@@sloppy_porridge Tell that to my Grandma when she calls my mom almost crying cause the voices in her head told her my mom (her daughter) got murdered. Hallucinations is very real in dementia, as you get worse you get disconnected from “reality” permanently.
I hate how people call it "old people music" when in reality all music is going to be old people music at one point, Everywhere At The End Of Time is an experience, not just an album
What does « old people music » even mean? There are no genre defined by such words... anyone could produce such music at anytime it has no reason to be described as that to begin with.
@@corezone4250 do they mean jazz? Because jazz? That would be an stupid answer, I started to enjoy jazz/ballroom music because of the album It's nice to hear something different then rock or electronic music Just listen some calm ballroom music
@@hetecks1385 I agree, all genres are interesting to listen to. What I meant was that people call ballroom music "old people" music, just because it's from the 1920s. But anyone could make ballroom music in 2020 so I don't think any genre can be classified as "old people" ish.
@@corezone4250 hmm... I'm an inspiring musician (well I want to be one) I think I can do to make that... Also I have adhd so I normally type and then post then forget like that
I know its not THAT bad... but hearing about the tiktok stuff makes me feel like I'm getting stabbed. Before I found eateot, I had no clue what dementia was. My grandfather had died with dementia years ago, and I only realized the pain and horror he went through when I found the caretaker. The caretaker helped me realize how important the time you spend with the elderly is, as they might only remember you for a few more years. I just hate how people are reacting to this album as a joke... please... don't take this as a joke... I beg of you. I don't want people to think dementia is a joke, I don't want my grandfather's painful death to be a joke. Please...
honestly while i do like that EATEOT is getting more popularity, it really bugs me that these tiktok kids are heavily misinformed about the meaning of the project. p.s. this was a really good video
I would have the balls to say to the author of that and say "it's a project..." Continues on "about the different stages of dementia..." And you know the rest
I mean technically, creepypastas are originally creepy things made to be copy pasted everywhere and this is indeed a mentally creepy and exhausting experience thats currently being copypasted everywhere.
Being a hypochondriac, after hearing the album I was so paranoid that I was starting to forget small things and that it was a sign of early dementia. But honestly as time goes on it’s really helped me appreciate the smaller things in life, and memories I make with loved ones
I’m definitely missing something cause I just don’t feel that way. Don’t get me wrong I’m not trying to act tough or anything I did feel something from it but nothing extreme. The only parts that really made me feel some type of way was stage 2 quiet dusk coming early or something like that, stage 3 bewildered in other eyes or all eyes bewildered I forgot and stage 5 the first bliss part. But I just kind of wish I could feel something more from the album seeing how lots of people actually took something away from it
I wasn’t very mentally stable before listening to it, I probably have to say, about halfway through stage 6 was the worst I’ve felt emotionally in my entire life. Didn’t sleep for a while afterwards but I think overall, I’ve come out a better and stronger person. I hate the fact that tiktok has found it now
I know right. Like I actually couldn’t listen to the whole thing without looking at the comments sometimes because it got overwhelmingly dreadful. And after listening to it, I couldn’t get it off my mind and sleeping was definitely not enjoyable. But now, I’m glad I’ve experienced this album. I feel like I wouldn’t be the same person without it
I'd say it's better it reached tik tok because people are more exposed to it, who cares of people dance to it, it's their own interpretation or coping method with the album
The internet and this album reminded me how generations tend to forget, and observing how my age-group dismisses this incredible story for some crappy challenge is frightening to me. Not even your art is save, it will be distorted and with some time, forgotten. This album made me reconcile with the eternal, a relationship that in reality never existed. It set a stone for me to accept death as the hurtful process it is, and why we should let things go, even if memories are forgotten too.
@@BradRLee thats the biggest problem with the internet. everyone can do/say some dumb shit and someone will listen. it gives a voice to good and bad people.
@@eeeguba432 She's still fighting on, it's more of just a slow deteriation with a sad ending. She still mumbles and smiles at us from time to time though, and we got her a teddy bear to sleep with. Thank you for asking man, it means a lot.
@@Toolace a teddy? I would have never thought of that, thats a great idea, my closest person ive had with dementia was my uncle, and i really feel bad about that, because when he didnt recognise me, i got really upset and stopped pretty much interacting with him. I made his suffering about me, im glad other people dont do that and push through, i was too young to understand. Have strengh, i really hope you can keep up with her and support her. Good luck
exactly but some people can't fathom that there's no use for the additional burden of wondering how Kim and Kanye's marriage is or if their insta has likes
One of the few words I can use to describe a lot of the takes I've heard is "Ignorant". People voluntarily ignoring the songs symbolic nature and calling it just noise. The "I could make this in a year tops" especially irriated me. This statement ignores the inception of the idea, coming up with how to execute the idea, the mental labor Kirby would've went through to sort through the later stages (Stage 4's effects were managed by a computer, so Kirby had to sort through hundreds of hours), and the thought needed to make the intricate details of dementia into audio form.
I kept reading Kirby (Leyland Kirby) as Kirby (the video game character) so I just imagine Kirby (the video game character), Meta Knight, Taranza, Void Soul, Dark Meta Knight, Suzie, and plenty of other troubled Kirby characters (there's more than you might think) creating an album transcribing their pain into music. A great mental image to have.
I think Everywhere At The End of Time is being appreciated by many, but not at its fullest due to its complexity. Its topic is crystal clear, it's a sound experiment to picture dementia. But what if you listened to it without knowing what it was about? I tried to forget its label and focus entirely on what I was listening to as a mere sound composition, the emotions I was getting from it and the result is that it went much further than "just" a good depiction of dementia. It's a perfect depiction of The Loss of Meaning. It makes you experience what it means to lose something familiar over and over until you can no longer recognize it and all you can hear is noise. What used to be music ends up as a gibberish sound until there is nothing left of it. It could apply to so many things, and even if it was clearly inspired by Dementia, I seriously think it would be a good depiction of Loss in its purest form through all its stages. The loss of a meaning, the loss of a memory, the loss of a life. In a single word: Death.
ehhh I mean I agree with you, but not everyone likes experimental music and especially some young teens might have a difficult time with thinking about things this way
When I first listened to the song, It’s just a burning memory, it had a pretty big emotional impact on me. Even though I didn’t know the meaning of EATEOT.
tiktok ruins everything smfh edit: ok that was bit harsh, but you know what i mean, mainstream exposure brings a lot of superficial people to the table
I think the negative backlash eatot is getting on tik tok is somewhat influenced by how it's set up as a social media site. It's hard to properly express nuance or emotional depth in a minute or less, and eatot is just the kind of art project that requires nuance and emotional depth to be properly appreciated and discussed. There's strengths to short-form video sites (i mean look at vine and it's cultural influence), it's just not the place to find good takes on art
I'm going to be for real. EATOT isn't that deep. It's 6 hours and 30 minutes of distorted samples from the 20s that can be summed up into "Degenerative brain diseases are bad." And "Death is bad." I think the albums neat and all, but it's not as much as a god send as you think. There's no point in dwelling on something that we can help. There is no cure for dementia, and there most likely won't be one for the foreseeable future.
@@arieson7715 You probably didn’t even listen to the majority of the album. Shut up you have no right to judge, especially if you only read the descriptions.
For those TikTok-ers, They should try and listen to it more effectively and precisely, every hour and minute is like a memory and they should respect it at that, but since they are literal teens that need to get clout via dancing, i doubt they will listen to it fully
back here again, cant stop thinking about this album and usually im fine and content with this, listening to it again makes me used to it, the first time i listened to it was scary but the more i progress i slowly get more and more peaceful by the min and hour, people dont really get the album thats fine, i just dont want this album to be called "a weird album that is for boomers and noises only" well i guess i was rambling alot rn but its kinda what i feel rn yesterday i listened to the album while me and my family were visiting my grandmas grave and to our relatives houses, and somewhat i like the album while doing other stuff but i more or less dont socialize with my relatives. instead i look blankly with a sad yet peaceful face, but its christmas so i am happy that i am cherishing this memories before i go into a deep descent
honestly i think it's incredibly disrespectful of that article calling it a "creepypasta" i completely agree with the fact that its purpose is as a work of art / to bring awareness. if at the very least a "creepypasta" is almost entirely fictional, where dementia is a very real disease
Not to sound like that person but, my generation doesn’t have the same respect for art as older ones did. The fact they are treating this as a game or joke makes me sick. Especially since I lost a loved one who was struggling with Alzheimer’s.
It would be very morbid if the Tiktok users making fun of the album were diagnosed with Alzheimer's at some later point, and in their last moments of life, the only thing they remember is A1, playing on repeat in their fractured minds...
@@ethaphu5589 Dude, no. Dementia is not something you should wish on your worst enemies, let alone random dipshits on TikTok who made fun of a freaky album that one time.
