I don't think people understand how much this event impacted the goth/industrial scene at the time due to the blame being put on musical acts in our scene. Many friends suffered violence afterward at the hands of outraged people simply because they were wearing all black in the wrong place around the wrong people. This is a full circle moment for me to see a band who is embraced in our scene depicting this event years later. It's a very emotional experience listening to this and watching this video
Yup! I was in the southeast, in the same town as the Richland School shooting! I had to drop out. Law enforcement in the area harassed me constantly, cause I wore black and had a trenchcoat. Really, I think they were afraid of me, cause they knew what they'd done to me... what they deserved. They tortured me... my entire life.
Woooooord!! Crazy shit that day. And crazy seeing this amazing, artfully done, video today. I didnt even know what was going on that day in 99 and was wearing a black trenchcoat at school that day. Still rock one to this day. Yea, that incident did cause some flack for our scene.
The attention to detail in the video is incredible: the students’ outfits, the old computers with the box monitors, the projectors, there’s even a picture of Bill Clinton on the wall in the library that’s only seen for a brief moment. Director really made it feel like 1999
The "How many victims is we 'bout to lose" line's double meaning is so powerful. The shooter's wondering who will get away but everyone else is wondering how many people will die.
One guy who gave up half way through his school shooting and was told online by his peers at the time that there would be multiple shootings that day and that he was merely one of many. Honored to take part in realizing that the forces he could not control gave him a shot to prove himself he found the courage to do the deed, until suddenly he realized he was hurting people, just after the first shot through the door. Poor kid admitted to the officer that his family was not okay and he was not okay, seen through a bodycam with him on the ground and the officer neutralizing the active threat. Who were his online peers? It was never investigated to lead to a public statement. *shrug* We got the shooter in custody, what else do you want?
The cinematography is dope sauce. Though to be fair, it's completely faithful recreation, second by second, of the library scene captured by security cams. They didnt need to jazz it up one bit. But the character choice, setup, and delivery make you feel just how sudden, unbelievable and horrifying it really was.
She was the PERFECT vantage point for the story. Innocent girl, average day, typical freshman problems your whole life seemed to pivot on... before realizing how trivial and unimportant they are when the real world comes crashing in. Such stark contrast, the very limit of opposing mindsets. 2 week boyfriend talks to another girl, life OVER! Yeah... while we're on the subject... ;)
This is a perfect example of "art comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable". That being said, I'm glad Stan Lee was there to offer her support.
I remember Columbine, it was awful. Parents blamed everyone from Marilyn Manson to Eminem, and everything from video games to movies like The Crow and The Craft. “Do you believe in God?” that’s what witnesses said the kids were asked before they were shot. Then 9/11 happened two years later and the world forgot, and nothing was done to solve the root of the problem. The truth is that it wasn’t music, or video games, or movies. The truth is that we never got an answer for why a few angry kids killed so many other people. Two years later 9/11 happened and we forgot about the kids at Columbine. We forgot until another shooting happened, or a father sold his daughter’s journal to make a buck. We forgot and when we’re reminded we try to ban guns, and we go on talk shows screaming about the 2nd amendment, all while forgetting that the real reason things like this happen is because we forget about people. We forget about our kids mental health, our own mental health, until the problem becomes so unbearable that someone does something awful, and then we blame everything and everyone else for our own failure, our own blindness and disregard. Then the cycle repeats. This was a good song, remembering that time is painful, but then that’s the point I suppose.
It is not easy to dance with entropy and the glorification of an individual. How does any society appease majority and create equality? So easy to slide into an unfortunate reality. I respect your humanity in searching for something better.
@@aidyxe As individuals we have to navigate threw a decaying world of entitlements and the glorification's of self. A majority can create an unfortunate outcome, intended or not. As an individual we all have the potential to stray into an unfortunate reality. I respect the original post for seeking a more humane outcome. (I hope this is more clear than my previous post)
I love how the video is so subtle in the beginning. Showing evil (represented as a painted face in a black hood, similar to death) lurking in the background in almost every shot and everyone completely unaware until the first bullet is fired.
1:45 love how Dylan walks into focus in the background but the drama of the situation pulls the attention away from him. So many little moments in this video.
I’m completely obsessed with this video. They did such an excellent job portraying how this day in history started out as a regular ass school day for these kids. Also, major props to the girl, holy crap. There’s a moment right before he lets her go, you can clearly see a wave of acceptance in her face, like “alright, this is it.” I don’t know if her portrayal is based on an actual student who survived, but she’s an amazing actress regardless.
Yes her role is based on an actual incident with a student. Eric found her in the computer lab, put a gun to her head and told her to pray to her God, when she didn't he let her go. Listen to the song Cassie by flyleaf, it's based on this young ladies experience.
@@chrystamyers7613 While that story (about Cassie being asked if she believed in God before being shot) has been told for 23 years, many argue that it wasn’t true. 🤷🏻♀️
@@kb3744 it's debatable, but it is stated in the documentary "we are columbine" and it's also in the book columbine written by David Cullen. I lived in the area when it happened and my brother was friends with a few survivors. It has been stated that Eric found 2 female students in the computer lab hiding under a table, he asked them to pray to their God, the female who started praying was shot, the other was let go. I don't know if it's 100% I wasn't there but I've heard alot that backs up the claim.
@@kb3744 The story is actually true, it just wasn’t with Cassie. Cassie Bernall was killed after Eric said Peekaboo and shot her in the head at close range.
I just came home from SKYND concert in Copenhagen. If you're wondering if it's worth seeing the act live based on how good *this* song and video is, stop wondering and do it - it's WELL worth it!
And this is art. Thought provoking, not always pretty. This is what meaningful music with a good beat sounds like. First time hearing this band. Love it!
I listened to the words, watched the video and I sat here motionless for a while. I lost my friend, Isaiah Shoels during the Columbine shooting, and although SKYND is a brilliant artist who should be recognized as such, Columbine still haunts me and so many to this day. *WE ARE COLUMBINE*
I’m sorry for your loss does the song and video capture the shooting because you can read books or movies ect but it’s always better to get someone opinion that was there in person
don't know why but the repetition of "how many victims" is just dope...this band captures the insanity of each killer or victim in just a few words... it sums up the mental state of the killers
Seriously...WOW. What an breath taking video and band. Never heard Skynd before...My daughter turned me onto them. I am a 50 year old freak for this band now. Completely blown away!
They usually do this in their videos I've noticed. None of their songs glorify the killer, they focus on the darkness of the mind, the psychology and the victims. Which is one reason I respect the fuck out of them, specially as a criminal psychology student lol
This, in particular, is what makes them so amazing. We as a Society focus on the murders, their videos show the depths of their darkness. This video brought it all back after all these years. If there’s a hell I hope these guys are buried deep in
Don't care what side of the story they choose, this is art if they are to explore the darkest side of human nature that live's with in all of us whether we choose to accept it or not, we are only sheltered by the illusion of a civilised Society with a false belief that humens are innately good knowing right from wrong, it's only when the ego meets the wildness are we confronted by our shadow, so what is humans greatest Instinct is it love is it faith is it self-preservation mabye you are a better men then I. I am not saying that these people are not sick as they have a choice living in a manufactured civilised environment but for humens to make-believe that their primal self dose not exist is to never be conscious or see our true enemy.
I grew up right around the corner from Columbine HS and went there Junior and Senior year. You could actually hear the shots from my house that day. Sad day indeed. I was just a kid when it happened but I’ll never forget the sound and the hysteria it caused.
I don't understand the people saying this glorifies the killers. It's about the victims. The point's clear. If you're unwilling to do anything more than offer "thoughts and prayers" every time this happens, expect more variants of this video to keep showing up on your local news.
Exactly! You don't even see the killer's faces except for maybe one shot where their face is blurry. You only see the student's faces and as for the "ratatata" part, it's repeating the only thing the students hear as their friends and classmates are being murdered. It brings you into the mindset of those poor students who are hiding, terrified and scrambling for safety. As for the other lyrics, it kind of mocks the killers and their sadistic ego and by showing the victims instead, they sort of put a spotlight on what this kind of disgusting mindset is doing to other people.
Im glad others see this, to add to this I say that they slightly bring you into the atmosphere. Gave me goosebumps at least and made me think, "my god, that must've been fucking terrifying to be there..."
