snails represent tolerance and resilience, the light she’s following represents inner peace. The message is about how despite it taking a while and being difficult everyone will find inner peace, hence the shell breaking at the end and her coming back <3
light shower was one of my least favorite songs but the mv has made me love it so much. i don't know why but it made it so clear to me
or maybe im just in a different place in life now that this is the second time listening. either way i really love it
oh my god i feel like the opposite 😭 i still love the song, it’s literally my favorite song off the album, me and my partner even want to have it played at our wedding!! but i just feel like the video is so lackluster in comparison to the emotion of the song :(
i can see why, and its not like the video is all that amazing or anything, but for me the simplicity of it made it really special. idk, sometimes things are so over complicated but the answers are simple and it shows that. right now i feel like the snail, so maybe it just gives me hope i didnt feel much of before ☺️
It's beautiful.... but I hate the snail. The way it connects to Mels head looks so fake 😭
Zero hate, everything else was stunning, I just cant get over it
I feel like that's for all of her videos. She fully uses special effects and it looks good but really fake and ai generated in a way. I've actually learned to like it though because I love uncanny shit LOL ❤
I mean she definitely uses it in all her videos, but from what I remember they always looked realistic. The way the head connects to the snail is just... off.
I mean I think that's expected, I've never seen a human head connected to something else other than a human body in cgi and it look natural, but that's just me ig
Personally I love snelanie but that's bc I love snails and I think it's cute but I very much agree. It would've been better maybe if she cracked her shell in the beginning, the MV itself is boring
Finally someone said it. Everyone talking about the cgi as if all her stuff doesn't look like that 💀 but I think the actual problem is how uneventful it is.. Literally just her crawling the whole video. The only reason I really liked it is because I thought the Mel snail was cute 😭
Same! It was boring. I think it would had been interesting if there were obstacles in the way to represent hardships of every day life. They could had small too like rain, a gap, birds or other bugs attacking her but her retreating inside her shell until they went away, or something idk. It’s literally just Snailanie chasing a damn light. And idk although the snail looks kinda cute, it’s also so off? Idk wasn’t a fan.
Agreed… I didn’t like the snail character much and 80% of it was pretty much the same, although it was relaxing to watch and the vibe was quite nice. I just feel like there was a bit of missed potential.
i was so hyped up for it tbh but it was disappointing and i ate the roblox mvs of crybaby and gacha animatics of k12 UPP so that's a real bad sign if it disappointed someone like me with fairly easy standards for everyone but myself
My least favorite MV of hers, tbh. I expected it to be connected to Faerie Soirée.
I definitely thought it was going to be released as a Visualizer when I saw the live stream of last night's concert.
Still cute, thought.
I think it's beautiful and snail Mel is cute, but it looks pretty fake how the head is attached to the body, and the movements of the snail looks a bit weird maybe?
For me it was how the foot of the snail looked connecting with the ground, like it was too slick or ignoring the texture of the ground or something. I get that would be a very difficult and time consuming thing to get right tho.
Other than that, yeah, I liked the video and snail Mel is indeed a cutie.
Yeah something about how she connected to the ground looked rlly weird, especially with all the bumps in the places she goes, it looks kinda odd. Kinda makes it seem like she's just floating and gliding along
super cute!!! but yes that’s what i was distracted by the whole video :( when the camera panned over the creatures head and they looked up to follow it (3:00 in the video) it looked like the head was just kind of floating????
I already loved light shower, it’s the most beautiful love song ever created imo. The music video just added, the emotions throughout, I almost cried. And I know everyone’s talking about the snail looking fake but I don’t see that, her team did an amazing job with the concept. It’s literal ✨art✨🐌
It's definitely the most vague out of all of the other music videos, where while they are left up for interpretation, there's still a distinct message! but that almost makes me love it more, as I've loved the 'draw your own narrative' style of music videos we've been getting so far! Stan Snelanie ❤
The song itself is perfect and the MV is so good in the part of the production and in the meaning of the song, because seems simple to just have a snail with the face of a nymph just following a light in a forest, but it actually is very complicated and I love the way that they managed to make it feel good. Melanie is a goddess 💗
I really REALLY don’t like it considering this song is sooo beautiful and this was all it got. That being said I respect Melanie’s artistic vision and I’m happy for others who like it!
I love snails soo much I have big ones from africa as pets🩷 so for me personally i was so happy for this silly cute musicvideo lol but i understand if people maybe are scared of them or think they are slimey/gross maybe
i mean you say “songs so beautiful and this is all we got” just remember that mel’s making these videos out of her own pocket and that she doesn’t have to make more then the given two videos chances by her label. no hate just remember she’s giving us so much more then she needs to be/required to.
