Foster The People - Best Friend
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- Foster The People - Best Friend
The new album 'Supermodel' featuring "Best Friend" is now available.
Download on iTunes: smarturl.it/Supermodel Download on Amazon Mp3: smarturl.it/SupermodelAmazon
Director - BREWER
Producers:
CANDICE OUAKNINE
ROSS LEVINE
SAUL LEVITZ
BRAXTON POPE
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Music video by Foster The People performing Best Friend. (C) 2014 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment
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This band is honestly, so underrated.
Truly!! Im just getting into them and wow is all i can say...every song better then the last. True artists
@@Selkie7 you just now heard about them?
You guys are young, these dudes are not underated.
@Saif Ullah Khan You saying that they are only slightly underrated, if you are talking about this song, yes it's underrated, but they in general are just starting to die out a little.
fr their music is so good but everyone mainly knows them for pumped up kicks
I hope people aren't accusing this video of being photoshopped, because it's not. Clearly, that woman wanted to be ET, and I'm proud of her for it.
+Phil Slater #1 fan XD
👏👏👏👏😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
OMGGGG
hahhah
+Phil Slater How does one go about photoshopping a video? x)
*_She was consuming beauty, but in reality, beauty was consuming her..._*
*_Deep._*
Facts
@@hellstonechromee3583
_ike this_
@@hellstonechromee3583 *_
Deep stuff fr
I remember walking to school while listening to this on full blast. Never gets old fam
I'm surprised this never became a huge hit that was on the radio all the time like Don't Stop (Color on the Walls) and Pumped up Kicks. I wish this, Pseudologia Fantastica, and Truth would all get as popular....
too much truth to be popular ;)
Evmeistah I can see that about the latter two, but best friend is literally about writers block. It's nothing that's "pushing for a cause" like the Truth and Pseudologia Fantastica
Me too. Its such a catchy song.
Notorious Incognito and Houdini (seriously that was a good song)
Notorious Incognito that and some of the songs from torches like Houdini and I would have done anything for you
WHEN YOUR BEST FRIEND IS ASTRONAUT
lol
jajajaja xD
I Thought those were the lyrics O.O I read your coment and google for lyrics and just realized that actually they say "when your best friend's all strung out"
same XD
jajaja j
I love the lyrics "You oughta know that I'm me no matter where you go". Such an elegant way of expressing you're there for someone, or at least that's how I infer it.
What else could it mean?😊
Wherever I go I’m always there.
"When your best friend's astronaut"
👽🧡👩🚀
Among us in real life confirmed
XD
@@gissowo que me ve Ramírez 😺
@@ascaleo 😾
there is something in mark's voice..
it's so addicting
ikr..
+saunak podder addictive
it's the funk
Ikr XD
it is because he can sound like a little girl/boy/alien/am radio, and still sound that same.
For those of you who don't get the video or think it's "creepy", it's showing that we get consumed by the media that sets standards on what we (GENERALLY women) should look like: tall, skinny, long legs and neck, pretty, big eyes and thin waist. And those standards start to get to our heads leading us to do outrageous things and disorders like bulimia and anorexia just to feel appreciated and to fit in, but even after all of that we still arent satisfied with our selves. The media is responsible for death, starvation, malnutrition, hospitalization, etc and is messing up teenage girls' and women's lives just because of some stupid standards. Remember this to all the beautiful creatures with low self esteems, If you feel beautiful on the inside, then you'll start to feel beautiful on the outside too
Well said
Exactly.
The videos message was pretty obvious. And no not "Generally Women"
Ha ha ha! You're a feminist.
I thought it was about an alien that eats attractive people.
