yeah I'm still here by the way

highly recommend putting this in the music playlist at a party and then watch from afar as all the confused heads begin slowly turning to look at the laptop

I love how DeSinc keeps coming back to pay his repects and Neil just watches without answering like a dad to his attention seeking child. What a dynamic.

deSinc your comments brought me back - thank you.

neil if you're reading this you've been an inspiration for more than you realise. thanks for being you

When you get the neutral ending in a game

the original: nothing in life matters 😔💔 this version: nothing in life matters 😎🥳

I've played this at every live DJ set I've done for 6 years now and it never fails to get people absolutely insane on the dancefloor

I want the world to know about this song tbh

When you want to be super edgy but you're having a great day

This is the funkiest existential crisis I've ever had

everyone here is just secretly DeSinc, no matter what they say

here I am, back here yet again on this video. probably the hundredth play anniversary? I'm really not even joking

When you're in the van with Dad and the sound from his radio station is louder than your headphones....

“Wait, it’s all Desinc?” *”Always has been.”*

Its now impossible to listen to this song without thinking of the man who devoted his life to this song. godspeed, soldier.

wtf this song makes me feel like i'm swimming on land

this song is infectious. you really can't stop listening to this song no matter what you try. I tried a bunch of things, I don't know why, it doesn't even matter how hard you try, keep that in mind I designed this rhyme to remind myself how *I tried so hard*

POV: You’re looking for the newest DeSinc comment

imagine if we somehow manage to get to the timeline where neil gets ALL THE RIGHTS to upload all of his mashups to streaming services

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Turns out that Linkin Park with cheerier music is actually a Persona 4 battle theme.

I honestly can't even remember what the original sounds like anymore. This is so fucking great.

It's been a while since DeSinc has commented here, I hope he's doing okay.

I wonder if DeSinc still listens to this song on the reg

well I'm back. I might be getting a tiny bit sick of this song, maybe. I'm not sure yet so I'm back again to verify

The fact that DeSinc found this song means that we are, in a way, in the best timeline

Desinc is more active on this one video’s comment section than his own KZfaq channel

this song combines both the good and bad parts of middle school

the only other vaguely good mashup I've heard is psychosocial baby, and it doesn't even come close to this one in terms of raw quality

People talking about how the instrumental is all cheery makes me think that they've never heard the original Doobie Brothers song. Yeah the instrumental is upbeat, but the lyrics are about unrequited love, about a man who loves a woman who doesn't love him back. It's a bit depressing, and frankly, pretty similar in tone to the Linkin Park song.

I like how towards the end singing gets distorted, like the thoughts of someone losing their shit because they cant get over how all their effort was for nothing. "I don't know why, I don't know why, I don't know why" It's that feeling when your project is almost completed and the file corrupts last minuet.

Being subscribed to DeSinc *Then finding this video* Is like finding your Brother on a deserted Island after 2 years and he's just been making really weird Sand Castles the whole time.

I like how DeSinc is slowly going crazy listening to this song, and I am too

I just want everyone to know that the song Neil used for the background music is called “What A Fool Believes”. Thus he’s saying that it’s foolish to believe “it doesn’t even matter how hard you try” meaning this song secretly motivational and I love and hate that

The beauty of this song is the juxtaposition of the songs that were sampled. "In The End" and "What a Fool Believes" sound like complete opposite songs, and yet they're both about the same thing: a man mournfully resigning himself to his failures.

"'The End' begins a thematic arc at the heart of Mouth Moods addressing the perverse allure of nihilism. The angsty vocal, lifted from Linkin Park’s 'In the End', is set against the bright and lively instrumental to the Doobie Brothers' 'What a Fool Believes'. Thus, while the song initially appears very bleak, Cicierega uses the juxtaposition to make a tacit criticism of the nihilism espoused by Linkin Park: 'In the end, it doesn’t even matter' is just 'What a Fool Believes'.”

When you're playing Shadow the Hedgehog and eating Fun Dip

This song, like most of Neil's work, is more brilliant than first meets the eye. The two songs mashed here, In the End and What a Fool Believes, are in their own ways about the same topic: harboring feelings for someone who could never hope to return them. So not only do these two songs somehow mesh well as music, but the lyrics of Linkin Park are just as relevant as the music of the Doobie Brothers 30 years apart.

It feels like either uplifting acceptance of Existentialism, a bounce-back from a breakup/firing, or both.

This is genuinely enjoyable

The new Persona 5 soundtrack sounds great

Unironically this might’ve been my song of 2020. This song is catharsis. This song speaks to the sublime. This song is the beginning. This song is The End.

I once listened to this song on repeat for about an hour while I was trying beat a hard boss in Elden Ring. The lyrics captured how helpless I felt, meanwhile the music was constant enough to help me focus, and upbeat enough to keep me from quitting. 10/10, would recommend.

