Alex G - Gretel (Official Video)
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- “Gretel” appears on Alex G’s new album 'House of Sugar' - out now on Domino.
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It’s calling me back
House of Sugar
Did they bury me here?
Daddy don’t let em put me down
Daddy don’t let em turn me around
I don’t wanna go back
Nobody’s gonna push me off track
I see what they do
Good people got something to lose
I don’t wanna go back
Nobody’s gonna push me off track
I don’t wanna be this
Good people gotta fight to exist
I can see it right there right in front of me
In 2017 I was at a pizza place in south Philly. This guy walks in and was looking around. He turned to me and asked me "do you know where they keep the parmesan in this place?" " I said, of course Alex, let me show you." I was also buying a slice and sprinkling it with pepper and we sat down to eat. He was just a really nice man. He invited me for coffee later that day and I met up with him. My girlfriend just sat there in shock while we had a warm cup. He asked me so many questions and was so interested in me. I was a professional motocross racer in those days and he actually had heard of me. Funny, how famous people can be so humble. Alex G is just a regular man who has all of our flaws and curiosity .
@7 Angels 7 Plagues someones jealous
7 Angels 7 Plagues stop ripping off one of the best white belt bands
I love this
didnt happen
Musicians are just normal people who play instruments n stuff. I work with them everyday
pretty tight of alex g to drop a track that makes me feel like life is worth living
drain clerk Alex g and bladee should link up for a track
this reminds me of the i kno mv
axolotl 666 oh damn word
Legendary member Alex G
Here's to sharing the feeling!
"good people gotta fight to exist" ....heart. melted.
Best line in the song. Being a good person is a constant battle. If we allow every situation and gust of wind to compromise our values we will start exhibiting all the behaviors of toxic and harmful people before we know it. Happened to me over the course of 2 years during covid.
Makes me think of the saying to be a good person is not easy, and i know theyre right cause im lazy af and a shithead
"Im going to be an hour and a half late to work" ass music.
if this isn't the most truthful statement i've ever read..
this is the most truthful statement i've ever read..
Holy shit. yes
How is this so accurate, this has happened to me irl many times
If you know you know...
mr g this smacks in the honda civic
Pure schmako
got away wit it out the civic
Jmeister14 we crippin’, long beach city, pay a visit
really slaps in the mazda 3 as well
@@roxygurl2291 fucking slaps in the 2000 mazda protege
One of the realest people doing music in today’s indie scene. Not following any trends but his own. Thank u Alex.
a true pioneer
too bad the music is bland and boring
CometCourse nah
For sure and thank you fornthat comment, wise words
CometCourse how
Damn. I grew up in Nowhere, Midwest USA and this video makes me want to cry. Everyone’s fighting their own battle. Beautiful song and video.
Rural areas in the Midwest get a lot of flack but I wouldn't trade where I grew up for anything.
Left Hand dude I’m in SC but I got the same vibe
my thought exactly right before i saw this comment. i teared up looking at their faces and made a note to myself to be nice to everyone
me in texas :/
This is how I feel about Illinois
alex g is working class surrealist music. i love it.
Perfect way to describe it
working class surrealist music? can you explain a little deeper?
Great description
ooh this is It™️
@@nightskykitty i agree with his description, it's kind of like a mix of genres that are deeply rooted in working class struggles like country and blues, but adding a pop twist with cryptic/surrealist lyrics and unconventional harmonies. It adds commercial and experimental aspects to the sound in genres that are normally very grounded! At least that's how I see it
His music is always sweetness mixed with warp subtle dark melodic undertones. Confuses all my feels
Exactly
You articulated my feelings exactly.
he's King Bittersweet!
I remember when this song came out. I was sleeping in a car with my girlfriend in rural nebraska. it was such a gorgeous day.
Why ?
i wish u and ur girlfriend a very amazing day
this comment made me have a crisis for a second because i’m listening to this while camping out in a car & i live in nebraska. hope both of you are well.
Out here in Nebraska it's so boring
Ayee, late to the party but fellow Nebraskan here. I moved here a few years ago and am still not used to calling myself a Nebraskan.
