this dress is everything

@MimsCreativeArtistry

4 жыл бұрын

I've been trying to figure out who designs it for years!! I want it in black 🤤

8 years later this is still one of the best videos i've ever seen

@vincetheodore1273

2 жыл бұрын

And one of the greatest songs ever created

@julznixon4282

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't know it was that old. I just heard it last year.

@Vanesal7

2 ай бұрын

14 years later it is still one of the best for me too

This video has many metaphors. He is Sadness, the people who try to stop her are things like (just an example) job, problems, dysfunctional love, and the people around too, but problems not so hard. She stares at sadness like confronting it, she drinks, she laughs at it, she dances and doesn't care if sadness and her problems see her, she tries to be happy. Then the hardest problems try to stop her, try to manipulate her, try to make her do what they want. She fights them, she wants to be happy. But Sadness stands, Sadness won't let them hurt her, she fights Sadness, she wants to avoid Sadness, but she realizes Sadness is inevitable, Sadness will always be there. Sadness is a way to let your waters flow, to let things out. Sadness embraces her, she is safe. Sadness is not bad after all. Sadness is a Blessing.

@asmaaom

9 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh I love what u wrote!!! It makes sense!

@JustAnndo

9 жыл бұрын

***** some people see through and some people don't, that doesn't make them dumbs. People see things different.

@garu4962

9 жыл бұрын

I loved you vision of it, but I, personally, prefere to think that the other people are just real people around her judging her for all the sadness she has. Just like someone with depression and people are like "c'mon get over it"

@RandyLeeLee

9 жыл бұрын

Dang , That was deep man. I already loved this song but that gave me a completely new understanding of it,so I thank you for that! Its amazing how we can all interpret things differently.

@SkyeMpuremagic

9 жыл бұрын

Beautiful interpretation :) Thank you for sharing your thoughts on it...

A lot of people see the older man as her father. Maybe he is. I see him as her "boyfriend", as her sadness. It is old and heavy and grey, you know it isn't right for you... but it's also familiar, strangely comforting and sometimes you just give in and let it take control... You can read so many things in this video, I think it's quite beautiful x

@seanmcguire7974

4 жыл бұрын

I saw him as her bf too

@nadinerick1182

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, her „boyfriend“. Whose name is depression. Like, they are familiar with each other, he’s her friend, but he’s also someone who holds her back. Toxic and comfortable at the same time.

@starlisamarietube

Жыл бұрын

I see my past relationship and he was 3 years younger

@medicixxvl3126

11 ай бұрын

Boyfirend for the context of the song lyrically. I know this all too well.

@THCarballo

8 ай бұрын

alluring explanation!

That butler is the most butlerishy butler I ever saw in my entire life. I hope that actor gets to play a butler for the rest of his life. Amen.

@righttoleft7936

2 жыл бұрын

I guess if Tariq Saleh was going to put his name on a music video production, he was going to make sure everything in the scene was perfect, starting with casting.

Stellan Skarsgard is so ridiculously handsome

@mollyoneye

8 жыл бұрын

+aeroga he's too sexy, he shouldnt be let out lol ._ hes great in BBC River, wow he can sing and dance...

@brandononce3114

6 жыл бұрын

I love his paper in Melancholia

@PrincessOfPotatoes

5 жыл бұрын

I mean he did create such a hot family

@carlapetorutti1808

5 жыл бұрын

I love him

@user-hf5tz7to3v

5 жыл бұрын

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Those eyes of Stellan 's OMG.. Stunning

People who have never felt this way, will never know how hard it is and sometimes think you just want to get attention, thanks for this song.

There's something totally enchanting about the way she drinks and dances. She's absolutely gorgeous. Beautiful video and a song.

Lykki Li is a true artist and her videos are art masterpieces in motion.

Laughed in the beginning (because of the awkward tension), cried at the end. God, I love this singer, she has a spot in my heart next to Susanne Sundfor.

@thedoublechip

3 жыл бұрын

YES!

I’m a middle-aged man, but Lykke Li’s, Björk’s and PJ Harvey’s songs about love, heartbreak and sadness speak to me like no other.

@vulnikkura

9 ай бұрын

You have good taste

@user-ci2dp6yr9d

5 ай бұрын

Same page man, have to add Cat Power also

@katstephenson8493

Ай бұрын

Polly every time for me.☮️🇬🇧

To those of you who have no idea what this is all about. The guy is sadness. She is trying to convince him to stop holding on to her by showing him what he does to her. She is trying to dance away the problems, run, drink a smile about all what makes her usually cry... but in the end, we all end up in the arms of sadness because it defines who we are. It is a part of us.