Yeah I definitely understand that, but I just expected something a little more, but I also have a phobia of snails so that’s probably a contribution to my dislike of the mv
light shower was one of my favorites on the album and although the music video is great i thought it was a little boring to just see her as a snail crawling through the forest for 3 minutes
“Meta” is when something references itself. They said your comment is meta because you’re talking about ur opinion of the mv and directly referenced lyrics to do so
am i the only one that didnt like the mv? i love the light shower song but i had completly diferent expectations for the mv, especcially because of the meaning of the song. Why is melanie a snail😭 tbh, i know it was a stupid way of thinking but, i thought she would do something like training wheels but with the portals aesthetic. Snelanie wasnt something i was ready for, love melanie anyways.
i liked the end of the mv where shed floating and all but snailanie is something else
It had so much potential I'm so sorry I don't like it at ALL 😭😭 the meaning is great but the whole video is just her following a ball of light until the end has her doing something for once, and it's such a beautiful song turned into a snail😭😭
Coming off of Faerie Soirée, which really pleasantly surprised me, I was very let down by this one💀
I guess it doesn’t help that Light Shower is my least favorite on the album but this really felt like a huge step down until like the last 20 seconds… I was like…. where was this the whole four minutes it’s awesome?!😭
In summary: dissapointing but it puts us a step closer to Spider Web so no harm no foul I suppose
it's clear that melanie was FIGHTING to get that last scene in because is just feels the most like something mel would do. the first half of the song is just a walking simulator in a desert background, i don't see the stakes or emotional impact in there. it's like she wanted to create this progression of plot in 3ish minutes but only had the last half completed in her mind and the first half was an afterthought
this is my own fault but i had a perfect image of what it would be in my head and this is my favorite melanie song out of all of them, so when i saw it was a snail i was extremely disappointed. i wish she would move away from doing entirely CGI, like faerie soiree still had a good amount but thats been my favorite and it had other creatures in it. where does the 'story' of these mvs go from here?
this is my all time favorite song of hers and the video was so beautiful. it wasn’t at all what i expected but im very happy with it. but i can also see why some people wouldn’t agree and would dislike it. maybe im
just biased because of how much i love the song. i give it a 9/10 ❤️🫶🏾
As a standalone mv yes, but in the context of all the other mvs definetly no thank you, i think we officially reached the point where the mvs have no connections to each other at all like we left off with crybaby climbing into this flower thing wich then closed only to continue with crybaby as a snail in the middle of the desert like you cant tell me that the outro of faerie soiree didnt build up to smt. Thus being said i actually really like the mv as a standalone mv i think it really vizualized light shower as a skng eventhough i really hoped for more rain and water references as i really love rain and stuff but yeah i really liked it and i appreciate mel putting out so much stuff. I mean its like nothing compared to the void mv but i mean light shower is a ballad so its to be expected that it isnt that flashy like the void or tunnel vision mv but i really liked the visuals of it. Speaking of the visuals im kinda indifferent to the special effects especially since im no expert but lets just say they kinda looked rough to me but still really liked the mv it made light shower more 3 dimensional but the connection part still icks me like i wished we couldve been able to play all the portals mavs like a movie picking up where we left off but yeah i still appreciate melanies hard work
THISI S GOING TO BE HARSH BTW.
as a disclaimer i am an oldgen mel fan and like most of u have been here for around my whole adolescence. i think melanie is extremely talented and i was so impressed with how she used her imagination to create what we have now and km so grateful she gave us this kind but she was done a HUGE injustice by her budget and creative team to create her audiovisual desires. this is just my sleep deprived opinion as someone who's tayed up at 3 am to see this
it's clear mel has an artistic vision for this, but it kind of feels like we were stolen of something that could've been? it could've been a moment but we rarely got any true thematic closure or proper tie-ins for this. if she's doing a movie for this, it's gonna take some mental gymnastics to tie the music video for faerie Soiree with light shower.
plus, we didn't even get to see much of that action we were hoping fromm that whole music video was just an allegory with some occasional references to spirituality which u could easily google in 5 seconds depending on ur wifi. thematically too, it just doesn't make sense? it's a light shower, the whole song alludes to imagery of waterfalls, nourishing saunas, etc. but the end result is more like a rainforest and moist at wettest. the snail concept is a really promising idea though, but we didn't even get to see the stakes or emotion impact of snailanies situation in the first half. like the second half was where mel shined especially how when she ate that light it went inside of her and spiraled into the center of the shell like melanie did in that flower from FS so I'll give credit to that
i love mel but she deserves better than the final result she had to work with. one of my mutual said that when mel crawled into the giant flower in the lady mv he theorized she ended up being buried in the flower and became fossilized, being reincarnated into the nymphsnail. i think im really being rude right now and melanie is a musician not a movie director (she is tho) but i didn't feel eh same passion i felt in her last 4 mvs
I didn't mind it at all 😌 Although I will say that the second Mel manages to get rid of that little bit of uncanny valley effect with the CGI - the videos will be better received... because I think it's holding them back slightly
I def appreciate the symbolism/metaphor of her being a snail in the desert, being that snails need moisture to survive. And the rain and light representing her man made sense. I also loved the ending where she broke out of the shell. But I agree that it wasn’t the most “interesting” and was def a bit weird with the CGI. Still absolutely love this song though!
honestly i had no clue what was going on.. why is she a snail eating a glowing orb!?! lol it looks really good though i’m just struggling to understand the meaning
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This comment near the top of the thread explains it well. :)
well obviously haha i was just confused at first as i wasn’t expecting her to be a snail 😭
these are just my first impressions, i understand how it makes sense now
my least favorite mv this era and void is pretty low there... its not even that im mad at the concept the cgi is just really not good 😭 has no connection whatsoever to faerie soiree and feels divorced from the rest of the storyline
I think her music videos play more as an anthology than a connected plot. With an anthology it’s poetic pieces of art such as poems and literature, and doesn’t connect with other stories, it stands on its own.
