According to Dimitri Stankowicz and Rone, this video is meant to depict a shaman cult worshipping the birth and eventual death of a star (hence the title Bye Bye Macadam) by performing ceremonies involving the forces of nature (such as lightning) displaying the stages of the star's life. More broadly it's the worshipping of the cosmos.

this is one of the most beautiful audiovisual things i've ever seen.

Psilocybin saved me from years of uncontrollable depression, anxiety and illicit pill addiction. Imagine carrying heavy chains for over a decade and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. Believe it or not in a couple years the be all over for treatment of mental health related issues.

Years later and this is still one of my favorite songs. Watching the video always makes me think "It's the creation of the universe."

I'd just like to say a quick thanks to the Energy Ladies who keep the whole universe humming along.

I always suspected quantum physics was actually just a bunch of tiny witches.

This is packed with beautiful esoteric symbology - absolutely lovely. I wish there was more content that captured it.

I like how their movement is so full of intent. It's not like a relaxing dance, more like something that has to be done that very precise way without concern for how uncomfortable it might be.

Re visiting this song 5 years later. I used to listen to it every day to cope with serious social anxiety disorder and depression. I forget how it used to make me feel. With how much has changed since then, listening to this is like looking through a window into my past. Meeting the love of my life, leaving my toxic best friend, finding ugly truths, losing myself and finding myself again, my life and world is the most screwed-up it has ever been, but somehow my mind is in the clearest state that has ever been in.

Pretty much every part of animation in this video would look great on a shirt.

2024 who's still mind blown about that beat?

2024 crew still vibing to this 👍

This video makes black and white seem colourful

Between this, Lone Digger, Jenny, Shelter, and The Gorillaz's stuff, I think that all music videos should be animated. Sure, it takes a lot of work, but... Look at this. Animation + music is freaking gorgeous & I don't think there's enough of it.

I cry in a good way every time I've seen this. Years later and it still makes me cry. There is so much in it.

This song will now forever remind me of my Mom’s passing three weeks ago. More than anything, I’m glad I got to be there to help her go. I love you Ma, say hi to the moon for me.

The almost ritualistic dance to the moon is steeped in occultism, but the way its combined with quantum visuals, black holes, the warping of space time and other chaotic forces is astonishing and beautiful. It felt deeply right, as if our connection to the forces of nature is truly where spirituality comes from. It is something only felt, not spoken.

I think this is the coolest video on KZfaq

watched the new Samsung add and thought... "I know this song, that's Rone!"

It is Beautiful thing When Visual Art merges Perfectly With Good Music

Congratulations. You have found the most beautiful high video on the internet

I'm not too sure how mad I'll sound when I say this, but when I watch this, it brings this sort of joy and warmth, because when shit gets confusing, or I become unsure about something in my life, I watch this, and it's almost like these things don't need an answer, all these possibilities and things that happen, just happen, and there's a strange comfort knowing that these things will happen from time to time, and you have to just play it out. Don't dwell on the past, don't think of the future just concentrate on the present moment and things will be alright, even when shit goes down. Deep as fuck.

Never heard this until now. Pretty dope how you can find amazing music a decade later.

At long last - I love this on the Samsung Galaxy AI advert (I don't care a jot about the advert) but I've tried searching for this piece of mesmerising music several times over the last couple of months without success, was getting results for other Samsung ad music. Now I've found it, and I'm entranced by the energy of this piece and the animation is excellent. On my first watching it felt like woman power, energy and the cosmos! Now I've read other peoples comments below it seems to be a common feeling. There are some special pieces of music that really touch you in your life and I felt immediately drawn to it and wanting to listen to the whole track and I'm not disappointed. Brilliant joyful strong vibe, and definitely makes me feel like I wish the whole of woman-kind would rise up and shake up this goddam warring world and teach too many poor excuses of MEN (yeah I'm one too) to stop being so greedy, hateful, financially, religiously and power motivated, and learn how to be true caretakers of Earth. Maybe its just a feeling of current times, a thread going through my head which I wanted to express, whatever - I don't know? Bye Bye Macadam has some kind of magic and message of belief within about looking to the future and focusing on our eternal souls. It reminds me of another fave and entrancing track of mine called Toy Planet by Irmin Schmidt (find on YT) which is very different but celestial, like a visitation from a powerful watchful knowledge beyond our understanding. Thank you Rone.

