fifteen years later, somehow reading all these old comments makes it hit even harder
@win4559
8 ай бұрын
this is a really sad song
@andresisrael6523
2 жыл бұрын
Do not withhold wages from your workers, for their livelihood depends on them. Ben Sira 34:26-27. To deprive an employee of wages is to commit murder
@macosta3499
2 жыл бұрын
Hey! I rly like your videos! Isn't it crazy how KZitem can conect ppl from France with ppl all the way in Brazil? I got rly emotional abt this video, your aesthetic is just amazing. Could you consider making more?
@estellevonfeldt
2 жыл бұрын
Wow! Thank you <3 I'm moved by your comment :3 I'd like to do make more, yes!
@amandafuller5746
3 жыл бұрын
💔💔💔
@ratxek
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you, very subtle video, just right amount of sentiment. Corresponds well both with the emotion of the song and with a tempo.
@estellevonfeldt
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much ! <3
@Seraphim91
7 жыл бұрын
Love what you've done with this. I thought this was the "official" video!
@estellevonfeldt
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you <3
@Epig420
8 жыл бұрын
when the government cant even provide things as basic as clean drinking water, you know things are fucked
@F66x
8 жыл бұрын
sad this is still relevant.l, even more so today
@erinmatt
8 жыл бұрын
It's a beautiful song and has been a favorite of mine for a long time. I like what you've done with the video. It reminds us of what has disappeared from Flint, leaving behind the impoverished and victimized city we see today.
@crowley582
8 жыл бұрын
So damn good
@reubenr1245
8 жыл бұрын
Great moving picture to a great and relevant song, even more so today, when we learn that the children in Flint are being poisoned, as a result of the Governors decision to change the city's water supply to the Flint River, unleashing a torrent of lead from old pipes.
@reubenr1245
8 жыл бұрын
+John Dombrowski Perhaps you should read this: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-flint-disaster-is-rick-snyders-fault/2016/01/25/9c77e036-c3b1-11e5-a4aa-f25866ba0dc6_story.html It seems to dispute, rather definitively, your excusal of the Governor.
@mattlink13
8 жыл бұрын
+John Dombrowski With all due respect, The Governor had a hand in this. When you lead, you take the credit and the blame. (I live here too)
@oa4984
9 жыл бұрын
Wow it tells the sad sad lives of americans working as slaves loosing their homes to government, leaving their countries to find a better life but all they receive is hell.
@NatalieTaillon1993
9 жыл бұрын
a song like this has so much depth in it's meaning. It's absolutely beautiful
@Sameoldfitup
10 жыл бұрын
Nice song
@avarell54
11 жыл бұрын
Same here :)
@estellevonfeldt
11 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I found the kind of "white noise" at the end of the song would match it well..
@estellevonfeldt
11 жыл бұрын
thanks ! :)
@estellevonfeldt
11 жыл бұрын
Oh yes, it's true they used the song in a scene...
@rongpocklefamily
11 жыл бұрын
great song
@CelebritySuicide
11 жыл бұрын
Brilliant use of the archive footage.
@tuasucks
12 жыл бұрын
One of the best sufjan songs. So beautiful...
@jabarshi
13 жыл бұрын
Oneohtrix Point Never's song 'Replica' sounds a bit like the opening tune
@justinmarshall36
13 жыл бұрын
Very nice video, goes well with the song. Good job!
@TheRui1991
13 жыл бұрын
The most depressing song ever. Mesmerizing...
@miawallacexx
13 жыл бұрын
you can set really ANY sufjan song to a black and white film. truly beautiful.
@Fantasticawesomeguy
13 жыл бұрын
When I was 7, I listened to rock, punk etc, and I went on my bro's laptop, and found this song (7 years ago) and this song just stood out to me as a kid, When I got older I forgot the singer until I found this song again i don't know how, but when I listened again, I nearly cried, and realized this song was so emotional and moving that as kid it's difficult to understand even as a teenager it is. an invisible force within this song grabs you and really makes you think, this song changed my life
@benjaminbroken7
13 жыл бұрын
i moved away from Flint for 3 months and missed it so much that i made excuses to move back. i love this shit hole of a town <3
@GodBlessArizona
14 жыл бұрын
I just recently got this CD. I lived in detroit for the first 13 years of my life (florida now) and he really captured the feel of the city. Bravo, monseiur Stevens.
@EvanMiller864
14 жыл бұрын
Why is that Sufjan goes so great with old black and white footage? This and the John Wayne Gacy Jr. video are so fitting.
@neiltay2002
14 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this. Fantastically appropriate video to accompany the music, Brilliant.
@AmorBravo
14 жыл бұрын
Beginning piano is so beautiful
@PaperCommie
14 жыл бұрын
I loved the Illinois album. I've gone back and gave the Michigan album a thorough listen & I adore this song. I live in Flint & have all my life. I am an optimistic person, but I feel Flint is lost. There is nothing here but ruins of a greatness that once was & a stale hope that lingers over every stranger's head. I will be getting out as soon as I can, but I will always remember the roots which I came. I think this song is a near perfect representation of this city and it's keepers. <3
@simonhannah7219
10 ай бұрын
Tragic how capitalism builds up these cities then ruins them when the profit dries up
@Brabus8297
14 жыл бұрын
i cried at 1:07
@zad_rasera
2 жыл бұрын
Did you cry alone?
@h.u.e
14 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. Please do more!
@AsphodelFilms
15 жыл бұрын
Awesome work! I always heard this track a different way (different to how it was written) but I love the way you've captured the true essence of the song with these images.
@morsebulb
15 жыл бұрын
tear worthy.
@pollyethylene
15 жыл бұрын
no don't give up please.
@kllamour
15 жыл бұрын
Great video for the times...
@lonewolf12052
15 жыл бұрын
great vid. i wish i could make one. been loking for work for seven months now in portland oregon ex military no criminal record. fast food wouldn't even take me. i'll be homless by the end of this month i am 24 years old. I'll see if i can make it if not i think i will be killing myself.
@Animal_Mother
3 ай бұрын
You said that 15 years ago, I hope you made it through brother.
@IncaRoad01
15 жыл бұрын
Another of my favourites from Sufjan. Honest, soulful, and tender. love the second half from 2:05 when the sustain is used on the piano.
@JulianHertz
15 жыл бұрын
I love your video so much, and I hope you don't mind me attaching my cover to this wonderful vid.
@medwards82
16 жыл бұрын
Yeah Flint is making some progress. It bottomed out years ago and has been diversifying. Like Jess alluded to, its got decent opportunities for higher learning. Kettering is still going strong as a top notch engineering school. Having UM Flint students living in Flint will help. In various studies Flint shows up among the worst cities in the US, but if that's the worst, the US really is a great place to live. France is nice too, I've visited :)
@estellevonfeldt
16 жыл бұрын
It's great to see your comments about your own town. You know, initially I just liked the song because it reminded me of the situation Northern France (the area where I'm from)went through when the factories that supported the place crumbled. I felt personnally related to it because of this, although Flint seemed a distant reality to me, of course. Reading your comments makes it much closer. And it's great to think the web enables that (OH NOW! THAT'S NEWS! :p)
@estellevonfeldt
16 жыл бұрын
I tried various formats and finally landed on this one a bit at random (teehee), but I'll try to, yes.
@tauyoyo
16 жыл бұрын
C'est sobre, c'est juste, c'est émouvant. Il y a du coeur et du talent.
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