If they ever make a movie about Columbine, they should use this director and some of these actors. Authentic reactions and the guys who played Eric and Dylan even got the way their individual presence was. When Eric jumps on the desk and dances, plays with everyone. That's exactly how I picture he would have been. Just having fun while terrorizing people. Great work on the music video and song. Keep it going Skind and TallyHo!
Yeah I read in the 11K and watched a few interviews about columbine apparently Dylan was the one who was having the time of his life he was laughing and being more terrorising while he killed people he hid it better to leading up to it which is even more scary tbh that’s why I don’t believe in the whole leader/follower thing
Just realized that the opening “columbine” the pattern in the letters is actually off a a window that got shot at columbine high. I still find new details that Skynd put in her videos that I missed in the past. The work, detail & beats are just amazing. I can’t get over it.
I actually love that she appears to be grinning during the final 'Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta!' chorus at the end. The human skull always appears to be grinning, and it represents death - death's grin. She then closes her lips to show that she, herself, was not smiling at all...
love how they keep the shooters faces at a distance at all times. works perfectly. really makes you think of their actual faces making you go back in your own memory of them
I distinctly remember my English teacher informing me that she had no choice but to turn in one of my short stories I had written the week before to the school counselor the day after it all went down. I was at home with my family watching the news as it unfolded the day before. We were all in tears. We had got back late from a trip and took the day off. I was unaware of the school announcements the day before and showed up the next morning in the library wearing my trenchcoat I always wore. Everyone just stared in horror at me when usually I was ignored. I remember going from feelings of sadness to feeling angry and alienated. This was an artistic and masterfully executed glimpse into the past. I really needed this today. One of my best friends just passed away, and this just helped me put my life in perspective. It reminded me that in a few years my son will face high school, and I still have time to cuddle him before he's too old for it. Thank you guys for this. Namaste!
Ikr, that was one of the things as a million others that people get wrong about the idiot killers of Columbine. The Goths had to pay just because they chose to wear those jackets that day. They were not actually goths and they didn't do the killings because they were bullied. In fact there is statements that contradict that they were even bullied at all. The whole, they wanted to kill the jocks and Christians was just untrue. They wanted to kill everyone with bombs, the guns were just there in case students managed to evade the bombing. It annoys me when people sympathize with them just because they may have dealt with bullying. The killers of Columbine did it because they thought it would be fun and they wanted to be famous for it. Pure just morbid curiosity of what it would be like. Now if you are goth or emo you get bullied because they decided to do what they did. I remember those days like it was yesterday. I wasn't goth in high school, but I had friends that were and saw what they had to go through. All the bomb threats at our school, hell I even walked in on a girl that I was friends with (in middle school we just simply had lost touch not having classes together in the 9th grade) in the bathroom at my highschool that had a gun. She wanted to kill herself because of the bulling she went through. There was two other girls coming out of the bathroom that stopped me from entering and told me to go that they had already told a teacher. Thank goodness she didn't kill herself. I wouldn't say she was particularly Goth but all her friends were and she had a learning disability so she was heavily bullied for both reasons.
This seems like it was based off of the account of a victim who was pulled from under a desk and asked "do you want to die" when she said no he replied "well, it doesnt matter we're all gonna die anyway" he let go of her and let her run out.
It's crazy to think this was only 22 years ago and that all the survivors are only in their 30's. It feels like it's so long ago like we can't touch it in history.
When I first heard this song I had mixed feelings. But understanding how SKYND writes her songs, the research she does and the respect she has for the victims and their families helped me to see this from her productive and understand her intention. When you see the mindset of the killers through the eyes of the witnesses and other evidence the killers left behind, this song captures that. It's a narrative but it's very immersive. There really was no other direction this song could've gone to encapsulate the fear, panic, chaos and even the mind games of the killers. Really well done.
I like that "Michelle Carter" is Skynd naming the monster who probably smirked over thinking she got away with murder. Same with "Chris Watts." When it comes to killers who are obsolete or tried to escape justice, those are named and a light is shone on their evil. However, if you look at Columbine and Bianca Devins--those are cases where the killers WANTED to be known, WANTED to spread a narcissistic personal legend of pain and fear. I think it's an excellent policy for a criminal study/true crime artist: give evil the *opposite* of what it wants.
When the young girl turns into Skynd, I imagine that the kid is actually an adult survivor and that the music video is a ptsd flashback. Puts an interesting spin on it.
I enjoy your perspective here. I also took it as her reaching the end of what mattered and portraying why shootings are glorified in certain perspectives. Made me think she was contemplating the crime, but then it was all made real to her and all she wanted to do was live another day
I think it was representing that she was glad to the guy dead. She felt like he got what he deserved. She had some of the same darkness the shooters did.
@@iBlackLagoon One group is angry because the police are more violent and unjust towards them while the others are angry because far right and neo nazis are making a comeback. But please, continue to talk about them as if they were the bad guys.
4:47 Her playful, swaggering descent down the stairwell to the imitated sound of rapid gunfire seems to emphasize just how much of a 'game' this was supposed to be. Her outfit also resembles a clown or jester (in my mind), further adding to it. The smile fades at the end as she walks off-screen, which made me think of how the plans went horribly wrong and "killed the fun", as it were. Either way, the outfit and the execution of the acting is incredible.
She’s meant to be senseless death, stalking the hallways, IMO. You’re right about her out fit at the end. They meant to kill as many journalists and responding cops, EMTs as they could, too. The press afterward was like a circus. Horrifying to watch live that day. Thankfully Harris wasn’t as good as he thought he was and none of his major bombs actually blew.
@@iRunavala I meant Eric Harris. He was pretty much the mastermind, considered himself a genius, etc and built the bombs, if I’m remembering correctly. That whole attack was supposed to be primarily a bombing with a shootout at the end as any survivors came out.
It's also great because we see her and Skynd switch places already, and it implies that she was happy to see him dead, she wanted to happen as a result.
For some reason this made me think about Skynd and Father like watchers... not good or bad just some entities that are curious about human nature, specially violence, they've been watching the worst part of the human emotions and instincts since long ago... ok I got carried away, this video was incredibly stressful to go trough... it perfectly captures the victims anguish and the music reminded me of the oldschool Korn wich is a damn good thing!
Right! I view skynd as the demon behind these evil acts, the driving force if you will. Always in the background observing her chaos. In Kathrine knight she actually gives the knife to Katherine in a scene, its super quick but she does it!
They are portraying the 'characters' in an interesting way in many of their videos, sometimes controlling them, sometimes just witnessing the acts, sometimes (like in this one) becoming the victims. I really dig how they do this uniquely in each video. This is art, like it or not.
By now we know we can count on SKYND for meaningful mentions. When I was listening to the live version and she screams "have fun!" I just knew it had to be relevant. A quick Google search on it confirmed that, yes, "Have fun!" was the final step in Erik and Dylan's detailed written plans for the attack. I absolutely love the way everything SKYND says is significant. Looking forward to full lyrics for this one! (By the way, when reading further about the Columbine attack, I loved learning that even though they did carry it out, things went wrong for them at every step all along the way, which is why there were far fewer victims than there could have been.)
I remember reading about one of their plans which included escaping to a local airport after the shooting, hijacking a plane then flying it into a building. Yeah, it is a miracle that there weren't many more casualties. Didn't they place 2 or 3 pressure cooker bombs about the school? Imagine if they had went off. The same type of bomb did a lot of damage at the Boston Marathon. Really terrible. The whole story is just sad. Edit: I just checked incase I was misremembering and found out they actually planned to fly the plane to NYC. Around 2 years before 9/11... how creepy is that?
@@colinthomson5358 They had a few bombs that they also planted around the school and city, I believe their cars were made into bombs as well. The bombs were meant to distract any help that would be coming to the school and also to up their victim count. Luckily I think all but one of the bombs had failed.
This video was almost an exact account of what happened to Bree Pasquale, Harris stood on a table jump down & said “Peek-A-Boo” and shot a victim next to her; (not shown in video: his gun backfired breaking his nose while, he’s either stunned or off balance momentarily) he let’s Bree survive walking away.
@@Wookiee925 one if the things that I adore about skynd. The attention to detail, like in Gary heidnik, the crazy glue commercial that plays in the background.