This pisses me off how amazingly talented and incredible this band is and not getting the true recognition they deserve. They will get noticed the way they deserve soon but its taken years to get as noticed As tbey are now. ....Aerosmith had this problem for years (like 10 + years!) and look at how huge they are now. Different music but recognition of amazing art and talent is the moral
EXACTLY!
view count andy
It’s because stupid rap
Who’s listening to this classic in 2024? 🎉
Me😭
I am ❤
Bet
I found this song until I couldn't sleep. I listened to it a long time ago, but I still couldn't find it, and then I found it😂😂😂
Me of course ❤
Be yourselves, if not you'll turn into an alien.
Valuable life lesson.
TheGamexsplosion We are aliens to aliens ya follow
into Covenant?
Near Francis gonna b a good one
TheGamexsplosion I guess all models really are aliens... props too MIB
4:09 The cover of the album!!!
SHUT UP YOURE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!!!!!!! omgggg
WOW! Good catch! Most underrated comment on here.... should be at the top.
Haley Vargas Trueee
Never caught that!
200th like
WHEN YOUR BEST FRIEND'S ALL STRUNG OUTTTTTTTTTT
This might be one of the greatest songs ever created
this brings me back so many amazing memories wow
+touchdalight Boy, you're everywhere.
+Marie Kraws Well, he is a professional loser
+四月眼泪 Well at least thats what it says on his TH-cam who knows maybe he is an amateur?
touchdalight yes it does
touchdalight grow up
Having watched the Supermodel documentary and read into the album's backstory I actually feel really proud to say that I understand this video entirely. The scene of the model throwing up on the runway is taken from the record's cover and translates back to the poem of consumption written by Foster. All in all for those of you who are confused by the video, it focuses on today's generation and our fascination with society's idea of idealism and how we base our self worth on how other people perceive us (ie: how many likes we get on instagram/retweets on twitter). And yeah as you've probably already guessed I'm completely obsessed with this darn band.
It's 2019 and I still love this song so much
Pratyay Halder I barely knew this song existed and I already love it
2014 was on a whole another level tbh.
@Jayden Paulino-Pinero 2020 because i wish I could see my best friends but Im social distancing-
@@selenophilefish yes, i am listening to it, again, lol
I wish it was still 2019
This whole album is very underrated :(
2:44 slenderman be like i'd hit that
ROFL
hahahahahaha you deserve more likes man
LOLLL
It's his wife
Pumpkin AJ u need more likes :3
I love the animation at 1:40
3:07 that transition I can't get enough
I like this video and I also think it’s very important. I had anorexia when I was a teenager and I put myself in some really dangerous health conditions. This video reminds me of that period of my life and how I have fully recovered mentally and physically. Pay attention to your kids, if you have the talk about sex, have the talk about body image and self-love, how most things are unreal, talk about how important it is to take care of your body. Social media and beauty standards can be very damaging sometimes. Try to understand and be patient with your body. If you read this and you are going to something related, I understand completely, I really do. Seek help and listen to the people that love you, even if you don’t think that’s true. Try to love yourself, one bit at a time, everyday.
Absolutely in love with this video, at 3:35 you can see the girl in the blue dress look inside the room. However, look more closely at the dress she's wearing the poem on the cover art of supermodel is written on the dress. Then at 4:05 you see her throwing up the dress with all the cameras looking at her and taking picture of her, in technicality she's throwing up the poem. Just like in the cover art of their album. The video itself is so creatively powerful. It shows that when you conform to society you hurt yourself more than anyone else because you become so fixated on being this ideal of beautiful or ideal or a "supermodel" that you start to forget the whole idea of what it is to be living. 10 out of 10 for this video. This is why I love foster the people, they always have deeper meanings to everything they do. Anything they write or touch or put their minds into is golden.
Good observation!
Yes. The video has a bunch of details.
Way better than anything I could have came up with 😂
They are so talented and creative. A lot of their music sounds like it could be from a different band. It's a shame that "pumped up kicks" is the only song they have with over 100,000,000 views. Such good music
4 years later almost 800M thats crazy
@@roki8706its got a billion+ now ☹️
@@roki87061 billion alr
I used to love this song. Supermodel is Foster's most underrated album
Yes!
1:46 So are we ignoring that FTP predicted among us?
