Toto - Africa (playing in an empty shopping centre)

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  • Опубликовано: 12 янв 2025

Комментарии • 9 тыс.

  • @sofiagoheen4788
    @sofiagoheen4788 7 лет назад +4092

    why does this fill me with both an extreme calmness but also the feeling of impending doom what the whole fuck is this

    • @seaverjanderson
      @seaverjanderson 7 лет назад +218

      Sofia Goheen the calm before the storm

    • @nsane6581
      @nsane6581 7 лет назад +122

      I guess impending doom just is calming, the feeling of knowing what is going to happen and being ok with it.

    • @rahfu3174
      @rahfu3174 7 лет назад +69

      I'm gonna say it has to do with the emptiness of the imagined shopping center.

    • @charlie5thumbs351
      @charlie5thumbs351 7 лет назад +47

      I know what you're saying. Wonderful song, but this is creepy as hell.

    • @4345ghee
      @4345ghee 7 лет назад +25

      It’s the Shining Effect

  • @f.b.i2768
    @f.b.i2768 7 лет назад +7515

    I’d buy an entire abandoned mall just to play 80’s hits over the intercoms.

    • @somecynic808
      @somecynic808 7 лет назад +219

      FBI then purchase Sunset mall in Corpus Christi, Texas. I used to shop there frequently but now it's a ghost mall. Interesting fact: the mall scene from "The Legend of Billie Jean" was filmed there.

    • @perhapsitsnoelle
      @perhapsitsnoelle 7 лет назад +87

      If you don’t BLAST thunderstruck by AC/DC keep it

    • @BoringSupreez
      @BoringSupreez 7 лет назад +84

      There's lots of empty malls you could buy in America

    • @pingu7271
      @pingu7271 7 лет назад +42

      New Order songs all day long!

    • @satka2mau487
      @satka2mau487 4 года назад +17

      good for a super rave!

  • @memespam1839
    @memespam1839 6 лет назад +3945

    This video has single handedly created a brand new human emotion.

    • @dr.dandyphd4968
      @dr.dandyphd4968 6 лет назад +120

      It's called m o o d

    • @z-592-z4
      @z-592-z4 6 лет назад +133

      A mixture of nostalgia and sadness

    • @GenesisBish
      @GenesisBish 6 лет назад +60

      Melancholy

    • @TheJSJosh
      @TheJSJosh 6 лет назад +78

      Anemoia; nostalgia for a time you have not lived in.

    • @SexyFace
      @SexyFace 6 лет назад +3

      did u feel it during birth

  • @Eli-vj8vo
    @Eli-vj8vo 4 года назад +3103

    I feel like I’m just looking at someone else’s life and memories

    • @o0GrayMatters0o
      @o0GrayMatters0o 4 года назад +63

      anyone that's ever worked in a mall, pretty much anywhere in America, will get the feels

    • @PJEllison
      @PJEllison 4 года назад +14

      that is a really good thought.

    • @tpal3243
      @tpal3243 4 года назад +21

      this scares me

    • @carmel_bear4654
      @carmel_bear4654 4 года назад +5

      Same

    • @Skidmaster9000
      @Skidmaster9000 4 года назад +3

      I'm scared 😸

  • @elisebrabyn6169
    @elisebrabyn6169 7 лет назад +5234

    This song played at Kmart when I was one of last people there , and it kinda had this weird eerie calmness , exactly like this

    • @lukespook1232
      @lukespook1232 7 лет назад +43

      Elise Brabyn k mart sucks

    • @captainrobots1
      @captainrobots1 7 лет назад +88

      Theres a few kmarts in the world now since they've been closing for good.

    • @imalittlebitch9754
      @imalittlebitch9754 7 лет назад +43

      captainrobots I’m guessing you’ve never been to Australia 😂😂

    • @isabellayoung6579
      @isabellayoung6579 7 лет назад +10

      Elise Brabyn honestly I would have love to experience that lol 😂

    • @lorf8282
      @lorf8282 7 лет назад +1

      Was that a rain man reference?

  • @katietoast3749
    @katietoast3749 7 лет назад +14207

    This is honestly how it was meant to be played. Why am I crying, I don’t even know if I’m sad

    • @Comuzzy
      @Comuzzy 7 лет назад +211

      Katie Toast same im crying at the club rn and i dont know why bro help

    • @kensmith9292
      @kensmith9292 7 лет назад +306

      There's nothing that 100 malls or more could ever do.

    • @thecookjourney3299
      @thecookjourney3299 7 лет назад +12

      1000th like 😭 now I’m crying for no readon

    • @joshooahh
      @joshooahh 7 лет назад +26

      You are not crying

    • @brownmetal
      @brownmetal 7 лет назад +59

      You're remembering the past....

  • @icannoteven
    @icannoteven 6 лет назад +2954

    i hear the drums *e c h o i n g* tonight

  • @magic1699
    @magic1699 4 года назад +1583

    perfect soundtrack for: "mall is closing soon and you lost ur mum"

    • @thsoup2353
      @thsoup2353 4 года назад +28

      IKR

    • @rosalinamacarita01
      @rosalinamacarita01 4 года назад +48

      @@thsoup2353 this freaks me out a lot

    • @burnt968
      @burnt968 3 года назад +29

      But then the last 5 minutes remain and you see your mum exit a fashion store about 100 feet away. Your run and jump into her arms, good thing you're only 6 years old because any heavier and you would have broken her back.

    • @Jessikoe
      @Jessikoe 3 года назад +31

      But then it turns out that it's not your mum, it's a lady whose hair looks just like hers and they have the same puffy red jacket. The lady just looks surprised and when you realize it, you start crying. And then your actual mum walks up at you. Relieved and a bit angry at the same time. All is well again.

    • @redphoenix2561
      @redphoenix2561 3 года назад +14

      ​@@Jessikoe Untill she's bitten by a Zombie and suddenly an horde come out from the surrounding shops.... a group of boys on a dune buggy blast the entrance and shoot everywhere and show up the title Zombieland 3

  • @ToyAdventures
    @ToyAdventures 6 лет назад +5859

    I’m surprised it didn’t start filling up with people when it started

  • @markanthony1425
    @markanthony1425 5 лет назад +4561

    The only thing missing is a janitor dancing with his mop.

  • @alyshagoode9515
    @alyshagoode9515 7 лет назад +3509

    I'm getting "convinence store at 3 am with weird teenage boy as cashier rolling a joint behind the register" vibes

    • @federicacasisa3475
      @federicacasisa3475 7 лет назад +74

      im getting a good book vibes here

    • @CerealGraph
      @CerealGraph 7 лет назад +82

      Alysha Goode I want to write a book simply because of this comment just to have a scene like this in it

    • @SuperSaiyen64
      @SuperSaiyen64 7 лет назад +9

      Hey I'm not weird 😧

    • @evesning
      @evesning 7 лет назад +14

      we need an animated gif of this with the audio in the bg

    • @isabellayoung6579
      @isabellayoung6579 7 лет назад +1

      Alysha Goode haha I was thinking that too!!!! 😂

  • @monzo9999
    @monzo9999 5 лет назад +541

    For 4 minutes , I closed my eyes and somehow traveled back in time to the 80’s and saw myself strolling in a mall during closing hours

    • @wittykittywoes
      @wittykittywoes 4 года назад +21

      *i wish i could, but i can’t*

    • @glitzyglam7827
      @glitzyglam7827 4 года назад +14

      Omg that’s exactly what I did. Idk why but it brought tears to my eyes 👀

    • @JohnAckerman31
      @JohnAckerman31 3 года назад +5

      Same here. It’s just sad as to what is happening to the retail industry and malls. It’s all because of a thing called the internet. Everyone is buying off of Amazon, which puts a lot of stress on retailers who are trying to compete with the changing market. I remember when malls were packed with people, and now most of them are just abandoned. Everyone says that soon we could probably buy homes on Amazon. They now have a pharmacy, which will put stress on pharmaceutical companies. I just wish we could go back to the way things were before. More money for everyone, no Amazon, just very simple things. The other problem is people have no money nowadays. The reason is because we are spending it on nonsense. Our leaders especially take our hard earned money, and spend it on garbage that we don’t need. Let’s go back to simpler ways, and dump Amazon.