When this music gives you inspiration. When you listen to it and draw. When at the end of the song they put an annoying sound that fucks you up every time and scares the crap out of you. THANKS

EVERY DAY, i TRY TO FIND SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING THAT MY BRAIN WILL LOVE, TODAY IT IS THIS, BRILIANT.

I only heard this a week ago but it's part of my essential set now. Changes my state of mind... masterpiece.

47 millions de vues et c'est tellement mérité ! Il y a du génie dans cette musique et dans cet univers visuel, une belle pépite, bravo Mr Rone 👍

One of the most amazing things I've seen. I love this kind of music, I love space, I love animation, and I love physics. What a deft blend of all those elements.

When I was a teenager and first found this track, I didn't really realize how perfect of a time capsule it was. It's references to CERN and their weird occult parades at the time, the general anxiety people felt coming out of the market crash that culminated in the whole Mayan calendar thing, how perfect of a representation of the style of the times the animation is with it's hyper smooth lines, the last breathes of a dying genre of club and trance. Really great stuff

I feel like every time I watch this, I’m seeing a new thing for the first time. It can be interpreted so many ways. What art.

One of my favorite videos to watch on acid. Leaves me in tears every time. Healing magic this is.

This is the kind of art I can watch over and over again, and find something new in it every time. For now, it makes me think of the cosmos, electro-magnetic fields, connections, communication, evolution, and so much more. It's amazing!

This was so much fun to watch. And relaxing

esa dualidad entre razón y corazón esas ganas de vivir y esas ganas de dejar de vivir esa fina línea entre la vida y la muerte el sol y la noche ganas de comerte el mundo y ganas de abandonarlo y así todos los días luchando con mi mente ❤

First time I heard this music was 5 years ago in live concert. I was high and I felt a deep fire growing in me, a deep feeling that made my soul dance. Since then I consider this music as very special and with an energitical strength that nourishes vital energy. I discovered the video yesterday and my mind went crazy. This is so spiritual for me. When I read the comments I feel grateful because it seems that this song makes vibrate a lot of people. I love reading how we all feel with this music, it is so beautiful. This gives me hope for the future. We are the universe. We are one

Every single second of this video will capture as a *amazing* desktop background.

Why am i only just seeing/hearing this today?!? So much imagination stuffed into 4 minutes, definitely my "new" favorite song/video.

I ll never get tired to watch and listen this masterpiece!

Been listening to this song for over a decade now and I just know that commercial is going to bring in a bunch of new comers. Welcome this is real music you brace yer virgin ears

One of the best bass lines...ever..

I can't explain why this has made me emotional...wow...just such amazing visuals and sound.

This video is so fantastic. Sometimes the sheer magnitude of the universe and the incredible things that happen in it overwhelm my puny human brain when I think about them.

Thanks for the recommendation 6 Years later, KZfaq :D

Even in 2019 this is next level futuristic *update from the future: still futuristic

Dix belles années que nos oreilles se délectent de ta musique effervescente, pour cela merci infiniment. On t'aime Erwan

Most beautiful animation by Dimitri Stankowicz 🫶🏻

There's something special about this video... I'm not sure what, maybe it's the movement of the hair or maybe the way she moves with the music. It's just hypnotic.

When I hear and see talent like this it makes me feel that there still might be hope for the human race after all.

Alguém mais concorda que LORN é um verdadeiro gênio da música? Suas músicas e clips pra mim representam muito mais do que os olhos podem ver... Extraordinários.

Who else found their way back to this one of a kind experience 👌🏾💯

Better later then never... thanks KZfaq for recommend me this awesome song after 6 years

I have listened to this continuously every few hours in the last three days, and my stress level has halved.This is one the best music videos I have ever seen, the video and the song are top tier.

And 9 years later the song arrived in Germany and put me directly into a trance ❤️

does this remind anyone of electrons and the nucleus with connection to the earths magnetic field and with the universe...etc.... such a good video

Very creative video. I'm in love with the faceless cartoon girl.

