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  • The people in this video are angels on earth!

  • I'm 27 yo. It's 1st of January 2012. I was siting in my boxers, drinking coffe, working some stuff for tomorrow, browsing through youtube, totally bored. Seen this and f***ng cried.

  • I LOVE U ALL :) ....missing my sweet'n'SO-SPECIAL uncle.....

  • they have so much joy. And that gives me joy.

  • try to love one another

  • 2 words...Vanilla Sky... :-)

    

  • 2 words great melody

  • So Beautiful, wonderful dancers and great music my Sister has Downs she is so loving and kind and has a wonderful sense of humour she has enriched our lives, and I have a big lump in my throat and a tear in my eye watching this, thank you for uploading God Bless

  • Stunning!!

  • It is a few years since it was released now and I heard it the first time, but I still feel it's the most beautiful song ever written. That's how much I worship Sigur Ros and this song and all the other songs! : )

  • simply breathtaking..i was grown up in sri lanka n never heard any post rock only indian classical , got to uk at 18... With in a year i could not stop listenning these guys... awesome songs and heart touching videos.. This is 100000000000 better than watching a lady with a big bum dancing on a video... Go Sigur Ros

  • Warm, is a good adjective for this music video.

  • This song I love a long time ago...: but this vid is... so fine!

  • Never let go of beauty. That is the doorway to the divine. Keep it close.

  • This is still the most beautifull song I've ever heard. It moves me to tears every single time I hear it and I have heard it often.

  • i listened to this song while experiencing DMT, it was like it was made for that.

    I swear they were angels telling me that i was god I hear "It's YOOOOUUUU" even though his isn't english, this is beautiful.

  • i listened to this song while experiencing DMT, it was like it was made for that.

  • so surreal...not from his earth ... i really love to listen this song and watch the video... it stopped your world, feels like you are in nowhere...but peace fill into your mind

  • fallen angels..they are on earth testing our capacity to love and acept them,

  • genius...

  • Thumbs up if you discovered this song in Café de Flore (2011) movie from Jean-Marc Vallée !

  • Amazing video... made my heart so happy!!!! Love it)))

  • Are you looking for peace of mind? This is the perfect musical medicine!

  • I wasn't familiar with down syndrome until I started college recently, and in a school full of strangers the first person to talk to me suffered from it. And I couldn't help but admire their beautiful mind.

  • beautiful song and they show by demonstrating beautiful people!!!!!

  • beautiful song and clip

  • (English Lyrics) I’m Here Again Inside You It’s So Good Staying Here But I Stay A Short While I Float Around In Underwater Hibernation In A Hotel Connected To The Electricity Board And Nourishing Tyoowoohoo But The Wait Makes Me Uneasy – I Kick The Fragility Away And Shout – I Have To Go - Help Tyoowoohoo I Explode Out And The Peace Is Gone Bathed In New Light I Cry And I Cry - Disconnected A Ruined Brain Put On Breasts And Fed By Sleepwalkers
  • I couldn't imagine a more beautiful visual representation to this otherworldly song.

  • if i could take the human race and wrap it up into a ball of grace and put a ribbon on its face and throw it out into the universal space then i know for sure as the universe examines and explores that love and wonder and beauty and strength will dance with us forever in this sentence.

  • This is what humanity looks and sounds like (;>

  • This is Love. Right here! . i can see it. i can feel it.! can't explain how. i just can!

  • 550 perfect seconds of my life which I don't regret

  • they're more human than us

  • i think i just cried

  • lyrics "m Here Again Inside You Its So Good Staying Here But I Stay A Short While I Float Around In Underwater Hibernation In A Hotel Connected To The Electricity Board And Nourishing Tyoowoohoo But The Wait Makes Me Uneasy I Kick The Fragility Away And Shout I Have To Go - Help Tyoowoohoo I Explode Out And The Peace Is Gone Bathed In New Light I Cry And I Cry - Disconnected A Ruined Brain Put On Breasts And Fed By Sleepwalkers" <3 Mr Medicated
  • i have been coming back to this video time and time again for 10 years now. and it still has the effect it had on me then. otherworldness. beauty.

    and people that arent considered "normal" still feel love.

    love is life.

  • I've been listening to Sigur Ros for a long time but I've never watched any of their music videos. So far this one and the one for Hoppipolla are the only ones I've watched and they've both managed to almost bring me to tears of joy, just as the music does. Absolutely beautiful. I guess that's why Sigur Ros is one of my favorite bands.

