Therapist breathes in Sulfur by Slipknot
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Therapist analyzes the lyrics to Slipknot's song Sulfur. In the analysis, she discusses how when we are in an environment that is poison it makes sense that we would experience negative symptoms, and we have to be able to recognize where a change in environment ( finding clean air) can be a step in changing our mood and mindset.
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I think Vermillion part 1 and 2 would be insane to see your perspective on as a therapist.
Holy crap, you're so right!
I concur
Absolutely agree! 💯
100
yes but even more interesting to see reaction to ,,virus of life''
You don’t always know where you stand, until you know that you won’t run away. Fantastic line.
I'm got that line tattooed with their S above it on my forearm. I love that line so much.
That part "I am gonna laugh when I'm buried alive" always get me good.
I always loved "im a sinner to most but a sage to some" its the most accurate description of corey taylor he is very self aware
Sulfur is really cool song with some intriguing layers. I love The contrast created by Corey’s vocals, shifting between clean and powerful gutturals.
More over, The band consistently deliberem-se a high-level musical repertoire, showcasing expertise in musical structure, including orchestration, harmony, dynamics, and form.
The Guitar riffs are killer, and Joey Jordison was truly exceptional!
Great react!!
As someone with cptsd, depression and anxiety slipknot have helped me get out alot of trapped emotions def saved my life a few times
"You don't always know where you stand until you know that you won't run away" means you you don't know where your convictions lie until you're brave enough to stand for them.
So, this just turned up on my Google feed and I am SO happy it did!
I have battled with depression, anxiety and a feeling of not knowing myself for most of my life (undiagnosed neurodivergance really f'ed me up).
Slipknot has always been a massive outlet for these feelings, I've obsessed over these lyrics for years. Its so awesome to hear a professional break the lyrics down to the deeper meaning.
Lyrics are personal, both to the composer and to the listener but hearing a more analytical approach is finding new meanings and love for these songs I know so well!
Same here. I went through all of high school with undiagnosed bipolar type 2 and OCD. These lyrics and the sound always spoke to me in either depression, melancholy, or hypomania. I've always wondered if it was bad that their music spoke to me! So, Agreed! Seeing a professional's opinion on these is great, and showing that listening to the music isn't a sign of being a horrible person deep down (my fear caused by OCD is that I am flawed). Her reactions are doing a great thing
One of their best songs, one of their best band-only videos and the musical aptitude that went into it is just tops. It is an amazing song with and without lyrics. Plus, it was one of the last videos that had the original nine members including Paul, Joey and Chris. RIP
These reactions actually make my whole day 🖤
I realised a while ago that the harsh breathing at the beginning and end sounds just like someone who's lungs and throat are seared, scorched and damaged, just like those of someone who is always breathing harmful gasses, who is Breathing In Sulphur.
A person who has always lived with depression will bear those scars, will struggle even after reaching that fresh air, and others will often hear it and see it.
Some real reaction candy for a therapist would be any song of iowa, disasterpiece, metabolic, everything ends, gently, all these songs have a incredible amount of emotion in them as it also was the darkest time of the band.
so basically, the entire iowa album
Love your reactions and analysis of these great songs so glad I found you
I needed to hear that. Thank you.
I've been listening to the reacts to Slipknot but now I can actually comment! Love your take on the content that is their music. I think that the respirator sounds in the beginning and end, they are the things in life that ARE enjoyable or give some reprieve to someone who is suffering. That being in that depressive fog, or that sulfur, is so harmful but there are the small things that one can find in life, to give them room to breathe. Like this song 🙂 All the best!
should react disasterpiece
I can relate to this song. Your analysis hit hard.
Glad I found these videos
Good reaction Therapist! You look marvelous!
Slipknot is my favorite band and i love this song
This is a song I think about often. You don't always know where you stand, 'til you know that you won't run away.
I take this to mean that you don't always know what morals, dreams and ideals you truly stand for until you are tested somehow. If someone can make you abandon a dream, or retreat from a moral or ideal you claim to uphold, then that's not really where you stand, but the moment you stop, stand your ground and realise that what is being challenged is something you can't abide, then you now know where you stand.
I can put up with people fighting, I can say fighting is bad, but I can be forced to fight, and I can abide it. I don't stand on that moral. But if someone was to beat a child, what would I do? Would I walk away? Would I intervene? I don't know where I stand on that, I've never encountered that. But the moment it happens in front of me, if I choose to step up and stop it, I'll know exactly where I stand on that, it'll either be something I can accept happens, and walk away, and it won't be where I stand, or it'll be something I can't run away from, something that makes me stand my ground and push back on.