Fun Fact: The Demo Derby scenes where filmed at a little arena called mountain springs in rural PA, This was one of the last events that had there before closing their doors for good. Sad to see little pieces of american culture dying off. I only know this because me and my family worked at the arena for years.
the american dream is dead
Those little pieces are dying off because the new era of America made these people believe that they have no culture and identity. As a foreigner who admired American culture in his childhood, I felt very sad after reading your comment.
Here in Reedsburg, Wisconsin we still proudly hold the demo derbys during Butterfest. This will never die.
I went to a demo derby once (In The Netherlands that is), they're soo much fun!
that's not a very fun fact :( but unfortunately true
"Good people got something to lose" that hits just right.
cant really explain it but this song changed my life
if you like Alex G you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Roll Me Over, it gives me Alex G vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard
Alex G creates the most accurate portrayal of the modern American spirit I can think of. It's like this traditional folk-country sound infused with some jaded, dark element representing something deeper inside of us all (or at least me). I'm so excited for this new album :)
A grand assessment my friend feels kinda like earnest goes to camp
you get it. you fucking get it
Its a “walk around at dusk in forested suburbs” kind of feeling
@@ArmadilloBill walking around at dusk in forested suburbs listening to shit like this is 👌👌🙌🙌
it's post-trump core
There's just something about his music...it's hard to explain
I personally think hes able to perfectly encapsulate a certain nostalgic feeling people 17-mid20s feel about being younger
such a nostalgic tint to his work.. although he referencing separate memories strange but cool
Dirk Molek I’m 31 and I’m feelin it too
It's mostly confusion for me.
I feel like his music gets me
I have found my people. Never stop making music Alex. I listen to this everywhere, switching classes, being yelled at, taking walks, sleeping, all that. You’re the only thing that gets me through hard days man. Your music has got me through some shit.
Same. Hope all is going well for you ^^
for me this video shows how tragically sad is the american society to the good and humble people of this country. it's the contrast of alex playing in the grass, free, and then the cars trashing. like, one destroying each other and at the same time people are trying to be happy and proud of their lives. in the end it's alex again in the car going to the nature, he doesn't wanna go back. i really identify this song as overcoming a depressive life. it's hard for us to keep sane in this society, he overcomes the deppression and "don't wanna go back", "good people gotta fight to exist". the deppressive people are good, sensitive people who many times identify the problems of this world, but we can "fight" and overcome this, and we don't wanna go back. life gets good, don't give up.
pushed me near to tears, thanks gabe.
Amazing analysis dude I really didn't notice that. Thank you!
great way to interpret this video :)
shut up lol
The break at 1:53 is just so blissful
masterpiece
you can tell alex g was studying to be an english teacher cause the juxtaposition, foreshadowing, and symbolism goes hard in this
this is beautiful wow
block perce !!!!! It’s uuuuu now way omg
Yay block! Everywhere alex g goes you’re not far! 😄
Hey ! it's block perce
hi block we love u
Blockkkk
there was a time on the bus when i was listening to this song and i felt my essence leave my body. it was so surreal, no song, no piece of music, no experience has made me feel the way "Gretel" does. and i dont think anything ever will.
Lots of his music speaks to me. His music feels like my inner aesthetic or essence ❤ and I love it
every time I go through a really low depressive state I put this song on and try my best to remember that even if I didn’t ask to be alive or feel the ways I do, I’m alive and ig I’ll keep doing that even when I really don’t want to and I’m pretty sure Alex g will never know that but that’s just 1 (one) reason why his music means the world 2 me I am so grateful
from one Danni to another, we gotta be linked on that spectrum at least! your comment hit me, just like this song does. ❤ be safe, fellow friend
this comment❤
Alex, i hugged you too hard in Richmond. I just want to apologize
He stopped doing music...
Was that the show where he wore the dudes glasses? I think I was there. God bless.
Richmond Virginia?
@@talkingstone6308 HAHAHA
Regency St sounds like it???
I've listened to this at least ten times today.
same
@@jacoba5695 you gotta ration yourselves til the album drop
me too the day it dropped
it is difficult to explain the feeling that this music conveys
BRAZIL HERE
@@vitorferreira2758 AE MANO, TMJ. Essa música é incrível e traz uma mistura de sentimentos. Feliz em achar outro Br aqui com um bom gosto musical
This is like a near death experience and seeing heaven.
seriously
I imagine this song is what plays when my loved ones are watching my life end on the hospital bed in the future
la'guyia only to go down to hell
Kevin Panis if hell sounds like this, i want to burn
@@ermweezer weirdly, this is exactly what i thought when i first heard this.
