As a teen artist. This is the most relatable thing ever. People loved my art as a child soon as I grew up I was getting yelled at about how art wasn't a good career choice.
Okay, I need your thoughts. My oldest loves art, but isn't detailed oriented at all. 8 years old, and still doesn't seem to notice parts of their art that could be improved on. Both of us are more serious and analytical, and I've been debating offering advice on areas where they might want to slow down and take some extra time/effort, but I also don't want to crush their dreams... It's such a hard balance as a parent!! When am I guiding, and when am I suppressing? Right now I just follow Chili's example in Bluey and say, "that's really good for an 8 year old!" Part of me thinks they are critical enough as they get older they'll notice what I notice, so I haven't been saying anything. But what if I'm wrong? What if they never notice? Parenting is hard, y'all.
@@AuDHD_Mom First of all thankyou for asking! I can genuinely see you want to help your kid in a healthy way. Giving advice should be something offered freely if they take it great if not that's there choice and how they see their art and how they want to make it may be apart of that. How you choose to act to the reaction is important if they refuse just be supportive of that choice. Art is all about experimentation and learning. One way that could be fun is you and them sitting down doing it together and showing them things that may help. Sorry this is a mouthful heh. But as a kid there more carefree I sure was as we grow we become more judgemental of ourselves. So as long as you show support and give advice in a healthy way with respecting there choices you'll so great.
Same here. I got criticized, by those who have always encouraged me, that my art wasn't good enough to make a living off of. So now it's just kinda a hobby but even keeping it just that is hard for my self-esteem lol
Same as a teen artist whenever I complete an artwork all get from my mum is an “mm” and I already know that art as a career is not gonna happen for me. My mum also likes my realistic art which I hate drawing. I’m not necessarily told I’m not good enough but I know that art will always only be a hobby to me which kinda hurts knowing that.
My daughter died about 8 weeks ago. She was 13. This girl in the video was so her. A dreamer, full of joy and confidence. I miss her so much. I wept as I watched this.
I don't know if anyone else has pointed it out, but they probably have. The fact the chair is so much bigger than she is even when she's an adult and has children seems to not only act as a subversion to make you think she's not as old as she is until the reveal at the end but also might be symbolic on how big the expectations of life are according to others. You can never truly fit in that chair
My little sister was born when I was 10. At that age I had long since given up on things, but she rejuvenated things for me. I never fully regain confidence but I see how confident and adventurous she is and it makes me happy.
I have a similar experience, me and my sister are 9 years appart. At first I really didn't understand the dubbel standard that she was encouraged to dream and I needed to look at the future more realisticly. But I loved painting and building lego's with her and telling her how good she was at it and telling her to dream. She is 14 now and she can still dream and I am so proud of her.
I'm crying right now. It hits so hard in the best way possible. We are taught to 'grow up' and 'act like an adult' but when we grow up we dream of the carefree days we lived as children but we never stop to see we are praising children for acting like adults while shaming them for hating their childhood. We pressured them to grow up and then we blame them for not cherishing their youth when we stole the best part. It hurts more because I know what was robbed, i also know I can get it back because I still have time but I'm not doing so because I don't want to repeat it again. I'm gone before I existed (Edit: Alot of you have similar experiences and I'm so sorry to hear that, I'll tell you something your parents don't anymore.) *You did a good job. I'm proud of you. You have done enough*
@@creechieuihana I meant it literally though. I'm a teenager who was forced to grow up way too quickly because someone doesn't know how to raise kids even after having two of them!
This song is so important. When I was 8 I was a young violin student and I felt like I was so good, until I had my first recital and I compared myself to the other students who had been playing longer. It crushed me. I kept working hard and it always felt like I had to work so much harder than everyone else to be half as good. I kept going and I’m a music teacher now. I look back at all my experiences and this song brings so many emotions to me. Now I’m pregnant with my first baby and the ending just makes me so emotional and I cry because it makes me want to be a source of comfort and encouragement to my children and students. They’re all amazing beings I swear! You reading this are also an amazing being.
The 'I turned 7' part was such a twist, I did not expect the song to be about childhood imagination (if I got it right) and it no doubt reminded me of my childhood. Thank you for such an amazing masterpiece
@@sillyface6950 Nobody grows up well by being told lies. One doesn't do a service to kids by keeping them sheltered from the real world. One kid isn't the best painter, no. Indeed. So? Most aren't, anyway. It's not always about being the best. Sometimes, it's just about enjoying stuff.
The magic and joy we gain from teaching a little brother, sister, niece or nephew all the things that we used to do, everything that we enjoyed when we were learning everything from scratch gives us a chance to restore that same joy and magic. I love this!
I don't understand how you managed to capture the feeling of this matter so perfectly. There's plenty of people who will never understand this feeling they once had, and plenty of songs and media that talk about it, but this one has something special. It's like both the kid and the grown-up you are talking together. You captured perfectly these things that tend to be forgotten as we grow up, and it's lovely. Heartbreaking and lovely.
@@aimeecarty6474 Can you put "Hope" and "I'm alright now" and "swimming to shore" and "Tell me your story" on Spotify and apple music pretty pretty please?
This was such a sweet little song about life stepping on your neck and crushing your dreams. Everyone seems to forget the optimistic child that everyone's soul used to shelter. Being kind costs nothing, and some sincere positivity can keep an inner child alive. This song had me silently weeping large tears with the realization that we have all been crushed at some point, some more than others. "And then I turned seven" is where the first kick in the gut set in.
And now you are a singer, And everybody is impressed. But you don’t need approval Because your singing is truly the best. Everything you sing is a masterpiece. It all sounds like heaven. And thankfully you’re sharing your passion. And now you’re encouraging all the painters. And everybody is saying wow 😊 You’re so clever. You’re extremely talented. I hope you still agree with the crowd. ❤ your gift is truly incredible ❤ ❤thank you for touching the young dreamer in me who is working on finding her joy again❤
When I was 4 I made mud pies and dug out the entire insides of a loaf of bread my mother baked bc I was “cooking”. I still remember being lifted off the stool I was standing on. My mother couldn’t hide her smile. I love you, Aimee. You have such a beautiful heart.
