Bronte ~ Gotye - Music Monday

Number seven on my playlist is Goyte's Bronte. This song is hauntingly beautiful and the video is also. It fits nicely with my mellow theme for starting my day off and ties in, in away with the next song, Thy Will.

I stumbled on this song after Goyte's Somebody That I Used To Know came out. I really liked his style and his voice. At some point I rabbit holed into the video for Bronte and instantly liked this song and the video that goes with it.

Upon looking up more information on the song, I have found I will love it even more going forward and just reading they why of it's being written almost makes me cry. (Which is apparently part of being over 40, but more on that later) For anyone that has lost a beloved pet, they will understand why once they read it.

"Gotye wrote this song about some friends of his who were letting go of their 21-year-old dog, Bronte. He explained to Artist Direct: "When you love and care for an animal, you don't want it to suffer too much. You also respect nature and the natural cause of things. They really struggled with the eventual decision of deciding they had to let go of the dog and put it down. I thought they did it in a very loving way. From what I could tell, it was very instructive and inclusive for their daughters. They did it as a family. I wrote that song like I was vicariously experiencing it. That's what I'm proud of. In its simplicity, I felt like it captured my feelings of that experience even if it was at a distance. You don't have to necessarily interpret it as a relationship between people and animals. You can flip it on its head and turn it into a group of animals letting go of this peculiar relationship with a human child they have in the forest.""

The thing is, I want to create a video for this song for Supernatural from Season 12 when one of the main characters that is a favorite of mine is killed off. I knew they lyrics were haunting and beautiful but not that I had hit exactly what they were about in my "vision" for my own video.

Have you ever had a song that you really liked and then found you liked it even more once you found the meaning behind it? Has your opinion of a song ever changed once you found out why it was written?