    • @user-ejxomyq
      @user-ejxomyq 3 года назад +1

      Even though I wasn't born in the 80s, this gives off weird vibes

  • @Ashlin7747
    @Ashlin7747 6 лет назад +7202

    This makes me remember the smell of going to a airport at 4:00 am

    • @louistapon2788
      @louistapon2788 5 лет назад +114

      Same, coming from Okinawa to PBI Florida, this song was playing at my 1st stop in haneda

    • @angele548
      @angele548 5 лет назад +182

      Ooohh I get that a lot too... just randomly remembering smells and feelings..

    • @jensimcic_music
      @jensimcic_music 5 лет назад +108

      Never been on an airplane, but I somehow know this feeling.

    • @louistapon2788
      @louistapon2788 5 лет назад +58

      Jennifer Simcic you should fly one time, it’s the best experience to me, being as close as I will ever be to space

    • @louistapon2788
      @louistapon2788 5 лет назад +14

      6 more months and I’ll have served my enlistment , it’s been a great journey.

  • @oscarriveraabal9390
    @oscarriveraabal9390 5 лет назад +2695

    Can totally imagine myself bleeding from a stab in the side , hidding in a shopping centre from some deranged lunatics while this song plays.

  • @sashabrownpants3979
    @sashabrownpants3979 6 лет назад +982

    Legend has it, that Africa still plays through out the abandoned shopping mall to this very day...

    • @barbaro267
      @barbaro267 6 лет назад +1

      lol, the shopping mall isn't abandoned, it's merely closed for the night ;)

    • @Jamie-or8iq
      @Jamie-or8iq 6 лет назад +1

      Cameron McClellan
      i fucking hope it does

    • @surythecat9993
      @surythecat9993 5 лет назад

      Fun fact Toto Africa is playing on loop in the Namibian Dessert for eternity:)

  • @stevetyrell8721
    @stevetyrell8721 4 года назад +837

    This video makes me cry so hard. It transports me to a world that existed long ago, a world full of hope and discovery. It delivers me from the world of today where there is no hope or anything to look forward to.

    • @y_a_e_l.
      @y_a_e_l. 4 года назад +15

      [•__•]

    • @rebeccalembcke5365
      @rebeccalembcke5365 4 года назад +35

      @steve Tyrell I hope you're okay friend

    • @monicad5270
      @monicad5270 4 года назад +26

      Way before Corona. I feel your pain. :'(

    • @lucariothehero500
      @lucariothehero500 4 года назад +30

      The 80’s was a great time! Miss those days. Wish I was born in the 60’s, 70’s or 80’s. Ended up being born in 2006 and now I’m just bored because of Covid-19. May God Help us All :(

    • @everettrailfan
      @everettrailfan 4 года назад +12

      What do you mean there's nothing to look forward to?

  • @Jopig
    @Jopig 6 лет назад +2182

    For some reason, this makes me feel like I’m in a different time. It feels comforting. I’m not even sure why, because I never lived in the 80s.

    • @ireviewshtuff
      @ireviewshtuff 6 лет назад +100

      I read you're not missing a specific time or period, just the feeling of sheer hope and optimism this song embodies. Like I never heard it, but it makes me think about when I used to hang out till late with this girl in highschool, doing nothing but staring at each other, knowing at least for now we didn't be have anything to worry about but each other.

    • @videopsybeam7220
      @videopsybeam7220 6 лет назад +133

      This also makes me feel like I'm in a different time.
      Only that time is the post-apocalypse, and this empty shopping mall has been playing Toto's "Africa" for years, possibly decades uninterrupted.

    • @ivyssauro123
      @ivyssauro123 6 лет назад +11

      Video Psybeam , best comment

    • @videopsybeam7220
      @videopsybeam7220 6 лет назад +2

      Thanky~♪ !

    • @arcadio2385
      @arcadio2385 6 лет назад +53

      I don’t know why but I just started to cry for some reason missing a time I never experienced

  • @michael120.
    @michael120. 5 лет назад +6251

    I can’t tell if this is meant to be surreal or nostalgic

  • @stevenc5509
    @stevenc5509 4 года назад +1287

    This is probably what are playing at malls that are closed because of corona

    • @SG179E
      @SG179E 4 года назад +5

      True.

    • @rachelwagner4434
      @rachelwagner4434 4 года назад +7

      except they're shopping centers so they're essential

    • @TheAskTrixieChannel
      @TheAskTrixieChannel 4 года назад +6

      @@rachelwagner4434 Nope, malls closed! (Reopening now, though.)

    • @oiltycoonbillionaire
      @oiltycoonbillionaire 4 года назад +1

      The Ask Trixie Channel wiener

    • @monsoon3220
      @monsoon3220 4 года назад

      Bin Laden’s Toe Sucker u look like jotaro

  • @gc7720
    @gc7720 5 лет назад +2301

    Videos like this really do create an emotion so complex that no words could explain it... I just want to be there, I feel like I have been there...

  • @brielle9198
    @brielle9198 7 лет назад +3668

    Ok but why did I subconsciously imagine this song being played like this every time I heard it?

    • @0cujo0
      @0cujo0 7 лет назад +204

      Brielle because your life is a simulation, and you are actually unconscious in this mall - We all are in the mall...lol

    • @MarcoPolo-mm6ro
      @MarcoPolo-mm6ro 7 лет назад +23

      Cuz feels old and like if it were played by a radio

    • @totallycarbon2106
      @totallycarbon2106 7 лет назад +32

      Brielle Maybe because you first heard it in a mall, or a place with similar reverb and speakers. So then that left an impression on how it should sound to you.

    • @SundayGravy812
      @SundayGravy812 7 лет назад +1

      TotallyCarbon Yep.

    • @trentonyoakum1627
      @trentonyoakum1627 7 лет назад +17

      Ann Oynmous. Please don't say "bud" you mongrel.

  • @kylie1522
    @kylie1522 6 лет назад +518

    This is oddly scary yet comforting...

  • @morningstarcoffeecompany7893
    @morningstarcoffeecompany7893 4 года назад +53

    My Brother Jason passed away 2 yars ago, he was 30. In months leading up to his passing he was on an 80's music kick. And this was one of his fav tunes. We played it at his wake and funeral. Everytime my wife and i hear this song were quick to change the station as the song stirs up emotion. This particular video and the comments hit home hard!

    • @jsnxbskscnskcnskcjbzjzjbvd
      @jsnxbskscnskcnskcjbzjzjbvd 4 года назад +7

      May he rest peacefully, I'm truly sorry for your loss. You'll see him again some day, up in Heaven.

    • @victoriacorcoran1258
      @victoriacorcoran1258 3 года назад +3

      I am so sorry for the loss of your Jason, this song stirs up emotion for me too, two colleagues of mine took their own lives years apart, both jumped from a building in two different cities while working with them both here in Australia...after hearing the tragic news, this song came on the radio both times during my drive home in both locations. I cry whenever I hear it. There is something about this song Albert.

    • @phibbykaden
      @phibbykaden 3 года назад

      Wow. Talk about memories.

    • @leroyfong4037
      @leroyfong4037 2 года назад +2

      早登極樂🙏🏻

    • @bag_of_cheeto_puffs
      @bag_of_cheeto_puffs 2 года назад

      sorry for ur loss. r.i.p

  • @edgarbanuelos6472
    @edgarbanuelos6472 6 лет назад +3752

    If Toto by Africa plays at a mall and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
    Damn straight.