Музыка просто потрясаюшая каждый год убеждаюсь в этом все больше и больше. Да это настояшая капсула времени, можно сюда заходить каждые 5 лет и смотреть как проходит история какие события были, что говорили и чем восхишались. Когда нибудь и я зайду сюда через 5 лет снова и буду читать свои же коментарии.

I like how everyone collectively agrees that they are creating/balancing a universe

this song is how i feel

Today is a good day, i just discovered this song and group. YOU know when something resonates with your soul, and this is it, clear as water.

Everytime i have a life crisis i come back here. To the time i had the craziest solo acid trip after a traumatic experience and I vibe so hard. It is SO transformative even 7 years later.

After years good and timeless ❤

just when this music has hitten eleven millons views?

this is really inspiring for some odd reason. it's just so pleasuring.

This is the best song for a quick run around the world 🚀

What a combo! What a performance! ❤

Musique qui me transperce, me transporte et me transcende ! Artiste français qui gère encore ! Y'a rien à envier aux autres. SHOW MUST GO ON !

Saw this on a Cartoon Network show called “Off the Air”. Episode titled “worship”... years later, heard this song on pandora and recognized it from the show. Memorable video.

WIKI: Macadam is a type of road construction pioneered by Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam around 1820, in which crushed stone is placed in shallow, convex layers and compacted thoroughly. A binding layer of stone dust (crushed stone from the original material) may form; it may also, after rolling, be covered with a cement or bituminous binder to keep dust and stones together.

An absolute masterpiece, all my senses awakened, I am sad for those who missed out on this...

I was only so captivated by this so many times because of how well the animation goes with it. Yes, the song is a work of art but nobody in the recent top comments have mentioned how amazing it is.

When you finish watching this video, you belong to another galaxy

love is a next gen religion, cause you allways love, neverending why

Lorn and Rone are two of the best musicians around at the moment. I can't decide who is best. Quite frankly, I don't want to. Both are awesome.

Este tema me provoca ciertos sentimientos un poco raros, siento entre nostalgia y esperanza, con un poco de melancolía que se mezcla con una alegría sumisa pero real. Bonito, bonito tema.

This song is literally an entire adventure in itself.

Energy Is Fluid...Liven It Up.💃🏽✨✨

A strategic and enduring modifications song that interests you all the way threw.

El vídeo representa un místico ritual espacial, en algún lugar entre un sueño y una alucinación cósmica. Conforme la historia se desenvuelve, seguimos la vida de una estrella hermosa, desde su nacimiento hasta su muerte. La luz parpadea al ritmo de la música antes de desaparecer en un agujero negro. “Bye Bye Macadam” es una exploración del universo etéreo de Rone según las animaciones del cineasta francés, Dimitri Stankowicz.

The level of design of this clip is so huge !

Can´t believe that was made 10 yrs ago !! :O:O

I found it ! Finally ! It has been 6 years since I watched this video but I couldn’t find it again, I couldn’t remember the name.

I'm on the acid side of youtube again., aren't i?

it's about the cosmos, black and white are to symbolize the cycle or presence and absence as part of the creation and death, amazing.

Я не могу остановиться крутить эту музыку в мыслях, она просто застряла, это невозможно приятно.

