Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr. [Music Video]

[ksilversona9]

The saddest part is that one of his innocent victims was is so much pain during being tortured to death that he said ' just get it over and done with already'. That is what really just 'got' me. :( :( :( Check out the other music video of this song, some of the comments have the best explaination of the meaning of the song. Which is going deeper into the problem and to find some sort of understanding or realisation to prevent future issues such as these.

[MySerpentine]

Delightfully creepy

[Spice938]

this is my favorite song but i don't fully understand what it means yet. i'm really stupid :o can someone help me. i got a little bit of it but it just hasn't clicked yet. great video btw :3

[yellowsneakers234]

@Spice938 it's simply about one of America's notorious serial killers. He killed several young boys and literally buried them under his house. And this was back when America was still "innocent" so it came as even more of a shock. Just wiki his name and there's all the info u need.

[Spice938]

@yellowsneakers234 oh thank you sooo much dude. yeah after i left this comment in a few hours i finally figured out it was about a serial killer but you finally cleared up for me that the check underneath the floorboards actually meant the bodies were down there. thank you very much dude.

[BrandonLe12]

Haha you have amazing writing, just thought I'd say that. Great song, great vid, thanks for the upload.

[EasilyDistLOOKABIRDY]

@FreshAir911 Then it's probably a good thing he didn't, huh.

[KneeGroth]

Song's depressing, but mind blowingly good.

[FreshAir911]

When you make a video to a song, you should'nt literaly translate every word man.

[multigamer160]

thanks for posting this :)

[scorzi]

Anyone see the Oprah episode earlier this year where she interviewed Gacy's sister and the only surviving son of Jim Jones?

[scorzi]

I could see this being used in a serial killer film playing over the opening credits. Like a bio film about Gacy himself or the Night Stalker or someone else. It's so haunting and pretty that you get sucked in and then you realize what he's really singing about.

[SlaughterTheFrail]

This song is so depressing..Only 10,000 people, John?

[scorzi]

I guess (for me at least) I'm fascinated by madness and a type of mind I cannot fathom ever feeling or having. Maybe that's why people are fascinated by Manson and Gacy and Dahmer and the others. Because they were human and lived and breathed like we did, but they had something inside them that was evil and we didn't. Can you tell I took psychology in college ;-)

[blackmanorigins]

@scorzi Manson did not kill those people

[scorzi]

I remember first hearing this on Nip/Tuck when they talked to the serial killer who stitched bodies together. Such a haunting song but very creepy too.

[cassidy1412]

This song always brings tears to my eyes, despite how many times i have listened to it.

[musicalraccoon]

well done, really, this song chills me to the bone, but the message is so profound

[letthesearunred]

such a beautiful song about such an ugly sin.

[xwskikixoxo]

This is a weird thing to comment, but I thoroughly enjoy your handwriting. 

[brookhill]

such a Great song! It reminds me of "Heirloom" by Brandon Snipes

[Bearswin8584]

beautiful video

[gyllenhaalic105]

BRILLIANT video for a BRILLIANT song.

[MrBabirusa]

This is a decent song, but it makes me so bitter when I listen to it. Ugh...his poor victims.

[vergiggles]

This doesn't do the song justice. Too many obvious visuals. But I'm glad you took a stab at it.

[AnnaAdmiring]

@vergiggles lol what's wrong with obvious visuals? The song isn't that metaphorical itself.

[codeyblevins]

Pretty good adaptation of the song, I enjoyed it.

[CFLucaBrasi]

@erinXtra, I know..its so twisted and evil and sick, but it is so shocking, its almost fascinating. that someone could go to that level of evil..like Jeffery Dahmer

[holzspatel]

amazing idea withe the 27. very good

[erinXtra]

i love this song. the story is scary i mean ugh. idk why, but im always interested in things like this not that i think they're good but their just so .. scary and .. interesting and ,unbelievable. and strange. and evil :(

[imragegrrr]

its ok, im really interested in stuff like this too! this song is too amazing though =/

[bluepenguinflyboi]

@erinXtra

Don't worry. your not the only one.

[TheGreenerItGets]

@erinXtra A lot of people feel the same way actually.

[Jonnyfletchbob]

@erinXtra Same, I thought I was fuckin' sadistic being interested in stuff like this and Charles Manson and stuff, turned out a lot of people on Youtube are! Pheeeew! :')

[multigamer160]

@erinXtra i am adsactly the same :)

[erinXtra]

woahhhh scary song :| where can i watch the movie gacy online?

[frokenstrympa]

don't watch it, it's really bad! no good.

[TheBrainstorm9703]

Yes, stay away from that Gacy movie. It is a horrible movie. Go see Dear Mr. Gacy in theaters. I think it's comimg out in March. Be prepared it's a very depressing story

[adrockisdead]

Over rated...Armenian crap art. Content subject good, but at best so-so lyrics.

[notjustastoner]

lmao.....gotta love people who cant wait to judge something...listening for mistakes and problems in a piece rather than just appreciating it....

[Bsbeatty]

How do you do that pencil thing were u shade in and the number shows up?

[KrahulikIsGod]

you just need to put a raised object underneath.  people do it of famous people's gravestones all the time.

[lightguyforever]

you have the thing you to show up underneath the paper while you shade

[spacermijdrecht]

Love the song

[IncaRoad01]

This is too sad to listen to.

[ineedanewcomputer]

sufjan stevens really needs to get a music video

[lukeisastalker]

i like how you reverse the 27 as if you're saying they're gone now

[arcticmfan09]

i love the line "he killed 10,000 ppl. with the sleight of his hand."

[frankthetank99991]

It's 'he'd kill 10,000 people with the sleight of his hand', just a lil different

an amazing line, nonetheless

[YacubH2961]

actually it is..." slight " not " sleight "

[frankthetank99991]

sleight (n): Skillfulness in the use of the hands or body

whereas

slight (n): an act of slighting, a snub

[moralnihilist]

This video is rather Lord Privy Seal

[Pogge111]

agreed

[Morlaboborla]

double agreed.

can you do that?

screw it, im double agreeing

[inscitia]

Do you understand what it's about?

[xaviervelastin]

gorgeous but i think you could've done a lot more work on metaphors, extending themes and motifs, esp with the whole 27 idea and the impermanence of life which is quite prevalenttt

regardless some really good stuff, the candle was very good

x

[somanymovies11]

I couldn't have done it better. Super effective.

[danielleoh]

i don't think it's too literal at all...this is really chilling.

[ferguscahillane1993]

i prefer the more moving actual video, de boys beware 1.its much more chilling

[lexiemopunk]

weeeeeee im a uni-fairie

[mlijeko]

one of my favourite songs..

the video is a bit too didactic in parts i guess.. e.g. the glass and the swing set at the beginning.. they give it a kind of an amateur feeling.. you should go maybe a bit deeper in motions and metaphores.. by he way nice job..

[paaatricia]

Very beautiful video, with an amazing song. Good job. :)

[AcidTrip13]

this video is way to literal...

[JBvids]

nice video, a bit literal, but very good all the same!

[drdriftphd]

This video fucking sucks.

[justuslot]

This song is so, so moving. Really good job with the video =)

[lwilson85]

Lol! Terrible.

[xxdandan123]

sad song weird vid with the candle and at 1:45

[dutchdancer]

Beautiful...

[Dagdal124]

Good video man, keep it up.

[PossiblySane]

I love this song, and your video is amazing.