Hope DeSinc's doing alright.

when your anti-depressants kick in, but your bipolar kicks in at the same time.

Knowing the names of the two songs combined with the lyrics and tone contrasting honestly motivates me. We're all gonna make it.

I don't even look at Neil's edits as memes anymore. I just see them as improvements.

R.I.P. Chester, at least you got to be Cicierega-ed before the end.

This song lost its edge. I guess you could say it isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.

my mom was born in 1966, so i’d imagine this sounds like her childhood and adult years arguing with each other

this song is so comforting i love it so much

That face when half of the top comments are by the same person

Desinc really likes this song

The user "Caledio" said something that made me think: he analyzed the song's lyrics to portray how two tunes with such an opposite tones create a clever commentary on the futility of destructive nihilism, using the happy music of "What a Fool Believes" to contradict the message of "It doesn't even matter". He also concluded that the lesson it portrays could perfectly be summed up with *"In the end, it doesn't even matter" is just "What a Fool believes".* My reasoning slightly tweaks this last summary into a different version which includes the title of this song (The End), while keeping the meaning Caledio observed in the original. This song uses the extreme inconsequentialism of Linkin Park's lyrics to ridiculize destructive nihilism, making use of the directly opposite feeling conveyed by "What a Fool Believes" to remove the impact of the original message. In this scenario, Linkin' Park could be considered the personification of "the fool" who inadvertedly follows an autodestructive path for no real reason. Using the original names of the songs much like Caledio did, we can obtain a nice mention to this mashup and the intent of it, packed in a simple sentence: *In "The End", it doesn't even matter what a fool believes*

i love this mashup beyond words and i don't know why, i don't know why, i don't know why, i don't know why, i don't know why, i don't know why, i don't know why, i don't know why, i don't know why, i don't know why, i don't know why, i don't know why, i don't know why, i don't know why, it doesn't even matter how hard you try

By some weird coincidence, The Doobie Brothers and Linkin Park both have a song called 'One Step Closer'

Nihilists: "The world sucks, there's no point to living, the only meaningful action is suicide, all is dust" Existentialists:

Coming back to this song and reading DeSinc's comments again and again makes me feel like we are very alike.

When you're going through a manic depressive episode but your friend sends you a meme

I truly believe that if neither of the original songs existed and the only remnant left of the two was this mashup, it would be one of the most popular songs of all time, surpassing both its parents.

i really love how neil added some extra bass/percussion/synth as the song went on so the first 8 bars of What a Fool Believes didn't feel too monotonous

This song is like looking at goths on summer vacation

THIS JUST GOES SO ASTRONOMICALLY HARD ITS UNREAL

It doesn't even matter how hard you try

I'm pretty impressed with how little of What A Fool Believes this actually contains. This remix is *entirely* using he instrumental section at the very start, the rest is just what he added on top of it. It's honestly incredible. Its still varied enough to be interesting the entire time.

DeSinc stopped commenting, kinda worried.

This song sounds like the end of a story where the bad guy is lamenting his loss, but the good guys are having a dance party five feet away.

Me walking out of exams: upbeat, yet knowing I failed hard

Here 2020 before DeSinc. Really though, he's right. This song is like watching your home explode from inside of it's remains in the future.

DeSinc are you still here

DeSinc please come back… we all miss you man

DeSinc is always here, believe me.

When you wanna listen to emo music but don"t want the suicidal thoughts that come with.

It starts with one thing I don't know why It doesn't even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind I designed this rhyme To explain in due time All I know Time is a valuable thing Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings Watch it count down to the end of the day The clock ticks life away It's so unreal Didn't look out below Watch the time go right out the window Trying to hold on, but you didn't even know Wasted it all just to watch you go I kept everything inside And even though I tried, it all fell apart What it meant to me Will eventually be a memory of a time when I tried so hard And got so far But in the end It doesn't even matter I had to fall To lose it all But in the end It doesn't even matter One thing, I don't know why It doesn't even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind I designed this rhyme To remind myself of a time when I tried so hard In spite of the way you were mocking me Acting like I was part of your property Remembering all the times you fought with me I'm surprised it got so Things aren't the way they were before You wouldn't even recognize me anymore Not that you knew me back then But it all comes back to me in the end You kept everything inside And even though I tried, it all fell apart What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I tried so hard And got so far But in the end It doesn't even matter I had to fall To lose it all But in the end It doesn't even matter I've put my trust in you Pushed as far as I can go For all this There's only one thing you should know I've put my trust in you Pushed as far as I can go For all this There's only one thing you should know I tried so hard And got so far But in the end It doesn't even matter I had to fall To lose it all But in the end It doesn't even matter If ur reading pls stop this is only for me because i want to sing along with it

I'm still convinced like 2.5 million plays of this are by me. I fucking love this so much. It's been years and I can't help but come back and listen to it all the time. I love you Neil