  • So beuautiful....I truly pity the cretins who cant see how beautiful and inncent the people in the video are...they are real svefn-g-englar...angels of the universe...the idiots mocking them and too blinded by ignorance,stupidity or callousness to see...they are the "retards."

  • searching in a lake with moutains all over me

    rotating around a sun with stars can you see

    inside a dream inside your eyes

    floating swimming flying through life

    in the womb in a grave inside my soul

    the past the present the future untold

    walk with me eternally

    into a future that is free

  • This is so incredibly powerful. A beautiful portrayal of bliss.

  • i love this song, it never fails to cheer me up, i just love how it can mean anything i want it to because i don't understand the lyrics so it can really send me anywhere

  • this song makes me happy :) listen to it when you're sad and it just makes all those worries wash away becuase it is one of those songs which can mean anything you want it to.

  • Heaven sent.

  • sound that comes not from this earth... i love the intro sound, like a submarine :) then a whale sing... and entire song is just simply amazing...

  • demaissssssssss issoooooooo..LINDOOOOOOOOO VIDEO CHEIRO DE AMORRRRRRRRRRR

  • O vídeo e a música são lindíssimos!

    A mensagem, essa é urgente!

    Só excelentes músicos conseguem obras assim!

    THANK YOU FOR THIS MOMENT!

  • hey, does anybody remeber this song from Queer as Folk? it was at the ending credits on episode 2 season 2, after that sex scene between brian and Justin. Just asking, cause for me that song made this scene very beautiful and touching. I fell in love with this track since then, and I can't stop listening to it.

  • The problem I have after discussing with my fiance is that this video seems a little exploitive and idealizing of developmentally disabled people. It's like we are trying through idealization to marginalize these people in a way that is just as bad as if we were to make fun of them. The issue I have is that instead of making them human, we are making them "special" it seems like two sides of the same coin. These are just people with the same imperfections and difficulties.

  • @cherebh I think the concept of the video has to do with the purity and goodness of those with disabilities, that we can not achieve as mentally healthy individuals.

  • @ Radical: I think your comment is very interesting, i think from my perspective, that it is a problem of sensibility. In occidental consumer society. This video could be used by the commercial media, but artisticly it has a value independently that the performers are shunned by society for their condition.

  • this song and video are amazing no matter how many times i see the video or hear the song i am impressed

  • This is a beautiful video

  • This track was on the Sci-Fi series 'Defying Gravity'.

  • I remember first hearing this song on an episode of C.S.I., in the episode a woman that was into the bondage lifestyle ends up dead and the main character Grissom (who studies human behavior) cleans up the body set to this song.

    After seeing that, I just had to find out what this song was. This is quite an amazing music video. Seeing all the happy people together in it, I can only describe them as Blissfully Beautiful.

  • In my mother language, Afrikaans (South Africa), we have a word for down syndrome people: "Hemelkinders". Directly translated it means "Children of Heaven"... This sums up in words what I think Sigur Ros displays (for me).

  • @MagentaWinks Thats the most fitting and suitable term ever for Downies.

  • now i can see how they dance beautifully... and they all look awesomely beautiful!

  • I see more perfection in them than in any mentally disturbed human mind, this brought heaven to my room.

  • Sounds like good sounds to me. Doesn't matter what language it is/isn't in. Don't see why i have to wait for approval. Oh Well......

  • Sounds like good sounds to me. Doesn't matter what language it is/isn't in.

  • love it!

  • Super

  • Disabilities .. I see they are beautiful people :')

  • @ Radical: I think the artist was effective all the way, it is art because watching the video conveys a sublime feeling. This was acheived through the combination of the music, the lighting and yes the actors with special needs that give the video an innocent quality which typical models would not be able to deliver in the same way. Its not fair to think of them as pretentious because they used these actors. Maybe you were not moved by the video and thats ok too, we are all different.

  • I don't mean to insult anyone but I feel like this is only considered "art" because it "shakes the beehive" so to speak. I don't understand how this is "empowering" or anything. Is it because it's a mainstream music video featuring people usually hidden away?

    That sounds pretentious to me. I'm pretty sure that this was cringe-worthy for many. Is that the intention? Wouldn't a good artist try to be more effective?

    I'm just looking for a civil rebuttal... Can someone enlighten me?

