'This was always my song for my daughter': The most touching comments left under songs on YouTube

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Apr 28, 2024 1:00 PM EDT

Once upon a time, one of the most important pieces of wisdom about the internet was to never read the comments. Even the comment sections of the most anodyne of videos threatened to be home to the cesspit of humanity, or so we were told. 

While there can be an element of truth to this (did somebody say Reels?), it doesn't always have to be the case. In fact, there are many types of videos where the comment section is nothing less than an abundance of wholesome delights. 

This is especially true when it comes to songs, which always seem to bring outpourings of emotion out of people. This has been underlined in a recent heartwarming thread in which eagle-eyed listeners shared their favorite song comments that they had seen on YouTube. It's amazing how you can encapsulate so much about a life in so few words, relating to a piece of art that you enjoy.

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    Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling Follow My favorite thing about human beings are the vulnerable flash autobiographies people leave in the comments under videos of songs on youtube
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    10:32 5G 754 BOOKENDS/SIMON & GARFUNKEL く FOLK MUSIC Replies @ClassicFolkSongs1539 6mo ago When this song was at its height, my sister was 19 years old, dying from cancer. I was 17, and left school to spend a dreary winter with her in a Chicago hospital where they were doing experimental chemo. Late night, we'd order a pizza to be delivered to the ER in the basement, because nobody was allowed on the 8th floor cancer ward that late. We'd ride the elevator down and back, harmonizing this song tog
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    bridget graham @bridggraham Replying to @lydiakiesling on a bruce springsteen song :) Follow
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    C @colleenburgener5631 3 months ago This song really reminds me of my nextdoor neighbor and myself! He's 81 and I'm 60. This song is so him and I. 314 Reply
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    Elise Wouters @elisewouters • 12 Apr Replying to @lydiakiesling Elise Wouters @elisewo....30 Dec 23 I like looking up songs on YouTube lately. People often leave their own little stories of love & loss in the comments. Underneath the Paris, Texas soundtrack is this one - an echo of a slide guitar & o... @touch_of_cobalt ⚫ 1 yr ago Growing up in Yorkshire, my dad used to listen to Ry Cooder all the time, back in the days of car cassettes, finish the side 1, flip to side 2, rinse and repeat. I wil
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    md :*:. @mathbzzzz 13 Apr Replying to @lydiakiesling joni mitchell - little green BLUE JONI MITCHELL Comentários Principais Mais recentes Х @melwoodruff6697 ⚫ há 3 anos This was always my song for my daughter, Dawn who I gave up for adoption in 1967. I only learned about a year ago that Joni Mitchell wrote it about her daughter who she gave uo for adoption. My heart breaks for her. 413 Ε
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    Cody Clarke / Kill Th... @codyclarke Replying to @lydiakiesling Follow One of my favorites, on the music video for Refused - New Noise @sorelentless 5 years ago I'm an ex gang member who only listened to gangster rap back in 1998. I can remember coming home around 2AM and this video was on MTV and I was absolutely mesmerized. It changed my life about the conformity of music. Listening to this song for the first time felt like a prison break. I immediately bought the album and read the manifesto
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    @00WARTHERAPY00 • 9y ago Well, when i was 4, my dad bought a trusty XBox. you know, the first, ruggedy, blocky one from 2001. we had tons and tons and tons of fun playing all kinds of games together - until he died, when i was just 6. i couldnt touch that console for 10 years. but once i did, i noticed something. we used to play a racing game, Rally Sports Challenge. actually pretty awesome for the time it came. and once i started meddling around... i found a GHOST. literaly. you know, when a ti
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    . jake @jake_boll • 12 Apr Replying to @lydiakiesling I go back to this track on YouTube once a month for this exact reason
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    1:32 = Aphex Twin - Stone In Focus 9.7M views 8y ago ...more
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    M @merlindogs9703 • 2y ago I'm lying down next to a girl that I think I'm falling in love with. She's asleep and I'm listening on my headphones. Life is good and also weird and also confusing and I'm also unsure. What a trip 17K 434 replies 回
