I've listened to the song over 75 times now and I have to say we didn't discuss the lyrics much in this video, mostly cause we we're just blown away by it. However I feel like this song is written so perfectly I have to give some credit to it. If his album is going to be on this level it will be one for in the history books. absolutely stunning song

Most of us were caught off-guard during our first listen. Joji really did leave us speechless sometimes

It feels like this song has to be played with the video to fully understand. To me it's like coping with a heartbreak that causes so much pain by any means necessary. Even if it's by causing chaos.

the musicvideo basically has multiple of those people going through the emotions of the song, heartbroken and at a shitty place trying to cope with those feelings by being crazy (which is where a lot of behavior like that stems from for a lot of people, coping with bad situations) and in the end one of the guys (yellow guy) actually becomes emotionally distant with the group as he probably comes to accept his feelings.

Joji is legitimately a genius. Never seen music be turned into art so perfectly

as somebody who used to be an addict for a long time. and lived a life kind of similar way to the people in the video. there's something about the combination of the music and the video really captures the entire feeling of how empty and sad living like that is. masterful work

Your mom’s reaction was pretty much how I felt when I saw the video for the first time. I cried ugly. The video has so many visual clues as to the message Joji wants to share. Lost innocence, fear, anger, hopelessness, pride, ego and love. He knew he had love and he let it go. He mourns what he had. He knew he had it good and he mucked it up. God this kid is a musical genius.

The video fits perfectly. It's a beautiful description of what unhealthy coping looks like. Self destruction because the one that kept you together is the one that got away.

I’m of the opinion that the video fits the song perfectly. He could have done his usual music video style with him in a suit but the way he did this music video much more accurately displays the emotions to a real world setting, and the video tells a story within the 3 minutes it rolls.

The video isn't real. I mean, it's a real video but it's acted out brilliantly. I found a behind the scenes video that was basically just a montage from instagram of them creating the video. Every single person in that video deserves an award

The imo is about how heartbreak can lead a person to do reckless things just to get over it. He starts having fun at first but the more he does it the more he doesnt want to and the more he misses him. Thats why our main character (guy in the yellow) stops partaking in the recklessness and just stares at the sky or watches. He gets angry with himself, starts to try to better himself, fails, resorts to salvaging the relationship, fails, tries to get back up but just like quicksand, the more you struggle the faster you sink. This song is truly amazing.

The purpose or reason behind the video in the background is to show this group of young guys who are unhappy in life, in a bad situation, pulled the short end of the stick, and now they act out, do bad things, etc. to try and mask and hide their true feelings of loneliness and sadness, it is truly heartbreaking. Some speculate Joji when he was FilthyFrank is similar to this, because he was acting all crazy and stuff on the internet to mask how he truly was feeling, and it is reflected in this song and his music in whole.

First of all I loved y’all’s reaction, this is by far my favorite joji song video especially because of its found footage format just like ‘Gimme Love’ had. I’m with Mama Taunt on this one crying on my first reaction as well 😭 and the fact that she gave it a 10 is a W for Joji’s music.

It's a reflection of depression , heartbreak , anger , hate . A destructive lifestyle that comes along with self hatred . I feel this video , with the song along with it makes it pure art , a reality for alot of us that have a pure hatred towards the world due to our past . In this he is talking about the woman he has lost , his real true love . He goes through other woman trying to fund her again but never will . Love is still there but shrouded in a world of hurt , we don't want to go on but we do and fill our lives with chaos instead , self destruction. I watch this and cry my eyes out because me and my other broken brothers are all there for each other but we're alone , we cry on each others shoulders , we fight we drink and destroy everything around us because that's what our minds have come too , my mind is this video . I hope others that feel like this somehow find there way

For me this song is really on another level. This year totally showed me how life can be cruel to us, break up, mom of my ex passed away, she is already in another relation. For me mv is just what is happening in the head of people who suffer after a breakup. Chaos, just pure chaos. And you don't know what to do with yourself anymore. Thank you, both, of your reaction. Let's hope this year will end trully in better way than it started.