😂😂😂
that was the best comment I've ever seen 😄
Ester Egg 🤣
Shut up please
@@Jack-xv9xp why
Love the message in this video. Really brings home the destructiveness of the media and their sense of beauty. The poor girl was beautiful to begin with, but is "not beautiful enough" according the the standards of "those in the know" . Thus she succumbs to the demons of vanity, lust, and jealousy in order to be recognized as beautiful. These internal demons are shown as external projections in the video (Ie; she becomes a literal demon). Her shape shifting is reminiscent of all the things that people go through in order to be accepted as being "beautiful" (first absorption is like plastic surgery, second absorption is working out, third absorption is anorexia).
Even with her power, she always runs into someone with a certain feature that is better than hers, thus she is constantly absorbing people until she looks more alien than human. She never realizes that it was her imperfections that made her beautiful in the first place.
Eventually, like many people that are stuck in the cycle of beauty in the supermodel business, the constant strain she puts on herself is too great and her body eventually gives out.
Just a sad, sad industry.
Not exactly, but you are on the right track. Her wanting for social acceptance is driving her in the lifestyle she is living, but the modeling is rather symptomatic.
I feel like you can't Abolish the modeling industry because clothes and fashion are also a type of art and it would not be cool to take that creativity away from some. But I feel like the modeling industry is less harsh then it was especially because cara delevinge is a size 6
Maybe you can't abolish it but you can reform it. Women of every shape, race, weight, and look should be represented in the industry. There shouldn't be a "gold standard" of beauty.
I like to believe it has a double meaning along with what you said about seeing this in your friends and rather than helping sway them away from it and keeping them confident in themselves you enable it and follow them blindly to keep them happy but in the wrong ways.
@@gregorymiller6938 High fashion should use robots. Robots can all be made a standard size without human suffering. Make sure they don't fall into the Uncanny Valley, and you're good to go.
First time : enjoy the music video
Second time : enjoy the music
Third time : WHEN YOUR BESTFRIENDS ARE STRUNG OUTTTTT
+Wenqing Ee I SEE KURIYAMA MIRAI
Me rofl
YES, SO TRUE!!
Wenqing Ee fdjhhfhdfgfhdhxhgd
When your best friends all strung out
This is a song you can always listen to but never get sick of.
so true! never gets old 😊
This song popped into my head randomly and all I could remember was vaguely the concept of this video. I was looking up "music video where model becomes super skinny and tall" or "music video where model becomes alien" and couldn't find anything lmao. Thankfully I dug enough and eventually found the video. I'm glad I did I used to love this song back in the day.
Foster the People's DEEEEP! Don't you just love 'em?! This song/video is saying that jealousy and an idea of perfectionism is killing society, killing us slowly but surely. A body is a body - let's be glad that we each have one! Why do we want things just 'cause so-and-so has it? You're not allowed to call someone fat, but skinny shaming's okay? WHAT. When you're naturally skinny, it sucks! You have this hate following you everywhere and the questions... sooo many questions!
FemininEm agree with you. Here in Indonesia being fat/muscley and shit means you are rich and wealthy, the skinny people are kinda get oppressed here.
KnightGunny Interesting... That's how it used to be here in the U.S. Now it's flip-flopped... It's almost like skinniness off of the runway means that you're automatically anorexic and you hate your body.
***** Ha-ha, umm, no, just no... Deep as in they're emotionally deep. The messages in their songs are ALWAYS meaningful and powerful.
people calling you a board because you're flat, getting called twig legs, your family asking if you're anorexic, being bombarded by the "real women have curves" shit, yeah... Being skinny is a blast!
LetsStopThisSong i rather not be skinny because being called twig legs is not what you would not want to call me im nethier fat or skinny but im in the middle
This is my first time hearing this song and I am already obsessed...
Gracelyn Tedder do u think all models are really aliens?
+Ricky G what?
Same
Stormer! 🔺
Same
Dude...
