Ok, an explanation to these two indredible and dark songs. Pt1, is the POV of a stalker (Probably serial killer) talking about a broken girl he's becoming obsessed. The "I can't make her real" is encouraging himself to not become too obsessed. Pt 2, he already got her and killed her, and now in a sad and nostalgic mood is realizing that he cannot have her anymore because he already killed her. In the ther hand, she's very distressed in the Pt1, but seems in peace in Pt2. It's pretty similar to the movie Perfume, because he realizes that nothing gonna be the same after her. Dark, deep s#!t, but artistically beautiful songs and videos.

Dead Memories is one i would recommend to follow up this song, its so beautifully between heavy and harmonious.

"She isn't real. I can't make her real." A borderline psychotic obsession with an ideal, rather than a living breathing person.

I’m surprised no one else has figured this out yet, but it’s actually about his ex wife Scarlet. You see, scarlet is a shade of red. Vermilion is also a shade of red. Hence why the title is Vermilion. As for the lyrics…have you ever fallen in love with someone only to later realize that the person you fell for was just an illusion? That’s what he’s talking about. Sometimes when you love someone you build up all these ideas in your mind about who they are. You idolize them and make them the center of your world. You view them as a culmination of all your hopes and dreams. And then they break your heart and it shatters your entire reality because you built your whole life around them. You thought you had found true love, but they were just a “myth”. You realize that the person you fell in love with wasn’t real and it’s the hardest thing to accept. The video portrays her being dead because he’s mourning the person he thought she was. His idea of her has died. Both songs represent different stages of grief. Part 1 is about his anger and his unhealthy obsession over her. Part 2 is about acceptance and the deep sorrow that comes with it.

I remember the first time I heard this song, it was so different than anything Slipknot had ever released up until that point. they never did any acoustic ballads in their first two albums,

You nailed it when you said she is almost like this "thing" instead of a person. I think the "thing" is an object of someones obsession, in this case just happens to also be a person. But yes, music generally appeals to many people for many reasons and can be taken many different ways. But I also think that the words sort of convey being torn as to what to do with the feelings of obsessing after someone without reciprocation.

9:15 Corey is also an actor 😂 Movies with him: Sharknado 4 (2016), Fear Clinic (2014) with Robert Englund aka Freddy Krueger, Bad Candy (2020), Rucker (2022), Officer Downe (2016) This movie is directed by Shawn Crahan aka Clown of Slipknot. and Slipknot's DJ Sid Wilson is in on the movie too

The field is his mind. The girl is in his imagination. The more he thinks about her, the more she moves, almost seems real. But she isn't and he knows he needs to move on. The verse at the end when she's landing back to the ground, "She, isn't real... I can't make her real"

Really enjoy part 2, this song really hit deep for me at the time

Both songs are sung from the perspective of a serial killer if I remember correctly. Part one is while stalking the girl. Part 2 is after he had done what he does. Someone can correct me if I'm mistaken. The songs deal with the struggle of him dealing with the desire, knowing he shouldn't cave to them and finally his justification of it.

One of my favorite bands, thank you Rachel!!!

Corey said pt 1 is that he was stalking her making her feel alone and crazy..and pt 2 he killed her..pt 1 the butterfly is showing she wanted to be free from him..pt 2 she is still floating around in his head

3:30, Tumbleweed was the things blowing around you wanted. It’s a really nice calming song for Slipknot, really nice! Like your reaction to it, it was confusing, I don’t get the links but they must have had an aim for the message!

The vocals, particularly toward the end are just stunning

3:39 - that is exactly what has happened to her, she was made into a thing instead of a person and then discarded

Another great reaction. I personally like this one more than part 1, i think sometimes the softer Slipknot hits harder than the heavier one for me. If you want another cool part 1 - part 2 songs i recommend Tears Don't Fall part 1 (this one has a music video, short radio version as usual) and 2 by Bullet for my Valentine.

This was filmed out here in Ca.

I'm a little bit late to the party, but I really love your reactions ! And welcome to the Maggots family 🤘

Circle is my fav Slipknot acoustic song.

