She's perfect I'm offended, starstruck and lowkey mad at her parents for putting such a perfect person on this earth. She's the reason I have such high standards.
Emily Harfst we all have different definitions of perfect. For some it's not having any flaws and for others it is the flaws. I can't explain my perspective of perfect, or anyone's for the matter. It's what makes them so.. them. They smile and laugh, cry and get angry. I may not know her personally but for me, she is perfect.
Sunny Jim why? Why do you have to be so rude? Our comments did nothing to you, didn't mess with you, so why do you feel the need to be rude? You don't know any of us or our lives and if listening to music helps calms us down then that's what we're gonna do. Please don't be so rude.
@Skylar Song I might be wrong as well :D but apparently the songwriter said its about people loosing their innocence amd giving up friendships? Idk (just looked it up)
I was following the pack All swaddled in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime
I was following the pack All swaddled in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime
This song is about that old story about the girl who was pressured into taking her scarf off by her lover, and when she finally did, her head fell off. That story is in turn based on a Grimm Brother’s fairytale about a stepmother who chopped off her stepson’s head and, to cover up, tied a handkerchief around his neck.
...Not really sure why it’s based on that, but there ya go!
Sleepy Actually White Winter Hymnal was apperently written from ''personal experience''.
''Fleet Foxes songwriter Robin Pecknold revealed to Rolling Stone that his songs are "written from personal experience,” including “Hymnal,” which was about a time when his friends ditched him in middle school. The lyrics might have been about childhood past, but the melody came from a familiar source — namely, Walt Disney. “The idea was a song like “Whistle While You Work,” from Snow White, you know?” Pecknold said. “So it started with that very beginning thing, the first kind of like, melody. And then once the verse was done, it just seemed like it lent itself to the repetition, you know?”
@idroppedmynintendoswitch? I read somewhere that this particular song has no actual meaning and is preferred for people to think about it how they want
@idroppedmynintendoswitch I thought it was about the French revelation
All the people in France were red scarfs to know that they were on their team.Michale was a person who died he didn’t have his scarf on so they thought he was on the other team so they killed him
I know you’ll probably never see this, but I’m genuinely in love with you and all of your music and covers. I’ve been following your journey for years now, and you are so amazing. I wish with all my heart that I could meet you, because you’re so much more than just an artist to me. Ilysm and even that is an understatement. 🖤
i think this song is about how during the French revolution the people wore coats that covered their entire body and red scarves to show that they were part of the revolution and they would walk in a pack but if you turned around the others would behead you and keep walking
in an interview by indyweek they said that it's about a close-knit group of childhood friends drifting apart as they get older! michael is an actual guy name michael lol and he is one of those aformentioned previous friends. the french revolution theory is cool though, all interpretations are technically valid lol "...that one is just like about my experience when I was a kid, you know, like I had my really tight group of friends. But as we grew up from grade school to junior high to high school, everybody just kind of split off, and everybody kind of changed. I went from like this tight-knit group to, seemingly for no reason, everybody was kind of going their own way. That song is just about that feeling."
I thought the same thing! I was learning about the French Revolution a while back and this song was all I could think about. There were some specific details that fit with the song but I sadly can’t remember them anymore :(
@happy little raincloud I think she's having a trick on us. If you watch her blurry "twin" in the mirror she does a little head shake thing on notes held for a bit longer. But it's a good truck with that book at the end ☺️
oh dodie you managed to make an ugly lesbian with braces, oversized glasses, a heavy period, proportions that are all wrong, anxiety, ocd and some truly negative feeling circling my appearance feel like a dainty snowflake. i feel beautiful. i feel... okay.
Dodie has inspired my to write a poetry book on Wattpad! Here is one of my favourites:
stars:
many people have idols be it a celebrity or even a parent but my idols are the stars because even long after they have died they still continue to shine.
LYRICS: I was following (6x) I was following the pack all swallowed in the coats With scarves of red tied ‘round their throats To keep their little heads from falling in snow And I’d turn ‘round and there you go And Michael you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summer time
always surprised with what you come up with nowadays. i know you always fault having a "bad brain" but you gotta give it some credit sometimes too when you're this creative. it's a good brain, it just going through its teenage years, having a lot of bad days and being a drama queen, it'll grow out of it. 😁
Jera Sky (and threaders) you can "grow out" of depression. Sometimes it's hormonal (such as the teen years), other times, it may stem from the people, places, and things around you. When you change them, your mind will adapt. The brain is amazing. Sometimes depression is forever and can be managed by meds, talk therapy, yoga...etc. But my main point was the word "grow". You can grow out of anything. As time passes, you pick up coping skills and new ways to make your way through life. Depression is showing up at almost epidemic proportions and mainly in teens, or adults who have had troubled youth lives.
I dont know why I posted all this. I felt like the original poster got kinda jumped on. I dunno.
+TerminallyPerky yeah, I agree that for some people depression is something permanent and for others it can be only temporary. I had a really bad spate of depression a while back, but I changed my situation and I feel a million times better. So I don't think I have that type of depression caused by chronically low amounts of dopamine in the brain, what you'd call "clinical depression"--I just think I was in circumstances that didn't produce a lot of dopamine for me in the first place. I was simply not happy. That doesn't make my suffering any less difficult, or less legitimate, or less painful. Bottom line is, I finally feel like myself again, and I think I've come out of the dark hole I was in.
I do think I was depressed for a while. I think I've come through now. The scary part is, I know if I have anything like that situation again, I'll probably become depressed all over again; so I just have to recognize when that's happening and make it stop.
The writers said it was mainly meaningless, but there’s references to the French Revolution and WW2 where people would wear red scarves on/around their necks to show allegiance to the Nazis (ie if you weren’t wearing one you were killed). Either way, whatever it’s references are, it’s a beautiful song ✨
okay but lemme pls ask, who are the 191 people who disliked this gorgeous rendition?!
we sang this in my school choir when I was in yr7 n then again when I was in yr11 (i'm yr12 now) n this was so many times more beautiful than us doing it (n the choir wasn't toooo bad)
Same. Like everyone, at the winter concert. Did you guys have people doing the Pentatonix thing with five people sitting, and doing a clap-thing? We did that while others did a less complicated one with one hand against our chest and standing.
I love Dodie so fucking much. Like, how can you not? She's literally the image of perfectly imperfect and that's what I love about her. And her music is just the cherry on top!
The writer said the song is "lyrically fairly meaningless" and it was more a song to focus on singing. Fleet foxes had actually hoped it would make people laugh but instead it confuses them. The lyrics are kind of about the painful loss of innocence (like sweet kids become drug dealers later on and friendships becoming less important than trends etc) Robin even said he meant for the song to be mildly uplifting like "whistle while you work" from snow white So I guess no one died...
I mean, the writer might say it's meaningless but there are a heck load of references to the french revolution in this. Also, no writer writes something as specific as this without any inspiration.
i always had a feeling that they meant the archangel michael? like he lead the war with god's angels against satan and won, so maybe michael falling dead means that satan won? and that ties in with you saying about the painful loss of innocence (i'm not at all religious anymore, but it kinda still sticks w me)
I always saw they were in some army or troop wearing heavy coats to keep warm, walking past the people who were hung from trees (scarves of red keeping them suspended above the snow) and then they hear a bang and he turns around and his friend (or himself ) Michael is shot first which turns the snow red like strawberries
I love this song!!!, we did it for choir this year and we had so much fun preparing it!!!, you version makes it so much more beautiful though because of your amazing voice!!
Your voice is incredible, your view on life is beautiful and your music is AMAZING ❤️ I also just bought tickets to see you in Manchester and I'm so excited it's ridiculous... Love you and keep inspiring everyone and feeding us with amazing music. yum
my favorite version of this. it makes me feel so warm and cozy. dodie is just good. great. brilliant. please release a christmas album with this in it!! please 😘👌
Psst Dodie The lead singer of Fleet Foxes (who wrote the song) said the lyrics are pretty meaningless. He just wanted to start the album out with a song that was focused on singing. He kinda likes how it confuses people.
I just got the book today and it's freaking amazing!! It's so well written and it has helped me understand mental health a little more, it's also given me plenty of comfort from what I've read so far. It feels so good to know I'm not alone in doubting what goes on in my brain. Thank you for writing this book, it's truly beautiful.
Dodie this video made my day! Your voice is so lovely and I'm singing this in choir right now so it's really cool to see you sing this. It is a really weird song I know lol.
we sang this with my choir, but the Pentatonix version and now I know 2 of the 5 hand thingies from their music video. thought that was a fact worth sharing 😂 anyway, i really liked this version dodieee!! also SO EXCITED FOR YOUR TOUR 🎄 goodnight xx
This is literally one of my all time faves I always listen to the birdy version but omg this is beautiful I think it may replace the other one ahahahah
Yes fleet foxes!! Would love to see you do more of them in the future! Maybe ‘Tiger Mountain Peasant Song’? It’s so beautiful! So excited to see you in Bristol. 💛💛💛💛
We're doing this song in choir at the minute and it's one of my favourite things ((well I should say the singers are singing this and I'm playing guitar but I still love it)) it's such a good song
The song is by Fleet Foxes. It's about 4 brothers, and the youngest (Michael) used to bundle up in red coats before going outside to play in the snow but he would always fall or trip in the snow due to all the coats and jackets.
I think of this song as a little frame of a childhood memory - maybe of a five or six year old. He is with a bunch of children, maybe running after the older kids, who just look like a bunch of coats since they are so bundled up. He thinks in his child's mind that the scarves keep their heads from falling off. Then he looks behind him and his friend has fallen and hurt himself and there is bright red blood in the snow. Sometimes a memory like that sticks with you even though you can't remember anything else about it. So Michael is the kid.
Sophia Wilson That's actually what I always thought it was about too
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mel from hell2017-12-08 01:34:32 (edited 2017-12-08 01:34:51 )
Sophia Wilson I have a similar interpretation except that in my case the kids are in a forest and wearing bright red scarves to not lose each other, and Michael falls from somewhere high and hits his head
The people who wrote it said that they were literally just singing random things and that it has no meaning. But I like what you think, though I think it is more like decapitation than just hurting oneself because of... You know... With scarves of red tied round their throats, to keep their little heads from falling in the snow, then I turned round and there you go
Sophia Wilson that’s a really cool interpretation. I personally think it’s about the French Revolution. Everyone’s making their was to the guillotine, and many are wearing red scarves to show they are pro-revolution, as to not get their heads cut off. then this michael person was guillotined and his blood turned the snow “red as strawberries in the summertime” :) I’m not sure if this is totally right but after analyzing it- this is what I came up with!
Actually White Winter Hymnal was apperently written from ''personal experience''.
''Fleet Foxes songwriter Robin Pecknold revealed to Rolling Stone that his songs are "written from personal experience,” including “Hymnal,” which was about a time when his friends ditched him in middle school. The lyrics might have been about childhood past, but the melody came from a familiar source — namely, Walt Disney. “The idea was a song like “Whistle While You Work,” from Snow White, you know?” Pecknold said. “So it started with that very beginning thing, the first kind of like, melody. And then once the verse was done, it just seemed like it lent itself to the repetition, you know?” but it's a pretty cool theory :))
This was one of my favorite songs to sing in choir because it was completely aceppella and it took all of the women's choir and mens choir to do it and it was amazing
YO I live in Wisconsin and it is not snowing. Snow is gross and I hate it.... I'm glad you have it and I don't LOL. If you had to live with it every year from the middle of November until the middle of April, you wouldn't like it either
I heard about that yesterday and honestly I was shook because I’m from Massachusetts and it snows a shitload here but we haven’t got any so far this winter rip
Sophia Wilson I'm in Georgia, my puppy saw snow for the first time and I think he loves it :) I also think he's faking having to go out so he can stay outside longer
Oh my freaking goodness dodie, this gave me chills and made me feel all cozy and warm at the same time. You voice just keeps getting better every day :)) <3
this is stunning!! this was the song that made me first fall in love with fleet foxes ahhhh... also i tried to research what it was about when i first heard it and all i found was an interview with the band where the writer of the song said he had no idea what it was about, they just liked the way the words sounded :p
ajStrongwolf Pentatonix's version is my favourite because I find the backing music and slight echoing quality on Fleet Foxes original a little jarring. I do know they aren't the original artist but I have edited my first comment just in case somebody else didn't.
They play a version of this song at the store where I work all the time (especially during the holidays) and I thought I was tired of it but I love Dodie's version :)
I'm 99% sure she uses a zoom h1 which tbh I don't think sounds great (its fine on computers but if you're playing her stuff through speakers it sounds pretty bad)? I think youtubers use them mostly because they're so portable so if you film a lot in different rooms of your house it makes sense (you don't have to move a computer, soundcard, mic stand etc into another room) but if you were only recording vocals I'd go with like a Rode NT1A or something? Dunno what daw she uses but if anyone has any footage of it in the background I'd probably be able to identify it.
i can confirm with 95% confidence (from seeing esp. in her recent mac n cheese video) that it's a zoom h4n with some sort of windscreen (hence the look of a blue snowball)! slightly different from an h1 (which tessa violet uses). can't say as to the DAW tho.
Ahhhhhh fleet foxes 😍 This is a beautiful rendition but I wish you’d have credited them in the video or description? Anyway hope they get some love from this x
Eden Gallagher yeah true ahaha but I think dodie’s just has something more coarse than pentatonix’s and just personally I like that more than the original one ahah sorry x
Omg my dad used to play me this song all the time when I was younger and I used to love it and know wall the words but didn't understand what any of it meant but this makes EVERYTHING SO CLEAR! THANK YOU DODIE
The original song was written by a wonderful band called fleet foxes! They're really good and I recommend you check them out, they have very nice relaxing and surreal music and they came out with a new album for the first time in four years. Highly recommend!
Dear Dodie, you and your lovely voice and lyrics just got me through an all nighter of essay writing, so just know that I appreciate your calming sound so much! Couldn't have stopped shaking long enough to write without you (and Hozier too) <333
this video gives me a rlly nice warm christmassy feeling, i watched this so much in December it just takes me back to feeling warm and happy in bed surrounded by my family and really good food and not having to study ughh
My chorus class sang this at our Christmas concert , I had to do the highest soprano of my life haha. Good mems (btw you sang this beautifully as you do everything 💛🎄)
I am doing an acapella of this in my highschool choir! You've inspired me to try doing a solo version of it though. PS Thank you so much for helping me get through the toughest times in my life <3
Ahhh my vocal class at school learned this song last year (the Pentatonix version with the body percussion and everything) and we performed it a couple times for school concerts!!! This brings back so many memories, really enjoyed this cover 💛💛
Agh, I got tickets to your show in March in Dublin and I’m SO EXCITED!!! Also, could you please do a piano tutorial on burned out? I have been listening to it non stop and I’d love to be able to play it, k thanks bye ❤️💿
my choir and i have been practicing this song for ages and our concert is in a week and it was so cool to hear you sing a song that i've been working on for a while you are amazing and im glad to see that you're back!
My dad showed me this song when I was younger, it would always put me to sleep. I just got hit with a wave of childhood happiness on a sick day tysm!!!
This is 10000000% my favorite Christmas song now I have never heard it till I saw this and now I’m listening to cover after cover and ughhhh it’s so pretty and calming I love it!
Yay! I get to give a quick history lesson: So long story short, there was a time in France where if you believed in God, you were persecuted and even executed. (See: "I was following the pack all swallowed in their coats, with scarves of red tied round their throats ") So, naturally, people kept their religion a secret as not to get executed via decapitation. (See: "To keep their little heads from falling in the snow.") Others however, such as this specific prophet named Michael, didn't care to hide their beliefs and religious practices. (See: "Then I turned round and there'd you go.") So one winter, this prophet Michael was persecuted and decapitated in front of a crowd for his beliefs. (See: "And Michael, you would fall and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime.") This song, however, was not written about this story, as the creators of this song, Fleet Foxes, claim that they wrote the song to have no particular meaning. However, there's speculation that there's some relation to this story in the song, because it's too much of a coincidence not to be. And you know what we say about coincidence: The universe is rarely so lazy. 😉
Actually White Winter Hymnal was apperently written from ''personal experience''.
''Fleet Foxes songwriter Robin Pecknold revealed to Rolling Stone that his songs are "written from personal experience,” including “Hymnal,” which was about a time when his friends ditched him in middle school. The lyrics might have been about childhood past, but the melody came from a familiar source — namely, Walt Disney. “The idea was a song like “Whistle While You Work,” from Snow White, you know?” Pecknold said. “So it started with that very beginning thing, the first kind of like, melody. And then once the verse was done, it just seemed like it lent itself to the repetition, you know?”
Monica persecution doesn't mean it's illegal. there are plenty of countries in Africa and the Middle East in which Christianity is NOT*** illegal, but the people there who are Christian are still persecuted and sometimes killed. also, just google "Dechristianization of France during the French Revolution"- christianity wasn't /illegal/, but it was punished anyway.
Hermione Granger welcome! it's the one thing i remember from my crappy US History course last year in 10th grade (bad teacher)! i think because the fact they wore red chokers to "keep their heads from falling off" was striking... also i love chokers so.
I can’t tell if that was you, your sister, an actual twin or just some other relative like a cousin or something... but either way, this was amazing... 😍
- Great speculations! Unfortunately, this beautiful song actually has a rather sad connotation. Here is what I believe the real meaning of the song is.
During the French Revolution, mobs of revolutionists beheaded those (such as royalty -- I'm sure you've heard of Marie Antoinette) who were against the revolution. Revolutionists would gather around the guillotines in "packs" to watch the beheadings. The fashion then was to wear high-collared coats, which may have appeared to "swallow" the individual. Also, I found a painting depicting a beheading scene in the French Revolution. The revolutionists in the illustration wore red scarves around their necks, perhaps to symbolize their loyalty to the revolution. Perhaps "Michael" didn't wear a red scarf or did not support the revolution, and thus he was quickly beheaded at the guillotine.
"I was following the pack all swallowed in their coats" -- someone was following the revolutionists on their way to the guillotine to behead those who opposed the movement. Perhaps this person was for the revolution and was a friend of Michael, or he too was on his way to the guillotine.
"With scarves of red tied 'round their throats" -- the revolutionists wore red scarves to symbolize their loyalty.
"To keep their little heads from falling in the snow" -- in order to keep from being beheaded, they wore the red scarves to show others that they were for the revolution.
"And I turned 'round and there you'd go, and Michael you would fall, and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime." -- Michael did not wear a scarf or did not support the revolution, and thus he was quickly beheaded.
Hope this helps :) - This was a comment from someone called Cat Spit on the original! Seems to bare some truth :)
there's a bunch of interpretations about the french revolution and so on, but the way I see it, it seems like a group of kids, maybe a class with their teacher, walking in the snow in the forest and wearing red scarves to be able to distinguish each other (idk why that would make sense but yea). Michael is a kid that either slips and falls and his red scarf comes undone and falls on the snow contrasting w the white (optimistic version), oooor he falls from a height and hits his head, so it would be his blood turning the snow red (depressing version). or maybe it could be a family w kids instead of a class, in any case in my mind Michael's a kid that either dies or gets hurt and the memory of that is etched into the narrator's mind.
Melanie Anne Ahern I'm like 90% sure the original artist just wanted a song with pretty sounding lyrics with an ambiguous meaning that can be interpreted differently by different people. I am sure that they never officially stated what the song is about. (Original artist is fleet foxes). Also as far as I can do it has nothing to do with Christmas- but it's on the pentatonix Christmas album so maybe I'm missing something
Jonathan Monaghan yeah but I'm pretty sure the lyrics are purposefully vague and have kind of poetically provocative imagery (blood on snow and childhood or whatever) so that it could sound cool and other people could decide the meaning. So really it means everything and nothing 👍🏽
Melanie Anne Ahern the person who wrote the song has said that it means nothing and that they wrote the chords and harmonies because they thought they were cool and pretty and then just wrote random winter sounding lyrics to go along
There's the whole french revolution explanation, and then there's the way i thought of it when i first heard it which is quite innocent: it's a pack of dogs with cute little red scarfs and michael is one of the dogs who slips or something and then the red scarf falls onto the snow and makes it red "like strawberries in the summertime"
OH MY GOSH. Sorry I freaked haha, but I'm about to do this with my choir for a Christmas concert and I'm so glad you've done it too! It makes mush more comfortable somehow
okay first of all, sTOP BEING SO FREAKING GOOD AT SINGING and second i love the hat and burned out is beautiful and i can't stop listening to it. definitely studio-worthy <3
My kitten is sleeping right now and it's 3 am and his paw keeps twitching and tapping to the snaps and it's so pure and it's making me so happy! Ive replayed this 10 times and he does it ever time! Love you Dodie for making me and my sleeping kitten happy
I know your book is under my Christmas tree, my mischievous side wants to open it early. The wait is killing me. Also thanks for blessing us with your voice
Lol at first you're like "Woah this is so cool the song is so cute and cheerful and Dodie sounds awesome- like always." And then you actually listen to the lyrics and you're like "Um... Slightly more macabre than I first thought..."
yesssss I wonder if anyone considered this Christmas-y 'til Pentatonix covered it. IN ANY CASE, this is a fav of mine, and your take on it is lovely :)
From what I know: the song is about what the lyrics say; there were a few friends who went hiking in winter and one of them (Michael) fell and broke his nose making everything bloody. I think I saw this in an interview with the singer of Fleet Foxes.
this is amazing i can't stop listening to it even after christmas!! also the songs about the french revolution i think, if you were a part of the revolt or followed it you would wear a red scarf and walk in packs but if you turned around you would be beheaded ye its kinda dark haha
i am actually going to cry,,,, i listened to this song (done by fleet foxes) so much when i was really young and then completely forgot about it. there are so many memories of old friends and adventures in the fall and summer camps miles away from home that are entangled in these sounds. now that im hearing it,its all coming back and is honestly so beautiful
There are planets and stars in your eyes, there are fires and oceans in your veins. Your head is a forest, your heart is a meadow, and you are a work of art
Just watched a video from 2015 where you complain about how you'll "never be demi" in your skyscraper cover description, and I just wish you then would have known what you'd sound like now because even though your voice isn't AS powerful as demi's you got THAT SUBTLE VIBRATO GURL AND IT SOUNDS FABULOUS! I notice your progress in voice development and its paying off~
I looooooove how different the harmonies are from ptx's!!! not to say theirs are bad, because obviously they're talented as hell but having listened to that version so many times, it was fantastic hearing a version that was different in so many ways (but in some ways similar too!)
Awesome cover! The story is about the French Revolution. People wore red scarves around their necks to show they were for the revolution. "Michael" was not for the revolution, so he was beheaded by the government. Hope this explains some of the lyrics! ^^
Kira Viksna2019-04-01 20:27:06 (edited 2019-04-01 20:28:38 )
~Lyrics with emojis~🎵🎶
I was the following the (6x) ❄️
I was following the pack all swaddled in their coats 🥼🧥 With scarves of red tied round their throats 🧣 To keep their little heads from falling in the snow ⛄️ And I turned round and there you go🤦♀️ And micheal you would fall 🤕 And turn the white snow red like strawberries in the summer time☀️🍓
I love you and your music and your hat and your fairy lights and your beautiful eyeliner and your amazing sense of style and you’re supper personality and I think that you deserve all good things in the world.
I think I just realized what is so adorable about your voice. It's like you always have a cold. I'm sorry if you actually do have sinus issues or anything though, haha.
my vocal jazz ensemble did the pentatonix version of this song a few years ago and those of us who remember it will still break it out whenever we're bored and together (like at jazz festivals, for instance)
We just did this song for our chambers (select chorus) part of our winter concert and it was so fun! I hope you had fun making this video and I can’t wait to see more from you ! ❄️
This song has so much meaning to me I screamed when I saw the notification Our choir class last year was OBSESSED with this song, as the highschool decided to do it along with other songs for a performance Sense than you can tell if there’s a choir kid around, just by playing this song. If you turn it on I can promise you were all going to start screaming along all trying to do the harmonies at once. I was so nostalgic to watch this thank you Dodie <3
Omg, rip Michael. Your new twitter theme is soo pretty!! Also Burned Out is my new fav song, I've had it on repeat for the last few days. I have a question, do you know when your book is coming out in Canada? I've been searching and waiting, and I sadly can't order it. Love you!
History of the song: during the Russian Revolution, people had to wear red scarves (similar to how Jews had to wear the Star of David during WWII) and if they were seen without a scarf they were to be hanged and so, quite literally, their scarves would "keep their heads from falling in the snow"
Beth Johansson I had heard it was the French revolution and the scarves represented their loyalty to the French revolution. But then again I’ve also heard it’s literally a nothing song so I could be very very wrong 😂
Actually White Winter Hymnal was apperently written from ''personal experience''.
''Fleet Foxes songwriter Robin Pecknold revealed to Rolling Stone that his songs are "written from personal experience,” including “Hymnal,” which was about a time when his friends ditched him in middle school. The lyrics might have been about childhood past, but the melody came from a familiar source — namely, Walt Disney. “The idea was a song like “Whistle While You Work,” from Snow White, you know?” Pecknold said. “So it started with that very beginning thing, the first kind of like, melody. And then once the verse was done, it just seemed like it lent itself to the repetition, you know?”
Beth Johansson Well we know since they said themselves it's from personal experience and also a really "nothing song' where they were just playing around. I like the theories though :)
This song was actually created by a group called Fleet Foxes and I Believe that they have said the words in the song don’t really have any meaning they were just messing around with some stuff and just kinda came up with the song ❤️ I love your cover dodie, it’s beautiful! I’m really excited because our chorus is doing this song in our Christmas concert 😁
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!! You're back on this channel! (1 month is way to much for me! ;) ) this also kinda reminds me of seventeen from heathers (the musical) for some reason. Also burned out is amazing! I love you so much!!
I could normally contain how adorable dodie is without dawww'ing everywhere but with that hat... With that hat it's too much AND there's two of her, wat. I may have listened to this a lot of times. Like, a lot.
I was following the, I was following the, I was following the, I was following the I was following the, I was following the, I was following the, I was following the I was following the pack, all swallowed in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads from falling in the snow, and I turned 'round and there you go And Michael, you would fall and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime I was following the pack, all swallowed in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads from falling in the snow, and I turned 'round and there you go And Michael, you would fall and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime I was following the pack, all swallowed in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads from falling in the snow, and I turned 'round and there you go And Michael, you would fall and turn the white snow red as strawberries in summertime
I did a sing along with the on my channel, cause Dodie is a better singer than me. I needed her vocals in the background. Love this cover btw, it's brilliant and amazing and abso-bloody-lutly perfect🖤
My dad used to play the fleetfoxes song in the car on long journeys into the highlands (i live in scotland) so it kind of reminds me of my childhood. It reminds me of mountains like sleeping giants covered in blankets of snow. I'd bring pillows into the car so i could sit comfortably and watch the sheep and sleep a little. thanks for making this dodie, i showed this to my dad and he loves it <3
The people who wrote this song didn't mean anything really, they just chose random words that fit well together and sounded nice 🙈 (did my research the first time I heard it) see my other comment for my thoughts on the meaning 😊
There's a Grimm Brothers fairytale where a stepmother kills her son and reattaches his head with a handkerchief or scarf in some versions so that people wouldn't know he was dead (hence the 'with scarves of red tied round their throats to keep their little heads from falling in the snow). I've always interpreted this song as Michael being the dead boy with the scarf around his neck!
i always assumed it to be about the french revolution? and that the people that supported the rebellion wore pieces of red cloth and michael for some reason didn’t and got executed
You lovely lady, I love you. I hope you know that even if you feel pressure from a big following, we will support your no matter what. Worry if you do, but worry knowing we love you.
It was something about the revolutionary war. We had to preform this in choir and all had to learn parts like they do in pentatonix. It wasn't as hard as it looks and we did okay.
the story is about one of the band members. His name is Michael and they just wrote an winter experience he had when he was younger. He fell and hit his head. HE IS STILL ALIVE THOUGH.