EATEOT: simulates the effects of a horrible disease, in a mature and profound way, that makes people think about the concept of their own memories and mortality TikTokers on their way to ruin the song through low quality memes, and disrespecting the project itself: *now this looks like a job for me*
As a 17 year old (also on Tiktok) this album is fucking incredible.. I listened to it completely blind and had no idea what I was in for and it destroyed me- so much so that I had to skip school for 2 days because I became so depressed and couldn't sleep afterwards. I also made 2 tiktoks (which have since been deleted because they got so much hate lol) discussing my thoughts on the different stages and how special the project was to me.
Im really confused about my feelings for the album, on the one side I kind of like it and enjoy listening to it, on the other hand I cried when I first listened to it because i was so horrified sometimes and that feeling didnt dissapear when I listened to it again.
I am currently 13 and I decided to delete Tik Tok as a result of the raging mental retardation of the people on it, especially when speaking of EatEoT.
This just looks like a over reaction and retarded, this album is just beautiful to hear it didn't move a itch in my mental state, and I honestly think the beginning is the saddest part and it gave a sad feeling when I hear it again in the end of the shining.
Damn. I played Minecraft while listening to this too. Single player, creative, I was building the tree of life from kabalah. I fear I was too focused on the game. I didn't have a heartbreaking reaction to the end. Could be also that I expected that reaction and so kept waiting for it. It did affect me, I sat still for a minute after it ended in my room. It had been light out when I started but now it was at sunset. One problem I had was that I kept recalling other songs while listening to it or simply audio clips that kept playing over and over in my head. These internal earworms did mutate and degenerate as the album went on so maybe it was appropriate. Did anyone else have this happen to them?
oh my god. thats exactly what I did. i listened to the album while building my treehouse (its not like the tree you're talking about but it was a tree) in minecraft. thats actually fucking crazy
Yes, I've had Heartaches by Al Bowlly (the first song sampled in the piece) stuck in my head for a couple days. It really just goes to show there ain't such a thing as old people music. Don't get caught up on labels cause that's exactly how you miss out on 90% of the good music out there - by making assumptions about it based on labels. With that said, I believe that's EXACTLY the point the Caretaker was going for. Dementia is like a constant degenerative cycle of consciousness and memory vs the lack-there-of. The moments of pain and confusion sprinkled in with the lucidity, and later on vice-verse. This is one thing the Caretaker did very well, in that he's really perfected exactly what he wants you to be feeling. The music is disturbing and strange enough to get you to pay attention, catchy enough to listen to, but its the blatant parallels that he draws to the disease that are really going to make you stop and put it all together. He's awfully talented.
I was strip mining, and let me tell you, that was quite the experience. Getting creeped out by the slightest twitch in shadows, forgetting what I was even doing, endlessly clicking and dragging as the sound in my ears deteriorated. I had to stop playing because I was getting too depressed and instead just scrolled through google (I have autism and can't really stay still or focus on one thing at a time without losing myself)
It's the intended purpose. Meant to put into your head, until its slowly deteriorating, getting you uncomfy, and then suddenly scaring you by overwhelming you and drowning you in noise.
my great grandmother developed dementia. she was living in my grandmother's house under her care. she eventually was taken to a nursing home. she refused to talk to anyone she didn't recognize. she thought my younger brother was my uncle and couldn't even recognize her own daughter
I've been listening to The Caretaker since 2002. I recommend "A Stairway To The Stars" by him. It has all the glorious components that make up the Caretaker, albeit in a more concise and varied fashion.
Finally a comment that isnt made by an user with cartoon profile pic, AND that has made a valuable contribution to this discussion by recommending similar works. Thanks
**looks at the Dementia but EPIC playlist** Yeah, some are really heartwarming to see. Especially one that helps people cope with the aftermath of it. Others, not so much.
Woah awsome vid. I found the album right about when the full thing came out on youtube. I don't mean to be a stuck up, but there's a place and a time for things, and tik tok isn't the place for this project. Subbed
As someone who dealt with someone who had Dementia, the TikTokers who make fun of it don’t know the full extent as to how someone would feel. It’s torture watching someone go through each stage, especially someone you care deeply about
Honestly Everywhere at the End of Time is probably my favorite album and I listen to it all the time (I even started working on a series of artworks and my own album in a similar style using the same samples)
I think when any project that isn't kitsch breaks the mainstream, the meaning gets muddled amongst the noise. I heard about the album in June/July-ish from a friend and tossed it to the back burner. After finishing it earlier last year I can safely say it is my favorite album and it hurts to see emotionally immature people have less than ideal understanding and the things they do with that.
I read over that old NYT article again, and apparently the whole "you will get dementia" thing, came from a rumor BEFORE that on TikTok that claimed you can be cured of dementia by listening to the whole album (actually in reality, doing that is more of a sadistic/cruel thing to make the patients listen to who are already confused). The original rumor is at least somewhat based in truth (since music is one of the longest lasting memory a dementia patient can remember) unlike that "You'll gain dementia" bs
man im gonna be real, i had a breakdown listening to just the first song on Phase 1. i dont understand how people can call this a meme. if they really listened to it and understood, applied it, to a person going through this, how every day is slowly becoming more unreal, and your life is on a timer, they'd know.
I first listened to the Caretaker when I was looking for media about Alzheimer's a bit over a year ago. My family has a history of the disease, and I'm very at-risk of getting it in the future. I don't like gatekeeping, but I really hope that this music is never separated from it's meaning. It's a huge part of what has made it so hauntingly beautiful, and meaningful to me.
3:37 - 3:57 "as you can see, I spent the last couple of hours staring at the menu screen to minecraft..." That's... what actually happened to me. Well, the circumstances were different because I wasn't playing minecraft, more like I piled some novels and fanfictions to read on my phone because six hours is a long time and you know that you had to do something with all that time. At first, I was able to enjoy reading while listening to it but then after that, I was just swiping the homescreen from left to right with no idea what to do. There was just something about it that "disables" my "function" and creativity that I just spent the rest of the song closing my eyes and trying to relax, which is really hard to do because it felt like it's hard to breathe and my life draining away. It was haunting but beautiful in some way. While I'm glad that the song is getting some sort of traction, it isn't the type of music I wouldn't recommend to someone not fully committed to it. It takes time, energy and willpower to brave through every second of it, something that most of the youth don't understand at first until they get more mature and experienced.
I don’t use tiktok, but I did first discover the album through memes. A few short animated videos used it as creepy background music and it was all the comments were talking about. I think that good memes could be made with this, giving the album more positive attention as a result. The closest similarity I can think of was how people watched Babadook after seeing the “Babadook is gay” memes. (I haven’t listened to the full thing yet, I need to to find the time and courage first.)
@@bacsaljohnrobert3202 no, ypu misunderstood. He started the Caretaker as a project and a moniker for his music in 2000, but EATEOT was made in 2016-2019
You are right. I think the first album came out in 2015 or 2016 and he released the other albums in the following years until 2019 when stage 6 released
My experience with EATEOT reminds me greatly of Jordan Underneath's experience with Silent Hill 2. This project is just something that's incredibly special. It struck a chord with me that I didn't even know was there when I first listened to it (i didn't listen to it all in one sitting, it took me multiple attempts to be able to fully sit through the whole thing), and I feel like my life has been irreversibly changed for the better after listening to this whole series of albums. Both EATEOT and Pathologic 2 have provided me a lot of comfort and moments of meditation during this awful year.
I was 13 when I discovered Mr. Kirby. My grandmother had dementia, and her final moments of clarity shook me at that age. I'm currently 17, and I have grown fond of Leyland Kirby. I love his work, and I am so proud of him creating this beautiful project. I cried after listening to EATEOT. I have listened over 10 times over the past 4 years. It was beautiful. The dementia dive I have done, I'm torn in society, and I would love to help the disease. For my grandmother. For myself.
as a tiktok user, im sorry allot of the users of the plataform are disrespecting this masterpiece :(, im currently thinking on listening it completly. Im not trying to be disrespectfull... if you are reading this i hope you have a good day
EATEOT is something you gotta be delicate with. You can't just use it as regular music, it only fits in if the video has a similar feel to it: the protagonist is lost and confused and/or they're in a place that has a desolate aura of "people used to be here, but now it's abandoned and devoid of life". It also somewhat fits as a prelude to an apocalypse like in the trollge videos. Also, turning the album into some marathon challenge is almost a mockery to The Caretaker's work.
I'm glad I learned about it from my friends who took it seriously. One of the most chilling albums I've ever heard. Thank god my family doesn't have any history of dementia.
dear god, the fact that it was called a “creepypasta” is honestly sickening i knew what dementia was before the album, but i thought it was just simple memory loss. just simply forgetting things like everyone does. now ive found this album i realized its so much more. you forget yourself, basic human qualities, etc etc. i also have more interest for learning about Alzheimer’s or dementia. also the EATEOT memes are great
Hey bud. You'd never have heard or cared about this small number of stupid people on Tik Tok if you had never seen this video. Is it really something you want to get angry over? Or otherwise, are you just virtue signalling because hating Tik Tok is the popular thing to do on TH-cam? I don't even use Tik Tok, by the way.