Today December 23rd 2021 we lost the amazing writer Joan Didion. Through this song we remember her. Lykke Li was inspired by Didion's book "The Year of magical thinking" to write this masterpiece. Lykke has quoted Didion a few times in her interviews. Lykke introduced me to Didion and I thank her. Rest in peace, Joan Didion.

She so before her time, timeless artist and true old soul

Life is not about wishing storms to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain.

@EarthArchangel

6 жыл бұрын

Beautifully said

@mariadamedecoeur

5 жыл бұрын

I used to know how to dance in the rain but life made me forgot about it 😥

@olgah25

5 жыл бұрын

When we choose not to focus on what’s missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present… we experience heaven on earth.

@gunabaphie3045

5 жыл бұрын

Everybody's ended up speaking in facebook-post speak. It's twee. Personally, any post that starts "Life is about..." makes my toes curl.

@italo__lacerda

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Sadness makes people so uncomfortable. But it needs to be embraced or it festers and drives you crazy. Such a well made video...

Sometimes, love hurts so much, that you never feel as alive as when you're truly sad or desperate, after having your heart broke. Sadness is a blessing, because it feeds you with so many feelings, it allows you to feel something inside, something you'd never feel with only happiness in your life.

Lykke Li is a blessing

@lucentics

3 жыл бұрын

we exist

This is me when I'm at family dinners.

@zjedztruskawki

9 жыл бұрын

***** haha same here!! :D

@PiraClue

9 жыл бұрын

***** hahah, your comment made my day!

@HAngeli

8 жыл бұрын

+PiraClue Yeah! Mine too!

@luluquintero1390

8 жыл бұрын

+Ian Valero jajjajajaajaja:)

@onlythelonely93

8 жыл бұрын

+Ian Valero I pour a glass of wine everytime one of my aunts asks me where my boyfriend's at

Skarsgård is a genius actor !!!

I am 20 years old and during my life I've been always trying to fight sadness somehow but it always comes back. Sadness and loneliness seem to be the only friends are always around. I identify a lot with this video... No matter how much you dance and/or try to fight it (be positive), it will always embrace you one way or another

@miguelpastran4127

7 жыл бұрын

Gabriel Wayne It will get better, somehow, eventually. Hugs.

@GabrielCastillo

7 жыл бұрын

it does. thanks my friend

@ddxoxo2

5 жыл бұрын

So effffin true. One day I can be happy as hell dancing in my room then the next day crying in the train

@fazienova4241

5 жыл бұрын

No it’s just a lie , it will never get better , sadness will always come back

@leeboycharming759

5 жыл бұрын

+fazie nova only of you allow it

This is such a beautiful video. And seriously, depending on my mood, it got different layers for me. I used to think it's about depression, but it's only depression when you let the waiters dictate the way you are allowed to feel and behave. However, in this video, she refuses to let herself be guided to her place. Instead, her dancing looks as if she neither wants to deal with either sadness or depression (the suppression of negative feeling, which in the end results in the suppression of ALL feelings as well), until Sadness approaches her and helps her to calm down again. I think that's the lesson after all: LET sadness be close to you. All those other people, so well-behaved and composed... they don't react to her display at all. They are emotionally numb. The trouble is, they don't feel sadness, but neither do they seem to enjoy anything anymore. So, no matter how much it hurts, choose sadness. It's your friend.

I have a crush o Lykke and on the entire Skarsgard family

@thepomafame8736

6 жыл бұрын

Maria M. Alex, Bill

@uhuraenterprise6372

6 жыл бұрын

Maria M. Me too

@Catglittercrafts

6 жыл бұрын

Maria M. Wait wait wait, they are related????

@catania3837

5 жыл бұрын

April R no they're nor

This remains the most beautiful video i've ever seen.

This lady is fantastic. She has renewed my hope for imaginative great sounding music in the 21st century.

So many songs stay forgotten in the clutter of daily produced music for the masses, shamefully not heard and enjoyed. Shame, because songs (and videos) like this definitively deserve far more attention..

it's been years but this song still continues to play in my head...

I love her album concepts :) This song is great though and if you listen to each album you can tell how much her voice has developed. Just stunning, unique and underrated by a lot of people. Then again I like her to be a secret indulgence that not everyone knows about :D

The man represents her grieving soul, which is so painful that she starts suppressing it. Dancing out in life, ignoring the sadness in her, but you can only hide from your soul for so long. Once she’s forced to face her sadness and traumas, she’s healed by integrating this part of herself.

this is actually so visionary her acting is gold

I usually don't listen to music that isn't Metal or Punk Rock but I fell in love with Lykke Li

I'm in love with Lykke Li ♥

Am speechless I swear I will meet u someday lykke li

@Yatsura2

7 жыл бұрын

ugh, okay, thats totally not creepy...