I also think the animals living with them despite their living conditions actually shows that they still are soft at heart, going along with how they were able to fall in love in the past and foreshadow how theyre still able to but just not the right way. And they know what caused these heartbreaks and what ruined everything but are just trapped by reality. The only thing they can do is just repeat the same mistakes through violence and anger cuz they know that they cant do anything about it in the right way.

1. Your mom is clearly a very sweet person 2. Her music taste is great

U can see the way that the music flows in ur moms mind, and that's a thing that makes my day, seeying somebody actually loving a song, is just beautifull. Ty Taunt. Ty momma Taunt

What I believe the message of the video is portraying is like we just lose ourselves and try to make ourselves happy in other ways but the thought of it missing that person we just can't stay happy because that person made us so happy, so we lose control thus the out-of-control behavior of those people. Also, theirs a specific part where the person messages the person saying "imissu" Trying to find a distraction but just can't manage to do it.

I love your mother's reaction. She reminds me of the kind ladies who used to look over me growing up in school

I really liked this song, I hope it's on the new album

You can see the difference between perspectives of the two viewers. A young person who hasn't experienced as much heartbreak and someone who has had their fair share of separations.

Your mom seems so sweet, you both seem to have beautiful complicity, I love this, it's very wholesome

I’m happy that you have such a comfortable & cool relationship w your mother. Reacting to a song like this together is amazing! Good work you earned a subscriber

What a wholesome mother ❤️! She understands the life

Honestly the music video explained so much. What he’s going though. Depression, he’s destructive but is still trying to handle it. Sometimes we have to look deeper into things.

The video is describing Jojis life before he changed to the man he is now. He lived a chaotic and damaging life and lost everything including his first love because of this life. The song describes that now in his changed life with his new perfect girlfriend she is not the same as his first love and she never will be.

You guys are the best! I loved this song too, the video really made it come together for me.

Amazing mom!!!! 🥹❤️her reaction is amazing

I lost someone so precious to me 2 years ago. I could never express the pain that I felt by losing her. There were never the right words to describe it. Until I heard this song. The first time I listened to this song, I couldnt stop crying. Because this is how loss and regret feels.

I took the video and song being at such a contrast as Joji trying to show how someone who might externally look okay publicly, and acting crazy with their friends like nothing is wrong. But the actual song is how that person is feeling internally. It’s like the conflict of coping with a break up trying to not seem weak but feeling completely defeated inside.

The music HIGHLY compliments the music to it. His mom understood. The music over the moment. How everyone feels. In our own world as it flashes and goes by. Such hectic life…but the back of our mind and behind our actions is our heart.

This song really represented how joji sometimes felt about his past. Most of the clips form the video are from his last videos (past life). The song and the lyrics showcase how all he feels is regret but at the same time misses the old days.

love this vibe about you and your mom's reaction keep it real!!

I think the video just wants to make it clear that sometimes love can destroy you and lead you to live a life like the people we see in the video...

long time no see im glad you too are still healthy you guys still make amazing videos as always ❤

love the energy of this vid

Personally this song came out at such a time of anxiety and misery. Watching the MV is relatable because doing stupid shit late at night and acting out to stay distracted but on the inside hurting like nothing before especially when we’re alone. We don’t want to show emotion or speak to people at times. Listening to it more and reading the lyrics opens it up more and more.

The video is about someone doing chaotic things to deal with heartbreak. As the video goes on, it starts to unravel and gets more dramatic. Like for example when you see him messaging her saying that he misses her. Everything leading up to it is basically his way of coping. Drinking, smashing things up, travelling, etc. I was confused as well at first, but then it made sense.

I cried when I first heard this song it hit hard on so many levels joji is truly talented beautiful man and the video somehow fit beautifully to the song

i know a group of guys who actually live like this. they have a lot of fun but are struggling with life. everyone involved with this song and music video deserves a grammy

Your mom is so cool and lovely. I hope to see a lot of Joji Reactions from you guys in the future

For me the video means guys that are broken inside,that live that way to fill their life...

