hello to the Tubed You it's 1am on a saturday morning and i'm gonna talk about communications hopefully for the last time because in the past i didn't do a very good job of keeping my previous talks about it in a Conveniently Accessible All Compiled In One Place, and because of that some people heard what i had to say and some missed :( i don't want people to miss out so i hope this is a good place to put this! if you don't know what communications was, i'll try to nutshell explain it real quick: it was a song series i started back in early 2016 and cancelled in mid-2017. it's comprised of rotary dial, black&white, housewife radio and broadcast illusion (in that order), and while colorbars is *technically* related, it wasn't an official part of the series (tl;dr i was gonna use colorbars, didn't like the song though, so i made a new song that basically tells the same story). while small summaries of what each song specifically covered were in the original descriptions, a majority of the story was kept pretty much contained to my now-deleted tumblr account and pretty much only the people who paid attention to that blog knew the most about the story. i talked a lot about what i planned on doing, a majority of which didn't get put into a song before i cancelled the project. personally, i don't want to re-tell the story (both the stuff that was in video descriptions, stuff that was only on tumblr, and stuff i never talked about publicly). i know doing so would clear up any misunderstandings/contradicting info and give context to what i'm talking about, but i'd still rather not. a LOT of other people and i have had a lot of valid criticisms against communications, and while i know there's some nuance concerning liking something you acknowledge objectively bad/problematic, i personally don't wanna be the one to introduce more people to the series since i currently have....... over twice as many subscribers as i had when i cancelled it, i think? i can't remember how many i had back then but it was definitely under 100k. that's just my personal preference and i hope you can understand! so here's where i fucked up: my plans for communications started out as a three-song, really shallow story. i didn't have much of anything in mind for it other than a "this happens and then this happens" sorta story, but as more people showed deeper interest in the story and asked questions about it, i started fleshing things out more. it quickly turned into what i planned to be a 12-song series, broken into four separate stories called cases. now, what i did was make the mistake of not thinking at all before i did any of this. i improvised answers to questions without really thinking about how it connected to the story, i didn't give an ounce of thought into how each aspect of the story would reflect on each other, i didn't try to predict what sorts of meanings people could draw from the series (i know that anyone can come up with any interpretation of my stories they want and that's kinda out of my control, but to an extent i do want to make sure my stories couldn't *easily* be interpreted as something harmful or offensive), just like....... i mean it literally when i say communications was entirely improvised. and improvisation isn't inherently bad, don't get me wrong! but you really need to know what you're doing when you improvise, and unfortunately "knowing what i was doing" and "18 year-old me" were on COMPLETELY opposite ends of the globe we ended up with a story and characters that hardly made any sense, some characters' developments were flatter than some people think the earth is, and in more aspects than one were insensitive as hell towards even my own experiences. for context, i base a majority of my songs/stories/characters off my own personal experiences. they're not all self-insert levels of similarities, but if you really think about it you'll notice like 80% of my ocs have abandonment issues and are too emotional for their own good. for just one example out of many others. nancy was a character with abandonment issues, henry was a character who had been abused by his mother frances since childhood, and kennith was a character who faced abuse from his peers and emotional neglect from his parents. except 18 y/o me thought there wasn't gonna be any issues with having nancy kill someone because of her issues, having henry come out relatively un-traumatized, and not talk publicly nearly enough about how kennith's experiences impacted him in adulthood. while it's true that mentally ill people and abuse survivors can do bad things or be bad people, there's a difference between realistic portrayals and over-represented stigmas. mentally ill people aren't violent, and in reality are much more likely to face violence than commit it themselves, yet the "scary, dangerous mentally ill person" seems to be the majority of the representation we get. emotional abuse is often taken way less seriously than it should be due to there not being any physically visible scars. and lastly, if i say a character is something (especially something under-represented), i should actually show it! i've heard the argument "but fiction doesn't affect reality that much" over and over again, and i personally disagree? there's plenty of examples of fiction affecting reality - take for example what jaws did to sharks, or a bit closer to this topic, how movies like "psycho" and "split" affected the public's perception of people with dissociative identity disorder. even outside of fiction impacting society, it's just my own personal preference to avoid stigmatic portrayals of mental illness in my songs and stories and i hope that can be respected regardless of your opinion on this particular criticism. even though the characters in communications stemmed from my own experiences with mental illness, abuse, and neglect, that doesn't mean i could just do whatever the hell i wanted without giving it much thought. i'm still responsible for how i portray my experiences! i genuinely am sorry to anyone who was hurt by how these characters were handled, you guys deserved a lot better. since working on communications i've learned a lot about myself that's changed the way i view my experiences, and for the past couple years i've been heavily focusing on doing everything i can think of to avoid repeating communications. i had planned a remake of communications to improve all its flaws, but in the end i felt a total loss of enjoyment towards the series because i just wanna move on and do better (which is why i finally cancelled the series). as much as i wish i could turn communications into something that isn't so.......... Yikes, i don't see myself working on the story again and actually being happy while doing so. that's really the best way i can explain why i won't be revisiting the story. i hope i can show i've learned from the whole experience through my future story projects. this also brings up a side-topic specifically regarding communications' cancellation - i want to say that that decision was in no way anyone's fault but my own. at the time i had expressed feeling pressured when fans would ask "when is the next part coming out?" and "why haven't you uploaded a new part yet?". i can't remember exactly what i said, but i said something along the lines of implying that i might cancel the series if people continued pressuring me to finish it faster. though this wasn't meant as a threat and more of a "i don't perform well under pressure" statement, i totally understand why people would assume it was meant as a threat and why that would be really hurtful (especially considering people were asking those questions out of curiosity, not with the intent to pressure me to work faster). i'm really sorry for having said that, that wasn't ok and i should've handled expressing my concerns with more empathy. i wanna make sure it's clear that the final decision to cancel communications wasn't the public's fault at all - just my own loss of interest in the project. i think.............. that's about it. i'll come back and edit this post if i think of anything else to add. thank you for reading!! obligatory reminder to drink water and take ur meds if u have meds u need to take