Lyrics:
It’s calling me back
House of Sugar
Did they bury me here?
Daddy don’t let em put me down
Daddy don’t let em turn me around
I don’t wanna go back
Nobody’s gonna push me off track
I see what they do
Good people got something to lose
I don’t wanna go back
Nobody’s gonna push me off track
I don’t wanna be this
Good people gotta fight to exist
I always thought it was "good people got a right to exist". I kind of prefer my mishearing
@@harveyosullivan hahaha well placed
@@harveyosullivan funny how that works,I was thinking strip club on another his song and it's swim club 😂
This is one of the best song i've probably ever heard. It's been three years and i'm still not tired of it. What a gem
been an alex g fan for 7 years. he’s grown so much since then. love u alex, ur music has made a great impact on my life 🫶
if you like Alex G you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Roll Me Over, it gives me slight Alex G vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard
@@elijahfinch3349 i’ll try it out! thanks for the recommendation:)
@@elijahfinch3349I would also recommend Drive by Dead Sullivan, it also has a really cool Alex G vibe to it :)
GOOD PEOPLE GOTTA FIGHT TO EXIST UHH HUHHHH
dude was definitely in a real studio for this one
Yup. Just this single >>>>>> Rocket in it's entirety
nah this was recorded on g band. mastered profesionally tho
@@petep5003 i dunno. never heard his drums really sound like that before
in the latest fader interview it says he still records on GarageBand with a USB mic, but he has a nicer mic now.
shaylee music ngl reading this comment relieved me
The music video is making me so happy and so sad at the same time
if you like Alex G you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Roll Me Over, it gives me Alex G vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard
Alex G的歌曲真的有一种魔力，阐述的这种美国感情是非美国人也能感受的
real
i always come back and just read the comments on his music.. his music makes me sad in the happiest way.
Why have I seen a lot of his fans do that like me? Interesting lol
Can't. Stop. Replaying.
Man getting to hear this song again after not being able to find it for years is the greatest feeling possible 😊
if you like Alex G you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Roll Me Over, it gives me Alex G vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard
I had the same experience with Sarah, so glad to find it haha
anyone else tear up? felt this song SO hard, i can't wait for the album (and tour, hopefully!)
Hell yes, well not tear up but damn it hit me hard. I played it several times just to make sure I loved it. I'm on about my 30 listens now.
I just have to ask...do you run to feel the burning in your lungs?
Still feel it
Please do not forget to check for ticks
Fax
lyme disease sucks
i hope he saw this it's been a long time :-( alex don't lose ur blood, man
I found one attached to my waist last month :(
this track makes me feel
if you like Alex G you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Roll Me Over, it gives me Alex G vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard
Listening to this a day after my dad died. Really hits home.
i’m so sorry i hope you’re doing okay i hope you know you’re loved
I am unable to assign words to this song. I've never felt this way before. Everything is just so perfect to me. from the tonal pieces to the rhythm....this song possesses me. And I literally heard this song for the first time through a live set yesterday and I was like....what is that song...and today....man....2nd listen ever and it's maybe one of my favorite songs EVER. It's a masterpiece.
Lucky you lol, wish I could hear it again for the first time.
Check out the rest of this album... my personal favorites, besides Gretel, are Taking, In My Arms, and Walk Away
@J. B. this comment feels like it was written a million years ago. I've purchased now 5 vinyls. I love all those songs.
I literally can't believe only 8 months has passed since this comment. I feel like I've known him my whole life now.
gives me chills
Dear God the nostalgia that Sandy can trigger, not sure how he does it, the way he constructs songs makes me feel
For me, this song is about being enticed into a job where you were sold the world in the interview, the job isn’t great, you’re taken advantage of and you leave. You’re never going back because you move onto bigger and better things upon leaving.
this is so full of heart i'm crying
Not even gonna lie, this is one of the greatest songs I've ever heard.
i love this song i can't stop coming back
if you like Alex G you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Roll Me Over, it gives me Alex G vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard
I hope everyone at the track that day were told that they were going to be a part of this video. Those people deserve to know that they were a part of something this beautiful
I've been dreaming of a new album for so long, and the single is amazing. I love you Alex.
blush cannon I firmly believe Alex has enough material to release an album every 5 months, but the Domino is damming the river so to speak.