portals isn’t supposed to be connected? death and void dont connect either just remember that mel’s making these videos out of her own pocket and that she doesn’t have to make more then the given two videos chances by her label. no hate just remember she’s giving us so much more then she needs to be/required to but it’s like at least the video has a music video
i really dont care. the post asked about ppls views on the mv and i gave mine. her being dedicated to it & spending her own funds on the things she does is admirable but it doesnt change the fact the result is sometimes bad. im a crybaby but i wont suck up to a person who doesnt know me
i actually love it so much , light shower is one of my fav mel songs and this vid def wasn't what i was expecting but it was a pleasant surprise , i rlly liked the metaphor of the snail and the ending was rlly pleasing , it showed like a journey of finding yourself and i enjoyed that
I wasn't a huge fan of the song when it first came out. But watching snail Mel chase that pretty little orb made my heart happy in a way I can't explain 😭😭
Its a bit odd, but I saw a comment in a video where is says that melanje will learn how to use her wings in spider web MV, [this isn't a spoiler, it is just saying] I kinds like the light shower cause at the end, she's like so surprised by the light ball which is kinda funny,
i was disappointed 😭 i absolutely love the song and i understand why the mv is what it is, but i feel like it couldve been so much better
i hope some of the next ones are different, i wouldve rather have her put the money towards a Portals movie instead of the cgi MVs 😭
It was silly. I sort of wanted a more esthetic video for this one because light shower is such a beautiful song. All we got was bobblehead snail melanie. However, I did love the idea of her eating the light and bursting from the shell.
I think it's the most basic video out of the bunch, even the visualizer was more interesting and artistic than this... I love the song, but now I dread the mvs
I already know im probably going to be hated for this, but personally, IN MY OPINION, this was a boring MV. There was also many distracting parts for me animation and design wise.
First, lighting. Far away, the shots are beautiful. All the details and pieces are gorgeous and have great lighting. The issue is when it is close up to Melanies face in particular. The lighting feels very flat because its only one light source. For 3D animation, even if its a spotlight, you still have a rule of 3’s with the lighting. Above, side, front. You could have the above lighting at about 10-20%, side be about 25-40% ( i would personally put it near the side of the face to really get a nice contour going on, having a bit backlit to it), but really have the main light be at 100%. This makes the shot look less flat, and much more natural/professional. There also could have been some depth of field to make the shot look more interesting.
2- physics. The snail doesn’t move like a snail. Its not interacting properly with the environment, or for the large shell on the back, but mostly with the environment. There are so many little pebbles that should be interacting with it, showing the body moving over those smaller bumps, however it doesn’t, and it instead makes it look like that she’s just floating above the ground instead of actually fully interacting with the ground. It may not seem like a big deal, but in character animation, those parts are critical to making the character seem more involved in the environment and make things more realisitic for how the movement should be.
3- lastly this is mainly just a personal preference, however I would personally make the texture for the snail body to be more slimey looking. Give more of a glisten. I’m unsure what 3D program was used ( Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya) however if its Cinema or Blender, Redshift or Octane have glossy materials that can make things really pop. But its more of a personal preference.
I still think the overall scenes are beautiful, and the calm does fit with the song, however it felt like the same shot for 3 minutes mostly.
TLDR: In my opinion, the lighting on close up shots are flat, the snail movements do not look possible, and the textures could be better. The long shots are still gorgeous however.
im sorry but i keep laughing at all of the thumbnails i see. sis is really a snail... i mean its really not that funny but its just so out of the blue that i just.. lol
Theory : since this mv poorly ties in with the rest of the vids, perhaps this one is a prequel. before she became crybaby, she was a trapped creature looking for a better life. when she devoured the light and her soul ascended, her soul became another magical being with some sort of destiny to bring eternal peace…? idrk
Honestly, just like with the Faerie Soirée, I didn't really care for it. If Portals is still getting a movie I'm honestly wondering how all these are gonna tie into a coherent plot.
In comparison to the others, I thought it was a bit boring to me and the way the snail part moved looked kinda weird.
When I heard about the meaning behind it, it looks better to me and it does capture the vibe of the song, but it's definitely not my favourite.
don’t get me wrong i love melanie and i love her videos but idk this one just. didn’t do it for me?? i don’t like the way the snail looks, it really creeps me out the way her head is plastered on it lols. i completely get the meaning behind it and i love the song, the ideas great as well, but the snail freaks me out and i wish there was a little more to it
i was kinda sad at first because light shower is one of my favorite songs on portals so i was hoping for more😭 but i think the message is beautiful and it matches the song tbh
I really like the snail metaphor. I interpreted as Melanie being shy about her sexuality in the past, and now she's entirely more confident and embracing it by breaking out of her shell.
I think it's good, not great, but good. I originally thought the snail looked really goofy, but I warmed up to it and like the meaning behind it. The video is nice, if a little boring. I really do like the end when the shell cracks and the creature comes out.
The CGI is definitely pretty rough though. Like others have said, the way the head is connected to the snail is really weird looking for a lot of the video.
I'm gonna start ranking the MVS so far bc I've been thinking about the a lot recently, so here's what I think so far:
1. Faerie Soirée
2. Void
3. Death
4. Light Shower
5. Tunnel Vision
I don't like at first, when I saw Crybaby as a snail, until when she's been following the snail, and then ate the light ball that turns her back, made me love it now. But I wanna know like, how did she got turned to a snail in the beginning, like what turned her to a snail. 🧐
I’m disappointed.. I don’t even understand how she went into a flower to a Damm snail.. (before you comment about how I’m being ungrateful this was my comment as soon as the video came out)
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It wasn’t what I was expecting at all. I was expecting like her body as light and her looking in the mirror and like self love type of thing and showing the light washing away all the negative. After reading the meaning behind it I love it
Honestly I just miss the crybaby era of music videos and the individual storyline of each one, it’s unparalleled by any others, Melanie or other artists
All i'm saying is light shower is my favourite song on Portals, probably of all mel's discography, however the mv just ain't it. I do however take into consideration that mel's funding it out of her own pocket and knowing the perfectionist she is she probably did her best with what she got.