Such an underrated song and band
This is just an Amazing work
Bro everyone knows foster the people wdym
@@stupidchild8495 not everyone, I didn't know them 1 month ago for example lol
I'm obsessed with this songgggggg
I once was the best friend. Strung out, with nothing.
A friend opened his house to me, and my life has completely turned around. Got a job, got in shape, stopped using. Its so hard to do these things with no hope, been there for far to long. Nothing to look forward to. To not be excited about the rest of your life. Only capable of seeing the darkness and bad in the world.
There is darkness and bad everywhere in the world, but good is there to. Life is perspective, and if your perspective has since the time of your birth been 110% trying to survive, its impossible to see anything better. To see what you could be.
Don't put yourself down. You're a human being, even if you use. Don't hate yourself for using, that is not the right way to better yourself. That is focusing on the bad. Focus on the good, love yourself, self care. Take care of yourself because you are the only one who can, not even a Significant Other can (or should have to). If you can't stop using, start doing good things to yourself at least, to show yourself you care about yourself.
Perhaps that will help. It helped me, I love the part of me that loves to use, it is a part of me that made me who I am today (better then I ever was before). Maybe I'll use again, but I won't put myself down for doing so. I'll instead be there for myself to figure out why and to fix whatever problem is there because I care about myself. My whole self.
Take this all with a grain of salt. I'm lucky, unfortunately more lucky then a lot of people on the planet.
Wish you all well.
Peace
Inner Peace
World Peace
ManOpeace this needs more likes
That's unnecessary
Damn thanks stranger
thanks dude! i'm not a user, more like the opposite, but as a depressed person i'd like to thank you
Thats Deep most people won't understand we're all in the same game. just different levels. with the same hell just different devils
i don't know if people realize this guy is a Music Genius ...
I do - Mark Foster is brilliant!
Uh Cubbie and the other Mark are too..
Yes for sure, i saw the Live video of Lollapooza , they're all exceptionnal !
Doug Stenza I agree he is one of my favorite
2:39 how i be making my sims
Lmaoo
Happy 10 anniversary Supermodel!!!!😎🤯
This band has 7 alternative hits and counting. Thats pretty good actually considering most alternative artists never even made the top 40.
Absolutely. People that are calling FTP a one hit wonder have no idea how the music industry works. In the alternative world they are considered trailblazing hitmakers. Besides, they are more of an album artist and they have had two top ten albums already - and two #1 alt. albums.
This is better than all well-known bands like 1D. Well not 1R
MrYap123456
I think 1R is an amazing band and theyve managed to rack up tons of top 40s but according to the radio format, they are not alternative. Im not sure why
Luke Gramith can u tell me the complete name of 1R? please
Dilmar Hermoso OneRepublic
"Best Friend"
(When your best friend's all strung out)
You do everything you can
'Cause you're never gonna let it get 'em down
(When you find it all around)
Yeah, it comes in waves but it's hardest from the start
Feelings sleeping, in the field again,
But, I can feel, I can feel, I can feel, it's beginning to end
Yeah, premonition smiling in the dark
Oh, I can see, I can see, I can see the story's starting to arc
Ohhh ohhhh ohhhh ohhhhh
It dries up
I've been a spoken word
I've been a river bed
I've been a rabid force
And let it flow out from within
Sometimes it feels like I only dream in black and white
Ahhh, ahhhh, ahhhhhh, ahhhhh
And color's so oh!
(When your best friend's all strung out)
You do everything you can
'Cause you're never gonna let it get 'em down
(When you find it all around)
Yeah, you say it's what you need
And hide your eyes when you're close to me
(With your feet up in the clouds)
Well, it comes in waves, but it's hardest from the start
Waves in theta, slipping into dreams
Oh, I can feel, I can feel, I can feel the celestial beings
Wilted pleasures leave you with a breath
I can see, I can see, I can see the beauty in the mess
Ohhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhh
It dries up
I've been a river bed
I tried to salt the wound
I've carried more than I can
I feel I've got a lot to prove
Sometimes it feels like I only dream in black and white
Ohhh, ohhh, ohhhh, ohhh
But color's so oh!