@@rockonhard77 I think he's become more picky over the years. I've read a recent interview where he said he's satisfied with Domino cause they give him total artistic freedom.
That drop riff is pretty bad ass, sounds like something Deftones or Kid A Radiohead would come up with 🤘🤘
you a real one for this
You must have read that Pitchfork review of this album.
That’s what I was thinking, it’s very radio head like
Omg i just thought of that
not at all
Despite the sad undertone I always get an amazing feeling from this song. It’s like every time I hear it I get a sense of change that’s coming and it’s always a good change.
i feel like this music represents being numb. You can listen when happy, angry, sad, excited, any emotion works with it. i love it.
this song is ridiculously good, dangg
When I was 7 my family went to a derby with our neighbors in Idaho. It felt just like this. We rode there and the back in the back of a pickup truck. I love that memory and watching this video totally brought it back up for me. It’s so wholesome.
if you like Alex G you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Roll Me Over, it gives me Alex G vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard
@@nameface6934stop
This song makes me wanna be better
When you really listen to the instrumental it's so haunting, but then the visuals depict an average mid-west lifestyle. Amazing.
Please come back
this song is the reason why i continue to study
the song invokes an almost eerie sense of impending doom, then proceeds to resolve it so beautifully..
simply amazing.
I was trying to find the words for how this song makes me feel, but your comment sums it up perfectly +
the part where there riding in the car hit me hard like a curve ball to the face that idea making this type of song gives it such range
0:14 Every time I hear this synth "tunnel" sound I visualize Alex as a character in a beautiful Hayao Miyazaki / Studio Ghibli film falling backwards down an animated black hole to land in some magical fantasy world and explore.
Inuyasha lol
i love the instrumental here so much
This song has me sobbing on the toilet. If I was younger I don’t know if that chorus would hit the way it does. Good people really do have to fight to exist and I don’t wanna go back to when I thought otherwise.
if you like Alex G you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Roll Me Over, it gives me slight Alex G vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard
in rehab i listened to this song every day. there was a whiteboard in the kitchen and i’d scrawl the lyrics on it after i shut the kitchen down each night
if you like Alex G you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Roll Me Over, it gives me slight Alex G vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard
I'll listened to an incredible amount of music over my life time and none of it makes me feel the way that this song does. Truly an amazing song, Mr G
if you like Alex G you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Roll Me Over, it gives me Alex G vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard
Alex is amazing no doubt about it. 100% coolest dude ever
Ever? Of the billions and billions and billions of people who have lived, he's the coolest, ever? You haven't lived enough then.
cactaceous yes. ever. You’re ignorant
This song gets me really emotional. I'm about to graduate and become an adult, and this makes me think back to my youth when everything was so easy, and I was so innocent. I wish I could go back, this song takes me there.
one of the many songs to help save me, thank you forever
alex g songs remind me of a cloudy grey sky during the winter. but this song is like alex g summer edition
You a real one for this Alex
Ur real too george
George, may I have a link or smth, or what did you type to find your profile picture. it’s so cute.
cheers xx
@@magixX59 it's Surfing Pikachu, Pokemon card
@@memoryylosss5013 this guy knows what's up
You could say he’s a real... g... for this one 😭
this song is like workout/motivational music for people who don't like modern work out/motivational music
I don't know why it's taken me this long to fully listen to Gretel, something kept telling me to put it off even though I absolutely love House of Sugar. It came up in my reccomended again and I finally decided to see what the fuss was about and I'm so glad I listened. I needed this and I wish I listened sooner.
i had been waiting for a good time to show this album to my best friend who died last week because of relapse and fentanyl and i just wanted to share how oddly applicable this album is to his struggle and mine now that he's gone. he would have loved these songs. thank you.
Sending much love to you
I want to grow old with them and their songs
if you like Alex G you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Roll Me Over, it gives me Alex G vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard
@@nameface6934another one is the album Blanket by Kevin Abstract
this is incredible. such beautiful images to go along with the music and lyrics. Alex G is a pioneer.
you make me wanna live man
(Sandy) Alex G is for the people.
mytime991 !!!!!
