Opening shot shows a buck with golden horns which is Slovene folklore. Beautiful.

The world needs more Laibach diplomacy

Laibach refusing all norms yet again, legendary.

In my humble opinion, Laibach is one of the most underrated band in the history of music. I hope time will make a difference.

3:31 that's one of the most genuine,direct & beautiful hand gestures happening between cross-genre artists while showing respect and love towards each other. We need more of this.

Only Laibach could get away with something like this

This is truly one of the most amazing music videos ever made. Only Laibach could go to North Korea and do this. Not because Laibach is subversive. No, they were able to go to NK to perform and film because they went with love in their hearts. I don't think the song/video is about the NK government. I think it as about the people. No matter what the government of NK does to them. No matter how much the rest of the world treats NK like villains. The sound of music still exists in the hearts of the people. The people still want to sing and listen to music. Their lives have been hard, but the people of NK will survive. The people will still exist after the government is long gone.

I don't no why, but my eyes fill with tears. The Beauty.

While the labyrinth of ideological implications embedded in this video are fascinating, I think one of its core intentions is made absolutely and apparently clear in the cinematography: There is a consistent and conscious effort to maximally emphasize the humanity of the individuals portrayed. All of the shots and cuts were clearly chosen with that angle in mind. This can't be unintentional because almost all other footage outsiders get to see of North Koreans depict them as a faceless mass with either no expressions or painfully artificial behavior. This is most likely the image that the regime itself seeks to project as well, seeing as they are most often the primary source of these clips. As a South Korean who is exposed to such depictions quite frequently, I can tell you the contrast is visceral.

That has to be the most bizarre thing I've watched in a long time. Fantastic.

when I heard the first part of the song I was stunned, and when Fras started singing along, I was even more overwhelmed. Simply superb! someone has to give them a medal or something...

I can't stop watching this video. This is so incredible. I want to be an artist like Laibach when I grow up.

God damn it Laibach. Why do you have to make my brain think so much?

This sounds so romantic,it makes you FALL IN LOVE with Laibach❤

This is one of the best songs I've heard in a long time

I've never heard of this band before it popped up on my Spodify "Discover Weekly" list with this song. This is incredible! I can't believe I've never heard of them before! Love this, love what they did, and love that they were able to bring their style to a place that needs it so desperately!

This is pure brilliance....im close to tears....just unbelievable stuff!

Великолепный звук и музыка ! Браво Лайбах!

Perfectly filmed and edited piece of video... One of the best I've ever seen.

heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time ... there is nothing on the the planet like LAIBACH.

I never imagined that i could bear the sound of music, God bless Laibach!!!

I watched this like a thousand times and I still can't figure out how some people in these comments come to see it as an ode to dprk. Maybe the imagery isn't completely obvious for someone who never experienced totalitarian culture first hand. But the the musical language is pretty damn clear. There really isn't any mystery or double meaning here. The vid is simply about the beauty of a tragedy.

Thanks Laibach for more one "wondeful" music, many hugs from Sâo Paulo - Brazil

This song is the essence of Laibach no doubt with full of ambivalent feelings

It's really beautiful. It's social commentary but has compassion and respect. I can't categorize it. It's really what I love about art.

2020 anyone? this’s a contemporary video art to me

everytime... tears in my eyes...

One of my favorite Videos on KZfaq. It symbolises humaneness for me.

A good soundtrack to a challenging time in the human narrative. May love and the sound of music ring.

I'm overwhelmed with beauty... and concern. Perfect version for the modern world.