I went to high school in the early 2000's with two good friends who shared the first names and last initials of the two who shot up Columbine. The rumours surrounding my little group of outcast friends was unsavoury to say the least. We listened to all the same music, and hung out in obscurity to the majority of the school to avoid constant ridicule. Most of the others in our school were farmer's kids, who listened to country music and had very little in common with us. Having been the brunt of the entire school's baseless fear and ignorance, I know what makes a person want to pull the trigger, because high school ignorance is relentless and cruel. It never came to violence for any of us, thankfully. Though I did know one kid who was arrested for screaming about murdering everyone after being prodded just a bit too relentlessly in class. Whether or not he meant it is neither here, nor there. The warnings of a violent act are often not taken seriously.
Same I was 14 in 2005 I remember it well. Same with the farmer kids here too. Our clique was big so not many messed with us together but they singled us out when we were alone and assaulted, terrorized us and bullied us mercilessly! I totally get this! I was also on Zoloft like Eric Harris and that medication makes you think some bad things dude.
@@ashkarra2507 That's exactly the way things went for me. They're cowards, because they'll never attack you one on one, only when they're in groups and see you alone. Or with passing comments from their truck window as they drive by. In the halls, they'd never come near us.
amen brother...I know this feeling all too well... because being the outsider or outcast or even different, we generally are used as a scapegoat and those around "can do no evil" when in fact, they literally bring it upon themselves
@@kingdclxvi8488 idk, all that came out of this was a reminder of who I was back in high school. And that's a shitty place I didn't want to visit again 😂
FINALY😱, the next masterpiece🙇🏻♂️🙇🏽♂️🙇🏿♂️🥳 Even though I love the "everybody get ready, everebody...to KILL (/DIE)"-part of the live version too (it's definitely more catchy than Bill Sabers part)...I really hope that you both create a live album or at least release an alternative version for this🔥👌🏻
As I read through some other comments I realised that the live version had some lines from their plans from the notebook which were going to the "wait-wait-wait...attack...HAVE FUUN" and I can't describe in words how sad it is that you excluded this part too :(
@@c2e.7877 @Zh3nnnie lol no she hasn't mentioned them but I listen to Korn and the combination of that plus watching Baileys videos made the algorithm on TH-cam suggest SKYND to me.
@@elizabethramos5130 Ah ok. I actually planned on commenting Skynd somewhere, and I actually commented that people who are interested should listen to Macabre's Dahmer on her Dahmer video.
I was a 16 year old kid in Western Kansas when this went down. I wore all black, listened to the same music, and played the same video games. It got me a lot of fearful looks when I was just as against what happened as anyone else. It's important to remember and learn from this day, but we clearly haven't given so many more instances that have happened since then.
@@brotherhoodofspiel1122 Honestly, same. She taught me to differentiate fantasy and reality. Truth be told, the heavy music and violent video games served as therapy from the bullying.
Same here... I wanted to kill exactly 7 people (my elementary bullies) I had writen things I wanna tell them before I will do that... ofc I never did it, but if getting a gun would ve as easy in EU as it is in US, I'm pretty sure I'll be dead or in prision now I'm sure that if getting a gun was easy I would have been a murderer.
I vaguely remember Columbine, I was too young and I don't think it was as huge in German media or I didn't watch the news. A few years after this there was a shooting at a German school just a cat throw away. One of the victims was a former classmate who just moved there with her parents a year prior. She and her boyfriend were the only pupils that were killed. Shot through the closed door. The other victims were teachers. I will never forget how our teachers tried to talk to us about it, knowing very well we knew her. The memorial at our school gym. The mood in our classrooms. There have been a lot of bad music videos and "sketches" about it since. Your video and song however remain tasteful and respectful to the victims without putting the focus on the murderers. Thank you for that!
Actually the shooting happened here in my state they're saying that's what lead on to other shootings n it being a competition that now the VERY high school alone has metal detectors
No matter how many critics talk crap about this song and video, It's actually a masterpiece. Amazing and so very haunting and drama and you just can't stop watching it. Bravo for kicking ass.....
The absolute cruelty of humanity will never fail to astound me to the point of tears; this video captures so well how a normal bad day can turn into a living nightmare
I was in college when Columbine happened. I wore a black trench coat and listened to industrial music (still do... on both counts). Hearing about this was heartbreaking enough, but then to spend the rest of that semester with people looking at me with caution or contempt, my already heightened sense of isolation growing worse as people started to actively avoid me, right down to my dorm-mate's frat brothers actually asking me to my face, "What makes you people do that sort of thing?" "You people..." I didn't even answer; I just left and took a walk... and it was raining, so out came the trench coat. I don't remember if I was crying, but I was in my head.
I encountered a similar situation. I won't get into details here, publicly (PM me if your so inclined), but I was questioned pretty extensively by the FBI in the weeks following (They seized my computer, and the paranoid fallout lead to my expulsion from High School).
My wife told me this dropped first thing I woke up. Like damnit let me have my coffee. Fr tho, y'all are damn good at what you do. Don't let any people or controversy try to stop you.
This is why bullying should be stopped and I pray for all the victims families and the 2 boys that were bullied that did this, families. This was a terrible situation for all.
I just cant stop listening to this song. everything is so clever...lyrics music vidéo. And you now what ? Everything morning while going to work "ratatata ratatata ratatata ratatata ratatata." Some kind of genius around there. Thank you
Love the clip very much , i like the fact that those shooters where not put as main protagonist and that the clip tells the story of a victim ( the acting was also very good ). Solid track aswel
Manson got in a lot of trouble after Columbine, not his fault.. it was a horrific act of cowardice RIP to all the victims, it was a total shame for the scene.. the media spreading the narrative and parents believing any music deemed alt was the music of the devil when really metal is the most emotional thought provoking music out there and it really helps people. This is another banger, catchy hook.. just amazing as usual SKYND 😊
It's like they reinvent themselves with each song they create. Every song is distinct and diverse, emotional and chaotic. Their storytelling is always expressed in the most intense ways. I would love to see them perform live one day in Edmonton, Canada.
Wow. This song is simply heartbreaking. There's the fact of how many innocents were shot down.. and the deep moments of the song were just perfectly timed. You guys are amazing. Can't stop listening this masterpiece 💥
Yeah, this definitely disturbed me. I remember that time period, the lockdown drills, the copycats. I wonder if they still do those drills? Weird times
Whoever played the shooters got the movements perfectly. Really looks like it could be the real thing. Haunting. And the girl running out of the library at the end reminds me of the elevator scene from Requiem For A Dream. Great job, everything is on point in front AND behind the camera. Once again stellar work from Skynd and TallyHo!
A friend introduced me to Skynd and this is the first song/video I watched. And from that day I have loved this band. How they show the world to never forget and to be careful not to repeat the past. Well done Skynd!!!
This was so brutal and honest and instead of glorifying the killers, you focused on the victims of that tragic day. My god this gave me chills, fantastic job. 👌🔥
Actually without the video the lyrics by themselves "AS YOU CALL IT" is glorifying the shooters The music/video is 50/50 towards the victims and shooters
The "killers" were also presented - if you have eyes - as judges . they gave their comrade a lesson. she was on the same path as them but hey girls are treated a bit better. they can shout. boys need to shoot .
The columbine incident was a failure of society. We really need to be there more for our children. It was senseless. I was bullied mercilessly as a child and never thought once to strike back at my fellow students.Not because I did not hate what they did to me but for the sake of clinging to kindness in this very negative world. We could end the madness.
Actual people in the “goth scene” are usually the nicest, most empathetic and accepting people out there- sometimes the intensity of picking up on so many people’s pains on top of our own just... makes us sad more than others, ya know?
Лучшее моё открытие за последнее время. Каждая композиция уже заслушана до дыр. SKYND rules 👍 Cant't get enough of this stuff 🤤 Want more of you, guys. Keep it up! From Russia with love ❤
Lyrics for whoever needs them: Public school, battle grounds Two students, come around like Loaded soldiers, packing heat Inside a shotgun, gun click To the beat, down We shoot you down We come around And when we blow off that trigger, get down We shoot you down, we come around The gun goes click, click, click Ra-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Get up, ready, mark, shoot How many victims is we 'bout to lose? Get up, ready, mark, shoot How many victims, how many victims? Get up, ready, mark, shoot How many victims is we 'bout to lose? Get up, ready, mark, shoot How many victims, how many victims? No vendetta, seeking fame Bombs and bullets, it's just a game we play Baby soldiers, baseball field Inside a shotgun, gun click To the beat, down We shoot you down We come around And when we blow off that trigger, get down We shoot you down, we come around The gun goes Ra-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Get up, ready, mark, shoot How many victims is we 'bout to lose? Get up, ready, mark, shoot How many victims, how many victims? Ra-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Have fun Get up, ready, mark, shoot How many victims is we 'bout to lose? Get up, ready, mark, shoot How many victims, how many victims? Get up, ready, mark, shoot How many victims is we 'bout to lose? Get up, ready, mark, shoot How many victims, how many victims? Ra-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta
I love seeing people in the comments whining about "glorifying killers" and showing how obviously they missed the point. Thanks so much for yet again proving that still, even 30 years later, y'all didn't learn anything and that was 100% YOUR CHOICE.