I'm coming back later when people have used their knowledge to find out where this song came from! Beautiful as always dodie ❤️ my roommate and I are both in love with you and your music, and we wish you would come to the Netherlands :) bye! Xx
Lead singer and songwriter Robin Pecknold (from Daytrotter): "It's lyrically fairly meaningless. As an introduction to the record, (this was intended to be the opening track on the album), we thought it would be nice to start it with a simple jam that's focussed on singing - on the record it starts with a tongue-in-cheek harmony thing that we hoped would make people laugh or something but I think it just confuses them. This is my favorite song to play live, though singing it live is sometimes difficult because the lyrics are so vague. Weird how that works!" ---http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=12239
I was following the, I was following the I was following the, I was following the I was following the, I was following the
I was following the pack All swallowed in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow Red as strawberries in the summertime
I was following the pack All swallowed in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow Red as strawberries in the summertime
this is probably already known, but i think it refers to the archangel michael especially when you consider the lyric "and michael you would fall". like referring to falling from grace.
Lol, I used to sing this at my after school program in like, fourth or fifth grade, and one of the adults that I would hang around was named Micheal and he was very weirded out.
I think this song is very representative of someone's mind sort of getting out of hand. They see all these other people wrapped up in their safe fake protections and it causes the person the see another person they love leave. They followed the pack for so long that they broke and "turned the white snow red as strawberries in the summer time." It's not so much of who died but of that this person feels alone since everyone else seems to be fine in their protective coats.
I tried to explain what the lyrivs might mean, give it a read, it's actually quite interesting :)
This song is about the french revolution and how everyone who was against the movement was executed.
"I was following the pack all swallowed in their coats" -- someone was following the revolutionists on their way to the guillotine to behead those who opposed the movement. Perhaps this person was for the revolution and was a friend of Michael, or he too was on his way to the guillotine.
"With scarves of red tied 'round their throats" -- the revolutionists wore red scarves to symbolize their loyalty.
"To keep their little heads from falling in the snow" -- in order to keep from being beheaded, they wore the red scarves to show others that they were for the revolution.
"And I turned 'round and there you'd go, and Michael you would fall, and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime." -- Michael did not wear a scarf or did not support the revolution, and thus he was quickly beheaded.
Copper Clouhds i dont think a lot of people know about them; if you happen to live in the pnw (Washington/ oregon area) they originate from washington which i think is super cool!! I saw them in concert a few months ago at the paramount in seattle and it was absolutely amazing :)
I was following the pack All swallowed in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime
I was following the pack All swallowed in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime
I was following the pack All swallowed in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime
Dodie! You scared me with "Burned Out" I thought that was your good-bye video! Don't get we wrong I was am still constantly watching that song! Love you dodes!
I💗(both of?)You!!! I have M.S.multiple scerosis(neurological scarring on my brain) and am currently learning about T.B.I (traumatic brain injuries) But YOU my dear,seem like someone I'd love to have a long chat with.....like a sister😘
INFO ON THIS SONG Lead singer and songwriter Robin Pecknold (from Daytrotter): "It's lyrically fairly meaningless. As an introduction to the record, (this was intended to be the opening track on the album), we thought it would be nice to start it with a simple jam that's focussed on singing - on the record it starts with a tongue-in-cheek harmony thing that we hoped would make people laugh or something but I think it just confuses them. This is my favorite song to play live, though singing it live is sometimes difficult because the lyrics are so vague. Weird how that works!"
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L C2017-12-07 23:37:26 (edited 2017-12-07 23:40:14 )
ALSO I like to think that Micheal is actually Micheal the archangel who cast good ol luci into hell and who I believe later fell from grace, hence the “fall” bit.
Is Michael a snowman? When they talk about the scarf being tied round their throats to keep their heads from falling in the snow, it makes me think of a snowman's head falling off
Theres way too many interpretations of this song, but alot of people say that its about a war/revolution and Michael is a kid who died in the snow. Hence "and turned the white snow red".
I used HATE my smile. I always covered my mouth/face when I laugh. And when I'm happy I try to avoid looking into any mirrors But thanks to doodie, I actually like my smile now. Because when I smile my whole cheeks lift if that makes sense. Idk I have the same face type as doodie and I absolutely love her and think she's so cute.
and when I noticed the similarity between our smiles and how much I liked hers I thought "hey, I can love my own smile too!" And I did.
And now I'm a little more confident and likable and happier in general. And it's easier to make yourself happy when you like how you look when you are :)
this song said to be about a code of some sort in the french revolution times because the people who supported the revolution wore red scarves and the heads falling in the snow is talking about people getting beheaded because the people who didn’t support the revolution got sentenced to the guillotine. ya. my choir teacher told us that bc were doing it in our winter concert
why do the lyrics remind me of that story of the girl who always wore a scarf and never took it off and then one day she told this boy to take it off and her head fell off
i was following the (6x) pack, all swallowed in their coats with scarves of red tied 'round their throats to keep their little heads from falling in the snow and i turned around and there you go and michael you would fall and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime
I was following the pack All swaddled in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime
I was following the pack All swaddled in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime
I was following the pack All swaddled in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime
The creator of the song said not to look into the lyrics to much because they don't mean anything lol I had to sing this for choir and I wish I heard you sing it before I did because it would've given so much more inspiration.
for everyone who has some idea about where it came from read the interview http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=12239 quote: "It's lyrically fairly meaningless. As an introduction to the record, (this was intended to be the opening track on the album), we thought it would be nice to start it with a simple jam that's focussed on singing - on the record it starts with a tongue-in-cheek harmony thing that we hoped would make people laugh or something but I think it just confuses them. This is my favorite song to play live, though singing it live is sometimes difficult because the lyrics are so vague. Weird how that works!"
I heard if you are born in Canada you get to learn how to wield icicles at a young age as weapons. In case in a situation where you fight a bear that is particularly afraid of icicles
Emelie Williams tbh for me it's very hollow... I didn't feel any emotion from it, as if it was too polished or sth like that. but hey to each their own!
Okay guys, I think I’m either experiencing the Mandela effect or I’m psychic, because the day before this video was posted I was in a shop and this song came on and I thought “oh, I’ve heard this song before, Dodie covered it,” and I could legit hear this version in my head. And then the next day she uploads this video, and I think to myself “wait I thought she posted this cover years ago.” So I’m confused now.
I was following the pack All swaddled in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime
I was following the pack All swaddled in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime
I was following the pack All swaddled in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime
I was following the [8x] I was following the pack All swaddled in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime I was following the pack All swaddled in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime I was following the pack All swaddled in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime
Thank you for giving credit to Fleet Foxes and not PTX. This song actually isn't about anything. They said that they just thought it sounded good. And who though Fleet Foxes long awaited new album was a disappointment? Their old music was awesome though.
"The song references a person named Michael. Is that someone specific, or is that just a name for a feeling? A person named Michael. It is? [Laughs.] Yeah. Michael is a great buddy of mine from back when. We just totally, I don't know, he was one of the kids I knew from grade school on. If I saw him now, I really don't know what we would talk about. It's just kind of that same thing that kind of happened really gradually." https://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/fleet-foxes-white-winter-hymnal/Content?oid=1209454
White Winter Hymnal was apperently written from ''personal experience''.
''Fleet Foxes songwriter Robin Pecknold revealed to Rolling Stone that his songs are "written from personal experience,” including “Hymnal,” which was about a time when his friends ditched him in middle school. The lyrics might have been about childhood past, but the melody came from a familiar source — namely, Walt Disney. “The idea was a song like “Whistle While You Work,” from Snow White, you know?” Pecknold said. “So it started with that very beginning thing, the first kind of like, melody. And then once the verse was done, it just seemed like it lent itself to the repetition, you know?”
My school choir did this song but I wasn’t in it bc it was masters choir and I was in concert choir but my mom edited the dvd and she sung this for foreverrrrrr it alwwys gets stuck in my head
So recently i asked my dad for ur book for christmas and i never really get super cool presents like iphones or really expensive stuff. Most of the time i get crayola stuff and yeh. Anyways he said maybe but not to get my hopes up and i was really sad because when he says that it never really happens. A couple days passed and my parents decide to divorce and im just broken. I go with my dad and just bawled my eyes out that night. A week passed and my dad calls me and tells me to walk home early today and when i get home he has the book and it just made my day and i was so happy that words cant even describe it. He says i cant open it till christmas and ive never been so excited in my life
I just wanted to give u a formal thank u dodie for making my life filled with joy. I cant thank u enough. ❤
I think the song is about the French/Russian Revolution (i’m going to focus on the French)
“I was following the pack, all swallowed in their coats” The winters in France during the French Revolution were very cold, the revolutionists were wearing heavy coats.
“With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads from falling in the snow” Revolutionists wore red scarves and hats to show they supported the Revolution, as to not get beheaded at the guillotine.
“And I turned 'round and there you go And Michael, you would fall and turn the white snow red As strawberries in the summertime” Michael is probably one of the unfortunates who did not wear a scarf/hat. He was noticed and then decapitated, his blood staining the snow red. The “you would fall” meaning he was to fall on his knees like you would when getting executed by beheading.
The story is about the original artist and his friends as kids playing outside in the snow! "To keep their little heads from falling in the snow" is just about the kids falling over in the snow. Michael was... I believe his friend, it may have been his little brother. Turning the snow red doesn't represent blood, it's the red of the scarves against the white snow. :)
I was following the pack All swaddled in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime
I was following the pack All swaddled in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime
Em Jay im so sorry to hear! Try talking about it to someone close to you, family maybe friends. Try to find the problem to your sadness together! I send hugs and love ❤️❤️
Em Jay you leave your bed and make yourself feel. Go outside. Feel the sun/rain/wind. Listen to the sounds. Concentrate on what you're feeling. If that's nothing then think about your beating heart and try to feel it your chest. You. Are. Alive! Isn't that great!!
Cry and don't leave your bed ❤ Just for a little bit. If that's what it feels like you need to do then there's no shame in doing it. There was a time in my life where I wouldn't leave the house for weeks, I barely ate, cried all the time, and I just longed more than anything to disappear. Trying to seek help isn't what helped me in the end. It just slowly lifted without me even noticing. That's not to say you shouldn't get help, please make sure that you're safe. But remember that this is only temporary and just because you spend a day crying in bed doesn't mean you'll be stuck there forever. Lots of love xx
This fandom is amazing! I would recommend search for more Dodie's videos, and also be gentle to yourself. It may be a hard time, but it will all be alright. Let your emotions flow, make yourself some tea, or a beverage or food you really like. Breath slowly and concentrate on the air entering and leaving your body. Allow yourself to relax and your brain to be calm. Everything will be ok :)
White Winter Hymnal was apperently written from ''personal experience''.
''Fleet Foxes songwriter Robin Pecknold revealed to Rolling Stone that his songs are "written from personal experience,” including “Hymnal,” which was about a time when his friends ditched him in middle school. The lyrics might have been about childhood past, but the melody came from a familiar source — namely, Walt Disney. “The idea was a song like “Whistle While You Work,” from Snow White, you know?” Pecknold said. “So it started with that very beginning thing, the first kind of like, melody. And then once the verse was done, it just seemed like it lent itself to the repetition, you know?”
I just always pictured a little boy in the winter, playing with his friends but he wandered around, building a snowman, named Michael. He used his scarf as a scarf for the Micheal the Snowman, so the head wouldn't fall of. ("To keep their little heads from falling in the snow" lalala) But well that didn't work! I guess I just have a big imagination lol
I think it’s about the French Revolution. People would wear red scarfs to show they were for the revolution and they would travel in packs. If you weren’t for the revolution I think we all know what happened
the band says the song is meaningless but my favourite theory is that its about the French revolution (ie. red scarfs to stop themselves from being executed)
Micheal alludes to the archetype of Archangel Micheal, the warrior, the protector, who slays the beast. He's within all of us. The symbol of him falling is like when we let our guard down or we become vulnerable and in many cases we spill blood or are hurt. Blood red delicate strawberries... red scarves around the throats of the masses Michael falling.... ahhhhhh the symbolism is amazing here.
I'm pretty sure this song was written by robin pecknold who is in the band fleet foxes. There was no credit given so I'm pretty sure that's who wrote it.
The song is actually about the French Revolution! The line “swallowed in their coats” is referring to the big puffy coats they wore during that time in the winter while the phrase “scarves of red” refers to the color that people wore to show their loyalty to the revolution. If you weren’t loyal you were beheaded hence the line “keep their little heads from falling in the snow.” Michael is said to be apart of a really high up family during that time I think they were called the Czar family? Anyway that part is about him being beheaded. Beautiful song though! Very deep meaning!
Actually White Winter Hymnal was apperently written from ''personal experience''.
''Fleet Foxes songwriter Robin Pecknold revealed to Rolling Stone that his songs are "written from personal experience,” including “Hymnal,” which was about a time when his friends ditched him in middle school. The lyrics might have been about childhood past, but the melody came from a familiar source — namely, Walt Disney. “The idea was a song like “Whistle While You Work,” from Snow White, you know?” Pecknold said. “So it started with that very beginning thing, the first kind of like, melody. And then once the verse was done, it just seemed like it lent itself to the repetition, you know?”
this song always scared me, i don’t know why. mostly the ‘turned the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime’ bc it was literally blood. my 5 year old mind was terrified of it.
This song is about french revolution.they would wear red scarves as an alliance during war.not wearing there scarves would be a sign of treason and could lead to a trip to the guillotine,I'm assuming the song is about a soldier (Michael) who took off his scarf . LOVE YA DORKS😊
YouTube! Stop recommending this video to me!!! I have a policy that I can only listen to Christmas music during December (up until the 25th) and I cannot mess this up!!!! I really want to watch this video tho (even though I've already seen it)...
Fatema Begum Zaman Just think like think like this, when other people were up did you judge them or just didn't care, so maybe they won't judge you since you didn't
Fatema Begum Zaman fake it fake it!!! I used to be so so shaky and wobbly about public speaking, but not so much anymore. yes, nobody will really remember or care, so just talk slowly and pause/breathe so that you don’t run out of air or rush yourself into more panicking. know your material super well! one thing that helps me, not sure if it’d help you, is to think of someone whose confidence you admire, and imitate them, lol. plant your stance with purpose and try not to be the last presenting so you don’t dread it! I wish you the best of luck. it will be okay.
"And Micheal you would fall and turned the snow red like strawberries in the summertime"
hm
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Joe W2017-12-08 14:34:24 (edited 2017-12-08 14:38:06 )
!! DODIE DID NOT WRITE THIS SONG !! This song is by Fleet Foxes, and it is annoying me quite a lot that there is given no credit to them ( or even mention that its a cover ), and a lot of people in the comment section thinks that dodie wrote it. Its by Fleet foxes. Please remember to give credit another time dodie, as an musical artist i was expecting that you would understand/give credit.
you perfectly described how i feel. Their lyric and music is so beautiful and deserve so much more attention, and at least credit. i hate that people think that pentatonix/other people covering made the song ):
I'm bisexual but I like girls more than boys so am I lesbian?so I think boys are attractive but I don't see myself with one so does that mean I'm lesbian someone help?!?
Michael didn't die. He slipped and fell while trailing the pack of winter bound people to the lodge. My guess is he scrapped his hand or bumped his head.
ABOUT THE SONGS ORIGINS - This is the first song on the LP, it’s lyrically fairly meaningless I guess but it’s not really meant to mean something. As an introduction to the record, we thought it would be nice to start it with a simple jam that’s focused on singing – on the record it starts with a tongue-in-cheek harmony thing that we hoped would make people laugh or something but I think it just confuses them. This is my favorite song to play live, though singing it live is sometimes difficult because the lyrics are so vague. Weird how that works!
This song was written to mean nothing. That’s the history, it’s meant to be personally interpreted by the listener. We had this song in our choir lineup and that’s the history of it
I think the song is about the French revolution and how people were beheaded and they thought wearing red scarves showed that they were not to be beheaded (which id assume didn't work out to well)
i heard that its about the french revolution; the used to wear red scarves to show they were part of the pack and if they turned around they would get beheaded or something like that
ok - I have this theory about this song - I think it's about the French Revolution. But why? Well, friend, during "The Terror" people called the sans-culottes were basically chopping of the heads of counter-revolutionaries using the ever-so-famous guillotine. The crowds that formed around theses VERY public executions were known as packs ("I was following the pack, all swallowed in their coats"). It was also common for revolutionaries at the time to wear red chokers or scarfs in their support of the revolution, mostly because if they didn't support it then they would get their heads chopped as well ("with scarfs of red tied 'round their throats, to keep thier little head from falling in the snow"). Now when they say "and Michael you would fall, and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime," I think they're reffering to the arc-angel Micael, since before the French Revolution, France was SUPER Catholic, but the revolutionaries were very very Enlightened, religious-tolaration guys, and thus they broke ties with the pope, and ended up imprisoning all the priests that sided with the pope instead of them. So, their saying that Michael, most important arc-angel, is being killed in the French Revolution.
Why the hell did I get a notification for this video????? I don’t even know who this lady is :( Edit: great singing though? Ha ha I’m so confused
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Matthew Brown2018-10-03 21:01:56 (edited 2018-10-03 21:03:33 )
well, it seems like michael died and bled out (possibly decapitated by whomever the singer is speaking to/or it was an accident)...i dont know. michael might not even be a person...its an awesome song though
I do not know the history of this song I don't know what it's about- Who is Michael? Who is Michael? Do you know who Michael is?
Uhm, I literally have no idea.
Song
I was followin' the I was followin' the I was followin' the I was followin' the I was followin' the I was followin' the I was followin' the pack all swaddled in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From falling in the snow And I turn 'round And there you go And Michael you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime
Mmmmmm*MMMMM*
I was followin' the pack all swaddled in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From falling in the snow And I turn 'round And there you go And Michael you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime.
outro
Who died?
I don't know.
Thanks for watching. If you missed it I uploaded a new song on Doddleoddle. I'm really proud of it, it's called Burned Out. Ehm... It's kind of about where I've been this summer. And how this busy busy summer has made me feel. And what it's made me think of.
Yeah! I'm really proud of it, and thank you so much for the in depth response to it. I've really been enjoying reading people's comments. Oki, thanks! Goodbye! Merry Christmas!
This has been my favorite winter song since I saw my friends choir preform it 2 years ago and I am so so glad you've decided to cover it. Tbh this is a beautiful thing I didn't know I needed till now.
I looooooooove how creative you are dodie, and all the while being so kind and humble and staying yourself in videos like these. You're such an inspiration, and your voice is so comforting. xoxoxo
the harmonies on this are so cool! people in my choir love to sing this song but they always do the harmonies in really linear thirds and fifths. it's pretty when they sing it but this is much cooler
we had to do this for christmas caroling once in middle school and i was so confused on why this is considered a holiday song haha. but oh my you sing it beautifully !! (along with everything else you sing ;) )
My A cappella choir group did this song! We’ve actually performed the same concert like 8 times in the last 4 days so it’s cool to hear a fresh version of the song.
I didn’t know about this until Pentatonix sang it. Honestly it creeps out everyone in my family except for me. I think it’s like... sad, but beautiful. To Where it’ll bring confused tears. But anyways I love you dodie and btw you were one of my top artists I listened to this year according to Spotify. So that validates me saying I’m a fan! Woo!
Fleet Foxes said White Winter Hymnal is a reflection of one of the band member's life, as he grew up around the same group of friends. He notes watching them change felt a lot like war, in which the feeling of it being about the French revolution comes in. Yes I'm a Fleet Foxes fan.
Dodie, if you ever get a free moment, p l e a s e listen to the song Michael in the Bathroom from the musical Be More Chill, i think it's a song everyone can relate to in one way or another and i think it would really suit your voice if you ever did a cover of it. Plus, "Dodie in the Bathroom" is perfect sooo <3
when i was young, i thought Michael's head was chopped off cause of the red scarf that is too tight for his neck and he was bleeding everywhere and turn the snow red as strawberry.
and i still think thats how the song goes until now.
a lot of people think the song might be inspired by the the French Revolution where a lot of beheadings took place and people wore red scarves to show their loyalty for the revolution. It was common that if people didn't support it they would get beheaded along with the French royalty. But that's like super morbid so the idea that it is a childhood memory seems a lot more comforting to me.
According to an interview with The Rolling Stone, Robin Pecknold based the lyrics around an experience he had in middle school when his friends ditched him and the melody was inspired by the song "Whistle While You Work" from Snow White.
the song is about the French revolution. Revolutionists wore red scarves around their necks so they wouldn't be arrested and executed for opposing the revolution. Michael is probably someone who opposed the revolution
obviously this is not the message that Fleet Foxes was trying to portray, but music can be interpreted in many ways and this is my interpretation. until i looked up the members of fleet foxes and saw there was no "michael" in the band, i thought micheal was the one singing it. "i was following the pack swaddled in their coats" is like saying that this "micheal" sees himself always following the trends, trying to be liked by other people, but only seeing the nice "coats" they have on, and not seeing wh they really are underneath. "with scarves of red tied 'round their throats to keep their little heads from fallin in the snow" i took that as like the "scarves of red" were that one piece of sanity that keeps their heads on their shoulders, keeps them from going insane. I think the nest couple lyrics are saying that our lil michael here is so tied up in this world hes made following the croud, that he doesnt realize that the scarf around his own neck has fallen off, and him turning around and seeing that is "staining" his life. turning his nice life and literally changing it, or turning the "white snow red as strawberries in the summertime." anyone who actually decided to read this i appreciate you
Idk if i’m correct, but I am pretty sure the song is based after a horror story about a girl who’s, when she had married, husband kept asking to take off the scarf she had always worn. Of course, she didn’t and said that “I will only take this scarf off after my death!” Years later, on her death bed, she had finally showed everyone what would happen when you take her scarf off; yep, you guessed it, her damn head fell off. Of course, i’m only guessing due to the relation between the story and the song. Hope I didn’t ruin it for anyone!
this song is about the French Revolution i think i may be wrong but basically theres like a pack of people and they are all wearing red scarves so there heads dont get chopped off, then michaels falls off i think or he isnt wearing one. because he isnt wearing one his head gets chopped off and that makes the snow red as strawberries in the summer time ( my pastor at church told me this )
Ok so I just listened to the original and someone commented that it's about the French Revolution? Like apparently if you weren't wearing a red scarf you were decapitated? Idk tho
you've got to be joking what the actual fuck this song haunting me is this a sign? i have to write up a lead sheet for this song so I can pass and I haven't done it yet tersrdcythvyjhv lowkey yes i'm watching youtube to procrastinate and I??? how universe what is this
I love hearing all the different versions of this song! We sang this in choir while I was still at school, and I remember seeing Zannah do a cover of this a while ago too 😊
I was following the pack All swallowed in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From falling in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime
i did this is in my select chorus at my high school last year, and it was such a pivotal point in my choral “career”. we did the synchronized hand claps from pentatonix’s version, and it was such a life changing experience, especially performing it in front of my entire high school. dodie, you just brought all of those memories back to me in such a stressful time, thank you ❤️
this makes me so incredibly happy i almost cried lol, this might be our last christmas in our family home because expenses and all that jazz but i couldn't have wished for a better start of december. it started snowing and its actually sitting and staying! its not moving! the snow is thick and me, my brother and my sister all played in it. keep in mind this was an hour ago.. yes we had a snowball fight at midnight kdddjgdfgh thank you!
I’ve never heard this song it’s really catchy wowowow
Edit: I also think this song has a dark twist. Like it sounds super sweet and gentle and it seems really twisted. I dunno how. But I’m gonna think about that.
THIS IS INSANE. i literally found this song like three days ago, and i got OBSESSED with it and i started thinking about how good it would sound if you covered it!!!! I’M NEARLY CRYING I LOVE THIS AND I LOVE YOU. THIS IS SO CUTE.
i know it’s stupid but i’ve been so stressed n idk given how this song has been on my mind a lot lately and dodie has been as well this just made me extremely happy. thank you for having that effect on me
OMG!!!!!!!!!! Dodie!!!! You are unique!!!! This is just a brillant song and is freaking amazing!!!!! And beautiful!!!! Your voice is just !!!!!;;; so!!!!!!!!!! You!!!!! This night it will be one of the best ones of my year!!! Thank you so!! Much Dodie!!!!
This song is actually about the French Revolution when the troops walked in lines, and if they turned around they’re heads were taken off, and the blood flowed into the snow🙃
I’m literally filming my version of this tomorrow. As in I’ve been planning to film this forEVER ☃️❄️☃️ WHY does this always happen 😂 that’s okay. gon do it anyway 🎄 come watch it if you’re so inclined🤓 can I use more emojis than this... 🍪🌈💛🎩🎵💫⚡️🌲 YES
I believe it's about the French Reveloution. If you look on either pentatonix' or the original video, there is probably a really good explanation about this.
the writer of the song said it wasn’t really about anything, it just was supposed to be an intro to their album and the focus was more on the composition of the song lol
For those who are confused, the song has no actual origins or meaning. Fleet Foxes wrote the song as an album opener, and wanted it to focus mainly on singing. Of course, many people took to the internet and came up with their own ideas. Michael was taken as a reference to the bible verses John 3:16; Daniel 12:1. "Michael shall not fall.... He can never fall." The scarves of red were taken as a reference to the Russian revolution, as those who wanted to survive wore the red scarves of the revolution. These were ones that popped out to me, but there are a lot more out there.
Michael was another name for a gilloten, I think? Or a person who didn't follow the others. Apparently this song is about the French revolution, how if you were apart of it you would wear a red scarf and the line "to keep their little heads from falling in the snow" was another way to describe the people being exicuted, having their heads chopped off. Leaving the line "turn the white snow red as strawberry in the summertime" to be the victims blood. In this case probably Michael
This song is about a army during the French Revolution pretty much the red scarves tied on the throat was kind of a symbolism for hoping their heads cut off!? I think so this is what I was told so yeah by the way love the song was great OK Bye
I’m not sure if it’s true or not, but apparently this is about a pack of skiers or something who have red scarves on in the case of they fall into the snow they can be found, turning the snow red because of the scarves. Idk if it’s accurate but ay
it's about the russian revolution, and those who did not wear red scarves or hats were assumed to be disloyal and were executed, so um.. lost their heads. 😅 yayyy for pretty music!
idk what this song is actually about, but it's talking to Michael about him falling and turning the snow red. I wonder if it's religious connotations? Like the angel Michael leading forces against Satan, who fell from Heaven down to red hell... or something like that ^^
Bleepboop The artist said that it was from personal experiences with bullying but it resembles the Russian Revolution when people were forced to wear a red scarf to show their loyalty to the revolution or they would be hung, or in Michael's case, beheaded, turning the snow red as strawberries. We just don't know!
The song is about when people were decapitated by some army. I can't remember exactly but the red scarves were bloody nooses... yeah... Pretty song with a terrible background.
It's about the French revolution. It refers to the revolutionaries scarves on their French coats which prevented them from being guillotined on sight. Not 100% on all of that but yeh
I like to think that this song prisoners (following the pack) who hang themselves with their red scarves and then the prisoner "Michael" is sentenced to execution so his head is chopped off (to keep their little heads from falling in the snow) and then his blood covers the snow turning red as strawberries.
Super glad you covered this, this was the first song I sung with my high school vocal group, such a beautiful piece! If you're ever keen to cover more of Fleet Foxes in the future, would love to hear you have a crack at 'Isles', one of my favourite songs from the band. Love you babe <3
Wow wowie thank you sm dodie this just gave me such a warm Christmas feeling in my heart 💛 🎄 Also can we appreciate this editing because dodie has ouTDONE HERSELF
This is a cute video. Also! I have recently finished your book. It's deeply personal, at times quite relatable (sometimes very not as I'm not a girl but it's important to understand different perspectives), and covers all kinds of important elements not just to better understand you as a person but for your target demographic of growing millennials to help them better navigate the world. I really liked it. Good work :)
Awesome cover! the choir I’m in literally performed this song week ago. The lyrics make no sense, but it seems to be a general thing that it’s about either the murder of Michael or the French Revolution? which is kinda weird for a Christmas carol but you know, whatever...
There's lots of theories online about the lyrics being about the French Revolution, however the lead singer of the band said in an interview that "It's lyrically fairly meaningless" 😲quite ironic considering how the lyrics have quite powerful imagery ❤️
this is really pretty and all but where are the creds? like i get it’s kinda a big song that lots of people cover but i also feel like fleet foxes deserve more recognition!! they’re so underrated !! i can’t believe that we all have not recognized that they actually make the most beautiful music in this world
Michael is another name for Adam as in Adam and Eve in the Genesis story, (who fell as in the fall of Adam). It's a very beautiful song, and I love this sooo much.