I ADORE the symbolism in the art. Each balloon represents a passion we have as a child while growing up, and how our creativity would help us achieve any of our goals. But as soon as we get older, our passions are popped like the balloons and are instead replaced with the same bland passion as everyone else; with no creativity or goals. But it also shows that even if we are growing and even if we have less time to follow our dreams, we can always achieve, them no matter what hardship. Follow your dreams, don't let anyone pop your balloon🎈✨
This hits so hard dude- being told your good at so many things then you hit the real world and your so unbelievably not ready for it to the point where it crushes you under its weight. Fuck this is so good!
It makes me think of the episode of Community where Jeff Winger gets thrown out of pottery class for ghosting. He couldn't handle not being the best in the class since he was always told he was the best.
I clicked on this anticipating some happy song about baking and then realized it was about way more than that...and all of a sudden it hit me when it was over and I started tearing up. Can't remember the last time a song made me do that. Really great!
This song taught me about how when we are kids people would play along with us as we think about all the things we are untill we get older and they start to tell us how that now we are older we have to "fit in" and "grow up" untill we eventally fall into the same path but sometimes you can change that path no matter what people say and yet be happy.
This song is so cute 😭 I love how it’s titled ‘Baker’ to make Somme expect it’s about baking but it only talks about being a baker in the first verse so when at the end it says ‘I’ll just smile and say Once upon a time I was baker’ it made so much more sense! So amazing ❤️
This, and "Things Will Get Better" both talk about how people encourage you as a child but then expect you to fit in a perfect little box and stop trying to enjoy what you do as you age because people that failed want you to feel as bad as they do. Frick those people. Live your happiest life. You only get the one. Don't spend it being miserable for other people. Good luck to all the bakers out there, the painters, the dreamers. Do the thing. Do the thing and be happy. 💕
I listen to this song called stressed by pilliots or smthing, but a part of it says 'people told me all my frears would shrink but now im insecure and i care what people think', i dunno i just made me think about it
@@ABc-v6n The Dad's balloons weren't colorful and pretty like the daughter had drawn them. So the Dad in the picture looked like the Dad physically, but the single, black balloon he was holding onto looked nothing like the beautiful, multicolor bunch of balloons she drew him as holding.
It’s sad that when she drew the portrait of her dad originally, the balloons were various colors, but when she put it on the wall, all the balloons were scribbled in black. Idk if the ending is showing her healing her inner child with her own child, but that’s how I interpreted it and it made me cry. I feel like playing with my child helps me remember the joy in the little things better ❤️ Thanks for your song and video 😭❤️
this song is so relatable. I'm in my 30s now and I've been following a non-traditional path in my career. I won't go into the full details but I basically managed to land a job I wanted, despite not having formal qualifications for it. A lot of people showed disapproval and went as far as to mistreat me at work or in interviews. "You're not qualified / go get a job that [insert my qualifications] people get " blah blah blah. The funny thing is that society tries so hard to force everyone to fit in the mold that they want but that's not going to work for everyone. Its been a really lonely path I'm on but honestly, doing things that fit me (instead of trying to fit into the expectations other people push onto me) has led me to better success in everything. There are plenty of examples of other people taking non-conventional paths in life who have succeeded in so many ways. Being an influencer, streamer, youtuber, and professional video gamer are all now viable careers, which was stuff that countless people have said are a "waste of time" many years ago.
I remember when I first came across itsokkoy's animation of "2 Days into College" and it was the first time I ever heard of the song. It was what I really needed at that time because I was stressing over college finals of all things. It makes me so happy that the songwriter and animator finally did a collaboration together. I relate to this song too but the optimism at the end is so uplifting! Never stop creating you two 🩵
I work with kids and wish that I could draw as freely as they do. Kid makes me a picture that's two dots right across the huge page for eyes, a line for a mouth and two lines for legs. 'It's you!' And I think it's perfect because I never would have thought to draw that way.
Man you didn’t need to make me cry today 😭 this song is one of my favourites, and the symbolism with you thinking your dad is more confident in all his skills and realizing he isn’t at all, and then meeting the same fate and trying to get back the security in your skills 💔
I’m SO happy that there are enough resources today that everyone can have access to which makes it possible for people’s talent like hers to get known and flourish and bless others. Not too long ago you had to have a record label to become known or advertised, and then they decided what sort of content you could and couldn’t write about. You couldn’t have a home studio unless you wanted to pay thousands. We live in a difficult but beautiful world today
I'm so happy to see that you two officially making a video. I discovered itsokkoy with her animation on 2 days into college and because of that video I discovered Amy! Hope to see more from you two ❤
Your music is seriously incredible! You have such a talent in writing and singing, please, never stop doing what you are doing. I seriously cannot wait for more to come! This is incredible. The story telling is wonderful.
Once upon a time, I was a superhero, Saving everyone in town. They all agreed I was amazing, Loved by people all around. But as the days turned into years, The cape I wore began to fade. My mighty deeds, once bold and fearless, Became just tales that memories made. The town no longer called my name; The cheers grew soft and quiet. Nothing now ever feels the same- As time goes on, the townscape's change. Now it’s just a story from that childhood page
My kids and I have had the privilege of homeschooling and this is a good anthem for them. I will let them be kids and celebrate their childhood and beyond
Im crying😭 This is MY Song😢 I was once told that I was very good until I grew old and started hearing and believing I'm not. My colorful balloons became one single black. But what I love is the last part, that you wont let your kids experience what you experience. A great reminder for me. This song is about trauma and you'll end it with you😢 Thank you, youve written it beautifully❤❤
There is a perfect simplicity in your music. Your voice and your accent are so pure. I've been singing this song for weeks. I want my daughter to sing this song to herself for the rest of her life. Songs like this make the world better. Thank you, Aimee xx 😘
Aimee this song speaks so profoundly to a beautiful part of childhood and such a sad part of growing up and how adults treat children. And the ending is wonderful. We all need to hold on to that part of ourselves. Thanks for this song
I know there are probably a lot of other things to draw from the song, but it reminds me of how hard it is to love yourself freely as a hobbyist. Some notion of worth or value slithers in and starts poisoning it; the loving stops being so easy.