    • @aleksandar4756
      @aleksandar4756 6 лет назад +99

      It does, sound is a vibration therefore it "exists", there's just nothing with an eardrum to hear it

    • @nerdycatgamer
      @nerdycatgamer 6 лет назад +55

      /r/woosh

    • @scottwilliamlamaster
      @scottwilliamlamaster 6 лет назад +19

      Edgar Banuelos africa by toto lol

    • @laser901
      @laser901 6 лет назад +14

      Vsauce, michael here

    • @mcfixer9503
      @mcfixer9503 6 лет назад +12

      its not a sound its fuckin magic

  • @sage9849
    @sage9849 5 лет назад +4058

    This gives me a feeling from a memory I don’t have???

    • @issasultan2896
      @issasultan2896 5 лет назад +118

      Gta vice city?

    • @caise3910
      @caise3910 5 лет назад +56

      That's vaporwave, right?

    • @KiraPlaysGuitar
      @KiraPlaysGuitar 5 лет назад +3

      @@issasultan2896 Beat me to it.

    • @juppukun
      @juppukun 5 лет назад +41

      @@caise3910 Exactly. I'm old enough to know about VHSes and all that nostalgic graphic, tech and music that makes the genre so cool. Hits me in the feels and this is why I love it. Reminds me of more innocent days...

    • @xlovelygi
      @xlovelygi 5 лет назад +15

      This gives me vice city vibes

  • @DingoXBX
    @DingoXBX 5 лет назад +3277

    I feel nostalgic from this but I don't recall anything like this

    • @YourDrunkStepDad
      @YourDrunkStepDad 5 лет назад +352

      there are terms for this. Anemoia, which means being nostalgic of a life youve never lived. and Hiraeth, which is to be home sick for a home that doesn't exist anymore.
      these terms are kind of the reason why genres like vaporwave exist.

    • @themarvellord6474
      @themarvellord6474 5 лет назад +38

      @@YourDrunkStepDad ur smart

    • @devilstar3476
      @devilstar3476 5 лет назад +17

      Damn fam. Probs remembering a past life? Lol

    • @jonfleck8687
      @jonfleck8687 5 лет назад +15

      I recall things like this but I don’t have nostalgia.

    • @belle369
      @belle369 5 лет назад +10

      Me too. Have I had a past life??

  • @Carbonmancer
    @Carbonmancer 4 года назад +31

    There's something magical about 80's and 90's malls.

  • @mehya3266
    @mehya3266 6 лет назад +6618

    Everyone's feeling *that* emotion, huh?

  • @ugh3189
    @ugh3189 7 лет назад +4495

    it's like the mall closed and you got locked in by mistake and the security guard got bored and decided to put his Spotify playlist on the PA

    • @ramenpolanski1239
      @ramenpolanski1239 7 лет назад +198

      that security guard has some good tastes

    • @livlawrence5856
      @livlawrence5856 7 лет назад +47

      no he just left the radio on by accident and it makes it all 10x more beautiful. just you on your own wth the music ❤️

    • @leaf1952
      @leaf1952 7 лет назад +37

      astro that’s some mall cop type shit

    • @mossmoran3880
      @mossmoran3880 7 лет назад +33

      there's a mall in my town and it looks like this 24/7 empty as shit

    • @ghostphy
      @ghostphy 7 лет назад +8

      I don't know why, but I feel like having music would help me get through being (mostly) alone in the store. Also, awesome pfp lol. Love that blue boi

  • @h1nkle
    @h1nkle 6 лет назад +2432

    This video gives me a weird feeling of nostalgia even though I’ve never lived in that time period

  • @starrydaze_
    @starrydaze_ 4 года назад +33

    This feels like remembering a memory from a life I've never had. An era past my time, yet I have a fondness for.

  • @Darren_117
    @Darren_117 5 лет назад +665

    Someone: "you can't create a new emotion!"
    Me an intellectual:

    • @joutatheegg
      @joutatheegg 5 лет назад +20

      Darren Phelps
      We need a name for that emotion because so far my only idea is “nostalgia that’s not yours”

    • @elsiemabel
      @elsiemabel 4 года назад

      Majestic Narwal look up Hauntology

    • @ChaR_OfTheK0Rn
      @ChaR_OfTheK0Rn 4 года назад

      Majestic Narwal YESSSSS

  • @squigga2184
    @squigga2184 5 лет назад +11266

    I still can't believe they named a continent after this song

    • @adammickiewicz7636
      @adammickiewicz7636 5 лет назад +308

      They didn't name that continent... The continent named itself.

    • @closingdealz
      @closingdealz 5 лет назад +89

      The song was named after the continent

    • @adammickiewicz7636
      @adammickiewicz7636 5 лет назад +513

      @@closingdealz How'd you know? Liar!

    • @thevideos-rj8bo
      @thevideos-rj8bo 5 лет назад +240

      I can't believe there was a dog named after a band from The Wizard of Oz

    • @thevideos-rj8bo
      @thevideos-rj8bo 5 лет назад +75

      The joke's on you the entire mall is called Toto on Africa in Zimbabwe

  • @saladelektra
    @saladelektra 6 лет назад +408

    If I were at an empty shopping mall with this song playing, I'd literally be so overwhelmed with how beautiful it sounds and cry

    • @nickdavis965
      @nickdavis965 6 лет назад +1

      Elektra records.

    • @nickdavis965
      @nickdavis965 6 лет назад +1

      Elektra (ur name is a record company so i used it to my advantage to say Elektra records)

    • @PikminandOatchi
      @PikminandOatchi 6 лет назад

      But then the mall wouldn't be empty.

  • @presidentmc9054
    @presidentmc9054 5 лет назад +34

    I work Overnight shifts as Mall Security and this song always plays when I do my interior rounds... there's a feeling I always feel, that I cannot describe...

  • @GTvonRufflBum
    @GTvonRufflBum 7 лет назад +1766

    We are reaching levels of vaporwave we never thought possible.

    • @tripleaaa4409
      @tripleaaa4409 6 лет назад +33

      enlightenment is the best medicine.

    • @KevinContreras2013
      @KevinContreras2013 6 лет назад +12

      Vaporwave has been doing this for years. But way better.

    • @Lakros03
      @Lakros03 6 лет назад

      :D :D :D :D

    • @dingledan1966
      @dingledan1966 6 лет назад +17

      This is just mallsoft though. It's been a subgenre of vaporwave for years already :D

    • @edibleasbestos9467
      @edibleasbestos9467 6 лет назад

      Brandon Crosby you know what's up

  • @HaSTaxHaX
    @HaSTaxHaX 6 лет назад +2118

    Next level audio experience

  • @mockingintercessor
    @mockingintercessor 6 лет назад +260

    I used to work in a tiny bakery in a mall, and I'd get there at 4 in the morning to get things started and blast music in the kitchen. The way it would echo out into the dim, empty main spaces was kind of cool. There was another bakery on a lower floor and we would have empty-mall stereo wars until security told us to stfu or until the mall walkers showed up at 7.

    • @ihsantriapramanda1973
      @ihsantriapramanda1973 6 лет назад +6

      Nice story. Sounds like a great intro for a typical 80s rom-com or coming-of-age movies!

  • @fsricy286
    @fsricy286 4 года назад +8

    I will never forget hearing this song while shopping!
    Back in late 2016 when I started high school, I joined NJROTC and I was shopping for PT gear at a NEX in Hawaii on a cool late summer day, 10 at night.
    I was waiting at the cash register with my father beside me wearing his blue cap with an exhausted look on his face; slowly tapping his sneakers, while I was calmly but listening to this song on the speakers, looking forward to a good rest on the car ride back.
    It sounded just like it did in the vid, and I remember always thinking about this song while doing early morning PT! So calming

  • @nickz4993
    @nickz4993 5 лет назад +517

    “Attention shoppers, the mall will be closing in 10 minutes.”