This can be true of anything. I'm depressed, lonely and I'm in constant pain. But I can't abide self harming or suicide. I've been up to that line, and I push back and refuse. I get angry at the thought of letting myself do that, and will stand my ground on that.
I also push back against drinking, smoking and drugs. I've had pressures to try, but I've stood my ground. I know where I stand there, because I don't run away or give in. I challenge the pressure and say no.
You don't always know where you stand, even if you're a super confident person, but the moment you know that you won't run away from an issue, you'll know 100%, even if you're the biggest coward.
Where do you stand? What have you refused to run away from? This song seems to be tackling that in my opinion. I can suffer, I can bleed, I can be pushed and pressured in my life, stressed and attacked, but I will stand against the things I find untenable, immoral, unjust and wrong. I won't give up, I won't give in, I won't die and I won't back down. I will beat this, through determination, willpower, or just bloody-minded spite for this world and my detractors. The scariest words in the English language are "well, fuck it!". When you accept your lot and decide you're going to do it or die trying. This often is followed by a legendary performance from an absolute monster.
Back in world war 2, there was a single man who got so pissed off with tanks that he decided "fuck it" and became a tank hunter. He only had hand held anti tank shell launchers. Major Robert Cain led his infantry against a tank column and fought hard, sometimes running out of ammo to fire, or drawing enemy fire to himself to help his company get better shots. He was temporarily blinded and blown across a room when a shell exploded in his face, he spent 30 minutes in camp recovering before he walked back to the front to blow up more tanks. He was a menace, but he held the line against a German tank column, rescued countless men. He was supposed to hold the line for an amount of time, and held the line and then got his men out when the time came, also dragging a few other companies out of the fire with him. He left a hero, but then went straight back in to finish the war.
He accepted his fate, he knew where he stood, and he did his best to ensure many of his men made it back home. When you know what you cannot abide, you can accept standing against anything to ensure you don't take one more step away from it, even staring down a tank without a shred of fear.
That breadth is so clear everyone can ears that
First c: I love your videos and I totally agree with your perspective of their songs I agree with you 100% ❤
I LOVE THIS SONG!!
This song helps me feel like I'm not alone
"Katatonia" healed me from every trauma, as did Vader and Death. I wouldn't look for reason and peace in Slipkot. Everyone has their own sensitivity, but Katatonia saved me, it works.
This is the first one of these I've seen - I love this concept!
I thought you were going to go deeper into what I feel is probably one of the most important lyrics of this song. At about 4:30 you address part of it - "You don't always know where you stand ..." though the whole line - "STAY ... You don't always know where you stand ... till you know that you won't run away" - I think there's more there to unravel.
I look at it as How much 'sulfur' can I breathe - how much pain/suffering/mental torment can I handle - before I 'peace out' and run away? Is 'running away' another way of saying self-harm/ending one's self? Is "STAY" a message to one's self, saying that by bouncing from one unhealthy thing to another, you don't know what you can really handle before falling to complete rock bottom or "running away" from life, so even though you are in this state of depression, be careful not to do things to go deeper into that state because you may not be able to handle it, but your current state, you can handle.
I need to look at what other one's you've done - would love to see your take on "Wait and Bleed" and "Duality"
Aaaaaand you've done them yay!
I'm a little older than most that enjoy Skipknot. But watching your breakdown of the lyrics has given me a new appreciation of why I like the music. Never critically thought about the lyrics, just enjoyed the music. I am down in my own hole that I am clawing out of. Thank you!
Pppfff I'm recovering from a dipression.
My supportive wife and 2 children helpt me through al of it.
Music like this song was a big support to.
Now I'm healing and getting back on my feet.
Life is not easy but white the recht people around you it wil be better. ❤
That thing on the ceiling is a sulfur pit.
And the big part for me is when he says "Stay. You don't always know where you stand. Til you know that you won't run away."
For me it about not bailing on life. Find a place where you know you can stand strong and true. Stay. It gets hard, but when you find a place you won't run from, stay. Don't self-delete.
As always an interesting reaction, we learn more about the meaning, thank you for your work !!!
I would love to see a reaction of Finale
I just subscribed to your channel .... life long fan of Slipknot, I live in that same space. You're forward aggression (reaction) to Corey and the group is welcomed. I've seen them twice live ..... total experience. This explains so much .................