I am actually drowning in tears right now I am crying so hard because I realised that you are getting older and not everything is full of joy and imagination I’m going to high school tomorrow for my first day and I realised that now everything is harder and you just have to go with it without your imagination 💭 ❤😢😭
Dunno if you will ever see this but I just found your music recently and I fell in love with all of it. As a therapist, this hit in the feels. Keep baking people!!!! 🥹 Follow your dreams and know you are loved!
I’m crying holy hell. I went through a lot of self-doubt as an adult when I used to be very self-assured as a kid. It’s so beautiful don’t give up on the things that make you smile 🩷 I can’t believe this has less than a million views holy heck
It's come from "I didn't need approval because I already knew I was the best" to "you're suppose to win at least a couple hundred of times before you even have the right to think or say or show you're any good at all" really breaks my heart........
I think what many have forgotten between the "punish for all bad behavior" and "gentle parenting" eras, many have forgotten that there has to be a healthy blend in raising kids. You can't only build them up only for so long, then tear them down when they believe in themselves the most. You can't tell them, "Go get those dreams!" But never teach them responsibility. You can't tell them they'll be a failure from the get go either... all of these will result in bad things... They will lose hope and belief in themselves if you go the first route. They'll think less and less of themselves and slowly break down over time. Been there, done that. Teaching them or allowing them to dream, but never teaching responsibility and hard work is going to result in them not knowing how to function in the real world. They'll hate themselves and you (or maybe just be rebellious because feelings big) if you go the third route. You won't have a relationship with that kid, once they realize what you've done to them. They will cut contact, and if they don't, they will make you work to EARN their respect, time with grandbabies, time with them, etc., etc. We need to build kids up from start to finish. We need to tell them we believe in them - and SHOW IT. They have to KNOW and FEEL like you mean what you say. We need to support them (not monetarily, necessarily, but that's your decision) in their dreams, and teach them how to make those dreams come true without hurting themselves, their future, or their families. We also need to fill out job applications, teach them what hard, thankless work is, and how to do it, and to help them expect that they might have to do it in order to build a portfolio or make themselves known/gather a fanbase. Even if it means they have to work hard at flipping burgers, or cleaning toilets, they need to know that they can do that stuff while building their portfolio or fanbase (or both) until they can cover the cost of living with their dream career... We can't just do one one the aforementioned things and expect everything to be peachy. There must always be a balance, and plenty of love in order for children to grow up and be thriving adults... Y'all be blessed.
wow this hit so hard... i remember the day i was given the black balloon. But i hid it, forced a smile, forced fake confidence and lost myself in the process. I became disabled at 20 and lost everything. Friends and family left, i was too much. I lost my career, my dreams, my goals. I was a shell of a human for so long. But thats not the end of my story. Now? I'm an artist again, and it's my job. I bake again, for the man who captivated my heart. I started trying again, and i fail a lot, but i also win a lot. There is hope. fight for it. find it. and chase it.
My 9 year old daughter had heard this song. She wanted to listen to it with me. And as soon as it started I started crying. I knew what the song was about before the chorus ever hit. My daughter then said “I told you her music was good”. I told her “yes, and don’t you ever…EVER, let anyone tell you you are not amazing. You should be able to do whatever makes you happy. Thank you Aimee. You are an amazing young woman and this song is a beautiful example of that.
I know it's in the song, but this is actually genius. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful song. The video is excellent. The messages gut wrenching but also so true. All I want to know is that she goes back to baking.😊 The songwriter is so good at finding the painful parts of life and then offering a salve. A healing balm. A hug. All of her songs have a way of doing that.
Worth memorizing. Its so beautiful. So relatable. As a student this song perfectly explains the pressures of children that parents and teachers dont understand. Also AN OFFICIAL ITSOKKOY COLLAB? PLS COLLAB MORE
This song is beautiful. It makes me think of our daughter and all the changes she's gone through and the struggles she'll face. I wish she could remain as innocent as she is now. Makes me cry every time..
I really like the theme of this song- where it’s true that when we’re really young we encompass the natural parts of humanity of curiosity- trying to learn to walk over and over when we constantly fall but keep getting back up, we want to know about the world and ask Tons of questions and especially “why?”’s about the world, and wanting to try so many things and hobbies. Yet- as we get older the comparisons start being force fed to you and drain the boundless confidence we had prior, our parents and loved ones stop hyping us up as much and give us objective perspectives on our abilities and responsibilities, and we are conditioned to be much less confidence and motivation to do random things and think outside the box than we ever were. Especially with schools not trying to maximize the potential of every individual student and their different levels of talent/skill- but to always move at the pace of the slowest student. For myself I don’t want to lose those aspects, I want to still be able to draw something really poorly, to write something that may have some holes in it- and be extremely fucking proud of it and enjoy the work I’m putting in for it and what I’m putting out- because it feels way better than letting other people tell me I can’t do it because of XYZ- I believe in optimistic nihilism and I say my meaning of life is not what everybody else thinks it is, mine will be what I choose it to be- and one of them is to love, care, be proud, and unafraid about the things I do and experience and not let other opinions constrain me.
I was reading before I was crawling or walking; it just came easier for me, like I was remembering it rather than learning it. I blame my older sister for being unorganized and leaving her schoolbooks laying around for a baby to get ahold of them. I never thought it was unusual; I thought that all kids taught themselves to read. My mom almost had me convinced that I wasn't actually reading until I had to prove to her that I was by reading her the newspaper. That one shut her up. From then on, she never griped about me taking her books again. Sometimes, a child's "flight of fancy" is simply unexpected development. Give them a chance.