    • @HoustonHeartStopper
      @HoustonHeartStopper 4 года назад +6

      Wyatt Clark
      yOu JuSt PrEdiCtEd CoRoNaViRuS!¡!¡!¡

    • @fawqvg5285
      @fawqvg5285 4 года назад +5

      Mudkip the Awkward Gamer holy shit he did

    • @kmeadows
      @kmeadows 4 года назад

      😂😂

  • @alexannax
    @alexannax 6 лет назад +3068

    Im a bit creeped out about this. I just imagine myself walking in that empty mall, but I feel like something bad is gonna happen and I feel like someone or something is watching me

    • @bordylol2131
      @bordylol2131 6 лет назад +88

      Annie Playz Games SAME it’s just really creepy malls are creepy in general

    • @classyyert3099
      @classyyert3099 6 лет назад +74

      Annie Playz Games **TOTO APPEARS**

    • @wingardiumlachancla9078
      @wingardiumlachancla9078 6 лет назад +67

      I always feel like somebody
      TOUCHA MA SPAGHETT

    • @sandwichjones6995
      @sandwichjones6995 6 лет назад +63

      its just the spirit of Africa itself watching you and protecting your poor man’s soul

    • @FUCKINGENIOUS
      @FUCKINGENIOUS 6 лет назад +26

      Those are the phantoms of the fears you refuse to face.

  • @thebusinessgoose
    @thebusinessgoose 7 лет назад +191

    This feels like the ghost of the original song, but somehow it also feels like this is the way the song was always supposed to sound. It feels right and wrong at the same time.

    • @5roundsrapid263
      @5roundsrapid263 7 лет назад +4

      Sarah N This song has loads of reverb, so it works. Also, radio stations back then might have added more.

    • @owenwexler7214
      @owenwexler7214 6 лет назад

      Somebody further up in the comments described it as "Toto's 'Africa' in its natural habitat" xD if the shoe fits...

  • @MsMisfits
    @MsMisfits 4 года назад +32

    This is legit why I still shop at old overpriced pharmacies. The coffee stain looking spots on the ceiling, cracked creaky floor, and 80s ballads playing softly over the intercom (then loudly in some areas).

  • @somebody2love
    @somebody2love 6 лет назад +1941

    if this is the only video that survives from the 21st century.. i think i’d be okay with that.

    • @Yeahnahgetfucked
      @Yeahnahgetfucked 5 лет назад +10

      Matt Gardiner back in my day...

    • @SykoPathak
      @SykoPathak 5 лет назад +5

      20th Century*

    • @ohdfrosty9703
      @ohdfrosty9703 5 лет назад +5

      @@SykoPathak 21st*

    • @EllaGP22
      @EllaGP22 5 лет назад +2

      Teemu yeah Africa came out in 1982 which means it was in the 20th century

    • @Muu-Mei
      @Muu-Mei 5 лет назад

      Crange

  • @rogertaylor742
    @rogertaylor742 7 лет назад +1124

    this... makes me really calm and also makes me feel something inside that i'm not sure what it is

    • @Erik-iz1rs
      @Erik-iz1rs 7 лет назад +61

      Kyra-Lee H it's called autism

    • @lavyrinthco
      @lavyrinthco 7 лет назад +21

      Erik-chan OH MY GOD IM CACKLING

    • @Loland_The_Cracked_Silence
      @Loland_The_Cracked_Silence 7 лет назад +10

      Kyra-Lee H
      Perhaps True happiness...
      Or you might be having a heart attack

    • @ashleym4137
      @ashleym4137 7 лет назад +14

      Kyra-Lee H I get you! It’s like internal time travel or something... inexplicable

    • @420crim3
      @420crim3 7 лет назад +5

      Kyra-Lee H it's Africa...run to her brother

  • @Brookzplayzmuzic
    @Brookzplayzmuzic 7 лет назад +3915

    You can literally be so hypnotized by this that you visualize yourself back into the year it was made. Like an adult but with a childlike mind for me.

    • @stevetyrell8721
      @stevetyrell8721 7 лет назад +75

      And it seems like things were much happier then

    • @PacificBird
      @PacificBird 7 лет назад +35

      THE CRUST IS ELUSIVE WHEN IT CASTS FORTH, TO THE CHILDLIKE MAN.

    • @maggieamendolare5329
      @maggieamendolare5329 7 лет назад +3

      Brooks Smith.

    • @Gee-xb7rt
      @Gee-xb7rt 7 лет назад +56

      Padan Fain I wouldn't say happier, I would say different. That you could leave real life behind and go to the mall made it a popular destination. This video sits in the uncanny valley of the false optimism of the era, its just a little too real, making it creepy af.
      my local museum has car shows and sneaker exhibits, romancing consumerism is still a popular past time.

    • @malihachowdhury4825
      @malihachowdhury4825 6 лет назад +24

      I was born in 2003 but this song floods me with nostalgia from an unclear event

  • @greatsatan9772
    @greatsatan9772 Год назад +6

    it's so sad and depressing, it's like an end for an era, I miss the days when there were shopping malls.

  • @kirstenmckelvey2637
    @kirstenmckelvey2637 6 лет назад +374

    This makes me think I'm in some distopian universe where everything is destroyed and me and my friends are running down the halls having the time of our life because we made it out of a life or death situation.

    • @simplsquam
      @simplsquam 6 лет назад +3

      The perfect combat music

    • @hayz691
      @hayz691 6 лет назад +11

      I was thinking of something similar, but instead of running for our lives, and me and my dystopian-world-buddies figured out how to turn the shopping centre on and play the music, and are skating around the mall with our scavenged rollerskates, enjoying a moment of blissful fun before inevitable danger.

    • @jack-ox9ym
      @jack-ox9ym 6 лет назад

      Kirsten Mckelvey wtf me too

    • @djinnsbetpools
      @djinnsbetpools 6 лет назад

      All the 80's dystopian motif, yes.

    • @scwells68
      @scwells68 6 лет назад +1

      We are, it was, and we did.

  • @DrSurprise
    @DrSurprise 6 лет назад +6032

    I bless the mall with some businesses

    • @mrlinden
      @mrlinden 6 лет назад +159

      Gonna take some time to buy some things we never haaaaaaad.

    • @gamerguy425
      @gamerguy425 6 лет назад +15

      not clear whether it's closed or no one likes it :-?

    • @revengeofthesith.
      @revengeofthesith. 6 лет назад +19

      DrSurprise it's a still image

    • @gamerguy425
      @gamerguy425 6 лет назад +26

      I eventually realized that by the pumped up kicks vid, I mean that of all things would be sketchy to play in the middle of a mall...
      now I just really want to see someone who actually works at a mall to play it over the actual speakers at closing time for comparison sake though

    • @mafiajohannes8292
      @mafiajohannes8292 6 лет назад +16

      This mall is from GTA Vice City.

  • @ploopydiper
    @ploopydiper 7 лет назад +1230

    There's something about this that feels feels so nostalgic and calm, but so eerie and kinda horrifying. I feel like this is what death feels like lmao

    • @ploopydiper
      @ploopydiper 7 лет назад +10

      champagne mami lmao ikr

    • @iagreebut6813
      @iagreebut6813 7 лет назад +20

      HURRY BOI ITS WAITING THERE 4 U

    • @fortifiedwithwhattheworldw9953
      @fortifiedwithwhattheworldw9953 7 лет назад +8

      HELLO MY NAME IS HAECHAN It's called a e s t h e t i c s

    • @Skystrike12
      @Skystrike12 7 лет назад +9

      This is the the song that plays when you watch someone die.

    • @batata_dog
      @batata_dog 6 лет назад +5

      like the sound of a tree when nobody hears it

  • @bakerooo740
    @bakerooo740 4 года назад +38

    these types of videos are whole different genre of music. *you cant convince me otherwise*

  • @stokesa3122
    @stokesa3122 7 лет назад +208

    This is the single most Aesthetic thing I've ever seen.

