Recently, Harry Styles released the video of his new song “falling”. Considering that the song attracted a lot of attention due to harry’s live performance at the brit award, it’s no surprise that people have been looking forward to the video that completes it. After taking a look at the long-awaited video, I’ve been thinking about what it could mean and I eventually came up with something.
First, we see harry style, wet and sitting on the floor, then we see him sitting at the piano with a glace before he starts playing the piano and singing as water slowly sips out from the piano throughout the song to eventually submerge the whole room. Sounds pretty simple no? not necessarily. With the song’s lyrics in mind, we can say that what harry style is drowning in, might be his own thoughts and feelings. It clearly seems that he’s at the end of a relationship regretting and rethinking everything. He’s even rethinking his identity, “What am I now? What am I now?”.He’s even scared of himself, almost resenting the person that he might be, “What if I’m someone I don’t want around?”. He’s also heartbroken by the turn of events and his helplessness. “And it kills me ’cause I know we’ve run out of things we can say”. He even goes as far as to beat himself over hypothetical scenarios. “What if I’m down?What if I’m out?What if I’m someone you won’t talk about?”. I think what he’s falling in is the rabbit hole of his own thoughts. Hence the drowning in the video. Thought something doesn’t add up, how did he jump from sitting on the floor all wet to sitting at the piano as if nothing happened? Well, in fact, the beginning of the video shows us the ending, what happened after he’s been completely submerged in water, and that is him, out of the water, tired, but still, he got out. It shows us that no matter the hardships, no matter what may be drowning us, we can still come out triumphant at the end.
Well, after some thinking, we can see that this video sends quite the inspirational message. Harry admits to he’s drowning, and that this song doesn’t show us the bests of times but that still at the end of the day, he can still survive these harsh time.,so can the people who saw themselves in him. It’s a video that gives us hope.
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