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    N @zatchg1212 • 3mo ago (edited) I'm 41. Been married for 15 years, have two daughters, own a home, decent paying job. And it's all happened in the blink of an eye. Seems like just yesterday I was a jackass 23 year old without a responsibility in the world. This song sums up how I feel when I look back at everything, how it's all unfolded, and how it all had to happen (even the bad stuff) the way it did for me to have the life I do today. Life's a trip, what might seem like something small today
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    R @rzezbapajak6169 • 1mo ago (edited) I like to imagine that, here, at the comment section, we just gather around this music and share bits of ourselves. Total strangers, who happened to cross each other's ways by bumping into this random, yet special, piece of art. 193 E
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    . em@cactus4ngel 13 Apr Replying to @lydiakiesling Still Pimpin' by Tommy Wright III Comments 4.3K W 凸9 winddust100. 4y ago X im a 40 year old white square middle-class type guy from northern europe, yet this tune speaks to me somehow, is the chap still pimpin to this day? if so, i would feel very pleased 2.9K 123 replies
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    ►YouTube UNI+eD STATE 2009 BAME + on the Pop DJEARWORM.COM Comments Absolutely Dahling A Story Time. 1 year ago My first son passed away in 2009. I couldn't listen to these songs for years. It brings tears to my eyes now, in a whole different way. In the moment, the pain was insurmountable. 12 years later, it's become a reminder of how far we can go, despite the despair. To find this song on a day like any other, reminds me that my son is sitting somewhere, smiling. I hope he's thankful his dad
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    Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus Malek Follow With all the sincerity i can muster on this earth, this is the kind of love i want someday twitter.com/lydiakiesling/... P Paul Jurgen-Romrig 8 years ago I WANT TO DANCE! I WANT TO PLAY MY DRUMS! I WANT TO PLUG MY BASS IN, AND LAY A SLAP RIFF OVER THIS!......BUT MY WIFE IS ON THE SOFA WITH A MIGRAINE!.................SHE IS MY WORLD! 87 6
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    Yukon Cornelius @NeeedlesEye very recently saw this all-timer John Coltrane - Ascension (Full Album) Jackson Brown 1.63K subscribers 43K views 5 years ago Edition II. ...more 94 Comments Add a comment... B M Subscribe Sort by Follow 797 Share Clip @mikecannon3044 5 years ago As an army deserter during Nam, I think I spent three months in Canada listening to just this one album. It was terrifying but not horrifying. It broke through and allowed me to approach his earlier work (hadn't been able be
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    nica @nicamnuel 12 Apr this has haunted me for years VIEW 28 REPLIES 8 amelia manos • 3 years ago The first time I heard this song I was laying with him on his couch waiting for cookies to finish baking. If I knew what I know now I would've let the cookies burn just so I could spend a few more minutes next to him 394 - 15 VIEW 15 REPLIES DCabrera004 • 4 years ago
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    Hemlock Sommelier @AdoredGehenna Follow One of my favorites, from the Kill Rock Stars upload of Suha d @deeem2686⚫ 7y ago I used to listen to this song nearly every day on my walk home from high school, my senior year. I wanted so badly to leave, those days. As soon as I graduated, I impulsively moved to New York City and became a transsexual. I'd say I'd wish I could go back to the woodsy solitude and the simplicity of then, but that wouldn't be very fair, would it. 210 ☑
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    romantic fatigue III @MiaMaing ⚫ 12 Apr "in my last dying breaths I will go back to that moment and embrace the infinite." @thadtuiol1717.6y ago (edited) One summer's day in 1996, I was 24, on holiday and driving a hired jeep around Corfu with my girlfriend sitting next to me, my first and last true love. Champagne Supernova was playing on the radio. We pulled over to get a good look at the harbour below. It was late afternoon/early evening on a gloriously sunny day and, as I turned to kiss her,
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    Jaage @hbms_graduate 13 Apr Favorite YouTube comment of all time CO IVE THE MANY SHADES OF SOUL NOTES A1-CRUE - VCO MFKR (6:48) A2-KASPER. DEEPER LOVE (6:16) B1-ADRYIANO ON MY SIDE (6:49) 82-KIRILL TIPO-FREE FALLING (6:14) All rights reserved. Soul Notes Recordings 2013. soulnotesmusic@gmail.com Comments 1.8K 1 REPLY Written and produced by: Crue, Jose Cabrera. Adryiano Richter and Krill Tkachev. H Х • 25puts 5 years ago This tune... Man do I rate this tune... This tune is like... The tune you p
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