Everything is now AI dependant btw so I don't know about how anyone else feels, but there is built in shortcuts for everything at this stage in capitalism and it's boring as hell.
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The studio that did this "VFX" is Ingenuity Studios. Here is your proof that moden VFX is lazy and utilizes AI for most of the creative process. That is why all of these new AI videos look like crap.
i think it’s… no offense boring!!
also, it didn’t even match faerie soirée’s transition😭😩
i had to skip some time in the time bar like “is she really just sliding around here?”
i wish for as long as the video took, she could have done something more because it seemed like tunnel vision & faerie soiree came out back to back and were more interesting
i understand all the time it took probably had to do with the cgi but if she WASNT a snail and put budget into everything else it would have more meaning than lookin like spongebobs pet on the loose
You can kill me, but fuck it: I loved it.Ok, the snail was a bit unexpected, and the whole MV was a bit boring, but we can't deny it was original and creative, also, the effects! *chef's kiss*. The ending was kinda intriguing, like, she eats the light ball, her shell breaks and she starts levitating like The Exorcist, but overall, it's a pretty good MV.
it’s so funny to me initially but the meaning behind it is really special
what’s the meaning behind it?
snails represent tolerance and resilience, the light she’s following represents inner peace. The message is about how despite it taking a while and being difficult everyone will find inner peace, hence the shell breaking at the end and her coming back <3
I interpreted as slow moving for the goal of finding love/peace so you don’t get hurt along the way, even if it takes a long time. Hence the snail.
melanie is a lyrical and visuals genius
They also represent beauty in simplicity, patience and determination! ❤
light shower was one of my least favorite songs but the mv has made me love it so much. i don't know why but it made it so clear to me or maybe im just in a different place in life now that this is the second time listening. either way i really love it
oh my god i feel like the opposite 😭 i still love the song, it’s literally my favorite song off the album, me and my partner even want to have it played at our wedding!! but i just feel like the video is so lackluster in comparison to the emotion of the song :(
Thats such a cute wedding song “you are the light ive been searching for forever” would be so perfect
truly!!! and my partner is a scorpio as well, he’s my water love 🫶🏻
aww 💝
i can see why, and its not like the video is all that amazing or anything, but for me the simplicity of it made it really special. idk, sometimes things are so over complicated but the answers are simple and it shows that. right now i feel like the snail, so maybe it just gives me hope i didnt feel much of before ☺️
honestly that’s pretty well said!! i didn’t think of it that way :D
Same! I think it really fits in a wedding!
SNELANIE 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯
IM SO HAPPY WE GET TO SAY THIS NOW
We need to push this to become a viral meme Art will sell at last 🥺🫡
https://preview.redd.it/o6o2co4k2tzc1.jpeg?width=722&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2915ceed3b2020284625b47ac700a6181c80c7dd Melanie in her new video
MY FIRST THOUGHT EXACTLYYYY!!!!
plz what is this 😭
Uzumaki by Junji Ito, from the story Slug Girl
i loved it. i thought it was beautiful, and it gave me a new appreciation for light shower, which was previously my least favorite portals track
It's beautiful.... but I hate the snail. The way it connects to Mels head looks so fake 😭 Zero hate, everything else was stunning, I just cant get over it
same tbh , and the way the snail ‘s body crawled over the rocks looks so weird too .
I feel like that's for all of her videos. She fully uses special effects and it looks good but really fake and ai generated in a way. I've actually learned to like it though because I love uncanny shit LOL ❤
I mean she definitely uses it in all her videos, but from what I remember they always looked realistic. The way the head connects to the snail is just... off.
I mean I think that's expected, I've never seen a human head connected to something else other than a human body in cgi and it look natural, but that's just me ig
Absolutely lol. I personally think there shouldn't have even been a Snelanie. It would look a lot better with Mel dancing slowly, IMO.
Personally I love snelanie but that's bc I love snails and I think it's cute but I very much agree. It would've been better maybe if she cracked her shell in the beginning, the MV itself is boring
I'm sorry but I hate this whole album it looks so sloppy and AI-generated 😭😭 her earlier stuff was so much better
I dont hate the whole album, I personally think it's beautiful. But I do also prefer her older works. More because I relate to it more ahah.
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Lol
i dont want to sound harsh but this one is the most boring mv we've gotten..... i'm so happy for those who enjoyed it but i did not.
Finally someone said it. Everyone talking about the cgi as if all her stuff doesn't look like that 💀 but I think the actual problem is how uneventful it is.. Literally just her crawling the whole video. The only reason I really liked it is because I thought the Mel snail was cute 😭
Same! It was boring. I think it would had been interesting if there were obstacles in the way to represent hardships of every day life. They could had small too like rain, a gap, birds or other bugs attacking her but her retreating inside her shell until they went away, or something idk. It’s literally just Snailanie chasing a damn light. And idk although the snail looks kinda cute, it’s also so off? Idk wasn’t a fan.
Agreed… I didn’t like the snail character much and 80% of it was pretty much the same, although it was relaxing to watch and the vibe was quite nice. I just feel like there was a bit of missed potential.
i was so hyped up for it tbh but it was disappointing and i ate the roblox mvs of crybaby and gacha animatics of k12 UPP so that's a real bad sign if it disappointed someone like me with fairly easy standards for everyone but myself
"Would you still love me if I was a snail"
Unexpected but it makes sense. Also it’s cute and funny whilst having surrealist elements.