This unironically made me want to visit Pyongyang

This is why I pay internet for

Masterpiece. Very atmospheric

This is a freaking masterpiece. It is so meta I do not know how to begin. I got my opinion on the political orientation of Laibach but regardless, I gotta hand it to them. This was a total homerun. 1. If we were talking about any other band, this would be a normal '80s style promotional tour video. But we are talking about Laybach so this is just layer one. 2. The song on its own is a happy one but the plot of the movie is not a happy one and the real story of the family is not a happy one. Layer two 3. There is music-lyric dissonance as is the usual case with Laibach songs. Happy lyrics/rough industrial music. This creates some extra doubt on whether what you are hearing is actually happy. Maybe it is... Maybe not... And this is where it gets interesting. Layer 3 Now the good stuff: What do all the above mean? a.)Played straight it is a Laibach style love letter to Korea. One can perceive it this way. After all, it is just a cover of a happy song with a nice happy video on the background. b.) Played ironically, given the dark undertone of the movie, the hard tunes of Laibach music and the stylized orderly happy people, it can be viewed as a critique. c.) What if point b is right but it is not a critique but a love letter nevertheless. What if this is the laibach way of saying "We love you" to a regime of their liking in Laibach style? d.) What if point and b are both right but instead of being a love letter to the regime, it is actually a love letter to the people and a critique to the regime? e.) What if it is a combination of the above? And there are two more considerations. 1.) How do the political convictions of Laibach fit into this? If they are fascists, this can be a critique of a communist dystopia or alternatively it can be a love letter since Laibach recognise that what they saw in North Korea is not communism but fascism and thus to their liking. If they are anti-authoritarian, this is obviously a critique of the regime. 2.) Laibach have stated something in the lines of "North Korea reminds us of Yugoslavia". What does this mean? Is this a good thing because those were the good old days? Is it a bad thing because Yugoslavia was run by an oppressive backward regime which went up in flames? Given that Laibach were harassed by the police back in those days, as far as Laibach are concerned, the answer is probably that the Yugoslavia reference is not a positive one at all. But it is still in the eye of the beholder and they definitely played with their audience and the N.Korea regime.

What the author wanted to say, the teacher will ask us. The author wanted to say a commonplace that our whole life is a theater.

The most original video I have seen in years. Great job!!

This makes me feel so warm in the inside and I don't know why

Laibach did the right thing.

Libach shall be remembered unto every century to come, until Mankind is no more!

My heart wants to sigh like a chime That flies from a church on a breeze!!!!!!!!!!!

Impressive, beautiful both song and video.

I just watched a Liberation Day documentary and this is just amazing 🙏 Laibach is legend ❤️

Odlicno..Laibach the best

LAIBACH AND THE SOUND OF MUSIC! 😎...no words

At 3:50 Milan Fras is smiling! Impossible! Anyways, I highly value that this piece came to exist and the effort that my dear Slovenes put into this. κῦδος

i am still right here, and where the hell is the audience it deserves? this is a masterpiece.

Talented singers!

That being said... phenomenal. Can't stop thinking about the kids in this video and I just hope they are doing well.

This is the best on so many levels, meta and otherwise.

People complaining that the Laibach video doesn't align with their personal politics lol

How wonderful of the North Koreans to invite Laibach to their country. That is such a meaningful compliment and honour.

Wow... Just wow.

My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds That rise from the lake to the trees The hills are alive with the sound of music With songs they have sung for a thousand years The hills fill my heart with the sound of music My heart wants to sing every song it hears My heart wants to sigh like a chime That flies from a church on a breeze The hills are alive with the sound of music With songs they have sung for a thousand years The hills fill my heart with the sound of music My heart wants to sing every song it hears My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds That rise from the lake to the trees My heart wants to sigh like a chime That flies from a church on a breeze I go to the hills when my heart is lonely To laugh like a brook when it trips I know I will hear what I've heard before And falls over stones on its way My heart will be blessed with the sound of music To sing through the night And I'll sing once more Like a lark who is learning to pray

Ono što niko ne može, može Lajbah!

I love how Fras looks like he doesn't know where he is or what he is supposed to do at cca 2:23

People constantly trying to work out if this is a critique or support, if they are communists or fascists or anarchists or whatever. I think they're just human. It's a joyful, human music - with a joyful, beautiful aesthetic. And by enjoying the aesthetic in complete isolation from whatever policies the regime enacts - that's the subversive and radical element. They're reintroducing the simplicity of human joy.

Long empty roads, yet still a lonesome super-responsible traffic woman is carrying out her duty in the middle of the deserted road. Lifts her arms 3 times per 2 days in the right direction and with militaristic precision. Yes, must have been in NK for definite.

I have a bad cold now and can totally imitate Milan! Woohoo!

Che meraviglioso Ordine..

*MACHINES WE ARE SENDING TO THE SKIES~* oh wait, wrong video

bunch of geniuses

Wow, this is magnificent!

Im in tears

This is so heart warming

Pure Genius.

Thank you for waiting until you were safe for this. This is monumental. A true insight, against the appeasers and appologists, strong with iron conscience like your band has always been. Thank you also for your bravery in traveling to DPRK.