This is pretty amazing. As someone else stated, I am pretty desensitized to these kind of things by now. That being said, the cinematography is spectacular and I really had this nervous pit in my stomach watching this, like I was there. I really can not give any higher praise!
This is my the most favorite song from Skynd. And next songs are perfect, too. I was on concert in Prague 4.11.2023 in Club SaSaZu and they were just amazing. 👍👏
This band , and everything they do, is a true gift. Bringing these tragedies back to life, so we can not only know their story, but learn from it. Thank you for all you do.
С каждой историей как будто сама переносишься туда...так передать эмоции..Давно мне так группа в душу не западала ...Слушаешь и мурашки дыхание замирает ...класса.... Спасибо
Today, just few days before Christmas, there was school shooting in Philosophical faculty University Karlovy in Czech Republic. We are considered as The Heart of the Europe and yet, still there arrived school shootings. There was 14 people killed, 24 people wounded. Students age was 24 years. Before He did shooting, He killed his father.
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I don't think people understand how much this event impacted the goth/industrial scene at the time due to the blame being put on musical acts in our scene. Many friends suffered violence afterward at the hands of outraged people simply because they were wearing all black in the wrong place around the wrong people. This is a full circle moment for me to see a band who is embraced in our scene depicting this event years later. It's a very emotional experience listening to this and watching this video
Yep, we were called the trench coat mafia. They looked at us like we’d do that. It was a messy time. Especially for Manson
@@Trust_In_Jesus82 They blamed the entire thing on Manson, they used him as a scape goat
Yup!
I was in the southeast, in the same town as the Richland School shooting! I had to drop out.
Law enforcement in the area harassed me constantly, cause I wore black and had a trenchcoat.
Really, I think they were afraid of me, cause they knew what they'd done to me... what they deserved. They tortured me... my entire life.
It kept anyone one from fucking with me.
Woooooord!! Crazy shit that day. And crazy seeing this amazing, artfully done, video today. I didnt even know what was going on that day in 99 and was wearing a black trenchcoat at school that day. Still rock one to this day. Yea, that incident did cause some flack for our scene.
The actor in this does a great job. She conveys a whole range of emotions convincingly.
especially fear and anxiety.
@@ShawnJonesHellion 😐
That I can agree with.
Totally
100%
The attention to detail in the video is incredible: the students’ outfits, the old computers with the box monitors, the projectors, there’s even a picture of Bill Clinton on the wall in the library that’s only seen for a brief moment. Director really made it feel like 1999
Very insane how much they put into little details, including finding actors that looked very very similar to the shooters. It feels so raw
@sjsnsjsn I’m just saying it’s interesting, their attention to detail.
Not to mention the fact that the video was shot as one continuous take. I am in awe.
except eric never used an automatic weapon ; which he has here ; kind of strange
@@Makaveli13Xroy Yeah, they're weapons are switched. Dylan had a Tec-9 and Eric had a 9mm carbine but mostly used his pump shotgun
The "How many victims is we 'bout to lose" line's double meaning is so powerful. The shooter's wondering who will get away but everyone else is wondering how many people will die.
true
One guy who gave up half way through his school shooting and was told online by his peers at the time that there would be multiple shootings that day and that he was merely one of many. Honored to take part in realizing that the forces he could not control gave him a shot to prove himself he found the courage to do the deed, until suddenly he realized he was hurting people, just after the first shot through the door. Poor kid admitted to the officer that his family was not okay and he was not okay, seen through a bodycam with him on the ground and the officer neutralizing the active threat. Who were his online peers? It was never investigated to lead to a public statement. *shrug* We got the shooter in custody, what else do you want?
@@erdemmemisyazici3950who are you talking about?
@@erdemmemisyazici3950 fake
@@ewetn1 it's made up
The acting in this one is stunning.
You have low standards if you find this stunning😂🤣
Honestly just let the man enjoy the song.
I have to agree, this is the best
If you're fond of the genre (hey, nothing wrong with it!) Yes... It trully is! Classy, too. Pretty amazing...
@@galgvior6644
Mi no no
I have to say the director of this video needs to teach Hollywood what suspense and intensity means. I mean.. insanely intense directing.
Right!
Yea
The cinematography is dope sauce. Though to be fair, it's completely faithful recreation, second by second, of the library scene captured by security cams. They didnt need to jazz it up one bit. But the character choice, setup, and delivery make you feel just how sudden, unbelievable and horrifying it really was.
She was the PERFECT vantage point for the story. Innocent girl, average day, typical freshman problems your whole life seemed to pivot on... before realizing how trivial and unimportant they are when the real world comes crashing in. Such stark contrast, the very limit of opposing mindsets. 2 week boyfriend talks to another girl, life OVER! Yeah... while we're on the subject... ;)
I get chills every damn time I watch this video. Such well done production.
Klebold's face at aound the 3:44 mark is haunting. Even though his face is blurred you can still make out an unsettling grin.
This is a perfect example of "art comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable". That being said, I'm glad Stan Lee was there to offer her support.
Of course I'm not one of those *deeply disturbed individuals* out there 😊 _lol_
🔥 ... but yeahhh, this art style does feel cozy as hell 🔥
I remember Columbine, it was awful. Parents blamed everyone from Marilyn Manson to Eminem, and everything from video games to movies like The Crow and The Craft. “Do you believe in God?” that’s what witnesses said the kids were asked before they were shot. Then 9/11 happened two years later and the world forgot, and nothing was done to solve the root of the problem. The truth is that it wasn’t music, or video games, or movies. The truth is that we never got an answer for why a few angry kids killed so many other people. Two years later 9/11 happened and we forgot about the kids at Columbine. We forgot until another shooting happened, or a father sold his daughter’s journal to make a buck. We forgot and when we’re reminded we try to ban guns, and we go on talk shows screaming about the 2nd amendment, all while forgetting that the real reason things like this happen is because we forget about people. We forget about our kids mental health, our own mental health, until the problem becomes so unbearable that someone does something awful, and then we blame everything and everyone else for our own failure, our own blindness and disregard. Then the cycle repeats. This was a good song, remembering that time is painful, but then that’s the point I suppose.
It is not easy to dance with entropy and the glorification of an individual. How does any society appease majority and create equality? So easy to slide into an unfortunate reality. I respect your humanity in searching for something better.
They weren't asked about their belief in God
@@frozemyfridge7616 What does this even mean tho
@@aidyxe As individuals we have to navigate threw a decaying world of entitlements and the glorification's of self. A majority can create an unfortunate outcome, intended or not. As an individual we all have the potential to stray into an unfortunate reality. I respect the original post for seeking a more humane outcome. (I hope this is more clear than my previous post)
Well said
I love how the video is so subtle in the beginning. Showing evil (represented as a painted face in a black hood, similar to death) lurking in the background in almost every shot and everyone completely unaware until the first bullet is fired.
It pretty fascinating to deconstruct the song and the video. Horrifying, of course, but it’s so well done.
Discovered SKYND by accident. Best accident I ever made!
same here!!
Same!
Saaaammme
Same
Wish my father would say that about me...
1:45 love how Dylan walks into focus in the background but the drama of the situation pulls the attention away from him. So many little moments in this video.
I never noticed that!
Good catch
OHH
I’m completely obsessed with this video. They did such an excellent job portraying how this day in history started out as a regular ass school day for these kids. Also, major props to the girl, holy crap. There’s a moment right before he lets her go, you can clearly see a wave of acceptance in her face, like “alright, this is it.” I don’t know if her portrayal is based on an actual student who survived, but she’s an amazing actress regardless.
Yes her role is based on an actual incident with a student. Eric found her in the computer lab, put a gun to her head and told her to pray to her God, when she didn't he let her go. Listen to the song Cassie by flyleaf, it's based on this young ladies experience.