@@sudonim7552 My guy you do realize that people are allowed to be angry at things existing right? Doesn't really matter if the anger is rational or productive, people get angry at things. Just like the anger might be pointless, chastising people for being angry about something is also pointless, and so is me chastising you about chastising him being angry.
Sorry to hear about that. :( It really is a horrible disease, not just for the person who has it but for everyone around them. 🙏 Hope you guys are all coping ok.
I found this through a trollge meme called “blood floats on blood” and it played stage 6 at the end, the comments were flooded with scary stuff talking about the album. So I gained the guts to listen to it during my schoolwork alone, and honestly it made me paranoid for the rest of my life about Alzheimer’s
Honestly i hate the overuse of EATEOT in Trollge memes. They're shaping it in a killer's theme, a song of eldritch terror, rather than a victim's lullaby, which completly mangles the meaning.
@@a.p.6580 Kinda sad that internet turns EATEOT into a meme, a GODDAMN MEME. Really, can't people chill with their humor? It's a serious case and based on a real disorder, and they just turns it into a funny mess, it pisses me off.
The best way I can describe it is how you find a spot outside that nobody really knows about, whether it be a garden or some other place, it means a lot to you, but others have found it, and no matter how desperately you tell them they find it fun to destroy the place.
I really like the eateot memes that are about the experience of listing to the album it's self. It's a way for me to confront my fear of developing dementia/altimeters without disrespecting what patients are going through.
Ok, I may be a young teen but wow,,, the TikTok section made me livid either way. This album threw me into a deep, confusing crisis but it also made me see the world in a new light. To see people push it aside without even fully understanding it kind of hurts
My grandmother was diagnosed with it. I was one of the only names she could remember. She passed last year on Saint Patrick’s day of a chest infection. I am honestly glad she did not have to go trough this horrid disease before it took its toll on her.
bruh, I hate that kind of people. I discover the album thanks to a spanish youtuber, he also talk about the stages and dementia. I have a kind of phobia to death, I am really scared of what happends next, but having a probability of dying like that, no remembering and lost averything incluiding yourself, that made me cry, and everytime I hear "Heartache" or just the first song, I start crying wishing that actually no one forgets about me, who I am and more, I have a really bad self-esteem and sometimes I just hate myself but this makes want to never lose me and my identity and what I am. Sorry for the bad english, I don't speak english and I am just a little girl ( still learning ). Sorry again for taking your time, have a good day.
im so glad that so many more people are listening to kirby's work. i actually hadn't listened to the full project until way after vvmtest posted the full thing. i could never get past stage 5, it just scared me
Everywhere at the end of time has changed my life majorly. It has introduced me to my favorite songs, artists and genre. It gave me a change of my life I've been looking for. Artists with music I listen to anytime. Songs that have become my favorite songs of all time.
Ollie... this is incredible. Even the small audio clips in this video still make chills go down my spine. Amazing video, amazing interviews, your summary at the end was perfect. Can’t wait to see what else you do! :)
what i hate the most is that these tiktok people keep saying that they "understand mental illnesses" but the only thing they do is romanticize depression and anxiety by saying "it's ok". Most of the time people who say that they have depression in the app are people aged 17 years or less wanting to draw attention, but other diseases are treated as if they were not important or because they are of boomer old people and I fucking hate it
After having listened to the entirity of EATEOT, I didn't feel that much because I knew it had a twist and I went spoiled of it's twist, but yesterday I listened to a variant called Everywhere At The Begining of Nowhere by The Carebear, which is a 7h 42min variant with 7 stages, and with this one I got that emotional breaking point. EATBON is way less broken or even less heavier than EATEOT, but it accomplishes the same goal. I reccomend you listen to it too. (Sorry for my shitty english, I'm not an english native speaker)
I fucking LOVE THIS SONG its been stuck in my head for two days straight. Such a bop. Your kiss was such a sacred thing to me. I cant believe its just a burning memory :'( edit: Heartaches by Al Bowlly if anyone is looking for the original piece. Look up EATEOT on spotify and playlists with sampled songs come up
@@kamaelea4060 lol, it's ok. It's more of a grim prediction than an actual diagnosis, anyway. I've just worked a year solid of mostly graveyard shifts, with a few swings mixed in to keep my on my toes. My sleep schedule is garbage, and sleep deprivation is a known contributing factor to Alzheimer's. Add to that a mild family history, and I don't like where I see my "golden years" going, especially if I stay where I am. (And in this economy, I _really_ don't want to try my luck anywhere else... 😐) Mostly tho, I'm just foolin' around. Sleepier me *intentionally* misspelled two words in the above sentence _specifically_ to annoy myself at a later point in time, and I have to say... re-reading my "initiated" with only two "i"s is making me feel _some kind of way..._ 🙄
i found it because it came up in my recommendation section. watched some videos on it beforehand and realized what it was about. it absolutely broke me. my grandmother has alzheimer’s and is nearing the end and the album destroyed me. i haven’t been able to listen to the whole thing yet and i’m genuinely scared to. i hate what the internet has done to it
@@TheSergio1021 there is. Music has structure, a rhythm, progressions, and typically has harmony and inherent beauty of form. If you strip away all of these elements, you end up with something like Forms Of Paper or Sea Wolf Leviathan. It can still be enjoyed, but not in the same way as a more traditional piece of music, and as a result should be approached differently as well. While Everywhere at the end of time has typical musical elements, they aren't the main focus of the album: the main focus of the album is the progression of the gradual distortion of those elements. Hence it should be approached as a work of noise art.
@@garrangery8180 (pretentious comment incoming) I do feel like everywhere at the end of time acts as a deconstruction of music. Rather than being just noise music or just ordinary music, it takes both and perfectly transitions between them in a way that’s universally effective. It almost explains the different between music and noise through it’s progression.
This album made me wish my great grandpa was back, just so I could tell him that I'm very sorry about not being able to fully comprehend what was going on with him at the time...
You know when i listened to eoateot i got an uneasy feeling like i was decaying like i was nota feeling myself ,alot of anxeity like death was around the corner closer everytime (even though i am like 16)
This song made me realize on a phobia I didn’t know i had i have shit memory but i will remember people who have impacted me or helped me and now this song made me sad and almost made me cry because i was forgetting thing so i stopped and had my girlfriend hug me before i cried myself to sleep and the phobia im talking about is the fear of forgetting someone or something
In 2018 my grandmother died after a stroke and dementia. I loved her so much and I wish I could listen to it because I love drone music but I don't have the time. I will give my nod to it as others of my generation have not. I think teens dislike the album because they really only listen to the biggest hits, 3 minute songs 30-50 minute albums, not many of my generation I think are prepared for songs over 10 minutes and albums more than an hour and a half long. They've conditioned themselves into a cycle of quick satisfaction that cant come from long albums. Long projects like Everywhere At The End Of Time aren't for the audience of GEN Z. I believe its for the people who know people in their life who have dementia, have lost people in their life to dementia or will try new things, Unfortunately my generation seems to not have the ability to try new things and I guess they don't get what its like to loose a family member to dementia, of course there are exceptions but the majority of zoomers brains aren't ready for this kind of stuff because It is so different from everything else they are accustomed to and I think they are afraid of change.
im 11 and im in love with this album i was raised around music my whole life (im from New Jersey) and for people to discredit it like just shows how uneducated they are on music it breaks my heart when people says its bad makes me so angry and my dad has dementia so it really hits home.
This album has helped me sleep. I usually listen to this at night after a stressful night, or when I’m daydreaming. My favorite part of it is at the time slot of (7:02) love the meaning and love the eery ness of it. GO LISTEN!
The album is actually quite good but you need to respect it and listen to it properly. There are a lot of key moments that are designed and deliberate to make you feel a certain way. It took me a few tries but I listened to it in its entirety and I get why people get upset at the end. Its actually quite eye opening and designed very cleverly.
I think the main reason for the backlash against this album is the difference between media which you can enjoy and media in which you can have an emotional connection to, but wouldn't want to experience again because of its effect on you. EATOT can be recognised as a piece of art which accurately depicts the totality of dementia, but I doubt anyone who has gone through with listening to the whole thing would want to do it again for fun. It's such an emotional rollercoaster, and for that reason, I can see why a pile of teenagers wouldn't get the message because they just want to be entertained instead of having to think.
@Pizza Boy Simp Yeah, after experiencing the whole thing, I don't know if I'd like to do it again. Takes some resilience. Although I've noticed how some people have taken EATOT and created something new with remixes actually which sound amazing!