Hi Dodie! I have no idea how you would do this, but maybe you could do a song collaboration with Crankgameplays? Just a thought. Your voice is beautiful as ever ❤️
i saw you play a snippet of this on snapchat and i got so frustrated bc i knew i had heard the song before but i couldn't figure it out and then i did some searching and it was the PTX cover from last year!!! (And obviously this video)
chriiiiIIIISTMAAAAAASSSS also you would totally kill candy cane lane by sia I was listening to it and I was like dodie could do this and make it cozy and her own
I live in Ventura which is currently on fire, the air quality is horrible so we can’t go outside and the wind keeps knocking out the power so communication has been dodgy. I’m really happy you uploaded this right before my phone died. The past few days have been so dark and terrible and you posting this has brightened my day, even in the smallest way it matters so much. Thank you <3
Michael is an archangel! One of God’s essentially-second-in-command, he was kinda in charge of the war stuff, which might explain him turning the ‘white snow red as strawberries’...
Just wondering, if one of you live in London, which one in california? One of you have her ears pircied? Wich one lives with her father and wich one with her mother? (love da video <3)
Pretty sure the story of tie ribbons round their necks so if they were to fall they could be found easier because of the contrasting colours of white and red. At least that's what I read from the pentatonix cover
Below is a comment from an account called Cat Spit a year ago which seems to answer the mystery behind the song :)
Great speculations! Unfortunately, this beautiful song actually has a rather sad connotation. Here is what I believe the real meaning of the song is.
During the French Revolution, mobs of revolutionists beheaded those (such as royalty -- I'm sure you've heard of Marie Antoinette) who were against the revolution. Revolutionists would gather around the guillotines in "packs" to watch the beheadings. The fashion then was to wear high-collared coats, which may have appeared to "swallow" the individual. Also, I found a painting depicting a beheading scene in the French Revolution. The revolutionists in the illustration wore red scarves around their necks, perhaps to symbolize their loyalty to the revolution. Perhaps "Michael" didn't wear a red scarf or did not support the revolution, and thus he was quickly beheaded at the guillotine.
"I was following the pack all swallowed in their coats" -- someone was following the revolutionists on their way to the guillotine to behead those who opposed the movement. Perhaps this person was for the revolution and was a friend of Michael, or he too was on his way to the guillotine.
"With scarves of red tied 'round their throats" -- the revolutionists wore red scarves to symbolize their loyalty.
"To keep their little heads from falling in the snow" -- in order to keep from being beheaded, they wore the red scarves to show others that they were for the revolution.
"And I turned 'round and there you'd go, and Michael you would fall, and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime." -- Michael did not wear a scarf or did not support the revolution, and thus he was quickly beheaded.
the first time I heard this(pentatonix ) I was shocked like Michael are you OK are you still alive boy like you had to go and ruin the the snow for everyone didn't you also why is this a Christmas song!?!?
I thought and still think, the snowman died. The scarf holding its head up and bam it fell. I used to take red dye and kill my snowmen... maybe it’s not suppose to be that literal or morbid? Idk
Holy shit I'm actually crying from the beauty of your voice. I love your cover of this song. This is one of my favourite songs and my choir is doing it and your take on it is leaving me speechless
Omg I love this song! It’s one of our Christmas songs for choir this year. We’re performing it tomorrow and six of our members are doing the clapping thing.
i was listening to all your christmas covers and i was craving for another one. woke up at 5 in the morning to listen to this and im in love. thankyouu dodie x
All your videos just give me this incredible feeling of calmness and safety, like it lets my mind and body relax and focus on nothing but the moment and forget my buzzing mind and remember to breathe and everything feels okay and like nothing can hurt me and I love this feeling so much thank you dodie
Oh my god, I saw this on my feed and died a little- one of my favorite songs, partly cause it’s so odd😂 I was NOT disappointed, this is my new favorite version of it!
THIS IS MY FAVE CHRISTMAS SONG!!! And apparently they just wrote it to sound nice with all the sounds and stuff your mouth makes and that’s why it’s so satisfying to listen to and I love it!! Literally don’t think they meant it to have any meaning but idk maybe they just haven’t shared the meaning but that’s what I remember from reading about it a couple of years ago bc I was interested
Very aesthetically pleasing, good job dodie (: also your twin has poor posture..js. though it clearly didn't affect your singing so excellent job once again this is a beautiful lil cover and it's nice to see that you're comfortable uploading again<3
I used to perform this in chorus during the winter time and I always assumed Michael turned the snow red due to a bloody nose from the dry, harsh winter air.
ok tbh dodie u r the best ur harmony in this is honestly the best thing i've ever heard and it is like all a capella which just shows how freaking amazing your voice is thanks for your awesome content <3
The story I believe is from the writers childhood? The song he said was about a time when his friends ditched him in middle school. I have no idea how it correlates but that’s what I heard. Gorgeous cover, by the way! 😂👏🏻
About the meaning of the song: a while back, after finding this song through Pentatonix, I got really curious because it´s such a cute little song but the lyrics sound so dark, but what I found was that Fleet Foxes apparently said the lyrics were ¨fairly meaningless¨ and that they just created it for the sound or something, which I thought was pretty funny (after me and my mom and sis spent ages throwing out theories about the meaning). So yeah, apparently there isn´t really any meaning behind it. I think it´s just up to the interpretation of each person.
This song is so wierd but I love it 😘 to make it less creepy: think of them as foxes and hunters and it being about "the circle of life" (starts singing lion king)
i heard that the fleet foxes just wanted to make something upbeat that sounded a bit like "whistle while you work" but then they added these sad lyrics to convey a loss of innocence that people get around growing up. so yeah. no murder, guys!
Fleet Foxes songwriter Robin Pecknold revealed to Rolling Stone that his songs are "written from personal experience,” including “Hymnal,” which was about a time when his friends ditched him in middle school. The lyrics might have been about childhood past, but the melody came from a familiar source — namely, Walt Disney. “The idea was a song like “Whistle While You Work,” from Snow White, you know?” Pecknold said. “So it started with that very beginning thing, the first kind of like, melody. And then once the verse was done, it just seemed like it lent itself to the repetition, you know?”
Also another article said the lyrics were intentionally vague and pretty much meaningless so who knows😂
Ok so according to my choir teacher micheal is the song writers best friend who changed from being this innocent elementary kid to like an addict, I COULD BE WRONG PLEASE DONT ATTACK ME LOL
I think the singer in the band has said that it's a fairly meaningless song about when they were kids, although there are some pretty interesting theories out there!
The song actually has no meaning. The original writers of the song, Fleet foxes just said that they came up with it and know that there will be numerous questions about it because of how interesting it is, but there isn’t actually a meaning loo
this is not accurate in anyway seen as i couldn't find any proof of it but "Michael" is another name for Jesus Christ? so idk, it could be something? however Robin Pecknold (the writer) said "It's lyrically fairly meaningless. As an introduction to the record, (this was intended to be the opening track on the album), we thought it would be nice to start it with a simple jam that's focussed on singing - on the record it starts with a tongue-in-cheek harmony thing that we hoped would make people laugh or something but I think it just confuses them. This is my favorite song to play live, though singing it live is sometimes difficult because the lyrics are so vague. Weird how that works!" :)
Maybe indicate that it's a Fleet Foxes song... It's not anonymous and you probably wouldn't like somebody covering one of your songs without mentioning that it's yours.
this is so soothing.. i love your voice and the harmonies in this song. this is both relaxing and also festive, which is honestly what i needed on this yucky december day. thank you for this ♡
i'm watching this, purple fluffy socks resting on my toes, warm linen duvet over my head and snow falling outside my window, praying for a snow day thank you dodie for making it even more magical
I was panicking so much about my driving test tomorrow, but listening to this song and taking a few breaths helped me so much. Thank you for such a gorgeous song Dodie!
AAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA I LOVE THIS SO MUCH THO i mean the lyrics are kinda sad but just anything that is said in your voice is beautifulllll I LOVE YOU DODIE i love youuuu xxxxx
I was just reading your book and then you post this! Fleet Foxes is one of my favourite bands and this was the first song I heard by them, this is too good to be true c:
hey dodie!! you said you didn’t know what the song was about- so I’ll tell you how I interpreted it!! I think it’s about the French Revolution. Everyone’s making their was to the guillotine, and many are wearing red scarves to show they are pro-revolution, as to not get their heads cut off. then this michael person was guillotined and his blood turned the snow “red as strawberries in the summertime” :) hope this helped. I’m not sure if this is totally right but after analyzing it- this is what I came up with!!
update: i researched about the song because i loved the harmonies and wanted to learn more about it and i was surprised to learn that's by fleet foxes! i thought it was an ancient song handed down generation to generation for centuries. turns out it's not, it's from 2008. the singer of fleet foxes said that the lyrics are fairly meaningless and the track it's just supposed to be a lil' exercise in style, of their singing and their vibe. anyway i'm obsessed now and i'm going to listen to it until my head doesn't fall off like poor michael's.
for those of you who've been asking, and Dodie, my mother, I love you, Michael was an angel. I'm a Buddhist so idk why he was super significant but he was one of the big important ones like Lucifer and such
omfg im literally singing this song in my acapella group
apparently according to fleet foxes there's literally no meaning to the song. they made it nonsense on purpose but wanted it to sound pretty?? so there's that!
listening to this is like sipping hot cocoa while watching the snow fall, while elves give you a foot massage and Santa Claus stuffs jams cookies in your face lovingly... lol I don't know I live in a tropical country, what even is snow
dodie i bought your book 2 weeks ago and woowoww wowowowo wow, dodie your book is amazing. do you know that feeling when you youve just absorbed something really moving or inspiring thats given you crazy epiphanies or like when you've had a really strange vivid dream, and everything around you looks different, as if you shifted into an alternate dimension for a a little while?? that happened but in like a really refreshing way. i know this sounds super weird but i dont know how else to describe it. i just learned so much about so many things, and when i finished it i felt so connected and warm and i started to underline my favorite quotes and paragraphs. its just so good, im so glad this a work of text like that exists in the world now.
We sing this song in my a cappella group and our nicknames for it are white winter nipple, white jimmy kimmel, and the combo of the two, white kimmel nipple. Much love to you my dodes 💛💛
fuck i have always loved this song and equally had no idea wth it was about lmao i just listened to this like twelve times trying to find the original melody line, the harmonies were crazy good
Lol my choir called marians did this song last year and we did crazy hand movements and stuff and it was lit AF. Just yesterday my choir teacher reminded us of it!
so fun fact the girls in my choir are singing this song and we looked it up it's about the Russian revolution! kinda weird but yep! the scarves were to show that they supported it and if they didnt their heads were cut off! yep weird :DDD
There’s actually no history to this song, The lyrics of the song are completely made up to sound nice-
Lead singer and songwriter Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes (from Daytrotter): "It's lyrically fairly meaningless. As an introduction to the record, (this was intended to be the opening track on the album), we thought it would be nice to start it with a simple jam that's focussed on singing - on the record it starts with a tongue-in-cheek harmony thing that we hoped would make people laugh or something but I think it just confuses them. This is my favorite song to play live, though singing it live is sometimes difficult because the lyrics are so vague. Weird how that works!"
As for where the song came from: the person who wrote lyrics are fairly meaningless and it was meant as an introduction to record and if I would be nice to start with a simple song that’s because I’m singing. It is the first single from fleet foxes debut 2008 album.
Lyrics: I was following the [8x] I was following the pack All swaddled in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime I was following the pack All swaddled in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime I was following the pack All swaddled in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I turned 'round and there you go And, Michael, you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime
i've never heard this song before and i thought it was gonna be super cute maybe religious christmas hymn but instead its about little michael staining the snow red bc his head fell off????? what the fuck????
Michael is the angelic name of Adam, so I think that this song talks about the Fall of Adam and Eve, dooming man to mortality sort of thing; and thats why he turned the snow red. There's a scripture talking about our sins being red as scarlet, and being turned as white as snow (cuz of Christ's atomic sacrifice), so that's probably what the other lyrics are referring to.
the song is about the french (or russian?) revolution! the “pack” is people who wore red scarves to show loyalty and those who did not were beheaded. michael i think is just a person who apparently was beheaded, and the blood turned the snow turned red.
The song is about someone who wears a scarf the keep there head on there neck and someone takes off there scarfs and there head falls of and turns the snow red with blood
I could be very wrong, but I think this song is about the French Revolution. Revolutionists would wear red scarves around their necks, and if removed they would be persecuted (most often punished by death -- "and Michael you would fall, and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime"). Again, I could be remembering this wrong
She's perfect I'm offended, starstruck and lowkey mad at her parents for putting such a perfect person on this earth. She's the reason I have such high standards.
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It's a self-underhanded comment
6 likesSame
1 likeWhen you've made a comment like this, it's time to get off youtube.
12 likesKristín Lilja honestly same
1 likeShe’s not perfect. No ones perfect. She has her quirks and flaws and that’s what makes her special and that is why we love her so very much.
36 likesEmily Harfst we all have different definitions of perfect. For some it's not having any flaws and for others it is the flaws. I can't explain my perspective of perfect, or anyone's for the matter. It's what makes them so.. them. They smile and laugh, cry and get angry. I may not know her personally but for me, she is perfect.
19 likesKristín Lilja same 😫
0 likesits obviously fake she edited the audio
0 likesare you icelandic? I never see other Icelanders lmao
0 likesThis is so comforting. I listen to it before bed or when I. Am stressed or getting anxious about life and crap.
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Samee im listening to it in bed rn so I can calm down and go to sleep.
0 likesSunny Jim why? Why do you have to be so rude? Our comments did nothing to you, didn't mess with you, so why do you feel the need to be rude? You don't know any of us or our lives and if listening to music helps calms us down then that's what we're gonna do. Please don't be so rude.
3 likesHaha, most relatable thing I've seen all day. I'm sitting here stressing about homework, trying to escape lol.
1 likeAnother really good one to listen to when you’re stressed is her little White House asmr video
0 likesSophia Wilson hehe i made it 1K
0 likesfunny that it relieves stress(though i agree) because its about a revolution and beheading people if you did one wrong move
0 likesThis song is about people being executed and beheaded because they were richer than others.
0 likes@Leia's Art im prettyyyy sure this it's about some revolution, but alright i might be wrong lol
0 likes@Skylar Song I might be wrong as well :D but apparently the songwriter said its about people loosing their innocence amd giving up friendships? Idk (just looked it up)
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441 likesI was following the [8x]
I was following the pack
All swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
I was following the pack
All swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
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Caitlyn Roesch thank you so much! 💖
4 likesI love fleet Foxes!!
2 likesit’s swallowed not swaddled
4 likeseither the editing is absolutely flawless or dodie actually had a secret clone
624 likesi think it's the latter, #notmydodie
This song is about that old story about the girl who was pressured into taking her scarf off by her lover, and when she finally did, her head fell off. That story is in turn based on a Grimm Brother’s fairytale about a stepmother who chopped off her stepson’s head and, to cover up, tied a handkerchief around his neck.
245 likes...Not really sure why it’s based on that, but there ya go!
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Sleepy Actually White Winter Hymnal was apperently written from ''personal experience''.
36 likes''Fleet Foxes songwriter Robin Pecknold revealed to Rolling Stone that his songs are "written from personal experience,” including “Hymnal,” which was about a time when his friends ditched him in middle school. The lyrics might have been about childhood past, but the melody came from a familiar source — namely, Walt Disney. “The idea was a song like “Whistle While You Work,” from Snow White, you know?” Pecknold said. “So it started with that very beginning thing, the first kind of like, melody. And then once the verse was done, it just seemed like it lent itself to the repetition, you know?”
Alicion Ooh that’s actually really interesting, thank you!
1 like@idroppedmynintendoswitch? I read somewhere that this particular song has no actual meaning and is preferred for people to think about it how they want
19 likesI know this isn't about that but I read that story in like 1st or 2nd grade and I was seriously terrified
2 likesThat's not correct as far as I know
0 likes@idroppedmynintendoswitch I thought it was about the French revelation
2 likesAll the people in France were red scarfs to know that they were on their team.Michale was a person who died he didn’t have his scarf on so they thought he was on the other team so they killed him
I know you’ll probably never see this, but I’m genuinely in love with you and all of your music and covers. I’ve been following your journey for years now, and you are so amazing. I wish with all my heart that I could meet you, because you’re so much more than just an artist to me. Ilysm and even that is an understatement. 🖤
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It's Just Kayla awww
10 likesIt's Just Kayla same, but I haven't been following that long but I am genuinely in love with her
11 likessame!!! I feel exactly the same, I hope you can meet her someday, and I hope I will too!
7 likesIt's Just Kayla Hope dodie will see this
6 likesJust another Jodie OH MY GOD JODIE OH MY GOD OH MY GOD HEY
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2 likesEmmy Marriott haha hi
2 likesI hope we all meet her ♡
2 likesI feel like you expressed so many of our feelings haha 🖤🖤
3 likesDani Ruiz really good :)
2 likesOh my god this has over 1k likes.....I honestly didn’t think anyone would notice this
4 likesYessss same
1 likeI clicked dislike on accident trying to click the read more button
1 likeIt's Just Kayla I liked this so she can see this 💕
1 like2.2k likes? Holy crap I didn’t think anything I said would ever be that important ❤️
1 likeletgotochountown u k there
1 likeMaybe not but 2k have congrats
0 likesi think this song is about how during the French revolution the people wore coats that covered their entire body and red scarves to show that they were part of the revolution and they would walk in a pack but if you turned around the others would behead you and keep walking
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theglovebox festive!
66 likeswell heck
31 likesi read somewhere that the song actually has no meaning behind it. it focuses more on the tone (?) and how you sing it
74 likeswoAH??!!?
4 likesapparently the song has no meaning but that would make so much sense
42 likesWhere were they walking to? Did they ever get there?
6 likeswait why would they behead you if you turned around?
7 likesnvm i get it it would be that the scarves show they're part of the revolution and stop them from being guillotined
13 likesIts about ww1 when they had a truce and how they had to keep fighting after they were friends with the other countries troops
3 likesNah the writers confirmed that it’s “fairly meaningless”
9 likes@blankroomcereal However, people do like trying to make connections like such. I'd find it more interesting if it was, but alas.
7 likesin an interview by indyweek they said that it's about a close-knit group of childhood friends drifting apart as they get older! michael is an actual guy name michael lol and he is one of those aformentioned previous friends. the french revolution theory is cool though, all interpretations are technically valid lol
5 likes"...that one is just like about my experience when I was a kid, you know, like I had my really tight group of friends. But as we grew up from grade school to junior high to high school, everybody just kind of split off, and everybody kind of changed. I went from like this tight-knit group to, seemingly for no reason, everybody was kind of going their own way. That song is just about that feeling."
I thought the same thing! I was learning about the French Revolution a while back and this song was all I could think about. There were some specific details that fit with the song but I sadly can’t remember them anymore :(
1 likeWell fuck
0 likesNoodle Arms 🤣
0 likessounds legit
0 likesThis actually makes so much sense
1 likelate, but thats correct
1 likeit was also treason to take off the scarf so another option would be that his scarf fell off and he got
chop chop
Plot twist : dodie actually has a twin😂
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happy little raincloud this video was both her but i dunno. Probably not
4 likeswAiT
5 likesIkkkkk at the end she comes out from behind the camera!!
2 likes@happy little raincloud I think she's having a trick on us. If you watch her blurry "twin" in the mirror she does a little head shake thing on notes held for a bit longer. But it's a good truck with that book at the end ☺️
0 likesoh dodie
43 likesyou managed to make an ugly lesbian with braces, oversized glasses, a heavy period, proportions that are all wrong, anxiety, ocd and some truly negative feeling circling my appearance feel like a dainty snowflake. i feel beautiful. i feel... okay.
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You feel beautiful because you are.
12 likesDodie has inspired my to write a poetry book on Wattpad! Here is one of my favourites:
493 likesstars:
many people have
idols
be it a celebrity
or even a parent
but my idols
are the stars
because even long after
they have died
they still continue to shine.
- jennifer
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thank you
0 likesWhat’s your link on wattpad
5 likesoooh what's ur wattpad??
1 like((mine is VINTAGEMOXIE- and i write poetry as well))
Jennifer Park cute:)
1 likeJennifer Park It's beautiful! Can you tell your wattpad name please!!!
2 likesoof
3 likes"died"
"shine"
jonghyun
I don't think that I love this poem!
1 likeThat sounds so much like Valerie Worth! If you haven't already, I recommend checking her out. Here's her poem "Starfish":
5 likesSpined
With sparks
Limbed
With flames,
Climbing
The dark
To cling
And shine
Until the
Slow tide
Turns
Again:
Not ever
Knowing
What stars
Are
But
Even so,
The
Same.
Awwww that’s really pretty
0 likes@Bethany Monday Why not?
0 likesI love how dodie is like dodie's own annoying sibling 😅
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Hedy wasn't available and also isn't as annoying
10 likesLYRICS:
215 likesI was following (6x)
I was following the pack all swallowed in the coats
With scarves of red tied ‘round their throats
To keep their little heads from falling in snow
And I’d turn ‘round and there you go
And Michael you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summer time
Sorry if their are a lot of mistakes😬✌️
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Hehe I think this is wrong
0 likesOh well
0 likesSwaddled* not swallowed but good job!
1 likeI have the sheet music and it's swallowed
1 likeAnd I turn round
0 likesAnd Michael you will fall
0 likes:)
0 likesI swear I thought it was “like a ufo” instead of “Michael you would fall” HAAHA
0 likes*BeautifullyAesthetix * No its definitely 6
0 likesDomo 1551 oh my bad
0 likesDomo 1551 dodie sings 6, but it’s originally 8.
0 likesIn the original it repeats "i was following the" 8 tumes instead of 6
0 likesI’ve pressed rewind for the hum in the middle far too many times. I LOVE IT
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Eraser me too
1 likealways surprised with what you come up with nowadays. i know you always fault having a "bad brain" but you gotta give it some credit sometimes too when you're this creative. it's a good brain, it just going through its teenage years, having a lot of bad days and being a drama queen, it'll grow out of it. 😁
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Dodie didnt come up with this song, it was written by fleet foxes.
29 likesPhanic! At The Disco they probably meant the editing.
40 likesJera Sky she didn’t write this but it’s great editing
6 likesShe has derealization and depersonalization, it’s not a “teenage years” thing you can grow out of...
103 likesYellow Paint you don't grow out of it but it can get better by learning how to deal/cope with it
19 likesJera Sky i don't think you grow out of depression hun
10 likesJera Sky (and threaders)
10 likesyou can "grow out" of depression. Sometimes it's hormonal (such as the teen years), other times, it may stem from the people, places, and things around you. When you change them, your mind will adapt. The brain is amazing. Sometimes depression is forever and can be managed by meds, talk therapy, yoga...etc. But my main point was the word "grow". You can grow out of anything. As time passes, you pick up coping skills and new ways to make your way through life. Depression is showing up at almost epidemic proportions and mainly in teens, or adults who have had troubled youth lives.
I dont know why I posted all this. I felt like the original poster got kinda jumped on. I dunno.
be kind to one another💗🌟+TerminallyPerky
0 likesyeah, I agree that for some people depression is something permanent and for others it can be only temporary. I had a really bad spate of depression a while back, but I changed my situation and I feel a million times better. So I don't think I have that type of depression caused by chronically low amounts of dopamine in the brain, what you'd call "clinical depression"--I just think I was in circumstances that didn't produce a lot of dopamine for me in the first place. I was simply not happy. That doesn't make my suffering any less difficult, or less legitimate, or less painful. Bottom line is, I finally feel like myself again, and I think I've come out of the dark hole I was in.
I do think I was depressed for a while. I think I've come through now. The scary part is, I know if I have anything like that situation again, I'll probably become depressed all over again; so I just have to recognize when that's happening and make it stop.
Jera SHES not even a teen tho lol
2 likesI did this song and the awkward duet for my practical music exam last year
175 likesIt went so well the examiners CLAPPED FOR US
They never do that
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Thérèse Keniry Congratulations (ten months late) : > )
2 likescool
0 likesYour accent made this sound WAY better than it already is.
31 likesEvery time I hear a cover of this song, I'm never disappointed. dodie, pentatonix, and birdy are my faves
9 likesSo captivating.. Every piece of content you create is beautifully done :) You're so talented Dodie xx
124 likesYou should make a Christmas album with a bunch of song covers (including this)! That would be super good!
10 likesme: i should revise
379 likesdodie: *posts a video of her singing with a mirror*
me: what’s revision
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Matt Evans RELATABLE
0 likeshey I love u
0 likesI LITTERALLY HAVE TWO EXAMS TOMORROW AND IM ON FUCKING YOUTUBE
2 likesMatt why are you revising so late?!
0 likesdont call me out like this
1 likeMatt Evans priorities
0 likesMatt Evans literally same lol
0 likesTruth
0 likesI feel personally attacked lmao
0 likesme two i have three tests and an essay due tmrw and i haven't done ANYTHING
2 likesyou british people haha i had to look up what revising was
0 likesRelatable
0 likesREVISON WHO? I DON’T KNOW HER.
1 likeThe only Christmas present I need💛
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mAyA ME TOO GIRL
2 likesThe writers said it was mainly meaningless, but there’s references to the French Revolution and WW2 where people would wear red scarves on/around their necks to show allegiance to the Nazis (ie if you weren’t wearing one you were killed). Either way, whatever it’s references are, it’s a beautiful song ✨
5 likesIT HAS NEVER SNOWED WHERE I LIVE BEFORE AND THE DAY THIS WAS POSTED IT DID. THANK U DODIE
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Taylor Brine damn where do you live that sounds great it snows all the time where I live
0 likesokay but lemme pls ask, who are the 191 people who disliked this gorgeous rendition?!
6 likeswe sang this in my school choir when I was in yr7 n then again when I was in yr11 (i'm yr12 now) n this was so many times more beautiful than us doing it (n the choir wasn't toooo bad)
omg!!! we're singing this in choir!!
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what if we’re all in the same choir lollll
21 likesI just sang it at my winter concert on Tuesday!
7 likesmine is too i’m scared
7 likessame!
4 likesI've never heard of this song and yet,,, all of you here are singing it. World is really a great place
8 likesSame!!!!
2 likessame!!
2 likesWe did it last year!!!
3 likeswoah we just preformed that song in choir!!!
2 likesMy choir too!!
3 likesSame. Like everyone, at the winter concert. Did you guys have people doing the Pentatonix thing with five people sitting, and doing a clap-thing? We did that while others did a less complicated one with one hand against our chest and standing.
8 likesT. Blue We all did the more complicated thing. It worked surprisingly well for so many people having to hit the marks at the same time.
2 likesLily G wow. You amaze.
2 likeschinmayee So am I, my concert is on the 14th.
2 likesSamee!!
2 likesMy choir just sang it too
2 likesAnother girl and I wanted to white badly but the others didn’t know the song (like they can’t learn it or something) and I am quite upset.
2 likes~Jay D.🌹
We did it last Christmas.
2 likessame here
2 likesT. Blue yes I love Pentatonix! Their amazing!
2 likeschinmayee same😂
1 likeMy choir is sing this song too
1 likeOmg my choir is singing this toooooooooooo
1 likeevery choir sings it eventually
2 likessame
1 likeWE'RE DOING THIS UM HELLO?
1 likeSAME
0 likesomg lucky. I love this song!
0 likeswhat the hell, my high school choir never sang cool indie songs. y'all are lucky ducks.
0 likeschinmayee SAME!! I WAS SHOOKETH!
0 likesSAME I WAS LIKE OMG YESSS
0 likesSame omg
0 likeschinmayee Same!!!
0 likessame!!!!
0 likeschinmayee SAME
0 likesahhhhh! so am I the concert is this monday
0 likesLily G omg. I’m singing it next Tuesday in my choir!!!
0 likeswe sang this for our choir holiday tour last year xP
0 likeschinmayee sammmmeee wth
0 likeschinmayee so are we!!
0 likesOOF SAME
0 likesHana excuse me but are you by any chance live in massachhusetts?
0 likesmine sang it last year
0 likesT. Blue wait not my choice but the older ones at my school did
0 likesI aint singing this choir, but i am in a choir
0 likesSame lol I know all the clapping
0 likesUS TOO
0 likesWe just performed this in chorus today!!
0 likesLily G hey my chorus just had our winter concert on tuesday! our freshman choirs and beginners choir sang this together!
