Bat For Lashes - Laura (Official Music Video)
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- Laura is taken from Bat For Lashes' album 'The Haunted Man'. Available everywhere now.
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Music video by Bat For Lashes performing Laura. (P) 2012 The copyright in this audiovisual recording is owned by The Echo Label Ltd under exclusive licence to EMI Records Ltd. - Hudba
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My wife Laura died September from a 6 week battle with cancer. She was 36 and left behind myself and two beautiful children. She was more than a superstar x
May YOUR LAURA rest in peace.
My condolences Ollie,
Sending you and your family prayers.
My God, mate, I am sure she was. And so are you and your two kids.
Dear Ollie, May you keep Laura's memories alive for you and your children, as hard as it is she was your superstar. I cannot even begin to imagine what you have lost but I hope you are keeping as strong as able, nevertheless people are here for you and please reach out when you feel down. I hate September as I lost someone then too and if you ever need to speak your emotions when you feel you can't to those close to you, I will happily be the person you can voice any and all feelings to if needed. wishing you the best and hope you are ok
Sending you and your family so much love ❤
Thank you x
My name is Laura. I started to cry when she sang "Laura you're more than a superstar". I felt so down today. This song gives me hope.
I hope things got better for you.
Trust you are better. There’s lots of help out there.
Dear Laura ur more than a superstar😊❤
Same. I needed this.
I bet you bring the party wherever you go and your smile lights up a dim room. You're important and I hope you have a blessed life because you deserve it. I hope you feel better because you matter. ❤❤❤
These words are so perfect for my daughter Laura, sadly left us on 13/2/22 forever heartbroken! Forever beautiful and forever 36💔
When you think of Laura; laugh, don't cry. I know she'd want it that way.
💙
i listened to this song a lot when i was homeless from hurricane sandy. i was 14-15 at the time, im now 25. i went through a lot of shit like suicidal thoughts, my family splitting up, severe depression and anxiety. i attempted suicide march of 2013, but this song stopped me in my tracks and made me realize i needed help.
🫂❤️🙏🏽
I did an analysis of the lyrics of this song for a university assignment. I'm now about to graduate. This song is literally part of my progress in life. Thank you for its creation.
and what is the conclusion? are all Laura's the same? I mean because I'm a Laura too. And it's interesting to see if names define personalities.
Because I am Laura!
@@Pzychonoir I want to know this too. Because how are there so many Laura's?
"You're the train that crashed my heart" made me name my daughter Laura. Her mother doesn't know. But in my mind, in my life she is a superstar. Laura❤
Your degrees is literally worthless. Thanks for failing society.
You're the train that crashed my heart
you're the glitter in the dark...
Only found this beauty of a song watching Wentworth ..... the tragic deaths of both bea and Debbie are scored on my heart forever , although only fiction I’m deeply moved INCREDIBLY POWERFUL ♥️ matches this song perfectly ♥️
I love wentworth I'm re watching right now it, it's my favorite show it's so good ❤
@@graycote7094 I’m also rewatching. Such a good show.
❤I'm watching wentworth for the fourth time! This series is one of my favorites ❤ And this song is simply magical and moving ❤❤❤
same here
One of my favorite shows. I've rewatched multiple times.
as a Laura i´m thankful and grateful for this song.
same
:) the people who sit behind me in maths always sing this haahahaha
Laura Cottman ouw that must be really nice :)
Sorry for comment in this comment bc my name is not Laura
I share your last name, does that mean the song applies to me too?
this song always makes me cry, it's like she's talking to me and she sings all the words I've ever wished to hear from someone
I think that too!! Lol!!! X
Rest In Peace Bea Smith 💔☹️ forever loved by Wentworth
Mamii Cocaína it seem like I lost bea in real life sad
I hadn't started watching Wentworth until recently but when I got to that scene at the end of season 4 and then at the beginning of season 5 I lost my mind I didn't cry but I came close be with such an incredible character and she went through hell but still made it out stronger than anyone ever would have been able to and when she finally finds happiness she feels that that person has been taken away from her and she ends up going to get herself killed to destroy the person who took away the one person she really loved besides her daughter only for that person to end up being alive and having to go on without her but that shows how much love bea Smith had for Allie
This song never gets old. Fucking masterpiece.
"You'll be famous for longer than them, your name is tattooed on every boys skin-- ooo-oh Laura you're more than a superstar."
The french horns at the end of the chorus are sublime. So pure.
