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Date of upload: Jul 23, 2018 ^^
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You can tell Alex was waiting to make this album for years - 'been watching cowboy films on gloomy afternoons tinting the solitude'. People always wonder why he is so mysterious and elusive in our era of social media and the self but part of me thinks it's not even a conscious decision - he's just watching movies the whole time.
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theory:
what if alex is living in a futuristic era where he's rich enough to live in an island, alone, where he went officially insane (made his own hotel, replaying the tapes of his bandmates, and made the hotel vintage with the theme of being 'this is what 70s people think the future would look like', even taking on the personality of a 70s-80s guy, who's name is mark and happens to be a hotel manager)
futuristic idea: most animals went extinct, such as horses and such, which is why he can be seen at 2:35 taking pictures of horses with a vintage camera (again, him trying to replicate the past as he misses living in the past).
evidence of the idea of 'living in a 70s futuristic world':
0:59 him having to use video tapes to reminisce the past even though online video clouds had already been invented?
1:03 him using a rotary phone to talk to the audience 'good afternoon, tranquility base, hotel and casino, mark speaking, please tell me how can i direct your call'
3:20 and more are just box tv screens (or perhaps old computers?) reappearing, showing that alex is in fact, trying to recreate the past
and for the infamous motorcycle scene, is where this is going to sound super *sTRETCHED*.
basically at 3:00 and onwards for a couple of seconds, alex can be seen at a deserted highway. as he sits on the motorcycle still, a guy with another motorcycle happens to pass him by. this may show that alex is trying to escape the mistakes of his past, trying to escape from his whole 'mark' personality because living out his best life alone may not be what he wanted. which is why he can be seen at a highway with another guy, and then seen chasing after him with the motorcycle. this mat imply alex's subconcious trying to escape back to reality. but at the 3:30 scene, it shows alex's subconcious wandering an empty road, with clear signs of civilization being around (the lit cinema theatre lights implies that human life may still be active there), trying to find his way back to civilization and leaving the island (thru the highway).at the end, it is up to the viewer to decide how the story ends, which is whether or not alex finds his way to civilization, or the sad reality of him having to live with his mistakes and having to succumb to be forever alone in the abandoned hotel, playing the personality of Mark.
anyways i made this because i thought that the MV itself was super cryptic and i was really bored so i thought that this theory might be really interesting to share. cheers!
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@viktoriafirman6683
4 years ago
I love the idea that Alex is just running this empty hotel by himself. Like the shining but groovier.
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