Damn, this is an amazing video, all the effort put into this is outstanding! i'm surprised that you only have 267 subs, you've earned yourself a subscriber. Great Work
i listened to the album when i was not in a great place emotionally, and it absolutely wrecked me- ive had grandparents on both sides with dementia. all in all though it's really a credit to how incredible eateot is that it could create such an immense emotional response! great video man
i was honestly one of the people who didn't quite have too big of an emotional reaction to it when i listened to eateot, (probably a mix of my short attention span, emotional denseness, and the fact that dementia was something i was already familiar with and at that point kind of desensitized to) but really, if you take any time to read the comments or watch an analysis, it's easy to see how meaningful it is. it really should be treated with respect
Yeah I'm not gonna pretend like I cried but it's an admirable piece of art. Really annoys me when there's people who just completely discredit it and say stuff like "wow you guys get scared of this? It's boring" makes me sad seeing ignorant people miss the point and bash something they don't even try to understand
Listening to this knowing I have family history of it and the fact it is hereditary was challenging..... It hit hard but I listened to it 6 hours straight anyway. Amazing experience
I listened to the album at first normally, just sitting, scrolling through the phone, but i had to go do some stuff , so i listened to it through stage 3 to 5 while shopping, and doing different stuff, and honestly, i felt like i was loosing coordination, loosing the ability to think clear, at some point it made me get angry, because i couldnt think straight, i forgot what people were telling me, it was a wierd experience...jesus this album...
I originally found The Caretaker because Squimpus McGrimpus used a fews songs of The Caretaker's in their fnaf vhs series, and eventually that led me to Everywhere at the End of Time. I couldn't listen to the whole thing in one go, because I just don't have the attention span for it, but I did end up finishing it recently. I don't like to cry, but the ending did make me pretty sad, especially since recently I've learned that my grandma on my dad's side has dementia on top of her poor hearing. I personally love relistening to the songs from stages 1 and 2 (and sometimes 3) because I just like those types of songs, but I can see why people don't like to go back to the album. Maybe one day I'll go through the album in one sitting.
I remember feeling a powerful creativity spike while listening to it and then emotionally breaking down trying to make my piece. Eateot remains emotionally powerful to listen to for me months later Edit: I'd love to do an interview with you if you'd like, now that I watched the whole stream
This album depresses the hell outta me. It scares me and makes my anxiety go through through the roof, especially when thinking about the weird things my grandma did going through dementia. It truly scares me. Losing my memory and living in a distorted world.
I am 14 years old and I have known how to appreciate this album as they have no idea, it bothered me that they called it “music for old people” because is not like that, if you really want to understand the album, if you really want to empathize and feel what the composer wanted to express you need to have the determination to finish it, I think that only the people who did get “in the role” will understand what this album really means and will not “get bored while they are listening”. Also I would like to clarify that I don’t come from tik tok, I found the album long before it became a “trend” (although it’s very sillyto consider it like that), I hope you understand what I want to express because my english is very bad
I’m pretty sure what they mean is that because of the pandemic we are in lockdown which makes us inactive. Inactivity can lead to an increased chance of dementia or Alzheimer’s.
Everybody gangsta until all these tiktokers that didnt take the album seriously(not only because of the topic it talks about, it took a decade to finish) get dementia when they turn 70 and the old you is chilling with your grandchildren, or pets or just vibing alone
I found this video while doing research for my own video on the album. This kind of made me upset because this album was created with incredible attentive detail and tik tok just HAD to ruin it. Either way good video 👍 I turned on notifications for any of your future uploads because I look forward to seeing more of your content
Great video. I really appreciate the informed and reflective take on the project. Also, an excellent succinct summation on the work being "crystallized empathy". That being said, I highly doubt that JLK will take any criticism from tik tok to heart. The vast majority of people won't understand or appreciate what this work gives voice to. Teens are no different than any other age demo, in that there are those who write it off as noise or obsolete big band recordings. It's those select individuals who see the work for what it is and the harrowing amount of effort, research and passion that Kirby ultimately injected into it. It's nice to see that young people can appreciate this.
I found it from a video about aa artist named William Utermohlem, who had dementia. It showed how his art deteriorated and in the background some of the music from EATEOT was playing. I got curious and listened to the entire thing. Needless to say it really fucked me up.
An album that makes you appreciate your own sanity.
Or disregard it.
Whichever. 🙂
@@normanclatcher true.
Dementia doesn’t affect your sanity but I can see where you’re coming from
@@sloppy_porridge Tell that to my Grandma when she calls my mom almost crying cause the voices in her head told her my mom (her daughter) got murdered. Hallucinations is very real in dementia, as you get worse you get disconnected from “reality” permanently.
@@kerocz3363 really? Fucking hell im so sorry I thought it was just losing memory and stuff like that but I’m so sorry
I hate how people call it "old people music" when in reality all music is going to be old people music at one point, Everywhere At The End Of Time is an experience, not just an album
What does « old people music » even mean?
There are no genre defined by such words... anyone could produce such music at anytime it has no reason to be described as that to begin with.
“But 80s music isn’t old people music, it’s cool.” Even tho it’s 40 years old, those people are clowns.
@@corezone4250 do they mean jazz?
Because jazz?
That would be an stupid answer, I started to enjoy jazz/ballroom music because of the album
It's nice to hear something different then rock or electronic music
Just listen some calm ballroom music
@@hetecks1385 I agree, all genres are interesting to listen to.
What I meant was that people call ballroom music "old people" music, just because it's from the 1920s.
But anyone could make ballroom music in 2020 so I don't think any genre can be classified as "old people" ish.
@@corezone4250 hmm... I'm an inspiring musician (well I want to be one)
I think I can do to make that...
Also I have adhd so I normally type and then post then forget like that
I know its not THAT bad... but hearing about the tiktok stuff makes me feel like I'm getting stabbed. Before I found eateot, I had no clue what dementia was. My grandfather had died with dementia years ago, and I only realized the pain and horror he went through when I found the caretaker. The caretaker helped me realize how important the time you spend with the elderly is, as they might only remember you for a few more years. I just hate how people are reacting to this album as a joke... please... don't take this as a joke... I beg of you. I don't want people to think dementia is a joke, I don't want my grandfather's painful death to be a joke. Please...
My Grandpa died the same way, at the time I had no idea what it was and what has happening. EATEOT set the realization in.
The scary part is the fact that you yourself might get dementia one day.
same thing here. my grandma died with demntia and at the time, i was really afraid of her because i didnt understand what was wrong.
How
It's fucking TikTok. The same people, who filed their fucking teeth. What were you expecting? For them to have an IQ above zero?
honestly while i do like that EATEOT is getting more popularity, it really bugs me that these tiktok kids are heavily misinformed about the meaning of the project.
p.s. this was a really good video
true
What do they think it is?
@@cerebralmalsey they think it's some weird creepypasta, and if you listen to it you get dementia or some shit
@@rayzojams that nails it, I'm getting the Cobain rifle.
Fax
Can we point out the fact that one article called EATEOT a creepypasta? Like c'mon wtf
Bruh, how stupid are article writers lol
I would have the balls to say to the author of that and say "it's a project..." Continues on "about the different stages of dementia..." And you know the rest
Link?
I mean technically, creepypastas are originally creepy things made to be copy pasted everywhere and this is indeed a mentally creepy and exhausting experience thats currently being copypasted everywhere.
@@MrMickio1 but there fiction, this is reality
i remember i seriously got depressed and anxious after listening to it but over time i think it’s strengthened me
Being a hypochondriac, after hearing the album I was so paranoid that I was starting to forget small things and that it was a sign of early dementia. But honestly as time goes on it’s really helped me appreciate the smaller things in life, and memories I make with loved ones
Yup same. It changed me too and made me appreciate life a bit more even if it was just a tiny bit
@@fugostrawberries same
I’m definitely missing something cause I just don’t feel that way. Don’t get me wrong I’m not trying to act tough or anything I did feel something from it but nothing extreme. The only parts that really made me feel some type of way was stage 2 quiet dusk coming early or something like that, stage 3 bewildered in other eyes or all eyes bewildered I forgot and stage 5 the first bliss part. But I just kind of wish I could feel something more from the album seeing how lots of people actually took something away from it
@@aesthetic4829 That's why I haven't listened to the whole thing yet. I don't want the paranoia to follow. But I do want to give it a full listen.
I wasn’t very mentally stable before listening to it, I probably have to say, about halfway through stage 6 was the worst I’ve felt emotionally in my entire life. Didn’t sleep for a while afterwards but I think overall, I’ve come out a better and stronger person. I hate the fact that tiktok has found it now
I know right. Like I actually couldn’t listen to the whole thing without looking at the comments sometimes because it got overwhelmingly dreadful. And after listening to it, I couldn’t get it off my mind and sleeping was definitely not enjoyable. But now, I’m glad I’ve experienced this album. I feel like I wouldn’t be the same person without it
I'd say it's better it reached tik tok because people are more exposed to it, who cares of people dance to it, it's their own interpretation or coping method with the album
@@Peters-swamp imagine dancing to a song that was set into super slow, painful, gloomy mode like wtf lol that just doesn't seems right, my man
When I finished listening to it, that night I couldn’t go to sleep as I was trying to comprehend death, which I had never done prior.