Yes!! They make me nostalgic for some reason, felt like I was listening to a theme tune from my childhood
BEA 😓 I still think about you I love you ❤️😘 BEA SMITH for ever in my heart
I just re-watched it tonight
I love Bat for Lashes music. She is a millennial creative music artist with an eighties sensibility, mixed with fantasy,empathy, hope, and optimism.
Lana del Rey also
I read on Wikipedia that she's born 1979. I guess I'm also a millennial then being born 1978. 😃 Feeling young and fresh! 🦾
I've just realized Natasha's videos always end with hugs. Love it!
Daniel... when i first HUGGED you...
RIP Bea Smith. we love you to the moon and back.
The Disparate damnit this comment made me cry...
The Disparate 😭😭
❤️
RIP bea will always be missed wentworth won’t be the same without you ❤️😭
Wow ! I love this song, and I did not know it was Bat For Lashes !
Thank you Wentworth Prison for introducing me too this amazing piece of music. Absolutely beautiful
Its correctional center
@@topazingram99 No.....It's a piece of music.
Correctional center = prison 🙄
RIP Bea Smith #wentworth
Me too. R.I.P BEA Smith
I'm speechless, this is a masterpiece...
+Jaime Jiménez Palma I have came here so late, but I got the same opinion... this is a masterpiece
+Marta Jerez Coming in 10 years lator, screwed af. :(
It truly is. I know I am so late to reply to this comment, but i needed to. This is the best song i have heard in years. Seeing Bat For Lashes in concert was the best day of my LIFE. She is such an inspiration.
Jaime Jiménez Palma true.
I’m here from went worth I love it
Most simple seductive beautiful song in the world. My sister is called Laura and she is an absolute superstar, she helped me through my abuse and trauma. She was there when no one else was. Because of her she gave me the strength to write a book about my childhood and selfpublish and put it out there!
That is so Beautiful!!!🥰🥰🥰
What's the name of the book? Wish you a happy life, I know how a bad childhood can hurt!!
@@user-oz9mp3fe6t it's called Sweet Dreams by Andrew Turvill
Hi Andrew, i do wish you well in your life & i'm sorry, to hear of any childhood pain that you had to endure. I'll buy a copy of your book. Take care & may only love, light, peace & positivity follow you.
@GLOBALLOVER&TRAVELLER that is so very kind of you! Yes lots of love and light ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I saw Natasha Khan when I walking down the street on Laugarvegur in Reykjavík. She was in tourist gear and smiling. She was with Jonsi from Sigur Rós. I was like oh oh its Bat for lashes but I didn´t. I kept it cool and walked past her. She was so cute
Lucky you!
shes so goddamn beautiful
Ooh, I'd love to hear a collaboration between them!
This song is gorgeous. Them performing in an empty theatre made everything feel a little bit more emotional than it already was. Good job :)
Yes. I agree.
WE LOVE YOU QUEEN BEA👑🐝
As a Progressive rock musician I am rarely moved by music. She has always delivered beautiful, poignant art.
What's it like having such refined sensibilities
@@alanharris7878 I like things and stuff:)
Sirus commercial brought me back to how much I would listen for Bat for Lashes. I would listen to this so much back than and now 2024 ans it still hits for me.
I love this song so much! Although my best friend and big sister was named Laura. She passed of cancer when I was a teenager. Our mother and I by her side, until she breathed her last breath.. Listening to this song is like talking about her and her death. Some days I can listen/speak and smile. Other days it's a good way to make myself weep. Beautiful song though! And she was a beautiful person. Laura you're more than a super star. ❤️❤️❤️
Gabriel Aderre RIP Laura
🖤
Rest in Heaven Laura 🙏🏾😇❤️
I’m thinking of my sister gone too...almost 4 years❤️, grief still leaps out of my chest when I least expect it...like coming across this song. Music. Bring us back our gigs and connection xx
Thank you Mardyfella, Dablarts, blackbeauty! You're each, and all, very kind!
Bea had such a horrible life. Her dad was an alcoholic, she got married when she was young to escape, and her daughter, the only thing she had, died. The only other happiness in her life was Allie, but she thought she was dead too. Bea was all alone.
A few of us have horrible lives but our hearts are Gold💛😓
Story of my life. There all gone. And im here alone.
@@MissSweeTSmarT1983 You're never alone, we're all here in the same quick flash of life. Enjoy your time alone, we'll all meet again.
The depth of emotion and sub-text is so lovely. I used to skip this song on the album but then I said, "Why the hell not. It's been 4 years. just give it a try." Now, I can't get the damn song out of my mind. I whistle it. I hum it. I know the lyrics. I love this song.