The reason why I’m tearing up is because I’m afraid of growing up. And the “I guess it’s part of getting older” was very sad for me. I guess this is gonna be my favourite song now.
I find the intentional deception such a captivating concept, the cinematography was amazing, concepts like making her still look like a child as a mother or making her adult balloon first nothing more than a silhouette is so inspired. Fantastic job here, really^^
lyrics: once upon a time, i was a baker and everybody was impressed but i didn’t need approval because i already knew i was the best everything i made was a masterpiece it all taste like heaven but then unfortunately, i turned seven once upon a time, i was a painter and everybody said, “wow” “girl, you’re so clever”, “you’re so talented” and i agreed and i stood proud i painted mountains, i painted blue lakes i painted people, i drew portraits but then i drew my dad and held it up beside him and i realized that it looked like nothing like him and part of me wished nobody had told her but i guess it’s just a part of getting older once upon a time, i was a runner i was the fastest in the town and they’d all say, “nobody will outrun her” “‘cause she’s the fastest girl around once upon a time, i was a dancer it took no effort i was a scientist i was an expert i was a genius and i thought nothing of it until they told me that i wasn’t and part of me wished nobody had told her but i guess it’s just a part of getting older when you learn you’re supposed to color perfectly inside of the lines and you’re supposed to win at least a couple hundred of times before you even have the right to think or say or show you’re any good at all they’ll tell you that there’s only one right way, one paved path or you’ll make a fool of yourself and everyone will laugh they’ll make you feel like everybody’s waiting there to watch you as you fall they sigh they tell me i’m a dreamer they say, “someone’s gotta wake her” but i’ll just smile i’ll say, “once upon a time i was a baker”
This video… I finally let myself cry. Sometimes I hold myself back, but this is the first time I’ve cried since I was a kid. This is why we need to always encourage our youth. I was so lucky, this was me growing up, they knew I was bad at art, slow at running, and everything I baked was nasty but they praised me and my self esteem was so high that when I found out they were wrong I was just heartbroken, and when school taught me that nothing I did was good… I think everyone has had this experience, this song hit so hard,
keep baking💕
Aimee really -cooked- baked with this one
Bake
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO
I love your animations
@@Gatekid3aye it's you
As a teen artist. This is the most relatable thing ever. People loved my art as a child soon as I grew up I was getting yelled at about how art wasn't a good career choice.
Okay, I need your thoughts. My oldest loves art, but isn't detailed oriented at all. 8 years old, and still doesn't seem to notice parts of their art that could be improved on. Both of us are more serious and analytical, and I've been debating offering advice on areas where they might want to slow down and take some extra time/effort, but I also don't want to crush their dreams... It's such a hard balance as a parent!! When am I guiding, and when am I suppressing? Right now I just follow Chili's example in Bluey and say, "that's really good for an 8 year old!" Part of me thinks they are critical enough as they get older they'll notice what I notice, so I haven't been saying anything. But what if I'm wrong? What if they never notice?
Parenting is hard, y'all.
@@AuDHD_Mom First of all thankyou for asking! I can genuinely see you want to help your kid in a healthy way. Giving advice should be something offered freely if they take it great if not that's there choice and how they see their art and how they want to make it may be apart of that.
How you choose to act to the reaction is important if they refuse just be supportive of that choice. Art is all about experimentation and learning. One way that could be fun is you and them sitting down doing it together and showing them things that may help.
Sorry this is a mouthful heh. But as a kid there more carefree I sure was as we grow we become more judgemental of ourselves. So as long as you show support and give advice in a healthy way with respecting there choices you'll so great.
@@AuDHD_Mom I love that you taking inspo from Bluey and trying to help without hurting their creativity. That in itself is amazing.
Same here. I got criticized, by those who have always encouraged me, that my art wasn't good enough to make a living off of. So now it's just kinda a hobby but even keeping it just that is hard for my self-esteem lol
Same as a teen artist whenever I complete an artwork all get from my mum is an “mm” and I already know that art as a career is not gonna happen for me. My mum also likes my realistic art which I hate drawing. I’m not necessarily told I’m not good enough but I know that art will always only be a hobby to me which kinda hurts knowing that.
This song hits pretty hard despite the more optimistic ending.
For real. As someone who grew up as a sensitive person, it took me so long to take criticism 😬
THE LEGEND THEMSELVE!
oh hi there
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GATEKID YOURE MY FAVORITE UNDERTALE SPRITER lol
My daughter died about 8 weeks ago. She was 13. This girl in the video was so her. A dreamer, full of joy and confidence. I miss her so much. I wept as I watched this.
I'm sorry for your loss.... How she die and it ok I loses. Lots of ppl like pets and my bff so I can understand how u feel....
I'm sorry for your loss. Bless her angel wings to soar for eternity
May she fly high and rest peacefully in heaven 🙏♥️
I feel really bad. I have had had many losses in my life but not as hard as that one. May she fly high 🕊️❤️
I am sorry for your loss but her dreams and her memory live on with you
This song has zero rights to make me cry three times on the same day.
It's beautiful.
the way she smiles on the chair...
I cant
@@benjaminRhodesLEGO 🫂
same
Ikr🙃
It’s just a beautiful meaningful song……this kind of songs are hard to find now
I don't know if anyone else has pointed it out, but they probably have. The fact the chair is so much bigger than she is even when she's an adult and has children seems to not only act as a subversion to make you think she's not as old as she is until the reveal at the end but also might be symbolic on how big the expectations of life are according to others. You can never truly fit in that chair
Wow😮❤
I thought the baby was her younger sibling 😭
That's a nice one, but I feel like the baby was supposed to be her younger sibling
@@auni-thebakeryea same
There is a possibility that the infant character featured in the video's final thirty seconds or so may be intended to have been the narrator's niece.
NO WAY OFFICIAL ITSOKKOY COLLAB?!?!? AAA IM SO EXCITED!