My Pov : the MV is filthyFrank vibe. And its been a more than a year since he quit and start his career as joji. So its about his old character

hes just so amazing

this is the first song of Joji that I've heard. I didn't know him before that. God, I love this song, such a great work

I'm glad you made this

It's beautiful though how you're taking such deep note of this video and it does matter when u said maybe you looking into this too deep it's beautiful that you're taking such deep "note"

you guys has great reactions.

literally anybody could cry in this song😿

What i took form the music video is sort of the turmoil you feel inside as you try and cope with the heartbreak of a lost true love. You try and move on, but inside its just them you think of. You replay the happy times, the sad times and the aftermath of your anger

Loved your reaction. Your mom reaction was real and so adorable.

Tears in my eyes when i listen this song. its such a masterpiece..

No matter how hard these guys seem they still think about love and regret. The antics are usually a release for things like depression and with the wrong ones around it spirals like this. Potentially one of these guys are singing this I'm the back of his head

if i remember right, i think they (being joji or i guess maybe a team or smth) filmed almost everything in the mv themselves cause i saw a different video on tiktok of a girl who was feature very briefly in the video saying she was just approached by a guy with a camcorder and asked to just. do things for it so its all basically authetic footage id assume which kinda makes it hit more imo

This song and video made perfect sense to me the first time I saw it. But it wasnt on a logical level, but more an emotional one. Reminded me a lot of my early 20s actually. Being so depressed and living in the chaos to feel something. Random intense waves of depression. Dissociation. Drugs. Alcohol. I honestly find the darkness in this video beautiful. I dont know what he was trying to capture, but it definitely made me feel it.

i also love the caos of the video, and his beautiful voice

I have always said this since I heard this: ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SONGS FOR THE BROKEN HEARTS.

Would be great a first listen without stoping and then coming back to specific moments. Your mom was so into the song that she started crying and you broke up that moment. Great video by the way, keep going! ❤️

If you have lived this type of life of chaos you understand the brotherhood and silent pain that comes with all of it. It may seem to some like the video and song dont match but they really do. For me this song hit very close to home and the video put me right there in that time and moment where my chilldhoood trauma met becoming a man and the destruction, beauty, comraderie, and heartbreak of that feel so captured here.

I feel like the video portrays how something beautiful can come from utter chaos. Like a juxtaposed perspective on beauty and the inspiration behind it.

This video is really perfect for someone like myself that lived a destructive life like they people in the music video. The song with the video makes a lot of sense when you can relate with the lifestyle in that video.

This is awesome

.. the connection to the song and video is phenomenal. Well done joji 🫡🥺❤️

How are they so dense. The video it’s pretty explanatory. The fall on to a spiral of degeneracy because a bad break up. The feeling of losing yourself. It contrasts well to the softness of the song.

I feel like it's about the self destruction a person puts themselves through when they lose someone who was truly good for them because of the prior self destructive behavior. Like the whole right person wrong time situation...

the video is essentially the guy and his life on the surface (chaotic, fun, adventurous, free) and the lyrics to the song is what's going on in his head. the video shows the contrast of what people show you and portray while feeling something completely different inside. He's depressed, which is why he wakes up late, sits by himself when the car burn(something that's supposed to be a moment with his friends). at some point they even ask if he's okay but he brushes it off and just does pullups instead but he couldn't even bring himself to complete it because he misses her.

Thats what i feel when i hear this songs on a first time

Your mom is so amazing 🥺💖

Ofc i feel that feeling too

Lovely reaction with mom. Need more.

The first time I seen this video I felt an instant connection, some of us are a lot like Frank. That doesn't mean that we don't have a beautiful voice inside, it just means that we weren't meant for this world, but we're here and trying to make the best of it. Possibly we're from the same universe as GWAR

I like that his mum has so much more understanding of what the song is about

Yeyyyyyyy I'm glad there's another Joji reaction

This is a nice recovery from Nectar, really one of his best works.