Stephen Jeter I love discovering songs on albums that I owned for a long time. That happened to me with Smashing Pumkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
Rio Seven this whole album is a masterpiece I agree
When i seen this song on Wentworth I cried for bea so hard
Leeyah xo me to every time I watch I cry 😢
Fr 😂 as if I knew her in real life lmao
Dude SAME
Literally rewatching it and this is me rn.
Who is Bea and what is her story please...
I usually hate sad songs (because they make me sad) but I always come back to this one.
Spanish. Huh
bea smith. 💔
Musical perfection. Why hasn't this been watched 100million times by now?
Itll be done by just me
My great uncle is the drag queen in this. So proud of you uncle vin!!
Amazing
No freakin way. I draw his her face all the time
This Laura is drinking to Uncle Vin right now! ♥️
Destroys the video u fortunately
@@SuperDena89 no u
"They loved each other, to the moon and back" ❤️
She is full of art
more like fart
modarXmodar was a
I can’t get past the first 10 seconds without crying. And its not just tears its a sob. I feel like she was my mum or something. I love you to the moon and back. 🥀
She fought hard against the record company to have just a couple of instruments in this song... she was right.
it's gorgeous! I think I hear a double bass or cello in the background, a few violins... it just makes it!! but also trombones? Or some bass instrument, it's beautiful
Sounds like a french horn or something to me - but amazing, to have any more would've completely ruined it. It's a truly perfect song.
Absolutely! I couldn't agree more. I don't see how it possibly could've sounded any better. Period! \m/ (:o)
proves again that the suits from the companies have no clue about art and just go by their focus tested lowest common denominator crap. Song is beautiful because it's so minimalist with the instruments, puts emphasis in the performance and the instruments that are there.
Gorgeous song !
This has to be one of my most favourite music videos of all time. Haunting song, wonderfully shot and so powerful. The three characters in this video all represent something very poignant to me. Really hits hard, straight to the heart.
I just can't stop listening to it. My soul is renewed every time that I do.
Ughhhh. The feels.
Gosh, i agree. Ugghhh. the feels are too much.
Fun fact: This song is dedicated to Little Nell (or Laura Campbell) who's famous for playing Columbia in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, hence "and in this horror show I've got to tell you so, oh Laura, your more then a superstar".
I thought it was about Laura Palmer?
I thought it was about Laura Albert!
Malchik I LOVED HER.
Natasha said it's about "all Laura's"
Well, I think that "Laura" is Natasha and actually everbody of us.
"When your smile is so wide and your heels are so high, you can´t cry..." It means that she can´t show her real emotions in public life. As how each of us, when we are sad, unhappy or when we have melancholic mood, we can´t just seat and cry. Sometimes we have to pretend we are happy and everything is OK.
And if you saw some Bat for lashes´s interviews, you could see how she´s smiling all the time. She looks so happy and optimistic. But her song prove us, that she is sad sometimes. But she just can´t show it.
And also I think, that this song is about love, which is destroying us and we know it. "You're the train that crashed my heart
you're the glitter in the dark..."
But we also know, that we need it, because it´s the only think, which can save us. It´s our glitter in the dark and it gives us a hope...
This is one of the most beautiful piano songs i've ever heard.. I can feel the sadness and nostalgia on every note.
When she said "don't cry" I was already sobbing rip Bea smith forever in ma heart
RIP to our Queen Bea Smith ❤️❤️😭😪
It really feels like shes singing to me
I started to tear up at the part she says "Oooh Laura youre more than a superstar" 🥹
Bea Smith ♥
This is the prettiest song I have heard in a long time.
Agreed :)
Goosebumps. This took me somewhere in a distant place as she whispered the most beautiful words onto my ears....reaching the deepest part in my soul. Magnificent song.
i don't know why but i'm crying
Pakistaneee... has some precious sides beyond the clichés i suppose... unfortunately they're a minority to observe the ruby ruby light thru the (sometimes) confuse local crowd
Me too
Just the emotional expression of the transgendered dancer; of a silent pain; of being used to being left out, only to be welcomed with open arms, made me tear up.
Natasha you're more than an artist
For a girl with low self confidence, this really boosted it :}
Laura Attagutsiak A great way to boost your self confidence is to do things you think you cannot do. You do not even need to succeed, just do them. Best of luck with your self challenges.
dprague THIS! Good advice mate
Laura Attagutsiak A great way to boost your self-confidence is to look at the horrible shit people post online, all the horrible shit they do in real life, then realize you're nothing like them. Unless you are, then you deserve low self-confidence.
You have the coolest name of all time.