The instrumental part of this song is like bobbing in a sea of ether, truly magical
if you like Alex G you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Roll Me Over, it gives me Alex G vibes and its one of the best new indie songs I've heard
the colors in this music video are fucking superb
new alex g and new jay som on the same day means all the tears
❤
Holy fuck.
It’s a crime that this doesn’t have 1 billion views
recently i discovered this amazing artist, i asked myself: how did i not hear this before? Alex G is a great artist. I hope that many people listen to his music and his incredible work. Another fan here from Brazil. Good luck to you Alex G.
Wow.. I can’t stop listening to this
This is down right one of his best. Working on 10th or so listen in the past 24 hours and it lands every time. And if the whole record can pull of a mandolin in the mix like they did with this one, then i'm going to dive right in. And that guitar, its down right perfect. Mr. Alex you are by far one of the best songwriters now days, can't wait for the record. 10/10
this is what youre doing down in Triple A??
Read this as the mandolin kicked in
This is one of the best music videos I ever seen
alex g is the keanu reeves of the rap game
Definitely the greatest rapper alive. He kinda looks like Keanu Reeves, too.
he lowkey is on blonde 2 lol
Lol wow
this makes no sense but I like it
REAL
Cheers to small town life, it gives me a special nostalgia.
Alex is about to blow up if he releases another album this stunning next. He keeps refining his sound and building upon the foundation set on his previous albums, and they're all good to excellent. This video is awesome and beautiful, too. Like a rural David Lynch thing.
I mean he’s super popular already
Agreed.
I'd say your suspicions were correct. :-)
Reminds me of when I was growing up in the 2000s -2010s oddly when I listen to this song it brings me back
words cant describe how much i love this video
Good people gotta fight to exist. 💖🌱✨
this video and song reminds me of my hometown back in pennsylvania. the people, the fields, the cars. everything reminds me of everything good back at home. where everyone is living life every moment.
Im so happy rn
Best morning poo I've taken in a while
Suraj Dave yo, thank you for your blithe field videos
@@colonelmacabre no problemo buddi, enjoyed ur super 8 vid
Suraj Dave omg thanks, probably going to use a track off this album for the next one..
😭😭😭😭😭
Don’t love any artist more than you. Thank you!!!! Can’t wait for the album! Love this track and the video is beautiful. 💞💞💞
same wow
Bobby Kakouris yo big agree, love your covers btw :)
Aamer Abdelrazzak 💖 thank you!!
i lov ur alex g covers
lots of hands thank you so much 🥰
*Good people gotta fight to exist* That line hit me hard.
Alex G songs are like magic.
Perfectly captures the essence of being a child in the countryside. Nostalgic asf
I can't imagine being this talented
His music is rlly unlike any artist I’ve ever heard. Perfect embodiment of the grittiness of American culture.
This video cured my crippling depression, for at least this night
The way the yowling keys with the pitchshift hits is why this man is God tier
This guy is so good. The video for this is awesome, not over the top or super contrived but just cool, reflective, enjoyable visuals that suit the song and are a bit different. His music is really fantastic. Sometimes with the sort of "death" of indie music, rock music etc you forget that it's not because the genre is dead or because it's incapable of being meaningful anymore but really just because there aren't that many people doing anything good anymore. But over the last few years that's really changed and I think he's one of the main reasons. It's very exciting because hip-hop has been entering new frontiers and now indie songwriting seems to be making a comeback. The last decade hasn't been all that great compared to ones that preceded it but I think the 2020s are shaping up to be amazing. With all the fuss and stress of the internet and politics and modern life there's never been a better time for good, relatable, enjoyable, immersive art with meaning and sincerity. Thanks Alex.
I totally agree. The Internet has been great for breaking down the barriers between genres, but I think that to some extent it also turned music into content, to be consumed en masse without much thought. Alex is definitely doing the old style of indie where it's more about individual expression and chasing your muse than trying to slide into an algorithmically generated playlist.
"I think the 2020s are shaping up to be amazing"
:(
@@jacob421 Lol. Next year's gonna be sick.
@@OloffMusic not really it just 2020 part 2