Dude... I ugly cried when i first heard this.. Watching the video and slowly seeing the breaking of his heart.. Man I've felt that hard.. I still cry my eyes out when I hear this.. It lets out those feelings just pour out. The sound and the words.. Damn man..

The video basically describes the deep broken depressed state a person can be in from pain/trauma. The careless,self-destructive, numbing, not caring of what actions are done or the consequences, the suicidal thoughts , the constant distraction to keep goin but nothing takes your mind away from whats bothering you, like where the camera pans at one of them constantly keeping his head down while squatting. Jojis songs and lyrics always hit when you feel it.

Here’s what I think is going on in the music video. From watching the music video in my opinion I believe the guy in yellow is the one that is you can say the main character. He is doing all these crazy antics and crazy things with his groups of friends to numb the feelings he has and to distract himself from what he is feeling. Later on in the video I start to notice he is not really partaking in the activities and everything is just hitting him and he can’t handle it anymore. In one frame it shows “what does a woman want in a man” he may feel as tho he wasn’t enough , that he messed up and ofc going thru all the emotions you would feel after any hard break up. (Great reaction to the video btw)

when watching the video I took it as thru want to be who they are as a person when with their friends but they're trapped under a rock from being who they are and who they want to be with. a mental tear apart thats covered by the things they do together as friends pushing the hurt away. But just the song alone you can tell it's someone in a relationship still wanting and missing another and can't stop thinking about them even after trying to move on.

I knew right away what was going on. Lived a life similar to this

You have such a beautiful friendship with your mother. I really miss this feelings 😢😢

The video is so good. The chaos in his mind. The destruction

“This is the most beautiful song…” that is what I wanted to hear her say. And she said it.

Your mom and I had the exact same reaction. This video made me subscribe! Keep up the good work!

My interpretation of the song is that the people in the music vid are coping with being heartbroken and then being depressed and wanting to have company but at the same time wanting to be alone and joji is relaying it masterfully through the song

Glimpse of us is amazing

bless you mom

brooooooo she cryed omg i'm melting this is so cute

I think the point of the chaos of this video is to be juxtaposed with the longing and love of the lyrics of this song.

This video was actually the first time I've seen the music video (i didn't know there was one) and holy shit it adds such a "we're surviving the chaos with you means more than an easy life" feeling. I think there is a decent argument to the idea that Joji has an internal draw to show that the disorganized and less than 'optimal' lifestyle still has an intense beauty.

The Best audiovisual that i never see before

This music video correlates with Joji's actual past living conditions, and when he was in such a low low in his life, the light he had was this ex-girl, and now that he is in a better place, and in a better relationship he can't help but wish that the girl he is with now was the one that helped him through those hard times, he keeps looking back in his past relationship and mourns that although he may not be over this girl, we're sure that she is far gone and there's no chance to ever get her back again, but he will always get see glimpse of him and her, even while with his current partner.

The video is showing how self destructive a heart break makes us and we act in these violent ways just to deal with the pain of feeling unloved

the chaos situation present the struggle emotion behind a sad person.

The way I interpret the video with the animals in the house is finding beauty in the chaos, he says something about perfect ain’t working so maybe it’s like no matter how hard you try sometimes things just aren’t meant to be and he’s living that reality

The song and the video fit. Letting go and loosing control after a bad break up.

to me the video seems like a circle of self harm without directly harming yourself, yellow knows he's hurting himself but doesnt want to stop so he can flood out his pain and its a dark reality no artist has ever depicted this well before

This video makes perfect sense. For those who’ve had a break up. Life becomes chaotic and your life feels ruined

Have heard this Song plenty of times and all I can feel Is the pain of losing someone

The song itself fits the video so well if you actually look deeper in the video there is alot alot thats fits perfectly