In terms of Corey, acoustic songs and his vocal abilities i cannot recommend the song Taciturn from his other band Stone Sour high enough. It's incredibly under-rated and there's a live version from the same HATED set where he performed Snuff which is just 🤌👌

There's a few Slipknot songs that initially sound like some form of unrequited love, but have an interesting or very dark twist on who or what the object of affection is. Killpop on first listen comes across as a toxic relationship, but it's not about a person. Prosthetic is more overtly covering the themes that these two songs are about...it's masterfully discordant and unsettling while still keeping you hooked

I love bloodstone remix in my teenage years... The whole Vermilion experiance is amazing!

This music video is iconic to me just because it's so haunting. I will never forget it. And obviously the song itself is one of my favorite songs in general, but the visuals with the song really makes it...well haunting is prety much the only way to describe it. The perfect combination to evoke that feeling.

I think this is the best song by Slipknot. Whenever I listen to her, I get goosebumps. I even want to shed a tear🥺❤☝

When he says "I won't let this build up inside of me" and each time he repeated it he got louder as it was building up inside of him.

That guitar chords gave me chills after all this years

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One of my favorites! You should absolutely do something live from them. I highly recommend Slipknot Spit It Out live at Download 2009

This song always makes me tear up but I love their harder songs

Corey Taylor has said this about this both parts of Vermillion "Vermilion Pt. 1' is about the enrapturing, the buildup, the anticipation and the neurosis, Part 2' is the aftermath, the pieces that have to be picked up later, and maybe the guilt of having lived through it."

Love the reactions!! I'd love if you reacted to my fav slipknot song the nameless is agressive but has a catchy chorus!

Love your reactions and think you could consider reacting to 3 strangers make awesome song. ❤

HE KILLED HER STREACHED COVERED IN HIS SHAM PHYSICAL EVDANCE. SHE IS COVERED IN HIS SHAME! BEAUTIFUL! LISTEN TO SNUFF ITS VERY BEAUTIFUL AS WELL. YES HE MADE HER PASS AWAY. IT CAN MUSIC IS LIKE THIS EVERYONE INTERPES MUSIC LYRICS DIFFERENTLY

Dead memories next. pls

Vermilion Pt. 2 is just Life put into a song!🤟❤🤘🥺

Just think about it, Pt1 is telling: "It's now or never, she is coming home... forever"

DEAD MEMORIESS NEXT PLEAEEEEEEEEE

Janna Bossier, is her name, apparently. She went on to go to tv shows. Made her mark in these first two Vermillion videos. She's great

She is like the bag from American Beauty. The story betwn Vermilion 1 and 2 is not that complicated. Its a very violent poetry about darkest desire and what comes of it.

Slipknot used Confusion and it’s super effective!

Also you should listen to slipknots song "circle" . It's beautiful and if you pay attention, his lyrics literally draw circles. It's amazing

dang, it's breezy in iowa.....

Whenever people say they don't like slipknot I send them this song so they can actually hear Corey's voice and they always love it

Part 1 is about a killer stalking a victim. The unlucky woman (victim) has had his (the killers) completely unrealistic and unreasonable wants and needs projected onto her from afar in his own head and now he stalks her looking for the right time to make his move, all the while building her up into something that can only exist in his head. He needs her to be all these things he wants but can't make her real no matter how hard he tries and how delusional he becomes. Part 2 is the aftermath of his "actions". Its the simultaneous relief and let-down that follows what was the "climax" of his twisted actions. Its the killer spending time with her after she's "gone" and still trying to make something out of his failure while at the same time reveling in what he perceives as his domination over her.

His Hair dye job is like NEXT LEVEL COOL 😎 to me.

you should check out 1"from can to can't" from the album Sound City from i believe 2012

GURL! U just baffled by the whole thing! Corey has a way of doing that w/ his vocals, he’s amazing! What I got out of this was, a past relationship that he can’t have he anymore. (She isn’t Real, I can’t make her real) 😢So, she has to be a past for him. And make her dead in his head. 😔

Have you done the devil and I yet. A very must see very horror, film vibes in the video but it’s good really good.