@@Peters-swamp it's not that the tiktok people are dancing to it, it's that they say bad things about it without actually having listened to it.
The internet and this album reminded me how generations tend to forget, and observing how my age-group dismisses this incredible story for some crappy challenge is frightening to me. Not even your art is save, it will be distorted and with some time, forgotten.
This album made me reconcile with the eternal, a relationship that in reality never existed. It set a stone for me to accept death as the hurtful process it is, and why we should let things go, even if memories are forgotten too.
Every generation has those kinds of people, it’s just that the Internet gave them a louder voice.
@@BradRLee thats the biggest problem with the internet. everyone can do/say some dumb shit and someone will listen. it gives a voice to good and bad people.
My grandma is on some of her last weeks of life with Alzheimer’s and this shit really hit close to home. Great review anyways.
Sorry to hear about that dude, thanks for your support.
How is she?
@@eeeguba432 She's still fighting on, it's more of just a slow deteriation with a sad ending. She still mumbles and smiles at us from time to time though, and we got her a teddy bear to sleep with. Thank you for asking man, it means a lot.
@@tallpanda Thank you for your concern, and no problem.
@@Toolace a teddy? I would have never thought of that, thats a great idea, my closest person ive had with dementia was my uncle, and i really feel bad about that, because when he didnt recognise me, i got really upset and stopped pretty much interacting with him. I made his suffering about me, im glad other people dont do that and push through, i was too young to understand. Have strengh, i really hope you can keep up with her and support her. Good luck
If you just ignore the internet, you find really really nice happiness
exactly but some people can't fathom that there's no use for the additional burden of wondering how Kim and Kanye's marriage is or if their insta has likes
indeed
One of the few words I can use to describe a lot of the takes I've heard is "Ignorant". People voluntarily ignoring the songs symbolic nature and calling it just noise. The "I could make this in a year tops" especially irriated me. This statement ignores the inception of the idea, coming up with how to execute the idea, the mental labor Kirby would've went through to sort through the later stages (Stage 4's effects were managed by a computer, so Kirby had to sort through hundreds of hours), and the thought needed to make the intricate details of dementia into audio form.
@Ruwu ik this is a old comment but any update?
I kept reading Kirby (Leyland Kirby) as Kirby (the video game character) so I just imagine Kirby (the video game character), Meta Knight, Taranza, Void Soul, Dark Meta Knight, Suzie, and plenty of other troubled Kirby characters (there's more than you might think) creating an album transcribing their pain into music.
A great mental image to have.
I find the retort to the "i could make this in a year tops" to be ok then do it
I think Everywhere At The End of Time is being appreciated by many, but not at its fullest due to its complexity.
Its topic is crystal clear, it's a sound experiment to picture dementia. But what if you listened to it without knowing what it was about?
I tried to forget its label and focus entirely on what I was listening to as a mere sound composition, the emotions I was getting from it and the result is that it went much further than "just" a good depiction of dementia.
It's a perfect depiction of The Loss of Meaning. It makes you experience what it means to lose something familiar over and over until you can no longer recognize it and all you can hear is noise.
What used to be music ends up as a gibberish sound until there is nothing left of it.
It could apply to so many things, and even if it was clearly inspired by Dementia, I seriously think it would be a good depiction of Loss in its purest form through all its stages.
The loss of a meaning, the loss of a memory, the loss of a life.
In a single word: Death.
The fuck?
ehhh I mean I agree with you, but not everyone likes experimental music and especially some young teens might have a difficult time with thinking about things this way
When I first listened to the song, It’s just a burning memory, it had a pretty big emotional impact on me. Even though I didn’t know the meaning of EATEOT.
Se, a grandi linee la penso come te
like nihilism?
tiktok ruins everything smfh
edit: ok that was bit harsh, but you know what i mean, mainstream exposure brings a lot of superficial people to the table
No, it's not harsh, keep going
No. Cmon! Let out the Demon inside! Tiktok just ruins everything and just crashes down the fun.
TikTok is cringe central
@Simple Weirdo overestimate**
TikTok is cancer but it's a symptom not the cause, unfortunately.
I think the negative backlash eatot is getting on tik tok is somewhat influenced by how it's set up as a social media site. It's hard to properly express nuance or emotional depth in a minute or less, and eatot is just the kind of art project that requires nuance and emotional depth to be properly appreciated and discussed. There's strengths to short-form video sites (i mean look at vine and it's cultural influence), it's just not the place to find good takes on art
I'm going to be for real. EATOT isn't that deep. It's 6 hours and 30 minutes of distorted samples from the 20s that can be summed up into "Degenerative brain diseases are bad." And "Death is bad." I think the albums neat and all, but it's not as much as a god send as you think. There's no point in dwelling on something that we can help. There is no cure for dementia, and there most likely won't be one for the foreseeable future.
@@arieson7715 ,,,,,did you even listen to the whole 6h before commenting that
@@mynipples9327 my man just reads the description and assumes he listened to the entire thing
@@arieson7715 You probably didn’t even listen to the majority of the album. Shut up you have no right to judge, especially if you only read the descriptions.
@@arieson7715 Shut your asshole, do you not want a cure for cancer either?
For those TikTok-ers,
They should try and listen to it more effectively and precisely, every hour and minute is like a memory and they should respect it at that, but since they are literal teens that need to get clout via dancing, i doubt they will listen to it fully
Couldn't have said it better myself!
Im not a tiktoker but i finished it
But i still couldnt understand it :((
It is like a memory, just one that is ignited.
back here again, cant stop thinking about this album and usually im fine and content with this, listening to it again makes me used to it, the first time i listened to it was scary but the more i progress i slowly get more and more peaceful by the min and hour, people dont really get the album thats fine, i just dont want this album to be called "a weird album that is for boomers and noises only" well i guess i was rambling alot rn but its kinda what i feel rn
yesterday i listened to the album while me and my family were visiting my grandmas grave and to our relatives houses, and somewhat i like the album while doing other stuff but i more or less dont socialize with my relatives. instead i look blankly with a sad yet peaceful face, but its christmas so i am happy that i am cherishing this memories before i go into a deep descent
@@aetherella8340 Mood
honestly i think it's incredibly disrespectful of that article calling it a "creepypasta" i completely agree with the fact that its purpose is as a work of art / to bring awareness. if at the very least a "creepypasta" is almost entirely fictional, where dementia is a very real disease
Man, I really want EATAOT to get more attention but not this way.
Everywhere at the awesomeness of time
@@minorcomet282 eateot but dementia gets cured
@@XXXTHUNDERSTORMXXX instead of slowly deteriorating, the audio increases in quality
Same as that one japanese music about rorochan 1999
Edit: yes. It's about someone commit suicide in 2013. But the music is made in 2016
@@tilsgee Yeah, I really like that song before it's got more attention, kinda dissapointed when the song became like that.
Not to sound like that person but, my generation doesn’t have the same respect for art as older ones did. The fact they are treating this as a game or joke makes me sick. Especially since I lost a loved one who was struggling with Alzheimer’s.
Honeybee ikr. Don’t want to sound like a boomer but there’s no denying that this is true
@Windrag - maybe
some of these kids are so fucking stupid
@Windrag - doubt it
@@ddddddsssseeee I’m sorry you feel that way.
It would be very morbid if the Tiktok users making fun of the album were diagnosed with Alzheimer's at some later point, and in their last moments of life, the only thing they remember is A1, playing on repeat in their fractured minds...
I hope it happens
I hope they remember making fun of the album and only that
@@ethaphu5589 Dude, no. Dementia is not something you should wish on your worst enemies, let alone random dipshits on TikTok who made fun of a freaky album that one time.
I hope it happens
“It’s like poetry” George Lucas
EATEOT: simulates the effects of a horrible disease, in a mature and profound way, that makes people think about the concept of their own memories and mortality
TikTokers on their way to ruin the song through low quality memes, and disrespecting the project itself: *now this looks like a job for me*
tik tok: ThIs Is A cErTiFiEd ReNeGaDe, FuNnY dAnCe WoRtHy AlBuM
As a 17 year old (also on Tiktok) this album is fucking incredible.. I listened to it completely blind and had no idea what I was in for and it destroyed me- so much so that I had to skip school for 2 days because I became so depressed and couldn't sleep afterwards. I also made 2 tiktoks (which have since been deleted because they got so much hate lol) discussing my thoughts on the different stages and how special the project was to me.
@Dannie Marcil Thanks! Honestly, I wouldn't really call it a negative experience-- just my natural reaction. I still love the album to death.