  • @radicalgarbage02 I don't think the artist was necessarily trying to be "effective" in any objective measure. I think that, like a lot of art, it's hard to pinpoint what the artist is trying to say or whether or not they are trying to say something at all. All we can know is how it makes us feel as individuals, and I think the artist succeeded in making us all feel something. I could be wrong, but the beauty of it is that it doesn't matter who's right or wrong when it comes to art.

  • @radicalgarbage02 I'm not watching this looking for a political intervention. I'm watching this because it is one of the most touching things I've ever seen.

    If you're too disenchanted to appreciate it, then I'm very sorry for you.

  • @radicalgarbage02 I don't believe this video is just trying to shake the beehive, although I can understand your perspective. I personally think the use of people with disabilities, especially the use of people with Down's, was brilliant. People with Down's tend to be loving, pure, innocent, and kind - all things which the song itself brings to mind. A song as pure and almost "heavenly" as this deserves nothing less than to be portrayed through dance by "God's children".

  • @radicalgarbage02 this video has special significance for societies such Iceland. If you went there you would be surprised at the rarity of people with problems such as Down Syndrome, because a large number of people choose to terminate pregnancies where genetic abnormailities have been detected. This video seeks to celebrate these differences, to show that these ARE PEOPLE and are capable of artistic endeavour, valid human beings with a right to life.

  • @TheSukiebapswent wonderfully put

  • Me hizo llorar. No inmediatamente, terminé de ver el video y sólo me sentí conmovido. Me quedé sentado frente al monitor y la emoción empezo a hacerse más y más intensa. Traté de resistirme pero se volvió insoportable y empecé a llorar.

    Sigo temblando..

  • this smiling woman at 2:51 makes me cryin.

  • Special needs people are pure minded

    they have no hate, no criticism.

    they talk to everyone equally, they see us all as one, racism and cliques do not exist to them.

  • probably one of the most inspiring videos i have ever seen.. :')

  • Pure art.

  • For me, best videoclip ever!!

  • I've never seen something so beautiful and so honest.

  • Wow, props to Sigur Ros. I knew they were amazing, but I didn't know they had a video showing that special-needs people are indeed beautiful as the rest of us wish we were.

  • are any of their videos not in slow motion? :)

  • This is the type of music that gives you hope and reaches to your soul changing you. Utterly amazing, pure and genius.

  • i like how far back the vocals are in the mix, there should be more of that. I suppose, English fans of Sigur Ros don't find the lyrics to be the most important thing anyway (...) and they never were. Music is the most important thing in music, good lyrics are just an added bonus.

  • Amazing video! Love this song!

  • The ending of this video is so beautiful.

  • Can anyone please tell me if this is sung in Icelandic or Vonlenska? kthnx

  • @catscanboy its in icelandic. But theres nothing called vonlenska. it was just made up by media to put a name on siguros´s vocals. They were just showing people that you dont need lyrics to speak music. Its compleatly universial, music is just sounds that make you feel good :) that was the message.

  • simple, but nonetheless amazing!

  • i heard this song on the radio while i was driving home at 1 in the morning a tad baked, all i can say is awesome

  • outstanding!!! both audi and video!! about what is this song?

  • Very beautiful...

  • beautiful!

  • I commend everyone for standing up against ignorant comments. Too often people have to face this ignorance in their daily lives. They should not have to face it while watching this beautiful and empowering video. Sad people love to get their hate out when they have the comfort of their anonymity. They are just sad people who are so lonely that they seek attention by any means necessary. Thanks to all who stand up for all those with disablities!!

  • @mssarahg3 "Sad people love to get their hate out when they have the comfort of their anonymity."

    Well said, well said!

  • God bless whoever downloaded these videos. There's nothing like it in North America.

  • This video is beautiful. Watching this sent shivers up and down my entire body.

  • sigur ross is a legend and this video is a piece of art and it will be written in history

  • Oh I love it, I bet they had a ball making this, Down's love drama, and are somewhat drama queens in life, for every up there's a downs, epic and very extra. I do find it uneasy to call them angels, they have no free passes to anywhere and aren't god's chosen children, or any of that crap. They are though very loving and pure of heart, when i go home my darling sister wraps herself right around me and whispers in my ear, like we did as kids, me and her secret whispers. I love her to her bones.

  • pulgar arriba si lo viste por el abejooo!!! :D

  • muhammed ali og john lennon mundu hafa elskað þetta lag- og myndmand þarf að segja meir -love

  • Every part of this song and video is absolutely beautiful. It some how changes the way I think and feel. It sent shivers through me and I had a cry. 8:00 I love this bit, just the way she looks at him and they automatically connect. Amazing.