"Dried up bushes that roll around in the desert...." I think you're talking about tumbleweeds!!!

Next is sulfur 😎👊

the song was about a serial killer stalking his prey.

pt1 It’s a dream of someone who doesn’t exist pt2 it’s the same dream that becomes weaker through time since it can’t come true

Vermilion part1 is tells about the drugs addction almost killed Corey Taylor several times. the part two is about the acceptance and overrun. It's the calm down after passthrought from turmoil presented in the part 1.

Vermilion is a red pigment or color that I think signifies blood.

U know, i used to listen when i was young,the acoustic riff is so amazing,its really hard learn.... Remind me so many memories...thnks..greetings for Aizawl_Mizoram

React to Pt.3 or the Bloodstone Remix as they call it!

Great Rachel

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Other great accoustic song by Slipknot is Circle.

Rachel, the word you were looking for was… Tumbleweed 🤪

Daaamn she does read the comments

Yes it's Barbie she is dead here! Haunting and very beautiful yes!

Just a note for you, the video was based on a painting where the woman was kind of a kite. I looked it up a few years back but now I am having a hard time looking up the name of the painter.

Kinda a slower pace than usual, great song, TRIPPEEEEEE

My interpretation from the videos is in pt1 she feels alone there are all these people around her but no one seems interested in her she wants love but doesn't see it anywhere. In pt2 she has died and it is from the perspective of the ones she left behind and they are realizing what they lost. I think that's why she looks like an empty shopping bag blowing in the wind like discarded trash.

"The Devil In I" official music video

Please try Before I Forget and The Devil in I

Reaction "Inutilismo 2022 em uma música" {2022 in a song} .

Like number 500 😎

No part 3?

You can do the same thing with bodies in Fallout.❤

“Psychosocial” is my favorite song by them. Great song and reaction! They went through a weird phase and these songs make no sense! Great lyrics and backup vocals but weird videos!

At the beginning of Vermilion Part 1, you are worried she is dead and they were clay animating her. And then you struggled with coming to that conclusion in part two where it was actually happening.

It's her soul trying to escape, that's the whole video. She was murdered, and wanted to escape from the hell she was put through, but she can't.

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Because of you I started to like part 1. Funny enough I have never seen both music videos and also watched it because of you. Anyway which part did you like better? For me second part was always the better song. If you want more Slipknot I recommend Before I forget (they are unmasked..kinda), If you want another balladesque Slipknot there is Gehenna which is also awesome. From newer songs maybe Unsainted? If you like bands that are experimenting with stuff I recommend Bring Me the Horizon - check out their stuff it is almost everything good. 1x1, Parasite Eve, Dear Diary, Kingslayer and later compare it with their old songs. It would be welcome addition to your channel Ray 😃

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Swallow the Sun - Cathedral Walls :3

Feels like chasing a high. It isn't real you can't make it real.

it would be cool if she watched disasterpiece live in london 2002 so she is afraid of them again 🤣

Avril Lavigne is the girl in both videos if I'm not mistaken!

Sulfur!!!!!!!!!!! next!

Not sure if you’ve done these songs by slipknot by 3 great ones to do would be Sulfur, Unsainted, and the devil in I

Believe it or not Corey did not write the majority of their music. Usually Paul, Joey and Shawn wrote it. Now it is more Corey and Shawn. I gotta say though Corey is an incredible poet and SNUFF shows it perfectly.