Im really confused about my feelings for the album, on the one side I kind of like it and enjoy listening to it, on the other hand I cried when I first listened to it because i was so horrified sometimes and that feeling didnt dissapear when I listened to it again.
I am currently 13 and I decided to delete Tik Tok as a result of the raging mental retardation of the people on it, especially when speaking of EatEoT.
@@baronofcinnamontoast3260 delete it
This just looks like a over reaction and retarded, this album is just beautiful to hear it didn't move a itch in my mental state, and I honestly think the beginning is the saddest part and it gave a sad feeling when I hear it again in the end of the shining.
Damn. I played Minecraft while listening to this too. Single player, creative, I was building the tree of life from kabalah.
I fear I was too focused on the game. I didn't have a heartbreaking reaction to the end. Could be also that I expected that reaction and so kept waiting for it. It did affect me, I sat still for a minute after it ended in my room. It had been light out when I started but now it was at sunset.
One problem I had was that I kept recalling other songs while listening to it or simply audio clips that kept playing over and over in my head. These internal earworms did mutate and degenerate as the album went on so maybe it was appropriate. Did anyone else have this happen to them?
oh my god. thats exactly what I did. i listened to the album while building my treehouse (its not like the tree you're talking about but it was a tree) in minecraft. thats actually fucking crazy
Yes, I've had Heartaches by Al Bowlly (the first song sampled in the piece) stuck in my head for a couple days. It really just goes to show there ain't such a thing as old people music. Don't get caught up on labels cause that's exactly how you miss out on 90% of the good music out there - by making assumptions about it based on labels.
With that said, I believe that's EXACTLY the point the Caretaker was going for. Dementia is like a constant degenerative cycle of consciousness and memory vs the lack-there-of. The moments of pain and confusion sprinkled in with the lucidity, and later on vice-verse. This is one thing the Caretaker did very well, in that he's really perfected exactly what he wants you to be feeling. The music is disturbing and strange enough to get you to pay attention, catchy enough to listen to, but its the blatant parallels that he draws to the disease that are really going to make you stop and put it all together. He's awfully talented.
I was strip mining, and let me tell you, that was quite the experience. Getting creeped out by the slightest twitch in shadows, forgetting what I was even doing, endlessly clicking and dragging as the sound in my ears deteriorated. I had to stop playing because I was getting too depressed and instead just scrolled through google (I have autism and can't really stay still or focus on one thing at a time without losing myself)
It's the intended purpose. Meant to put into your head, until its slowly deteriorating, getting you uncomfy, and then suddenly scaring you by overwhelming you and drowning you in noise.
my great grandmother developed dementia. she was living in my grandmother's house under her care. she eventually was taken to a nursing home. she refused to talk to anyone she didn't recognize. she thought my younger brother was my uncle and couldn't even recognize her own daughter
I’m so sorry :(
I've been listening to The Caretaker since 2002. I recommend "A Stairway To The Stars" by him. It has all the glorious components that make up the Caretaker, albeit in a more concise and varied fashion.
Finally a comment that isnt made by an user with cartoon profile pic, AND that has made a valuable contribution to this discussion by recommending similar works. Thanks
2002? where did u even listen to it
@@Jamieconstable what do you mean?
@@_portis When was the album made?
@@heavyweaponsscout9990 what's the problem with cartoon pfps
It's other teens like this who makes me feel terrible about being a teen... I was truly blown away when I first heard the album...
And if we take this genuinely seriously as you normally should, we are laughed off for being “Emos”
the only memes ive seen myself are very kind and loving ones, but ofc tiktok decides to take something endearing and ruin it
i just had a look, it’s ignorant little shits that are too hollow to get the concept
@@Jamieconstable there so annoying bro they ruin everything
**looks at the Dementia but EPIC playlist** Yeah, some are really heartwarming to see. Especially one that helps people cope with the aftermath of it. Others, not so much.
Tiktok is cancer
Woah awsome vid. I found the album right about when the full thing came out on youtube. I don't mean to be a stuck up, but there's a place and a time for things, and tik tok isn't the place for this project. Subbed
Thanks for the sub / support!
As someone who dealt with someone who had Dementia, the TikTokers who make fun of it don’t know the full extent as to how someone would feel. It’s torture watching someone go through each stage, especially someone you care deeply about
I’m so sorry
Honestly Everywhere at the End of Time is probably my favorite album and I listen to it all the time (I even started working on a series of artworks and my own album in a similar style using the same samples)
Same! I’ve had it on the loop since summer, it really helps me focus on writing!
If you like experimental music there is another nice album to listen named mer de revs
Yo same!
@@josephmaluf1669 great album
Same!
I think when any project that isn't kitsch breaks the mainstream, the meaning gets muddled amongst the noise. I heard about the album in June/July-ish from a friend and tossed it to the back burner. After finishing it earlier last year I can safely say it is my favorite album and it hurts to see emotionally immature people have less than ideal understanding and the things they do with that.
I read over that old NYT article again, and apparently the whole "you will get dementia" thing, came from a rumor BEFORE that on TikTok that claimed you can be cured of dementia by listening to the whole album (actually in reality, doing that is more of a sadistic/cruel thing to make the patients listen to who are already confused). The original rumor is at least somewhat based in truth (since music is one of the longest lasting memory a dementia patient can remember) unlike that "You'll gain dementia" bs
man im gonna be real, i had a breakdown listening to just the first song on Phase 1. i dont understand how people can call this a meme. if they really listened to it and understood, applied it, to a person going through this, how every day is slowly becoming more unreal, and your life is on a timer, they'd know.
I first listened to the Caretaker when I was looking for media about Alzheimer's a bit over a year ago. My family has a history of the disease, and I'm very at-risk of getting it in the future. I don't like gatekeeping, but I really hope that this music is never separated from it's meaning. It's a huge part of what has made it so hauntingly beautiful, and meaningful to me.
dayum hope you doing well
Stage 6 perforated my braincells. I wasn't certain if I had been in bed for 3 hours or about 20 minutes.
Its supposed to do that
3:37 - 3:57 "as you can see, I spent the last couple of hours staring at the menu screen to minecraft..."
That's... what actually happened to me. Well, the circumstances were different because I wasn't playing minecraft, more like I piled some novels and fanfictions to read on my phone because six hours is a long time and you know that you had to do something with all that time. At first, I was able to enjoy reading while listening to it but then after that, I was just swiping the homescreen from left to right with no idea what to do. There was just something about it that "disables" my "function" and creativity that I just spent the rest of the song closing my eyes and trying to relax, which is really hard to do because it felt like it's hard to breathe and my life draining away. It was haunting but beautiful in some way.
While I'm glad that the song is getting some sort of traction, it isn't the type of music I wouldn't recommend to someone not fully committed to it. It takes time, energy and willpower to brave through every second of it, something that most of the youth don't understand at first until they get more mature and experienced.
I don’t use tiktok, but I did first discover the album through memes. A few short animated videos used it as creepy background music and it was all the comments were talking about. I think that good memes could be made with this, giving the album more positive attention as a result. The closest similarity I can think of was how people watched Babadook after seeing the “Babadook is gay” memes. (I haven’t listened to the full thing yet, I need to to find the time and courage first.)
@@SparkleTwintail same lad
@@SparkleTwintail based
same
@@SparkleTwintail same lol
I discovered it on the video "The end of trollege".
I discovered it from Bernievidz's video about the newgrounds story "Livecorpse"
Me after listening to this song: Granpa... I’m so... so sorry.
Til Tok Hoe: Omg this is the new renegade!!!
This is possibly the worst comment I've ever seen
@@jukebox5600 My Grandpa had heavy altimers and died when I was 10, listening to that album showed me what he went through, god...
@@caIamarii sorry bout your gramps, but not very cool using that remorse to dunk on some kids in a youtube comment
Song? If youre talking about the project as a whole, at least call it an album, its not just one song
@@jukebox5600 He said hoe though
4:46 not exactly. unless he took 7 years to make stage 1, it would be about half a decade almost
Yeah, I think it was released over the course of 3 years? I have no idea how long Leyland Kirby was working on it prior to those years. 👍🏻
It took almost half a decade.
He started making the whole album around 2000.
@@bacsaljohnrobert3202 no, ypu misunderstood. He started the Caretaker as a project and a moniker for his music in 2000, but EATEOT was made in 2016-2019
You are right. I think the first album came out in 2015 or 2016 and he released the other albums in the following years until 2019 when stage 6 released
My experience with EATEOT reminds me greatly of Jordan Underneath's experience with Silent Hill 2. This project is just something that's incredibly special. It struck a chord with me that I didn't even know was there when I first listened to it (i didn't listen to it all in one sitting, it took me multiple attempts to be able to fully sit through the whole thing), and I feel like my life has been irreversibly changed for the better after listening to this whole series of albums.
Both EATEOT and Pathologic 2 have provided me a lot of comfort and moments of meditation during this awful year.