Arguably one of the best breakdowns they’ve ever written at the end
I wish we had a therapist like you here in australia maybe then i would go so for now music is my therapy. Love the reactions thank you
Time to binge the rest of your videos because you get it🙏🙏
i love this song it basically is how i feel most days
Strong analysis of a strong song.
This song is about depression, but it could relate to any bad addiction.
There is something that I have been learning for the past 5 1/2 years in which at times I felt good, there is as many times where I was struggling, ending up very frustrated. I listened to others that said to do it more, practice and learning more. Yet the results are the same. Spent too much tine, money and energy towards it and still be Mediocre.
There are benefits, though, so I am cutting back and enjoying other things that I know I can do better.
love the dancing, gets me every time.
As a Navy Diver i just f*cking love that breathing noise at the beginning! Exactly like that! Lol
Child of Burning Time…
I literally spun and spun and spun All Hope is Gone when I got divorced and that song was on repeat for so long… I felt so connected and still do.
"I'm gonna suffer for the rest of my life but I will always find a way to survive I'm not a failure but I know what it's like I can take it or leave it or die" I felt that
Song resonates with me recently
I love this song
@heartsupport I've been trying to deal with the death of my mom for 8 years this coming September 13th, I honestly don't know how to go on with my life nearly every day. But I have found comfort in metal music because I love the messages that are in the lyrics.
From Micro: @Vlad24424 So thankful you've managed to find comfort in music - there is truly something incredibly powerful in the way it can help us reconnect with parts of ourselves that need our attention and care. It's this unexpected call for *feeling* the things we need, sitting down with ourselves and embrace our heart just as it is.
With grief especially, there is a pain that feels as if it has been stuck in time, and is meant to remain the same over time - raw, acute, heartbreaking. I can only imagine how carrying this open wound has been for you during the last eight years, and how much the loss of your mom has a significant impact on your life, on who you are and on how you navigate your own existence. It's such a brutal reality to compose with. It is so hard to face the silence that one's absence leaves us with once they are gone.
You love your mom undoubtedly with all your heart, and it's understandable that the perspective of September 13th is something you would dread each year. Personally, I've had a similar experience with death "anniversaries".I tend to think about it and anticipate it a long time before it takes place as I know that it is going to affect me in ways I don't want to feel anymore. Usually, I let my close circle know that I'm not going to be functional around that time. It feels as if something stops in me and life needs to be put on pause, even though I don't always want to. During those times, it's been particularly helpful to be kind to myself and as patient as possible. Just because grief hits in ways that feel so unpredictable at times, and all of what we feel during those "waves" is absolutely valid.
I hope with all my heart that, this year, you will have the possibility to nurture this kindness towards yourself, as much as you need. You have lost someone so very important in your life, and the journey towards composing with their absence is one of the toughest ones that is. It is okay to take your time, to talk about it as much as you need, to let yourself be supported by people who care about you too. How you feel and how you navigate through this loss is so important.
Feel absolutely free to share more if you would like it. You are not alone, friend. We care about you. :heart:
I need you to react to every song slipknot has ever written. please.
You know sulfur is that Thing on top of the video they like inside it I love it 🤘🏻
I need you to listen to left behind, it’s my favorite song and explains the way I feel and people who feel left out. Love the content btw keep doing what you do❤
OMG I would LOVE to watch her talk about Left Behind!
Looks like we got our request!
@@volrath__ I WAS JUST ABOUT TO TELL YOU THAT LOOOL
@@liquid_wrld5326 Saw your like as I was watching the video! 😂😊
Eyeless
This Cold Black off the same record as this song is a banger and sooooo underrated!!🤘🏼🤘🏼
The whole album has a really deep message for all the people, it criticizes the politics and the status quo, really recommended
You rock. I enjoy your insights. I’d love to hear slipknot opinion on your thoughts. Either way you’re sending a good interpretation
“Shred” idk why but it’s awesome
Something that has helped me with my ptsd and depression is asking myself "why am I giving this feeling so much importance?" After asking myself that, I drop that feeling off and walk away from it. I visualize myself walking along the sidewalk and dropping the feeling in the storm drain. I hope that helps you.
This song gets me
6:52
Now that's a Narsty stank face XD
So glad that you don't immediately right off metal as just noise. We need more people that appreciate metal for the emotional powerhouse that it is.