0 likeschinmayee ME TOO!!!!!!!
0 likeschinmayee agaha My choir TRIED to do it several months ago and I think we gave up. But that's hilarious.
0 likesSame
0 likesMine is too, but our director is thinking about cutting it. I’m a bit angry.
0 likeschinmayee I just sang this at my choir concert!!
0 likesOh those harmonies are like butter to my ears, love it! 🙂
2 likesI’ve never heard this song before dodie’s Christmas songs in a minor key and now the major version sounds wrong
8 likesIdk why I didn't comment this when this 1st came out but I love how calming your version of the songs makes me feel. It's super pleasant and nice.
1 likeI’m singing this with my choir and this has truly been an inspiration! I love all of your music!! ♥️🎼
0 likesI feel like dodie’s voice is suited for any winter song. She could literally be singing ‘potato’ for an hour and make it christmas feely
6 likesdodie talking to dodie is the cutest thing ever! Omg! Well done editing dodie. You are a good bean. 😊 Why am I here in October? Why not?
10 likesThe suspended notes are such a beautiful touch! Lovely dodie :*
1 likeI BOUGHT YOUR BOOK AND I CRIED FLIPPING THROUGH IT
13 likesI love Dodie so fucking much. Like, how can you not? She's literally the image of perfectly imperfect and that's what I love about her. And her music is just the cherry on top!
1 likeThe writer said the song is "lyrically fairly meaningless" and it was more a song to focus on singing.
644 likesFleet foxes had actually hoped it would make people laugh but instead it confuses them. The lyrics are kind of about the painful loss of innocence (like sweet kids become drug dealers later on and friendships becoming less important than trends etc) Robin even said he meant for the song to be mildly uplifting like "whistle while you work" from snow white
So I guess no one died...
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Therese "So I guess no one died..." Short answer xD
10 likesThanks for this, I was wondering as well!
2 likesI mean, the writer might say it's meaningless but there are a heck load of references to the french revolution in this. Also, no writer writes something as specific as this without any inspiration.
14 likesi always had a feeling that they meant the archangel michael? like he lead the war with god's angels against satan and won, so maybe michael falling dead means that satan won? and that ties in with you saying about the painful loss of innocence (i'm not at all religious anymore, but it kinda still sticks w me)
3 likesWait i thought it was about the french revolution some one explained it in the official yarn video type thing and in my thought lots of people died
2 likesThis is very interesting and it made me think, maybe some songs are left meaningless for people to create their own meanings... Just an idea..
2 likesI am the 666th like :)
1 likeReally I always thought it was that's someone died but I guess not
0 likesThe part where you sing 'And there you go' gives me goose bumps every time I listen to it. Beautiful.
0 likesI love this! One of my favorite songs and goodness those harmonies!!
0 likesI always saw they were in some army or troop wearing heavy coats to keep warm, walking past the people who were hung from trees (scarves of red keeping them suspended above the snow) and then they hear a bang and he turns around and his friend (or himself ) Michael is shot first which turns the snow red like strawberries
6 likesDodie is my most listened to artist on Spotify!♥️♥️♥️♥️
1 likeThat editing though 👌
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Galexis it’s just a split screen lol
2 likesThat was beautiful , one of my favorite versions of this song !! <3
0 likesI love this song!!!, we did it for choir this year and we had so much fun preparing it!!!, you version makes it so much more beautiful though because of your amazing voice!!
0 likesI love how creative and well thought this whole video is!! Your content just keeps getting better and better!!💛💛
0 likesthis is one of my favorite childhood songs ever and i'm sO happy u covered it love u dodie
0 likesThat beanie is so damn cute but also dodie is so damn cute and I can't handle it
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Christy Anne Jones same same same
1 likeHer "twin" is so cute in the background! When she gives the little peace sign and then when she gets up to show her book!! Adorable!❤️💋😍
2 likesone of my favourite songs, especially for xmas, and it fits your voice and style so well xx
0 likesYour voice is incredible, your view on life is beautiful and your music is AMAZING ❤️ I also just bought tickets to see you in Manchester and I'm so excited it's ridiculous... Love you and keep inspiring everyone and feeding us with amazing music. yum
2 likesThank you Dodie for reconnecting me to one of my 'childhood' songs. I can't believe i forgot about it till now ♡
0 likesOh my goodness I love this song so much, thank you for covering this x
0 likesThis is my 5th time listening to this! Your voice is so beautiful and soothing❤️
0 likesThe choir I’m in is singing this for the Holiday Concert, and watching you sing this makes me really happy :))
0 likesI LOVE THIS SONG AND THIS COVER SO GLAD TO HAVE FOUND YOU 💖
0 likesI am so mesmerized by this
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Mambo #5
3 likesA little bit of Monika in my life.
1 likesAme
0 likesJUST MONIKA
2 likesI love this! This is one of my favorite songs and this sounds so good.
0 likesmy favorite version of this. it makes me feel so warm and cozy. dodie is just good. great. brilliant. please release a christmas album with this in it!! please 😘👌
0 likesI'm so happy you did a cover of my favorite winter song! It's seriously underrated, and I just love the sound and lyrics and... yeah. Thanks :)
0 likesYour voice is so sweet. I love listening to you when I'm taking a long drive 💙
0 likesPsst Dodie The lead singer of Fleet Foxes (who wrote the song) said the lyrics are pretty meaningless. He just wanted to start the album out with a song that was focused on singing. He kinda likes how it confuses people.
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He also said that it's a bit about loss of innocence and growing up, but while they were writing it it was pretty meaningless. 👍
34 likesWe sung this in choir last year and this is so beautiful!! ❤❤'
0 likesi am too gullible. I clicked on the video thinking "wtf dodie has a twin? there is another wonderful person who is like dodie in the world?"
5 likesthis calmed me down so much in a stressful day like this 💕 thank you dodie 💜
0 likesI’m so happy you covered this! This is my favourite song rn!!
0 likesI love this song, I'd always harmonize to it in the car as well wishing it lasted for longer, beautiful video x
0 likesThis is my most favorite song!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you, Doddie. That made my day 100x better!!!!
0 likesOmg I adore this song!!! So happy you've done a cover! Also.... I managed to get tickets to see you in London in April! How exciting!
0 likesYou're just... wow. Wow! Your voice is so beautiful, and I really enjoy listening to your videos!
0 likesLYRICS
87 likesI was following the [6x]
I was following the pack
All swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
I was following the pack
All swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
i love this song! so glad you covered it!
1 likei’ve love this song ever since i heard pentatonix cover it and dodie my love u did such a good job! it’s absolutely beautiful <3
0 likesthis is one of my favorite holiday songs and this video made my whole day :’))
0 likesThis is a lovely cover! 🙂
1 likefestiveness intensifies
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Abby Stermer hell yee
1 likefather forgive me for i have Jined same.
0 likesDUDE I SEE THAT ICON, APPRECIATE
0 likesAwe look at Taehyung
0 likesfather forgive me for i have Jined I'm Jungshook personally
0 likesI just got the book today and it's freaking amazing!! It's so well written and it has helped me understand mental health a little more, it's also given me plenty of comfort from what I've read so far. It feels so good to know I'm not alone in doubting what goes on in my brain. Thank you for writing this book, it's truly beautiful.
0 likesGorgeous! Love the harmonies in this.
0 likesThis is honestly so damn beautiful. Playing it over and over and over.
0 likesThis makes me all warm and fuzzy inside, perfect for a cold winter evening! ;)
1 likeDodie you have gotten me through so many dark times in my life thank you!!! You’re amazing!!!!
0 likesI love this song so much and having u covering it has made my yearrr
0 likesJust vocal harmony on it's own is really cool. I absolutely love it.
0 likesi already love this song and this is just so perfect :")
0 likesi cant listen to this song without doing the weird pentatonix hand motions
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Eden Farar SAME DUDE
4 likesYASS!! IM A PENTAHOLIC!!!!
2 likessame tho
0 likesshe liked this comment dodie is a pentaholic confirmed
3 likesI’m doing the pentatonix version of this song for my choir and I feel exactly the same
1 likeEden Farar oh my god same :,)
0 likesThis is giving me chills, love it!
0 likesDodie this video made my day! Your voice is so lovely and I'm singing this in choir right now so it's really cool to see you sing this. It is a really weird song I know lol.
0 likesi fricken love the fleet foxes aw man this makes my heart happy
4 likesDoing this in a Christmas concert on Wednesday and I can’t wait, hope it’s as good as yours!
0 likeswe sang this with my choir, but the Pentatonix version and now I know 2 of the 5 hand thingies from their music video. thought that was a fact worth sharing 😂 anyway, i really liked this version dodieee!! also SO EXCITED FOR YOUR TOUR 🎄 goodnight xx
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Beate van Garderen SAMMEEE!!!
0 likesMe and my friends are learning that! (but I'm the only one who can sing so no epic harmonies :( But it's still cool to learn)
0 likesTHIS IS MY FAVORITE SONG IM SO GLAD YOU COVERED THIS I LOVE YOU SO MUCH I LOVE THIS SONG EVEN MORE NOW
0 likesThis is literally one of my all time faves I always listen to the birdy version but omg this is beautiful I think it may replace the other one ahahahah
0 likesthis was exactly what i needed. thank you dodie 💜💜
0 likesI love this song and now it's even better.. Thank you dodie! 🤗
0 likesi was about to sleep but dodies new video is definitely priority
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Alsieee 3 me too
0 likesSame :))) this is better though. Rip Michael tho 😬
1 likeYes fleet foxes!! Would love to see you do more of them in the future! Maybe ‘Tiger Mountain Peasant Song’? It’s so beautiful! So excited to see you in Bristol. 💛💛💛💛
0 likesThis is beautiful, I love it ❄️
0 likesSuch great harmonies! I love this. :)
0 likesDodie your voice has grown so much recently! It sounds so strong and clear.
0 likes“Who died?” ME I FREAKING DIED OVER THIS GREAT VIDEO!
1033 likesTHESE VIBES THAT THIS VIDEO GIVES ME IS SO WARM AND COZY AHH💜
0 likesI’m so happy you did this song, I love it so much!!
0 likesThank you for covering one of my favorite songs of all time <3
0 likesThis gave me tingles! So good dodie! 💛
0 likesi need an hour long version of this
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Caitlin Morrison jep definitely!!!
1 likeLook up listenonrepeat
1 likeTheBlueGirl18 that's not what i mean. an extended version, not over an over. but thank you!
1 likei wish this was long enough for me to fall asleep to
4 likes❤You also are SO very talented both🎵vocally and with editing/producing.
0 likes😁Great Job!!!
We're doing this song in choir at the minute and it's one of my favourite things ((well I should say the singers are singing this and I'm playing guitar but I still love it)) it's such a good song
0 likesThe song is by Fleet Foxes. It's about 4 brothers, and the youngest (Michael) used to bundle up in red coats before going outside to play in the snow but he would always fall or trip in the snow due to all the coats and jackets.
2 likesI NEED a disc of Dodie christmas/hymnal music! This was sooo good. I'm obsessed. Thank you! :3
0 likesMelanie asked so here it is!
521 likesI think of this song as a little frame of a childhood memory - maybe of a five or six year old. He is with a bunch of children, maybe running after the older kids, who just look like a bunch of coats since they are so bundled up. He thinks in his child's mind that the scarves keep their heads from falling off. Then he looks behind him and his friend has fallen and hurt himself and there is bright red blood in the snow. Sometimes a memory like that sticks with you even though you can't remember anything else about it. So Michael is the kid.
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Sophia Wilson That's actually what I always thought it was about too
5 likesSophia Wilson I have a similar interpretation except that in my case the kids are in a forest and wearing bright red scarves to not lose each other, and Michael falls from somewhere high and hits his head
10 likesThe people who wrote it said that they were literally just singing random things and that it has no meaning. But I like what you think, though I think it is more like decapitation than just hurting oneself because of... You know... With scarves of red tied round their throats, to keep their little heads from falling in the snow, then I turned round and there you go
16 likesSophia Wilson that’s a really cool interpretation.
18 likesI personally think it’s about the French Revolution. Everyone’s making their was to the guillotine, and many are wearing red scarves to show they are pro-revolution, as to not get their heads cut off. then this michael person was guillotined and his blood turned the snow “red as strawberries in the summertime” :) I’m not sure if this is totally right but after analyzing it- this is what I came up with!
i’ve read a few comments and it’s actually supposed to be based off the french revolution, but i like your interpretation !!
7 likesSophia Wilson this is actually it! Except he had nose bleed
3 likesI always thought it was about a herd of sheep??
1 likeFor some reason ive always thought of it as a pack of wolves and the scarves as leashes
0 likesSophia Wilson thank you I love it x
0 likesSophia Wilson
1 likeI like this. THANK YOU 💓💓
Sophia Wilson i am accepting this as fact.
0 likesActually White Winter Hymnal was apperently written from ''personal experience''.
1 like''Fleet Foxes songwriter Robin Pecknold revealed to Rolling Stone that his songs are "written from personal experience,” including “Hymnal,” which was about a time when his friends ditched him in middle school. The lyrics might have been about childhood past, but the melody came from a familiar source — namely, Walt Disney. “The idea was a song like “Whistle While You Work,” from Snow White, you know?” Pecknold said. “So it started with that very beginning thing, the first kind of like, melody. And then once the verse was done, it just seemed like it lent itself to the repetition, you know?”
but it's a pretty cool theory :))
These have got to be the sweetest most pure harmonies my ears have ever been graced with in my life.
0 likesThis was amazing! I love this song too <3
0 likesI love your voice dodie it's so soothing🌹
0 likesWhy is no one talking about how HER REFLECTION IN THE MIRROR WAS doing different things than her!
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April P split screen
1 likeIt’s edited 😂
2 likesThis is literal perfection
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The Bookish Babbler Dodie is literal perfection
0 likesMy choir did this for our choir concert and it was really good 🙉 I also really liked your cover 💕
0 likesOh my gosh I love this song so much and your cover is sooo good!!!
0 likesPlease please please bring this out in a minor version as well! That was so awesome! :D
0 likesO my gosh! I'm doing this in my school Christmas concert! You've made it even more special!
0 likesWhy are you so good at singing. You are literally so inspirational. 😍😍
0 likesI've loved this song for over a year!! You made it so cute!!!
0 likesYour harmonies are so beautiful💜
0 likesThis was one of my favorite songs to sing in choir because it was completely aceppella and it took all of the women's choir and mens choir to do it and it was amazing
0 likesYALL I LIVE IN TEXAS AND IT IS SNOWWING! It must be the power of dodie!!!!!!
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im Texas too but it's literally snowing everywhere but where I live 😢
28 likessame :( dallas is sadly snow-less
19 likesSophia Wilson same but I'm in Nottingham :D
4 likesSAME!! IT LOOKS SO BEAUTIFUL
3 likeshi. i'm from philippines and I've never experienced snowing :(
5 likesi'm from new england and it hasn't even snowed here yet? so it's crazy that it's snowing in texas
8 likesMoonlyt3 I'm in teXAS AND NO SIGN OF SNOW
2 likesSophia Wilson in Tyler we got lil fluttery flakes yesterday but no real snow sadly ☹️☹️☹️
2 likesSame it's snowing where I am in Alabama and it's a m a z I n g
1 likeGTIP productions people in Houston can't drive without any weather, let alone snow 😂
2 likesSophia Wilson i’m in louisiana and it’s snowing here too!!
4 likesMaylee Castillo it is
1 likesame in LA!!
5 likessame. wtf is happening
1 likeGTIP productions lol
1 likeCaitlin Morrison Hahahah true
1 likeIKR I AN S H 🅾️ 🅾️ K
1 likeSophia Wilson I live in England and the snow just turned into ice I must have fell about 10 times
3 likesSophia Wilson I love so close to Mexico and it was my first time seeing snow
2 likesSophia Wilson I LIVE IN SOUTH LOUISIANA AND ITS SNOWING HERE TOO ITS A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE
4 likesYO I live in Wisconsin and it is not snowing. Snow is gross and I hate it.... I'm glad you have it and I don't LOL. If you had to live with it every year from the middle of November until the middle of April, you wouldn't like it either
2 likeslucky!!
1 likeSophia Wilson i live in the netherlands and its even snowing here like whaaat
1 likeCharlie Price wait really???? what is life
1 likeAHHH SAME
1 likeIt has been snowing really heavy all day here in England
1 likeIt is meltinggggggg!
1 likeXoxoellie Xoxo hahaha
1 likezelovesick B.A.P tbh I bet your right
1 likesame!!
0 likesIKR IT'S SNOWING DOWN HERE IN HOUSTON WHICH HASN'T HAPPENED IN 8 YEARS!!!!
2 likesSophia Wilson same!!!
0 likesSophia Wilson same!!!!
0 likesSophia Wilson But in Michigan it isn’t😂😂But happy for you!Snow is beauty🌨
0 likesSAME WITH ATLANTA LIKE IT NEVER SNOWS HERE UNTIL AFTER CHRISTMAS AND IM SO HAPPY?!??!!
0 likesI live in England and it only snows like once a year here if you're lucky I wish it snowed all the time
0 likesSend some snow to me!!! It will probably help put out the fires.
0 likesSophia Wilson or climate change lol
0 likesLUCKY I wish it was snowing in PA
2 likesEdit: I JUST FOUND OUT IT'S SUPPOSED TO SNOW TOMORROW
Sophia Wilson It’s supposed to snow tonight where I am. DODIE IS MAGIC
2 likestake this in. I live Ottawa, CANADA and we have NO SNOW. not even little bit :(
2 likesYeah I live in Texas too and it snowed yesterday which was my birthday
2 likes+Illeana it snowed on your birthday omg you're so lucky
1 likeAlice Morris it was the best birthday of my life
1 like+Illeana im so jealos
1 likeSophia Wilson its snowing in Louisiana too yall aint special
0 likesSophia Wilson or climate change
1 likeI heard about that yesterday and honestly I was shook because I’m from Massachusetts and it snows a shitload here but we haven’t got any so far this winter rip
0 likesyes! its snowing in north carolina in december!
0 likesIt's snowing in South Carolina too
0 likesSophia Wilson I'm so mad! It snowed everywhere around me 😂😂
0 likesWth I'm in Wisconsin and its not snowing
0 likesSophia Wilson I KNOW IT STARTED SNOWING TODAY
0 likesIt isn’t snowing in Colorado..... :( whyyyyyyyy?? I miss the snow... oh well we will get three feet in no time...
0 likesMe too in nc, its never snowed this early!
0 likesIvy Cat
0 likesHey I'm from colorado, I miss it so much. Get to go home on Wednesday after finals though so that's hype
I'm in caifornia and there is 5 fires 🤦🏼♀️
1 likeSAME HOUSTON HASN’T GOTTEN SNOW SINCE LIKE 2010
0 likesit didnt snow in central texas and im hurt
0 likesI am Not on fire shit
0 likesSophia Wilson if it had just rained we would have gotten snow ur so lucky please enjoy the snow as much as you can
0 likesSophia Wilson girl sameeee I was shocked when I saw outside my window 😩😩
0 likesRIGGGGHT I LIVE IN SOUTH TEXAS AND WAS SO HAPPYYYY
1 likeSophia Wilson Its called global warming Sophia
0 likesSophia Wilson what’s snow I’ve never met her (greetings from Florida)
0 likesSophia Wilson
0 likesI'm in Georgia, my puppy saw snow for the first time and I think he loves it :)
I also think he's faking having to go out so he can stay outside longer
Or global warming... but to make it happier YEAH IT WAS DODIE
0 likesIt's gonna snow tonight and tomorrow in Massachusetts.
0 likesikkkk! it’s a christmas miracle, if NEVER snows in austin texas 💗
0 likesMoonlyt3 I live in Canada so snow is basically engrained into my blood
0 likesSame I freaked out
0 likesI'm in NC and it's been snowing for over 24 hours im scared 😂😂
0 likesim in sc in a lil bubble where it never snows yet sNOW
0 likesMaylee Castillo HEY I LIVE IN DALLAS TOO
1 likeits snowing here in atlanta, georgia too!
0 likesit isnt snowing in my part :(
0 likesYup it snowed in Georgia too :)
0 likesCaptain Stress Relief me too
0 likesIKR ME TOOO
0 likesUpdate: it snowed a lot. My prediction was accurate
0 likesLucky ducky!
0 likesThe Dallas area had no snow and I'm really pressed because of it
0 likesSophia Wilson same in Louisiana and I’m so happy!!!
0 likesIm in texas too but it isnt snowing :(
0 likesI live in Michigan and it’s been snowing for a couple of days now and we got a snow day today..😂
0 likesYESSSS I WAS SHOOKETH
0 likesHow the frick did this get 96 replies?
0 likesMaylee Castillo ugh i'm in dallas too and I JUST WANT SNOW PLEASE
0 likesI live in Washington and it still hasn’t snowed where I live
0 likesHow??
Luckyyy
0 likesDude I legit see you on every damn dodge video wtf bah ahaha
0 likesOMG I WAS THERE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
0 likesahhh we’re going to sing this for my acapella group at school ❤️
0 likesMy friends and I did this for a performance and I love it ❤️❤️❤️
0 likesOh my freaking goodness dodie, this gave me chills and made me feel all cozy and warm at the same time. You voice just keeps getting better every day :)) <3
0 likesI come back to this like 3+ times a day, I'm so obsessed with dodie's harmonies
0 likesthis year, i haven't been feeling very christamassy, but this made me feel very festive!!! it's so wonderful!!!
10 likesthis is so aesthetically pleasing. that you for this✨
0 likesThis was literally my favorite videos of you I think!! I love the multiple Dodies, the questions and the christmas vibe. Good work <3
0 likesThis is such a beautiful song and what you've done with it is amazing.
0 likesthis is stunning!! this was the song that made me first fall in love with fleet foxes ahhhh... also i tried to research what it was about when i first heard it and all i found was an interview with the band where the writer of the song said he had no idea what it was about, they just liked the way the words sounded :p
0 likesthis is so mesmerizing and gorgeous
2 likesI love this song! We did it in my choir for Christmas last year in a church and the echo made it sound so magical. Beautiful cover!
0 likesTHIS VIDEO IS SO NICE AND SOOTHING. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS, DODIE. THIS IS JUST WHAT I NEEDED, OH GOSH…
0 likesThis is so beautiful, I would actually sing this on church
0 likes*in
teacher asked question
850 likesMe: “I literally have no idea”
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Sophia Wilson 666 likes...😱
0 likesOH MY GOD THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL LIKE I WANT THIS TO PLAY IN THE BACKGROUND OF MY LIFE
0 likesthis hymn is a gift to the Earth ❣
0 likesthis reminds me of pentatonix's version, i adore both of these insane covers!
0 likeshey, my school choir is doing this song for our winter concert!!! thank you for this beautiful rendition! 💕
0 likesI did not think I could love a version of this song more than Pentatonix's cover but the rawness of this is astounding.
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ajStrongwolf Pentatonix's version is my favourite because I find the backing music and slight echoing quality on Fleet Foxes original a little jarring.
1 likeI do know they aren't the original artist but I have edited my first comment just in case somebody else didn't.
the only good part of have been hospitalized for more than a month is coming back and have lots of un-watched dodie videos lol
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ensaios I hope you are well! <3
4 likesgetting better! thanks x
2 likesthis gives me major goose bumps every time i listen 😍
1 likeOmg, I listen to this over and over again since 6 am this morning you are wonderful!!
0 likesThey play a version of this song at the store where I work all the time (especially during the holidays) and I thought I was tired of it but I love Dodie's version :)
0 likesThis was lovely and soft
152 likesLove the harmonies! :)
0 likesThis reminds me vaguely of the Pentatonix version but this is "cuter" somehow. Amazing voice!!
0 likesBeautiful song, beautiful cover ❤️
0 likesi havent heard this in years and now we are doing it in choir🥰
0 likesat first I thought Hedy was in the mirror😂 alsoooo DANG this song is depressing loooool
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isabella gracie saaaame!
3 likesisabella gracie welcome to Dodies channel. Depressing things are everywhere here
12 likesActually this song literally means nothing lol
3 likesSAME
1 likeisabella gracie same
1 likeRose Barry Yee not really robin pecknold (the songwriter) said that the song "lyrically fairly meaningless"
0 likesRose Barry Yee beautiful. 🙂
0 likesisabella gracie same
0 likesI got CHILLS dodie you bring me such joy♥️♥️♥️
0 likesI love this song I did it for choir last year it was 🤤
0 likesOmg i'm so happy, we are doing this song in my school choir and in these days i'm obsessed with it and it's like you read my mind aaah
0 likesthis means we get twice as much of good original songs now! :D
1 likehey dodie! i was wondering, your vocals are so warm and i was wondering what mic + DAW you use
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I'm 99% sure she uses a zoom h1 which tbh I don't think sounds great (its fine on computers but if you're playing her stuff through speakers it sounds pretty bad)? I think youtubers use them mostly because they're so portable so if you film a lot in different rooms of your house it makes sense (you don't have to move a computer, soundcard, mic stand etc into another room) but if you were only recording vocals I'd go with like a Rode NT1A or something? Dunno what daw she uses but if anyone has any footage of it in the background I'd probably be able to identify it.
16 likesI thought she used a blue snowball mic
4 likesi can confirm with 95% confidence (from seeing esp. in her recent mac n cheese video) that it's a zoom h4n with some sort of windscreen (hence the look of a blue snowball)! slightly different from an h1 (which tessa violet uses). can't say as to the DAW tho.
3 likesI SANG THIS WITH SOME PEOPLE IN MY SCHOOL AND IT WAS SO COOL AND I LOVED IT AND NOW I FEEL BLESSED :')
0 likesThis is so beautiful to listen to. Your voice is so magical!
0 likesdodie’s just got such a beautiful calming voice
0 likesHigh key obsessed with this video. I am so memorized by your editing and your beautiful warm comforting voice
0 likesAbsolutely lovely ❤
0 likesI got tickets for the tour in march and im SO EXCITED. Love this x
0 likesAhhhhhh fleet foxes 😍 This is a beautiful rendition but I wish you’d have credited them in the video or description? Anyway hope they get some love from this x
0 likesI’ve heard that song in the past but I’ve never actually paid attention to the lyrics… somebody died in this song?!😅
0 likesSidenote I truly do love your voice and your talent
Name a more iconic duo, I'll wait
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Kieran-sw oh my god hahaha
0 likesPLEASE PLEASE PLEASEEEE put this on Spotify or something I love your version the best😩😭😍
0 likesSimply LOVE IT! ❤️
0 likesI love this song as it is but you made me listen to the lyrics a bit more, thank-youuuu!
0 likesso soothing to listen to <3
0 likesHOW do you make a song about death sound so pretty dodie what
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It's pretty already though, like listen to Pentatonix's version it's beautiful
2 likesEden Gallagher yeah true ahaha but I think dodie’s just has something more coarse than pentatonix’s and just personally I like that more than the original one ahah sorry x
0 likesi love this song so much and now you did a cover of it im truly blessed omfg
0 likesI don’t know why I love this so much. But I swear I’ve watched it like a thousand times since you posted it.
0 likesLove you Dodie! You are beyond adorable😊
1 likeI love this song and you just made it so much more beautiful
0 likes‘who died?’
785 likesme skipping a season in the show and seeing a bunch of new characters
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yEe
1 likeME
0 likesSaaaame
0 likesor, if you watch supernatural, skipping a single episode
2 likesemochromo Oh HI I love your channel!
0 likesOr if you remember paints channel that is just a skelleton with worms now
0 likesLiterally doing this song in music as a 4-piece harmony. I know what I'm doing now hah! Such a beautiful video!
0 likesOmg my dad used to play me this song all the time when I was younger and I used to love it and know wall the words but didn't understand what any of it meant but this makes EVERYTHING SO CLEAR! THANK YOU DODIE
0 likesI love this simple yet so undeniably magical and beautiful content. ☆
0 likesim singing this with my school's acappella group !! it made me so happy when i saw you post this !
0 likesThe original song was written by a wonderful band called fleet foxes! They're really good and I recommend you check them out, they have very nice relaxing and surreal music and they came out with a new album for the first time in four years. Highly recommend!
55 likesi am so happy you covered this it’s my favourite winter song
0 likesDear Dodie,
0 likesyou and your lovely voice and lyrics just got me through an all nighter of essay writing, so just know that I appreciate your calming sound so much! Couldn't have stopped shaking long enough to write without you (and Hozier too) <333
Dodie's voice sounds like angels singing😍😍
0 likesThe song is so messed up yet beautiful 💛
0 likesThis is the content I subbed for!