I was 13 when I discovered Mr. Kirby. My grandmother had dementia, and her final moments of clarity shook me at that age. I'm currently 17, and I have grown fond of Leyland Kirby. I love his work, and I am so proud of him creating this beautiful project. I cried after listening to EATEOT. I have listened over 10 times over the past 4 years. It was beautiful. The dementia dive I have done, I'm torn in society, and I would love to help the disease. For my grandmother. For myself.
I used this song in a research paper about the relationship between music and mental illnesses
Cool
hope you got a good grade on that
as a tiktok user, im sorry allot of the users of the plataform are disrespecting this masterpiece :(, im currently thinking on listening it completly. Im not trying to be disrespectfull...
if you are reading this i hope you have a good day
EATEOT is something you gotta be delicate with. You can't just use it as regular music, it only fits in if the video has a similar feel to it: the protagonist is lost and confused and/or they're in a place that has a desolate aura of "people used to be here, but now it's abandoned and devoid of life". It also somewhat fits as a prelude to an apocalypse like in the trollge videos.
Also, turning the album into some marathon challenge is almost a mockery to The Caretaker's work.
Very well done video. It also affected me in a way no other art piece ever did before.
I'm glad I learned about it from my friends who took it seriously. One of the most chilling albums I've ever heard. Thank god my family doesn't have any history of dementia.
Why is your pfp so based?
dear god, the fact that it was called a “creepypasta” is honestly sickening
i knew what dementia was before the album, but i thought it was just simple memory loss. just simply forgetting things like everyone does. now ive found this album i realized its so much more. you forget yourself, basic human qualities, etc etc. i also have more interest for learning about Alzheimer’s or dementia. also the EATEOT memes are great
oh my god tik tok makes me so goddam angry
This is why I FUCKING HATE TIK TOK!!!
@@swarsleyb7514 tik tok banned in all country plzz
Hey bud. You'd never have heard or cared about this small number of stupid people on Tik Tok if you had never seen this video. Is it really something you want to get angry over?
Or otherwise, are you just virtue signalling because hating Tik Tok is the popular thing to do on TH-cam?
I don't even use Tik Tok, by the way.
@@sudonim7552 My guy you do realize that people are allowed to be angry at things existing right? Doesn't really matter if the anger is rational or productive, people get angry at things. Just like the anger might be pointless, chastising people for being angry about something is also pointless, and so is me chastising you about chastising him being angry.
same this legit made me so mad
My dad has dementia 😪
Sorry to hear about that. :( It really is a horrible disease, not just for the person who has it but for everyone around them. 🙏 Hope you guys are all coping ok.
How is he now?
@@Keedisgay still alive
@@briefersrock4591 their body is but their character isn’t
@@briefersrock4591 he passed away 10.07.22 with me by his side
I found this through a trollge meme called “blood floats on blood” and it played stage 6 at the end, the comments were flooded with scary stuff talking about the album.
So I gained the guts to listen to it during my schoolwork alone, and honestly it made me paranoid for the rest of my life about Alzheimer’s
queff I had the exact same experience
It terrifies me that the voices is so deep and satanic. And the trollege face changes randomly into a wide smile covered with blood, so terrifying.
Honestly i hate the overuse of EATEOT in Trollge memes. They're shaping it in a killer's theme, a song of eldritch terror, rather than a victim's lullaby, which completly mangles the meaning.
@@a.p.6580 Kinda sad that internet turns EATEOT into a meme, a GODDAMN MEME. Really, can't people chill with their humor? It's a serious case and based on a real disorder, and they just turns it into a funny mess, it pisses me off.
The best way I can describe it is how you find a spot outside that nobody really knows about, whether it be a garden or some other place, it means a lot to you, but others have found it, and no matter how desperately you tell them they find it fun to destroy the place.
Back after two years and I can confirm this is video is still a certified hood classic
I really like the eateot memes that are about the experience of listing to the album it's self. It's a way for me to confront my fear of developing dementia/altimeters without disrespecting what patients are going through.
"shouldn't make fun of it" the caretaker spent a fuck ton of time on it it's not a joke i dunno why people think it's some kind of insult
Ok, I may be a young teen but wow,,, the TikTok section made me livid either way. This album threw me into a deep, confusing crisis but it also made me see the world in a new light. To see people push it aside without even fully understanding it kind of hurts
My grandmother was diagnosed with it. I was one of the only names she could remember. She passed last year on Saint Patrick’s day of a chest infection. I am honestly glad she did not have to go trough this horrid disease before it took its toll on her.
bruh, I hate that kind of people. I discover the album thanks to a spanish youtuber, he also talk about the stages and dementia. I have a kind of phobia to death, I am really scared of what happends next, but having a probability of dying like that, no remembering and lost averything incluiding yourself, that made me cry, and everytime I hear "Heartache" or just the first song, I start crying wishing that actually no one forgets about me, who I am and more, I have a really bad self-esteem and sometimes I just hate myself but this makes want to never lose me and my identity and what I am.
Sorry for the bad english, I don't speak english and I am just a little girl ( still learning ).
Sorry again for taking your time, have a good day.
im so glad that so many more people are listening to kirby's work. i actually hadn't listened to the full project until way after vvmtest posted the full thing. i could never get past stage 5, it just scared me
This album nearly made me cry. This really makes you appreciate sanity, while making you feel insane
Everywhere at the end of time has changed my life majorly. It has introduced me to my favorite songs, artists and genre. It gave me a change of my life I've been looking for. Artists with music I listen to anytime. Songs that have become my favorite songs of all time.
Ollie... this is incredible. Even the small audio clips in this video still make chills go down my spine. Amazing video, amazing interviews, your summary at the end was perfect. Can’t wait to see what else you do! :)
what i hate the most is that these tiktok people keep saying that they "understand mental illnesses" but the only thing they do is romanticize depression and anxiety by saying "it's ok". Most of the time people who say that they have depression in the app are people aged 17 years or less wanting to draw attention, but other diseases are treated as if they were not important or because they are of boomer old people and I fucking hate it
After having listened to the entirity of EATEOT, I didn't feel that much because I knew it had a twist and I went spoiled of it's twist, but yesterday I listened to a variant called Everywhere At The Begining of Nowhere by The Carebear, which is a 7h 42min variant with 7 stages, and with this one I got that emotional breaking point. EATBON is way less broken or even less heavier than EATEOT, but it accomplishes the same goal. I reccomend you listen to it too.
(Sorry for my shitty english, I'm not an english native speaker)
This type of content is way to good for someone with only 234 subscribers. Good job!
It’s just a burning memory.
You have to *remember* that.
Insctrucions unclear: early onset intiated.
I fucking LOVE THIS SONG its been stuck in my head for two days straight. Such a bop. Your kiss was such a sacred thing to me. I cant believe its just a burning memory :'(
edit: Heartaches by Al Bowlly if anyone is looking for the original piece. Look up EATEOT on spotify and playlists with sampled songs come up
@@normanclatcher Oh man sorry dude.
@@kamaelea4060 lol, it's ok. It's more of a grim prediction than an actual diagnosis, anyway.
I've just worked a year solid of mostly graveyard shifts, with a few swings mixed in to keep my on my toes. My sleep schedule is garbage, and sleep deprivation is a known contributing factor to Alzheimer's. Add to that a mild family history, and I don't like where I see my "golden years" going, especially if I stay where I am.
(And in this economy, I _really_ don't want to try my luck anywhere else... 😐)
Mostly tho, I'm just foolin' around. Sleepier me *intentionally* misspelled two words in the above sentence _specifically_ to annoy myself at a later point in time, and I have to say... re-reading my "initiated" with only two "i"s is making me feel _some kind of way..._ 🙄
i swear to god EVERY TIME- "OMG IS THAT THE BACKROOMS SONG!!" .. i cant do it I CANT TAKE THIS SH-
i found it because it came up in my recommendation section. watched some videos on it beforehand and realized what it was about. it absolutely broke me. my grandmother has alzheimer’s and is nearing the end and the album destroyed me. i haven’t been able to listen to the whole thing yet and i’m genuinely scared to. i hate what the internet has done to it
DUDE WHAT I THOUGHT YOU HAD *ATLEAST* 1000 subscribers. That’s so unfair, you deserve so much more.
I feel like everywhere at the end of time is best appreciated, not as a piece of music, but as a work of "noise art".
Is there really a difference?
@@TheSergio1021 there is. Music has structure, a rhythm, progressions, and typically has harmony and inherent beauty of form. If you strip away all of these elements, you end up with something like Forms Of Paper or Sea Wolf Leviathan. It can still be enjoyed, but not in the same way as a more traditional piece of music, and as a result should be approached differently as well. While Everywhere at the end of time has typical musical elements, they aren't the main focus of the album: the main focus of the album is the progression of the gradual distortion of those elements. Hence it should be approached as a work of noise art.
