For those who haven’t seen it :
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAG6nj7Sff8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAG6nj7Sff8)

Stromae interrupts an interview with a new song when asked about how music helped his depression.

Saw someone on here say the lyrics feel basic and written for mass audiences to enjoy. What’s your opinion?

5 comments

  1. I didnt feel any deep emotion about the song. Was dissapointed after the hype in the media.
    “I thought about suicide” like its a special event.
    Thats every minute of my awfully long life except after a few years and lots of medication even therapists give up on me.
    I think it hits different for people with a functional life because they cant imagine and get hit in the feels with a taboo.

    Thats my personal cynical bitter opinion ofcourse.

  2. > lyrics feel basic and written for mass audiences to enjoy

    Kind of the point when making commercial music. Regardless of what you think of his music, if it helps to get people talking about their mental struggles, it’s a great step forward.

  3. It takes a while for me to understand musics… blame autism I suppose…

    What do I perceive? Feeling of isolation, yet knowledge it’s a feeling shared by many…

    In the chorus, death feeling like the only solution to end these (intrusive) thoughts…

    Something about TV and ‘guilty channel’? Is this about media saying things along ‘you need to use your car less’ despite companies?

    Something about thinking about it, yet the inability to think about it…? This confuses me even more…

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    I am not sure of anything to say about it, my feeling is more that he’s singing about a problem from which *nobody* can escape, due to everybody being in it and due to being unable to think of something.

  4. I can recognize stuff that I went through in some of the lyrics, but at the same time it feels like he doesn’t say much (literally, he sings very slowly and if you look at the lyrics there really isn’t much) so it’s like he is barely grazing the surface.

    It’s still a positive that he sings about that because it helps to make people realize that you don’t need to have a shitty/difficult life to have a depression (I assume it’s his personal experience as he stopped his career for a while due to a burnout).

  5. Happy for Stromae. Couldn’t care less about the song.

    Plenty of songs have helped me with depression and suicidal thoughts now and in the past. So me not caring about Stromae’s song in that way is probably just because that part of my brain/life is filled with other songs.

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