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Sophia Wilson ^^^
0 likesThis is great! Also I listened to it about ten times before I even considered it might be about snowmen.
0 likesThis is so beautiful 😍
0 likesYay! I love this song! ❤
0 likesI NEED A FULL VERSION OF THIS!!!! 😭
0 likesOfficially my favourite song ❤️
0 likesVery beautiful, thanks and Happy Christmas to you as well.
0 likesdodie singing one of my favourite songs is magical❤️
0 likesSo beautiful ❤️
0 likesdodie this is so artsy I love.
143 likesthis video gives me a rlly nice warm christmassy feeling, i watched this so much in December it just takes me back to feeling warm and happy in bed surrounded by my family and really good food and not having to study ughh
0 likes0:46 This humming... It's literal heaven.
1 likeMy chorus class sang this at our Christmas concert , I had to do the highest soprano of my life haha. Good mems (btw you sang this beautifully as you do everything 💛🎄)
0 likesi’m so glad you did this song, one of my favs by birdy!!! :))
0 likesI've been watching this on repeat for almost a day now and I do not regret
0 likesI am doing an acapella of this in my highschool choir! You've inspired me to try doing a solo version of it though. PS Thank you so much for helping me get through the toughest times in my life <3
0 likesAhhh my vocal class at school learned this song last year (the Pentatonix version with the body percussion and everything) and we performed it a couple times for school concerts!!! This brings back so many memories, really enjoyed this cover 💛💛
0 likesNO WAY!!! MY FAVORITE YOUTUBER SINGING MY FAVORITE CHRISTMAS SONG!!! IM SO HAPPY THANK YOU!!!😊😊❤️
0 likesYES QUEEN COMING IN WITH THE DOUBLE DODIE FUCKING SLAYING THE FESTIVE GAME
13 likesAhhh yes I️ love this song❤️
0 likesis this on spotify? it’s so soothing😭
0 likesWow you give me chills, that harmony😍
0 likesAgh, I got tickets to your show in March in Dublin and I’m SO EXCITED!!! Also, could you please do a piano tutorial on burned out? I have been listening to it non stop and I’d love to be able to play it, k thanks bye ❤️💿
0 likesPentatonix is quaking
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YESSS
1 like😂
0 likeslet’s not compare! :))
17 likesThe original is by Fleet Foxes
12 likesThe original is by fleet foxes but i get what you’re saying
6 likesLmaooo
0 likesLmao
0 likesactually they’re doing just fine with their grammy :)) haha
13 likes*grammys
4 likesthey’re perfectly still.
2 likesHonestly I think dodies cover is way better than the pentatonics.... but heyyy that’s just meee
1 likeYUS PENTAHOLOCS MY KIND PF PEOPLE
1 likeAmethyst101 I think Pentatonix is applauding, we don't put people down here :)
5 likesSunshine-scribble it’s just a joke
0 likesAmethyst101 I know I was joking too
0 likesfleetfoxes is quaking; pentatonix did a cover and i think it might of been what made them popular but i dont know a lot about them :)
1 likeBrianna Lauren The Daft Punk one they did made them popular. So did their "Evolution of....." Videos.
3 likesTbh I stan both Dodie and Pentatonix. There's no reason to compare. They're completely different and that's what makes them special. 😃🤣😁
Dudes, what if Dodie and Pentatonix did a collab?! 😱
2 likesI. WOULD. DIE. literally my two ultimate idols collabing would be too much for my poor little soul
1 likeI JUST PERFORMED THIS SONG YESTERDAY AT MY SCHOOLS WINTER CONCERT AAAAH ♡ it was so important for me and now you're singing it I'm crying
0 likesLove the way her face Move when she singing or talking 😄😄
0 likesAww Dodes we missed you! Burned out is beautiful btw! X
1 likethis is so calming and beautiful
0 likesmy choir and i have been practicing this song for ages and our concert is in a week and it was so cool to hear you sing a song that i've been working on for a while you are amazing and im glad to see that you're back!
17 likesi was so excited when i saw this come out bc this is one of my favorite songs
0 likesi've officially fallen in love with your voice
0 likesplease make a studio version so I can stream it on Spotify
1 likeMy dad showed me this song when I was younger, it would always put me to sleep. I just got hit with a wave of childhood happiness on a sick day tysm!!!
0 likesDodie how do you look so amazing in hats?! 💗
0 likesDodie's voice is the most relaxing and beautiful thing in the world
0 likesYour version of this song is my fav version. Lots of love xx
0 likesI got nice tingles from this 😊
1 likeWhenever I get a little tired of Christmas music I listen to this song because it’s still wintery but not Christmasy????
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and.rosie same
1 likeI knoow, that's why I love it so much
1 likeThis is my fave!!!!❤❤❤
1 likeI could listen to this all day 😍😍
0 likesYou and your twin are great. That's all I have to say😂😂
0 likesI love the editing!! 😍 double dodie
0 likesThis is 10000000% my favorite Christmas song now I have never heard it till I saw this and now I’m listening to cover after cover and ughhhh it’s so pretty and calming I love it!
0 likesthis was literally so beautiful.
0 likesalso: your toque is so fricken cute and MASSIVE
Sounds like a little bit of heaven! Beautiful Dodie :)
0 likesMe: watches Dodie sing Christmas songs in June
1 likeYay! I get to give a quick history lesson:
489 likesSo long story short, there was a time in France where if you believed in God, you were persecuted and even executed. (See: "I was following the pack all swallowed in their coats, with scarves of red tied round their throats ") So, naturally, people kept their religion a secret as not to get executed via decapitation. (See: "To keep their little heads from falling in the snow.") Others however, such as this specific prophet named Michael, didn't care to hide their beliefs and religious practices. (See: "Then I turned round and there'd you go.") So one winter, this prophet Michael was persecuted and decapitated in front of a crowd for his beliefs. (See: "And Michael, you would fall and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime.") This song, however, was not written about this story, as the creators of this song, Fleet Foxes, claim that they wrote the song to have no particular meaning. However, there's speculation that there's some relation to this story in the song, because it's too much of a coincidence not to be. And you know what we say about coincidence: The universe is rarely so lazy. 😉
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Hermione Granger I greatly appreciate that.
16 likesbless! this! all! of! this!
5 likesHermione Granger also! they would wear chokers/ribbons (usually) of RED to keep them from being guillotined, as it showed they were pro-Revolution!
18 likesActually White Winter Hymnal was apperently written from ''personal experience''.
12 likes''Fleet Foxes songwriter Robin Pecknold revealed to Rolling Stone that his songs are "written from personal experience,” including “Hymnal,” which was about a time when his friends ditched him in middle school. The lyrics might have been about childhood past, but the melody came from a familiar source — namely, Walt Disney. “The idea was a song like “Whistle While You Work,” from Snow White, you know?” Pecknold said. “So it started with that very beginning thing, the first kind of like, melody. And then once the verse was done, it just seemed like it lent itself to the repetition, you know?”
You really live up to your username,don't you?
28 likesYou would make Hermione so proud
You really are the brightest witch
18 likesHermione Granger wow that’s dark
4 likesThanks for this but that Sh3rlock quote at the end was.............painful.
2 likesCaitlin Morrison yes!
0 likesRaven black thank you!😊
0 likesMie Kirstine Andersen exactly
0 likesMie Kirstine Andersen but it also had religious aspects, though this song (apparently) has nothing to do with any of this, it was just a speculation😊
0 likesDiarmuid allen why thank you😊
0 likesI love you.
1 likeThank you for yet another tidbit of fascinating information to file away and spook my friends with at a later date
3 likesMy seemingly vast but impractical knowledge always trips them up
NH.-B aw thank you! I love you too!💖
0 likesButterfly Taster it's what I'm here for😂❤️
0 likesThank you, Hermione
1 likeYeah it's never been illegal to believe in god in Europe
0 likesloved that sherlock reference hermione. good job
1 likethalassa 😏😏😂
0 likesMonica persecution doesn't mean it's illegal. there are plenty of countries in Africa and the Middle East in which Christianity is NOT*** illegal, but the people there who are Christian are still persecuted and sometimes killed. also, just google "Dechristianization of France during the French Revolution"- christianity wasn't /illegal/, but it was punished anyway.
1 like***prev edit said is, i meant is not!
GRANGER!!
1 likeThanks for the interesting history Hermione
1 likeCaitlin Morrison exactly, thank you!
0 likesHermione Granger welcome! it's the one thing i remember from my crappy US History course last year in 10th grade (bad teacher)! i think because the fact they wore red chokers to "keep their heads from falling off" was striking... also i love chokers so.
1 likeCaitlin Morrison same😂
0 likesAmazing! Thanks for sharing the info! :D
1 likeFLEAT FOXES!!! THIS IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL COVER!
0 likesI can’t tell if that was you, your sister, an actual twin or just some other relative like a cousin or something... but either way, this was amazing... 😍
0 likesThis is beautiful 😱💕💕
0 likesWhy does this temporarily cure my depression every time I hear it it makes me so happy I don't know why
0 likesFully thought that was Heddy in the mirror until you spoke. Beautifully done❤️
11 likesevery time i come to youtube (which is very often) I always come back to this its just so lovely
0 likesMy sis and I adore the pentatonix version but this my friend, has made my life so much better
0 likesthanks for plugging this in your latest video! <3 I had no idea you had covered it before
0 likesAbsolutely delightful! Love the second you in the mirror.
0 likesThe harmony in the humming interlud soothes my soul
0 likesLiterally as soon as you uploaded this it started snowing in Dublin!! Omg the power of Dodie! 😂 Beautiful song btw 😍😍😍
1 likeThis song has always confuzzled me but somehow I love it so much
0 likesI first heard this song when Gareth malone did it but I absolutely love your version!
0 likesI’ve never known who Michael is either but I’m sure some lovely person in the comments will enlighten me 👼🏼
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I wish I could but I am in no way educated on that subject but HEY YOU ARE SO PRETTY
15 likesMaybe like the angel Micheal?
29 likesRachel Pipkin haha THANK YOUU 💘
4 likesProbably the Angel? Idk, because Christianity and Christmas and stuff
18 likesMelanie Anne Ahern dudeee your everywhere >.<
1 likethe song meant nothing acc. to the singer themselves (fleet foxes) so michael could be anyone, or rather no one lmaooooooooo
8 likesSomeone pls explain why all Melanie’s comments get all the likes.
2 likesSide note I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL
- Great speculations! Unfortunately, this beautiful song actually has a rather sad connotation. Here is what I believe the real meaning of the song is.
40 likesDuring the French Revolution, mobs of revolutionists beheaded those (such as royalty -- I'm sure you've heard of Marie Antoinette) who were against the revolution. Revolutionists would gather around the guillotines in "packs" to watch the beheadings. The fashion then was to wear high-collared coats, which may have appeared to "swallow" the individual. Also, I found a painting depicting a beheading scene in the French Revolution. The revolutionists in the illustration wore red scarves around their necks, perhaps to symbolize their loyalty to the revolution. Perhaps "Michael" didn't wear a red scarf or did not support the revolution, and thus he was quickly beheaded at the guillotine.
"I was following the pack all swallowed in their coats" -- someone was following the revolutionists on their way to the guillotine to behead those who opposed the movement. Perhaps this person was for the revolution and was a friend of Michael, or he too was on his way to the guillotine.
"With scarves of red tied 'round their throats" -- the revolutionists wore red scarves to symbolize their loyalty.
"To keep their little heads from falling in the snow" -- in order to keep from being beheaded, they wore the red scarves to show others that they were for the revolution.
"And I turned 'round and there you'd go, and Michael you would fall, and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime." -- Michael did not wear a scarf or did not support the revolution, and thus he was quickly beheaded.
Hope this helps :) -
This was a comment from someone called Cat Spit on the original! Seems to bare some truth :)
I always thought they were saying “and like a ufo???”
5 likesYOU LOOK LIKE AN ADORABLE MIX OF HANNAH WITTON AND DODIE AND I AM HERE FOR IT
2 likesthere's a bunch of interpretations about the french revolution and so on, but the way I see it, it seems like a group of kids, maybe a class with their teacher, walking in the snow in the forest and wearing red scarves to be able to distinguish each other (idk why that would make sense but yea). Michael is a kid that either slips and falls and his red scarf comes undone and falls on the snow contrasting w the white (optimistic version), oooor he falls from a height and hits his head, so it would be his blood turning the snow red (depressing version). or maybe it could be a family w kids instead of a class, in any case in my mind Michael's a kid that either dies or gets hurt and the memory of that is etched into the narrator's mind.
3 likesmichael from supernatural ;)
0 likesMelanie Anne Ahern I'm like 90% sure the original artist just wanted a song with pretty sounding lyrics with an ambiguous meaning that can be interpreted differently by different people. I am sure that they never officially stated what the song is about. (Original artist is fleet foxes). Also as far as I can do it has nothing to do with Christmas- but it's on the pentatonix Christmas album so maybe I'm missing something
1 likeI looked up the meaning of the song and apparently it literally means nothing. XD Micheal is nobody.
2 likesJonathan Monaghan yeah but I'm pretty sure the lyrics are purposefully vague and have kind of poetically provocative imagery (blood on snow and childhood or whatever) so that it could sound cool and other people could decide the meaning. So really it means everything and nothing 👍🏽
3 likesMelanie Anne Ahern
0 likesYOURESOPRETTYOMG
Melanie Anne Ahern the person who wrote the song has said that it means nothing and that they wrote the chords and harmonies because they thought they were cool and pretty and then just wrote random winter sounding lyrics to go along
0 likesMichael mell my favorite nerd (sorry I just had to)
0 likesThere's the whole french revolution explanation, and then there's the way i thought of it when i first heard it which is quite innocent:
0 likesit's a pack of dogs with cute little red scarfs and michael is one of the dogs who slips or something and then the red scarf falls onto the snow and makes it red "like strawberries in the summertime"
Tori Thomas oh my gosh thank you 💗
0 likesI love this. It reminds me of Williams Carlos Williams' poems
1 likeooh the harmonies... love it!
0 likesSo befreakin' hot today... so this is a sweet, cool breeze to chill the world... THANK YOU DODIE... 💙
0 likesOH!!! I’ve been listening to this song on repeat for days and couldn’t figure out why it was so familiar
0 likesI love this!!!! I got into this song because of Pentatonix, and now it's even better!!! love you! <3
0 likesaww I love this song 💗
0 likesi love dodie's covers and i want more in 2018
0 likesi started listening to this and it began to snow in the middle of the song💕
0 likesConspiracy: Dodie is 5 people, a set of quintuplets.
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would explain a lot...
1 likethis was so pretty and had such cute idea <3 ur doin gr8 doddle !!
0 likesIf you released some of your covers as singles I think my life would be complete
0 likesevery video is better than the previous! the development we've seen in your voice is incredible see going gal you doing great!
0 likesahhh dodie’s voice never fails to make me happy (& i also just did a cover of this song if anyone wants to watch)
0 likesthank you so much for this dodie! high key panicking with these so cal fires so this was v peaceful ❤️
3 likesJust as usual beautiful!
0 likesFLEET FOXES IS MY LEGIT FAVOURITE BAND. THANK YOU DODIE
0 likesI love Dodie's voice
0 likesThis is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!
0 likesThis is so calming and beautiful!!
8 likesIt's so cute when she says merry Christmas!
0 likesOH MY GOSH. Sorry I freaked haha, but I'm about to do this with my choir for a Christmas concert and I'm so glad you've done it too! It makes mush more comfortable somehow
0 likesso beautifully in tune :O loveeeee
0 likesthis was way too beautiful. If I wasn't in Christmas mood before, now I am.
0 likesokay first of all, sTOP BEING SO FREAKING GOOD AT SINGING and second i love the hat
7 likesand burned out is beautiful and i can't stop listening to it. definitely studio-worthy <3
My kitten is sleeping right now and it's 3 am and his paw keeps twitching and tapping to the snaps and it's so pure and it's making me so happy! Ive replayed this 10 times and he does it ever time! Love you Dodie for making me and my sleeping kitten happy
0 likesYou are amazing. Thank's for what you are doing. 😍
0 likesthat fecking melisma when you hum is actually so hauntingly gorgeous and I just keep replaying it over and over again
0 likesI really want a full cover of this in a minor key like your other vid
0 likesI know your book is under my Christmas tree, my mischievous side wants to open it early. The wait is killing me.
15 likesAlso thanks for blessing us with your voice
The humming bit gives me chills everything oh my lord
0 likesAdorable <3 Love you Dodie
0 likesAwesome voice and editing skills
0 likesI saw Fleet Foxes this summer and I cried it made so happy. They were insane
0 likesI could listen to this all day 😍
0 likesLoved this!!
0 likesit's actually quite a dark song..... but i really love every version i hear of it
0 likes"Turned the white snow red" Welp rip to whoever bled to death in the snow xD
0 likesAlso ahhh you're so good at singing!
I've been addicted to this song since ptx covered it so thank u💗
0 likesHave you heard the Pentatonix version?! It's MESMERIZING, much like this! ⭐🎄☃️
0 likesI love her voice so much
0 likesLol at first you're like "Woah this is so cool the song is so cute and cheerful and Dodie sounds awesome- like always." And then you actually listen to the lyrics and you're like "Um... Slightly more macabre than I first thought..."
0 likesI LOVE THIS SONG (the band doesn’t know what it’s about either they said it’s just gibberish)
5 likesThis was oddly pleasant to watch and listen
0 likesI would love two dodies
We sang this for pop and it was amazing and we did body percussion and stuff and it was amazing
0 likesI adore this <3
0 likesthis sounds so beautiful holy heck
0 likes0:46 the humming awwee
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YES.
0 likesIKRRRRR
0 likes😍😍
0 likesIk this was almost a year ago but my christmas playlist for this year has received a blessing <3
0 likesI need someone to make a ten hour version of this
0 likesI keep coming back to this video- such great little song!
0 likesPlease put this on Spotify!!!! Pretty pleaseeee
0 likesI need a whole Christmas album I’d cry
0 likesTurns out you have a triplet because I was singing along with you 😊
1 likeI️ love this so much 😍😍
0 likesI don’t think I could ever get sick of those harmonies no matter how many times I listen to this
1 likeyesssss I wonder if anyone considered this Christmas-y 'til Pentatonix covered it. IN ANY CASE, this is a fav of mine, and your take on it is lovely :)
66 likesFrom what I know: the song is about what the lyrics say; there were a few friends who went hiking in winter and one of them (Michael) fell and broke his nose making everything bloody. I think I saw this in an interview with the singer of Fleet Foxes.
0 likesI AM OFFENDED!!! HOW CAN ONE BE SO CUTE AND BEAUTIFUL WITH SUCH A GOOD VOICE?!
0 likesSOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME
YES DODIE HOLY SHIT I LOVE THIS SONG SO FUCKING MUCH you've made this wonderful
0 likesY'all I thought Pentatonix would never have competition but this cover is also bomb 😮
0 likesI've been binge-listening to this recently, and then you cover it...
8 likesI love your voice so much. Love the hat btw
0 likesI love this, it's so cute!
0 likesthis is amazing i can't stop listening to it even after christmas!! also the songs about the french revolution i think, if you were a part of the revolt or followed it you would wear a red scarf and walk in packs but if you turned around you would be beheaded ye its kinda dark haha
0 likesLOVE THIS
0 likesForever wondering how you edit these
Please make a Christmas album I’ll buy the heck outta it
14 likesYay! Dodie covering my favourite Christmas song!
0 likesThis song was literally stuck in my head all day HOW did youtube know???
0 likesyou melt my heart <3
0 likesPLEASE PUT THIS ON SPOTIFY. THANKYOU. ILY
0 likesI was just watching dodie , and now I’m here to watch more dodie. Very happy :)
4 likesThat was wonderful!
0 likesi am actually going to cry,,,, i listened to this song (done by fleet foxes) so much when i was really young and then completely forgot about it. there are so many memories of old friends and adventures in the fall and summer camps miles away from home that are entangled in these sounds. now that im hearing it,its all coming back and is honestly so beautiful
0 likesthis is why i listen to dodie<3
she always does this and i always wonder how she edits it
0 likesLove it!
0 likesi’m in tears cause i stan an actual goddess... or in this case goddesses
18 likesYour voice is so soft and perfect for this
0 likesThere are planets and stars in your eyes, there are fires and oceans in your veins. Your head is a forest, your heart is a meadow, and you are a work of art
0 likesI’m so in love with this I️ think I️ broke the replay button
0 likesYou should sing Mary Did You Know, I want to hear you do a harmony with yourself for that one too.
0 likesi love this song so much!!
0 likesJust watched a video from 2015 where you complain about how you'll "never be demi" in your skyscraper cover description, and I just wish you then would have known what you'd sound like now because even though your voice isn't AS powerful as demi's you got THAT SUBTLE VIBRATO GURL AND IT SOUNDS FABULOUS! I notice your progress in voice development and its paying off~
0 likesWow just found this in 2019. A beautiful girl and beautiful vocals
0 likesBeautiful!!
0 likesPlease give us more Christmas music dodie 😍
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Ps. I know this isnt a Christmas song, but its on the pentatonix Christmas album, so it reminded me of wanting you to cover more Christmas song
0 likesBeautiful!!
0 likesOmg! this is amazing <33 Thank youuu
0 likesI looooooove how different the harmonies are from ptx's!!! not to say theirs are bad, because obviously they're talented as hell but having listened to that version so many times, it was fantastic hearing a version that was different in so many ways (but in some ways similar too!)
0 likesthis is actually my most favorite 'Christmas' songs
0 likesThis is so beautiful?? I'm literally only listening to Christmas songs, so this is added to the list!!
9 likesAwesome cover! The story is about the French Revolution. People wore red scarves around their necks to show they were for the revolution. "Michael" was not for the revolution, so he was beheaded by the government. Hope this explains some of the lyrics! ^^
1 likeOh man I love this song. It’s just so pleasantly strange.
0 likesI want to make music with this girl~added to the bucket list ^^
0 likesSo cute. Two Dodies. The world needs lots of Dodies cos you make me feel happy and uncomplicated everything is easier when you're around xo
0 likesthe face she makes every time she says 'to keep their little heads from falling in the snow' is a mood in itself
5 likesObsessed with this omg ;; You should TOTALLY do a cover of 'Happy' by Marina! AA
0 likesim so confused by this but i love it
2 likesThis whole video is just the cutest and best thing I've ever seen on You Tube*. The harmony was REAL ! :)) ❤❤😍❄
0 likes(*besides all your other music videos)
It sounds so fucked up lowkey lyrically I LOVE IT AND HER SINGING IS FUCKING GOLDEN AMAZING HELLO THANK YOU
0 likesI love this song!!!
0 likesI love this song/band and I'm so glad you love it too
0 likesso cute, i love twin videos
0 likes~Lyrics with emojis~🎵🎶
1 likeI was the following the (6x) ❄️
I was following the pack all swaddled in their coats 🥼🧥
With scarves of red tied round their throats 🧣
To keep their little heads from falling in the snow ⛄️
And I turned round and there you go🤦♀️
And micheal you would fall 🤕
And turn the white snow red like strawberries in the summer time☀️🍓
(2x)
dodie makes the holidays 100x better
8 likesI love you and your music and your hat and your fairy lights and your beautiful eyeliner and your amazing sense of style and you’re supper personality and I think that you deserve all good things in the world.
0 likesI think I just realized what is so adorable about your voice. It's like you always have a cold. I'm sorry if you actually do have sinus issues or anything though, haha.
0 likesI have watched this every night for the past week, it’s not even Christmas but I still love it! X
0 likesThis literally is soo perfect. Can't wait to see u in march
0 likesDODIE I FREAKING LOVE YOU U AND YOUR TWIN!
83 likesmy vocal jazz ensemble did the pentatonix version of this song a few years ago and those of us who remember it will still break it out whenever we're bored and together (like at jazz festivals, for instance)
0 likesYou look so adorably adorable it’s adorable!
0 likesI sang this song with my school choir! ITS SUCH A GOOD SONG AND YOU ARE SO GOOD AT SINGING IT AAA
0 likes(We also spent, like, 3 months trying to figure out who michael is. We still dont know)
We just did this song for our chambers (select chorus) part of our winter concert and it was so fun! I hope you had fun making this video and I can’t wait to see more from you ! ❄️
0 likesThis song has so much meaning to me I screamed when I saw the notification
5 likesOur choir class last year was OBSESSED with this song, as the highschool decided to do it along with other songs for a performance
Sense than you can tell if there’s a choir kid around, just by playing this song. If you turn it on I can promise you were all going to start screaming along all trying to do the harmonies at once. I was so nostalgic to watch this thank you Dodie <3
love love love this Dodie !!!!
0 likesI really much prefer her fun little variations on the harmonies. Very refreshing ☺️
0 likesTHE HARMONY THROUGHOUT IS FANTABULOUS. I expected this to be mediocre, but I really loved it.
0 likesI like your version the best!
1 likefinally feels like christmas-time now that dodie has uploaded a seasonal song
29 likeswow i literally found this song a week ago i love it
0 likesI'm doing this song in chamber choir I love it
0 likesThis is weird and dark and beautiful and I love it a lot
0 likesyour videos are just always so fucking cute and like beautiful and aesthetic looking I love ya Dodes
0 likesHonesty this video is so good even without sound just watching Dodies cute face!!!
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Sophia Wilson chill with the spam yo
1 likeRight I’m a straight female but I have a crush on Dodie
0 likesYou are so cute! I had a bad day, and feel so sad rn, but you make it a little bit better
0 likesMakes me wish that me and my actual twin would get along.
0 likesDude this is so good good job!
0 likesI've loved this song since i was around 5.
0 likesI'm in love with this 😍 so beautiful! Xx
162 likesThis is beautiful.
0 likesDodie! You should do a Marceline song from adventure time, you have such a beautiful voice it would be perfect:)
0 likesTHIS IS SO CUTE
3 likesdodie listening to you singing feels like stroking a paint brush
0 likesMy ears have officially been blessed brb while I listen to this on repeat for the next 5 years
4 likesWOW!! LOVE IT!!
0 likesI showed this to my brother (who usually doesn't like the music I listen to) and he said this was really pretty I'm so happy
0 likesThis is so comforting..😌
0 likesthis is now like one of my fave things ever!!
0 likesOmg, rip Michael. Your new twitter theme is soo pretty!! Also Burned Out is my new fav song, I've had it on repeat for the last few days. I have a question, do you know when your book is coming out in Canada? I've been searching and waiting, and I sadly can't order it. Love you!
3 likesthis was amazing and the mirror thing was SO COOL
0 likesher voice is perfect for this
0 likesDodie you are so amazing i love you so much
0 likesYou know how we ship dodie with every girl on her channel?
4 likes...yeah, this one was weird.
why is she so fucking perfect
76 likesThe song is based off the story the Juniper tree. It's pretty messed up in an oddly beautiful way. One of my favorite stories of all time
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That's one of my favorite stories too, I don't know how I didnt see the relations until now
0 likesHey Dodie, fleet foxes are performing at a festival in the Brecon beacons in south wales. I work behind the scenes there. Its going to be lit :)
0 likesI'm afraid to watch other covers of this in case they don't live up to Dodie's
0 likesThis is very sweet. :)
0 likesif you had a twin there would be too much beauty in the world
3 likesCan't wait for your tour next year! I bought tickts to your bristol show this morming :)
0 likesi know no one is perfect. but god, dodie i love you so much.
0 likesWhen im high my head and body feels like dodie’s voice
0 likesthe ending made me laugh😂
0 likesI love this, kind of reminds me of Mary Poppins ♡
0 likesTHIS IS LIKE ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS EVER
0 likesso so happy to see you back! <3
0 likesI love this!
0 likesi just gasped SO LOUDLY this song is so special to my heart OMG
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also THERES TWO YOU’S
0 likesYou are so talented I could cry.
0 likesI actually like this cover A LOT more than the original
0 likesWe're doing this song in my choir
2 likesdodie you are such a talented bean i love u so much
0 likesMy favorite! 💕
0 likesI legit love this song so much cause of you
0 likesThis is beautiful wow
0 likesBeautiful! I just your video editing is also awesome! Jeeze l... words splatter into nonsense sometimes. Like now.