@@garrangery8180 (pretentious comment incoming) I do feel like everywhere at the end of time acts as a deconstruction of music. Rather than being just noise music or just ordinary music, it takes both and perfectly transitions between them in a way that’s universally effective. It almost explains the different between music and noise through it’s progression.
This album made me wish my great grandpa was back, just so I could tell him that I'm very sorry about not being able to fully comprehend what was going on with him at the time...
You know when i listened to eoateot i got an uneasy feeling like i was decaying like i was nota feeling myself ,alot of anxeity like death was around the corner closer everytime (even though i am like 16)
This song made me realize on a phobia I didn’t know i had i have shit memory but i will remember people who have impacted me or helped me and now this song made me sad and almost made me cry because i was forgetting thing so i stopped and had my girlfriend hug me before i cried myself to sleep and the phobia im talking about is the fear of forgetting someone or something
As a young person I highly enjoy and have respect for everywhere at the end of time.
In 2018 my grandmother died after a stroke and dementia. I loved her so much and I wish I could listen to it because I love drone music but I don't have the time. I will give my nod to it as others of my generation have not. I think teens dislike the album because they really only listen to the biggest hits, 3 minute songs 30-50 minute albums, not many of my generation I think are prepared for songs over 10 minutes and albums more than an hour and a half long. They've conditioned themselves into a cycle of quick satisfaction that cant come from long albums. Long projects like Everywhere At The End Of Time aren't for the audience of GEN Z. I believe its for the people who know people in their life who have dementia, have lost people in their life to dementia or will try new things, Unfortunately my generation seems to not have the ability to try new things and I guess they don't get what its like to loose a family member to dementia, of course there are exceptions but the majority of zoomers brains aren't ready for this kind of stuff because It is so different from everything else they are accustomed to and I think they are afraid of change.
im 11 and im in love with this album i was raised around music my whole life (im from New Jersey) and for people to discredit it like just shows how uneducated they are on music it breaks my heart when people says its bad makes me so angry and my dad has dementia so it really hits home.
I'm glad there are still young people like you in the world🌸
really does throw a fist through your heart and forces you to cry, doesnt it?
makes you realise how easy it is for someone to lose all their memories
This album has helped me sleep. I usually listen to this at night after a stressful night, or when I’m daydreaming. My favorite part of it is at the time slot of (7:02) love the meaning and love the eery ness of it. GO LISTEN!
The album is actually quite good but you need to respect it and listen to it properly. There are a lot of key moments that are designed and deliberate to make you feel a certain way. It took me a few tries but I listened to it in its entirety and I get why people get upset at the end. Its actually quite eye opening and designed very cleverly.
I think the main reason for the backlash against this album is the difference between media which you can enjoy and media in which you can have an emotional connection to, but wouldn't want to experience again because of its effect on you. EATOT can be recognised as a piece of art which accurately depicts the totality of dementia, but I doubt anyone who has gone through with listening to the whole thing would want to do it again for fun. It's such an emotional rollercoaster, and for that reason, I can see why a pile of teenagers wouldn't get the message because they just want to be entertained instead of having to think.
@Pizza Boy Simp Yeah, after experiencing the whole thing, I don't know if I'd like to do it again. Takes some resilience. Although I've noticed how some people have taken EATOT and created something new with remixes actually which sound amazing!
Damn, this is an amazing video, all the effort put into this is outstanding! i'm surprised that you only have 267 subs, you've earned yourself a subscriber. Great Work
Adults, Smart Teenagers & Me as a Teenager : Completely understand the full meaningful of the Album.
TikTok Kids : Being horrible and Stupid.
I like the subtle humility of saying "smart teenagers & me as a teenager" to avoid being too self congratulatory.
It's mostly the tiktok comments, most of the videos I saw were being respectful
@@Woodside235 lol
@@mariopokemon955 I know not all people are assholes who use the app but still stupid people exist
I've listened to it fully twice, it makes me feel quiet and hollow. It's never made me cry but it makes me think, deeply or not at all. It's good
internet critics: this album is a work of art! Surely nothing bad will happen when we put it on an impossibly high pedistal!
the internet: trololol
i listened to the album when i was not in a great place emotionally, and it absolutely wrecked me- ive had grandparents on both sides with dementia. all in all though it's really a credit to how incredible eateot is that it could create such an immense emotional response! great video man
i was honestly one of the people who didn't quite have too big of an emotional reaction to it when i listened to eateot, (probably a mix of my short attention span, emotional denseness, and the fact that dementia was something i was already familiar with and at that point kind of desensitized to) but really, if you take any time to read the comments or watch an analysis, it's easy to see how meaningful it is. it really should be treated with respect
Yeah I'm not gonna pretend like I cried but it's an admirable piece of art. Really annoys me when there's people who just completely discredit it and say stuff like "wow you guys get scared of this? It's boring" makes me sad seeing ignorant people miss the point and bash something they don't even try to understand
Listening to this knowing I have family history of it and the fact it is hereditary was challenging..... It hit hard but I listened to it 6 hours straight anyway.
Amazing experience
I listened to the album at first normally, just sitting, scrolling through the phone, but i had to go do some stuff , so i listened to it through stage 3 to 5 while shopping, and doing different stuff, and honestly, i felt like i was loosing coordination, loosing the ability to think clear, at some point it made me get angry, because i couldnt think straight, i forgot what people were telling me, it was a wierd experience...jesus this album...
I originally found The Caretaker because Squimpus McGrimpus used a fews songs of The Caretaker's in their fnaf vhs series, and eventually that led me to Everywhere at the End of Time. I couldn't listen to the whole thing in one go, because I just don't have the attention span for it, but I did end up finishing it recently. I don't like to cry, but the ending did make me pretty sad, especially since recently I've learned that my grandma on my dad's side has dementia on top of her poor hearing. I personally love relistening to the songs from stages 1 and 2 (and sometimes 3) because I just like those types of songs, but I can see why people don't like to go back to the album.
Maybe one day I'll go through the album in one sitting.
I remember feeling a powerful creativity spike while listening to it and then emotionally breaking down trying to make my piece.
Eateot remains emotionally powerful to listen to for me months later
Edit: I'd love to do an interview with you if you'd like, now that I watched the whole stream
This album depresses the hell outta me. It scares me and makes my anxiety go through through the roof, especially when thinking about the weird things my grandma did going through dementia. It truly scares me. Losing my memory and living in a distorted world.
"Noooo you can't make fun of this album its a depiction of dementia you can't make fun of it!!!"
"Haha memory loss go brrr"
I am 14 years old and I have known how to appreciate this album as they have no idea, it bothered me that they called it “music for old people” because is not like that, if you really want to understand the album, if you really want to empathize and feel what the composer wanted to express you need to have the determination to finish it, I think that only the people who did get “in the role” will understand what this album really means and will not “get bored while they are listening”. Also I would like to clarify that I don’t come from tik tok, I found the album long before it became a “trend” (although it’s very sillyto consider it like that), I hope you understand what I want to express because my english is very bad
I find it interesting that this album became popular during a pandemic of a virus that may increase your chances of dementia
Source? I've never heard that once.
@@bigboineptune9567 making it up.
I’m pretty sure what they mean is that because of the pandemic we are in lockdown which makes us inactive. Inactivity can lead to an increased chance of dementia or Alzheimer’s.
Everybody gangsta until all these tiktokers that didnt take the album seriously(not only because of the topic it talks about, it took a decade to finish) get dementia when they turn 70 and the old you is chilling with your grandchildren, or pets or just vibing alone
I found this video while doing research for my own video on the album. This kind of made me upset because this album was created with incredible attentive detail and tik tok just HAD to ruin it. Either way good video 👍 I turned on notifications for any of your future uploads because I look forward to seeing more of your content
Great video. I really appreciate the informed and reflective take on the project. Also, an excellent succinct summation on the work being "crystallized empathy". That being said, I highly doubt that JLK will take any criticism from tik tok to heart. The vast majority of people won't understand or appreciate what this work gives voice to. Teens are no different than any other age demo, in that there are those who write it off as noise or obsolete big band recordings. It's those select individuals who see the work for what it is and the harrowing amount of effort, research and passion that Kirby ultimately injected into it. It's nice to see that young people can appreciate this.
I don't like how the internet misinterpreted EATOT, and made it a meme.
I found it from a video about aa artist named William Utermohlem, who had dementia. It showed how his art deteriorated and in the background some of the music from EATEOT was playing. I got curious and listened to the entire thing. Needless to say it really fucked me up.
Tik tok has no general knowledge on anything really unless it's some rapper or memes quite sad to find any genuine personality
They don't even know memes properly.
Fucking faxs
And like Facebook, a video Thief
Ikr
The person who created tiktok is an abortion itself
I think memefication is their way of avoiding feeling the emotions this album creates. It’s hard to sit with sadness.
I can’t even blame you for playing Minecraft. As much as I want to be an elitist asshole. 6 hours is a lot to sit through just listing