"Honey, I'm dead!"

This is so sad Alexa play Housewife Radio

Nancy: "and he ran into my knife... FIFTEEN TIMES"

nancy killed her husband for using comic sans

i'd answer the phone mom but im-- *D E A D*

Henry (singing): Its killing me! Nancy: * snaps her fingers * that gives me a great idea!

All the different things I hear in the static at 2:03 "I really miss you" "I love you Nancy" "My final message" "I will miss you" "Why would you, Nancy?" _"bio illumination"_ _"Buy me a lizard"_ *_"By the way, I'm a lizard"_*

Henry :you're not the girl I used to know. It's killing me Nancy: *cleaning blood off knife* Honey, I really don't think that's what's killing you right now

Who else hears “buy me a lizard” in the static at the end? Who knew that Henry was into exotic animals

does anyone else hear "i love you nancy" in the distorted part? just me?

Henry has a waifu who has a knifu and she's gonna end his lifu

My final words are on the page... IN MLA FORMAT!

"it's killing me" literally

I can kinda hear "Вы живы" in the static. Which is Russian (formal and/or plural) for "You're alive". Which is weird, but kinda makes sense, since the same phrase is repeated in Rotary Dial and Housewife Radio

"Im truwuly sowwy"

I’m sorry but am I the only one that can imagine Henry trying to make a stupid excuse for being in the kitchen at midnight with a suitcase “No Nancy please! I needed to wash my suitcase in the dishwasher, Honest!”

Wait, thats one long neck.. Nancy had an advantage.

Like a misheard game of telephone / These are the [GRU VOICE: GORLS] of my world

Henry looks so happy!! Never mind.

I love how he was supposed to say "love" at the and but he said "life" instead.

henry protection squad

He’s got an RGB typewriter this is truly a gamer moment

"You're not the girl I used to know, it's killing me?" No, Henry. That's the blood loss.

I only found out today that this song is a part of a story told across some of the other songs GHOST has made, and first off, I think it's such a cool idea, and I hope that they pick up the tale again at some point, and second, all the symbolic additions to each video is so, so cool to look for when you know the full, arching story line. When I watched this again knowing the plot and having re-watched the other connected videos, I realized how brilliant it was to have his colors and the typewriters at 3:00 be green, blue, yellow and red, the colors that Nancy repeats in Housewife Radio and are briefly seen in Rotary Dial. That little inclusion is just so clever! That the man who can't see colors, in his death, is full of color. Poor Henry though, man...Both women who played a major part in his life wanted him dead. Are we to assume the his mother can't get a hold of him in Rotary Dial and grows steadily more crazy with each missed call because she doesn't know he is dead? I think I read somewhere the police couldn't get in contact with her to inform her that Nancy and Henry were dead. I'm not an avid fan of Vocaloid songs (honestly, I rarely listen to them), but I just love your songs, GHOST! I've listened to all of them, and Candle Queen, Housewife Radio, and Appetite of a People Pleaser are my absolute favorites. I can't wait for the new stuff you come out with. Thank you so much for your hard work and for sharing your amazing creations! I'm not someone that generally comments, since I'm more content to be a lurker, but I just had to say how much I adore your music.