0 likeshas huge project due tomorrow "oh dodie posted a vid" "it's only 2 mins long, i'll watch real quick and get to my work" watches 8 times
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Andrea Walker same
0 likesAndrea Walker um......... we all know it was more than 8 times..... more like 50 times.
1 likelove this!!!!
0 likesDodie is so freaking adorable.
0 likesWho else watched dodie before they sleep coz her voice is so calming like if u do!❤️
0 likesLoving the psychotic lil' diddy. More please.
0 likesdodie looks adorable in that beanie awwwh
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meh name is alexander hamlet she looks adorable in everything tbh
1 likeThis is my favorite version of the song.
0 likesthis is one of my favorite videos by you, and my all time favorite version of this song (sorry pentatonix)
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smiley boy pentatonix isn’t even the original, and is my least favorite version
1 likeoml my dad loves this dog he listens to it all the time I wanna SHOW THIS TO HIM
0 likesOmg 😍You and ur voice are super pretty, I loved this vidHa lol, when your playing with the video effects
1 likeI swear, you keep getting better, and I dont know How you do it anymore! You are AMAZING!!
3 likesThis song is so beautiful
0 likesMy favorite person singing my favorite song.
8 likesUsed to listen to this song on repeat in college.
0 likesThe fact that it's starting to snow now outside in the middle of watching is such a coincidence
0 likesthose harmonies sound so luscious i love it ahhh
3 likesI love this but Birdy’s version is just better, I love her harmonies
0 likesPetition for dodie to make a Christmas album next year.
0 likesYou are amazing dodie
0 likesknow this song from pentatonix, you did amazing! love it xoxo
0 likesHistory of the song: during the Russian Revolution, people had to wear red scarves (similar to how Jews had to wear the Star of David during WWII) and if they were seen without a scarf they were to be hanged and so, quite literally, their scarves would "keep their heads from falling in the snow"
313 likesBeautiful song until you observe the lyrics
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Beth Johansson I had heard it was the French revolution and the scarves represented their loyalty to the French revolution. But then again I’ve also heard it’s literally a nothing song so I could be very very wrong 😂
23 likesActually White Winter Hymnal was apperently written from ''personal experience''.
12 likes''Fleet Foxes songwriter Robin Pecknold revealed to Rolling Stone that his songs are "written from personal experience,” including “Hymnal,” which was about a time when his friends ditched him in middle school. The lyrics might have been about childhood past, but the melody came from a familiar source — namely, Walt Disney. “The idea was a song like “Whistle While You Work,” from Snow White, you know?” Pecknold said. “So it started with that very beginning thing, the first kind of like, melody. And then once the verse was done, it just seemed like it lent itself to the repetition, you know?”
Miranda Darlene Alicion So many theories!! I guess we'll never really know, eh?
4 likesBeth Johansson Well we know since they said themselves it's from personal experience and also a really "nothing song' where they were just playing around. I like the theories though :)
5 likesRing around the rosie anyone?
1 likeIreallyreally Hategoogle what exactly are you asking? like, what is it about?
0 likesJust replying to "Beautiful song until you observe the lyrics".
0 likesIt's the same thing with Ring around the rosie.
ahhh i loved the way fleet foxes sang it but this is even better luv
0 likesTHIS IS MY FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS SONG YESS
0 likesDodie this is beautiful!!!!!!
0 likesThis song was actually created by a group called Fleet Foxes and I Believe that they have said the words in the song don’t really have any meaning they were just messing around with some stuff and just kinda came up with the song ❤️ I love your cover dodie, it’s beautiful! I’m really excited because our chorus is doing this song in our Christmas concert 😁
0 likesthis was so soft and peaceful
5 likesFleet foxes are one of my favourite groups
1 likeThis is like a cover with a ghost in a mirror.... so cool.
0 likesdodie - who died?
51 likesMe- our achita
Every rent head-Evita!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!! You're back on this channel! (1 month is way to much for me! ;) ) this also kinda reminds me of seventeen from heathers (the musical) for some reason.
0 likesAlso burned out is amazing! I love you so much!!
Holy crap I just sang this song last night for a winter concert and I about fell out of my bed when I saw this
0 likesyou are such a special person dodie and im really really glad that you exist
0 likesvery calming x
0 likesmy girlfriend sang this at a choir concert last night (she loves dodie) and made me fall in love with it. the irony.
0 likesI love your voice so much. Ive watched this like 15 times already <3
5 likesI DID THIS SONG YESTERDAY NIGHT FOR MY WINTER CONCERT
0 likeshey i am in LOVE with you
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omg a wild rachel zegler comment
7 likesOur school had a concert and the choir sang this same song like just a week ago!
0 likesThis is beautiful
0 likesthis christmas mood is so incredible I think we should just rename it dodiemas
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Luiz Henrique Clarkmas
1 likeClarkmas is waaay better. Thank you.
0 likesLuiz Henrique oh ofc
1 like"Who died" our Akita... Evita! This video is great btw and I love the mirror concept :)
0 likesYou’ve improved so much!
0 likeslove fleet foxes version of this
0 likesWonderful!
0 likesthese videos are so cute and creative
0 likesGreat voice
0 likesthis is the best thing i've ever heard in my entire life
0 likesHOW MY GOD I LOVE THIS SONG
0 likesAhhh I love fleet foxes !!!
0 likesliterally my favorite christmas song
0 likesI could normally contain how adorable dodie is without dawww'ing everywhere but with that hat... With that hat it's too much AND there's two of her, wat. I may have listened to this a lot of times. Like, a lot.
0 likesMy choir class is sing this for our school concert Tuesday :)
0 likesI love this song! My friend and I sing this and do the clappy part pretty much every time we meet. Now my two favorite artists have sung it :D
3 likesdodie, im getting your book for christmas!!
1 likeit's getting christmassy when ur digging up doddlevloggle christmas vids
3 likesmy fave girl covering my fave band oh my little heart is melting
0 likesI was following the, I was following the, I was following the, I was following the
3 likesI was following the, I was following the, I was following the, I was following the
I was following the pack, all swallowed in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads from falling in the snow, and I turned 'round and there you go
And Michael, you would fall and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime
I was following the pack, all swallowed in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads from falling in the snow, and I turned 'round and there you go
And Michael, you would fall and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime
I was following the pack, all swallowed in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads from falling in the snow, and I turned 'round and there you go
And Michael, you would fall and turn the white snow red as strawberries in summertime
(Yes, ik it's June stfu and leave me alone)
did this give anyone else warm pentatonix flashbacks?? just me?? ;-;
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Kaden Alexander aww
0 likesi could listen to this all day
0 likesI think I just died !! This Is amazing
0 likesplease put in on spotify!!!
0 likesDidn’t feel wintry/Christmasy until dodie sang... now everything very suddenly feels like Christmas.
0 likesthis gives me goosebumps
0 likesOmg this is beautiful
0 likesNew fave Christmas song 😍😍
0 likesUGH I LOVE YOU this is my new lullaby
0 likesmy grandad was called michael, he passed 6 months ago and now i’m emo again
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Shakattack I'm sorry he passed away
6 likesluna fairy lights that’s okay ❤️
1 likei literally looked out of my window while listening to this and there is snow everywhere.
0 likesI could listen to this forever
0 likesI FORGOT THIS SONG EXISTED OMG
0 likesI used to be obsessed with it
This is the best Christmas present😌
1 likeThis is such a clever video Dodie!! Much love!! 💛💚💙
5 likesMy heart is so fulfilled
0 likes“who died?”
2 likes“i don’t know”
so cute
I did a sing along with the on my channel, cause Dodie is a better singer than me. I needed her vocals in the background. Love this cover btw, it's brilliant and amazing and abso-bloody-lutly perfect🖤
0 likesTwo days before this video was posted I performed this song!😱
0 likesThe voice of an angel <3
5 likesHas anybody ever experienced both ASMR and frission at the same time? Because this just happened to me and it was mindblowing
0 likeswe're singing this song in choir, and we concluded it was about murder
1 likethis is so calming
0 likesTHIS IS AMAZING
0 likesi luv dodie so much. gal u inspire my whole life.
0 likeswow Love it! <3
0 likesmy ears are blessed ❤️❤️
0 likesdodie: "who died?"
0 likesme: "our akita...EVITA!"🖤
We’re singing the PTX version of this for my choir concert on Sunday!!
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Pyro Pals good luck! I'm singing this with the acapella group im in for all our winter gigs, i lov it so much
0 likesJay thank you! Good luck on your gigs too!!
0 likesI’m doing it for my concert on Thursday!!! Good vibes dude good vibes
1 likeAJ S good luck!!
0 likesMy dad used to play the fleetfoxes song in the car on long journeys into the highlands (i live in scotland) so it kind of reminds me of my childhood.
0 likesIt reminds me of mountains like sleeping giants covered in blankets of snow. I'd bring pillows into the car so i could sit comfortably and watch the sheep and sleep a little.
thanks for making this dodie, i showed this to my dad and he loves it <3
Dodie
0 likesThe first time I heard this song
Was literally the day you uploaded it
I had to choreograph a dance for it in dance class lolol so weird tho
oh my this is beautiful
0 likesWAIT, MY FRIENDS HAVE BEEN SINGING THIS AROUND ME FOR MONTHS AND THEY NEVER TELL THAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT A MICHAEL DO I DIE?
0 likesTHIS IS BEAUTIFUL
7 likesDODIE IS BEAUTIFUL
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL
I AM BEAUTIFUL
EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Genius. Merry Christmas 😘
0 likesThe voice of an angel
0 likesAhhhh! You listen to fleet foxes...of course you listen to fleet foxes, you're amazing
0 likesI would like a ten hour version pls
0 likeswho DID die? who is MICHAEL?? what happened??? what a mysterious song
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The people who wrote this song didn't mean anything really, they just chose random words that fit well together and sounded nice 🙈 (did my research the first time I heard it) see my other comment for my thoughts on the meaning 😊
7 likesThere's a Grimm Brothers fairytale where a stepmother kills her son and reattaches his head with a handkerchief or scarf in some versions so that people wouldn't know he was dead (hence the 'with scarves of red tied round their throats to keep their little heads from falling in the snow). I've always interpreted this song as Michael being the dead boy with the scarf around his neck!
9 likesi always assumed it to be about the french revolution? and that the people that supported the rebellion wore pieces of red cloth and michael for some reason didn’t and got executed
5 likeseli c. Love this explenation too 👌 not sure about the step mother thing 😂 so much for making it less creepy 😂
2 likesAah, it's been a little while since I last read it, but the fairytale is called The Juniper Tree!
1 likemichael from supernatural ;)
1 likeYou lovely lady, I love you. I hope you know that even if you feel pressure from a big following, we will support your no matter what. Worry if you do, but worry knowing we love you.
0 likesHOW IS SHE SO GOOD
0 likesI was legit singing this today because it was on when i went into a market
0 likesHaha, I just did a cover of White Winter Hymnal as well and was laughing so hard at your intro. Who is Michael?
0 likesAaah yaaas this is sooo beautiful i love you!!!
7 likeswe did this in my school choir and this is 110% better than ours ahaha
0 likesWhen I saw twin sister I thought hedy was here :( I want them to sing together again 😭😭😭
0 likesme? crying? over this song being the best song and the best voice singing it? Yeah.
0 likesAhhhh love love love! 💛❄️
0 likesi listened to this song every day for like two months and it just popped up back into my reccomended and i started to cry oh my god
0 likesawesome job stating that this is a cover and crediting the band fleet foxes!
0 likesThis is adorable I cant handle it
0 likesThis video is so cute 😍
0 likesi thought it was hedy back there and then suddenly another dodie popped out and i was VERY confused for a few seconds
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It's okay I was confused too 😂
1 likeSusana Maria ME TOOOOO I WAS LIKE "damn did they film at different times or did they get two of the same outfit???? wot???"
5 likesCaitlin Morrison does she really have a twin or is that her too..?
2 likesAmazing Phantaholics thats her, she just used something called split screen and recorded herself in 2 different positions
0 likesi 👏 love 👏 fleet 👏 foxes 👏
0 likeslove this song
0 likesdodie I feel like you would enjoy fleet foxes🌟
0 likesSo beautiful..
0 likesYour voice is addicting
5 likesListen with headphones 😍
0 likes-Two people
0 likes-Three-part harmony
Is the extra part Dodie or her twin? I NEED TO KNOW!
this gave me chills.
0 likesI haven't heard too many covers but this reminded me of the pentatonix cover of this song
0 likesDodie you're a sweetie
8 likesFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF THE TALENT DODIE YOU ARE JUST SO ADORABLE
0 likesThe day after this video was posted we had snow up here in Manchester. MAGICAL DODIE.
0 likesIt was something about the revolutionary war. We had to preform this in choir and all had to learn parts like they do in pentatonix. It wasn't as hard as it looks and we did okay.
0 likesI love this song so much! No idea what it means either
0 likesThe humming was insane
12 likesI LOVE THIS SONG
0 likesthis is genuinely stunning. Truly. Though please pronounce whole words dodie, following has a G at the end lysm tho xxx
0 likesThis is so cool!!
0 likesHappy Holidays guys <3
0 likesthis is so beautiful
2 likesi love this so much
0 likesrocked it!!
0 likesit's funny cause we did this at our chorus concert last night
0 likeswhat are the odds??
anyway v nice cover ^^
dodie singing my favorite band ahhhh
0 likesdodie singing my favorite band ahhhh
0 likesThis makes me so happy
0 likesoh my god. this is so not a christmas song but this is so a CHRITMAS SONG I LOVE IT
0 likesThis is amazing
0 likesThis is my first time watching your videos and i thought you actually had a twin😂
7 likesOmg my school choir sang this on our tour!
0 likesyou forgot to mention Fleet Foxes, I believe 🙈 your cover sounds great, though :)
0 likesI LOOOOVEEEE THIS SONG and when I saw the title I died and resurrected and I watched it and died again
0 likesThis is kinda creepy but totally amazing
0 likesBeautiful💜💜
3 likesIt literally started snowing as soon as I saw the notification
0 likesDodie you are magic
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Dolphin Berry I want snow
0 likesGave me chillsss
1 likereally cool effect dodie!
0 likesthe story is about one of the band members. His name is Michael and they just wrote an winter experience he had when he was younger. He fell and hit his head. HE IS STILL ALIVE THOUGH.
0 likesI'm coming back later when people have used their knowledge to find out where this song came from! Beautiful as always dodie ❤️ my roommate and I are both in love with you and your music, and we wish you would come to the Netherlands :) bye! Xx
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Sofie van Os Fleet Foxes!
0 likesthis is the most beautiful thing ive heard in a while
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i just realized the lyrics nvm
0 likesTHIS IS TOO CUTE
0 likesLead singer and songwriter Robin Pecknold (from Daytrotter): "It's lyrically fairly meaningless. As an introduction to the record, (this was intended to be the opening track on the album), we thought it would be nice to start it with a simple jam that's focussed on singing - on the record it starts with a tongue-in-cheek harmony thing that we hoped would make people laugh or something but I think it just confuses them. This is my favorite song to play live, though singing it live is sometimes difficult because the lyrics are so vague. Weird how that works!"
0 likes---http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=12239
I was following the, I was following the
0 likesI was following the, I was following the
I was following the, I was following the
I was following the pack
All swallowed in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow
Red as strawberries in the summertime
I was following the pack
All swallowed in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow
Red as strawberries in the summertime
BEAUTIFUL this is in my top 5 christmas song list
0 likesthis is probably already known, but i think it refers to the archangel michael especially when you consider the lyric "and michael you would fall". like referring to falling from grace.
0 likesI LOVE THIS SONG
0 likesI really liked the split screen bit in the confessions video, too.
0 likesThis is SO MAGICAL
4 likesthis is so creative omgomgomgomg i love it
0 likesMerry Christmas Dodie, and Dodie's unknown and never talked about goofy twin sister :)
0 likesthe harmony is perfect
0 likesLol, I used to sing this at my after school program in like, fourth or fifth grade, and one of the adults that I would hang around was named Micheal and he was very weirded out.
0 likesI LOVE THIS SONG
6 likesMissing your videos! Hope you´re okay xxxx
0 likesOh man one of my favorite songs
0 likesI feel
0 likes🎅🏻🎄 C H R I S T M A S S Y 🎄🎅🏻
This is cute and a bit..... i dont know really.... but it sounds really good! Also i LOVE your song burned out its sooooo goooddd!!!!!
0 likesCan I just say... whOA THE MIRROR THING IS AWESOME AAAAA
2 likesFound some signed copies of your book in the Foyles near my house. Hopefully they’ll still be there when I go later today.
0 likeslove this.
0 likesThis was uploaded on my birthday. Thanks, dodie lol
0 likesI feel like I should pay for this
0 likesGAH I CAN'T IT'S SO CUTE
79 likesthat was beautifulllllll!!!!!!!
0 likesOh my gosh so cool love it
0 likesdouble dodie makes me so happy
0 likesThe first ten seconds of the vid was my reaction when I first heard this song through the Pentatonix cover of it
0 likesPentatonix is quaking
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THE HARMONIES
4 likesJulia Kusik pentatonix and dodie r both great do not compareeeee !!!!
6 likesEmily Kim oh no, don't get me wrong I have the deepest respect for Pentatonix lol dw
3 likesPentatonix is shook
2 likes😂
1 likeJulia Kusik oh ok that's good !! Sorry for the misunderstanding
0 likesI learn how to play this on uke last week :)
0 likesThis was angelic
0 likesTHE EDITING THO
2 likesFor those wondering, this was about the French revolution
3 likesi wanna have dodie as my keychain
12 likesThe same night you posted this is started snowing where I live lmao thanks dodie ily + il this
0 likesI think this song is very representative of someone's mind sort of getting out of hand. They see all these other people wrapped up in their safe fake protections and it causes the person the see another person they love leave. They followed the pack for so long that they broke and "turned the white snow red as strawberries in the summer time." It's not so much of who died but of that this person feels alone since everyone else seems to be fine in their protective coats.
0 likeslove the fleet foxes
0 likesDodie covering fleet foxes? life made
0 likesITS SO SHORT BUT I LOVE IT!
5 likesI tried to explain what the lyrivs might mean, give it a read, it's actually quite interesting :)
0 likesThis song is about the french revolution and how everyone who was against the movement was executed.
"I was following the pack all swallowed in their coats" -- someone was following the revolutionists on their way to the guillotine to behead those who opposed the movement. Perhaps this person was for the revolution and was a friend of Michael, or he too was on his way to the guillotine.
"With scarves of red tied 'round their throats" -- the revolutionists wore red scarves to symbolize their loyalty.
"To keep their little heads from falling in the snow" -- in order to keep from being beheaded, they wore the red scarves to show others that they were for the revolution.
"And I turned 'round and there you'd go, and Michael you would fall, and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime." -- Michael did not wear a scarf or did not support the revolution, and thus he was quickly beheaded.
omg this was so creative and cool
0 likesI'm so glad you're back <3
0 likesTHISS SONGG the fleet floxes are so good like damn
0 likesObviously amazing 😉😘❤
3 likesLOVE THE FLEET FOXES
0 likesi like what you did with the mirror. very cool :)
0 likesNicely done! Also, you looked like a plastic doll in the thumbnail 😂
0 likesI did that song with 4 other people for school and she did it by herself I love dodie so much
0 likesAlso no one die this song is just a song nothing more
Snazzy. Keep it festive my dude.
5 likesi am shooketh.
1 likeDamn this is great
I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU IN CARDIFF IN MARCH I GOT TICKETS TODAY AND I’M SO HAPPY
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Darcey Haynes I’M SO HAPPY FOR U ARGHHH
1 likeHow was it?!
0 likesThis is a beautiful video
0 likesThis is so cool holy heck I love how theres two of you how
0 likesThis is my favourite song of all time but not many people know it. Such a beautiful version though x
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Copper Clouhds i dont think a lot of people know about them; if you happen to live in the pnw (Washington/ oregon area) they originate from washington which i think is super cool!! I saw them in concert a few months ago at the paramount in seattle and it was absolutely amazing :)
1 likethe song sounds like the story of the girl with the ribbon, lovely little half nonsensical song that was covered :)
0 likesgot through 2018 because of this
2 likesI love this song it's by fleet foxes
0 likesI was following the [8x]
1 likeI was following the pack
All swallowed in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
I was following the pack
All swallowed in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
I was following the pack
All swallowed in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
I can’t be the only one who thought that the girl in the mirror was Heddy right?
3 likesRight?!
I heard 0:46 and juST FAVORITED WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT LIKE SHIT THAT'S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I'VE EVER HEARD
0 likesOMG! My favorite YouTuber singing my favorite pentatonix song!
0 likesListening to this at 12:00 AM on Christmas!
0 likesI love this song
0 likesi paused riverdale for this dodie - holding those true loyalties, y’know
4 likestime for the true queen of christmas!
1 likeBeautiful
0 likes
1 liketries to sing both partsGODDAMMIT! I MESSED UP!
i l o v e t h i s s o m u c h
0 likesi will listen to this to the end of the world
i'm literally addicted
NO WAY! WE’RE DOING THIS MY CHOIR YASSS!!
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So am I! I love this song!
1 likeAlex Phillips YAS
0 likesBudgie Megz WADDUP MEGHAN
1 likeLucy Childs LUCYY MAH BOIIII
0 likesyes i love this song!
0 likesWell isn't this beautiful
0 likesSo good!
0 likesThis is my favorite winter song
0 likesDodie! You scared me with "Burned Out" I thought that was your good-bye video! Don't get we wrong I
3 likeswasam still constantly watching that song! Love you dodes!ahhhh i love this song
0 likesI thought it was too good to be true and there was another White Winter Hymnal, but alas!
0 likesHow can a human be so adorable ???
0 likesI literally tried to sing this and I sounded so bad and I was running out of breath it was sad
0 likesAGHHHH H idk for some reason the split screen dodie twin made me so so happy
10 likesbeautiful art
0 likesI💗(both of?)You!!!
0 likesI have M.S.multiple scerosis(neurological scarring on my brain) and am currently learning about T.B.I (traumatic brain injuries) But YOU my dear,seem like someone I'd love to have a long chat with.....like a sister😘
More ASMR, please.😚
0 likesa pleasure for my ears 😍
0 likesINFO ON THIS SONG Lead singer and songwriter Robin Pecknold (from Daytrotter): "It's lyrically fairly meaningless. As an introduction to the record, (this was intended to be the opening track on the album), we thought it would be nice to start it with a simple jam that's focussed on singing - on the record it starts with a tongue-in-cheek harmony thing that we hoped would make people laugh or something but I think it just confuses them. This is my favorite song to play live, though singing it live is sometimes difficult because the lyrics are so vague. Weird how that works!"
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ALSO I like to think that Micheal is actually Micheal the archangel who cast good ol luci into hell and who I believe later fell from grace, hence the “fall” bit.
0 likesI can't hear this song without thinking about pentatonix and doing their lil hand claps 😂
0 likesIs Michael a snowman? When they talk about the scarf being tied round their throats to keep their heads from falling in the snow, it makes me think of a snowman's head falling off
1 likeWait does she have a twin or is this just effects? I’m generally confused now 😂😂😂
0 likesTheres way too many interpretations of this song, but alot of people say that its about a war/revolution and Michael is a kid who died in the snow. Hence "and turned the white snow red".
0 likesDSFADKAO WE DID THIS IS SHOW CHOIR LAST YEAR AND NOW YOU (and your gorgeous twin) DID IT AND AHHHH YAY
4 likesI gotta say this because it means a lot to me
0 likesI used HATE my smile. I always covered my mouth/face when I laugh. And when I'm happy I try to avoid looking into any mirrors
But thanks to doodie, I actually like my smile now. Because when I smile my whole cheeks lift if that makes sense. Idk I have the same face type as doodie and I absolutely love her and think she's so cute.
and when I noticed the similarity between our smiles and how much I liked hers I thought "hey, I can love my own smile too!" And I did.
And now I'm a little more confident and likable and happier in general. And it's easier to make yourself happy when you like how you look when you are :)
it's october why am i binge watching christmas dodie
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nononova same
0 likessong history if you want it:
0 likesthe writer from fleet foxes said that the words basically mean nothing and he was playing with harmonies.
literally sung this in a concert yesterday?????? woah
0 likeshAlloOooo dodie MERRY CHRISTMASS lots of love as alwaysxxxx
3 likesFleet foxes and Birdy are so proud <3
0 likesMerry Christmas💗😍
0 likescrying bc this song is what i listen to every christmas aND DODIE MADE A COVER OF IT IM CRYING THIS WILL BE A GOOD CHRISTMAS
0 likesI only just got the notification for this but you made me happy xx
0 likesAgh soooo beautiful
0 likeswhy is she so perfect
0 likesTHIS IS THE FUNNIEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL THING
0 likesI missed you girl x ❤❤❤
0 likesCan't tell if magic, or good editing
0 likesWow! I didnt know you had a twin
0 likesI love this
0 likes0:46 - 0:58 my favourite part
1 likethis is so cool a school concert was a couple days and this was the first song
0 likesI got tickets for the concert!!😊
0 likesthis song said to be about a code of some sort in the french revolution times because the people who supported the revolution wore red scarves and the heads falling in the snow is talking about people getting beheaded because the people who didn’t support the revolution got sentenced to the guillotine. ya. my choir teacher told us that bc were doing it in our winter concert
0 likesAnyone know what Dodie uses for editing?
0 likesI did this song for a concert a week ago
0 likeswhy do the lyrics remind me of that story of the girl who always wore a scarf and never took it off and then one day she told this boy to take it off and her head fell off
1 likeThis song is about someone dying SO Y IS IT SO BEAUTIFUL TO ME
0 likesi was following the (6x)
0 likespack, all swallowed in their coats
with scarves of red tied 'round their throats
to keep their little heads from falling in the snow
and i turned around and there you go and
michael you would fall
and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime
humming~
repeat <3
Wait I can't believe the lyrics say MICHAEL and not "and like how you'd fall" oh my GOD WHO IS MICHAEL
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Lucia Violet
0 likesMichael Mell (not really)
~°>°~
Splendid_Chan so Michael fell...into the bathroom??? By himSELF??? (everything makes sense now)
2 likesLucia Violet sobs
0 likesI️ got obsessed with this song like 3 weeks ago
0 likesi love it
0 likesI'm not gonna lie I read it as winter hymen first and was slightly confused. Either way I fucking love everyone about this.
0 likesThis is like the Christmas version of Maxwell's Silver Hammer. Sounds all nice n'fun but NOPE -- JUST KIDDING. THIS ENITRE SONG IS ABOUT DEATH.
0 likesThis is angelic
0 likesI was following the [8x]
0 likesI was following the pack
All swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
I was following the pack
All swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
I was following the pack
All swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
My absolute favorite
0 likes0:46 ,,,, adorable dodie hum omg i am living
0 likesyour welcome
The creator of the song said not to look into the lyrics to much because they don't mean anything lol I had to sing this for choir and I wish I heard you sing it before I did because it would've given so much more inspiration.
0 likes"And michael you would fall and turn the white snow as red as strawberries in the summertime"
0 likes1:41 - 1:49 I died 😂😂😂
0 likes0:46 is my favourite part
0 likes😍 fleet foxes!!!!
0 likesfor everyone who has some idea about where it came from read the interview http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=12239 quote: "It's lyrically fairly meaningless. As an introduction to the record, (this was intended to be the opening track on the album), we thought it would be nice to start it with a simple jam that's focussed on singing - on the record it starts with a tongue-in-cheek harmony thing that we hoped would make people laugh or something but I think it just confuses them. This is my favorite song to play live, though singing it live is sometimes difficult because the lyrics are so vague. Weird how that works!"
0 likesWhere did you get that hat?? I love it so much!
0 likesOmg double dodies is so weird and looks so real lmao
0 likesthis is amazing words cannot describe hOLY GUACAMOLE
6 likesI heard if you are born in Canada you get to learn how to wield icicles at a young age as weapons.
0 likesIn case in a situation where you fight a bear that is particularly afraid of icicles
dODiE I’m doing this for my choir concert this must be a siGNNN
0 likesI honestly thought the other Dodie was just Hedy pretending to be another Dodie then the video reached its end and I just went “oh”
0 likesCute, lovely song sung by a cute, lovely human
0 likes😂😂the end
38 likesWonderful video.