    • @morenn420
      @morenn420 6 лет назад +9

      you misspelled "A E S T H E T I C"

    • @sweetwheatsy
      @sweetwheatsy 6 лет назад

      This is truly AESTHETIC done right

    • @stokesa3122
      @stokesa3122 6 лет назад

      That may be your opinion, good sir or madam, but I, for one, have never felt alienated by the concept of
      A E S T H E T I C

  • @MrLeva115
    @MrLeva115 5 лет назад +673

    This fills me with some type of feeling,
    It’s some timeless feeling, impossible to describe

    • @thevideos-rj8bo
      @thevideos-rj8bo 5 лет назад +6

      This is probably the song that would be playing when you're just about to go and have a great journey

    • @dylanthomas9749
      @dylanthomas9749 5 лет назад +11

      Everything went wrong after 2009 it feels odd like something has happened, no one remembers now everyone is depressed

    • @uroi.
      @uroi. 5 лет назад +4

      The feeling of waking up from a dream that felt so real it seems more like a memory

    • @kang6088
      @kang6088 5 лет назад

      @@dylanthomas9749 2016 is when it really started to change, miss the good old day's

    • @chemicalvolt2978
      @chemicalvolt2978 5 лет назад

      To me it’s honestly kind of scary when I think about that feeling and about time like that.

  • @erin8456
    @erin8456 7 лет назад +187

    i don’t know why, but i’ve always had a memory of me sitting on a still mall escalator listening to this song. it’s really vivid, but i don’t think it’s ever happened.

    • @starkeeping2155
      @starkeeping2155 7 лет назад +1

      past life? :0

    • @perhapsitsnoelle
      @perhapsitsnoelle 7 лет назад

      Peep I read something that said to search “died (enter birthdate here AND YEAR)” on google and the person to show up is the person in your past life (idk if it’s real or not)

  • @stefanie_e3837
    @stefanie_e3837 5 лет назад +41

    Here’s a mini story of one of the ways I interpret this song (I’m not great at writing so just know that)
    I walk around picking up my last few items from the local grocery store. I’m the only one left, and the last employee working is mopping the floor. As he finishes up and puts the mop away he calls out to me, “hey, I’m going around back to take out the trash, I trust you since your a regular, and we have security cams so if you steal I’ll know”. I laugh, “sure thing take your time”. He walks out and I head to the checkout desk, changing the song. “Africa, nice.” As I turn to continue I knock over a pen, crouching down to see where it landed I hear someone violently come in and a loud booming voice talking. I quietly turn around, hidden by the desk, to see two men in all black and ski masks on. I instantly knew what was going on and hid inside the desk. They blocked off the doors so no one could enter. I covered my mouth as I heard the crashing of stuff being knocked down carelessly. All I could do was drown out the noise and focus on the song, trying my best not to cry in fear. As they headed to the back of the store I knew it wouldn’t be long until they came for the cash register, which I wasn’t too far from. As the final remaining crashes sounded I quickly moved to where I would be out of sight while they were at the cash register. Curled up hiding I could hear their footsteps approach to the cash register. As with everything else, they knocked down the items on the desk. But in that moment I saw the phone fall and land nearly next to me, still intact and working. They got their money and headed to the employee area to try and find more items, leaving me alone close to the phone. When they got far enough, I quickly scooted up and dialed 911. I would be free soon of this, or so I thought.

    • @leowrench9403
      @leowrench9403 4 года назад

      Stefanie Boaru glad u were ok

    • @stefanie_e3837
      @stefanie_e3837 4 года назад +1

      Leo Wrench not a true story! Just what I think of whenever I listen to this lol

    • @Blandon-rv7cs
      @Blandon-rv7cs 3 года назад

      What happens next?

    • @burnt968
      @burnt968 3 года назад

      I actually thought of a scenario that would fit well with this setting. Also I can say the same about being not such a fluent writer, as I'm only in 10th grade.
      So I'm walking around the mall, with my dad. We decide we wanna go to the gamestop or something. I'm browsing through super Nintendo and Gameboy games (it's the 90s) on the back shelves, so intently that when I turn around, everyone had vanished. I'm filled with shock and I shout out for my dad. I run out of the store, and I see the halls empty. My eyes start to tear up and burn with horror, as what I see before me can top anything I've seen in surrealism before. I thought I was doomed... the whole ordeal had reminded me of a creepypasta called the backrooms. One where you can take one wrong turn and "noclip" out of reality and find yourself trapped within miles of endless halls of the same pattern. And not only that, but there's a terrible creature that lurks within them. Just when all hope was lost, I see a person walk around a corner of these halls. At first we definitely startled the crap out of each other. But when I realize it's actually one of my closest friends, I don't know how to describe the feeling I had, but I was a bit skeptical, hopeful, and happy. We're not sure how to approach each other, so we inched closer and closer until we were about 10 feet apart. But before we have a chance to say a word, there's a hellish roar coming from behind me, I turn around and about a hundred yards from me is this 7 foot tall alien-like creature that stands on two legs, has black, and slimy looking skin, and has one of those "flower type heads" with the teeth coming out of the petals. Our best bet was to run and we didn't waste a snap standing around but instead sprinting the opposite direction at full speed with ounces of adrenaline coursing through our veins. The thing didn't gain on us, but it kept chasing us. That was the last image and I don't know what happens next.

  • @TechnoSeaBass
    @TechnoSeaBass 6 лет назад +164

    Jeez why do I get chills from listening to this, like I have nostalgia for something I’ve never experienced...... Trippy.

  • @alandolum10
    @alandolum10 5 лет назад +2652

    RUclips: do you want to watch a empty mall with toto Africa?
    Me: sure!

    • @elliott9313
      @elliott9313 5 лет назад +8

      Alan Do wing I’m glad this was in my recommendation

    • @johncarlofernando1705
      @johncarlofernando1705 5 лет назад +4

      dude your comment is so unoriginal
      Also I'm glad it's in my recommended

    • @rickrennyoneill
      @rickrennyoneill 5 лет назад +3

      Haha yeah. I thought that sounds shit, but then I thought actually, no, that sounds awesome.

    • @user-ez4ny5kd7x
      @user-ez4ny5kd7x 5 лет назад

      600th

    • @SquidCena
      @SquidCena 5 лет назад

      Oh hey this song is pretty go- *cries*

  • @jjustyyn_2335
    @jjustyyn_2335 5 лет назад +410

    This video gives me a feeling of impending doom with a hint of nostalgia

    • @voltrey
      @voltrey 5 лет назад

      jjustyyn _ that’s what that feeling is

    • @morganrobinson8042
      @morganrobinson8042 5 лет назад +5

      That's what all malls are like now

    • @monsoon3220
      @monsoon3220 4 года назад

      Me this is why I came here, stopping mid game cause of nostalgia feeling.

  • @badnrad
    @badnrad 6 месяцев назад +2

    It’s nice to see how so many people can share such a specific, familiar, vivid-but-vague sense of nostalgia based on what would have been regular, insignificant experiences that slowly dissipated from our daily lives. This kind of media has the unique ability to stir our senses with extremely powerful memories that pertain to no singular event. Instead drawing upon a compounded, collective recall of the past which is now obsolete. There’s a communal sensation of “normalcy” that no longer exists outside of our memories. Yet the significance of longing that these snapshots in time provide psychologically can only be realized in the absence of the physical experience that imprinted itself onto our psyche through seemingly insignificant repetition so many years ago.

  • @misterchief3338
    @misterchief3338 5 лет назад +751

    From the 80s to 2009, you can’t really relive this experience anymore.

    • @Yorrito.
      @Yorrito. 5 лет назад +53

      OMG yes I thought I was the only person who thought life after 2010 sucked

    • @LM-ix7pk
      @LM-ix7pk 5 лет назад +79

      Yorrito Kun nah 2010 was good. after 2013 it all went down hill

    • @Yorrito.
      @Yorrito. 5 лет назад +10

      noodlili w/ hot sauce to each his own my dude we all lived different lives 🤗

    • @SaurianStudios1207
      @SaurianStudios1207 5 лет назад +62

      after 2016 everything went to shit actually

    • @sirkayda7205
      @sirkayda7205 5 лет назад +16

      @@SaurianStudios1207 - You mean turned amazing.

