Toto - Africa (playing in an empty shopping centre)

something about the image is so nostalgic

the backrooms before the backrooms

I was there, in this mall, when this song played.

It was magic.

Can you please tell me how to achieve this effect I have been testing out multiple options and It never has this outcome 😅

I heard this at a bus station once

Here from Meet Me at the Fountain, by Alexandra Lange

"Mono no aware"

For a warm 80s buzz, heartily recommend "New Cydonia" by Starcadian, or almost anything by The Midnight or FM-84.

Holy shit this is the exact mall i had a dream in 3 years ago and i had a dream where i was skateboarding with my dad and also some other references was there too like from this place in auckland and then we skated out and went to a gas statuon

it's so sad and depressing, it's like an end for an era, I miss the days when there were shopping malls.

pov: you fell asleep in the bathroom before closing

I don't know why, 4 years later, that this specific video still has such a weird emotional impact on me. It's special to me in that weird way, I guess

Feeling like stranger things 3 aftermath

I have a love hate relationship that transcends time with this song because I wake up in cold sweat thinking about how I bombed a short answer about how this author listening to the song and getting inspired demonstrates human experiences for my trials last year

this is scary.

Oh no.. WHAT CAME FIRST THE SONG OR THE CONTINENT

The video that was posted on the date Sept 14 2017, that day it was my brother's birthday. 😊

This gets me aroused

Just casually watching this in an empty mall

There was a comment here 5+ years ago of someone basically writing out a short scene within the context of this video. I always think about it when I come back here. The last bit was:

"Dear shoppers, we will be closing in five minutes. Please bring all final purchases to the front for check out. Thank you."
Five minutes. You stand in the middle of the shopping centre, thinking about time. You feel like it's flowing through your fingers like sand. The year is 1985 and you have endless opportunities in front of you and you can't help but think of all the ones you missed. "Africa" by Toto starts playing and it feels like the best song you've ever heard.

I wasn't alive back then, but for some reason that comment paired with this version of the song make me feel like I was. I'm sure there was someone back in 1985 listening to this song thinking about the future. And now its been 38 years, that future came. I wonder how it ended up going, and I wonder how mine will go.

This is painfully nostalgic to me; I can't help but cry.

😢

Its funny how when I saved this to my watch later videos years ago this was comforting, now after kane pixels videos this feels horrifying

Raspberries and rum could you please do Karma chameleon by culture club in empty mall by request 🎉

it's missing so much of the bandwidth of the original but almost becomes another artwork

The idea of this song playing in a world where people are long gone
The only sound heard anywhere in the entire universe
Then it stops

This feels like going back in time.

6 years
Gotta smk to stop this

Haha this was my experience moving from England to a small town in Alberta. The mall literally looked like this

The mall will be closing in 10 minutes

The garbled words being spoken on the loudspeaker are unintelligible
You hear similar words at other sites, but you don't think they have any significant meaning
You continue scavenging

Man..

this song was in a game that i used to always play in 2016. good old days

This is like hearing good news then the good news affects you in a good way

what a shithole mall

POV: You just restored power to a mall 20 years after a cordyceps outbreak in your little hometown

You hit the effects perfectly with this one. Absolutely spot on.

Not enough echoes...

I used to work overnights at Lowes and there was only like 5 employees on my shift. I remember sitting on the top of the shelving listening to songs echoing through the basically empty store. It was always a very calming feeling and something I miss about working there

Never be wrathful for historical wrongdoings
It leads to a curse of course
Don’t dominate because you were dominated
There is karma within

this is what u would hear hiding behind a clothes rack and hiding from a killer slicing through things with yoir moith covered

It’s nice to see how so many people can share such a specific, familiar, vivid-but-vague sense of nostalgia based on what would have been regular, insignificant experiences that slowly dissipated from our daily lives. This kind of media has the unique ability to stir our senses with extremely powerful memories that pertain to no singular event. Instead drawing upon a compounded, collective recall of the past which is now obsolete. There’s a communal sensation of “normalcy” that no longer exists outside of our memories. Yet the significance of longing that these snapshots in time provide psychologically can only be realized in the absence of the physical experience that imprinted itself onto our psyche through seemingly insignificant repetition so many years ago.

2024 people?

The song is good, yet the picture is so creepy.

i used to drive to another city from my small town to see my psychiatrist once a month or two. the appointments were on weekdays, and me and my dad would go to the mall to kill some time before going to the hospital. everyone would be at school or work, so the mall would be quite empty. this is pretty much the same thing.

This song brings an unknown nostalgia to me..

Am i here

bro predicted covid 💀

I moved out of state(Used to live in IL) but I’m dropping everything and flying my ass to my childhood mall before they demolish it and the surrounding area as well… This song was played before once and I never forgot 😂

Tsamina mina eh eh
Waka waka eh eh

❤

I literally wrote a poem back when I was in college about this video
But instead of toto it was the opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci and her voice reverberated off the walls, as you walked through the abandoned mall