0 likesSounds like 10000 tiny angels are licking my ears
0 likessinging this song in choir flashbacks
1 likeDoes anyone else find this song creepy? And I love it. I love creepy.
0 likesWhoever is disliking this video can fight me
4 likesI’m singing this in a capella. Ya boy is the soprano 1 section leader WOO
0 likesomg this was so lovely and wonderful and MICHAEL??
0 likesok so... our chamber chorus did this a year ago and since then it's been getting so popular
0 likesSO DAMN CUTE
0 likesSO CUTE
8 likesmichael is an angel 😂💓
0 likesim in love with you dodie
0 likesI looove this song
0 likesI'M SO EXCITED FOR MARCH
0 likesI LOVE U AND THIS SONG OMG
5 likesIm buying tickets to go see you in Cardiff in 2018 and i cannot express how much i love you and i cannot wait to see you live!!!! Ahhhhhh Xxxxxxx
0 likesI LOVE YOU DODIE❤💚💜💙💛
0 likesidk why but that sounds really festive
0 likes"Who's Michael?"
0 likesMe when I first heard this song 😂
I hope you've seen the pentatonix cover of the song bc it is m a g i c a l
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Emelie Williams tbh for me it's very hollow... I didn't feel any emotion from it, as if it was too polished or sth like that. but hey to each their own!
1 likeI like how dodie’s is more raw sounding.
0 likesThis is so cute
0 likesim in love ❤️
0 likesoh yesss!!! my favorite song
0 likes😍👏❤🎶
0 likesI really thought that was another person 😂
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Casafrass 7 same😂
0 likesThis confuses me, does dodie actually have a twin??? @-@
1 likeOkay guys, I think I’m either experiencing the Mandela effect or I’m psychic, because the day before this video was posted I was in a shop and this song came on and I thought “oh, I’ve heard this song before, Dodie covered it,” and I could legit hear this version in my head. And then the next day she uploads this video, and I think to myself “wait I thought she posted this cover years ago.” So I’m confused now.
0 likesthis makes me hate the snow outside my window less
0 likesThis song is about the person who wrote it's life in middle school, when his friends left him
0 likesthis is the best thing ever seen
4 likesThe mirror thing is so cool
0 likesso so so so BEAUTIFUL
0 likesI love Fleet Foxes
0 likesthis is divine
0 likesthat is the largest hat i've ever seen
26 likesYou're actually Mary Poppins singing with your reflection XD
0 likesThis is magic
0 likeswhoa this is so creative ahhh
0 likesthis twin thing is freaking me out
0 likesI'm so confused how to film yourself and harmonize to yourself at the same time, shouldn't you have an earbud in to hear yourself?
0 likesYESS KILLED IT
0 likesOMG this was so cool
0 likesI CANT TAKE THE OUTRO SERIOUSLY HAHAHAH
0 likesi wAS WAITING FOR YOU TO DO THIS SONG YESSSS
0 likesLYRICS
0 likesI was following the [8x]
I was following the pack
All swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
I was following the pack
All swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
I was following the pack
All swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
‘Who’s Michael’
104 likesMe: miKEY F U C K I N G WAY
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emochromo Michael clifford*
2 likesemochromo YES
2 likesunicorn boi
1 likeAhhhhhhhh I love this song so much
0 likesI was following the [8x]
0 likesI was following the pack
All swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
I was following the pack
All swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
I was following the pack
All swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
Thank you for giving credit to Fleet Foxes and not PTX. This song actually isn't about anything. They said that they just thought it sounded good. And who though Fleet Foxes long awaited new album was a disappointment? Their old music was awesome though.
0 likes"The song references a person named Michael. Is that someone specific, or is that just a name for a feeling?
0 likesA person named Michael.
It is?
[Laughs.] Yeah. Michael is a great buddy of mine from back when. We just totally, I don't know, he was one of the kids I knew from grade school on. If I saw him now, I really don't know what we would talk about. It's just kind of that same thing that kind of happened really gradually." https://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/fleet-foxes-white-winter-hymnal/Content?oid=1209454
Thanks for making me cry (I mean it)
0 likesWait can someone explain the meaning of this? Also how can you turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime?😂
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Lynn Janssen w/ blood
0 likesWhite Winter Hymnal was apperently written from ''personal experience''.
0 likes''Fleet Foxes songwriter Robin Pecknold revealed to Rolling Stone that his songs are "written from personal experience,” including “Hymnal,” which was about a time when his friends ditched him in middle school. The lyrics might have been about childhood past, but the melody came from a familiar source — namely, Walt Disney. “The idea was a song like “Whistle While You Work,” from Snow White, you know?” Pecknold said. “So it started with that very beginning thing, the first kind of like, melody. And then once the verse was done, it just seemed like it lent itself to the repetition, you know?”
Yess
0 likesI love this song
I assume since Michael is the one falling, that they mean the angel
0 likesMy school choir did this song but I wasn’t in it bc it was masters choir and I was in concert choir but my mom edited the dvd and she sung this for foreverrrrrr it alwwys gets stuck in my head
0 likesLove the end
0 likesSo recently i asked my dad for ur book for christmas and i never really get super cool presents like iphones or really expensive stuff. Most of the time i get crayola stuff and yeh. Anyways he said maybe but not to get my hopes up and i was really sad because when he says that it never really happens. A couple days passed and my parents decide to divorce and im just broken. I go with my dad and just bawled my eyes out that night. A week passed and my dad calls me and tells me to walk home early today and when i get home he has the book and it just made my day and i was so happy that words cant even describe it. He says i cant open it till christmas and ive never been so excited in my life
5 likesI just wanted to give u a formal thank u dodie for making my life filled with joy. I cant thank u enough. ❤
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Paula Morales 💜💜💜
0 likesTransitioningGhoul thanks for the support
0 likesi just want more dodies. i want all the dodies.
0 likesi love this song ahhhhhh
0 likesWhere’s your beanie from?! I love it!!
0 likes"ok thnks. goobyie. meri crissmas." JDHDJDHDHDH SHE'S SO CUTE
0 likesoof what a pure bean
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Oof a pure bean indeed
2 likesthe cutest
1 likePure gold
0 likesI think the song is about the French/Russian Revolution (i’m going to focus on the French)
0 likes“I was following the pack, all swallowed in their coats” The winters in France during the French Revolution were very cold, the revolutionists were wearing heavy coats.
“With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads from falling in the snow” Revolutionists wore red scarves and hats to show they supported the Revolution, as to not get beheaded at the guillotine.
“And I turned 'round and there you go
And Michael, you would fall and turn the white snow red
As strawberries in the summertime” Michael is probably one of the unfortunates who did not wear a scarf/hat. He was noticed and then decapitated, his blood staining the snow red. The “you would fall” meaning he was to fall on his knees like you would when getting executed by beheading.
i love thissss... omg!!!
0 likesAll your Christmas songs are just Christmasy enough? For someone who isn't a fan of carols, I simply love all of yours
0 likesperfect
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Alec Dixon ..melanie 😭
0 likeswhy was this the cutest thing ever LOL
0 likesThe story is about the original artist and his friends as kids playing outside in the snow! "To keep their little heads from falling in the snow" is just about the kids falling over in the snow. Michael was... I believe his friend, it may have been his little brother. Turning the snow red doesn't represent blood, it's the red of the scarves against the white snow. :)
0 likes14 days until Christmas 😍😁
0 likesThis reminds me of the pentatonix version
0 likesthis is so dope
0 likesNorwegian subtitles are now added @Doodlevloggle. At the time of writing this comment, there are subtitles in English, German, Spanish and Hebrew
0 likeslyrics
0 likesI was following the [8x]
I was following the pack
All swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
I was following the pack
All swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
MY SCHOOL DID THIS SONG FOR OUR WINTER CONCERT
0 likesI feel like really emotionless, and depressed and I really just want to cry and not leave the bed. What do I do?
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Em Jay im so sorry to hear! Try talking about it to someone close to you, family maybe friends. Try to find the problem to your sadness together! I send hugs and love ❤️❤️
1 likeEm Jay talk to your doctor ❤️❤️
1 likeEm Jay you leave your bed and make yourself feel. Go outside. Feel the sun/rain/wind. Listen to the sounds. Concentrate on what you're feeling. If that's nothing then think about your beating heart and try to feel it your chest. You. Are. Alive! Isn't that great!!
0 likesPaneon thanks so much, I didn't know where else to go for help honestly. I figured this fandom might be able to help. ❤
0 likesCry and don't leave your bed ❤
0 likesJust for a little bit. If that's what it feels like you need to do then there's no shame in doing it. There was a time in my life where I wouldn't leave the house for weeks, I barely ate, cried all the time, and I just longed more than anything to disappear. Trying to seek help isn't what helped me in the end. It just slowly lifted without me even noticing. That's not to say you shouldn't get help, please make sure that you're safe. But remember that this is only temporary and just because you spend a day crying in bed doesn't mean you'll be stuck there forever. Lots of love xx
This fandom is amazing! I would recommend search for more Dodie's videos, and also be gentle to yourself. It may be a hard time, but it will all be alright. Let your emotions flow, make yourself some tea, or a beverage or food you really like. Breath slowly and concentrate on the air entering and leaving your body. Allow yourself to relax and your brain to be calm. Everything will be ok :)
0 likesYouTube search Dr Jordan Peterson on depression
0 likesLuv this
0 likesMy ears have been blessed
0 likesI just wanted to tell you that 6/10 is the reason i freaking live okay.
0 likesI JUST PREFORMED THIS WITH MY SCHOOL CHORUS
0 likesI L O V E A R T
2 likesthis ROCKS
0 likesThat was pretty cool.
0 likesso cute so pure
0 likesi love love love love it
0 likesit's about the french revolution with their heads held on with scarves
14 likesI can’t stop listening help
0 likesOh my gosh I'm blessed
0 likesAlmost forgot to watch this today
0 likesWHY AM I SO OBSESSED WITH THIS
0 likesI broke the replay button again....
6 likesluv it
0 likesfleet foxes yes, i’m actually proud
0 likesThis is my faVORITE WINTER SONG AND WHEN I GOT THE NOTIFICATION FOR MY FAV. YOUTUBER SINGING MY FAV WINTER SONG
0 likesI love you lil u r awesome
0 likesThis is such a good song yES
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Love your profile picture 😂👌
0 likesJazzy Castillo lmao thanks it's lit
1 likeI LOVE FLEET FOXES
0 likesAww, you precious thing!
0 likesOmg editing is officially my friend
0 likesThis is the the best video I've seen on youtube
0 likesYAY OMGGGG
12 likesW H O I S M I C H A E L
2 likesSo this is my favourite thing ever
0 likesI want a Christmas ep
0 likesThis is so beautiful omg 💛
0 likesi have always loved this song, but but who what huh?? i think it's about someone who is building snowmen..... oh well
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White Winter Hymnal was apperently written from ''personal experience''.
2 likes''Fleet Foxes songwriter Robin Pecknold revealed to Rolling Stone that his songs are "written from personal experience,” including “Hymnal,” which was about a time when his friends ditched him in middle school. The lyrics might have been about childhood past, but the melody came from a familiar source — namely, Walt Disney. “The idea was a song like “Whistle While You Work,” from Snow White, you know?” Pecknold said. “So it started with that very beginning thing, the first kind of like, melody. And then once the verse was done, it just seemed like it lent itself to the repetition, you know?”
Alicion that's really interesting! I have always loved this song because of the melody of course but also the mystery around the song
2 likesJanneke Oevering same! i really like the theories about the songs though :) its cool to see what people think it's about and so!
1 likeI just always pictured a little boy in the winter, playing with his friends but he wandered around, building a snowman, named Michael. He used his scarf as a scarf for the Micheal the Snowman, so the head wouldn't fall of. ("To keep their little heads from falling in the snow" lalala) But well that didn't work! I guess I just have a big imagination lol
3 likesJanneke Oevering Actually I thought the same way!! Just this year I tried to find the "real" meaning behind it because I've wondered for so long!
1 likeI think it’s about the French Revolution. People would wear red scarfs to show they were for the revolution and they would travel in packs. If you weren’t for the revolution I think we all know what happened
0 likesMaya Edwards like I said in the comments above it was from personal experience xxx but it's a good theory
0 likesI love this but this is kinda off topic- i never realized how much you reminded me of Jennifer Aniston in her Friends days until now
1 likedig this tune
0 likesWhy did this song give me ASMR?
0 likesthis is giving me fucking war flashbacks to doing this song in school choir
0 likesthis song is about murder
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agrasin oh nu.
0 likesI sure hope so.
0 likesAlec Dixon ewwww your profile picture is Felony Martinez
6 likes“and I brought myrrh!”
14 likes“oh!”
“myrrh-DER”
“JUDAS! NO”
This song is about hunting. I don't know who Michael is specifically, I just know the premise of the song is hunting.
0 likesthis is the most perfect thing ive ever heard a
0 likesthe band says the song is meaningless but my favourite theory is that its about the French revolution (ie. red scarfs to stop themselves from being executed)
0 likesI could've sworn I've heard these harmonies before...... cough*PTX *cough
0 likesWhat is your “twin” named then?
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Dodie (2)
0 likesJodie
1 likeEvil twin = Dodie Dark
4 likesDodisha
1 likeeidod
1 likeYou look so much like Minnie Driver in Good Will Hunting
0 likesYou're so lovely
1 likeHer voice is so cute, it hurts
0 likesThe songs technically means nothing and michael is just a friend. He talked about it in an interview
1 likeoh slay me
6 likesIts the Fleet Foxes! <3
0 likesMaybe it's just bc I was reading about WWI and WWII but the song reminds me of them. But also I've never heard this song before today so idk
0 likesMicheal alludes to the archetype of Archangel Micheal, the warrior, the protector, who slays the beast. He's within all of us. The symbol of him falling is like when we let our guard down or we become vulnerable and in many cases we spill blood or are hurt. Blood red delicate strawberries... red scarves around the throats of the masses Michael falling.... ahhhhhh the symbolism is amazing here.
0 likesShoutout to all y'all watching this on the off season, i see you
1 likeI'm pretty sure this song was written by robin pecknold who is in the band fleet foxes. There was no credit given so I'm pretty sure that's who wrote it.
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Hattison She forgot but he put in in the description
0 likesit gets better every time
0 likesBest editing!!!
0 likesCute 🖤
0 likesThe song is actually about the French Revolution! The line “swallowed in their coats” is referring to the big puffy coats they wore during that time in the winter while the phrase “scarves of red” refers to the color that people wore to show their loyalty to the revolution. If you weren’t loyal you were beheaded hence the line “keep their little heads from falling in the snow.” Michael is said to be apart of a really high up family during that time I think they were called the Czar family? Anyway that part is about him being beheaded. Beautiful song though! Very deep meaning!
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Actually White Winter Hymnal was apperently written from ''personal experience''.
0 likes''Fleet Foxes songwriter Robin Pecknold revealed to Rolling Stone that his songs are "written from personal experience,” including “Hymnal,” which was about a time when his friends ditched him in middle school. The lyrics might have been about childhood past, but the melody came from a familiar source — namely, Walt Disney. “The idea was a song like “Whistle While You Work,” from Snow White, you know?” Pecknold said. “So it started with that very beginning thing, the first kind of like, melody. And then once the verse was done, it just seemed like it lent itself to the repetition, you know?”
dodie is so cute oh my god
0 likesYES!!!!!! (sorry I couldn't help my excitement)
0 likesGot tickets to the london concert WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!!!!!'!!!!!!!!
0 likesthis song always scared me, i don’t know why. mostly the ‘turned the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime’ bc it was literally blood. my 5 year old mind was terrified of it.
0 likesThis song is about french revolution.they would wear red scarves as an alliance during war.not wearing there scarves would be a sign of treason and could lead to a trip to the guillotine,I'm assuming the song is about a soldier (Michael) who took off his scarf . LOVE YA DORKS😊
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1 like for Michael😉
0 likesYouTube! Stop recommending this video to me!!! I have a policy that I can only listen to Christmas music during December (up until the 25th) and I cannot mess this up!!!! I really want to watch this video tho (even though I've already seen it)...
2 likesdo u understand how many times i've watched this omgggggggggg
0 likesI had to sing this the other day
0 likesthis is hella cute
0 likessnap squad <3
2 likesFleet Foxes but in angels voices
0 likesWAIT you have a twin?!?!?
1 likeI saw fleet foxes in concert
1 likeThat was a seriously cool cloning.
0 likesDODIE
6 likesFleet foxes ❤️
0 likesBEAUT!
0 likesI thought the line was "I thought you would fall"
0 likesWhat if she really does have a twin.
0 likesI'm depressed.
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Lets be friends
1 likeWhat up fellow depressed friends.
2 likesJustBeingCelinda teach me your ways
0 likesThis is sad but I was singing along with kirstins harmony from the pentatonix version
0 likesThis is the most dodie-st song ever
0 likesThis is so cute i love it💖 But who is Micheal? (lol jk)
0 likesHoly shit oh my goddddd this is good
0 likesI need advice
8 likesI have a presentation that I'm doing in two days and I have cried so much about it already. I think I'm really anxious
Advice on public speaking
Advice on confidence
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Fatema Begum Zaman Just think like think like this, when other people were up did you judge them or just didn't care, so maybe they won't judge you since you didn't
2 likesFatema Begum Zaman fake it fake it!!! I used to be so so shaky and wobbly about public speaking, but not so much anymore. yes, nobody will really remember or care, so just talk slowly and pause/breathe so that you don’t run out of air or rush yourself into more panicking. know your material super well! one thing that helps me, not sure if it’d help you, is to think of someone whose confidence you admire, and imitate them, lol. plant your stance with purpose and try not to be the last presenting so you don’t dread it! I wish you the best of luck. it will be okay.
2 likesMichael is clearly the snowman!
0 likesjust my tickets to your concert in Bristol!!
0 likes"And Micheal you would fall and turned the snow red like strawberries in the summertime"
0 likeshm
!! DODIE DID NOT WRITE THIS SONG !!
79 likesThis song is by Fleet Foxes, and it is annoying me quite a lot that there is given no credit to them ( or even mention that its a cover ), and a lot of people in the comment section thinks that dodie wrote it. Its by Fleet foxes. Please remember to give credit another time dodie, as an musical artist i was expecting that you would understand/give credit.
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Yeah, this is indeed quite maddening.
4 likesMelissa McCauley fleet foxes wrote but Pentatonix covered it!
2 likesoops forgot! popped it in description
37 likesdoddlevloggle Thank u gal
1 likecheck the description love
0 likesTeyah Elizabeth did you see dodies comment above yours saying she’d add it? No need to be patronizing... -_____-
4 likesLauren Cashman exactly my thoughts
1 likeyou perfectly described how i feel. Their lyric and music is so beautiful and deserve so much more attention, and at least credit. i hate that people think that pentatonix/other people covering made the song ):
0 likesJuliane Lavalamp
0 likesSO just because she did not mention that it was a cover in the video.
She did MENTION it in the DESCRIPTION.
😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
It's in the description. Check your facts before you go slandering someone.
0 likesread the other replies, dodie added credit in the description because of this comment.
2 likesCute :) <3
0 likesMy ears are blessed
0 likesWhy can’t this be iTunes 😖
0 likes“who is michael” 😂😂
1 likeSomeone please help me
3 likesI'm bisexual but I like girls more than boys so am I lesbian?so I think boys are attractive but I don't see myself with one so does that mean I'm lesbian someone help?!?
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TøpStayalivetøp I think your bi if you find both guys and girls attractive, maybe you just like girls a bit more :)
2 likesJennifer Park thanks
0 likesYou’re bi! Welcome to the club 🏳️🌈
0 likesalways liking before watching 💕
0 likesMy friend thinks you look high in the thumb nail 😂😂💙
0 likesLike the humming part.
1 likeSoothing AF
0 likeshow has no mentioned that this is inspired by pentatonix?? both beautiful covers!
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em byrdie it was originally written by the fleet foxes and she might not have heard it from ptx
3 likesem byrdie because it's not? It looks more like she's inspired by lana
1 likeBecause it wasn’t. Pentatonix didn’t write the song, fleet foxes did lmao
0 likesThis is my aesthetic
0 likesAhhhh I got tickets too see you in London!!! Xxxxxx
0 likes❤️❤️❤️
0 likesPretty sure the song means nothing, Fleet Foxes (the artist) just wanted something to sing in rounds that sounded good.
0 likesIts good, but it has nothing on the fleet foxes
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DODIE IS AMAZING THO. :3
0 likesMelanie no denying that 😂
0 likesMichael might be talking about the archangel in the bible but i'm not sure. Also, you're wonderful and I Iove you
0 likesthe more dodies the better
0 likes“who is michael?!”
0 likeshe’s probably in the bathroom
I literally broke the replay button
0 likesI love you but your lack of capital letters is horrifying
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Hahaha this comment
3 likesit's a e s t h e t i c
8 likesok but can i get the pattern to the hat you're wearing tho?
0 likesI love youuu!
0 likesThis is good wtf
0 likesplease release this
0 likesListened to this about 29271649 times today and here I am again ITS TOO CATCHY 😂❤️
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Guess who’s back again
0 likesFAVORITE SONG YESSS
0 likesYou should come to Brazil!
0 likesI CANT BELIEVE U DID THIS I LOVE U
0 likesoh daaaaamn your lower notes WOw
0 likesA little joy in a dismal life
0 likesI LITERALLY A PREFORMING THIS SONG TONIGHT IN A FEW HOURS AHH THATS SO FUNNY BUT I LOVE THIS SONG AND YOU BYE
0 likesNow this is some Nightvalean stuff.
0 likesSee, now I'm sad that my choir chose Halejulah over this song,..
0 likesGot hold of Wheezy Waiter's Cloning machine I see...
0 likesOh dodie <3
0 likesI LOVE DIS
0 likesOk i'm back and i've watched this about 100 times
0 likesTwo dodies is always better than one
0 likesI missed u so much dodie. ilyyy
0 likessomeone named “Fleet foxes”? did a cover to your song
1 likeThis hat... 😍 You look like Spiridon Vangheli's Guguță.
0 likeswhere is this gorgeous hat from? x
0 likesi almost thought the twin would be hedy ahaha
0 likesI’ve always thought Michael was the Angel Michael
0 likesDon't quote me on this but I think somewhere I heard fleet foxes wrote this song mainly for the harmonies and the words were almost an afterthought?
0 likesP E R F E C T I O N
0 likesYussss Fleet Foxes 💖
0 likeslove dis
0 likesYES. DODIE. YES.
0 likesDoes she really have a twin
0 likesAudible art 🌸
0 likes0:43 sounds like 3:44 is "whatd i miss" from hamilton
0 likesI listen to this so much it's so homey
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Oh I thought it said horney. Oops
1 likeSooooo cool
0 likesАаааа мило
0 likesI think this song is creepy AF 😂
0 likeswe are blessed
0 likesI was at a chorus concert last night and sang this .What the fucj
0 likesYAS QUEEN!!! SSSSLLLLLAAAAAAAAYYYYY!!
1 likeOK AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED THAT DODIE WAS IN YOUTUBE REWIND
0 likes💛💛💛
1 likeHer songs are for high quality ads and when you watch them you say...WHATS THE NAME OF THAT SONG??
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0 likesOkay not to be dramatic or anything but i would die for your twin
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I would die for her and her twin tbh
2 likesso this song was supposed to be for meaningless pleasure because it was fun
0 likesI love that song and I love you xxx
0 likesdo a cover of Santa tell me but dodie it up
0 likesdo a duet with hedy soon
0 likes"who died???" - dodie
0 likesThis is my new forever
0 likesam i in heaven ???
0 likesMy favourite winter song
0 likesfleet foxes hell yeah
0 likesi love her so much what the fuck
0 likes1:45 Lol cute
0 likesTell me why she said merry Christmas like that?
1 likeI love you and I appreaciate some split screen fun but this song is a bit creepy ...
0 likesPentatonix much?JK lol love u Doddle❤️
0 likesMichael didn't die. He slipped and fell while trailing the pack of winter bound people to the lodge. My guess is he scrapped his hand or bumped his head.
0 likesthese HARMONIES
0 likesI'm pretty sure the song is about building snowmen...if anyone is interested lol
0 likesThe cutest
0 likesABOUT THE SONGS ORIGINS -
0 likesThis is the first song on the LP, it’s lyrically fairly meaningless I guess but it’s not really meant to mean something. As an introduction to the record, we thought it would be nice to start it with a simple jam that’s focused on singing – on the record it starts with a tongue-in-cheek harmony thing that we hoped would make people laugh or something but I think it just confuses them. This is my favorite song to play live, though singing it live is sometimes difficult because the lyrics are so vague. Weird how that works!
- Robin Pecknold (lead vocalist), to Daytrotter.
lovely
0 likesFave christmas song and fave baby oh wow im happy
0 likesYaasss the mushroom beanie!
0 likesSING WITH JESSIE PAEGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 <3 <3
0 likesWhy isn't the original artist credited lmao (it's Fleet Foxes btw)
0 likesThis sounds oddly like decapitation to me...
0 likesProbably wrong (at least I hope so) but eh
YESS BB FLEET FOXES
0 likesI AM ADDICTED TO THIS OMG ITS NOT FUNNY ITS A PROBLEM
0 likesYou should probably write to artist of the song somewhere!
0 likesI read something that this was about the French Revelation.
0 likesThis is v good
0 likesim obBSESSED WITH THIS SONG
0 likesokay but the humming
1 likeI love you so much !!!!!!
1 likeI want your hat :)
0 likesIsn’t it the archangel Michael?
0 likesfavorite christmas song
0 likesSounds like it should be a hunger games song
0 likesOh my fucking god. What the fuck. This too good. This shouldn’t exist. This is so good it breaks the fundamental laws of the universe. What the fuck.
0 likesdidn’t birdy originally sing this?
0 likes❤❤❤❤
0 likesthis is the best thing
0 likesThis is so creative what
0 likesThis is so cute I'm crying.
0 likesLike I'm so gay omg.
Awh, u look so tiny and cute under the hat awwwwwwwwe
0 likes"I actually have no idea" lol
0 likesThis is so creative hOW
0 likesThis is nice
0 likesthis is a year late - but it’s about dogs! they wore little red scarves to make sure they didn’t disappear in the snow ❄️🐾🐶
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But who's Micheal?
1 likeTis the season y’all
0 likesyour hat is adorable
0 likesPEEP FLEET FOXES OMG YES
0 likesOh my word why did I stop watching every one of your videos
0 likesFleet Foxeeeees <3 <3 <3
0 likesThis song was written to mean nothing. That’s the history, it’s meant to be personally interpreted by the listener. We had this song in our choir lineup and that’s the history of it
0 likesi love
0 likesI think the song is about the French revolution and how people were beheaded and they thought wearing red scarves showed that they were not to be beheaded (which id assume didn't work out to well)
0 likesthis is main channel worthy
0 likesYOU HAVE A TWIN
1 likeThe song is about them going out and micheal falling and his red scarf and hat falling off
0 likesMUSHROOM DODIE
1 like🥰
0 likesIt was about a kid with their parents she was following the pack of wolves, then Michael Got eaten by the pack.
0 likesIt’s slightly concerning how many people have watched this and commented in the past 24 hours 😂👀
0 likesi heard that its about the french revolution;
0 likesthe used to wear red scarves to show they were part of the pack and if they turned around they would get beheaded or something like that
aghhh i love this songf aghhh i love you aghhh i love thiisss
0 likesHaha her book in the back
0 likesI K E E P C O M I N G B A C K
0 likesWhy'd you trap her in your mirror ? :(
0 likesok - I have this theory about this song - I think it's about the French Revolution. But why? Well, friend, during "The Terror" people called the sans-culottes were basically chopping of the heads of counter-revolutionaries using the ever-so-famous guillotine. The crowds that formed around theses VERY public executions were known as packs ("I was following the pack, all swallowed in their coats"). It was also common for revolutionaries at the time to wear red chokers or scarfs in their support of the revolution, mostly because if they didn't support it then they would get their heads chopped as well ("with scarfs of red tied 'round their throats, to keep thier little head from falling in the snow"). Now when they say "and Michael you would fall, and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime," I think they're reffering to the arc-angel Micael, since before the French Revolution, France was SUPER Catholic, but the revolutionaries were very very Enlightened, religious-tolaration guys, and thus they broke ties with the pope, and ended up imprisoning all the priests that sided with the pope instead of them. So, their saying that Michael, most important arc-angel, is being killed in the French Revolution.