I was thinking nothing could be better than Bustin. But damn, Neil. You fucking nailed this song. Thanks so much for making this album. I'm confident in saying this the best thing that's come out of 2017 so far.

only a fool believes that the end doesnt matter

This is the song that introduced me to Neil Cicierega and subsequently Lemon Demon. Since then my life has become exponentially better. Things certainly aren't the way they were before, but at least among the madness we have droplets of happiness :)

so basically my sleep schedule is fucked - i sleep through the whole school day- hardly do any work- have a f in 3 classes and 6 overdue assignments - i feel unmotivated to do anything other than maybe talk to friends through discord - maybe play cookie run if i want a smidge of "oh you did something!!!" - yet when i do talk to family or to friends i keep up my usual happy attitude holy shit i never thought this song would be relatable

I have a friend who still listens to LP in his 20s, I used to joke about how cringey that was. Now I realize, I was the one being cringey... Who the fuck am I to judge other people's taste in music. RIP Chester

Rip Chester Bennington, who unknowingly helped in creating this masterpiece

bro this makes me feel like i’m walking thru walls wtf

I cannot listen to any of the songs separately, this mashup damaged my brain in a way I can't recover from. 10/10 will dance to this till the day i die.

i was having a pretty bad day but then Neil Cicierega saved me , thank you neil thank you...

It's somewhat odd. The lyrics of this song describe a bitter reminiscence of love long lost, whereas the original music to this song, What a Fool Believes by the Doobie Brothers, is the backdrop to a sad fool who still doesn't recognize his one time fling/obsession with a woman will ever come to be. Natural sequel to the latter song, perhaps? The original subject of that song becoming angered at his perceived rejection despite never having been accepted in the first place, still in denial, blaming the love interest for his failure? Regardless, a very intelligent pairing, it's more than just an arbitrary choice imo. Kudos to Neil.

God i rememebr when this song just came out, it helped me through such a hard time in my life. It's been around 5 years now, this will always be timeless to me

Desinc in like 10 yrs: so guys i had to have therapy from going cold turkey on this song hope I get through this

When everything is going to shit but you are still having a good time

This made me feel dirty for loving it

I've gone years without listening to this song again and when I finally did I immediately remembered about DeSinc

This song is so close to reaching 4.7 million views! DeSinc just has to listen to this song 337 more times!

I hope this is what Linkin Park becomes a few years in the future. Like, one of the guys is all "Hey guys, I think we're being a little too depressing" and then they decide to change their image and become like a 70's funk band.

When the edgy teen finds the time machine and ends up at a disco

When I first heard this I was praying it'd be the sequel to "The Starting Line", where it was made entirely of song endings or always sounds like it's fading out like the end of an 80s song. Now all I think of when I hear this is DeSinc

I started listening to neil when this album came out. out of all the songs this one makes me really nostalgic, and fills me with a certain sense of comfort.

i don't know why i don't know why i don't know why i don't know why i don't know why i don't know why

When you're in your twenties and have to pretend to be a functioning adult who has everything together despite never really working through your insecurities in your teenage years and still feeling shitty inside but you have to have to keep going anyway, maybe if you fake the happiness enough it will become genuine and people won't notice.

eventually this comment section will be entirely desinc

(It starts with one) One thing, I don't know why It doesn't even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind I designed this rhyme to explain in due time (All I know) Time is a valuable thing Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings Watch it count down to the end of the day The clock ticks life away (It's so unreal) Didn't look out below, watched the time go right out the window Trying to hold on, didn't even know I wasted it all just to watch you go I kept everything inside And even though I tried it all fell apart What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I I tried so hard and got so far But in the end, it doesn't even matter I had to fall to lose it all But in the end it doesn't even matter One thing, I don't know why It doesn't even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme to remind myself how (I tried so hard) In spite of the way you were mocking me Acting like I was part of your property Remembering all the times you fought with me I'm surprised it got so [far] Things aren't the way they were before You wouldn't even recognize me anymore Not that you knew me back then But it all comes back to me in the end I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart What it meant to me will eventually be a [Lyrics from: https:/lyrics.az/neil-cicierega/mouth-moods/the-end.html] Memory of a time when I (tried so hard) I tried so hard and got so far But in the end, it doesn't even matter I had to fall to lose it all But in the end it doesn't even matter I've put my trust in you Pushed as far as I can go For all this There's only one thing you should know I've put my trust in you Pushed as far as I can go For all this There's only one thing you should know I tried so hard and got so far But in the end, it doesn't even matter I had to fall to lose it all But in the end it doesn't even matter (It doesn't even matter how hard you try) (It doesn't even matter how hard you try) (It doesn't even matter how hard you try) (It doesn't even matter how hard you try) I tried so hard (I don't know why) (I don't know why) (I don't know why) (I don't know why) (It doesn't even matter how hard you try) (It doesn't even matter how hard you try) *Repeated to end*