+JackieFuckingChan thank you
What a beautiful song with such a poignant narrative. This is music showing its ability to be extremely moving and reach deep into the soul.
learned this song from watching Wentworth on Netflix. Great song & I'm surprised that hasn't gotten popularity. Well, I love this gem & won't lose it.
David Benjamin every time I here this i think of bea smith
Ive been in a dark place for a while and my bestfriend laura is who keeps me goin she motivates me to do better and to feel better in myself even when she is not feeling great herself she is a blessin and defo more than a superstar i love her so much ive never had a friend like her she is a one in a million i feel so lucky and the comments on here are so nice and lauras all over yiur more than superstars with us or not xx
This song is so deep that Adele is rolling around the suggested videos.
***** idk some chick xD
Adeles actually not all that bad in my opinion
allias flagg Adele is amazing
lol should i look her up?
allias flagg This was a great comment. Good job dude. Good job.
This is one of the most incredible songs I've ever heard!
Serenity Rayne totally agree❣
She's on par with Florence and the Machine, at least with this song.
Serenity Rayne I agree 🖤
@@killdanl biggest difference being Natasha can actually sing (and write good music)
@Miss Sarah N. Hammond I wasn't. I was addressing accusations that another artist of lesser quality was on a par with Natasha. Thanks for your input though.
I just heard the piano part (transposed to a higher pitch) used in another song and it's taken me ages to remember where it came from - you know when you hear the echo of a song you love and can't place it or recall it ... maddening - and i'm so glad i remembered - what a heart turning, gut churning, beautiful song, a masterpiece.
Saw her last night opening for Depeche Mode in Montreal. She is really good. Fans didn't appreciate her much. I blame the acoustics. She truly has a beautiful voice.
The show bout to come back on in I still miss you so much I love you so much Queen 👑 Bea I’m still crying I love you Queen Bea 😥😥😓😓😢😢😔😣😞
Bea smith :( 🌹
Katherine T rest pest mr Bea Smith
I'm obsessed with this song maybe a little more obsessed because my names in it 😂💕🙌☺️
+Laura Cunningham Oh, Laura. You're more than a superstar! :)
Wentworth Bea 😭😭😭😭
chtitelisson42 I was wondering where I heard this!!!
I cry everytime I listen to this song
Brian P No, because she has feelings, and sensibility
Brian P
Oh guy, you'r so funny! Tell me, how did u feel after this bullshit?
Nienaruszona18501 -/-
Thank you dear
if u watch wentworth rip bea this song was on her funeral 😢
Kelevra I cry to in I’m man a strong man
This song is beautiful. Her voice is crazy beautiful. This is just perfection
A friend of mine died recently and this came on (insert whatever media one uses) and I cried all the way down the A1 and it oddly made me feel better. Thank you emotionally charged songs that make us confront our feelings in inappropriate places x
Its not a cowencediece, I'd say a sign that someone is in a beautiful place now. I had a friend od and I was driving back from the funeral. A song came on the radio. Train, calling all you angels, i was in tears but felt a little bit of joy as well. It was like meant for me to understand that he's at rest. 👃🕯♾
In 2007 I had just suffered a bad breakup and "Don't worry, be happy!" by Bobby McFerrin came on the radio. It was the first time I'd ever heard that song. It made me cry with how ridiculous the situation was and the irony that this song of all songs played. But afterwards, its message stayed with me and I like to think that was the turning point where I started to get over things. Just proves the power music has over us all.
Monsieur Mittens I hope you are starting to feel better, break ups just suck, no one comes away feeling great
I can't stop coming back to this, it's my go to song after a tough week.
Just out of curiosity, is it because it reminds you of a Laura?
Bea’s more than a superstar ❤️😢
😭
That’s me
🌌♋️❤️
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
When Bea died, this song put everything in motion. I started crying like a baby.
this is one of the most beautiful heartbreaking songs.
My name is Laura and this song touched my soul deeply ❤❤❤
QUEEN Bea , you were more than a superstar 💔💔
I just saw 'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennesse Williams and I could swear that this song was written about the play's tragic character, also called Laura, who was scorned by the world, spends all her time withdrawn from other people. She has been 'left behind' and lives in her own ethereal world, 'a pale blue dream', frequently being referred to as 'Blue Roses'. In the play she's 'the last unicorn' in a world of horses and only her beloved brother recognises her as such. This song sounds like it's being told from his perspective, conveying all his sadness for Laura's insular and enigmatic ways. I was disbelief to find that this wasn't in fact Natasha's inspiration for this song. Both pieces of art make me cry lol.
rest in peace bea i love you to the moon and back
for those of you who may wonder its from a TV show wentworth its on Netflix try watching it!!