My unrequested, barely-informed, overly personal interpretation: _Vermilion_ was about how when everything you feel is only varying amounts of hate, the crush you have on her _feels_ so close to an escape from that hate, but at some point, you realize who you're _seeing_ is not who you're looking at. Who you're _seeing_ is not real. That your _heart,_ bent on escaping the hate, has inadvertently actually set a trap. The instictual hormonal/pheromonal call and response has been used by your heart against your self-hating mind to get its emotional nails a grip under the mental scab and _(won't let this build up inside of me)_ open the self-loathing abscess to let it drain. A _(won't)_ spiteful will to live using any means necessary _(let this)_ to stop your depressed appetite for self-destruction. A false hope driving you to keep climbing for a _real_ hope. _Vermilion Pt. 2_ is about how, after the storm, after the break-up, after the end, even though it was wrong, it was not real, it was an illusion; it kept you going a _bit_ longer. Maybe things didn't get _good,_ but they got _better._ Sometimes, though, over the years, the winds of your thoughts sweep the plains of your mind, and they pick up the corpses you've left there. The false hopes. The childish things. The necessary means. The unjustified hates. The mistaken wants. You think about these things, float them before your mind's eye, turning them, twisting them through all axes... is there a new angle to see this from? Is there something new to learn from another observation? Is there more to understand about all this? Science is all about limited data describing unlimited concepts. Art is all about limited language describing unlimited feelings. Being human is all about knowing we don't know everything, but doing the best we can with what we do know. Maybe.

That's Janna Bossier she's an Actress

Please do tool sober Live perfomance

Rachel, I KNOW you've reacted to "Snuff". But, have you seen the "Snuff" mini movie? With Malcom McDowell? IF you "get it", I think it would explain quite a bit.(Corey IS the GIRL) It explains a lot. And it certainly trickles over into other band projects. NO MATTER HOW you look at it, in the long run, it does NOTHING to detract from Corey's talent. PERIOD!

He built up how she should be and react to him in his mind and when she didn't live up to what he had set out as what she should be to him being a homicidal maniac he killed her and left her body in a field. "She isn't real. I can't make her real" was the realization that what he had set out in his mind as who she was, was not her at all and when that happened he snapped. Not that the character was the most stable person to begin with i mean he killed her just because she didn't live up to his crazy expectation of what he thought she should be to him. Which is how all stalkers act and is a totally pathetic way to exist.

Here's my take. part 1 is about a woman that he becomes infatuated with, and he builds her up to be his ideal woman and obsesses over the image he created of her, and pursues her in a very obsessive and unhealthy way. The whole world is passing by so fast and all he can see is her. Part 2 is about that woman either failing to meet those imposed expectations, or in some way not being the girl he hoped for, maybe unrequited. The videography in pt2 shows that to me. The girl he created in his mind, he realized isn't a living breathing woman, and the whole song is him rationalizing and coping and attempting to "breathe life" into this woman who isn't actually alive, which follows along with the lyrics "she isn't real. I can't make her real" also "a song that no-one sings, the unattainable". I love the videography because it's like SOMETHING is trying to make the body move and stand upright but it's very unnatural and disturbing, which is reflected in the conflict that's going on in his mind when he's realizing that he's trying to twist this woman into being something he can never have

O clipe é estranho, mas ninguém liga pra clipe, vê a droga da música pow hahahaha

best song ever...but i dint understand what meaning in this song...need some one explain

Can you do johnnys revenge by ice nine kills?

Lol it's a stalking serial killer's pov b4 and after killing the chick.....in 1st vid everything around is moving at warp speed like obsessive racing thoughts, while 2nd vid is slow sad melancholic introspective tone of finality.

You are hearing it the wrong way! 😅 You should be a little bit wasted headback, closed eyse and enjoying that masterpice!!!

You can try to hear surfacing

Have you thought of reacting to any Linkin Park? Given up is a good harsh one to start with. The Messenger might be a good sad one

Dead Memories

01:42 xD

Most straightforward interpretation is memory. A "dead thing" that "dances in the wind" "Well it didn't seem to smile on us those days Now it seemed to smile on us those days" shout out to Sikth The breeze as a symbol for "what will pass" [etc] being a stand in for the stream of consciousness that pulls towards longing, as it "picks up" and "plays with" this thing that once was. At the emotional height of the vocal performance the eyes almost open, as if you can see it all again, but then it quickly fades again. Pretty sure one can go deep on a good bit of Slipknot stuff but this one seems like it can be boiled down pretty simple, at least with regards to the rough theme