Release date : 06/07/2022
Credits : Director – Thomas James Creative Director – Oli Sykes
Members : All (performing)
This person seems to be one of the last to arrive. It looks like a woman going through chemo and losing her hair.
The woman on front seems to have anxiety and doesn’t see the open door. Notice the red all around, indicating maybe the presence of ‣.
The new girl is surrounded by patients that also look like they’ve been through chemo
A patient confronting our new girl
The new girl is being caught while maybe trying to escape the facility
This test subject is plugged on a machine that merges his blood with worms
A close-up of the worms solution
Throughout the MV, he turns into an insect-human hybrid
The experience looks like it failed as a big worm explodes his chest (an Alien reference)
Our second test subject is this ballerina
This part of the video looks like Angeldust’s powers in ‣, but here she’s being forced to split into two characters
Another mutation that might be a test to merge 2 people into one body, also seen in ‣.
She seems to suffer a lot through the process, a reminder of Skys’s theory that extreme pain can give powers
Another kind of mutation with more people
This subject may be an attempt at creating clones
It seems she’s plugged into another version of her
The original version ends up dying in the process, like we see with the Oli clones in ‣.
This subject seems to be merged with an octopus
His mutation takes hold and evolves more and more throughout the MV
Oh yes, there’s also Oli in there who looks horrified, though we’re not sure he’s “in there” or just performing with the band
The cover of the single has 2 butterflies and 1 patient who looks like he was in pain recently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsNGxsrcZas
Maybe I’ll just be fucked up forever should have figured myself out by now And I don’t wanna tear myself open, no But it’s hard to care when you bleed out
So won’t you break me down, break me down Make me get better I confess I’m a mess Some kind of error Well maybe I was destined to disappear
We’re just a room full of strangers Looking for something to save us Alone together We’re dying to live and we’re living to die Dying to live, living to die We’re just a room full of strangers
Well I guess my guardian angel missed the memo ‘Cause we’re walking on razors again And we swore to God we’d never let this happen, no We dragged ourselves through hell And we’ll be damned if we go back
Break me down Break me down Make me get better I confess that I’m a mess Some kind of error Well maybe I was destined to disappear
We’re just a room full of strangers Looking for something to save us Alone together, We’re dying to live And we’re living to die Dying to live, living to die
It never stops Can’t erase this So cross out my eyes Tear the pages ‘Cause you and I We’re just dying to live And we’re living to die Dying to live, living to die It never stops, it don’t
Where did we go? We’re all alone, all alone No place like home Take us back to yesterday S.O.S Save us from ourselves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgMI63_TM6w
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| Facts | Source |
|---|---|
| Theories | Source |
|---|---|
| Strangers takes place in a Gaia Facility, but not necessarily the same as the one in LosT | There are many test subjects in there |
| Nex Gen tries to experiment on humans to find the next step of evolution | matches ‣ post after Download 2023, where we’ve seen mutated experiments on stage too |
| The people here can be some people who went to Youtopia and suffered the side effects Strassman talks about | Strassman’s speech at the end of ‣ |
| Nex Gen wants to create puppets easy to manipulate by merging them together | None |
| Dying to live -> struggling in a post pandemic world | |
| Living to die -> living for a Youtopia that will put you in a coma-like state | Just the lyrics |
| The subjects here came willingly because they needed to be treated for something, but ended up becoming test subjects | The woman at the beginning enters willingly & seems to struggle with a disease, before being trapped in the facility |