time travel or something... inexplicable

[@420crim3]

Kyra-Lee H it's Africa...run to her brother

[@oscarriveraabal9390]

Can totally imagine myself bleeding from a stab in the side , hidding in a shopping centre from some deranged lunatics while this song plays.

[@thatoneartsykid_1233]

And then from the corner of your eye you can see him dancing and singing along.

[@ccgarciab]

I was thinking blind zombies

[@user-lemon852]

That type of comment again xD

[@EternalDensity]

So, Stranger Things.

[@danceswithghostsquickspiri697]

It’s feels good bro

[@presidentmc9054]

I work Overnight shifts as Mall Security and this song always plays when I do my interior rounds... there's a feeling I always feel, that I cannot describe...

[@ugh3189]

it's like the mall closed and you got locked in by mistake and the security guard got bored and decided to put his Spotify playlist on the PA

[@ramenpolanski1239]

that security guard has some good tastes

[@livlawrence5856]

no he just left the radio on by accident and it makes it all 10x more beautiful. just you on your own wth the music ❤️

[@leaf1952]

astro that’s some mall cop type shit

[@mossmoran3880]

there's a mall in my town and it looks like this 24/7 empty as shit

[@ghostphy]

I don't know why, but I feel like having music would help me get through being (mostly) alone in the store. Also, awesome pfp lol. Love that blue boi

[@alexannax]

Im a bit creeped out about this. I just imagine myself walking in that empty mall, but I feel like something bad is gonna happen and I feel like someone or something is watching me

[@bordylol2131]

Annie Playz Games SAME it’s just really creepy malls are creepy in general

[@classyyert3099]

Annie Playz Games **TOTO APPEARS**

[@wingardiumlachancla9078]

I always feel like somebody TOUCHA MA SPAGHETT

[@sandwichjones6995]

its just the spirit of Africa itself watching you and protecting your poor man’s soul

[@FUCKINGENIOUS]

Those are the phantoms of the fears you refuse to face.

[@MsMisfits]

This is legit why I still shop at old overpriced pharmacies. The coffee stain looking spots on the ceiling, cracked creaky floor, and 80s ballads playing softly over the intercom (then loudly in some areas).

[@mockingintercessor]

I used to work in a tiny bakery in a mall, and I'd get there at 4 in the morning to get things started and blast music in the kitchen. The way it would echo out into the dim, empty main spaces was kind of cool. There was another bakery on a lower floor and we would have empty-mall stereo wars until security told us to stfu or until the mall walkers showed up at 7.

[@ihsantriapramanda1973]

Nice story. Sounds like a great intro for a typical 80s rom-com or coming-of-age movies!

[@mehya3266]

Everyone's feeling *that* emotion, huh?

[@sonyadawn8338]

This! I need to know!

[@dancebot9635]

Its called liminal space its that feeling when time just stops

[@jasminelav.332]

​@Thatcher Atwood its like a....calming melancholy

[@Blueflag04]

Yes

[@louistapon2788]

Oh yeah

[@mixxup9303]

I think this video has struck a chord in a lot of us for different reasons. It reminds us of a time when malls used to be teeming with busy shoppers and teenagers laughing. This video brings us back to reality that malls, and other places and things that were so dear to us in the past, are slowly fading away. But, this is not to be said in sadness or in grief. Many of the things that we hold precious are precious because they last only a little while. Even if we can’t hold onto a memory mentally, somewhere within us it will always remain. And just like the music in the mall, that memory will sing loudly and at the ready.

[@CCSI322]

Mikki Orr holy shit

[@razelcloud8277]

Too bad i live in europe and malls actually work here

[@vestavind]

Are malls fading away? My local mall is packed with people everytime I go there, and I don't even live in a big town.