@chiwenduconfidence9647

7 жыл бұрын

+Yatsura2 no it isn't!

@Yatsura2

7 жыл бұрын

chiwendu confidence said every stalker, ever

look at the passion in her eyes

Extraño tanto está lykke li 😢

Nenhuma artista, viva ou morta, consegue me atingir tanto quanto a Lykke Li. Ela traduz td, na música q ela faz... traduz tudo q eu sinto, sinti, vivo e vivi. Obrigado por ser a artista que você é pra mim e para o mundo.

The ending of this video makes me cry every time.

Aw, I love her white dress! And the song of course :D

The video is amazingly shot! Tarik Saleh really knows his work.

Art as a music video.

At least once a year I come here to find myself in this video. It really makes me feel Im not alone. Thanks for this, Lykke

this song will never die, i love her.

I like the video version so much because the break at 5:01 gives me immense goosebumps after the whole build up and passion of the song to that point. I love her and this video is art.

Has she won any Grammys? Because if not she deserves one. Not that im trying to implicate that you need a trophy to manifest how talented you are, but this video definitely substantiates all her hard work.

This is probably the best video I've ever seen. My teacher played it to our class and everyone fell completely silent - the acting is brilliant, you sense there's a very powerful underlying message.

@candyal5855

2 жыл бұрын

Would like to know which year of school you were when your teacher played it?

@oddn

2 жыл бұрын

@@candyal5855 1st year of Uni.

@candyal5855

2 жыл бұрын

@@oddnthank you for answering. We all need to understand depression and how to deal with it in one's life or for the people around us. Glad to know you were taught in uni.

@lomarsweed6604

5 ай бұрын

@@candyal5855 What makes you think the teacher was teaching anything that day? Maybe she just liked the video.

Masterpiece!!

I think the key point in this video is that through sadness she expresses herself totally dispatched for everyone around her... she does not see them and they dont 'see' her... sadness is an isolation that no one around can see or sympathise with... in sadness we are alone...

Lykke Li is quite beautiful

Isn't Tarik Saleh just amazing?

@reniemccall-smithfan4449

8 жыл бұрын

sure is

@parnilsson8283

7 жыл бұрын

One of the best music videos I've ever seen. Piece of art

@daxyer

7 жыл бұрын

shitty taste

I think she's confronting people who says that are happy but are just Hippocrates, they say they're happy but her sadness is a blessing compared to their happiness. nowadays people always keep trying to avoid problems, act like nothing is happening, taking anti depressive for normal situations, it's like we had to act like real robots who ain't got any feelings.

This is a MASTERPIECE! The song, the Video, her, all of it!

This video says so much even before she starts to sing, its got a loud silence about it ._, never heard this song before and i think its amazing

I love it, this so beautiful, Lykke li is gorgeous and Stellan Skarsgard´s face! This was a masterpiece shot.

This song is a blessing. This song is a pearl. 😇

What?! This is exactly how I imagine scandinavian way of seeing life in a video! Thanks a lot Lykke Li & Co.! Fabio

My interpretation: She was sick of being sad, so she tries to rebel against it by making a joke out of herself and not caring about what others think of her..because that strong will would be a contradiction of what she's really feeling but eventually she realized she does actually care how people perceive her and judgement along with her personal issues finally get to her, and she accepts her feelings..that she's broken by life and all she has left is her sorry feelings. The end. :)

@tonyrightmyer3486

8 жыл бұрын

+Meliena Vamps I sort of followed the same interpretation, but I saw the man as the "sadness" which she went to comfort, since oftentimes sadness is something that people dwell on repeatedly because its something that can be "missed" almost when its not there.

@eveycocoa6295

8 жыл бұрын

+Tony Raccoon Yep, I get it. I think he's 'sadness' too. If we're right then I love the way she personified her feelings. Lykke Li is bomb♡

@rylinjansen6651

8 жыл бұрын

I kind of got the same impression, with the added element of ignorance by the people around her. She's sad, maybe even depressed, but everyone around her is trying their best to ignore her mental health, so she 'acts out', but "sadness" is always there for her.

@sheshiechan

7 жыл бұрын

If I remember correctly the song and video is a tribute to her late father

@eveycocoa6295

7 жыл бұрын

+Charlie Sturgess Ikr, she should do an interview explaining all the artistic details...but then again art is meant for the viewer to interpret themselves..I love her😂

Its been 10 years and still this song hold a special place in my heart.