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@ViviBuchlaw, how is your comment 15 hours ago when this video was made 1 hour ago??
@@NotOreo18there was a premiere
EYYYYY
I KNEW IT WAS THEM!!
My little sister was born when I was 10. At that age I had long since given up on things, but she rejuvenated things for me. I never fully regain confidence but I see how confident and adventurous she is and it makes me happy.
I have a similar experience, me and my sister are 9 years appart. At first I really didn't understand the dubbel standard that she was encouraged to dream and I needed to look at the future more realisticly. But I loved painting and building lego's with her and telling her how good she was at it and telling her to dream. She is 14 now and she can still dream and I am so proud of her.
I'm crying right now. It hits so hard in the best way possible. We are taught to 'grow up' and 'act like an adult' but when we grow up we dream of the carefree days we lived as children but we never stop to see we are praising children for acting like adults while shaming them for hating their childhood. We pressured them to grow up and then we blame them for not cherishing their youth when we stole the best part. It hurts more because I know what was robbed, i also know I can get it back because I still have time but I'm not doing so because I don't want to repeat it again. I'm gone before I existed
(Edit: Alot of you have similar experiences and I'm so sorry to hear that, I'll tell you something your parents don't anymore.)
*You did a good job. I'm proud of you. You have done enough*
That’s so true
Lesson of the day?
Adults are just bigger children. Do what makes you happy even if it’s childish. Go for your dreams as long as they’re achievable.
@@creechieuihana I'm not an adult.... I don't want to be one either
@@hell594 Yep! Me too!! QuQ
We… we just be figuring it all out rn
@@creechieuihana I meant it literally though. I'm a teenager who was forced to grow up way too quickly because someone doesn't know how to raise kids even after having two of them!
This song is so important. When I was 8 I was a young violin student and I felt like I was so good, until I had my first recital and I compared myself to the other students who had been playing longer. It crushed me. I kept working hard and it always felt like I had to work so much harder than everyone else to be half as good. I kept going and I’m a music teacher now. I look back at all my experiences and this song brings so many emotions to me. Now I’m pregnant with my first baby and the ending just makes me so emotional and I cry because it makes me want to be a source of comfort and encouragement to my children and students. They’re all amazing beings I swear! You reading this are also an amazing being.
this WILL blow up. "2 days into college" blew up thanks to itsokkoy. now that this is official, the infinity stones have been collected.
we got the singer, the animator, who else is there?
Fr!
Nah it blew up cause of the basketball player singing her song on a tiktok, ruclips.net/user/shortsfdrR5JJI1wg
Frr , it’s so beautiful 🥹
@@mindlezzenigma311meh, I don’t use TikTok so for me at least it blew up from the animated short
The 'I turned 7' part was such a twist, I did not expect the song to be about childhood imagination (if I got it right) and it no doubt reminded me of my childhood. Thank you for such an amazing masterpiece
I am a mum now and I have tears in my eyes. Let the kids be dreamers, let the adults keep dreaming. ❤
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True
But sometimes you have to give up your own dream, so your children can dream
I'm a adult and I promised myself I'd never give up the dreamer in me.
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Giving up you own dream? Man, that sounds bad.
1:40 “until they told me that I wasn’t” hits hard
Ikr 😢😢😢
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"And part of me wished nobody had told her"
But i guess its just apart of getting older
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Nobody grows up well by being told lies. One doesn't do a service to kids by keeping them sheltered from the real world.
One kid isn't the best painter, no. Indeed. So? Most aren't, anyway. It's not always about being the best. Sometimes, it's just about enjoying stuff.
The magic and joy we gain from teaching a little brother, sister, niece or nephew all the things that we used to do, everything that we enjoyed when we were learning everything from scratch gives us a chance to restore that same joy and magic. I love this!
I don't understand how you managed to capture the feeling of this matter so perfectly. There's plenty of people who will never understand this feeling they once had, and plenty of songs and media that talk about it, but this one has something special. It's like both the kid and the grown-up you are talking together. You captured perfectly these things that tend to be forgotten as we grow up, and it's lovely. Heartbreaking and lovely.
I’m so excited, I really hope she’ll put more of her songs on Spotify
lots more to come!
@@aimeecarty6474 are u and koi goin to do more together? I hope u will I love both of ur content
@@aimeecarty6474 Can you put "Hope" and "I'm alright now" and "swimming to shore" and "Tell me your story" on Spotify and apple music pretty pretty please?
@@aimeecarty6474wohoooo. I'll wait your songs.
@@aimeecarty6474 Thats fantastic. I can't wait to hear more from you!
This was such a sweet little song about life stepping on your neck and crushing your dreams. Everyone seems to forget the optimistic child that everyone's soul used to shelter. Being kind costs nothing, and some sincere positivity can keep an inner child alive. This song had me silently weeping large tears with the realization that we have all been crushed at some point, some more than others. "And then I turned seven" is where the first kick in the gut set in.
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And now you are a singer,
And everybody is impressed.
But you don’t need approval
Because your singing is truly the best.
Everything you sing is a masterpiece.
It all sounds like heaven.
And thankfully you’re sharing your passion.
And now you’re encouraging all the painters.
And everybody is saying wow 😊
You’re so clever. You’re extremely talented.
I hope you still agree with the crowd.
❤ your gift is truly incredible ❤
❤thank you for touching the young dreamer in me who is working on finding her joy again❤
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Why did i read this in the singer singing voice?
One day when your dreams are leaving you, I’ll still believe in you
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This made me cry so hard
thank you, that's beautiful
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When I was 4 I made mud pies and dug out the entire insides of a loaf of bread my mother baked bc I was “cooking”. I still remember being lifted off the stool I was standing on. My mother couldn’t hide her smile.
I love you, Aimee. You have such a beautiful heart.
This is a masterpiece
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I ADORE the symbolism in the art.