[@johnnydoe8270]

Saudade

[@darkren0111]

I'm pretty sure this mall was photographed at night after closing hours judging by the light, so no wonder it's empty

[@fsricy286]

I will never forget hearing this song while shopping! Back in late 2016 when I started high school, I joined NJROTC and I was shopping for PT gear at a NEX in Hawaii on a cool late summer day, 10 at night. I was waiting at the cash register with my father beside me wearing his blue cap with an exhausted look on his face; slowly tapping his sneakers, while I was calmly but listening to this song on the speakers, looking forward to a good rest on the car ride back. It sounded just like it did in the vid, and I remember always thinking about this song while doing early morning PT! So calming

[@hannahnear1881]

Malls...everywhere, really, are closing. Cyber-shopping is taking over, and people simply don't visit malls like they used to. Seeing an empty mall with this song playing, just brings a feeling of nostalgia. It somehow fits.

[@thevaliant8369]

Luckily, there's still a small mall open near me. Its been around since before I was born, and it remains a thing that I still get excited about visiting because of how large it is (or at least how it felt like to five-year-old me). Its fun to go back once in awhile and grab stuff from the food court and browse the local gamestop store there.

[@glitchyx6995]

I have a shopping mall only a mile away from my house called Robina Town Centre. It's great, it has movie theatres, Bowling Alleys, tons of shops, and my all time favourite, the food court. It's an honour to live in a country that's still filled with malls.

[@issasultan2896]

3 miles by foot is a awsome mall called serramonte shopping center place is epic always imagined that the first place I go when I get my driver's license just gonna play an entire playlist of gta vc in the parking lot at 2am lol

[@sawyermounce1927]

Just like rhodesia, the place this song is about

[@nickr6937]

Lol no malls are shopping. They are getting more popular I believe.

[@ploopydiper]

There's something about this that feels feels so nostalgic and calm, but so eerie and kinda horrifying. I feel like this is what death feels like lmao

[@ploopydiper]

champagne mami lmao ikr

[@iagreebut6813]

HURRY BOI ITS WAITING THERE 4 U

[@fortifiedwithwhattheworldw9953]

HELLO MY NAME IS HAECHAN It's called a e s t h e t i c s

[@Skystrike12]

This is the the song that plays when you watch someone die.

[@batata_dog]

like the sound of a tree when nobody hears it

[@TechnoSeaBass]

Jeez why do I get chills from listening to this, like I have nostalgia for something I’ve never experienced...... Trippy.

[@bakerooo740]

these types of videos are whole different genre of music. *you cant convince me otherwise*

[@Defenselessdamselindistress69]

Agreed

[@GTvonRufflBum]

We are reaching levels of vaporwave we never thought possible.

[@tripleaaa4409]

enlightenment is the best medicine.

[@KevinContreras2013]

Vaporwave has been doing this for years. But way better.

[@Lakros03]

:D :D :D :D

[@dingledan1966]

This is just mallsoft though. It's been a subgenre of vaporwave for years already :D

[@edibleasbestos9467]

Brandon Crosby you know what's up

[@Vgs183]

As someone who has worked in retail most of their life, there something about a song playing when the store is closed that just improves the overall listening experience. Wild.

[@ryant282a]

victoria Lafferty Working in grocery retail for the past 15 years, I can relate and I totally agree.

[@Vgs183]

succulentus kaktuskrew ok troll.

[@Erkaryos]

Its a beautiful moment when music keeps playing after journey its done .

[@Wapak95]

Imagining myself in an empty shopping mall and it's just me and this music, I find myself the nearest bench and lie on it while listening to this.

[@iamBIGBROOX]

victoria Lafferty I used to well overnight at grocery chain for 5 years. The music is unusuallly loud and lively when the stores empty.

[@jjustyyn_2335]

This video gives me a feeling of impending doom with a hint of nostalgia

[@voltrey]

jjustyyn _ that’s what that feeling is

[@morganrobinson8042]

That's what all malls are like now

[@monsoon3220]

Me this is why I came here, stopping mid game cause of nostalgia feeling.

[@Theendbeginsagain]

The mall pictured was the Miracle City Mall in Titusville. I used to love going there even though it was tiny and dying at the time, but it had a little performance stage and this video definitely captures its essence. You could just imagine because you could walk outside and see the river across the way that lead to NASA and the Kennedy space Center, watching the space shuttle takeoff back in the 80s with an orange Julius in hand. The Florida sun shining on you as you’re enveloped in the optimism and promise of the 1980s.