@@chrystamyers7613 While that story (about Cassie being asked if she believed in God before being shot) has been told for 23 years, many argue that it wasn’t true. 🤷🏻♀️
@@kb3744 it's debatable, but it is stated in the documentary "we are columbine" and it's also in the book columbine written by David Cullen. I lived in the area when it happened and my brother was friends with a few survivors. It has been stated that Eric found 2 female students in the computer lab hiding under a table, he asked them to pray to their God, the female who started praying was shot, the other was let go. I don't know if it's 100% I wasn't there but I've heard alot that backs up the claim.
@@kb3744 It's come out over the years that it wasn't Cassie that was asked this question but another student and the story got twisted around
@@kb3744 The story is actually true, it just wasn’t with Cassie. Cassie Bernall was killed after Eric said Peekaboo and shot her in the head at close range.
I just came home from SKYND concert in Copenhagen. If you're wondering if it's worth seeing the act live based on how good *this* song and video is, stop wondering and do it - it's WELL worth it!
Shout out to the cinematographer on this one. The transitions were absolutely seamless.
And this is art. Thought provoking, not always pretty. This is what meaningful music with a good beat sounds like. First time hearing this band. Love it!
Same here bro
VoDkA
Welkom!
@@9877joseph 🤙
@@jd8606 hello there
I listened to the words, watched the video and I sat here motionless for a while.
I lost my friend, Isaiah Shoels during the Columbine shooting, and although SKYND is a brilliant artist who should be recognized as such, Columbine still haunts me and so many to this day.
*WE ARE COLUMBINE*
Wow I’m so sorry,
I hope you‘re doing well?
Over years ive sifted all the details of the shooting, and I know who your talking about exactly. I'm really sorry about your friends.
I’m sorry for your loss does the song and video capture the shooting because you can read books or movies ect but it’s always better to get someone opinion that was there in person
Great. Now more impressionable kids will think school shootings are cool. Look...it's even got its own soundtrack.
@@Dreamer-dq6tf did you see the quote at the end? The point is clearly that something has to change
This video is dark as shit ... and a f*ckin masterpiece. Brilliantly done.
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don't know why but the repetition of "how many victims" is just dope...this band captures the insanity of each killer or victim in just a few words... it sums up the mental state of the killers
If your shit is this dark you must be a Gunness drinker.
Just how I like it
Yep I remember that
Seriously...WOW. What an breath taking video and band. Never heard Skynd before...My daughter turned me onto them. I am a 50 year old freak for this band now. Completely blown away!
I love how the blood on her face slowly gets more pronounced, seemingly out of nowhere. Really chilling and subtle imagery. Huge fan of SKYND videos!!
Omg you're right!
I respect the decision to focus on the victims instead of glorifying the killers.
Well said
They usually do this in their videos I've noticed. None of their songs glorify the killer, they focus on the darkness of the mind, the psychology and the victims. Which is one reason I respect the fuck out of them, specially as a criminal psychology student lol
That's a really good point.
This, in particular, is what makes them so amazing. We as a Society focus on the murders, their videos show the depths of their darkness. This video brought it all back after all these years. If there’s a hell I hope these guys are buried deep in
Don't care what side of the story they choose, this is art if they are to explore the darkest side of human nature that live's with in all of us whether we choose to accept it or not, we are only sheltered by the illusion of a civilised Society with a false belief that humens are innately good knowing right from wrong, it's only when the ego meets the wildness are we confronted by our shadow, so what is humans greatest Instinct is it love is it faith is it self-preservation mabye you are a better men then I. I am not saying that these people are not sick as they have a choice living in a manufactured civilised environment
but for humens to make-believe that their primal self dose not exist is to never be conscious or see our true enemy.
I grew up right around the corner from Columbine HS and went there Junior and Senior year. You could actually hear the shots from my house that day. Sad day indeed. I was just a kid when it happened but I’ll never forget the sound and the hysteria it caused.
I don't understand the people saying this glorifies the killers. It's about the victims. The point's clear. If you're unwilling to do anything more than offer "thoughts and prayers" every time this happens, expect more variants of this video to keep showing up on your local news.
Exactly! You don't even see the killer's faces except for maybe one shot where their face is blurry. You only see the student's faces and as for the "ratatata" part, it's repeating the only thing the students hear as their friends and classmates are being murdered. It brings you into the mindset of those poor students who are hiding, terrified and scrambling for safety. As for the other lyrics, it kind of mocks the killers and their sadistic ego and by showing the victims instead, they sort of put a spotlight on what this kind of disgusting mindset is doing to other people.
at least, that's how i see it
Im glad others see this, to add to this I say that they slightly bring you into the atmosphere. Gave me goosebumps at least and made me think, "my god, that must've been fucking terrifying to be there..."
The thing about good art is that it cannot be easily reduced to a single political or moral position. It's purposely open to interpretation.
It does, it gives terrible people a lingering name when they should be forgotten.
I love how they got 90s fashion correct.
Thank you my musixmatch wasn't working for this song lmao
i genuinely didn’t think they would’ve got the shooters clothing correct (not praising them)
If they ever make a movie about Columbine, they should use this director and some of these actors. Authentic reactions and the guys who played Eric and Dylan even got the way their individual presence was. When Eric jumps on the desk and dances, plays with everyone. That's exactly how I picture he would have been. Just having fun while terrorizing people. Great work on the music video and song. Keep it going Skind and TallyHo!
Yeah I read in the 11K and watched a few interviews about columbine apparently Dylan was the one who was having the time of his life he was laughing and being more terrorising while he killed people he hid it better to leading up to it which is even more scary tbh that’s why I don’t believe in the whole leader/follower thing
There's this movie called elephant its practically the same concept but if you want documentary bowling for Columbine is interesting too.
@@inkedhinata2314 Thanks for the heads up :)
They did It’s called I Am Not Ashamed
@@caseychambers561 Thanks for sharing 🙂
This song is incredibly addictive. Also, I'm so glad the killers weren't shown that much and instead we focused on the victims.
@Jim Q. Starr Shut up.
Just realized that the opening “columbine” the pattern in the letters is actually off a a window that got shot at columbine high. I still find new details that Skynd put in her videos that I missed in the past. The work, detail & beats are just amazing. I can’t get over it.
@Troy Nelson I’m not recreating or studying anything? And she brings awareness to the victims
I just noticed at1:50 one of the killers is casually walking in the background.
My father introduced me to Skynd and I love their music, I live how it portrays the tragic events of the past and helps being awareness.
Right when she went into the library I was like “oh no”
Who has been there as least 50 times this week? I got completely obsessed with this song.
Mee
I actually love that she appears to be grinning during the final 'Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta!' chorus at the end. The human skull always appears to be grinning, and it represents death - death's grin. She then closes her lips to show that she, herself, was not smiling at all...
love how they keep the shooters faces at a distance at all times. works perfectly. really makes you think of their actual faces making you go back in your own memory of them
I distinctly remember my English teacher informing me that she had no choice but to turn in one of my short stories I had written the week before to the school counselor the day after it all went down. I was at home with my family watching the news as it unfolded the day before. We were all in tears. We had got back late from a trip and took the day off. I was unaware of the school announcements the day before and showed up the next morning in the library wearing my trenchcoat I always wore. Everyone just stared in horror at me when usually I was ignored. I remember going from feelings of sadness to feeling angry and alienated. This was an artistic and masterfully executed glimpse into the past. I really needed this today. One of my best friends just passed away, and this just helped me put my life in perspective. It reminded me that in a few years my son will face high school, and I still have time to cuddle him before he's too old for it. Thank you guys for this. Namaste!
Ikr, that was one of the things as a million others that people get wrong about the idiot killers of Columbine. The Goths had to pay just because they chose to wear those jackets that day. They were not actually goths and they didn't do the killings because they were bullied. In fact there is statements that contradict that they were even bullied at all. The whole, they wanted to kill the jocks and Christians was just untrue. They wanted to kill everyone with bombs, the guns were just there in case students managed to evade the bombing. It annoys me when people sympathize with them just because they may have dealt with bullying. The killers of Columbine did it because they thought it would be fun and they wanted to be famous for it. Pure just morbid curiosity of what it would be like. Now if you are goth or emo you get bullied because they decided to do what they did.