I love it! Human music!!

The song inspires the nostalgia of a past and a life that we don't have, but you could have had if you were born in North Korea. We don't really know because we are not N. Koreans,,,,but actually we know, because we are all humans.

Wzgórza są żywe dzięki dźwiękom muzyki Dzięki piosenkom, które śpiewały przez tysiące lat Wzgórza wypełniają me serce dziękami muzyki Moje serce chce śpiewać każdą piosenkę, którą słyszy Moje serce chce bić jak skrzydła ptaków Które wznoszą się z jeziora w kierunku drzew Moje serce chce westchnąć jak melodia, która rozbrzmiewa Z kościelnej wierzy unoszona wiatrem Cieszyć się jak potok, który płynie i przewraca Kamienie na własnej drodze Westchnąć poprzez noc, jak skowronek, który uczy się śpiewać Idę na wzgórza, gdy moje serce jest samotne Wiem, że usłyszę to, co usłyszałam wcześniej Moje serce zostanie pobłogosławione dźwiękami muzyki I zaśpiewam po raz kolejny - www.tekstowo.pl/piosenka,julie_andrews,the_sound_of_music.html - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a8x4ZamA05e6ZZs.html

Masterpiece

This is NSK's first big move for peace, understanding and cultural exchange inbetween peoples. This tickles the UN and produces on them the yellowest smile. Going as far as to where you're the least expected (just like when the Pistols went touring Dixie), is an act of benevolent courage, faithful to an higher understanding of life on the planet.

When my Korean students ask me what the meaning of juxtaposition is, I send then this video.

Outstanding and beautiful

This is just simply stunning. New Laibach fan here.

La mélodie du bonheur nord-coréen.

Never break kayfabe guys. So great

It's insane that they actually were allowed to perform in North Korea

This whole album is so rich in messaging and the videos executed so well. Having grown up in Salzburg and a long time ago read Maria von Trapp's memoir describing life complexity. It isn't always pretty, in fact quite ugly at times. The history of Yugoslavia/Slovenia, the relationship to Austria in the Carinthia region, going back to WWII and the Nazi suppression, the history and oppression of N. Korea, and bringing it till today with N. Korea and the USA making for strange but obscenely fitting bedfellows. Juxtaposing the so very manicured cultural surface of a dictatorship, the striving for perfection of Asian cultures in mastering Western culture. And master they do to impeccably, most precise execution, yet still a world away from the soul of it. Also, reading the interviews and descriptions of N. Korean censors' desires to drop Milan's Fras' performance, "his voice - a deep growl - sounded uncannily like Kim Il-sung, the grandfather of the current ruler Kim Jong-un, singing and might disturb the audience." Classic Laibach!

so brillant

amazing and beautiful

This is powerful stuff and beautifully performed.

Laibach: *The Sound of Music* Me: *The flavour of taste*

What a fascinating video and song

WOW! I was studying about the slovenian new art and the logarithm brought me to this incredible video. That's stunning!

What Laibach did proves that's there's no border for music, if the music speaks for ppl and a lot of respect for all those who make it happen, it should have been such a challenge but they did it!

Excellent. Respect.

la mejor cancion del mundo

Лайбах это одна из самых загадочных групп в мире!

This is the only version of the song that I've liked. Loved Laibach since 1985.

boris benko great singer👍

Laibach....don't ever leave!

Morro de vontade de visitar a Coréia do Norte, bonito clipe, é de emocionar

Beautiful footage

My heart!

Черт возьми!! Это ахриненно!!!!

it was such a brilliant concert

This is so surreal Dali eat your heart out

Pure art

humanity finds a way

My parents and there whole generation got raised and lived in the socialist part of Germany. They got brainwashed from day 1 of there birthday. Everything was about the party and to obey to the government. The music they have listened to transported a different opinion and worldview. You know what they all listened to? Queen, Depeche Mode, David Bowie, New Order, Sex Pistols, Coldplay, Michael Jackson... The Music had a huge impact on the revolution in Germany in 1989 and that is the reason why im really hard impressed with Laibach. They try to bring the children of Northkorea a different View. They all probably never listened to such music. They were for sure shocked and it will stay in their mind. Concerts like these can have a huge impact. Laibach you are great :)