[@moiracolvin1229]

This is the kinda edit that you bump into late at night.

[@toddismyname6652]

Currently is 2:18 am for me

[@captaincoconut6020]

12 am for me

[@razrv3lc]

2:14 am and it’s the first video I’ve seen all day. Just went on KZbin and there it was in my suggestions. This video probably doesn’t even exist from 8am-12am

[@Neongxtts]

2:45

[@emmabeddow1215]

2:51am why am I watching this am I okay

[@rebecca0liverx]

this made me feel all sorts of shit and i’m not sure why

[@BlackfeatherLegion]

Shut yo sensitive ass up

[@BlackfeatherLegion]

Nevermind I just cried

[@m00thegamer]

listen to Lofi, it's basically the same.

[@f7744dread388]

Legendary Niwatori LOL

[@SolarWarden613]

bex dream munipulation with microwaves

[@squigga2184]

I still can't believe they named a continent after this song

[@adammickiewicz7636]

They didn't name that continent... The continent named itself.

[@closingdealz]

The song was named after the continent

[@adammickiewicz7636]

@@closingdealz How'd you know? Liar!

[@thevideos-rj8bo]

I can't believe there was a dog named after a band from The Wizard of Oz

[@thevideos-rj8bo]

The joke's on you the entire mall is called Toto on Africa in Zimbabwe

[@stefanie_e3837]

Here’s a mini story of one of the ways I interpret this song (I’m not great at writing so just know that) I walk around picking up my last few items from the local grocery store. I’m the only one left, and the last employee working is mopping the floor. As he finishes up and puts the mop away he calls out to me, “hey, I’m going around back to take out the trash, I trust you since your a regular, and we have security cams so if you steal I’ll know”. I laugh, “sure thing take your time”. He walks out and I head to the checkout desk, changing the song. “Africa, nice.” As I turn to continue I knock over a pen, crouching down to see where it landed I hear someone violently come in and a loud booming voice talking. I quietly turn around, hidden by the desk, to see two men in all black and ski masks on. I instantly knew what was going on and hid inside the desk. They blocked off the doors so no one could enter. I covered my mouth as I heard the crashing of stuff being knocked down carelessly. All I could do was drown out the noise and focus on the song, trying my best not to cry in fear. As they headed to the back of the store I knew it wouldn’t be long until they came for the cash register, which I wasn’t too far from. As the final remaining crashes sounded I quickly moved to where I would be out of sight while they were at the cash register. Curled up hiding I could hear their footsteps approach to the cash register. As with everything else, they knocked down the items on the desk. But in that moment I saw the phone fall and land nearly next to me, still intact and working. They got their money and headed to the employee area to try and find more items, leaving me alone close to the phone. When they got far enough, I quickly scooted up and dialed 911. I would be free soon of this, or so I thought.

[@leowrench9403]

Stefanie Boaru glad u were ok

[@stefanie_e3837]

Leo Wrench not a true story! Just what I think of whenever I listen to this lol

[@Blandon-rv7cs]

What happens next?

[@burnt968]

I actually thought of a scenario that would fit well with this setting. Also I can say the same about being not such a fluent writer, as I'm only in 10th grade. So I'm walking around the mall, with my dad. We decide we wanna go to the gamestop or something. I'm browsing through super Nintendo and Gameboy games (it's the 90s) on the back shelves, so intently that when I turn around, everyone had vanished. I'm filled with shock and I shout out for my dad. I run out of the store, and I see the halls empty. My eyes start to tear up and burn with horror, as what I see before me can top anything I've seen in surrealism before. I thought I was doomed... the whole ordeal had reminded me of a creepypasta called the backrooms. One where you can take one wrong turn and "noclip" out of reality and find yourself trapped within miles of endless halls of the same pattern. And not only that, but there's a terrible creature that lurks within them. Just when all hope was lost, I see a person walk around a corner of these halls. At first we definitely startled the crap out of each other. But when I realize it's actually one of my closest friends, I don't know how to describe the feeling I had, but I was a bit skeptical, hopeful, and happy. We're not sure how to approach each other, so we inched closer and closer until we were about 10 feet apart. But before we have a chance to say a word, there's a hellish roar coming from behind me, I turn around and about a hundred yards from me is this 7 foot tall alien-like creature that stands on two legs, has black, and slimy looking skin, and has one of those "flower type heads" with the teeth coming out of the petals. Our best bet was to run and we didn't waste a snap standing around but instead sprinting the opposite direction at full speed with ounces of adrenaline coursing through our veins. The thing didn't gain on us, but it kept chasing us. That was the last image and I don't know what happens next.