I remember those days like it was yesterday. I wasn't goth in high school, but I had friends that were and saw what they had to go through. All the bomb threats at our school, hell I even walked in on a girl that I was friends with (in middle school we just simply had lost touch not having classes together in the 9th grade) in the bathroom at my highschool that had a gun. She wanted to kill herself because of the bulling she went through. There was two other girls coming out of the bathroom that stopped me from entering and told me to go that they had already told a teacher. Thank goodness she didn't kill herself. I wouldn't say she was particularly Goth but all her friends were and she had a learning disability so she was heavily bullied for both reasons.
This seems like it was based off of the account of a victim who was pulled from under a desk and asked "do you want to die" when she said no he replied "well, it doesnt matter we're all gonna die anyway" he let go of her and let her run out.
Their research is well shown in this video. I would have to agree. It focused on that one girl.
Bree pasquale
Kacey Ruegsegger would be the name you're looking for.
I thought that girl died? No I'm thinking of the girl that was asked do you believe in god.
@@rileyswack5402 Flyleaf did a song about her, called "Cassie."
It's crazy to think this was only 22 years ago and that all the survivors are only in their 30's. It feels like it's so long ago like we can't touch it in history.
When I first heard this song I had mixed feelings. But understanding how SKYND writes her songs, the research she does and the respect she has for the victims and their families helped me to see this from her productive and understand her intention. When you see the mindset of the killers through the eyes of the witnesses and other evidence the killers left behind, this song captures that. It's a narrative but it's very immersive. There really was no other direction this song could've gone to encapsulate the fear, panic, chaos and even the mind games of the killers. Really well done.
I like that "Michelle Carter" is Skynd naming the monster who probably smirked over thinking she got away with murder. Same with "Chris Watts." When it comes to killers who are obsolete or tried to escape justice, those are named and a light is shone on their evil. However, if you look at Columbine and Bianca Devins--those are cases where the killers WANTED to be known, WANTED to spread a narcissistic personal legend of pain and fear.
I think it's an excellent policy for a criminal study/true crime artist: give evil the *opposite* of what it wants.
When the young girl turns into Skynd, I imagine that the kid is actually an adult survivor and that the music video is a ptsd flashback. Puts an interesting spin on it.
I enjoy your perspective here. I also took it as her reaching the end of what mattered and portraying why shootings are glorified in certain perspectives. Made me think she was contemplating the crime, but then it was all made real to her and all she wanted to do was live another day
I think it was representing that she was glad to the guy dead. She felt like he got what he deserved. She had some of the same darkness the shooters did.
Props to this young girl for playing such an incredibly emotional role. It can't be easy to have even a prop gun against your cheek like that.
who’s scared of toys? you?
@@futalovingbuttboy69 if they look like the real weapon like a BB gun, than yes many people are afraid.
@@futalovingbuttboy69 matter of fact, any toy weapon is illegal on educational facilities because it can be suspected a disguise for a real weapon.
@C y n i c i s m uh oh, we've got a badass over here who chews on glass to relax and fucks guns.
@@kevonwinters gay and sad
Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it. ❤
Communism will be a bitch
@@Apex8r and BLM/Antifa rioters
we will
@@iBlackLagoon One group is angry because the police are more violent and unjust towards them while the others are angry because far right and neo nazis are making a comeback. But please, continue to talk about them as if they were the bad guys.
What an empty and pointless phrase.
1:41 always gets me on the rewatch, what was that conversation?she smiles but then as soon as he walks away the smile fades, powerful acting
Her teacher takes his books back and ask if she's okay
what the fuck are you taling about
No one:
Me at 4am: RATATATA RATTATATATA RATATATA RATATATAA
Fr. I caught myself ratatata-ing while grocery shopping yesterday and here I am to watch the video again because it won't leave my head lmao
LMFAOOOOOOOOO
I look forward to the onomatopoeias in each video
Saaaaammmmeeee
Shnitzel?
4:47 Her playful, swaggering descent down the stairwell to the imitated sound of rapid gunfire seems to emphasize just how much of a 'game' this was supposed to be. Her outfit also resembles a clown or jester (in my mind), further adding to it. The smile fades at the end as she walks off-screen, which made me think of how the plans went horribly wrong and "killed the fun", as it were. Either way, the outfit and the execution of the acting is incredible.
She’s meant to be senseless death, stalking the hallways, IMO. You’re right about her out fit at the end. They meant to kill as many journalists and responding cops, EMTs as they could, too. The press afterward was like a circus. Horrifying to watch live that day. Thankfully Harris wasn’t as good as he thought he was and none of his major bombs actually blew.
@@StLProgressive Do you mean Eric or Dylan?
@@iRunavala I meant Eric Harris. He was pretty much the mastermind, considered himself a genius, etc and built the bombs, if I’m remembering correctly. That whole attack was supposed to be primarily a bombing with a shootout at the end as any survivors came out.
It's also great because we see her and Skynd switch places already, and it implies that she was happy to see him dead, she wanted to happen as a result.
Dylan made pipe bombs that worked, plus his car bomb.
For some reason this made me think about Skynd and Father like watchers... not good or bad just some entities that are curious about human nature, specially violence, they've been watching the worst part of the human emotions and instincts since long ago... ok I got carried away, this video was incredibly stressful to go trough... it perfectly captures the victims anguish and the music reminded me of the oldschool Korn wich is a damn good thing!
Right! I view skynd as the demon behind these evil acts, the driving force if you will. Always in the background observing her chaos. In Kathrine knight she actually gives the knife to Katherine in a scene, its super quick but she does it!
@@goonbob27 "Madness as you know is like gravity... all it takes is a little push"
They are portraying the 'characters' in an interesting way in many of their videos, sometimes controlling them, sometimes just witnessing the acts, sometimes (like in this one) becoming the victims. I really dig how they do this uniquely in each video. This is art, like it or not.
@@UrsuxRex She's literally a rotten corpse in the Elisa Lam one. Dirt in her teeth, the whole thing.
No problem in getting carried away, that's when you get the most creative
I cannot understand how this video hasn't won awards for it's filming and editing. This is Emmy level stuff.
The elites and rich won’t let it
@@UnknownUser-fe5zu there is no elite, only capitalists.
Emmy level xd
cuz Billie Eilish and sh!t happened
@@nilom78wtf please look up the difference of the music between this artist and billie elish
By now we know we can count on SKYND for meaningful mentions. When I was listening to the live version and she screams "have fun!" I just knew it had to be relevant. A quick Google search on it confirmed that, yes, "Have fun!" was the final step in Erik and Dylan's detailed written plans for the attack. I absolutely love the way everything SKYND says is significant. Looking forward to full lyrics for this one! (By the way, when reading further about the Columbine attack, I loved learning that even though they did carry it out, things went wrong for them at every step all along the way, which is why there were far fewer victims than there could have been.)
I was literally thinking about how they get so much significance into the lyrics right before reading this comment.
I remember reading about one of their plans which included escaping to a local airport after the shooting, hijacking a plane then flying it into a building.
Yeah, it is a miracle that there weren't many more casualties. Didn't they place 2 or 3 pressure cooker bombs about the school? Imagine if they had went off. The same type of bomb did a lot of damage at the Boston Marathon. Really terrible. The whole story is just sad.
Edit: I just checked incase I was misremembering and found out they actually planned to fly the plane to NYC. Around 2 years before 9/11... how creepy is that?
@@colinthomson5358 They had a few bombs that they also planted around the school and city, I believe their cars were made into bombs as well. The bombs were meant to distract any help that would be coming to the school and also to up their victim count. Luckily I think all but one of the bombs had failed.
This video was almost an exact account of what happened to Bree Pasquale, Harris stood on a table jump down & said “Peek-A-Boo” and shot a victim next to her; (not shown in video: his gun backfired breaking his nose while, he’s either stunned or off balance momentarily) he let’s Bree survive walking away.
@@Wookiee925 one if the things that I adore about skynd. The attention to detail, like in Gary heidnik, the crazy glue commercial that plays in the background.
1:46 she is representing the unseen evil lurking in the hallway. So beautifully haunting.
Yeah! And on the background Dylan (one of the murders) is walking with the sack full of weapons!
@@nncinema6530 Good situational awareness. I didn’t even see that. Just another layer to this video.
Yeah i love it
@@nncinema6530 yeah that part is sick
Agreed! So chilling
Remember the "Elephant" (2003) movie, about Columbine too. This was so intense, i can't stop watching over and over!
If you like Elephant, give Zero Day a watch.....its incredible.