  • @moiracolvin1229
    @moiracolvin1229 7 лет назад +743

    This is the kinda edit that you bump into late at night.

    • @toddismyname6652
      @toddismyname6652 7 лет назад +1

      Currently is 2:18 am for me

    • @captaincoconut6020
      @captaincoconut6020 7 лет назад +1

      12 am for me

    • @razrv3lc
      @razrv3lc 7 лет назад +1

      2:14 am and it’s the first video I’ve seen all day. Just went on RUclips and there it was in my suggestions. This video probably doesn’t even exist from 8am-12am

    • @Neongxtts
      @Neongxtts 7 лет назад

      2:45

    • @emmabeddow1215
      @emmabeddow1215 7 лет назад

      2:51am why am I watching this am I okay

  • @troostan2776
    @troostan2776 6 лет назад +3623

    Why does this sound so...
    *R I G H T*

    • @lisaaxx8608
      @lisaaxx8608 6 лет назад +10

      CUZ ITS RIGHT

    • @supr_9661
      @supr_9661 6 лет назад +65

      That makes you tonight’s biggest loser

    • @vinvidici4866
      @vinvidici4866 6 лет назад +3

      Because it is, my friend...

    • @fdtyler
      @fdtyler 6 лет назад +2

      Sal Vulcano sal

    • @lapischicken
      @lapischicken 6 лет назад +16

      because everyone in the mall *L E F T*

  • @Theendbeginsagain
    @Theendbeginsagain Год назад +4

    The mall pictured was the Miracle City Mall in Titusville. I used to love going there even though it was tiny and dying at the time, but it had a little performance stage and this video definitely captures its essence. You could just imagine because you could walk outside and see the river across the way that lead to NASA and the Kennedy space Center, watching the space shuttle takeoff back in the 80s with an orange Julius in hand. The Florida sun shining on you as you’re enveloped in the optimism and promise of the 1980s.

  • @brickmotionz
    @brickmotionz 5 лет назад +4549

    see you all in 5 years when youtube decides to put this on my recommended again.
    Edit: It's been 5 years. We made it.

    • @elumi0
      @elumi0 5 лет назад +14

      BrickMotionz see ya then!

    • @Hysterically_Accurate
      @Hysterically_Accurate 5 лет назад +15

      I'll be here my guy

    • @jasmine-cx8uf
      @jasmine-cx8uf 5 лет назад +11

      Proof I was here :)

    • @syzer4
      @syzer4 5 лет назад +7

      I’ll see then old friend 😔

    • @StillStalkingMoney
      @StillStalkingMoney 5 лет назад +8

      BrickMotionz I feel somewhat committed to make sure I come back in 5 years now :(

  • @jaymcd8577
    @jaymcd8577 6 лет назад +185

    I used to work as a security guard nights at a mall and doing my rounds the management would auto set the pipe in music till around midnight. The odd night a few gems like this would come on while walking the place on my own and I'd sing along, perks of the trade ; )

    • @jaymcd8577
      @jaymcd8577 6 лет назад +7

      lol, yea. My boss caught me singing in the office once though.

  • @aquaazura6545
    @aquaazura6545 7 лет назад +563

    *unknown emotion intensifies*

  • @saccharine2565
    @saccharine2565 4 года назад +62

    This has the same vibe as when you're going to the airport really early in the morning and you feel cold but it's somehow a really nice feeling

  • @devincrawford6508
    @devincrawford6508 6 лет назад +619

    I can already smell the disinfectant they used on the floor last night.

    • @leviray1827
      @leviray1827 5 лет назад +9

      The fucking relatability man

  • @rebecca0liverx
    @rebecca0liverx 7 лет назад +5780

    this made me feel all sorts of shit and i’m not sure why

  • @hannahbibby4
    @hannahbibby4 7 лет назад +1959

    this is art.

    • @titan1853
      @titan1853 7 лет назад

      han. More like an empty mall.

    • @markduran4200
      @markduran4200 7 лет назад +3

      han. More like belongs in the trash

    • @andyrowland6603
      @andyrowland6603 7 лет назад +2

      han. yes it is.A dead mall with a song from it's era when it was a bussling hub of teenage antics.
      Check out the old style tile floor.
      matches Toto!

    • @purlow1443
      @purlow1443 6 лет назад

      Check out our channel m we post similar edits every day

    • @romansilver9086
      @romansilver9086 6 лет назад

      han. Came here to say the same thing. As good as it gets.

  • @lariayuyam7393
    @lariayuyam7393 3 года назад +15

    Pov: it’s late at night and you and your mum decide to go quick shopping, it’s too cold and your mum doesn’t want to go down with you. So you walk into the mall and realize it’s empty, you start dancing to this song with no regrets before leaving with your groceries :)

  • @DammitSinged
    @DammitSinged 6 лет назад +6970

    Theres nothing that _0 men at the mall_ can ever do.

  • @therealThundergod132
    @therealThundergod132 6 лет назад +328

    Every Tuesday, the Walmart store I work at plays this at exactly 10PM. Business is slow around that time so it sounds exactly like this. It's so relaxing lmao.

    • @thanosthethiccfarmer1850
      @thanosthethiccfarmer1850 6 лет назад +48

      T o p 1 0 W a l m a r t l o c a t i o n s

    • @ivane_1429
      @ivane_1429 6 лет назад +4

      quit lying boy

    • @Herpkid56
      @Herpkid56 6 лет назад +4

      Considering Walmart Radio plays at all Walmarts across the country, Bo and Antonio call bullshit.

    • @EmptyHand49
      @EmptyHand49 6 лет назад +2

      Video or it doesn’t happen

  • @sarahe.k.7540
    @sarahe.k.7540 7 лет назад +62

    What the heck are these emotions. It makes me feel nostalgic, calm, and serene. By then it it’s also like when I think I’m alone but feel like something about to come in and kick my butt at any second. Like a kind of calm before the storm vibe. Why. It’s just a video of an empty shopping center.

    • @strawb3rrysuccubus
      @strawb3rrysuccubus 7 лет назад +1

      I know right..?!

    • @sarahe.k.7540
      @sarahe.k.7540 7 лет назад +2

      That’s really interesting like perfect safety is concerning to most people. Absolute comfort isn’t natural? It’s strange but almost part of human nature.

  • @cyanstorm4750
    @cyanstorm4750 4 года назад +100

    Came back to this video because I had a thought: This scene probably played out somewhere in the last couple months.
    In a mall closed for covid but still technically open because the restaurants in the food court are still open and delivering.

    • @glanni
      @glanni 4 года назад

      same lmao

    • @rebeccalembcke5365
      @rebeccalembcke5365 4 года назад

      Me too. Great minds 😂

    • @EpicWolfy98
      @EpicWolfy98 3 года назад

      Yeah, malls here in Ireland are kinda like this rn, only grocery stores and places that sell food are open

  • @valerierigalt6658
    @valerierigalt6658 6 лет назад +310

    Everybody is talking about how they feel the mall is closed and it's late but I feel like I've definitely experienced this in a different way. Like in an old mall near my house which was build in the 80's and was very popular once but now there's only small business and old people working there, it's always a little bit empty but sometimes if you go early in the morning just after they opened doors you get this feeling of being completely alone. So I imagined I was there and someone just turned the speakers on and this song plays while I'm doing some shopping with my mom. It definitely gave me childhood memories ♥️

    • @LovatoLover22
      @LovatoLover22 6 лет назад

      Valerie Rigalt I honestly love ur comment sm ♡ I know that feeling!

    • @kayzzzzzzzzz
      @kayzzzzzzzzz 6 лет назад

      Valerie Rigalt yess

    • @Ahanson0
      @Ahanson0 6 лет назад

      Where do you live cause I am having that exact experience

    • @nuclearpeacex
      @nuclearpeacex 6 лет назад +2

      A mall built in the 80s isn't old at all. Most of them were built in the 60s and 70s when mall culture was becoming a huge thing.