Each balloon represents a passion we have as a child while growing up, and how our creativity would help us achieve any of our goals. But as soon as we get older, our passions are popped like the balloons and are instead replaced with the same bland passion as everyone else; with no creativity or goals.
But it also shows that even if we are growing and even if we have less time to follow our dreams, we can always achieve, them no matter what hardship.
Follow your dreams, don't let anyone pop your balloon🎈✨
This hits so hard dude- being told your good at so many things then you hit the real world and your so unbelievably not ready for it to the point where it crushes you under its weight. Fuck this is so good!
It makes me think of the episode of Community where Jeff Winger gets thrown out of pottery class for ghosting. He couldn't handle not being the best in the class since he was always told he was the best.
I've been listening to this song on repeat for the past few hours, tears running down my cheeks. Honestly, thank you. I needed that.
YOOOOOOOOOO THE RHYMES AND THE VOCALS AND THE BACKTRACKS AND EVERYTHING :OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I clicked on this anticipating some happy song about baking and then realized it was about way more than that...and all of a sudden it hit me when it was over and I started tearing up. Can't remember the last time a song made me do that. Really great!
Kids have alot of dreams, most of them leave, but theres always one that refuses to go.
That’s the beauty of it.
Well put
I refuse to let my dreams go.
Facts😊❤
I did not come here to cry this much. This song has such a beautiful meaning.
Sometimes it just feels like _everyone_ wants to grow up fast, following exact paths to get *somewhere* in life.
I hope to stay a baker and a dreamer.
This song taught me about how when we are kids people would play along with us as we think about all the things we are untill we get older and they start to tell us how that now we are older we have to "fit in" and "grow up" untill we eventally fall into the same path but sometimes you can change that path no matter what people say and yet be happy.
This song is so cute 😭 I love how it’s titled ‘Baker’ to make Somme expect it’s about baking but it only talks about being a baker in the first verse so when at the end it says ‘I’ll just smile and say Once upon a time I was baker’ it made so much more sense! So amazing ❤️
This, and "Things Will Get Better" both talk about how people encourage you as a child but then expect you to fit in a perfect little box and stop trying to enjoy what you do as you age because people that failed want you to feel as bad as they do. Frick those people. Live your happiest life. You only get the one. Don't spend it being miserable for other people. Good luck to all the bakers out there, the painters, the dreamers. Do the thing. Do the thing and be happy. 💕
I listen to this song called stressed by pilliots or smthing, but a part of it says 'people told me all my frears would shrink but now im insecure and i care what people think', i dunno i just made me think about it
And i love the part where the picture of the dad didn't look like him not because of the reasons we would think...
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I also love that he doesn’t *look* sad at all, even if his balloons would say otherwise
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@@ABc-v6n The Dad's balloons weren't colorful and pretty like the daughter had drawn them. So the Dad in the picture looked like the Dad physically, but the single, black balloon he was holding onto looked nothing like the beautiful, multicolor bunch of balloons she drew him as holding.
I thought he was depressed 😢
It’s sad that when she drew the portrait of her dad originally, the balloons were various colors, but when she put it on the wall, all the balloons were scribbled in black.
Idk if the ending is showing her healing her inner child with her own child, but that’s how I interpreted it and it made me cry. I feel like playing with my child helps me remember the joy in the little things better ❤️
Thanks for your song and video 😭❤️
Woow... Once again, you made a grown man shed tears.. This is too beautiful.
this song is so relatable. I'm in my 30s now and I've been following a non-traditional path in my career. I won't go into the full details but I basically managed to land a job I wanted, despite not having formal qualifications for it. A lot of people showed disapproval and went as far as to mistreat me at work or in interviews. "You're not qualified / go get a job that [insert my qualifications] people get " blah blah blah. The funny thing is that society tries so hard to force everyone to fit in the mold that they want but that's not going to work for everyone. Its been a really lonely path I'm on but honestly, doing things that fit me (instead of trying to fit into the expectations other people push onto me) has led me to better success in everything. There are plenty of examples of other people taking non-conventional paths in life who have succeeded in so many ways. Being an influencer, streamer, youtuber, and professional video gamer are all now viable careers, which was stuff that countless people have said are a "waste of time" many years ago.
I remember when I first came across itsokkoy's animation of "2 Days into College" and it was the first time I ever heard of the song. It was what I really needed at that time because I was stressing over college finals of all things. It makes me so happy that the songwriter and animator finally did a collaboration together. I relate to this song too but the optimism at the end is so uplifting! Never stop creating you two 🩵
Help I’m crying this is so heartfelt
Collab with Itsokkoy! Nice
I work with kids and wish that I could draw as freely as they do. Kid makes me a picture that's two dots right across the huge page for eyes, a line for a mouth and two lines for legs. 'It's you!'
And I think it's perfect because I never would have thought to draw that way.
Man you didn’t need to make me cry today 😭 this song is one of my favourites, and the symbolism with you thinking your dad is more confident in all his skills and realizing he isn’t at all, and then meeting the same fate and trying to get back the security in your skills 💔
Aimee, your music is a wonderful, magical thing. Please never stop doing what you love. ❤
Such a beautiful song. Hold onto your balloons everyone!
I’m trying
Thank you for this song, it hits so deep yet made me reminisce about my childhood
This song is amazing and made me cry, the collab with koy is even better
Cant wait for the full album
I’m SO happy that there are enough resources today that everyone can have access to which makes it possible for people’s talent like hers to get known and flourish and bless others. Not too long ago you had to have a record label to become known or advertised, and then they decided what sort of content you could and couldn’t write about. You couldn’t have a home studio unless you wanted to pay thousands. We live in a difficult but beautiful world today
Aimee, you are straight up amazing! Love the music, love the collab! Kudos to both of you!
okay i already loved this song but reading the live chat makes me smile so much. y'all humans are amazing
I litteraly cried, every single word is relatable, thank you for this kind reminder of who we used to be as children ❤
I'm so happy to see that you two officially making a video. I discovered itsokkoy with her animation on 2 days into college and because of that video I discovered Amy! Hope to see more from you two ❤
0:49 That looks just like him! Keep doing what you love!🫶
This pulls at every heart string. 😭😍
I just had my first son and this hit me so hard. I needed this song…thank you.
