Not a dream
What is the saddest music video you've ever seen?
I just had the funniest old memory pop up in my head regarding this topic. Years ago, I was scrolling through Reddit I believe, when I saw a thread about this exact same topic. I went in there to read the comments and see if anyone added Hurt by Christina Aguilera and When You’re Gone by Avril, which are two of the music videos that make me cry without fail every time I see them, and I’ve stumbled upon a discussion in the comment section, instead.
A person had replied with the music video to a Korean group’s song and some people reacted strongly and poorly to it. I’ve never heard of the group before, and I’ve never heard the song either, but as I am familiar with some K-pop artists, I’m open minded and don’t have an inherent bias that stops me from enjoying things that sound good to me just because I don’t understand the language (I can always read the captions! and feel the emotions in the song), so I decided to check the music video out to see what it was about.
Anyway, not to go into too many details as not to spoiler it, but that MV punched me in the gut and ripped my heart out through my stomach, while stomping on my throat and yelling at me that I deserve to die a thousand deaths over. I found myself bawling my eyes out and crying for a good 10 minutes after the video was over. The song sounded good, too, but the video was incredibly strong. I was convinced those were scenes from a movie, turns out they weren’t and those weren’t actors either - the members of the band were the ones playing those roles incredibly. I was, how the kids say, shook.
I went back to Reddit to comment that the person who brought it up was completely right and that I’ve never had a video made me feel as sad as this one did, and I saw that there were many new comments and that the person who posted the video told everyone to watch it before blindly hating and forming an opinion, and it turns out people did end up watching it and what ensued was pretty funny, in my opinion, as everyone ate their words and agreed that the video was gut-wrenching and tragic.
I remember that the (middle aged, by his own admission) man who was the first one who said that he won’t give kpop views, was also the first to admit how wrong he was and he also said he’d love to watch a movie made based on that video. Like, I’ve never seen something like that happen on the internet, before or after. So many people admitting that they were wrong and all agreeing that a kpop music video was the saddest, strongest music video they’ve ever seen.
I’ve been trying to find that post/thread for the past hour, but so far I haven’t been lucky. It’s still stored in my memory, though. If I find it, I’ll post it here.
And as for the video? Watch it only if you’re prepared to leave your heart in the gutter and cry for at least 7:40 minutes. I mean, I teared up simply by remembering the MV while writing this post.
I just watched the video and??? WTF???? at first i was “meh” but the last 3 minutes literally ripped my heart out