  • music can be a drug. this song proves it oh so magically.

  • wow

  • nice song but why is video of retards? dislike

  • @WhyYouJelly

    emotional 'retards' do not usually have any clinical disability, attention-seeking is a sign of a troubling need - get yourself a help please...

  • @WhyYouJelly

    Don't you dare call them retards! There are human, people and humanbeings just like us!

    This video is fucking beutiful, even if it's people with down or any other desice..

    So just keep your mouth shut

  • @WhyYouJelly i guess YOU are the RETARD for calling them like this... We are humans, doesnt matter the colour of our skin, our religion, our faces, or notthing at all... we all have a heart, we all have fellings, and thats whats matter!... nothing else... this retards, as you call them... probably have even MORE FELLINGS that you have...

  • LOVE THE PART AT 3:08 :D

  • It´s amazing dream

  • It´s absolutely amazing dream

  • Angels

  • @bdpizzle there always has to be one dumb ass to ruin something beautiful..that person is you.

  • I was so impressed of this work. ARIGATOU-GOZAIMASU (Many thanks for inspiring me)!

  • guys i need the name of this theater for people with Down Syndrome in Iceland. can you help me?

  • I cry like a baby when i watch this. Is there anything more beautiful? Even a person who is proven clinically dead inside would no doubt feel SOMETHING stir. Definately one of those unique little gems one stumbles across from time to time that really helps put things into perspective.

  • Whatever that feeling is in there....whatever makes my heart skips beats for, when watching and listening to this...My soul yearns for it

  • Despierta la sensibilidad, es un disfrute. Buen grupo

  • nice trip tho;)

  • se expresa tanta libertad en este video, tanta felicidad, tan sencilla....es asombroso!!! que buen video, que buena cancion, nada que decir, sigur ros es maravilloso...

  • THEY ARE MAKING FUN OF INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED PEOPLE!!!

  • I used to have a friend who was down...I was just 10 at the time...and I remember particularly his sister who was 2 years younger than me and him...I remember her love and responsability for her brother...and I remember her grace...so YES I think a down person can really change people in a better way...I hoper they are both fine now..

  • This place must be heaven. I got a cold and bad headache. And I think it's gone now :)

  • I was hanging out with some friends long time ago and we were smoking marijuana and we were cruising and relaxing, and then this song comes on my ipod, and let me tell you we all had a spiritual experience or something, we were all quiet my friend next to me had his eyes closed, and i was just looking out in the window, for 10 minutes straight we were listening and thinking and we all felt like our minds were somewhere else once we came to our senses we all looked at each other in shock, amazing

  • One word: PURE.

  • ♥♥♥Angels... i believe in angels!!! ♥♥♥

  • I smoked a joint with Jonsi outside of the Warfield in 2000. It was one of their first trips to San Francisco and I was outside at the side of the building, looking at their tour bus. The door opened and out stepped Jonsi with a crazy ass haircut, a tuft of hair near the front of his head with everything else shaved. He didn't speak much English but I held the joint out to him and he leaned up against the wall and smoked while we pantomimed and chatted until some stagehand told him to come in.

  • @exmortis I had hoped to have the pleasure of meeting the band after their Feb. 2006 performance in Kansas City, but unfortunately I wasn't in their fan club. I hung around afterwards anyway, and before their manager told me to leave (I just wanted to greet & get autographs, but he wouldn't budge), Jonsi stepped out from their dressing room and was kind enough to say hello & shake hands with me. In the hundreds of concerts I've seen over the last 40 years, that one remains in my Top 5.

  • @exmortis Weed is an international language. :)

  • This makes me happy beeing human and proud.. Talent, inteligence, love and kindness... Thanks Sigur Ros, for this awesome video and song.

  • Poetry in motion.

  • I feel better now, thanks Sigur Rós

  • awesome, just awesome!

  • je connaissais ce morceau de Sigur Ros qui est boulverssant, accompagné de ces images pur beauté, c'est magnifique. merci

  • I saw this in Germany in 2001. I passed by a store with a wall of TV's facing out to the street. It was night and the store was closed, but this was playing on all of the TV's with the sound coming out on external speakers. I was mezmorized. I haven't thought of it for years and just now thought to look for it on Youtube.