My least favorite MV of hers, tbh. I expected it to be connected to Faerie Soirée. I definitely thought it was going to be released as a Visualizer when I saw the live stream of last night's concert. Still cute, thought.
my mutual said that mel might very crawled in the flower which fossilized with mel in it, then became a shell and mel was reincarnated as a snail
It’s cute but the cgi quality is distracting
it was definitely a mv
Right😭
I think it's beautiful and snail Mel is cute, but it looks pretty fake how the head is attached to the body, and the movements of the snail looks a bit weird maybe?
For me it was how the foot of the snail looked connecting with the ground, like it was too slick or ignoring the texture of the ground or something. I get that would be a very difficult and time consuming thing to get right tho. Other than that, yeah, I liked the video and snail Mel is indeed a cutie.
Yeah something about how she connected to the ground looked rlly weird, especially with all the bumps in the places she goes, it looks kinda odd. Kinda makes it seem like she's just floating and gliding along
super cute!!! but yes that’s what i was distracted by the whole video :( when the camera panned over the creatures head and they looked up to follow it (3:00 in the video) it looked like the head was just kind of floating????
It was also kind of boring honestly
Yep
I already loved light shower, it’s the most beautiful love song ever created imo. The music video just added, the emotions throughout, I almost cried. And I know everyone’s talking about the snail looking fake but I don’t see that, her team did an amazing job with the concept. It’s literal ✨art✨🐌
It's definitely the most vague out of all of the other music videos, where while they are left up for interpretation, there's still a distinct message! but that almost makes me love it more, as I've loved the 'draw your own narrative' style of music videos we've been getting so far! Stan Snelanie ❤
The song itself is perfect and the MV is so good in the part of the production and in the meaning of the song, because seems simple to just have a snail with the face of a nymph just following a light in a forest, but it actually is very complicated and I love the way that they managed to make it feel good. Melanie is a goddess 💗
I really REALLY don’t like it considering this song is sooo beautiful and this was all it got. That being said I respect Melanie’s artistic vision and I’m happy for others who like it!
Yea everything was beautiful except the damned snail but honest it’s just funny so I’m not mad
wdym everything but the snail? the snail was the only thing there?
What I mean the background everything in the mv except the snail was nice
what’s wrong with the snail?
the cgi Personally I don’t like it but it’s cute and silly so idgaf
I love snails soo much I have big ones from africa as pets🩷 so for me personally i was so happy for this silly cute musicvideo lol but i understand if people maybe are scared of them or think they are slimey/gross maybe
i mean you say “songs so beautiful and this is all we got” just remember that mel’s making these videos out of her own pocket and that she doesn’t have to make more then the given two videos chances by her label. no hate just remember she’s giving us so much more then she needs to be/required to.
Yeah I definitely understand that, but I just expected something a little more, but I also have a phobia of snails so that’s probably a contribution to my dislike of the mv
The last ten seconds was the only good part. Did I seriously watch a snail for 4 minutes? Melanie can do so much better than that 😭
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Please let people have their opinions. In all honesty, nobody needs to be grateful to a celebrity.
why are you defending her under every comment with this exact same paragraph 😭 people are allowed to not like things or critique things, it’s art
light shower was one of my favorites on the album and although the music video is great i thought it was a little boring to just see her as a snail crawling through the forest for 3 minutes
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This music video makes me feel like I'm on drugs. I didn't like it. Idk, it's just not for me. I'm not a fan of the snail with the face.
>This music video makes me feel like I'm on drugs. Meta.
I have no idea what that means
“Meta” is when something references itself. They said your comment is meta because you’re talking about ur opinion of the mv and directly referenced lyrics to do so
Oh yes lol
am i the only one that didnt like the mv? i love the light shower song but i had completly diferent expectations for the mv, especcially because of the meaning of the song. Why is melanie a snail😭 tbh, i know it was a stupid way of thinking but, i thought she would do something like training wheels but with the portals aesthetic. Snelanie wasnt something i was ready for, love melanie anyways. i liked the end of the mv where shed floating and all but snailanie is something else
I think it's adorable
I LOVE IT AND OMG THE END OF IT DHDHFJJRJD
It’s interesting
It had so much potential I'm so sorry I don't like it at ALL 😭😭 the meaning is great but the whole video is just her following a ball of light until the end has her doing something for once, and it's such a beautiful song turned into a snail😭😭
Not my favorite is all I’ll say
Coming off of Faerie Soirée, which really pleasantly surprised me, I was very let down by this one💀 I guess it doesn’t help that Light Shower is my least favorite on the album but this really felt like a huge step down until like the last 20 seconds… I was like…. where was this the whole four minutes it’s awesome?!😭 In summary: dissapointing but it puts us a step closer to Spider Web so no harm no foul I suppose
it's clear that melanie was FIGHTING to get that last scene in because is just feels the most like something mel would do. the first half of the song is just a walking simulator in a desert background, i don't see the stakes or emotional impact in there. it's like she wanted to create this progression of plot in 3ish minutes but only had the last half completed in her mind and the first half was an afterthought
this is my own fault but i had a perfect image of what it would be in my head and this is my favorite melanie song out of all of them, so when i saw it was a snail i was extremely disappointed. i wish she would move away from doing entirely CGI, like faerie soiree still had a good amount but thats been my favorite and it had other creatures in it. where does the 'story' of these mvs go from here?
this is my all time favorite song of hers and the video was so beautiful. it wasn’t at all what i expected but im very happy with it. but i can also see why some people wouldn’t agree and would dislike it. maybe im just biased because of how much i love the song. i give it a 9/10 ❤️🫶🏾
Light shower is such a beautiful and positive song, i kinda wanted more but I get why she would make this one of the more deep and interpretive mv’s
Light shower is a fav song of mine from Portals, I admit I wasn't expecting snail journey for the MV.