[@thebusinessgoose]

This feels like the ghost of the original song, but somehow it also feels like this is the way the song was always supposed to sound. It feels right and wrong at the same time.

[@5roundsrapid263]

Sarah N This song has loads of reverb, so it works. Also, radio stations back then might have added more.

[@owenwexler7214]

Somebody further up in the comments described it as "Toto's 'Africa' in its natural habitat" xD if the shoe fits...

[@greasemonster32]

idk why but this brings me more emotion than the original song

[@Heshanudugama]

yea

[@Darren_117]

Someone: "you can't create a new emotion!" Me an intellectual:

[@joutatheegg]

Darren Phelps We need a name for that emotion because so far my only idea is “nostalgia that’s not yours”

[@elsiemabel]

Majestic Narwal look up Hauntology

[@ChaR_OfTheK0Rn]

Majestic Narwal YESSSSS

[@greatsatan9772]

it's so sad and depressing, it's like an end for an era, I miss the days when there were shopping malls.

[@DrSurprise]

I bless the mall with some businesses

[@mrlinden]

Gonna take some time to buy some things we never haaaaaaad.

[@gamerguy425]

not clear whether it's closed or no one likes it :-?

[@revengeofthesith.]

DrSurprise it's a still image

[@gamerguy425]

I eventually realized that by the pumped up kicks vid, I mean that of all things would be sketchy to play in the middle of a mall... now I just really want to see someone who actually works at a mall to play it over the actual speakers at closing time for comparison sake though

[@mafiajohannes8292]

This mall is from GTA Vice City.

[@jaymcd8577]

I used to work as a security guard nights at a mall and doing my rounds the management would auto set the pipe in music till around midnight. The odd night a few gems like this would come on while walking the place on my own and I'd sing along, perks of the trade ; )

[@jaymcd8577]

lol, yea. My boss caught me singing in the office once though.

[@kirstenmckelvey2637]

This makes me think I'm in some distopian universe where everything is destroyed and me and my friends are running down the halls having the time of our life because we made it out of a life or death situation.

[@simplsquam]

The perfect combat music

[@hayz691]

I was thinking of something similar, but instead of running for our lives, and me and my dystopian-world-buddies figured out how to turn the shopping centre on and play the music, and are skating around the mall with our scavenged rollerskates, enjoying a moment of blissful fun before inevitable danger.

[@jack-ox9ym]

Kirsten Mckelvey wtf me too

[@djinnsbetpools]

All the 80's dystopian motif, yes.

[@scwells68]

We are, it was, and we did.

[@cyanstorm4750]

Came back to this video because I had a thought: This scene probably played out somewhere in the last couple months. In a mall closed for covid but still technically open because the restaurants in the food court are still open and delivering.

[@glanni]

same lmao

[@rebeccalembcke5365]

Me too. Great minds 😂

[@EpicWolfy98]

Yeah, malls here in Ireland are kinda like this rn, only grocery stores and places that sell food are open

[@pauls1758]

This feels like some distant, beautiful, calm but yet melancholic memory of something I never experienced. It makes we want to take the next train to the airport and watch the planes while the sun rises on a cold and clear winter morning.

[@hbgacha6185]

I kinda think we had a previous life before we were born but maybe I'm crazy for thinking that

[@theizzidor1319]

This is what is called a liminal space, check it out, it explains everything.