  • @malthehakonssen605
    @malthehakonssen605 6 лет назад +172

    This is like a Strange Dream. You are the only person in an empty mall. It is completely silent. Suddenly this song starts playing. You can hear your own footsteps creating a human atmosphere as you walk down the empty halls - listening to this song as if you were casually shopping. As you walk by, your mind creates memories of people that used to walk by you - not even noticing you. But for you it is different because you used to notice them, and this mall is some kind of inbetween world of reality and the dreaming universe. You are stuck in your bubble, but it is relieving. Your thoughts are your company but also your enemy. And When the song stops, They haunt you again. Again. And again...

    • @maddieh7628
      @maddieh7628 6 лет назад +1

      Malthe Håkonssen, ...whoa

    • @thedoge492
      @thedoge492 6 лет назад

      Unironically speech 100

  • @hannahnear1881
    @hannahnear1881 6 лет назад +521

    Malls...everywhere, really, are closing. Cyber-shopping is taking over, and people simply don't visit malls like they used to. Seeing an empty mall with this song playing, just brings a feeling of nostalgia. It somehow fits.

    • @thevaliant8369
      @thevaliant8369 5 лет назад +18

      Luckily, there's still a small mall open near me. Its been around since before I was born, and it remains a thing that I still get excited about visiting because of how large it is (or at least how it felt like to five-year-old me). Its fun to go back once in awhile and grab stuff from the food court and browse the local gamestop store there.

    • @glitchyx6995
      @glitchyx6995 5 лет назад +15

      I have a shopping mall only a mile away from my house called Robina Town Centre. It's great, it has movie theatres, Bowling Alleys, tons of shops, and my all time favourite, the food court. It's an honour to live in a country that's still filled with malls.

    • @issasultan2896
      @issasultan2896 5 лет назад +4

      3 miles by foot is a awsome mall called serramonte shopping center place is epic always imagined that the first place I go when I get my driver's license just gonna play an entire playlist of gta vc in the parking lot at 2am lol

    • @sawyermounce1927
      @sawyermounce1927 5 лет назад

      Just like rhodesia, the place this song is about

    • @nickr6937
      @nickr6937 5 лет назад

      Lol no malls are shopping. They are getting more popular I believe.

  • @lukyy323
    @lukyy323 4 года назад +7

    I imagine myself sitting in a bench, just vibin' at the song, waiting for nothing at all, living the moment on an empty mall

  • @averagemendoza6896
    @averagemendoza6896 6 лет назад +45

    You're doing shopping in a mall at 10 pm. The man has announced the mall has closed. Africa by Toto plays. You begin to walk to the exit. Life is good.

  • @Vgs183
    @Vgs183 7 лет назад +195

    As someone who has worked in retail most of their life, there something about a song playing when the store is closed that just improves the overall listening experience. Wild.

    • @ryant282a
      @ryant282a 6 лет назад +7

      victoria Lafferty Working in grocery retail for the past 15 years, I can relate and I totally agree.

    • @Vgs183
      @Vgs183 6 лет назад +3

      succulentus kaktuskrew ok troll.

    • @Erkaryos
      @Erkaryos 6 лет назад +4

      Its a beautiful moment when music keeps playing after journey its done .

    • @Wapak95
      @Wapak95 6 лет назад +1

      Imagining myself in an empty shopping mall and it's just me and this music, I find myself the nearest bench and lie on it while listening to this.

    • @iamBIGBROOX
      @iamBIGBROOX 6 лет назад

      victoria Lafferty I used to well overnight at grocery chain for 5 years. The music is unusuallly loud and lively when the stores empty.

  • @mixxup9303
    @mixxup9303 7 лет назад +265

    I think this video has struck a chord in a lot of us for different reasons. It reminds us of a time when malls used to be teeming with busy shoppers and teenagers laughing. This video brings us back to reality that malls, and other places and things that were so dear to us in the past, are slowly fading away. But, this is not to be said in sadness or in grief. Many of the things that we hold precious are precious because they last only a little while. Even if we can’t hold onto a memory mentally, somewhere within us it will always remain. And just like the music in the mall, that memory will sing loudly and at the ready.

    • @CCSI322
      @CCSI322 7 лет назад +16

      Mikki Orr holy shit

    • @razelcloud8277
      @razelcloud8277 7 лет назад +12

      Too bad i live in europe and malls actually work here

    • @vestavind
      @vestavind 7 лет назад +9

      Are malls fading away? My local mall is packed with people everytime I go there, and I don't even live in a big town.

    • @johnnydoe8270
      @johnnydoe8270 6 лет назад +3

      Saudade

    • @darkren0111
      @darkren0111 6 лет назад +3

      I'm pretty sure this mall was photographed at night after closing hours judging by the light, so no wonder it's empty

  • @JelloTwins
    @JelloTwins 2 месяца назад +1

    I literally wrote a poem back when I was in college about this video
    But instead of toto it was the opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci and her voice reverberated off the walls, as you walked through the abandoned mall

  • @DiamanteDea
    @DiamanteDea 7 лет назад +485

    Imagine some crazed guy or girl with big hair has locked you in the vacant mall and going to chase you down until they take your last breathe in a tortuous way.
    This is the song playing through your panic, calm and survival instincts.
    Good luck x

    • @paradise2pink
      @paradise2pink 7 лет назад +3

      Diamante Dea oh my god

    • @paradise2pink
      @paradise2pink 7 лет назад +38

      Though lowkey this would be one of the most peaceful ways to die.

    • @mialfaroable
      @mialfaroable 7 лет назад +20

      THAT WAS DEADASS MY FIRST THOUGHT WHEN I FIRST HEARD THIS

    • @averyjean7224
      @averyjean7224 7 лет назад +4

      Diamante Dea you put my thoughts into words thank you

    • @bencollins2525
      @bencollins2525 7 лет назад +2

      Holy shit

  • @Dr.HannibalLecterVIII
    @Dr.HannibalLecterVIII 6 лет назад +621

    Me: I swear I'm going to get a decent amount of sleep this summer.
    Also me: **watches this at **5:33** AM**

    • @jrbudoybudoy
      @jrbudoybudoy 6 лет назад +3

      Literally me @ 4:26 AM

    • @RhodianColossus
      @RhodianColossus 6 лет назад +4

      Me: I'm gonna enjoy every day of summer like it was the last this year!
      Me at 1 am on August 29th, watching this video: wait fuck where did the summer go

    • @liuxzhao2010
      @liuxzhao2010 6 лет назад +3

      4:18
      I need help
      I need to sleep

    • @thog8169
      @thog8169 6 лет назад +3

      3:50 :/

    • @lambdacalculus3505
      @lambdacalculus3505 6 лет назад +4

      5:33 AM squad

  • @Cheyannesorelle
    @Cheyannesorelle 6 лет назад +289

    It's 1983 and you've just come for a look in the mall with your crush after the prom because it sucked and you guys wanted to bail earlier. There is only 4-5 people probably left in there still, it closes soon and then this song comes on then you both look at each other, smile and just dance together in the middle of that mall like the whole world is watching but its just the two of you and the feeling is so amazing, you're both so content and so glad that you both finally had 'that dance' together then just grab each other hands once the song comes to a close and the security guards start coming to the doors to lock up and you both walk out there together - still dancing sort of and you both leave out into the moonlight of the parking lot.

    • @vjamesd
      @vjamesd 6 лет назад +22

      Chey S u tried a bit too hard

    • @hexxg1rl
      @hexxg1rl 6 лет назад +7

      CRINGEEEEEEEE lol jk that was cute

    • @hoggle9415
      @hoggle9415 6 лет назад +4

      can't be nostalgic if it didn't happen

    • @Nonobabloogey
      @Nonobabloogey 6 лет назад +2

      fake and gay

    • @gabrield8385
      @gabrield8385 6 лет назад +3

      Hunter Martin cool and good

  • @brennahenry8138
    @brennahenry8138 4 года назад +104

    POV: You’re being chased by a demogorgan and this song comes on
    The demogorgan starts dancing while you sing
    You wake up from your dream.