@@Livevil9912 There is actually a documentary here on TH-cam with a similar name. I think it was Zero Hour or sth. It's definitely worth watching.
@@zh3nnnie408 Zero Hour is good, But Zero Day is an actual movie. Well worth a watch!
“Bang Bang, You’re Dead!” is another one.
I've never heard of that
Wow just wow, the music, the vocals, the video. This girl deserves some big roles in some movies, such a great actress.
I went to high school in the early 2000's with two good friends who shared the first names and last initials of the two who shot up Columbine. The rumours surrounding my little group of outcast friends was unsavoury to say the least. We listened to all the same music, and hung out in obscurity to the majority of the school to avoid constant ridicule. Most of the others in our school were farmer's kids, who listened to country music and had very little in common with us. Having been the brunt of the entire school's baseless fear and ignorance, I know what makes a person want to pull the trigger, because high school ignorance is relentless and cruel. It never came to violence for any of us, thankfully. Though I did know one kid who was arrested for screaming about murdering everyone after being prodded just a bit too relentlessly in class. Whether or not he meant it is neither here, nor there. The warnings of a violent act are often not taken seriously.
Same I was 14 in 2005 I remember it well. Same with the farmer kids here too. Our clique was big so not many messed with us together but they singled us out when we were alone and assaulted, terrorized us and bullied us mercilessly! I totally get this! I was also on Zoloft like Eric Harris and that medication makes you think some bad things dude.
@@ashkarra2507 That's exactly the way things went for me. They're cowards, because they'll never attack you one on one, only when they're in groups and see you alone. Or with passing comments from their truck window as they drive by. In the halls, they'd never come near us.
🏴☠️🖤🍺⚡🍺🖤🏴☠️
That's what happened to me too.
amen brother...I know this feeling all too well...
because being the outsider or outcast or even different, we generally are used as a scapegoat and those around "can do no evil"
when in fact, they literally bring it upon themselves
This is not what I was looking for when I searched for, "Morning motivational and inspirational video"
😂😂😂😂
Motivated yet?☠️☠️☠️
@@kingdclxvi8488 idk, all that came out of this was a reminder of who I was back in high school. And that's a shitty place I didn't want to visit again 😂
This got the dumbest laugh out of me
But it got you moving didn’t it 😂
Incredible!
Llegue acá por vos
Buena recomendación 👌
grande magnus
The song in incredibly amazing !
entro acá y hay un comentario tuyo! jajaja. ior everyuer!
Girl I do not know how you were able to capture this in such a way that is so real I cry every time did I watch it and I remember what does happen
I saw this on the side panel and thought "What is this trash?" clicked. As soon as the music started I fell in love. Gotta see more
Just discovered this group today (November 1, 2020), and I can't quit listening. I hope there is plenty more to come!
For me Discovered them today 11 8 2020. So far like their music.
9gag?
November - Friday 13 - I´m scared
Wish they actually released an album!
@@arthFisher yes
Holy shit. You do not disappoint. Please drop the full album, I've been praying to the dark lord since Wacken last year...
1:51 you can see dylan in the background , nice detail !
FINALY😱, the next masterpiece🙇🏻♂️🙇🏽♂️🙇🏿♂️🥳 Even though I love the "everybody get ready, everebody...to KILL (/DIE)"-part of the live version too (it's definitely more catchy than Bill Sabers part)...I really hope that you both create a live album or at least release an alternative version for this🔥👌🏻
As I read through some other comments I realised that the live version had some lines from their plans from the notebook which were going to the "wait-wait-wait...attack...HAVE FUUN" and I can't describe in words how sad it is that you excluded this part too :(
Yes. producing this is surely a nightmare..
I like both versions equally. So amazing
I would just like to thank Johnathan Davis and Bailey Sarian for discovering SKYND.💖
When did Bailey talk about them?
What? Bailey our queen mentioned them? I watched her Gary Heidnik, Richard Ramirez and Katherine video, and no clue of her mentioning Skynd.
@@c2e.7877 @Zh3nnnie lol no she hasn't mentioned them but I listen to Korn and the combination of that plus watching Baileys videos made the algorithm on TH-cam suggest SKYND to me.
@@elizabethramos5130 Ah ok. I actually planned on commenting Skynd somewhere, and I actually commented that people who are interested should listen to Macabre's Dahmer on her Dahmer video.
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I've never heard of this group until a couple hours ago. This is my first song and video and I'm sitting here with my jaw wide open blown away.
I was 15 when Columbine happened. That event impacted our entire generation.
This is art.
I was a 16 year old kid in Western Kansas when this went down. I wore all black, listened to the same music, and played the same video games. It got me a lot of fearful looks when I was just as against what happened as anyone else. It's important to remember and learn from this day, but we clearly haven't given so many more instances that have happened since then.
DORK!..
@@crestowpeardew1394 You're not wrong.
@@Logan-ed4pu hheeaa hheahh!
@@brotherhoodofspiel1122 Honestly, same. She taught me to differentiate fantasy and reality. Truth be told, the heavy music and violent video games served as therapy from the bullying.
Same here... I wanted to kill exactly 7 people (my elementary bullies) I had writen things I wanna tell them before I will do that... ofc I never did it, but if getting a gun would ve as easy in EU as it is in US, I'm pretty sure I'll be dead or in prision now I'm sure that if getting a gun was easy I would have been a murderer.
1:50 the Dylan in the background omg
Good eye!!
Oh, I did not see him before. Thanks!
Cheers totally missed that
That was a horrible day in history, so much sadness in the 90's. I remember it too well. Tear jerking video!
просто охренительно, стильно, мощно, зубодробительно, годнота лютая
Русский комм🤯согласна полностью, такую годноту редко встретишь
Казанский стрелок думаю тоже оценил.
Думаеш шапочка для дудочек?:)
Получше всяких фильмов сюжет будет.
Hail Stalin, comrade!
I vaguely remember Columbine, I was too young and I don't think it was as huge in German media or I didn't watch the news.
A few years after this there was a shooting at a German school just a cat throw away. One of the victims was a former classmate who just moved there with her parents a year prior. She and her boyfriend were the only pupils that were killed. Shot through the closed door. The other victims were teachers.
I will never forget how our teachers tried to talk to us about it, knowing very well we knew her. The memorial at our school gym. The mood in our classrooms.
There have been a lot of bad music videos and "sketches" about it since. Your video and song however remain tasteful and respectful to the victims without putting the focus on the murderers. Thank you for that!
You were very young. It filled the news for month ...
@@Clearsky753 Yup, I remember it, too. It WAS huge.
Well in 99 I was 11. I don't think my mum would let me watch something that horrendous for months.
Actually the shooting happened here in my state they're saying that's what lead on to other shootings n it being a competition that now the VERY high school alone has metal detectors
I was 16 as the shooting happened and it was extrem present.
No matter how many critics talk crap about this song and video, It's actually a masterpiece. Amazing and so very haunting and drama and you just can't stop watching it. Bravo for kicking ass.....
What critics? I'm curious.
The absolute cruelty of humanity will never fail to astound me to the point of tears; this video captures so well how a normal bad day can turn into a living nightmare
Excellent... lyrics music.. everything..at 53 i may be old but i can still feel what the power of talent can still bring ...
Oh yes ... Just à personnal feeling. Thanks to Jonathan Davis...💓
I was in college when Columbine happened. I wore a black trench coat and listened to industrial music (still do... on both counts). Hearing about this was heartbreaking enough, but then to spend the rest of that semester with people looking at me with caution or contempt, my already heightened sense of isolation growing worse as people started to actively avoid me, right down to my dorm-mate's frat brothers actually asking me to my face, "What makes you people do that sort of thing?" "You people..." I didn't even answer; I just left and took a walk... and it was raining, so out came the trench coat. I don't remember if I was crying, but I was in my head.
Im sorry you went through that.
I was in high school same situation with me trench coat and music I was suspended for not switching coats
@@taddwilks9029 I'm sorry you went through that as well. That was wrong.
I encountered a similar situation. I won't get into details here, publicly (PM me if your so inclined), but I was questioned pretty extensively by the FBI in the weeks following (They seized my computer, and the paranoid fallout lead to my expulsion from High School).
@@michelletheado how do we pm
My wife told me this dropped first thing I woke up.
Like damnit let me have my coffee.
Fr tho, y'all are damn good at what you do. Don't let any people or controversy try to stop you.
I love you too goofy :D
A wife who wakes you just for a new Skynd video is a total keeper.