[@Lexster918]

I have experienced this mall. It’s called Miracle City Mall in FL. I grew up going to this mall in the 90s and 2000s. It was just as peaceful but had stores and customers. I’m so happy to see it now as a viral video. :) It’s been demolished and replaced. The memories remain. :’)

[@everettrailfan]

As a planespotter, that's my dream.

[@youremyfavoritesong9868]

Same I feel like I've lost something that I never had and I can't tell if it's just that I'm an emotional wreck on my period sitting on the couch eating potato chips or if I actually had a past life and I'm remembering that.

[@somebody2love]

if this is the only video that survives from the 21st century.. i think i’d be okay with that.

[@Yeahnahgetfucked]

Matt Gardiner back in my day...

[@SykoPathak]

20th Century*

[@ohdfrosty9703]

@@SykoPathak 21st*

[@EllaGP22]

Teemu yeah Africa came out in 1982 which means it was in the 20th century

[@Muu-Mei]

Crange

[@anangstyghost5819]

Currently playing this at almost midnight trying to start 2018 right

[@broadwayvevo5629]

You’re starting your year off the right way

[@thoughthereislight2712]

I read your comment at 23:58 holy shit.

[@SecondEvilEx]

A Really Angsty Ghost 1000th like

[@cinammondream]

I love you

[@trinalps]

A Really Angsty Ghost playing this past 2 am

[@saccharine2565]

This has the same vibe as when you're going to the airport really early in the morning and you feel cold but it's somehow a really nice feeling

[@stokesa3122]

This is the single most Aesthetic thing I've ever seen.

[@morenn420]

you misspelled "A E S T H E T I C"

[@sweetwheatsy]

This is truly AESTHETIC done right

[@stokesa3122]

That may be your opinion, good sir or madam, but I, for one, have never felt alienated by the concept of A E S T H E T I C

[@valerierigalt6658]

Everybody is talking about how they feel the mall is closed and it's late but I feel like I've definitely experienced this in a different way. Like in an old mall near my house which was build in the 80's and was very popular once but now there's only small business and old people working there, it's always a little bit empty but sometimes if you go early in the morning just after they opened doors you get this feeling of being completely alone. So I imagined I was there and someone just turned the speakers on and this song plays while I'm doing some shopping with my mom. It definitely gave me childhood memories ♥️

[@LovatoLover22]

Valerie Rigalt I honestly love ur comment sm ♡ I know that feeling!

[@kayzzzzzzzzz]

Valerie Rigalt yess

[@Ahanson0]

Where do you live cause I am having that exact experience

[@nuclearpeacex]

A mall built in the 80s isn't old at all. Most of them were built in the 60s and 70s when mall culture was becoming a huge thing.

[@nickz4993]

“Attention shoppers, the mall will be closing in 10 minutes.”

[@HoustonHeartStopper]

Wyatt Clark yOu JuSt PrEdiCtEd CoRoNaViRuS!¡!¡!¡

[@fawqvg5285]

Mudkip the Awkward Gamer holy shit he did

[@kmeadows]

😂😂

[@badnrad]

It’s nice to see how so many people can share such a specific, familiar, vivid-but-vague sense of nostalgia based on what would have been regular, insignificant experiences that slowly dissipated from our daily lives. This kind of media has the unique ability to stir our senses with extremely powerful memories that pertain to no singular event. Instead drawing upon a compounded, collective recall of the past which is now obsolete. There’s a communal sensation of “normalcy” that no longer exists outside of our memories. Yet the significance of longing that these snapshots in time provide psychologically can only be realized in the absence of the physical experience that imprinted itself onto our psyche through seemingly insignificant repetition so many years ago.

[@sarahe.k.7540]

What the heck are these emotions. It makes me feel nostalgic, calm, and serene. By then it it’s also like when I think I’m alone but feel like something about to come in and kick my butt at any second. Like a kind of calm before the storm vibe. Why. It’s just a video of an empty shopping center.

[@strawb3rrysuccubus]

I know right..?!

