10 Best Music Videos About Mental Health

10 Best Music Videos About Mental Health

Mental health can be a difficult topic to tackle, but these incredible music videos share relatable and hope-filled messages for those struggling.

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As the subject of mental health continues to evolve and become less taboo, it has worked its way more and more artistic mediums. Music is one of the strongest ways that people communicate with and relate to each other in a viscerally human way. Melody mixed with meaningful lyrics can make people feel things on a completely different level.

Music videos are an amazing layer of storytelling that can give a musician’s message even more nuance and utilize more of the audience’s senses to experience their songs. When the topic of mental health is concerned, these music videos have impacted fans in a big way.

“1-800-273-8255” By Logic feat. Alessia Cara & Khalid

This music video hit viewers hard when it was originally released and it continues to be a paramount song on the subject of mental health and depression and its crossover with the LGBTQ+ community. The song, whose title is the Suicide Hotline phone number, talks about feeling hopeless and alone in life before slowly finding joy in being alive.

The music video story follows a teen boy struggling with his sexuality and acceptance from his family and peers. With bullying and confrontation, he feels almost ends his life before calling the hotline. With help and love from those in his life, he ends up happily married and even a father with his husband. Continued education and the growing number of kids’ shows with LGBTQ+ representation will hopefully help eradicate this painful journey for young people.

“River” By Josh Groban

“River” is one of Josh Groban’s most-viewed music videos on YouTube. It’s a song about longing for a simpler place and peace of mind. Groban touches on one of the biggest stigmas when talking about mental health, singing, “Some days I can’t say why I’m feeling lonely. Some days I am too proud to ask for help.”

The lyric is relatable to many who struggle with not understanding why they feel the way they do and feeling uncomfortable with therapy because of the outdated social implications. The video for “River” follows crowds of silhouettes through ever-changing city skylines, communicating the feeling of loneliness amidst a city full of people.

“Dancing With The Devil” By Demi Lovato

While the subject matter of Demi Lovato’s video was highly criticized when it was released for featuring reenactments of their overdose and hospitalization, Demi’s transparency about addiction and their near-death experience is a necessary cautionary tale and message for them to share using their artistic creativity as a musician.

The video for their song, “Dancing With The Devil” shows Demi both pre- and post-overdose and even sheds light on the sexual assault that Demi experienced the night of the event. Their passionate vocals and captivating acting in the video, mixed with real radio clips that aired during the time, put the listener in Demi’s shoes as they painfully relive those moments and feelings.

“Hunger” By Florence + The Machine

Taylor Swift recently shared her experience with an eating disorder, and she’s one of many music artists to do so. It’s become increasingly clear that their message resonates with the 702 million people worldwide who will struggle with food in their lifetime. Florence + The Machine released the song “Hunger,” which detailed Florence’s anorexia in her youth.

In addition to eating disorders, the song talks about “hunger” as a tangible replacement for the feeling of emptiness, which can be a harder emotion for people, especially young people, to process. In the music video, a statue of a man is gawked at by critics, attention is drawn to the holes that he’s developed over time. But, different people come and truly appreciate his beauty.

“Beloved” By Mumford & Sons

Grief is a difficult mental health topic to cover and truly understand unless it’s been experienced. Grief has been portrayed in various ways on screen in popular movies and television shows like Inception and WandaVision, but it can be hard to communicate the emotion in the compact format of a music video.

Mumford & Sons takes on the task with their “Beloved” music video. In it, a young boy’s mother is sick, and he imagines whisking her away from the hospital. After one last fun-filled imaginary day with his mom, he is snapped back to reality and she’s gone. The longing for just one more day is a universal theme in grief, and the video does a wonderful job of sharing that.

“Idontwannabeyouanymore” By Billie Eilish

Fans learned in The World’s A Little Blurry that Billie Elish struggles taking care of mental health and relationship with her body because of societal pressures, and her songs reflect those themes. “Idontwannabeyouanymore” has lyrics like, “tell the mirror what you know she’s heard before. I don’t wanna be you anymore” that communicate the feeling of frustration with depression and low self-worth.

The music video for the song is monochromatic, with everything from the background to Billie’s hair being a faded, worn-out white hue. This gives the viewer no real sense of where Billie is in the scene and is symbolic of the feeling mentally tired and hazy. Furthermore, she sings the entire song to herself in a mirror, hammering home the message to herself as well as listeners.

“In My Blood” By Shawn Mendes

Anxiety can make people feel like they’re “crawling in their skin” as Shawn sings in the song. He expresses the feeling of walls caving in on someone and how nothing helps to make the feeling go away. He goes on to say that he’s afraid to be alone, but doesn’t want to give up.

Throughout the music video for “In My Blood,” different things come crashing down on Shawn, including bits of stone, snow, and a downpour of rain. But after things have been thrown at him while he’s unable to move on the ground, grass and flowers begin to bloom around him, showing that sticking it out and not giving up can lead to some beautiful results.

“Now I’m In It” By Haim

“Now I’m In It” follows the main character, played by Danielle Haim, who is feeling stuck and lost in the cycle of her life, not knowing how to escape the monotonous droll of her depression. She tries everything to “find her way back,” even putting herself through a car wash, but she sings that “the rain keeps coming down. I’m lost in it.”

Danielle’s sisters support her throughout the video, carrying her around, dressing her, and drying her tears. The three sisters go out together at the end of the song, and even though Danielle is okay, there is a brief cut to her underneath the water at the car wash – an ode to the feelings that will always be with her, but not take her over completely.

“Save Myself” By Ed Sheeran

The video for “Save Myself” by Ed Sheeran is an example of communicating a story or emotion in film with little to no words, and it’s very powerful. There are no spoken words in the video, and in fact, a large majority of the shots are of the eye contact between a surgeon and patient. The piercing emotional depth behind the eyes of both women is intensely moving to watch.

As the surgery is taking place, and the patient goes through all different types of emotions, Ed Sheeran sings about how “life can get you down, so I just numb the way it feels.” He goes on to talk about giving all his energy away and not having any for himself when he was struggling, and how he needed to learn how to take care of himself first before anyone else.

“Fake Happy” By Paramore

Many people who are struggling with their mental health may feel pressured to appear happy and okay on the outside, and that’s what the music video for “Fake Happy” by Paramore is about. The band showed people that it was okay to not be okay by demonstrating a distaste for being “fake happy.”

Hayley Williams passes people on the street whose faces are upside-down smiley faces. She mimics and exaggerates their gestures, sharing the experience of masking inner emotions and feeling like a caricature of a person. Her own face isn’t visible until the very end of the video, but she smiles after truly connecting with people around her.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/best-music-videos-about-mental-health/

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