New Normal - Jack Stauber

[Estacycat]

The scene with one of the two conjoined twins dying and rotting away which in turn killed their sibling in the process gave me literal chills… I think it had to do with how after the first sibling died the other just distraughtly curled up into a ball and sobbed as his flesh rotted and flaked away.

[sverker]

0:45 one dies and the other has that terror in its eyes knowing its next, knowing its alone. this makes me cry nearly every time.

[LOL-cringe]

Jack definitely heard that quote “art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed” and just ran with it.

[dreammurs]

I’m convinced that jack stauber is an entity who understands what we dont

[claboo]

The line “goodbye to those who can not join us” gives me an existential crisis

[Erin-icse]

Ive never wanted a song to have an extended version more than this one

[whoami]

1:15 still hits me the most because the figure looks over the empty chair which symbolizes someone they know or are close with gone probably due to the lockdown preventing them from meeting or that person died from the disease. Either way, the figure, even if it didn't have a face, shows a sense sadness of missing someone. Truly summarizes the grief during the pandemic.

[sedexm]

Why does this song provokes such an unsettling feeling of nostalgia

[ratom_]

For animations like these, Jack draws them on MS Paint, and after compiling them in order to make the animation, he *then* goes to put it in a VHS tape. That could mean that there is a version out there, somewhere in Jack's many files, with decidedly better resolution.

[jordanguy]

I’m obsessed with the “yesterday’s smile” part. The way the guitar kicks in with the smile is absolutely stunning

[LOL-cringe]

This song was released few months before my wife's death. It hits different now. The emptiness is immeasurable even after almost two years.

[Mmorozovsky]

0:43 i take this part as theyre just accepting their fate like they have this hopeless but bittersweet expression like "yeah were gonna die but atleast we have eachother" but then the other dude dies first and now the fat one had to accept he was gonna die alone which gave him a severe anxiety or some shit, sad stuff man

[zacharydoroshenko]

That part with the two people holding hands as one of them dies putting the other into a brief depression cut short by his death...




That hit hard man

[jackal]

This is probably the most twisted stauber song, you can even hear what sounds like screaming in the background

[Vox]

I remember when this video first dropped. It was 10 days after the COVID lockdowns started (at least here in Michigan). Everyone was so scared and confused and deaths were just piling up at an alarming rate, and then we got this haunting depiction of the "new" world. The screams, the rising bodies, the shriveling lovers, the feeling of isolation, the very concept of the phrase "new normal" - all of it outlined the true horror of this time we lived through. It clearly outlines a dark time in our history, and I hope people use this in teaching for the future in relation to the culture at the time. Well done, Jack. You got the world to sympathize with your pain.

[DTheAustralian]

I'M THE OLD NORM. I WANT NORMAL BEER

[ay]

the deaths displayed in this music video are absolutely traumatizing. there was no blood, there was no audio, just the pure, raw expression of hope leaving the mind as people take their last breath, their bodies crumpling to dust never to be found again.

[LOL-cringe]

This will always be my favorite song produced by Jack Stauber. The song, paired with the visuals, is something that will always remain in my mind. It's incredible.

[TheStorrman]

This perfectly encapsulates what the pandemic was. I especially like the ending, it feels familiar, like throughout the whole song, so much transpires, and then it cuts to a creature sat quietly on a chair. It feels like how so much stuff took place throughout 2020, meanwhile I was sat at home

[kreepsdungeon]

Jack: *loses his clay*


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