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Way to suck the energy out of that song.

This is not a cover. This is a few cribbed lines, snatched from the middle of the original and placed at the beginning of something completely different. This is a cover: th-cam.com/video/kwvAaE_ddtI/w-d-xo.html

I come back to this a little too often

how did i only just find this. i am now complete.

That show was one highlight after another. Stunning.

Chill inducing evening, everyone was fabulous. Yes finally witnessed Jon Auer performing I Am The Cosmos! Don’t miss it!

Mike MIlls! Wow!

This doesn’t hit right. Too slow on tempo to be appropriately cathartic. Nice voice, good guitar-work, terrible cover. No respect for the ferocity of a broken heart.

Who’s the violinist?

i'm about to dissipate into nothingness right now

this song is so underrated ...

quahog peter rightside

Big thief is awesome

hey guys i’m not ok

I used to listen to No Children a lot back when I realized I didn't feel safe or happy living with my family. Right at the end of high school and into college, during the thick of Covid. It sounds like it's full of unapologetic rage and contempt. But, to me... it always felt apologetic and despaired while also being full of rage. Sorrowful rage. All these feelings happening at the same time, and the "I hope you die, I hope we both die" felt like a sort of... apology in of itself? I hope you die because I hate you, but then I'm sorry we're trapped like this, if only we could be put out of this misery. A wish for anything better than the endless cycle of pain, or perhaps sickly hoping or knowing it will continue, that those hopes are empty threats. All that to say, what I felt hiding underneath the lyrics of the original, I got to hear with this cover. The way I often listened to this song, hearing this underlying truth. It's just beautiful. It drags out the true sorrow that was hiding all along. Thank you.

julien was close to me and i didn’t know?!😭

and now she just won three grammys with boygenius, so awesome to see.

This video is actually my Roman Empire

I am going to throw up

i had no idea this happened i think my life is forever changed now

Beautiful

No way i just found this out

and this is how julien baker conquers my heart

how did i only just find out this exists. i am in awe

No way i just found out about this

Whaaat I didn't know they were friends. This is great :D

Love the violin

My god, this is beautiful

I wish this was on spotify

HOW DID I JUST FIND THIS

can someone please tell me what does she says at the end when she changes the lyrics?

I feel endeared and loved by this performance

Fuck man. Mountain Goats can make me cry, for sure, but this had me bawling.

This is so good!!

dead

this healed me

julien x big thief needs to be real

How am I just now finding out about this 😭

I have (had? hopefully have still counts, even though it's been some time since we talked) a friend who once wryly told me that No Children was "their song" about an abusive relationship they were still in at the time. At the time it was obviously the original version, and I think it needed to be, both because of the absurdity and anger of it, but when I listen to this cover now I think of them and that relationship in a much sadder, further away way and how awful everything was; how stupid and useless I felt just watching it happen. (Julien's songs remind me of that friendship a lot of the time, and some of the songs by other boygenius members about her.) It's a beautiful cover and a totally different take.

holy shit! where did you find this?

Takes ages to sing it in that tempo :)

Looking for a cover. Got a generic emo type doing emo type for the entire video. I do not approve. No Sir. I do not like it.

th-cam.com/video/ot1_kgNJhsc/w-d-xo.html mountain goats cover of this cover Portland, ME 4/17

she had to made it stupid

Thank you….what a gift!!..Queens!!

god she knows her audience

Song 4 u Allison forever I hope one day you feel like this

Brb gonna go cry

My favourite Song❤❤❤

I can see why this is getting the praise that it is, from the comments and from the original songwriter, but for me that praise is directed at an evoked feeling VERY different from what I got out of the original song. No Children has this unapologetic energy to it that really drives home the absurd nature of the central couple. It's relatively fast pace and staccato tone drive this jarring narrative of two people that really are miserable with one another, pushing it at you faster than your mind is able to adjust to it. "I hope I lie, and tell everyone you were a good wife" is a mental slap in the face, but only just hard enough to daze instead of sting, frequently leading to uncomfortable laughter on a first listen. The oddness of things is furthered by the construction of this couple's relationship in the song. These people have friends trying to help them, have an extended history with one another that context (and the songwriters previous works) promises was just as rocky, and despite what is assured to be a mutual loathing, are depicted as fully committed to one another in that misery, finding comfort in that shared misery in a way that only this kind of toxic relationship can. They are in this together, "hand in unlovable hand", until the ship sinks to the murky depths to be crushed by unbearable pressures. Part of why I love this inversion of a love story is for how up front and unapologetic it is. For how stark a depiction it is of this toxic relationship that should by all right end but clearly will not. I love this because it pushes that kind of relationship, one we have all either heard of or experienced, out of the shadows and into the light. It's not hidden away, festering like a cancer, as so many similar relationships and marriages were from decades past, but instead on full display. And that's why I can't get behind this cover. It takes away the very elements of the original song that resonated with me so much. It's slow and reserved, seemingly trying to allow time to adjust to the absurd reality of this couple's dysfunction. It even insinuates some redemptive capacity for the couple, which I understand is the core of the draw to those that enjoy it, but which, again, takes away entirely the power and purpose behind the original in my eyes. This song was selected as a representation of an American Anthem by NPR, and in the related interview the songwriter described fans in relationships calling it "their song", as well as how concerned this made him for their future together. But for me that makes perfect sense because it would take an already fundamentally strong relationship to hear of this union of hate and, rather than exposing discomfort in the couple, instead strengthening their bond over confidence that this situation is separate from their experience. A couple that can laugh at this song together, and desire repeated sessions to relive that joined moment, is one that knows they harbor no resentment toward one another, and never will, because any dissatisfaction that may arise will be addressed in the open. Like fucking adults. I love No Children for what it says about those that love it, and I wouldn't change a single thing about it.