  • @anangstyghost5819
    @anangstyghost5819 7 лет назад +1588

    Currently playing this at almost midnight trying to start 2018 right

  • @fnaf2ventnoise330
    @fnaf2ventnoise330 5 лет назад +801

    POV: you’re lost in a mall, panicking, seconds from breaking down. Then this song comes on...and everything feels a little more ok

    • @monsoon3220
      @monsoon3220 4 года назад +19

      I would have been more scared and running away from nothing for my life.

    • @ajohnson82454
      @ajohnson82454 4 года назад +9

      Makaio 808 same for me, anytime i can’t see people, i worry that something is just going to come out of someplace and kill me

    • @Nhnhnfk
      @Nhnhnfk 4 года назад +7

      Hurry boy Mom's waiting there for you

    • @dr.ham101
      @dr.ham101 4 года назад

      and you get data

    • @silkythevoidmoth8404
      @silkythevoidmoth8404 3 года назад +1

      SCP-3008?
      Edit: im the only reply here, it looks like there are no more replies, so empty..

  • @pauls1758
    @pauls1758 5 лет назад +566

    This feels like some distant, beautiful, calm but yet melancholic memory of something I never experienced.
    It makes we want to take the next train to the airport and watch the planes while the sun rises on a cold and clear winter morning.

    • @hbgacha6185
      @hbgacha6185 5 лет назад +9

      I kinda think we had a previous life before we were born but maybe I'm crazy for thinking that

    • @theizzidor1319
      @theizzidor1319 4 года назад +3

      This is what is called a liminal space, check it out, it explains everything.

    • @Lexster918
      @Lexster918 4 года назад +4

      I have experienced this mall. It’s called Miracle City Mall in FL. I grew up going to this mall in the 90s and 2000s. It was just as peaceful but had stores and customers. I’m so happy to see it now as a viral video. :)
      It’s been demolished and replaced. The memories remain. :’)

    • @everettrailfan
      @everettrailfan 4 года назад +2

      As a planespotter, that's my dream.

    • @youremyfavoritesong9868
      @youremyfavoritesong9868 4 года назад +1

      Same I feel like I've lost something that I never had and I can't tell if it's just that I'm an emotional wreck on my period sitting on the couch eating potato chips or if I actually had a past life and I'm remembering that.

  • @AXEL1973
    @AXEL1973 5 лет назад +32

    its like i'm actually right there, browsing the Sears 1-off's section for a decent pair of $8 jeans, and the only other person besides the sad, cake-frosting-faced perfume saleswoman is an elderly widow in the modern ladies' lingerie section scowling at mannequins in quiet frustration.
    hurry boy, she's waiting there for youuuu

  • @gabethedeer5757
    @gabethedeer5757 6 лет назад +364

    you’re sitting on the bench by the now dusty fountain; all the coins people had thrown in were long gone. you’re alone. not just here, everywhere. you haven’t seen another person in months. the same disc of 80s hits has been playing in this empty mall for weeks now. you look down at your hands, covered with cuts and smudged dirt, reminiscing about the times when malls were full of life.
    the chorus of Toto’s Africa wakes you from your thoughts. you stand up, tilt your head towards the skylight, and start to cry as you sing out the lyrics as loud as you can. “i bless the rains down in africa,” you wail, tears streaming down your face.
    after a moment, you sit back down, as silent as the rest of the shopping center save for the eerie sound of the upbeat 80s music. the same songs drone on, even as you get up and walk away. even as you exit the mall. forever.

    • @faolanthealpha5827
      @faolanthealpha5827 6 лет назад +31

      Damn dude you took me through a journey...

    • @ukkovuorela4196
      @ukkovuorela4196 6 лет назад +16

      ok

    • @Serenityrockstar
      @Serenityrockstar 6 лет назад +19

      i really just had a mental flash of me dropping to my knees, with my hands spread out at the side with my shirt wide open in the 90's rnb way and wailing. dude what the fuck.

    • @bestfrikndonuts
      @bestfrikndonuts 6 лет назад +6

      Wtf

    • @qaaris4280
      @qaaris4280 6 лет назад +7

      I fucking read it so perfectly, I let the song say the line for me.

  • @Aahna
    @Aahna 7 лет назад +67

    I know this mall. I grew up with this mall. This mall has been torn down. This knowledge makes this whole video so much more creepier and sad

    • @anthonyc1515
      @anthonyc1515 7 лет назад

      Damn bro. I'm so sorry ;(

    • @GameGrinder
      @GameGrinder 7 лет назад

      What mall was it?

    • @Aahna
      @Aahna 7 лет назад +10

      Miracle City Mall. They tore it down because the only thing left in there was a books-a-million and a hot dog stand

    • @Itsleeuhhhhh
      @Itsleeuhhhhh 7 лет назад +3

      Wow a fellow Titusville person lol. Small world.

    • @patriciakimpel
      @patriciakimpel 6 лет назад +5

      Omg I thought this was Miracle City!!! We use to walk here after school let out to kill time before band practice. So many feels! :(

  • @bfallon7076
    @bfallon7076 7 лет назад +344

    this video gives off a very powerful energy. and i’m not sure why

  • @음악채널-n8j
    @음악채널-n8j Месяц назад +1

    This specific video made me get into old music❤

  • @chrisredfield731
    @chrisredfield731 7 лет назад +3299

    i feel like i'm gonna die

    • @spinosaurus2001
      @spinosaurus2001 7 лет назад +67

      chrisredfield731 This comment is so menacing I love it

    • @ytbloversDisney
      @ytbloversDisney 7 лет назад +54

      I was having the same feeling

    • @destinyadira9895
      @destinyadira9895 7 лет назад +70

      I feel like someone is going to kill me, specifically. Probably an axe murder.

    • @gerald1495
      @gerald1495 7 лет назад +36

      Well, you are

    • @xanthra592
      @xanthra592 7 лет назад +26

      i can help you

  • @illegitimatefilm
    @illegitimatefilm 6 лет назад +144

    You can tell this is a still photo, because if it was filmed when the song played, we would see a jungle magically growing through the place.

  • @lilymarmash5765
    @lilymarmash5765 6 лет назад +1607

    this makes me think about how theres no malls like this around anymore. Online shopping is taking over. Just imagine it being a hot 1984 day, and you and your friends decide to go to the mall, and this song starts playing.

    • @wavyuchiha5224
      @wavyuchiha5224 5 лет назад +15

      Fr... :(

    • @bhinz6389
      @bhinz6389 5 лет назад +97

      It is taking over but not for long, because Generation Zers are turning back to physical stores. But they'll visit these large, modern malls and not old fashioned malls.

    • @rishisagar5026
      @rishisagar5026 5 лет назад +82

      That's why we watch stranger things

    • @Mydeadvalentine
      @Mydeadvalentine 5 лет назад +5

      Lily Marmash this...this right here...feels right

    • @avvivv7080
      @avvivv7080 5 лет назад +23

      Yeah going to the mall is fun.Trying on everything;who wants to shop online all day?

  • @DIEGOHERNANDEZ-jz7ov
    @DIEGOHERNANDEZ-jz7ov 4 года назад +175

    Anyone else feels empty like the shopping center?

    • @anthonyedits9475
      @anthonyedits9475 4 года назад +12

      Right here brother

    • @Nhnhnfk
      @Nhnhnfk 4 года назад +8

      We all do mate

    • @alienkreeper
      @alienkreeper 4 года назад +6

      I used to feel like that. Now I feel like the mall that was torn down near where I live.

    • @ghostlyme
      @ghostlyme 4 года назад +2

      Everyday

    • @lancevancebaby4987
      @lancevancebaby4987 3 года назад +1

      r/im14andthisisdeep

  • @checkmyplaylist6879
    @checkmyplaylist6879 6 лет назад +1898

    Oh, this is why my dad was a janitor a couple years ago