This performance is legendary
It’s very interesting watching a women’s perspective of this song. It’s very different but the same at the same time. If you really love someone then let them free.
When Pearl Jam hit the scene, I was in junior high school. Every single one of my friend-girls was over the moon for Eddie Vedder. I recall doing everything in my power to be like this man in order to attract said girls. Grew out the hair, wore flannel, ripped jeans, Converse All Stars. Hmm, I guess that’s all. Didn’t work, by the way. My face still looked nothing like his.
I’m going through this. We broke up in April and I thought I was moving forward but listening to this breakdown of a song I’ve loved for years is just hitting me hard. I need to let it out and I can’t. I haven’t cried - I just feel empty and numb. I know it will get better but this really sucks. 
Eddie Vedder has saved my life more than once and doesn’t even know it
the greatest love of my life messes up and gets into the darkness of a heroin addiction and choses the drug over me when i can’t stand to her destroy herself any longer. to feel something about another person like Eddie feels in this song and know no one has ever felt the same about you is gut wrenching. i can never not shed a tear whenever i listen to this song.
It’s morbidly fascinating how a song looks when you first hear it in your youth (in my case, high school in the 90s and a crush that didn’t feel the same way) - and even that far back, I knew this song was something special. Eons later, in my 40s, I have to live with the fact that everyone around me is married and I am divorced, and I can only just accept this calm sense of certainty, that I, like so many men long forgotten and discarded, am gonna die one day…alone. There won’t be another chance at love. There’s nothing out there for me. No one out there for me. I always thought my life would amount to more than this. I was wrong, and mistaken.
This was one of my high school girlfriends favorite songs about 32 years ago.
Pearl Jam…Nice:+1:
PLEASE REACT…eminem biggest freestyle in the world , westwood.
you mentioning the home team is wild because theyre local to my area, saw them in like 200 cap rooms in like 2019 and their drummer screen printed shirts for my old band. Serious whip lash hearing them come up here lol
Been watching for a while. You love music and music therapy. Sorry most of these are click baits for “first time reactions” I as just enjoying music have definitely heard 95% of the songs so just questions. Still love the reactions and content, but be honest, as you would like your clients to be with you. Honest, open communication, is what everyone needs even if it hurts. Much love HEARTSUPPORT and all you do.
Broken listening to this in this moment. Just had the girl of my dreams leave me because of my insecurities and lack of self love (her words) she brought a 1 year old little girl into my life that I loved as if she was my own. Gave all I had for the both of them… we had an amazing connection and they gave me such purpose and happiness in my life. It’s gut wrenching to know all that we had planned, living together, having a family, getting married, is all over and now someone else will get to do all that we had planned and will be in their lives instead of myself. This is one of my favorite songs, but right now I wish it weren’t.
Hey, kids. Gen-X metalhead here. It’s different after a few decades, a few lovers, a marriage and a cat, and joy in perilous times. You get through it, and you move on, and you don’t really forget what it was like, when she finally had enough and gave up on you, and let you go. The years of bitterness after the months of loneliness after the weeks of seeing her everywhere, this is not a big city, how are there so many women here the same height, with the same hair, and they are never her when they turn around, and… I can’t stop looking, can’t breath, can’t stop hoping…
Until I did stop.
You never forget what that all felt like, but it stops filling your head after a while, then you find yourself not thinking about it more and more often, and a few decades later, you only ever really think about when certain songs come on. Black comes on and it’s all right there again, you know the door to that darkened little room in your heart that the memories live in is ajar, and there’s brinkflesh and chills and hurt, but it’s also… beyond the years of a happy new life that found you at some point, and…
Perspective. She had to leave me. We weren’t the best for each other. We were something, but we weren’t for long. I was broken in a way she couldn’t fix. I was broken in a way I couldn’t fix. I needed more time. I wasn’t me enough yet.
Eddie Vedder’s on record stating this song is about letting go, and at that, it fails spectacularly.
This song is a key to that dark little room in my heart. A room I’ve grown too much to get into any more, but I like peeking in now and then, feeling how good it is out here in the light.
For me, these days, this song is about how good it is to not have that broken glass in my no longer bitter hands anymore.
Eddie seems like a nice guy in his interviews.
I made it about a year and a half clean from everything, until recently. I’ve been watching your reaction videos every night after work to songs that I’ve held dear for most of my life while I drink. Dont know why, but it adds even more emotion to it, seeing someone else react the same way. Life is rough sometimes. Music is a beautiful remedy. I’ll hop back on the wagon at some point. Thank you
Another great Eddie Vedder performance is Waiting For Stevie off their new album Dark Matter
Most emotive singer of my lifetime. Hands down.
It’s the “yeeaaAh… hee” at the very end for me.
Sangt.
Run Away Train by Soul Asylum
Everybody Hurts by REM
I learned that emotions aren’t blueprints, instead, we create instances of an emotion based on previous experiences and by watching the way other people respond to a set of circumstances and scenarios, that’s how we make our own emotion categories, that’s why facial expressions have different meaning among many cultures, and that’s why reaction videos in general are very appealing. The breakdown of the lyrics makes me feel like I can create more of these instances so that I can do better at identifying my own emotions, like if I could do my own emotional recognition process as a vicarious experience when I see these reactions, this is one of my favourite channels thanks!!