Good shit
This is my absolute favorite slipknot song. Theres sone heavier cool grooves but this was the first that really resonated with me. Amazing poetry from Corey Taylor as per usual. I cant remember how many times ive sung this song just in general absolute banger.
Just saying these guys saved my life many times....
ive been trying to tell non-metal people that this music is so much deeper, on the surface it looks evil and bad....but go deeper and really listen...... those who have ears to hear will get it..... thank you for doing these !!
That whole album alone is bad ass
When you take a break from Slipknot, check out Shadows Fall - "Still I Rise". Great song, with some inspirational lyrics.
Won't run away even if its like breathing in sulfur
To me, this song was always about stubborn tenacity. I could be reading into it but it always sounded like all this stuff can happen but I'm still here. "You don't always know where you stand until you know that you won't run away" sounds like finding your hill, what you're willing to defend. Smelling sulfur sounds like an allusion to battle. Gun smoke smells like sulfur. "My gods are untrue, I'm probably wrong but I'm better than you." My deeply held believes may not be correct but you're not going to be the one to tell me that. There's a lot of Clint Eastwood vibes here. The grizzled civil war vet in the western sort of feel.
I am a therapist, I died multiple times, sometimes, love this reaction, cuz toxic life l
I am new to your channel and like your content so far :)
I don´t know if you have listened to a band called Cradle Of FIlth but It would be interesting to get your perspective of some of the songs from Cradle Of FIlth for example Cradle Of Filth - From the Cradle of Enslave.
You look like you would be so much fun at a Slipknot concert from your other reactions to the band.. I bet you would jump into the pit wide open. Love your reactions.
I would love to see you do their song "Spiders"
Check out "If you want to breathe my sulphur" mash up of spice girls and this song... Absolutely hysterical and very well done.
I would be interested to see you analyze “AOV”
Hi I’m John love your content an your reaction to each song . I’ve been listening to slipknot since they started back in 1995 , it was a awesome era for 80’s baby’s 🤟🏼question , now that you have listened to a lot of slipknot songs what is your honest position on them? Love hate would love to hear your thoughts ☺️
What you said on the first break is me I. A nutshell
I highly Recommend The Song Make It Stop (September's Children) By Rise Against it has a very important mental health messages but it is better if you discover it on your own
One song I'd be interested in you reacting to is "I won't see you tonight part I" By Avenged Sevenfold. There is a part 2 as well and both are polar opposites of one another and gives two perspectives of a tragic situation. I think you would dig it.
This woman truly understands. Can you react to falling in reverse? plzz
Please do Eyeless, Sic, I am hated, Disasterpiece… Metallica Fade to Black, NIN… love your videos
Slipknot- metabolic!
The breathing at the beginning and end was recorded when Corey was asleep
Slipknot analyzed even the therapist understood 😱😱🤔🤔
6:25 "let's wait till the end, I want to see if there's anything else". Yes, one of the dirtiest break-downs ever.
I like how we talking about depression and suicide and she just throws in this clip 2:56
A band that is criminally underrated is While She Sleeps. They did a song with Olie from Bring Me The Horizon called, Silence Speaks. They have great meaning behind their songs
Everything ends by slipknot will be great for you to react very meaningful lyrics
Joey jordison 🔥🔥
I have really been enjoying your reactions and analysis of songs. I would like to recommend Metallica All within my hands as a song you might make a video on. Really good stuff :)
keep up the amazing work i love how into the music you get. more songs by slipknot would be sic, surfacing, spit it out, people = shit, the heretic anthem, aov, killpop, nero forte, yen. should also checkout stuff from the singer corey taylor's other band stone sour as well as his solo stuff more singing less screaming and growls.
from stone sour: bother, through glass, 30/30-150, made of scars, digital (did you tell), say you'll haunt me, gone sovereign/absolute zero, tired, do me a favor, song #3, fabuless.
from solo stuff: black eyes blue, cmft must be stopped, from can to cant
I've always wondered if I would have a better life if I had forwarded those chain emails.
Listen to Whitechapel's " I Will Find You". I think you will like this. I can relate to this song , because I feel that I have lost a part of myself somewhere.
You should react to The Amity Affliction - Pittsburgh
check out 'Rise Above This' by Seether
Has she reacted to anything off of the iowa album?
Vermillion part 2 pleaseeee
You can try "all out life" from slipknot too
You wont be dissapointed
I've always assumed that "Breathing in sulfur" was a reference to the fumes or scent left behind after shooting a gun. Which, in the context of the song always made sense to me. Just an observation. The song is a banger regardless.