Your music is seriously incredible! You have such a talent in writing and singing, please, never stop doing what you are doing. I seriously cannot wait for more to come! This is incredible. The story telling is wonderful.
I've been watching this song on repeat, and I cry every time. I don't remember the last time I cried this much. It's just so beautiful.
This is so good 🙏
It's the duo we don't deserve, but need
This song makes me cry EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Dang that studio treatment. That audio quality in good headphones.
Once upon a time, I was a superhero,
Saving everyone in town.
They all agreed I was amazing,
Loved by people all around.
But as the days turned into years,
The cape I wore began to fade.
My mighty deeds, once bold and fearless,
Became just tales that memories made.
The town no longer called my name;
The cheers grew soft and quiet.
Nothing now ever feels the same-
As time goes on, the townscape's change.
Now it’s just a story from that childhood page
This is straight up a manga I’m reading, Beat&Motion. A new talented singer working with a up and coming animator. Y’all r gonna fall in love I bet.
My 9yr old introduced me to your music- And I am
Blown away! I want to cry each time. Why are your songs so touching!? ❤
My kids and I have had the privilege of homeschooling and this is a good anthem for them. I will let them be kids and celebrate their childhood and beyond
My brain while listening to this song for the first time:
"Oh! this song is pretty good.. and oh- oh, we're crying? when did that happen?"
*sobbing*
Im crying😭 This is MY Song😢 I was once told that I was very good until I grew old and started hearing and believing I'm not.
My colorful balloons became one single black.
But what I love is the last part, that you wont let your kids experience what you experience. A great reminder for me.
This song is about trauma and you'll end it with you😢 Thank you, youve written it beautifully❤❤
There is a perfect simplicity in your music. Your voice and your accent are so pure. I've been singing this song for weeks. I want my daughter to sing this song to herself for the rest of her life. Songs like this make the world better. Thank you, Aimee xx 😘
0:10 The way she says she was the best in this part.... Dude it's perfect
You can feel the innocent self-confidence... We've all been there.
This is amazing props to Aimee and koy keep up the great work! 😄 again nice singing voice 👏
Aimee this song speaks so profoundly to a beautiful part of childhood and such a sad part of growing up and how adults treat children. And the ending is wonderful. We all need to hold on to that part of ourselves. Thanks for this song
I know there are probably a lot of other things to draw from the song, but it reminds me of how hard it is to love yourself freely as a hobbyist. Some notion of worth or value slithers in and starts poisoning it; the loving stops being so easy.
I am actually drowning in tears right now I am crying so hard because I realised that you are getting older and not everything is full of joy and imagination I’m going to high school tomorrow for my first day and I realised that now everything is harder and you just have to go with it without your imagination 💭 ❤😢😭
Dunno if you will ever see this but I just found your music recently and I fell in love with all of it. As a therapist, this hit in the feels.
Keep baking people!!!! 🥹
Follow your dreams and know you are loved!
I’m crying holy hell. I went through a lot of self-doubt as an adult when I used to be very self-assured as a kid. It’s so beautiful don’t give up on the things that make you smile 🩷
I can’t believe this has less than a million views holy heck
It's come from "I didn't need approval because I already knew I was the best" to "you're suppose to win at least a couple hundred of times before you even have the right to think or say or show you're any good at all" really breaks my heart........
how many times has this soul lived? beautifully semsitive and wise! keep baking, silver soul.
Once upon a time I was a princess.
This absolutely made me cry. Beautiful song.
I think what many have forgotten between the "punish for all bad behavior" and "gentle parenting" eras, many have forgotten that there has to be a healthy blend in raising kids.
You can't only build them up only for so long, then tear them down when they believe in themselves the most.
You can't tell them, "Go get those dreams!" But never teach them responsibility.
You can't tell them they'll be a failure from the get go either... all of these will result in bad things...
They will lose hope and belief in themselves if you go the first route. They'll think less and less of themselves and slowly break down over time. Been there, done that.
Teaching them or allowing them to dream, but never teaching responsibility and hard work is going to result in them not knowing how to function in the real world.
They'll hate themselves and you (or maybe just be rebellious because feelings big) if you go the third route. You won't have a relationship with that kid, once they realize what you've done to them. They will cut contact, and if they don't, they will make you work to EARN their respect, time with grandbabies, time with them, etc., etc.
We need to build kids up from start to finish. We need to tell them we believe in them - and SHOW IT. They have to KNOW and FEEL like you mean what you say. We need to support them (not monetarily, necessarily, but that's your decision) in their dreams, and teach them how to make those dreams come true without hurting themselves, their future, or their families. We also need to fill out job applications, teach them what hard, thankless work is, and how to do it, and to help them expect that they might have to do it in order to build a portfolio or make themselves known/gather a fanbase.
Even if it means they have to work hard at flipping burgers, or cleaning toilets, they need to know that they can do that stuff while building their portfolio or fanbase (or both) until they can cover the cost of living with their dream career...
We can't just do one one the aforementioned things and expect everything to be peachy. There must always be a balance, and plenty of love in order for children to grow up and be thriving adults...
Y'all be blessed.
I love this lyrics! So bittersweet! Literally my life
You have some of the best songs I’ve ever heard, thank you :)
* shivers *
Really stunning. Visuals, message and voice. Like.
wow this hit so hard... i remember the day i was given the black balloon. But i hid it, forced a smile, forced fake confidence and lost myself in the process. I became disabled at 20 and lost everything. Friends and family left, i was too much. I lost my career, my dreams, my goals. I was a shell of a human for so long.
But thats not the end of my story. Now?
I'm an artist again, and it's my job.
I bake again, for the man who captivated my heart.
I started trying again, and i fail a lot, but i also win a lot.