(When your best friend's all strung out)
You do everything you can
'Cause you're never gonna let it get 'em down
(When you find it all around)
Yeah, you say it's what you need
You hide your eyes when you're close to me
(With your feet up in the clouds)
You oughta know
That I'm here no matter where you go
(With your head hanging upside-down)
Well, it comes in waves, but it's hardest from the start
I am here, no matter where you are
I'm waiting here with, open arms, no matter where you are
Sometimes you have to wait,
Until it passes by like a satellite or star
No matter where you are
(When your best friend's all strung out)
You know it
Ooh-hoooo-hooooo
(With your feet up in the clouds)
Oh, yeah, you know it
Ooh-hoooo-Ooh hooooo
(When your best friend's all strung out)
Oh, yeah, you know it
You oughta know
That I'm here no matter where you go
(With your head, hanging upside-down)
Yeah, you know when
That's how you know
When your best friend's all strung out
WHEN YOUR BEST FRIEND'S AN ASTRONAUT
Thank you ✨
@@alexsoto279 I heard the same. Haha
Cool
@@alexsoto279 I cannot unhear it now! hahaha thanks!?
Las canciones de Foster the people ,son lo máximo ,todas son muy buenas
Concuerdo
La mejor banda
Desde la primera vez que escuché esta canción me encanto an pasado como 6 años y la sigo disfrutando. Gracias fosther the People ❣️🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪🎸
O fans de peru 🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪
Perú presente
No pensé que en peru nos gustará tanto Foster the people xd
Perú
I can't deal with how perfect Mark Foster is in this video!
Lessons learned: When you eat other people, you get constipation.
Hahahahaha
Emily Ocean What is Siwon doing here...?
I'm waiting for people like you to notice my post.
OMG Siwon
+Emily Ocean Wait...Siwon? xD Awesome
This is FtP's greatest song. No contest.
Still the best fashion show I've ever seen
We need a new album 😰
True but the bass player and main writer left the band.
+Echo shift seriously!?! I was all pumped that I discovered a new band to listen too 😩
Nope, only the bass player left. Mark Foster, the singer, is the main writer for all the songs. He even played all the instrument when he started recording Pumped Up Kicks.
If you follow mark on snap chat , he's making new music. ITS HELLA GOOD!!
+Maranda Losse what's his snap? Please and thank you
Los latinoamericanos reportense 😔👊
Hola
hola x2
Ke pedo?
hola
XD
This band is honestly, so underrated... Who’s listening to this classic in 2025? 🎉
Neon Demon ripped this off so massively. Even the bathroom scene is accurate.
Thought I was the only one who noticed it
@@sha24gy You're dangerous.
I love the power of their influence, so much so that they inspire a whole movie.
Seems like "it's" working (the message)
ikr
Not to mention, the animated sequence in the video where the girl devours the other girl
why can't some people be happy with who they are? AWESOME SONG!
um, no-uh. I'm going to eat someone lol
well I'm happy
Wrong the song is about their best friend, but whatever makes you feel better
progamer7157 The song is about writer's block. :)
Why should you be happy with who you are? You aren't perfect so there is nothing to be proud of
Re-discovered this band recently. They are now in my top ten all time bands. Just awesome music.
This video is one of the best videos I’ve ever seen
awesome... iike always
When the teacher rejects your kahoot na- wait this is the wrong song
What song was that going to be on?
Mianimations Studios pumped up kicks
Intense Cringe when your mom takes your control-fuck wrong song
Kahoot! memes are everything.
I believe the correct song pure looking for is pumped up kicks-~~
I love this band from S.korea~~
This should have been such a big hit in summer 2014. I have no idea why it wasn’t. I think it might be their best single to date.
Radio is lame, run by lame corporations. They can barely play good music.