[@sarahe.k.7540]

That’s really interesting like perfect safety is concerning to most people. Absolute comfort isn’t natural? It’s strange but almost part of human nature.

[@therealThundergod132]

Every Tuesday, the Walmart store I work at plays this at exactly 10PM. Business is slow around that time so it sounds exactly like this. It's so relaxing lmao.

[@thanosthethiccfarmer1850]

T o p 1 0 W a l m a r t l o c a t i o n s

[@ivane_1429]

quit lying boy

[@Herpkid56]

Considering Walmart Radio plays at all Walmarts across the country, Bo and Antonio call bullshit.

[@EmptyHand49]

Video or it doesn’t happen

[@erin8456]

i don’t know why, but i’ve always had a memory of me sitting on a still mall escalator listening to this song. it’s really vivid, but i don’t think it’s ever happened.

[@starkeeping2155]

past life? :0

[@perhapsitsnoelle]

Peep I read something that said to search “died (enter birthdate here AND YEAR)” on google and the person to show up is the person in your past life (idk if it’s real or not)

[@DIEGOHERNANDEZ-jz7ov]

Anyone else feels empty like the shopping center?

[@anthonyedits9475]

Right here brother

[@Nhnhnfk]

We all do mate

[@alienkreeper]

I used to feel like that. Now I feel like the mall that was torn down near where I live.

[@ghostlyme]

Everyday

[@lancevancebaby4987]

r/im14andthisisdeep

[@gabethedeer5757]

you’re sitting on the bench by the now dusty fountain; all the coins people had thrown in were long gone. you’re alone. not just here, everywhere. you haven’t seen another person in months. the same disc of 80s hits has been playing in this empty mall for weeks now. you look down at your hands, covered with cuts and smudged dirt, reminiscing about the times when malls were full of life. the chorus of Toto’s Africa wakes you from your thoughts. you stand up, tilt your head towards the skylight, and start to cry as you sing out the lyrics as loud as you can. “i bless the rains down in africa,” you wail, tears streaming down your face. after a moment, you sit back down, as silent as the rest of the shopping center save for the eerie sound of the upbeat 80s music. the same songs drone on, even as you get up and walk away. even as you exit the mall. forever.

[@faolanthealpha5827]

Damn dude you took me through a journey...

[@ukkovuorela4196]

ok

[@Serenityrockstar]

i really just had a mental flash of me dropping to my knees, with my hands spread out at the side with my shirt wide open in the 90's rnb way and wailing. dude what the fuck.

[@bestfrikndonuts]

Wtf

[@qaaris4280]

I fucking read it so perfectly, I let the song say the line for me.

[@devincrawford6508]

I can already smell the disinfectant they used on the floor last night.

[@leviray1827]

The fucking relatability man

[@lilymarmash5765]

this makes me think about how theres no malls like this around anymore. Online shopping is taking over. Just imagine it being a hot 1984 day, and you and your friends decide to go to the mall, and this song starts playing.

[@wavyuchiha5224]

Fr... :(

[@bhinz6389]

It is taking over but not for long, because Generation Zers are turning back to physical stores. But they'll visit these large, modern malls and not old fashioned malls.

[@rishisagar5026]

That's why we watch stranger things

[@Mydeadvalentine]

Lily Marmash this...this right here...feels right

[@avvivv7080]

Yeah going to the mall is fun.Trying on everything;who wants to shop online all day?

[@lukyy323]

I imagine myself sitting in a bench, just vibin' at the song, waiting for nothing at all, living the moment on an empty mall

[@checkmyplaylist6879]

Oh, this is why my dad was a janitor a couple years ago

[@sacredsapphire]

Nice

[@dunder3076]

SacredSapphireGaming [SSG] nice

[@ridwansos808]

DUNDER nice

[@dunder3076]

Red S. Nice

[@sacredsapphire]

@@dunder3076 Nice indeed Are you just bored

[@alandolum10]

KZbin: do you want to watch a empty mall with toto Africa? Me: sure!