  • Why does youtube not have an auto repeat button? This video is more than enough evidence that it needs one.

  • Radiohead and Sigur Ròs are the opposite sides of a coin. Radiohead is the saddest one, Sigur Ròs the happiest one. Or vice-versa sometimes.

  • Amazing project! So powerful sound with very touching people are doing the magic connection

  • Amazing project! So powerful sound with very touching people are doing the magic connection

  • There is no band as beautiful as Sigur Ros. None.

  • @greyhoundstations Agreed it's magical Sigor are beautiful

  • very sweet! thanks

  • das bringt mich dann doch immer wieder zum weinen.

  • they're using mentally handicapped people to represent these people's 'angel' like spirits and purity. The music, like the video, is angelic, dreamy and positive! Sigur Ros est tres fort pour ce genre de music , comme Saeglopur !

  • we are all special..

  • I want to see the video in the actual speed... I bet it's more entertaining..

  • @denishubin what are you talking about? the artistic edge given by the director isnt caught in actual speed. you dont absorb that freedom and form and elegance and essence at regular speed. 

  • This made me cry, not going to lie.

  • @xxartfully Yup

  • @xxartfully Me too!

  • so nice....

    i wish Life could always be so peaceful and happy.....

  • Absolutely beautiful! I love this song and this video! Kinda reminds you that there is so much more to life, than just living day to day-absoulutely stunning!!

  • @reinhildt well said!

  • love minute 8:30 :)

  • nice song

  • Does anyone else cry their eyes out at this video?

  • @Laughinopoulous ... Yes i am with you on that one, sheer beauty of vision enhanced by the wonderful Sigur Ros

  • this song.... it makes me feel safe and at peace. it's so wonderful.

  • These people will tell you they are proud of who they are, unfortunatly people need to put these 'special' people in a 'special' spotlight, not because they are who they are but because some people need to emphasize that they are 'special' and so they are treated that way. it's self contradictive.

  • The world slows down when I listen to this song........love it!

  • so many things we should learn from this people, they have so much love to give, so pure...

  • I much prefer videos like this instead of some talentless female singer gyrated all over a bunch of sweaty guys.

  • @zombiepi Hear Hear!

  • @zombiepi

    i couldn't agree more. i need more people like you where i live.

  • I seriously cry my eyes out every time I watch this video!

  • OH BABY ONE VIDEO BEAUTIFUL

  • Art at it's finest.

  • Beautiful

  • those ppl tend to have most clear and beautiful aura around their bodies... they are purely good and honest.. honestly, ...world is greedy, full of lies and conspiracy..jelousy and sins.. and from this point of view there is something really wrong wit us..

    video is absolutely wonderful..

  • This is art. But think for a moment that science is in its way to eliminate this syndrome. Will it be losing a paradise or erasing a disease? Punishing or releasing? It's the question this song poses to me.

    There is a beauty hidden in frailty, and music has been the best one to show it to us so far, but nature just doesn't seem to know how to cope with it. Contradicting that is being human, or simply stubborn? I have no answer (neither am I a hater), but the questioning scares me...

  • pure art

  • I work with the developmentally disabled.. sometimes I find myself thinking "it isn't fair.. why them and not me?" but this video makes me forget about all of that. EVERYONE is here for a reason. 

  • Most people might see the actors in this as mentally disabled, but here they aren't. The music played is a perfect example of art blurring any line of segregation and uniting us all as beautiful listeners of the wonderful medium!

  • it's a reminder that even though it's a harsh world, there is a place in it for all of us; we just have to find it.

  • Lovely!

  • It's so beautiful, you almost want to cry! I luv it.

  • I'm just amazed by the beauty everytime i see this video... UAU!!

  • the voice is so beautifull, when i hear it some how my mind calsm down, all the shit going on in the world and in my life taking me down, just doesnt matter anymore, like there is a higher power.. in no way am i a beliver iin religion but with music like this, how can there NOT be somthing? its like when ever thigns flow away from me, i turn on sigur ros and there's somthing in the back of my head telling me, its going to be alright, keep fighting, were gonna be alright Will. fucking amazing

  • I would like to screen this video at our children's film festival. Asheville International Children's Filmn Festival, Nov. 1-14, 2010. Please contact me at info@aicff.org.

    Respectfully,

    Tim Arem

    Artistic Director

  • i have a close friend with Down Syndrome and she's just the sweetest little troublemaker around :)