“Shut Up and Dance” probably took its spot as the indie pop jam of the summer
3:42 Ahhhhhh... One of the mindblowing instrumentals that many FTP songs have
I can play it, actually.
It's not that hard to play, I can play it too.. But hard to play doesnt mean it is a good song
Mark Foster is looking damn hot in this video
Dude hes hawt like ALL THE TIME! do you miss his long hair?
***** Hahaha :') you know it!
Aizon Bellam Ah true, but especially so in this video in my opinion :P I kind of do for old times sake, but I really love his new hair bc I think it makes him look kind of edgy
Sophie
You can say that again!
***** It normal for a FTP fan haha :P ah you're so lucky, I don't know anyone in real life who likes them!
2017 and I am still obsessed with this song. Perfect
such an ear-worm 🙃
I saw this video once on TV a decade ago and the imagery stuck with me so hard. I am ao happy I found it.
4:08 did anyone notice that it's the supermodel album cover?
nice catch
TyrannyforSupper thanks😄
Wow, I didn't notice! That's awesome :O
It is there own album so I think they were remorseful or plugging there own album
The dress she was throwing up had the poem on the cover😎😎
This video is so sad but it's the truth. Idk if the media or stars know how much ordinary ppl are affected by what they do or say.
I agree but people shouldn't put so much trust or emotion into a celebrity or someone they don't know, a lot of it is self confidence as well
True but it's difficult when it's all you see
This is a masterpiece. It deserves sooo much more recognition!!! 😢
0:40 that strings 💓
My favorite song on the album.
Facts 🙌🏼
I'm surprised this song doesn't have more recognition. It's a very real and accurate depiction of humans and the value of our own self worth. Never being satisfied regardless of the changes we continue to make to our bodies not even realizing the damage we're doing to ourselves until it's irreversible. Great song by a great band. My friend put me in this years ago.
It comes in waves 🌊
"you oughta know that I'm here no matter where you wanna go" my favorite line.
most accurate depiction of an album cover in a video ever
I took 2 hits of LSD about 3 weeks ago and watching this video was pretty much reliving the experience.. WOW!!!! Awesome song.
is that a good thing??? sounds scary.
Good and intense. I'm done with experimenting but it was a good experience. Just moving on and going to enjoy life in a different way
Lol I'm worried I'm going to try some soon
You will be fine. Just take one hit and no more than that the first time. And just remember it's only a trip. You can't stop it so just go with it until you come down. Just take it early afternoon! I took mine at night and toward the end I was so tired but LSD doesn't let you sleep. So I was battling sleep while tripping toward the end. That was my mistake though
! Slept until 9am the next morning. You will be fine though!
Israel Ruelas You dumbass drug addict- You realize kids watch these videos? Stop sensationalizing your dumbass drugs you take because your life sucks balls
Increíble, no existe ni una mala canción de ellos💜
Groovy beats just found this great song !
I just noticed how the singer is with the girl when wokes up, and in all her presenations and hang-outs...like a best friend literaly always there for her
I am here, no matter where you are
I'm waiting here with, open arms, no matter where you are
Sometimes you have to wait,
Until it passes by like a satellite or star
No matter where you are...
this so is absolutely amazing so addicted!
get out ciel just Kiddin
alois did not stab me i stabbed him Miss Vantass
+Megs Ando
its mister Vantass thank you
I apologize for that i didn't see your profile.
Same hi Ciel hi kiddo
Awesome Tune
the animation in this is perfect and the editing is perfect there needs to be more music videos like this
FTP.. My favourite band... Mark Foster = My inspiration
The lack of cubbie and pontius in this saddens me
they're in the silhouettes and at 1:51 - 2:01
love this banger!
the instrumentals is sick 🔥 especially that bass.
miss FTP.
this song brings back the days of the 2010s.