Yay we aren’t the only couple that yell about new skynd music first thing in the morning
Yeah, I got yelled at for not telling my gf that this just came out lol true story
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This is why bullying should be stopped and I pray for all the victims families and the 2 boys that were bullied that did this, families. This was a terrible situation for all.
I just cant stop listening to this song. everything is so clever...lyrics music vidéo. And you now what ? Everything morning while going to work "ratatata ratatata ratatata ratatata ratatata." Some kind of genius around there. Thank you
I thought I was the only one! I'm walking around the store singing this under my mask. Lol
Love the clip very much , i like the fact that those shooters where not put as main protagonist and that the clip tells the story of a victim ( the acting was also very good ). Solid track aswel
Manson got in a lot of trouble after Columbine, not his fault.. it was a horrific act of cowardice RIP to all the victims, it was a total shame for the scene.. the media spreading the narrative and parents believing any music deemed alt was the music of the devil when really metal is the most emotional thought provoking music out there and it really helps people.
This is another banger, catchy hook.. just amazing as usual SKYND 😊
Yeah, The Matrix got a bad rap too (love that movie)
@@leatherscent7831 I dont trust people that dont like that movie 😂
It was KMFDM that got the most shit for it imo.
@@ibladesi guess it depends where you are from, sad that people attacked art for 2 boys mental illnesses.
Anybody remember when LIl Wayne said bullies aren’t bulletproof?
I am glad that they made the scene 3:54 less intense. In reality the shooter said: "Peek-a-boo" and shot the blonde girl (Cassie Bernall) 😢
It's like they reinvent themselves with each song they create. Every song is distinct and diverse, emotional and chaotic. Their storytelling is always expressed in the most intense ways. I would love to see them perform live one day in Edmonton, Canada.
As a fellow Edmontonian I would love this aswell.
Columbine was not the first but it was the one that changed everything. Everyone that worked on the video did am amazing job.
Wow.
This song is simply heartbreaking. There's the fact of how many innocents were shot down.. and the deep moments of the song were just perfectly timed. You guys are amazing. Can't stop listening this masterpiece 💥
It really is, my emotions are fucked up due to meds, but I was nearly crying.
Such an amazing tune too.
And the scene in the computer lab was eerily close to the actual footage
Yeah, this definitely disturbed me. I remember that time period, the lockdown drills, the copycats. I wonder if they still do those drills? Weird times
@@wolfhawk1999 we still do lock down drills, I think all schools do
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We stopped looking under our beds for monsters once we realized the real monsters are in us!
Whoever played the shooters got the movements perfectly. Really looks like it could be the real thing. Haunting. And the girl running out of the library at the end reminds me of the elevator scene from Requiem For A Dream. Great job, everything is on point in front AND behind the camera. Once again stellar work from Skynd and TallyHo!
A friend introduced me to Skynd and this is the first song/video I watched. And from that day I have loved this band. How they show the world to never forget and to be careful not to repeat the past. Well done Skynd!!!
This was so brutal and honest and instead of glorifying the killers, you focused on the victims of that tragic day. My god this gave me chills, fantastic job. 👌🔥
Actually without the video the lyrics by themselves
"AS YOU CALL IT" is glorifying the shooters
The music/video is 50/50 towards the victims and shooters
you have no idea they did it for a reason
Eric and Dylan were relentlessly bullied , and nobody believed them, even teachers bullied them so technically they were the victims haha..
No they didn't, lmao, what u smokin'?
The "killers" were also presented - if you have eyes - as judges . they gave their comrade a lesson. she was on the same path as them but hey girls are treated a bit better. they can shout. boys need to shoot .
The columbine incident was a failure of society. We really need to be there more for our children. It was senseless. I was bullied mercilessly as a child and never thought once to strike back at my fellow students.Not because I did not hate what they did to me but for the sake of clinging to kindness in this very negative world. We could end the madness.
Actual people in the “goth scene” are usually the nicest, most empathetic and accepting people out there- sometimes the intensity of picking up on so many people’s pains on top of our own just... makes us sad more than others, ya know?
They were not goth. They were simply bullies who couldnt handle it other people pushed back.
@@notreallydavek7237 not really dave.
@@notreallydavek7237 truth but how many people realize this ... the 90s needed a boogeyman
@@notreallydavek7237 but why you gotta ruin everyones good time?
i agree
Лучшее моё открытие за последнее время. Каждая композиция уже заслушана до дыр. SKYND rules 👍 Cant't get enough of this stuff 🤤 Want more of you, guys. Keep it up! From Russia with love ❤
@Ангел ❤️❤️❤️
I can't be the only one that thinks her outfit at the end makes her look like something from hellraiser. I love it
Lyrics for whoever needs them:
Public school, battle grounds
Two students, come around like
Loaded soldiers, packing heat
Inside a shotgun, gun click
To the beat, down
We shoot you down
We come around
And when we blow off that trigger, get down
We shoot you down, we come around
The gun goes click, click, click
Ra-ta-ta-ta
Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta
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Get up, ready, mark, shoot
How many victims is we 'bout to lose?
Get up, ready, mark, shoot
How many victims, how many victims?
Get up, ready, mark, shoot
How many victims is we 'bout to lose?
Get up, ready, mark, shoot
How many victims, how many victims?
No vendetta, seeking fame
Bombs and bullets, it's just a game we play
Baby soldiers, baseball field
Inside a shotgun, gun click
To the beat, down
We shoot you down
We come around
And when we blow off that trigger, get down
We shoot you down, we come around
The gun goes
Ra-ta-ta-ta
Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta
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Get up, ready, mark, shoot
How many victims is we 'bout to lose?
Get up, ready, mark, shoot
How many victims, how many victims?
Ra-ta-ta-ta
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Have fun
Get up, ready, mark, shoot
How many victims is we 'bout to lose?
Get up, ready, mark, shoot
How many victims, how many victims?
Get up, ready, mark, shoot
How many victims is we 'bout to lose?
Get up, ready, mark, shoot
How many victims, how many victims?
Ra-ta-ta-ta
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Cheers mate appreciate it
Yesss thank you
Thank you my musixmatch wasn't working with this song lmao
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Thank you. This just confirms that the lyrics are shit
I respect the music group not focusing on love songs and pussy/money/cars. The market is over saturated with it and we need these stories in art.
I love seeing people in the comments whining about "glorifying killers" and showing how obviously they missed the point. Thanks so much for yet again proving that still, even 30 years later, y'all didn't learn anything and that was 100% YOUR CHOICE.
This is pretty amazing. As someone else stated, I am pretty desensitized to these kind of things by now. That being said, the cinematography is spectacular and I really had this nervous pit in my stomach watching this, like I was there. I really can not give any higher praise!
This is my the most favorite song from Skynd. And next songs are perfect, too. I was on concert in Prague 4.11.2023 in Club SaSaZu and they were just amazing. 👍👏
This band , and everything they do, is a true gift. Bringing these tragedies back to life, so we can not only know their story, but learn from it.
Thank you for all you do.
С каждой историей как будто сама переносишься туда...так передать эмоции..Давно мне так группа в душу не западала ...Слушаешь и мурашки дыхание замирает ...класса.... Спасибо
ну хоть кто то из наших слушает!
Полностью согласен, никто из музыкантов не дарил мне такие глубокие эмоции, как SKYND
@@АндрейСтупа-б5м я на них недавно подсела. От этого клипа ком в горле был. Такого давно со мной не было.
@@Puuups91 вообще интересный коллектив, и их искусство при чем в колабе у них тоже классно получается 🤞клип хорош, теперь эта тема и нас коснулась...
This beat absolutely kills and the acting just makes it sooo much better. The fluidity of this goes with the momentum of the video. Absolute genius.
Today, just few days before Christmas, there was school shooting in Philosophical faculty University Karlovy in Czech Republic.
We are considered as The Heart of the Europe and yet, still there arrived school shootings.
There was 14 people killed, 24 people wounded.
Students age was 24 years. Before He did shooting, He killed his father.
Damn, I really felt the anguish in this video. You guys are amazing
Not usually my flavor of music, but this is going in my playlist today.
I AM SOO PROUD OF MY BOY BILL $ABER...IM SOO HAPPY HE DID THIS WITH SKYND! LOVE TO SEE PEOPLE MOVIN UP!!! 🖤🔥🙏
The way you walk in the end is fantastic..... this whole vid get a Infinity.