Let's all face the fact Henry has a hourglass figure like damn 👁️👁️

the women in Henry's life tho...

Henry: Tries to leave Nancy: UH OH SISTERS!

au where henry and nancy talk about their feelings in the kitchen and nobody dies and everything is fine ;w;

For future viewers that may not understand the story I am here to explain in context for you Ghost pretty much has a story for these series of videos: Rotary Dial, Black and White & Housewife Radio so I’ll say since I’ve seen/read it. Henry lived with an abusive mother for many years, so when he moves away and cuts all communication with her she gets desperate to get into his life again by spam calling him: “I’ve called for the 110th time, it’s driving me mad”, “and maybe you should give back the love I gave to you”. She basically reached her breaking point and saying that she hopes Henry will die cause he won’t answer the phone: “I can’t wait for you to die”. Henry married a women; Nancy who unfortunately is just a messy as Henry’s mother later in years Nancy get a bit obsessed and changes to the point Henry decided he doesn’t want to be with her anymore, hence this part: “I’m sorry but things change, you’re not the girl I used to know,it’s killing me”. He send a goodbye letter to Nancy: “My finally words are on the page, in black and white” Nancy could not handle this breakup and goes into a mental spiral down into madness causing her to find and murder Henry. She then later realise her mistake and she takes her own life by hanging. You’re welcome have a good day/night.

"Nancy, now is not the time for carbs, I don't want your PB & J..." "But, it's a *killer* PB & J" "Nancy-" "And I used three different Jellies!" "Nancy-" "Aaaand the bread is fresh!" "Nancy-" "And I even poured you a cup of apple juice-" "NANCY I'M DEAD, HOW THE HECK AM I SUPPOSED TO ENJOY IT?" "Oh wait, I stabbed you haha"

"Overcome with emotion and unstable in her reasoning, Nancy pulled a knife out of the kitchen drawer..." "DAMMIT I knew it was the Haircut!" *Shink* "Nancy plz..."

Why did Henry reject Nancy? She wasn't his type

I love how dex's voice sounds in this!! And the melody!!

Henry: _singing_ it’s killing me! Nancy: hold that thought.

As I was listening to this song at the bus stop, a plastic bag blew into the main road and started dancing to it. When the static part came on it just stopped moving and then it blew to the other side of the road during the final chorus Edit: It's now just lying there

part of me really wants to hear a full non-cut version of this song because i love the way the vocals are structured around the music... *but that's not how the story goes, is it?*

Am I the only one who this song makes genuinely sad Poor Henry I just wanna hug him

Mmm Henry gots a knifey-wifey (Edit: you guys scare me,.,.,.,)

His voice sounds so real in this song, especially when he says "Sorry, I really am." it just has so much emotion

rip that one guy

I love how people either said they hear “buy me a lizard” or “I love you Nancy” then I hear **random static noises*

AM OR FMMMMMMMMM * Henry chooses AM* * Nancy kills Henry* "N O. WRONG ."

I've always loved this storyline, and this is my favorite song from it. (Also Henry's hips tho, damn son you work it)

everyone else: *making jokes about the murder* Me: *noticing that ghost is worried about the dudes torso*

aaaand the final chorus is where my heart breaks into a million pieces thanks ghost i didn’t need to feel things today

You mess with the wifey, you get a knifey.

Henry's Blood: *Everywhere* Nancy's Tears: *Everywhere* Henry: *My, my, what an interesting sight.* Audience: *IS THAT IT?!*

They were meant for each other. The husband's whole song is black and white except for a few parts and the wife's song is colorful with a few black and white scenes.

Nancy: What do you have there? Henry, with a suitcase in one hand and a drink in the other: A smoothie.