Edit: I also just read that according to the Bible, Hell smells like Sulfur.
I think you need to try some songs from the first 2 albums (ST and Iowa.)
Some severely warped ideas on those 2 albums.
You really need to do some Falling in reverse songs!
Amon Amarth - Find a way or make one
😹😹😹😹Them faces😹😹😹👍👍👍💚💚💚
Girl like metal NICE I LIKE
you should do disasterpiece
How would I be able to go to therapy if it makes me feel even lower since I'm such a failure I have to pay someone to act like they care about me...
From Micro: @eks5470 Hey friend, this is a really important question as well as a valid concern that you share here. There can be so many barriers, fears and worries that get in the way between us and the possibility of asking for help, and it's fundamental to talk about it as much as we can. I can assure you that these concerns don't have to condition for you the possibility to be supported as you need.
For what it's worth, I've felt in a very similar way as you before really giving a try to therapy. I've struggled with social and performance anxiety in a heavy way for a good chunk of my life, so the very thought of reaching out to a professional and meeting them always activated a tons of fears in me. I was afraid of being a burden, of taking their time while someone else could need it, of not knowing what to say, of not really needing therapy and fooling myself, of appearing ridiculous, that my struggles wouldn't be important enough, of meeting someone who wouldn't help me in the end, of "wasting" money, etc.
One of these thoughts was also the rejection of the idea that I would have to pay for someone to offer me some of their time and help. If you feel alone in your life, if you don't really have anyone to talk to, it almost feel like an insult to think about therapy. You see everyone around having people in their life and you would somehow have to go through the injustice of needing to *pay* in order to have something similar - which feels unfair. The fact that the relationship with a therapist is based on a contract can make it seem artificial and not authentic. And if you don't see any value in you or feel completely worthless, it adds to this sense of lack of authenticity... It feels as if you almost have to force someone to spend time with you and actually care for you, which hurts.
Something that helped me personally to overcome these thoughts over time was to remind myself regularly though that a therapist *chooses* to do this job, and the fact that they show up to a meeting is their decision, not mine. They do it because they *want* to be present for people, meet them at a highly personal/vulnerable level, and to walk alongside them during a significant part of their life. They are making themselves available, exactly for the people who don't have anyone in their life, and to people who may be convinced that they are worth nothing. When you pay them and are the client, you are not forcing them to care for you somehow - they chose to be in that place, and they do so willingly (when a therapist doesn't, it's quickly noticeable and it's a sign they need to work in a different field!). There are times when this thought, this somewhat shame of feeling like I was pathetic for being on therapy really hit deeply. But then I quickly realize, by being there and thanks to the trust I could establish with my therapist, that these thoughts/shame didn't need to be there, and instead I could embrace this process as an opportunity.
I can assure you that there is no shame in facing the need to opt for therapy. It doesn't say anything about you, your worth, your value or even your relational life. There's a lot of people who seek therapy while they have people in their life, because what you can get out of the space you share with a therapist is quite unique and can't necessarily be found in other spaces (work, family, friends, etc). It is an absolutely neutral, non-judgmental place where you can be yourself unapologetically and where you can experiment/explore things that help you learn more about yourself. Overall, needing therapy does not make you a failure - on the contrary, it reflects your strength because therapy implies to be vulnerable and to talk about things that are difficult, which is something that we all use to avoid at first. What's easier is to *not* try and to avoid what hurts. It takes courage to (1) acknowledge when we need help, to (2) accept it and to (3) seek support.
My encouragement for you is to not let these fears become reasons for you to not seek help if you feel like therapy could be an interesting thing for you to try. It is difficult and it takes energy, but you are also not alone on that path and you can constantly evaluate how the process of therapy feels *with* the therapist. You constantly have an ally with you with whom you can talk openly, which makes a big difference. I have personally spent myself more than 10 yrs listening to all the fears I had and finding justifications in them to not reach out - but now that I'm on the other side of it, after a couple of years of therapy I regret not trying it sooner. Even if it ends up not being for you, the very fact that you allow yourself to try, experiment and build your own conclusions brings a lot to the table. It's always nice to have someone in our life who can help us see through the negative perceptions we have of ourselves.
You matter, friend. When you seek help, you are also the very first person showing up for yourself, validating your needs and validating the fact that you do matter. It's a beautiful act of self-love in itself, and it never defines your worth. :heart:
Breakdown Yen please!