IRL infos

Release date : 22/10/2020

Director : Oli

Members : Oli solo (role), all members saving him (& group shot)

Visuals

Mare creature struggling, unless it’s another infected subject

Mare creature moving frenetically

Mare creature watching over Oli’s bed, withered black roses (means : melancholy, sadness, grief)

Again the creature

Oli bathing in the black substance, looks completely numb (but not infected)

Oli being surrounded by a metaphor of his destructive behaviour

Oli being crowned

Studied content

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5uV3gmOH9g

Teardrops We hurt ourselves for fun Force-feed our fear until our hearts go numb Addicted to a lonely kind of love What I wanna know Is how we got this stressed out, paranoid Everything is going dark Nothing makes me sadder than my head

I'm running outta teardrops, let it hurt 'til it stops I can't keep my grip, I'm slipping away from me Oh, God, everything is so fucked, but I can't feel a thing The emptiness is heavier than you think

I'm tripping on the edge High as a kite, I'm never coming down And if you hear me, guess you know how it feels To be alone So how'd we get this stressed out, paranoid? Everything is going dark Nothing makes me sadder than my head

I'm running outta teardrops, let it hurt till it stops I can't keep my grip, I'm slipping away from me Oh, God, everything is so fucked, but I can't feel a thing The emptiness is heavier than you think Suicidal, violent tragic state of mind Lost my halo, now I'm my own anti-christ Suicidal, violent, tragic state of mind Lost my halo, now I'm my own anti-christ I'm running outta teardrops, let it hurt 'til it stops I can't keep my grip, I'm slipping away from me Oh, God, everything is so fucked, but I can't feel a thing The emptiness is heavier than you think I'm running outta teardrops, let it hurt 'til it stops I can't keep my grip, I'm slipping away from me Oh, God, everything is so fucked, but I can't feel a thing The emptiness is heavier than you think The emptiness is heavier than you think

Additional content

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9_0kjefe6w

Oli: “I want people to know that you are not your brain. We are something else. We are an energy. We are a force that will be here after our brains are gone.”

Oli: "Tech addiction is so normal for us these days. We’re all in the same boat, so no one really likes talking about it. But the mental impact of the way we’re living now, the way our society is, I don’t think we’ve really seen the aftereffects or the repercussions of that and I think we will soon. This song is about how our moral compass is a little bit skewed because we’re so numb to the bad news every single day and it’s hard to know what we should actually do about that. I think it’s very dangerous because when we hear these stories of oppression, tragedies or whatever. It’s like: Do I scream? Do I shout? Do I tell someone? Do I fight about it or do I sit down? We’re losing our touch with how to react to this stuff. I mean, I’m feeling that as a 33-year-old man. You have kids, who, for them it’s completely acceptable and normal to live how we’re living right now. I don’t know how to deal with that"

“‘Teardrops’ is about how we’ve been traumatised into submission,” says Sykes. “Whether the media intended it to be that way or not, death just becomes statistics. We’ve been pummelled so much by bad news over the last year.” Speaking about the shocking death of George Floyd under the knee of a US police officer, which led to renewed momentum around the global Black Lives Matter protests, Sykes notes: “That was like, ‘Fucking hell, there’s some real bad shit going on that we’ve just been sleepwalking through’.”

https://youtu.be/zSwqLsuJRY0?si=yK_cxgkoyuubzQAP&t=472

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLJsADB0rZw&list=PL560gZEukPQ_mES3xxxb2qCqdEHACxPOP&index=5

Facts

Theories

ALL THIS COMES FROM THE OTHER TINFOIL DOCS & HAS NOT BEEN PEER REVIEWED YET

They use Selene against her will to collect DMT while Syko spirals into despair because he can’t help his loved one (could also refer to Teardrops).

theres a scene in this video where oli falls onto the bed and then is inside of water drowning, i feel like its related to the lyric "im drowning in my sleep" but it also may not be

ack liquid is present in medicine so thats why im thinking its some kind of cleansing liquid? at the same time oli is in the same liquid

the band members rescue oli, it could be unrelated but it could also relate to each of their character like pickles, syko and stuff

THIS IS OUR THEORIES & HAS NOT BEEN PEER REVIEWED EITHER

• Black liquid can be a reference to Parasite Eve (black substance infecting the members) in that case he's bathing in it & seems very numb
• We see the Mares aka the hallucinations/sleep paralysis demons all around Oli
• Theory : Oli here is Scott, way after he was taken as a test subject. That may be where he's met the other members, and why they're the one helping him
• Some creatures give him a crown at the end => maybe he's becoming their leader ? The crown vaguely looks like a crown of thorns tho, so it's more like a martyr in that case

Check out Teardrops on Project Starjammers !