Although this is old, it still gives me chills Seriously, GHOST is a genius at songwriting and storytelling.

“You’re not the girl i used to know-ow-ow-ow” is so insanely satisfying

GHOST please explain why did Henry eat his suitcase before dying

OMG AT 3:27 HIS LAST WORD, "LIFE," WAS SUNG IN THE SAME NOTE AS THE VOICE IN THE RADIO, THESE LITTLE DETAILS ARE S O C O O L

Nancy: I only stabbed him 7 times! Connor:TWENTY EIGHT STAB WOUNDS

Music continues at 2:46. Your welcome.

Ahh nuts I went and stabbed my husband , man don’t you hate when that happens? The blood stains everything ! ( lol I need help)

Henry: Your vibrant eyes emit a glow that drains my heart of life Nancy, brandishing a knife: *that won’t be the only thing-‘

2:46 don't mind me, just marking the minute where my chair starts ascending

am i the only one who loves henry's design

iff you listen closely in the main parts you hear nancy singing , how does she mask the voices amazing indeed ghost

Henry is A really cute gal Too sad Hes DeAd

henry nancy's coming. oh my god he has headphones on. he can't hear us. oh my god

I like how the music is a combo of rotary dial and housewife radio, and how it's the shortest communications case 1 song in regards to lyrics. The symbolism 😩👌👌👌💦💦

日本人です。 あなたが作った曲､本当に素敵で､大好きです。 これからも応援させていただきます。

au where henry and nancy go to marriage counseling and therapy and everything works out the end uvu

I saw 2 comments and the first one said they heard “buy me a lizard”, and the second said they heard “I love you Nancy” and I think it’s funny because I heard both. (You can hear assuming Dex saying words in the ending static)

this song, even after everything, is one of the most emotionally painful yet pretty songs I've heard

Wait the static you hear is litterally just an abandoned Ukrainian/Russian military radio station nicknamed “Squeaky wheel” or “wagon wheel” if you know The “buzzer” and the “pip”you’ll understand. The signal does that to prevent overrides on the frequency. On rare occasions you can hear random letters or numbers being put out sometimes it happens before Christmas or New Years or after New Years. I love how she referenced a real radio station from Russia

Lyrics: But you didn't have to cut me off Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing And I don't even need your love But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough No, you didn't have to stoop so low Have your friends collect your records And then change your number I guess that I don't need that though Now you're just somebody that I used to know

日本語コメント全然ありませんが、、 GHOSTさんの曲は本当にどれも中毒性があって大好きです

this one is just one of the best theres so much emotion

Now im black and white and black and white and black and white and black and white, no! Blue no green and yellow and red! The radio only plays... ANd BlAck aND WhITE anD BLacK... Oh... wrong song... sorry :v

The fact that Housewife Radio has a sequel blows my mind somehow And that they're both 3:54 long

WE NEED SOMEONE TO TAKE ALL OF GHOST'S SONG AND TURN THEM INTO ONE MOVIE, OR A NOVEL IDK BUT WE NEED SOMEONE TO TAKE ALL THE SONGS AND MAKE THEM INTO ONE

{Verse 1} Maybe I'm mistaken I'm a little shaken by that beautiful Colorful Voice of yours The patterns and the repetition You tell me, I won't listen You're all alone, you're tellin' me It's all a joke, she's tellin' me {Pre chorus} Like a misheard game of telephone These are the girls of my world Like a misspelled word I'll never use It's there in black and white It's all freshly typed {Chorus} I'm truly sorry, but things have changed You're not the girl I used to know It's killin' me! And in the depths of my memories Your stories echo from the past Because your fears caught up with you at last Sorry I really am! My final words are on the page In black and white And down the hallway of memories Your vibrant eyes emit a glow that drains my heart of love {Bridge} These emotions Taking over My what a sight! My, my what an interesting sight! Your tears my blood My color {Chorus} Sorry but things have changed You're not the girl I used to know It's killin' me! And in the depths of my memories Your stories echo from the past because your fears caught up with you at last My final words are on the page In black and white! Your vibrant eyes emit a glow that drains my heart of Life

I can only think of these voicelines in the background: "Why am I a lizard?" "Why am I eating shoes?"

