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Permalink Reply by Aaralyn D on August 26, 2011 at 5:00am

I thought their choice of scenes in the video was much too horrible-seeming for what the song is about - the song points to hope, for me, but I don't get that feeling of hope at all from the video - I found the video disturbing.

 

I guess I would prefer a maybe anime-type vid? One idea would be to have a person climbing up a large slope of scree at beginning and the scree continually crumbling away, making it hard for the person to keep from plunging too far down, and volcanic eruption and ash all around, the person covered in dust, keeping on trying to get a view of what's ahead, trying to see if there is a place of safety on the other side of their hill (and zoom out scene to show some grassy plains and forests and rivers, etc, and wildlife over other side and in the distance, and blue mountains far off... that the person can't see), then zoomed in scenes of the person's emotions (tears, frustration, despair) and clawing arms etc during chorus, then at end of song, the person finds resolve to not give up, not let the crumbling slope get the better of them, and you see that determination in their face, and peace come into it because they know the way forward, they know they're just gonna keep going and they believe they can probably make it, and their valiant extra effort is rewarded and they reach the top and see the mountains in the distance and the grassy plains and the animals and birds and trees and all and realise all their effort was worth it and there is hope for them now.

 

That would be the sort of inspiring video I would have liked to accompany Iridescent - I hope they do an alternate video some time which I could love as much as the song. I do think the vid was very well done, technically though - kudos to them for doing such a great job on it, even though it did not get across the meaning I felt from the song.

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Permalink Reply by Jessica Lianna Smith on August 27, 2011 at 7:58am

Melanie Michelle: Well, it's what they say... We can't be 100% sure though. Or maybe the Iridescent video is portraying people's belief in the 21st century, believing in demons and such instead of the good side (God, Gods and Goddesses, Holy Spirits, Angels, Nirvana, etc), and then they say to "Let It Go", meaning letting go of our demon/devil beliefs? Hmm

Aaralyn: Haha yes! Disturbing! Your idea is great actually. I hope some of the members see this. I hope so...

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Permalink Reply by Aaralyn D on August 28, 2011 at 2:32am

Thanks Jessica :-) Yeah, my only thought about why they may have chosen to do that sort of vid is that all those things are seen as portrayals of evil, so they were the nasty things, the 'devastation' and to be moved on from to more hopeful things - but it still didn't make me feel like that, watching it, so yes, disturbing :( I'm pretty certain they meant well, I feel their good hearts in most of their songs (like Iridescent itself, the lyrics - v helpful).

Jessica Lianna Smith said:

Melanie Michelle: Well, it's what they say... We can't be 100% sure though. Or maybe the Iridescent video is portraying people's belief in the 21st century, believing in demons and such instead of the good side (God, Gods and Goddesses, Holy Spirits, Angels, Nirvana, etc), and then they say to "Let It Go", meaning letting go of our demon/devil beliefs? Hmm

Aaralyn: Haha yes! Disturbing! Your idea is great actually. I hope some of the members see this. I hope so...

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Permalink Reply by Aaralyn D on August 28, 2011 at 2:59am

I guess regarding the Last Supper scene, I wondered if they were pointing to the fact that some religious people do some quite evil things within their religion (hence the snake on the table and the whited-out eyes) - that is certainly my experience and many of my friends' experiences also, so I wondered if that was the reason for that particular scene? It would make sense to me.

 

But I also thought, they could also be saying that some people feel lost in their religion and feel like they fail to live up to it again and again and/or perhaps sometimes don't really understand some of the things their religions tell them they must live like and believe etc, and to let that sadness and frustration go? But I don't know what they were really trying to say with that vid. Oh well, maybe they will enlighten us sometime - I'd like that. :-)

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Permalink Reply by An Van Oppens on October 23, 2011 at 2:26am

Didn't you know Brad Delson is actually a far reincarnation of Jesus.

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Permalink Reply by Aaralyn D on November 4, 2011 at 2:27am

very funny :D :D :D :P And somewhat true, if those pics they have of Jesus really were of him :D :D :D

anvanoppens© said:

Didn't you know Brad Delson is actually a far reincarnation of Jesus.

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Permalink Reply by ImmaLPfan on December 9, 2011 at 8:13am

Totally Shit. Ever since the video came out, some garbage website start saying LP's in illuminati or whatever shit. TOTALLY WRONG! Chester, Dave, Joe believe in god while rob and brad are Jewish ...

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Permalink Reply by Rae Minkinc on February 11, 2012 at 12:48am

There is a music video, that some guy is walking in a middle of a dirt road, with large trees on the side of the road.
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Permalink Reply by Jenna Lambeb on February 17, 2012 at 10:28pm

its sort of rock/pop rather than hiphop, and it is done in a serious sort of mood, so it sort of shocks you as you dont expect that to happen.
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