[@elliott9313]

Alan Do wing I’m glad this was in my recommendation

[@johncarlofernando1705]

dude your comment is so unoriginal Also I'm glad it's in my recommended

[@rickrennyoneill]

Haha yeah. I thought that sounds shit, but then I thought actually, no, that sounds awesome.

[@user-ez4ny5kd7x]

600th

[@SquidCena]

Oh hey this song is pretty go- *cries*

[@hannahbibby4]

this is art.

[@titan1853]

han. More like an empty mall.

[@markduran4200]

han. More like belongs in the trash

[@andyrowland6603]

han. yes it is.A dead mall with a song from it's era when it was a bussling hub of teenage antics. Check out the old style tile floor. matches Toto!

[@purlow1443]

Check out our channel m we post similar edits every day

[@romansilver9086]

han. Came here to say the same thing. As good as it gets.

[@AXEL1973]

its like i'm actually right there, browsing the Sears 1-off's section for a decent pair of $8 jeans, and the only other person besides the sad, cake-frosting-faced perfume saleswoman is an elderly widow in the modern ladies' lingerie section scowling at mannequins in quiet frustration. hurry boy, she's waiting there for youuuu

[@DiamanteDea]

Imagine some crazed guy or girl with big hair has locked you in the vacant mall and going to chase you down until they take your last breathe in a tortuous way. This is the song playing through your panic, calm and survival instincts. Good luck x

[@paradise2pink]

Diamante Dea oh my god

[@paradise2pink]

Though lowkey this would be one of the most peaceful ways to die.

[@mialfaroable]

THAT WAS DEADASS MY FIRST THOUGHT WHEN I FIRST HEARD THIS

[@averyjean7224]

Diamante Dea you put my thoughts into words thank you

[@bencollins2525]

Holy shit

[@Naspirated]

It feels like I've been there, years ago, but I haven't

[@aprilsweetness]

*A N E M O I A*

[@aldoanom8575]

Thiss, the exact feeling

[@kennethzediker9878]

@@aldoanom8575 It looks just like the Miracle City Mall in Titusville Florida.

[@Cheyannesorelle]

It's 1983 and you've just come for a look in the mall with your crush after the prom because it sucked and you guys wanted to bail earlier. There is only 4-5 people probably left in there still, it closes soon and then this song comes on then you both look at each other, smile and just dance together in the middle of that mall like the whole world is watching but its just the two of you and the feeling is so amazing, you're both so content and so glad that you both finally had 'that dance' together then just grab each other hands once the song comes to a close and the security guards start coming to the doors to lock up and you both walk out there together - still dancing sort of and you both leave out into the moonlight of the parking lot.

[@vjamesd]

Chey S u tried a bit too hard

[@hexxg1rl]

CRINGEEEEEEEE lol jk that was cute

[@hoggle9415]

can't be nostalgic if it didn't happen

[@Nonobabloogey]

fake and gay

[@gabrield8385]

Hunter Martin cool and good

[@lariayuyam7393]

Pov: it’s late at night and you and your mum decide to go quick shopping, it’s too cold and your mum doesn’t want to go down with you. So you walk into the mall and realize it’s empty, you start dancing to this song with no regrets before leaving with your groceries :)

[@osoio]

Is this an experience of modern art and anthropology to demonstrate the emptiness that fills our dreams and moral values?

[@sobersplash6172]

yeh sure

[@murderedluv]

Woke

[@CrossfireVAL]

this niggas woke

[@izabiniza5233]

Best explanation

[@discjockey943]

Aldrin Iglésias its sad cause america doesn’t dream anymore like we used to we just consume and carry on

[@bfallon7076]

this video gives off a very powerful energy. and i’m not sure why

[@danielam7366]

Linnamonroll I love your Lin profile picture.

[@nytrodioxide]

Cursed

[@taylorisaac891]

Right?!

[@crankyoldmurphy6799]

Rhodesia calls to us.

[@matteogori9050]

vaporwave

[@troostan2776]

Why does this sound so... *R I G H T*

[@lisaaxx8608]

CUZ ITS RIGHT

[@supr_9661]

That makes you tonight’s biggest loser

[@vinvidici4866]

Because it is, my friend...