I love bea smith she didn’t have to die I love wentworth
Excellent song choice for Wentworth S5 E1 :(
I just can't believe it's been 8 years. Feels like this came out yesterday. So beautiful.
This is such a beautiful, perfect song
"Can we dance on the tables again" has a new context these days. 💔
Gives me goosebumps everywhere and every time. I am in love with this amazing price of art.
This song is dedicated to Laura Elizabeth Campbell who is good friends with Natasha Khan. Why else would Natasha make a direct reference to RHPS via "In this 'horror show'"? Columbia's awesome.
I always feel like I misinterpret this video but it brings me to tears every time regardless.
Какая же она МОЛОДЕЦ! О ней я узнала в далёком 2007-м году... Вот надо же... Нашла тот первый альбом в сети, спустя девять лет... И узнала ту песню, которую слушала тогда по радио, семь лет назад... Наташа, ты должна знать, что ты - КРАСАВИЦА и НАСТОЯЩИЙ ТАЛАНТ!!! Умница, золотое сердце, успехов тебе всегда и во всём, любви, вдохновения... ЛЮБЛЮ!!!
I'm not sure what is the most gorgeous thing about Natasha. Whether it's her talent, her voice, her eyes, her lips/mouth, her hair, or something else entirely. Either way, she is stunningly gorgeous! I love this so much! It is so dark and so haunting. And top marks for whoever dreamed up this vid. It works almost too perfectly. Just superb... \m/ (:o)
Oh yes indeed! She is so very attractive & beautiful, both inside & out & her amazing songs & her VOICE.........just WOW!!!
The old man in this video is so powerful. Thank you for this song and video. I love it.
I feel like this song is about the contempt we find in our adult lives, settling for whats easy instead of following the dream we imagined when we were younger. The isolation we feel even when being recognized because we are not happy with the end result of love and life.
This song got me through a lot of tough nights by myself in my late teens and early 20’s. It’s always kept a place in my heart it’s amazing to see it still has the same effect 10 years later
I can picture this in David Bowie's voice. I would have loved to hear him make a cover of this beautiful song.
Wow. Great shout
I agree with you bro
it's so interesting that you 'picture' Bowie's voice - I love that
*TOO LATE*
RIP =(
Between your lyrics and what the emotions this video captures - I am in aw. Thank you so very much.
its kind of weird. my aunt laura became a drug addict and sold off our family land/house, but shes still a superstar to me. she did so much for the family and for other people, that at the end of the day i cant blame her for anything. am i annoyed? yes, but i cant blame her either. love you aunt laura, wherever you are
Thiz song will alwayz take me back to when bea Smith on Wentworth died. 😢😢
I came here from Wentworth months or even a year ago. But now.. I lost my best friend, my brother from another mother, and im in the feels rn and this song is taking my feelers to a whole 'nother level. Thank you Bat for Lashes for such an amazing song 💜
When I hear this song, i think of bea Smith
The inherent beauty within both the song and video never fails to floor me! I find it hard to believe how human beings can dig so far into the very depths of my soul with such relatively simple sound and vision. So moving! Superb stuff, Natasha... \m/ (:o)
Heartbreakingly beautiful xxx
Every time i listening 👂 to this song I think of Bea Smith in I cry 😢 it also makes me want to cry the system took everything from here the system did Bea Smith so wrong it’s sad man
I LOVE THIS!! it makes you feel like she's hugging u.
Thanks Wentworth series, i find this diamond. Beautiful music ❤️
RIP Queen Bea. The show isn't the same without you, you deserve better. I love you to the moon and back
bea smith :(
rip queen bea smith :( :(
Rest in pest bea smith for eva missed always loved never forgotten
Long live Bea "Red" Smith gone but not forgotten... I'm only listening to this song because of her
Tiffany Williams she brought me to this song but i love this song honestly
Why do you people not have the basic courtesy to not leave spoilers? It really diminished Wentworth for me, that you said what happened. It is bad manners, it is avoidable, and you know damn well people watch things after first broadcast. It is common cultural courtesy not to reveal. The classy people don't include spoilers, or warn of it. But all you care about is getting your opinion out there, your feelings. Screw manners and other people , right? It is all about your opinion. Great. You got heard. But you acted like an ASSHOLE in the process.
Margaret Langford shut up, spoilers are inevitable
Over 5 years later & I stilllllll "feel" this song when I hear it!!!
Still keep listenning this song over and over after 7 years , love your music so much .. Beautiful ....
Bea, you were more than a superstar. Debbie take care of her ❤️💕😭