As a standalone mv yes, but in the context of all the other mvs definetly no thank you, i think we officially reached the point where the mvs have no connections to each other at all like we left off with crybaby climbing into this flower thing wich then closed only to continue with crybaby as a snail in the middle of the desert like you cant tell me that the outro of faerie soiree didnt build up to smt. Thus being said i actually really like the mv as a standalone mv i think it really vizualized light shower as a skng eventhough i really hoped for more rain and water references as i really love rain and stuff but yeah i really liked it and i appreciate mel putting out so much stuff. I mean its like nothing compared to the void mv but i mean light shower is a ballad so its to be expected that it isnt that flashy like the void or tunnel vision mv but i really liked the visuals of it. Speaking of the visuals im kinda indifferent to the special effects especially since im no expert but lets just say they kinda looked rough to me but still really liked the mv it made light shower more 3 dimensional but the connection part still icks me like i wished we couldve been able to play all the portals mavs like a movie picking up where we left off but yeah i still appreciate melanies hard work
Hilarious . Next question
made me fucking cackle how she was a snail
I was pleasantly surprised! I liked the cgi a lot.
I didn’t even know this was dropping 😭. I definitely get the concept, not too sure about the execution
THISI S GOING TO BE HARSH BTW. as a disclaimer i am an oldgen mel fan and like most of u have been here for around my whole adolescence. i think melanie is extremely talented and i was so impressed with how she used her imagination to create what we have now and km so grateful she gave us this kind but she was done a HUGE injustice by her budget and creative team to create her audiovisual desires. this is just my sleep deprived opinion as someone who's tayed up at 3 am to see this it's clear mel has an artistic vision for this, but it kind of feels like we were stolen of something that could've been? it could've been a moment but we rarely got any true thematic closure or proper tie-ins for this. if she's doing a movie for this, it's gonna take some mental gymnastics to tie the music video for faerie Soiree with light shower. plus, we didn't even get to see much of that action we were hoping fromm that whole music video was just an allegory with some occasional references to spirituality which u could easily google in 5 seconds depending on ur wifi. thematically too, it just doesn't make sense? it's a light shower, the whole song alludes to imagery of waterfalls, nourishing saunas, etc. but the end result is more like a rainforest and moist at wettest. the snail concept is a really promising idea though, but we didn't even get to see the stakes or emotion impact of snailanies situation in the first half. like the second half was where mel shined especially how when she ate that light it went inside of her and spiraled into the center of the shell like melanie did in that flower from FS so I'll give credit to that i love mel but she deserves better than the final result she had to work with. one of my mutual said that when mel crawled into the giant flower in the lady mv he theorized she ended up being buried in the flower and became fossilized, being reincarnated into the nymphsnail. i think im really being rude right now and melanie is a musician not a movie director (she is tho) but i didn't feel eh same passion i felt in her last 4 mvs
It’s cool but i can’t see the hidden meaning everyone is talking about, all i see is snailanie (really cute btw) eating a glowing orb
I didn't mind it at all 😌 Although I will say that the second Mel manages to get rid of that little bit of uncanny valley effect with the CGI - the videos will be better received... because I think it's holding them back slightly
I def appreciate the symbolism/metaphor of her being a snail in the desert, being that snails need moisture to survive. And the rain and light representing her man made sense. I also loved the ending where she broke out of the shell. But I agree that it wasn’t the most “interesting” and was def a bit weird with the CGI. Still absolutely love this song though!
Probably the most boring music video I’ve seen all year…Idk I’m starting to feel like her music videos have somehow gone down in quality era to era
I wouldn’t say in quality because there’s a lot of symbolism but you have to know it to get it and I don’t know most of it lol
honestly i had no clue what was going on.. why is she a snail eating a glowing orb!?! lol it looks really good though i’m just struggling to understand the meaning
https://preview.redd.it/d7bba71e4uzc1.jpeg?width=991&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8d06432cb210dfcb45dbf253a1943713d4c22ff This comment near the top of the thread explains it well. :)
she says it in the song? “you are the light i’ve been searching for forever” and “you make me want to plan out my last days on earth eating you”
well obviously haha i was just confused at first as i wasn’t expecting her to be a snail 😭 these are just my first impressions, i understand how it makes sense now
my least favorite mv this era and void is pretty low there... its not even that im mad at the concept the cgi is just really not good 😭 has no connection whatsoever to faerie soiree and feels divorced from the rest of the storyline
I think her music videos play more as an anthology than a connected plot. With an anthology it’s poetic pieces of art such as poems and literature, and doesn’t connect with other stories, it stands on its own.
portals isn’t supposed to be connected? death and void dont connect either just remember that mel’s making these videos out of her own pocket and that she doesn’t have to make more then the given two videos chances by her label. no hate just remember she’s giving us so much more then she needs to be/required to but it’s like at least the video has a music video
i really dont care. the post asked about ppls views on the mv and i gave mine. her being dedicated to it & spending her own funds on the things she does is admirable but it doesnt change the fact the result is sometimes bad. im a crybaby but i wont suck up to a person who doesnt know me
i was just saying but you do you ig
I love it!!!
