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AMV of the Day: Don’t Let Me Down (High School of the Dead)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

We’re halfway through October.  How about a High School AMV of the Day to mark the occasion?

Song: Don’t Let Me Down by The Chainsmokers, featuring Daya

Anime: High School of the Dead

Creator: Soapy Balls

Past AMVs of the Day

Music Video of the Day: High by The Chainsmokers (2022, dir by Kid. Studio)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

I have a long-standing fear of heights so the video for this song kind of freaks me out.

Whenever I’m on a plane, I find myself wondering what would happen if I somehow found myself plunging through the clouds.  I would hope that I would achieve a state of grace during the experience but …. well, it probably wouldn’t happen.  I’ve seen any number of shows that featured people skydiving.  Usually, it’s presented as being this great experience but it’s definitely something that I could go without.

James Bond, I will say, was a good sky driver.  Seriously, Bond could do just about anything back in the day.  That was before he got all whiny.  Oh well.

Don’t fall out of planes, everyone.  D.B. Cooper was a cool guy and he made a lot of money but he’s not a role model that one needs to emulate.

Enjoy!

Why? You only say you love me when you’re high
It’s like we go through the same shit every night
Oh why, oh why?
You always swear that it’s gonna change, but it never does
Why? You’ll only say you love me when you’re high
It’s like we go through the same shit every night
Oh why, oh why?
You always swear that shit’s gonna change, but it never does

Tell me that you’re gonna change
Then act like this instead
I’m too old to want somebody who’s always switching up their friends
I can’t make you love me but at least you could pretend
Scripts gonna leads to fifths until I’m fucked out of my head
You play the same old songs I know that you’re different in your Air Force Ones
Filling my prescription I could bite your tongue
Like I got an addiction yeah
You always say this shit’s gonna change, but it never does

Why? You only say you love me when you’re high
It’s like we go through the same shit every night
Oh why, oh why?
You always swear that it’s gonna change, but it never does
Why? You’ll only say you love me when you’re high
It’s like we go through the same shit every night
Oh why, oh why?
You always swear that shit’s gonna change, but it never does

I know it’s my fault I pick up your phone call
When it’s half past one and you’re halfway drunk
You say you love me and it sounds so dumb
But you’re the only one I can run away from the same old songs
I know that you’re different in your Air Force Ones
Filling my prescription I could bite your tongue
Like I got an addiction yeah
You always say this shit’s gonna change, but it never does

Why? You only say you love me when you’re high
It’s like we go through the same shit every night
Oh why, oh why?
You always swear that it’s gonna change, but it never does
Why? You’ll only say you love me when you’re high
It’s like we go through the same shit every night
Oh why, oh why?
You always swear that shit’s gonna change, but it never does

Music Video of The Day: This Feeling by The Chainsmokers, featuring Kelsea Bellerini (2018, dir by Similar But Different)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Welcome to the world of Motorcross, which is apparently the most fun you can have when you combine motorcycles and drunk people.  (Of course, the majority of the drunk people are in the stands, watching.  Or, at least, that’s the way things tend to be down here in Texas, where people are responsible drivers but irresponsible observes.  Unless, of course, the driver has presidential ambitions and is the son of an extremely wealthy local politician.  Then, he can pretty much do whatever the Hell he wants behind the wheel of a car….)

Anyway, I like this video because not only does it capture the blue collar swagger of a local sporting event but it also ends with a hint that everyone’s dead.  At least, that’s what I assume the final image means.  Did they die during the race or before?  It’s totally possible that they could in Purgatory and maybe we’re just watching them pass the time while they wait for a final judgment.

I appreciate the dusty atmosphere of this video.  I like the suggestion of a melodrama that we can observe but perhaps not quite understand.  It’s a deceptively simple video.  What looks like a simple race might actually be a journey to something else.  It’s up to the viewer to decide just where exactly that journey is going.

Enjoy!