Lykke is magic.

11 years since this came out! 😮 this is who i see when I’m watching Andor lol. Luthen is sadness 😊

@went.there.tomorrow6854

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Perfect portrayal.

I don't wanna feel sad anymore

Interpretation: Sadness is in everyone. Everyone was sad. The rich are sad. In the beginning you notice everyone silent. Serious. Except for her, she shows she is mature in her feelings of sadness. She is singing to her boyfriend of how to deal with his sadness: SADNESS IS A BLESSING. Her message is basically to own when you're sad. For it is when we are sad that we grow, and we become better. To be free-spirited when we are sad, and to choose to see sadness, as a blessing.

@minadas7506

6 жыл бұрын

Tom Flores thank you

@nessaperez6720

5 жыл бұрын

Tom Flores good

@karma0zero

2 жыл бұрын

Wise words. Sadness and suffering help us awaken to our selves and helps to deepen the self. Gravity builds muscle, sadness builds the soul.

Sadness expressed and felt very well.... silent cry.

I love Stellan Skarsgård and Lykke li together! this is a beatiful song and amazing video! greetings from Colombia

and I love Stellan Skarsgard, of course! but I had to say so!

@waitiealeh

10 жыл бұрын

I love Alex Skarsgard ;)

@MinuRx

10 жыл бұрын

Alessandra Torres I love Bill Skarsgard, a hunk for sure

@waitiealeh

10 жыл бұрын

AHAHAHAAH

@rezadroidjr

9 жыл бұрын

skarsgard family is great, absolutely stellan is the leader of his skarsgard team

Its 2020 and Still listening to it. The clip is so meaningful, cant stop watching. LYKKE love you ❤️

Love this girl, gestures on her face are priceless!!

Wow and I'm only hearing about this artist now damn I'm soo behind. I've always thought I'm a loner Bt this girl her depression is on another level

Her dress

Sadness is a blessing. I love this song!

I keep coming back to this year after year.. As much as the "main characters" are extraordinary in their portrayal, can we please acknowledge the brown-haired "cigarette" actress? The observer, teetering herself on the edge of an unfulfilled life, eyeing the possibility of release.

The acting in this video so great all the people seated i other seats gave top notch performance. Lykke li will make a great actress.

She could be a good actress.

My all time favorite song up to this year 2022 whenever i’m sad. Sadness is a blessing indeed.

I have been obsessed with this song and the video for a decade ❤

My wounded rhymes make silent cries tonight...

there is something very much attractive in that sadd madness that she has

She looks beautiful in this video and kinda like Elizabeth Olsen.

Again with the dancing ... always with the dancing

Sometimes You tube Recomends an artist thats 100% original.this one of those few rare cases.Brilliant.

Still listening this song seven years later. So good!

O sadness I'm your girl... (In love with this video!)

Spiting the pit of the olive. Glad she brought some of that Portuguese class back to Scandinavia 😂

This video is one of my favourite of all I've ever seen 😍

used to love this song when i was going through hard break up with my soulmate 4 years ago. this lyrics and expression in this video was so familiar to my feelings in those heavy times. now i still love this song but dont feel the same spleen as i used to when i listen it. for me it will be always a song about badly broken heart and soul

"¿Será el dolor el único amante que pueda llamar mío?" 💜💔

If a certain Lager brewer made videos they would never come close to this. Has to be one of the best music videos ever ! Lykke is also a brilliant actress !

Stellan Skarsgård always gets the sad roles

I'm generally already drunk when I attend family dinners. Great song

"For sorrow's the only lover i've ever known

Beautiful, absolutely beautiful.

The epic nature of this song deserves a video. Thank god they made a good one because they understood this. Sitting on the toilet singing was a natural step for her...a necessary one she made at the time that resonates with people for good reason. How far has she come? Say you, pretty far. Say me, pretty far. The performance is still there, but in way that reaches a broader more watered-down audience due to it's epic nature and production value. Not a bad thing. You and her still exist.

I've been looking for this fucking song for 5 years. Are fucking kidding me. Finally. Like damn lmao.

this video is amazing and still I am awed by it! love lykke li and can't wait for her next album!

from the opening i couldn't stop laughing wondering whether or not this is what the creator wanted me to do. I love it!

her dress is marvelous!!!

"sadness is a pearl, sadness is my boyfriend, oh sadness i'm your girl"

This video is brilliant.

Sadness Queen I love you

I love Stellan and of course , I love Likke too