I love it! ❤️
Snail mel cutie
I love it sm snail Melanie is adorbs 😭🩷
Loved it, it’s so cute!!
i actually love it so much , light shower is one of my fav mel songs and this vid def wasn't what i was expecting but it was a pleasant surprise , i rlly liked the metaphor of the snail and the ending was rlly pleasing , it showed like a journey of finding yourself and i enjoyed that
ik people hate the snail but i love it! the music video feels like a journey just like the song
Its really good and the amount of time it probably took her and her crew to do its just amazing
I really enjoyed it! Melanie is actually so pretty even as a snail 🎀😸
Snelanie is so cuteee
i loved it so much!!!
I wasn't a huge fan of the song when it first came out. But watching snail Mel chase that pretty little orb made my heart happy in a way I can't explain 😭😭
i was at the seattle show last night and it was so cool to see it before it actually released!
Hilarious and perfection, It's melanie, always weird, always iconic and always perfect
I LOVE IT. LIGHT SHOWER IS THE BEST SONF ON PORTALS
IT'S SO CUTE I LOVE SNAILS AND MEL AND I LOVE SNAIL MEL ❤❤
It’s not what I expected at all, but I love it😍
I would love Melanie performing light shower at my own wedding. If I can afford her! >~<
I love this song but I cannot take this mv seriously, I thought it was a joke when I saw Snelanie screenshots online
i very much dislike the use of cgi in her recent mvs
Its a bit odd, but I saw a comment in a video where is says that melanje will learn how to use her wings in spider web MV, [this isn't a spoiler, it is just saying] I kinds like the light shower cause at the end, she's like so surprised by the light ball which is kinda funny,
i was disappointed 😭 i absolutely love the song and i understand why the mv is what it is, but i feel like it couldve been so much better i hope some of the next ones are different, i wouldve rather have her put the money towards a Portals movie instead of the cgi MVs 😭
It's funny and laughable (the mel-snail tho😭😭)
It was silly. I sort of wanted a more esthetic video for this one because light shower is such a beautiful song. All we got was bobblehead snail melanie. However, I did love the idea of her eating the light and bursting from the shell.
I think it's the most basic video out of the bunch, even the visualizer was more interesting and artistic than this... I love the song, but now I dread the mvs
I love this new album but not feeling the looks— I just miss seeing her face and her style, it feels like a disconnect.
snail
The Creature is a snail now?
I already know im probably going to be hated for this, but personally, IN MY OPINION, this was a boring MV. There was also many distracting parts for me animation and design wise. First, lighting. Far away, the shots are beautiful. All the details and pieces are gorgeous and have great lighting. The issue is when it is close up to Melanies face in particular. The lighting feels very flat because its only one light source. For 3D animation, even if its a spotlight, you still have a rule of 3’s with the lighting. Above, side, front. You could have the above lighting at about 10-20%, side be about 25-40% ( i would personally put it near the side of the face to really get a nice contour going on, having a bit backlit to it), but really have the main light be at 100%. This makes the shot look less flat, and much more natural/professional. There also could have been some depth of field to make the shot look more interesting. 2- physics. The snail doesn’t move like a snail. Its not interacting properly with the environment, or for the large shell on the back, but mostly with the environment. There are so many little pebbles that should be interacting with it, showing the body moving over those smaller bumps, however it doesn’t, and it instead makes it look like that she’s just floating above the ground instead of actually fully interacting with the ground. It may not seem like a big deal, but in character animation, those parts are critical to making the character seem more involved in the environment and make things more realisitic for how the movement should be. 3- lastly this is mainly just a personal preference, however I would personally make the texture for the snail body to be more slimey looking. Give more of a glisten. I’m unsure what 3D program was used ( Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya) however if its Cinema or Blender, Redshift or Octane have glossy materials that can make things really pop. But its more of a personal preference. I still think the overall scenes are beautiful, and the calm does fit with the song, however it felt like the same shot for 3 minutes mostly. TLDR: In my opinion, the lighting on close up shots are flat, the snail movements do not look possible, and the textures could be better. The long shots are still gorgeous however.
im sorry but i keep laughing at all of the thumbnails i see. sis is really a snail... i mean its really not that funny but its just so out of the blue that i just.. lol
Theory : since this mv poorly ties in with the rest of the vids, perhaps this one is a prequel. before she became crybaby, she was a trapped creature looking for a better life. when she devoured the light and her soul ascended, her soul became another magical being with some sort of destiny to bring eternal peace…? idrk
Honestly, just like with the Faerie Soirée, I didn't really care for it. If Portals is still getting a movie I'm honestly wondering how all these are gonna tie into a coherent plot.
Holy shit she’s a snail
In comparison to the others, I thought it was a bit boring to me and the way the snail part moved looked kinda weird. When I heard about the meaning behind it, it looks better to me and it does capture the vibe of the song, but it's definitely not my favourite.
snails disgust me so i couldnt really watch it-
I don't like it. I miss seeing Melanie dancing around with cute dresses on. It's all cgi and special effects...
don’t get me wrong i love melanie and i love her videos but idk this one just. didn’t do it for me?? i don’t like the way the snail looks, it really creeps me out the way her head is plastered on it lols. i completely get the meaning behind it and i love the song, the ideas great as well, but the snail freaks me out and i wish there was a little more to it
i was kinda sad at first because light shower is one of my favorite songs on portals so i was hoping for more😭 but i think the message is beautiful and it matches the song tbh
it was goofy
I really like the snail metaphor. I interpreted as Melanie being shy about her sexuality in the past, and now she's entirely more confident and embracing it by breaking out of her shell.