"Its killing me!" Nancy: great idea! *GRABS KNIFE*

Ngl I didn't notice Nancy's arms, so I thought it was a song about a man trying to find his old love, but realizing she was different. He was previously.. Not sane, and got worse and ended his life *violently* and that his wife (Nancy I guess is her name?) found him. Oh I was *so* wrong. I'm really interested in this story but I totally respect your decision to end it.

When Henry said "❦❁❦❦❀❦❀❦❦❁❦❀─." I felt that.

I listened to every song from this “series” before I even knew they were linked together. I just liked the songs but now I can see why they’re all linked together

I saw a meme of this guy. It was just a picture of his face and it said, "Issac Newton" at the top and that was it.

the fact that everyone is comparing this song series to the walten files is so funny to me bc i started listening to ghost and getting into the fandom and stuff like 4? years ago? so i guess now i can see why i like the walten files so much HAHA

Henry: "Im sorry but things have changed, you aren't the girl i used to know." Nancy: McWhAt biSh?? *GETS THE STABBY STABBY*

you cant tell me that this song isn't still a bop in 2020

am...am I the only one who heard his voice near the end repeating Nancy's name..? Wait no..He keeps repeating 'I love you, Nancy' and 'I forgive you, Nancy' now..

This reminds me of housewife radio Maybe it's a sequel?

Yay, comments are back! I loved reading everyone’s theories and takes on the story. :)

HOUSEWIFE RADIO聴いた後にこれ知ったからめちゃくちゃ鳥肌立った……… 間奏の血溜まり、一瞬だけ "彼" の物と思わしき頭部が写るけど……ラスサビの流血箇所から見てもやっぱ……生首だよねぇ………… 間奏に入る所でHOUSEWIFE RADIOのイントロがあるのもうわってなるし夫婦なのかな？の間で起きている事なのが絶妙に生々しくてやばい

dex's voice is really colorful

at 3:29 I keep on hearing either "violent memories" and/or "violent miseries". and saying that lyrics like "my final words are on the page in black and white"...and interrupted broadcasts that cause people to become suicidal or (in a way) hysterical is a main point in Communications and the running motif of any sort of tech (Rotary Dial:Telephones Black And White:Typewriters Housewife Radio:Radios Colorbars/Broadcast Illusion:Television)... BUT NO! that CAN'T be true! if it were, that would mean that there was ALREADY brainwashing tech that uses popular media (at that time) to manipulate its audience. ...oh god what have I done.

The chorus is so catchy omg And I LOVE how the colors slowly show up throughout the song Also I’m kinda obsessed with the way he sings “drains my heart of love”

Nancy: Henry your hair looks better than mine... Henry: what? Nancy: GIVE ME YOUR HAIR!

Me trying to understand each GHOST song's story (without vibin to the song): 3:05

Maybe I’m mistaken I’m a little shaken by that beautiful, colorful voice of yours The patterns and the repetition You tell me I won’t listen You’re all alone, you’re tellin’ me It’s all a joke, she’s tellin’ me Like a misheard game of telephone These are the girls of my world Like a misspelled word I’ll never use It’s there in black and white It’s all freshly typed I’m truly sorry, but things have changed You’re not the girl I used to know It’s killing me And in the depths of my memories Your stories echo from the past Because your fears caught up with you at last Sorry, I really am My final words are on the page In black and white And down the hallway of memories Your vibrant eyes emit a glow That drains my heart of love These emotions taking over… My, what a sight My, my, what an interesting sight Your tears My blood My color Sorry, but things have changed You’re not the girl I used to know It’s killing me And in the depths of my memories Your stories echo from the past Because your fears caught up with you at last My final words are on the page IN BLACK & WHITE Your vibrant eyes emit a glow That drains my heart of life

Hello I'm Japanese I knew this work around two years ago. I hope for a long time, it will be added Karaoke. This will become famous in other countries as well as English-speaking country. I apologize for my poor English. Wish you well.

"No, Nancy I was going to the kitchen to make a salad...with my papers." "Nancy, Thank you for the knife to make my PAPER SALAD." "Oh god Nancy no-"

Henry: Nancy: *knives Henry* Henry: I'm truly sorry but things have changed, you're not the girl I used to knoo-oo-oo

*when you find out you have the same birthday as henry*

I just love that the first 3 songs in the album are linked. (Rotary dial you hear the 'stitch sew cut pull' from housewife Radio, this one you hear the tune from housewife Radio and i just love the amount of detail put into it!!)