[@fdtyler]

Sal Vulcano sal

[@lapischicken]

because everyone in the mall *L E F T*

[@Ominouspopsicle]

This makes me feel so...nostalgic? I wasn’t even born in the 80s...what is this feeling!?

[@malthehakonssen605]

This is like a Strange Dream. You are the only person in an empty mall. It is completely silent. Suddenly this song starts playing. You can hear your own footsteps creating a human atmosphere as you walk down the empty halls - listening to this song as if you were casually shopping. As you walk by, your mind creates memories of people that used to walk by you - not even noticing you. But for you it is different because you used to notice them, and this mall is some kind of inbetween world of reality and the dreaming universe. You are stuck in your bubble, but it is relieving. Your thoughts are your company but also your enemy. And When the song stops, They haunt you again. Again. And again...

[@maddieh7628]

Malthe Håkonssen, ...whoa

[@thedoge492]

Unironically speech 100

[@ee-wx3hy]

it feels like this needs to be a video game it just shows you nostalgic scenes and lets you explore them

[@pedrojuan8050]

Slap battle royale on that bad boie

[@Zelda1UP]

nano I really like this idea of exploring and going back in time. Imagine a video game traveling back in time and visiting different eras.

[@andrewgarfield9898]

Vice city??

[@pmc0341]

Tbh I could imagine that being creepy af

[@TSPH1992]

Maybe in the after credits

[@HiroshiKoto]

With this sound quality in the mall, it gives a total 90’s early 2000 feel lol 😂 nice

[@frankcastle4547]

Nope

[@mariaalejandragirozbravo9601]

1978 V i c e c i t y N o r t h p o i n t m a l l 🇯🇵

[@Avianca-rr3rf]

It sounds like a modern day sound quality in a mall. It just echoes throughout the entire building, especially when it’s empty

[@nanparayeah]

@@mariaalejandragirozbravo9601 1986 my friend

[@mariaalejandragirozbravo9601]

@@nanparayeah idc, I just wanted it to look v a p o r w a v e

[@ariality_]

I don't know why, 4 years later, that this specific video still has such a weird emotional impact on me. It's special to me in that weird way, I guess

[@jacksonreid4824]

It's awesome how Africa with some reverb is enough to send people back to their childhoods.

[@Tsundemo]

Some reverb and a lowpass filter.

[@DrBIeed]

Imagine what the mall was like when that song came out. Probably shoulder to shoulder.

[@nickr6937]

Probably still is.

[@wiltfarms65]

Nick R if it probably still is it wouldn’t be empty on the video 😂

[@marcd7332]

Nick R Nah malls are ded

[@scratchpad7954]

Almost certainly. With the rise of the internet and e-commerce, malls are falling like the rain mentioned in this song.

[@raccoonmoustache]

This is a picture you’re seeing

[@Dr.HannibalLecterVIII]

Me: I swear I'm going to get a decent amount of sleep this summer. Also me: **watches this at **5:33** AM**

[@jrbudoybudoy]

Literally me @ 4:26 AM

[@RhodianColossus]

Me: I'm gonna enjoy every day of summer like it was the last this year! Me at 1 am on August 29th, watching this video: wait fuck where did the summer go

[@liuxzhao2010]

4:18 I need help I need to sleep

[@thog8169]

3:50 :/

[@lambdacalculus3505]

5:33 AM squad

[@2DAKE2]

I used to work overnights at Lowes and there was only like 5 employees on my shift. I remember sitting on the top of the shelving listening to songs echoing through the basically empty store. It was always a very calming feeling and something I miss about working there

[@chrisredfield731]

i feel like i'm gonna die

[@spinosaurus2001]

chrisredfield731 This comment is so menacing I love it

[@ytbloversDisney]

I was having the same feeling

[@destinyadira9895]

I feel like someone is going to kill me, specifically. Probably an axe murder.

[@gerald1495]

Well, you are

[@xanthra592]

i can help you