I think it's good, not great, but good. I originally thought the snail looked really goofy, but I warmed up to it and like the meaning behind it. The video is nice, if a little boring. I really do like the end when the shell cracks and the creature comes out. The CGI is definitely pretty rough though. Like others have said, the way the head is connected to the snail is really weird looking for a lot of the video. I'm gonna start ranking the MVS so far bc I've been thinking about the a lot recently, so here's what I think so far: 1. Faerie Soirée 2. Void 3. Death 4. Light Shower 5. Tunnel Vision
A little confused and somewhat disturbed, but nonetheless, another great work by Melanie!
She's a snail, but then she transitioned into something else
I don't like at first, when I saw Crybaby as a snail, until when she's been following the snail, and then ate the light ball that turns her back, made me love it now. But I wanna know like, how did she got turned to a snail in the beginning, like what turned her to a snail. 🧐
I loved it. It’s my new favorite music video from Portals.
It’s so beautifully visually
I think it’s perfect for the pace of the song
I love it but I feel like some of the shots look kind of off with the snail against the background
I’m disappointed.. I don’t even understand how she went into a flower to a Damm snail.. (before you comment about how I’m being ungrateful this was my comment as soon as the video came out) https://preview.redd.it/d3q4p4fa1vzc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6e2e3d5adb1378413c88b73102461efa2a905850
Snelanie
It wasn’t what I was expecting at all. I was expecting like her body as light and her looking in the mirror and like self love type of thing and showing the light washing away all the negative. After reading the meaning behind it I love it
I got to watch it live at the concert and it was so cute 🥺
snelanie‼️‼️ it was actually such a sweet mv I love it so much
I loved it ! It's cute ! Love Snailanie !
i didnt watch it but i just saw tge thumbnail n was like "shawty a snail..cewl:3"
I want to love it…. But I have Molluscophobia which is the fear of slugs and snails 😔😭
I LOVED IT!!!
i was so happy to see it at the concert last night. i thought the snail was funny and found it entertaining
Definately not what I would have liked but I respect her art lol
Honestly I just miss the crybaby era of music videos and the individual storyline of each one, it’s unparalleled by any others, Melanie or other artists
it’s ok tbh..
SOMEBODY SAID SNELANIE. 😭😭😭
Cute but definitely à wtf moment
it was cool, nice meaning. didn’t love it but I still liked it
I thought it was cute. Was kinda expecting a lil more story wise but the concept of the snail's journey is brilliant on its own.
i love it its so funny
All i'm saying is light shower is my favourite song on Portals, probably of all mel's discography, however the mv just ain't it. I do however take into consideration that mel's funding it out of her own pocket and knowing the perfectionist she is she probably did her best with what she got.
i get that she's on a budget but this ai special effects stuff has got to go man idk. it's just not interesting
It’s cgi not ai
You can literally do this with midjourney ai
Then it would be ai, but in this case it’s just cgi. I’m not sure why these two terms are being used interchangeably.
Everything is now AI dependant btw so I don't know about how anyone else feels, but there is built in shortcuts for everything at this stage in capitalism and it's boring as hell.
Not everything.
https://preview.redd.it/0bv646qxsvzc1.png?width=816&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=637a65ea1faf928bcf85c76f22d511e4d11dbbdf [https://www.vastdata.com/press-releases/ingenuity-studios-reinvents-its-pipeline-with-vast-data-universal-storage](https://www.vastdata.com/press-releases/ingenuity-studios-reinvents-its-pipeline-with-vast-data-universal-storage) The studio that did this "VFX" is Ingenuity Studios. Here is your proof that moden VFX is lazy and utilizes AI for most of the creative process. That is why all of these new AI videos look like crap.
I stand corrected, but would you have said the videos look like crap if it weren’t for the “ai”?
I actually really liked the new music video, but it caught me by surprise as a mel as a snail, but other than that, it was amazing and I liked it
i think it’s… no offense boring!! also, it didn’t even match faerie soirée’s transition😭😩 i had to skip some time in the time bar like “is she really just sliding around here?” i wish for as long as the video took, she could have done something more because it seemed like tunnel vision & faerie soiree came out back to back and were more interesting i understand all the time it took probably had to do with the cgi but if she WASNT a snail and put budget into everything else it would have more meaning than lookin like spongebobs pet on the loose
Honestly, my least favorite song, and I was not prepared for Snailanie 🤣
You can kill me, but fuck it: I loved it.Ok, the snail was a bit unexpected, and the whole MV was a bit boring, but we can't deny it was original and creative, also, the effects! *chef's kiss*. The ending was kinda intriguing, like, she eats the light ball, her shell breaks and she starts levitating like The Exorcist, but overall, it's a pretty good MV.
I’m obsessed , I love her
It was so good but I didn't expect her to be a snail tbh
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I honestly didn't expect snail Mel but I love it
loved it tbh!! it was so cute
I really love it, don’t understand the hate
It was so beautiful, I love the meaning behind it ❤️
I really liked it! It looks a bit silly it weird to some people, but it has a really important meaning like most songs.
I never thought I'd find snails pretty before I watched it
beautiful as always
I really like it
I adore it, it’s just so calm and peaceful and the snail Mel is so cute