There is hope. fight for it. find it. and chase it.
My 9 year old daughter had heard this song. She wanted to listen to it with me. And as soon as it started I started crying. I knew what the song was about before the chorus ever hit. My daughter then said “I told you her music was good”. I told her “yes, and don’t you ever…EVER, let anyone tell you you are not amazing. You should be able to do whatever makes you happy.
Thank you Aimee. You are an amazing young woman and this song is a beautiful example of that.
I know it's in the song, but this is actually genius. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful song. The video is excellent. The messages gut wrenching but also so true. All I want to know is that she goes back to baking.😊
The songwriter is so good at finding the painful parts of life and then offering a salve. A healing balm. A hug. All of her songs have a way of doing that.
Worth memorizing. Its so beautiful. So relatable. As a student this song perfectly explains the pressures of children that parents and teachers dont understand. Also AN OFFICIAL ITSOKKOY COLLAB? PLS COLLAB MORE
This song is healing a old but also very young part of me
I've only heard it once and it's already placed on my favorites list... This is a record
This was so lovely. Your songs have the power to touch hearts. Thank you much for your music!
This song is beautiful. It makes me think of our daughter and all the changes she's gone through and the struggles she'll face. I wish she could remain as innocent as she is now. Makes me cry every time..
I really like the theme of this song- where it’s true that when we’re really young we encompass the natural parts of humanity of curiosity- trying to learn to walk over and over when we constantly fall but keep getting back up, we want to know about the world and ask Tons of questions and especially “why?”’s about the world, and wanting to try so many things and hobbies. Yet- as we get older the comparisons start being force fed to you and drain the boundless confidence we had prior, our parents and loved ones stop hyping us up as much and give us objective perspectives on our abilities and responsibilities, and we are conditioned to be much less confidence and motivation to do random things and think outside the box than we ever were. Especially with schools not trying to maximize the potential of every individual student and their different levels of talent/skill- but to always move at the pace of the slowest student.
For myself I don’t want to lose those aspects, I want to still be able to draw something really poorly, to write something that may have some holes in it- and be extremely fucking proud of it and enjoy the work I’m putting in for it and what I’m putting out- because it feels way better than letting other people tell me I can’t do it because of XYZ- I believe in optimistic nihilism and I say my meaning of life is not what everybody else thinks it is, mine will be what I choose it to be- and one of them is to love, care, be proud, and unafraid about the things I do and experience and not let other opinions constrain me.
I was reading before I was crawling or walking; it just came easier for me, like I was remembering it rather than learning it. I blame my older sister for being unorganized and leaving her schoolbooks laying around for a baby to get ahold of them. I never thought it was unusual; I thought that all kids taught themselves to read. My mom almost had me convinced that I wasn't actually reading until I had to prove to her that I was by reading her the newspaper. That one shut her up. From then on, she never griped about me taking her books again. Sometimes, a child's "flight of fancy" is simply unexpected development. Give them a chance.
Beautiful. Just absolutely beautiful. Remember folks, never stop dreaming.
The reason why I’m tearing up is because I’m afraid of growing up. And the “I guess it’s part of getting older” was very sad for me.
I guess this is gonna be my favourite song now.
I'm 23 and I never grew up. You don't have to grow up. Promise yourself that you won't.
I was ready to cry for other reasons today. And this tipped those scales. Beautiful song.
Your music and itsokkoy’s animation is a killer combo. Got my eyes wet. Great Job!
My 3 year old loves it. I was crying by the end of my first listen of the entire song.
Keep cooking/baking!!
Im so exited i loved all your songs so far i cant wait to see this one😁😁😁
thanks so much!
The pause right before "until they told me that I wasn't" has me by the THROAT and I can barely stop myself from sobbing when it hits
@BasketballGenises ... what-
@BasketballGenises I'm so confused, am I missing something?
You Made a 67 year old man crying.. oh my god, you are so gifted… and the Video is beautiful! You are a really wonderful baker 😊
I find the intentional deception such a captivating concept, the cinematography was amazing, concepts like making her still look like a child as a mother or making her adult balloon first nothing more than a silhouette is so inspired. Fantastic job here, really^^
lyrics:
once upon a time, i was a baker
and everybody was impressed
but i didn’t need approval
because i already knew i was the best
everything i made was a masterpiece
it all taste like heaven
but then unfortunately, i turned seven
once upon a time, i was a painter
and everybody said, “wow”
“girl, you’re so clever”, “you’re so talented”
and i agreed and i stood proud
i painted mountains, i painted blue lakes
i painted people, i drew portraits
but then i drew my dad and held it up beside him
and i realized that it looked like nothing like him
and part of me wished nobody had told her
but i guess it’s just a part of getting older
once upon a time, i was a runner
i was the fastest in the town
and they’d all say, “nobody will outrun her”
“‘cause she’s the fastest girl around
once upon a time, i was a dancer
it took no effort
i was a scientist
i was an expert
i was a genius
and i thought nothing of it
until they told me that i wasn’t
and part of me wished nobody had told her
but i guess it’s just a part of getting older
when you learn
you’re supposed to color perfectly inside of the lines
and you’re supposed to win at least a couple hundred of times
before you even have the right
to think or say or show you’re any good at all
they’ll tell you that there’s only one right way,
one paved path
or you’ll make a fool of yourself and everyone will laugh
they’ll make you feel like
everybody’s waiting there to watch you as you fall
they sigh
they tell me i’m a dreamer
they say, “someone’s gotta wake her”
but i’ll just smile
i’ll say, “once upon a time i was a baker”
This video… I finally let myself cry. Sometimes I hold myself back, but this is the first time I’ve cried since I was a kid. This is why we need to always encourage our youth. I was so lucky, this was me growing up, they knew I was bad at art, slow at running, and everything I baked was nasty but they praised me and my self esteem was so high that when I found out they were wrong I was just heartbroken, and when school taught me that nothing I did was good… I think everyone has had this experience, this song hit so hard,