I love foster the people
This is my interpretation of the song:
The main girl you see is obviously a supermodel who is trying to fit in to society's definition of "a perfect supermodel". When she eats the girls, she's eating what she doesn't "have". She keeps constantly eating and changing(morphing) herself to get what society says is perfect. When she walks onto the runway, the audience gasps because she isn't what they want to see.
She tried too hard to become something society said was perfect. And when she throws up the dress from the last girl she has ate, the dress is the poem Mark wrote on the cover of Supermodel. It's a genius and beautiful video showing us the problems us women/girls are having today, to be perfect.
WOW! tu interpretación me ha fascinado.
My interpretation of best friend:
In a video, Mark Foster talked about how he was suffering writer's block and how he was "all strung out" of ideas, hence "when your best friend's all strung out." And he said that he wrote a song about that. So I think his "best friend" is either music or his own mind. This is supported in the line "Yeah, it comes in waves, but it's hardest from the start."
I think "I can feel its beginning to end" would be about ideas starting to flow again. This may be a long shot but "smiling in the dark" could relate to how Mark writes in what he calls his "cave."
"I've been a river bed, I've been a rabid force" I think this part is speaking about how Mark had plenty of ideas flowing in the past and has been passionate (e.g. sparking the need to discuss gun control laws and bullying through Pumped Up Kicks)
"Sometimes it feels like I only dream in black and white" I think this line is speaking of the lack of creativity Mark has been feeling.
"I'm here, no matter where you are, So let it in with, open arms, no matter where you are, Sometimes, you'll have to wait, And it passes by like a satellite or star, No matter where you are" I feel like this part could be referring to how creativity is an existing being on its own and its not something one can just force when called upon, it comes to you and its up to you to seize it.
With all this being said, the album artwork and film clip of this song do show a strong connection to the song being abut drugs. I think Mark Foster has written this song about both things simultaneously and in parallel with each other, showing just how brilliant of an artist he is, because while the song is about creativity, it also encapsulates the whole notion of the Supermodel album.
Foster has said in interviews that the album is very much a comment on modern culture, consumerism and the way we strive for society's idea of perfection to become like supermodels.
In the Best Friend video clip, the model consumes the other models to obtain the features she desires most in order to make herself perfect, however this vanity works against her and it hurts her as she's not able to keep everything down - leading to the part of the clip where she collapses on the catwalk, paralleling with the Supermodel album cover.
I think maybe the idea of the model being on drugs and the model being the personification of society could be Mark Foster saying that society needs to think more clearly about what beauty is because with how irrational society is, it may as well be on drugs.
(I could be completely wrong about all of this though hahahahah)
That's what I love about Mark Foster - his work is very multi-layered. Definitely leaves you with something to think about.
You sound completely right about all of this...if so, Mark is a complete Genius too!
This will forever be one of my favorite songs 🤩 I love FTP!
The basslines are Sick
i saw them live tonight !!!!!!!!
Niceee
I'm not the only one happy to see Mark doing his trademark feet shuffle dance?
Just found this band and I'm absolutely in love with this song omg
The lyrics and the music are both awesome
I love the color palette used in the video, especially the animated scenes.
I thought she was already beautiful when she first woke up...
Me 2
124Nightwing That's exactly what is the vid/song about :3
124Nightwing yeah i think that's what the video is saying how beautiful people are always trying to become more beautiful but always fucks the beauty up they had.
+124Nightwing yea me too but why does she eat the peoples??
idk...maybe just a cooler way than showing someone getting surgery perhaps.
*when your best friend is physically strung out*
I hope @markfoster reads these comments. Congrats @fosterthepeople for making the Official World Cup 2022 soundtrack.
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2:45 - Nash Grier's ideal woman
what? really nash grier?
lol
IM DYING
lol
i dont get it
I love 4:07! Brilliant!
The cover of the album! ^^
Artica Genius!
Artica Genius!
I caught that too!
Pure poetry
They did a great job on this video
2:45
Slenderman
Now available in woman.
You made me laugh sooo hard.
JAJAJAJAJAJA agree