8 years later and still the best

Here's my interpretation: It depicts the story of our universe from its birth to its death, and the women performing the ritual are personifications of cosmic forces: 0:00: 13.8 billion years ago - The Big Bang and the formation of the first atoms 0:40: 13.6 billion years ago - The first stars are born. 0:41: (indeterminate period of time) - Life evolves many times. It flourishes, flaring up into something beautiful and amazing, and is then extinguished, either by natural forces (gamma ray bursts, volcanism, its planet being flung out of the habitable zone of its star, etc.), or by destroying itself (nuclear war, climate change, a flawed AI moral system, etc.). 0:56: (indeterminate point in time) - Eventually, some life somewhere finally manages to spread beyond its home system, escaping extinction, and it then spreads throughout the universe. 1:09: Time goes on, and cosmic events occur in a beautiful, vital universe that's full of life. As the scene goes dark, we see the star at the center flare as it begins to run out of fuel, a warning and reminder that the cosmos is aging and won't go on forever. 1:28: Over hundreds of billions of years stars die and their planets go dark, and new planets are born into the light of their stars to replace them, in a vibrant ebb and flow of the energy of the cosmos. 1:41: 1 trillion years in the future - The last star with enough mass to create a supernova begins running out of fuel, its radiation increasing as it grows in size. The personifications of cosmos, bringing their hands to their heads, appear to be trying to hold it together for as long as they can. But when they can't anymore, they give themselves over to it. The star strips away the atmospheres of its planets that once contained life, before exploding and leaving behind a black hole. 2:21: 1 septillion (10 to the power of 24) years in the future - The last white dwarf stars either run out of residual heat or are consumed by black holes, ending the age of stars. The scene in which the personifications of the cosmos stand covering their eyes may be them expressing grief for the loss the vital system that included star light, chemistry, and life. The personifications of the cosmos appearing to be absorbed by the black hole and then come out of it again may represent the black holes beginning to evaporate through Hawking radiation. 2:51: 1 duodecillion (10 to the power of 39) years in the future - The last stray matter in the universe is consumed by black holes. As the scene closes, we see a smaller black hole evaporate to the point that it explodes. 3:02: 1 googol (10 to the power of 100) years in the future - We see a personification of the cosmos in a bubble representing the last black hole - the last thing in the universe, shrinking away to nothing. Even then, she moves in an expression the beauty of all that exists. 3:21: As that last black hole finally evaporates, leaving behind nothing but radiation, the last personification of the universe within it spins and ascends, summing up and giving meaning to all that was the universe which is now ending. The personifications of the cosmos wear shamanic clothing, which suggests an animistic perspective, and encourages us to look at the universe through that lens, seeing consciousness in natural phenomena, and using that to find spiritual meaning in the world. I think that perhaps the idea here is that finding meaning in the universe (especially one that we understand to be finite) is a question that we all need to come up with an answer to, or adopt an answer that someone else has come up with, such as in the form of a religion. I feel like this video is offering an answer, not with logical philosophy constructed out of ideas, but rather out of something wordless, a feeling of what the universe is, a lens through which to understand it as something beautiful and inherently meaningful.

Discovered this way too late . Pure Joy

C'est dingue à chaque fois j'ai envie de chialer, si émotionnel !!!!

"Parallels" on Disney Plus brought me here!!!! My new workout song, whoop whoop!! 💛☺️

Want more like that? For all of you, I higly recommend: The xx - Intro Moderat - Bad Kingdom lorn - Acid rain Nuages - Dreams To me these songs and visualizations are as graet as this video.

I’ve been looking for this video for months, I’m so happy

holy shit. I'm high af rn and this was a whole damn adventure. It's so beautiful.

YES !!! Amazing song and amzing artwork

I need this song tattooed in my ears...♡

so basically, you don't exist and nothing matters. how beautifully unsettling..

It’s no coincidence that we find geometry, mathematics and rhythm so mesmerising… its what we’re made of!

Brasil na escuta.....ouvi na propaganda do Galaxy AI com uma garota..... Mais me recordo que já tinha ouvido A anos atrás.... Atemporal esse som ..... Muito bom ....reflexivo.... viajem SPZL90

They looked up to the stars and exclaimed, "We are your masters!" But they could not hear the stars whisper, "We are here for you, my child."

I feel like this is the story to the video, a beautiful yet sad story of beings that love to create. There was a group of very power full being, they came from nothing to be something. This nothing was the big bang. They wanted to create and build galaxies to frolic. After they became bored of creating worlds and space. Exhausting every idea, they realized they haven't made anything as powerful as them self. So they began experimenting and creating, some where disasters. Worlds were lost and sacrificed for more power. Until they did it. Pushing all of their own energy into this creation and sacrificing themselves. They made it, the ultimate power, one that is so immensely powerful nothing could ever hurt it. That is except its self, this power broke it, continued to consume it until. Until there was no more. The beings where gone, destroyed by there own creation. Though they never will be able to build again, the creations they left behind will never end keeping their spirit alive and continue to create.