0 likesOr maybe AP Euro has fried my brain
i heart u dodie
0 likesWhy the hell did I get a notification for this video????? I don’t even know who this lady is :(
0 likesEdit: great singing though? Ha ha I’m so confused
well, it seems like michael died and bled out (possibly decapitated by whomever the singer is speaking to/or it was an accident)...i dont know. michael might not even be a person...its an awesome song though
1 likeIf you have as sick and twisted mind as I, the lyrics are really quite violent.
0 likesI think Michel is a reference to the angel?
0 likesBefore song starts:
0 likesI do not know the history of this song
I don't know what it's about-
Who is Michael?
Who is Michael?
Do you know who Michael is?
Uhm, I literally have no idea.
Song
I was followin' the
I was followin' the
I was followin' the
I was followin' the
I was followin' the
I was followin' the
I was followin' the pack all swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From falling in the snow
And I turn 'round
And there you go
And Michael you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime
Mmmmmm*MMMMM*
I was followin' the pack all swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From falling in the snow
And I turn 'round
And there you go
And Michael you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime.
outro
Who died?
I don't know.
Thanks for watching. If you missed it I uploaded a new song on Doddleoddle. I'm really proud of it, it's called Burned Out. Ehm... It's kind of about where I've been this summer. And how this busy busy summer has made me feel. And what it's made me think of.
Yeah! I'm really proud of it, and thank you so much for the in depth response to it. I've really been enjoying reading people's comments. Oki, thanks! Goodbye! Merry Christmas!
merry christmas folks
0 likes"Who died"😂
0 likesIs she not gonna mention she was on YouTube rewind!!!??
0 likesWho’re those people that put dislikes???
0 likesthanks dodie.
0 likesOh my gosh! My choir is performing this tomorrow during our concert!! This is so cool!
2 likesThis is one of my favourite Christmas songs and I LOVE that there's a dodie version now!!
0 likesLiterally this was the most beautiful cover i have ever heard. Ive never heard the original and i know i will prefer this forever and always
0 likesNow I can listen to you AND zannah sing this damn life is good!!!! Beautiful as always ❤️
0 likesi love the editing on this vid and your voice is so beautiful!! i also bought your book and finished it a while ago! AMAZING!
0 likesThat was a lovely cover! That song is amazing ❤
0 likessaw fleet foxes live back in September in Reno truly amazing musicians you have to see them live, great cover btw!
0 likesThis is one of my very favorite songs. Thank you for covering this and being lovely and great and smart.
0 likesThis has been my favorite winter song since I saw my friends choir preform it 2 years ago and I am so so glad you've decided to cover it. Tbh this is a beautiful thing I didn't know I needed till now.
0 likesOmg I was literally just watching pentatonix sing this yesterday. This is my favourite song and you sung it beautifully.
0 likeseach note was warm to the heart :) happy early happy christmas to you dodie. lots of love sent from your biggest fan in China
0 likesI wish ALL your songs were put on Spotify completely as is. Bless my Winter playlist with this cover!!💙
0 likesI love this song so much! You and Pentatonix have the best versions.
0 likesThis brings back so many memories with me singing this in the car when I was like 8 thank you dodie I love this gahhhh
0 likesIM CRYING THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL. i feel like i say this on every song dodie sings but it’s true.
0 likesThe original song is by Fleet Foxes and it's feckin beautiful and I love this cover Dodie, you've really done it justice 💖
0 likesThis is just so freakin good! The song is beautiful, you are beautiful, and the freakin scene at the end is beautiful😂👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
0 likesOne of my favorite winter songs sung by one of my favorite artists yeehaw <3
0 likesJust when I didn't think there could be anyone as adorable and talented.
0 likesI find your twin.
Ah a classic. I love this song. I could listen to it on repeat
0 likesONE OF MY FAVE SONGS OF ALL TIME I LOVE THIS SO MUCH
0 likesI looooooooove how creative you are dodie, and all the while being so kind and humble and staying yourself in videos like these. You're such an inspiration, and your voice is so comforting. xoxoxo
0 likeslovelovelove this song and you sing it beautifully <3
0 likesi sang this in my choir class last year for our winter show !! im glad i could sing along to the tenor part with you haha
0 likesThis is one of my favorite songs and you have made it 100x better!!
0 likesLove this song! Sweet sweet cover!!
0 likesI have an exam in 1 hour and this helped me calm down! Thanks dodie 💜
0 likesI love this song! The story behind it is actually really cool, you should look it up some time. :)
0 likesTHESE HARMONIES. THE VERY SOFT ECHO. THE SNAPPING. I LOVE. <3
0 likesLOVE IT! This is the quality content in here for! The original artists once said they don't even know what they wrote it about... lmao
0 likesthis is amazingggg omggg!!! also bought your book yesterday and im in love!!!! love you sosoooso much
0 likesFleet Foxes!!!!! I used to listen to them all the time while cruising around in my old Saturn Wagon. This brings me back ❤️❤️❤️
0 likesI love this dodie ❤️
0 likesTHANK YOU DODIE!!! I WAS WAITING FOR A CHRISTMAS SONG!!!
0 likesthe a cappella group at my school performed this last week and I've been obsessed wiTH IT AND IM SO HAPPY SHE DID THIS
0 likesthe harmonies on this are so cool! people in my choir love to sing this song but they always do the harmonies in really linear thirds and fifths. it's pretty when they sing it but this is much cooler
0 likesMe: It's December, TIME TO LOOP SMILE AT SNOW AND ALL DODIE'S COVERS
0 likesThis is awesome! Yes Dodie!!!! <3
0 likesYOU’RE SO GOOD AT MAKING PRETTY THINGS I LOVE YOU
0 likesYAssSS This is my ABSOLUTE favourite Fleet Foxes song and it suits your voice so well and I am just so happy now :))))) <3
0 likeswe had to do this for christmas caroling once in middle school and i was so confused on why this is considered a holiday song haha. but oh my you sing it beautifully !! (along with everything else you sing ;) )
0 likesi just preformed this for my chorus concert !! can relate lol
0 likesJust lovely 💖⛄😍
0 likesI don’t know why this video stirred up such feelings of fondness but Dodie you are such a joy I adore you
0 likesShocked that I didn't know I needed this in my life
0 likesTHIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL
0 likesWE ARE SINGING THIS FOR SCHOOL!!! I love this song, new season fav
0 likesi haven't watched your vids in a couple months and i forgot how talented u are o my gosh!
0 likesshes so creative and beautiful oh my god
0 likesi cant wait to see you live
I LOVE THIS SONG THIS MADE MY DAY
0 likes<3 X-mas time The most wonderful time of the year.
0 likesI know that Dodie has anxiety about what should be on the main channel, this 100% should be, was so good!
0 likesI’m here with all your song meaning needs: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/white-winter-hymnal-fleet-foxes
0 likesIf you don’t want to open the link: it says it was based on friends ditching him in middle school, and the melody was inspired by “whistle while you work.”
Also this was a lovely cover. 💕
My A cappella choir group did this song! We’ve actually performed the same concert like 8 times in the last 4 days so it’s cool to hear a fresh version of the song.
0 likesThe humming part was so cute!!
0 likesTes harmoniques sont si belles ! 😍
0 likesDAT HARMONY THO. Love this cute lil weird death song lol
0 likesyou sound absolutely lovely! good to have ya back mate
0 likesYour voice 💙💙
0 likesGosh, how are you soooo perfect :o? I think I'm in love
0 likesThis is adorable and also your twin is adorable and also what a weird song, lol.
0 likesI sang this last year and i just kept singing it.
0 likesIM IN LOVE WITH THIS!
0 likesWhy are you so creative and talented and amazing???
0 likesDODIE PLEASE MAKE A CHRISTMAS ALBUM OR EP IN THE FUTURE
0 likesDUDE ITS SO WEIRD HOW I WAS OBSESSING OVER THIS SONG AND NOW YOU ARE SINGING IT
0 likesMy school just had our Holiday concert tonight and we performed this song with the clapping that Pentatonix does in their video!!
0 likesThis is nothing related to this video. But I LOVED your book. It was so good! Okay
0 likesBye
wowowowoww such talent and lots of editing nice
0 likesthis is so beautiful wowow
0 likesmother has blessed us again! ✨
0 likesI didn’t know about this until Pentatonix sang it. Honestly it creeps out everyone in my family except for me. I think it’s like... sad, but beautiful. To Where it’ll bring confused tears. But anyways I love you dodie and btw you were one of my top artists I listened to this year according to Spotify. So that validates me saying I’m a fan! Woo!
0 likesA dodie Christmas album would make my year. Just sayin.
0 likesI LOVE THE WHOLE MIRROR THING WHY ARE YOU SO CREATIVE
0 likesdodieeeeee you are the cutest lil bean ever.
1 likei like your voice.
i like this song.
i like you.
and your face.
:)
I’m singing this song for my winter school concert
0 likesI love this! This is so cute fjhsjsjsn I have to do this with someone now
0 likesthis is beautiful dodie
0 likesHer cuteness is killing me
0 likesfrick YES I LOVE THIS YOU AND PTX COVERING THIS?? YES PLEASE
0 likesOMG DODIE AND FLEET FOXES LITERALLY MY DREAM COME TRUE
0 likesDodie wearing a beanie is my new aesthetic
0 likeswow I’ve never loved a human more than I love you
0 likesI LOVE THIS.
0 likesomg this song brings back memories from choir
0 likesWE R SINGING THIS IN MY MUSIC LESSONS IM CRYING
0 likesOmg this is so brilliant AND CUTE
0 likesoh my god i love this song so much
0 likesdid my favorite youtuber just cover one of my favorite bands? merry xmas to u too!
0 likesLove thissss!
0 likesI'm singing this choir and my teacher explained that it's a song about a bird. Doesn't make sense but ok.
0 likesGuys this is a fleet foxes cover. There isn't any hidden dodie meaning to apply to it, it's just a fun winter song with nice harmonies ❤️
0 likesI have never heard this song but I love it
0 likesFleet Foxes said White Winter Hymnal is a reflection of one of the band member's life, as he grew up around the same group of friends. He notes watching them change felt a lot like war, in which the feeling of it being about the French revolution comes in. Yes I'm a Fleet Foxes fan.
0 likesGreat version! And special effects. XD
0 likesInteresting spin on the song as I was first introduced to this song by Pentatonix
0 likesyour low harmony is PURE GOLD
0 likesAHHH THAT WAS SO GOOOOOOODDDDD
0 likesBeautiful
0 likesDodie, if you ever get a free moment, p l e a s e listen to the song Michael in the Bathroom from the musical Be More Chill, i think it's a song everyone can relate to in one way or another and i think it would really suit your voice if you ever did a cover of it. Plus, "Dodie in the Bathroom" is perfect sooo <3
0 likesthis is so great
0 likesmy ears have been blessed. Thankyou
0 likesWHAT KIND OF EDITING MAGIC IS THIS
0 likeswhen i was young, i thought Michael's head was chopped off cause of the red scarf that is too tight for his neck and he was bleeding everywhere and turn the snow red as strawberry.
0 likesand i still think thats how the song goes until now.
Everyone is wondering so I figured I would tell you.
0 likesThe original creators of this song ( Fleet foxes ) said this song is about loosing childhood innocence.
Michael was a childhood friend of one of the band members
please make a longer version for me to watch in replay also can
0 likesI adopt you ok thanks
this is so cute omg i missed you so much
0 likes1. i only know this song because pentatonix covered it
0 likes2. HOW COME WHEN YOU HARMONISE WITH YOURSELF IT SOUNDS INCREDIBLE BUT WHEN I DO IT IT SOUNDS LITERALLY SATANIC
I had to watch it twice to hear dodie's announcement at the end 'cause twin dodie was so distracting
0 likesMy choir JUST performed the pentatonix version, body percussion and all
0 likesa lot of people think the song might be inspired by the the French Revolution where a lot of beheadings took place and people wore red scarves to show their loyalty for the revolution. It was common that if people didn't support it they would get beheaded along with the French royalty. But that's like super morbid so the idea that it is a childhood memory seems a lot more comforting to me.
0 likesThis is really good
0 likesBEAUTIFUL
0 likesAccording to an interview with The Rolling Stone, Robin Pecknold based the lyrics around an experience he had in middle school when his friends ditched him and the melody was inspired by the song "Whistle While You Work" from Snow White.
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Link to the (very short) article: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/white-winter-hymnal-fleet-foxes
0 likesi literally just did this in my choir???
0 likesAmazing
0 likesthis is so cool
0 likesYo!!! My choir sang this!!
0 likesNew fav Christmas jam
0 likesThe song is apparently meaningless, they had a vocal jam and wrote it :)
0 likesWAIT DODIE DO YOU REALLY HAVE A TWIN?? Edit: lmao i am so dumb
0 likesYou are so beautiful Dodie
0 likeswow since when do u have a twin and what is their name??
0 likesThis is better than Pentatonix's rendition!
0 likesMAKE A CHRISTMAS ALBUM HECK
0 likesSEAMLESS EDITING
0 likesI can't BELIEVE YOU SANG MY FAVOURITE SONG OEWUBBAJSHBKU
0 likesok I need this more than air
0 likesYOU ARE MY FAVORITE PERSON
0 likesmy a cappella group did this a few years ago ayyy
0 likesthis is so good?????
0 likesIt’s really dark, it’s about hunters in the winter killing the foxes, the scarves of red are holding their heads on
0 likeswait but it’s a three part harmony????
0 likesOmg she pulled a Charlie (and then a dodie)
0 likesEdit: just remembered she does this all time whoops
YESSS FLEET FOXES IS THE BEST EVER
0 likesI love your hat!
0 likesThis harmony is biblical
0 likesAm I the only one who's never heard this song before? Haha
0 likesTotally thought this was by the Fleet Floxes.
0 likesproof that dodie is susie, tessa is hobbes come to life, the transmogrifier is real and they stole it from calvin. well played susie, well played.
0 likesi love this ???? so much ??
0 likes♥️
0 likesi sang this in fourth grade
0 likes<3
0 likesFk, you're just awesome
0 likesOMG CLICKED SO FAST
0 likesthe song is about the French revolution. Revolutionists wore red scarves around their necks so they wouldn't be arrested and executed for opposing the revolution. Michael is probably someone who opposed the revolution
0 likesThis is great tip to y'all
0 likesPlay this and put your device in the sink of your bathroom. Stay in the bathroom and enjoy.
I LOVE
0 likesYesssss dodie
0 likesMERRY KRISMAS!
0 likeslove love love love love love love
0 likesTHIS JSNMY FAVOURITE SONG SHAYAHGAAHAGAGAH
0 likesLav it
0 likesMichael could also be mean the archangel
0 likesa random song for a random soul and day
0 likesI heard it was about the French Revolution, but I'm not sure
0 likespLS PUT THIS ON SOUNDCLOUD
0 likesyes dodieeee i'm back my bday is in 4 days
0 likesChange to .75 speed 😍😍😍
0 likesThe song is about killing slaves in the French Revolution or something like that 😬
0 likesShould I come out to my mom....?????? I’m bi
0 likesDODIE U LOOK SO PRETTY BDIAKDBAKAHDJSO
1 likethis is the cutest shit ive ever seen???
0 likesobviously this is not the message that Fleet Foxes was trying to portray, but music can be interpreted in many ways and this is my interpretation. until i looked up the members of fleet foxes and saw there was no "michael" in the band, i thought micheal was the one singing it. "i was following the pack swaddled in their coats" is like saying that this "micheal" sees himself always following the trends, trying to be liked by other people, but only seeing the nice "coats" they have on, and not seeing wh they really are underneath. "with scarves of red tied 'round their throats to keep their little heads from fallin in the snow" i took that as like the "scarves of red" were that one piece of sanity that keeps their heads on their shoulders, keeps them from going insane. I think the nest couple lyrics are saying that our lil michael here is so tied up in this world hes made following the croud, that he doesnt realize that the scarf around his own neck has fallen off, and him turning around and seeing that is "staining" his life. turning his nice life and literally changing it, or turning the "white snow red as strawberries in the summertime." anyone who actually decided to read this i appreciate you
0 likesahhhhhh the beanie BEANIE BEANIE
0 likesI thought the lyrics was 'my girl' not 'Michael'?? lol
0 likesHolyshit yes.
0 likesIdk if i’m correct, but I am pretty sure the song is based after a horror story about a girl who’s, when she had married, husband kept asking to take off the scarf she had always worn. Of course, she didn’t and said that “I will only take this scarf off after my death!” Years later, on her death bed, she had finally showed everyone what would happen when you take her scarf off; yep, you guessed it, her damn head fell off.
0 likesOf course, i’m only guessing due to the relation between the story and the song. Hope I didn’t ruin it for anyone!
other dodie trying to lick dodie is such a mood
0 likesSnowing in derby❗️❗️
0 likesno one died?! Michael's red scarf fell in the snow and that's why its red...
0 likesMichael is an Archangel :)
0 likesthis is cool but you left out the main melody?
1 likei want to be her friend so badly oh gosh
0 likesIt's about the French Revolution
0 likesWe love a good clickbait shistar!👏😏
0 likesMichael is Adam (like adam and eve) but angel version like so when adam died his angel name was Michael
1 likethe hat lol
0 likesIf anyone is confused pause on 1:42 lol
0 likeswhy hello new favorite dodie cover
0 likesI can't tell if the twin thing is a joke....
0 likesisn't Micheal an angel?
0 likesthis song is about the French Revolution i think i may be wrong but basically theres like a pack of people and they are all wearing red scarves so there heads dont get chopped off, then michaels falls off i think or he isnt wearing one. because he isnt wearing one his head gets chopped off and that makes the snow red as strawberries in the summer time ( my pastor at church told me this )
0 likesYOU HAVE A TWIN
0 likesAm I the only one contemplating how messed up this song is?
0 likesOk so I just listened to the original and someone commented that it's about the French Revolution? Like apparently if you weren't wearing a red scarf you were decapitated? Idk tho
0 likesAnyone who disliked this should be on the naughty list.
0 likesYou are lovely
0 likesHey I am in a choir class and this song is about little kids trying to survive yes it’s a very sad song because they all died
0 likesyou've got to be joking
0 likeswhat the actual fuck
this song haunting me
is this a sign?
i have to write up a lead sheet for this song so I can pass and I haven't done it yet tersrdcythvyjhv lowkey yes i'm watching youtube to procrastinate and I??? how
universe what is this
Bless
0 likesFun fact, this song has literally no meaning!
0 likesYou have a twin?
0 likes2017 is saved
0 likes😍😍😍😍😍
1 like<3 <3 <3
0 likesbackground dodie sounds like hedy
1 likeI LOVE YOU
0 likesOMGOMGOMG
1 likeThis has been one of my favorite songs since I first heard it almost ten years ago. And you do it wonderfully.
0 likesI have listened to this 12 times and I just found it.This is my new favourite version, wonderful as ever Dodie!
0 likesI love hearing all the different versions of this song! We sang this in choir while I was still at school, and I remember seeing Zannah do a cover of this a while ago too 😊
0 likesAaah! This is perfect! I've wanted you to do this song forever! Your voice is perfect for it!! <3
0 likesi couldn’t stop smiling throughout that whole vid . you’re so cute and i love the cleverness of it <3
0 likesLyrics!
1 likeI was following the pack
All swallowed in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From falling in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime
love you dodie! you’re my inspiration 💕
0 likesIf you made a holiday album or something I’d cry you’re such an amazing singer ❤️
0 likesThis is a lovely from virtually my favourite band!! Fantastic! ❤️❤️❤️
0 likesThis is lovely! You are more create that I can ever be <3 I love burned out :D
0 likesthis song is kinda creepy but it's still a total bop! love your cover dodie ❤️❤️
0 likesI literally just got back from singing this at my choir concert!!
0 likes!! you give me chills every time you do anything !!
0 likesThis was so beautiful and calming and peaceful and asthetically pleasing and aghhhhhh I love you dodie
0 likesAhhhhhhhhh I was always hoping that you would do a cover of this song and it’s amazing👏👍💕
0 likesi did this is in my select chorus at my high school last year, and it was such a pivotal point in my choral “career”. we did the synchronized hand claps from pentatonix’s version, and it was such a life changing experience, especially performing it in front of my entire high school. dodie, you just brought all of those memories back to me in such a stressful time, thank you ❤️
0 likesOmg Dodie, I literally just performed this song *today* with my acapella group at my college!! Love this, and you, and what a crazy coincidence! 😆
0 likesi got chills this was beautiful <3
0 likesSang this is choir a while ago, i love it xx
1 likeTHIS MADE ME FEEL SO HAPPY 💜💗❣️💘💙💓❤️💕😍😍😍
0 likesah this is so good! you're so talented!!
0 likesWe literally just performed this in chorus for our concert!!
0 likesDodie this is beautifulllll! If you made a Christmas album I think I’d probably cry of happiness.
0 likesCongrats on making it into YouTube Rewind this year Dodie!
0 likesthis makes me so incredibly happy i almost cried lol, this might be our last christmas in our family home because expenses and all that jazz but i couldn't have wished for a better start of december. it started snowing and its actually sitting and staying! its not moving! the snow is thick and me, my brother and my sister all played in it. keep in mind this was an hour ago.. yes we had a snowball fight at midnight kdddjgdfgh thank you!
0 likesThe Pentatonix version is my fav but she slays this. Plus she's freakin adorable :3 <3
0 likesI USED TO LISTEN TO THIS SO OFTEN WHEN I WAS A CHILD. My parents keep really old hymnal Christmas albums because they sing in a church choir.
0 likesIs it just me or the split screen twin being funny reminds me of Stevie and her video twin? So adorable
0 likesblasting this song at christmas dinner with my relatives it's the sound of an angel singing
0 likesThis is insane - both the editing and gorgeous song
0 likesThis is beautiful 😍 I love this song, but I don’t think anyone knows what it’s about 😂😂
0 likesMy goodness, I never thought I'd hear Dodie sing Fleet Foxes. Pigs can fly, I guess.
0 likesI have never heard this song in my entire life but boy do I love it now
0 likesLovely as usual!!
0 likesmy favorite artist covering one of my favorite Christmas songs!!
0 likesThis is one of my favourite Christmas songs for sure
0 likesone of my school’s choirs sung this ahah !! beautiful :))
0 likesLOVE this Dodie <33
0 likesyou are literally the reason I began singing in public and playing the ukulele. Love you Dodie
0 likesMy friend (who looks 99.9% like Dodie) is singing this in Choir 😍
0 likesIt is by a band called fleet foxes I highly suggest them they are one of my favorites
0 likesI’ve always wanted a twin 😂 love the vid Dodie. The song was cute, but creepy at the same time. I feel like I’ve heard it somewhere before
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Colorful Shadows do you listen to Birdy? She did a version of it on an old album
0 likesWe sang this in senior choir! Favourite 😻😻
0 likesWe sang this in choir last year with the PTX body percussion. It was lit.
0 likesbeautiful person beautiful voice beautiful cover
0 likesPLEASE RECORD THIS AND PUT IT ON SPOTIFY/ITUNES/?? SO I CAN LISTEN TO IT ON THE DAILY!!
0 likesOmy how are u so freaking cute my goodness dodes!!!!💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛 0:46 so beautiful, i'd put it on loop. 💛
2 likesThis is so beautiful
1 likeI love harmonizing with Dodie
0 likesOkay I officially need a Dodie Christmas album
0 likesI love this song!!!
0 likesmy favorite winter song with my fave singinger !!! I’m deceased
0 likesI heard it’s about a war? Like the French Revolution or something? The scarves were used for wounds? Just what I heard! This is a beautiful cover ❤️
0 likesmy mum and i used to sing this together a lot when i was little aw
0 likesthis vid is so creative and cute omg love u dodie
0 likesso glad you covered this song! its not even technically a Christmas song but its still my fav christmas song lol
0 likesthis is amazing edited Dodie
0 likesfleeetfoxeeeees ❤️ that’s how I know the song anyway. 💁🏻♀️loved, loved this cover
0 likesthis reminds me of birdy’s version of it, it’s so sweet
0 likesMY FAVORITE HOLIDAYISH SONG😍💛
0 likesI’ve never heard this song it’s really catchy wowowow
0 likesEdit: I also think this song has a dark twist. Like it sounds super sweet and gentle and it seems really twisted. I dunno how. But I’m gonna think about that.
you make me so happy ❄️
1 likeThis is one of my favorite holiday songs....
0 likesI got scared when mirror dodie was beside the other dodie,
0 likesI love when there are dodie clones SO MUCH DODIE!
THIS IS INSANE. i literally found this song like three days ago, and i got OBSESSED with it and i started thinking about how good it would sound if you covered it!!!! I’M NEARLY CRYING I LOVE THIS AND I LOVE YOU. THIS IS SO CUTE.
0 likesi know it’s stupid but i’ve been so stressed n idk given how this song has been on my mind a lot lately and dodie has been as well this just made me extremely happy. thank you for having that effect on me
I LOVED THIS VIDEO!!!!!!!!
0 likesThis so beautiful...
0 likesI just came back from my chorus concert and we sang this song
0 likesOMG!!!!!!!!!! Dodie!!!! You are unique!!!! This is just a brillant song and is freaking amazing!!!!! And beautiful!!!! Your voice is just !!!!!;;; so!!!!!!!!!! You!!!!! This night it will be one of the best ones of my year!!! Thank you so!! Much Dodie!!!!
0 likesI LOVED THIS
0 likesI ADORE THIS SONG AND DODIE IM IN HEAVEN
0 likesI love this more than i love myself
0 likesI am glad to see you smiling again.
0 likesMy friend told me if I sang I would sound like Dodie but Dodies voice is BEAUTIFUL and mine is GROSS UHG
0 likesyou have b l e s s e d m y e a r s with this masterpiece
0 likesdodie’s twin is everything
0 likesThis song is actually about the French Revolution when the troops walked in lines, and if they turned around they’re heads were taken off, and the blood flowed into the snow🙃
0 likesGotta love a good bit of fleet foxes
0 likesI’m literally filming my version of this tomorrow. As in I’ve been planning to film this forEVER ☃️❄️☃️
2 likesWHY does this always happen 😂
that’s okay. gon do it anyway 🎄
come watch it if you’re so inclined🤓
can I use more emojis than this...
🍪🌈💛🎩🎵💫⚡️🌲
YES
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UPDATE: I uploaded my cover
0 likesOne of my favorite songs
0 likesI believe it's about the French Reveloution.
0 likesIf you look on either pentatonix' or the original video, there is probably a really good explanation about this.
Dodie:Who is Michael. Who is Michael? Do you know who Michael is
0 likesAlso Dodie:I literally have no idea
this is beautiful wowowowow
0 likesMy school just sang this on Tuesday for our school concert and I was one of the people doing the clapping
2 likesDodie! I just saw that you were in The New Youtube Rewind!! WHich is freaking Awesome! Awhh I Love this girl so much!!!
0 likesDodie's little lisp from her invisi-line is so cute wtf
0 likesBest Christmas song (for me at least):D :D :D
0 likesI suggest Big black Car, Gregory Isaacs. It's my go-to song when reading!! I think you'll do fab at jt
0 likesI WAS LITERAALY LISTEBING TO THIS SONG ALL DAY (PENTATONIX VERSION) AND WAS BLESSED WITH THIS VIDEO TH
0 likesSounds like sweet baby angels
0 likesIs this an actual hymn??? I've never heard it!
0 likesomg the split screen thing was so cute, i can't
0 likesif you ever want to know what talent is watch this video
0 likesHarmonies on POINT
0 likesI LOVE THIS SONG AHHHHHHH
0 likesFleet Foxes have a lot of strange lyrics, so who all knows what it's about except for them.
0 likesyessss love fleet foxes !!
0 likesThe twin is so creative but it scared me lol
0 likesI'm doing this in chorus lol
0 likessplit screen dodie is me trying to annoy everyone with a camera in hand
0 likesI️ frickin love this song omg yes
0 likesIM LEGIT SINGING THIS IN CHOIR RIGHT NOW OOF
0 likesWe sang this song at a Christmas concert once and all the kids were really confused about what it was about
0 likesTHIS IS GREAT
0 likesLive for the fleet foxes omg
0 likesI wasn't expecting a song at all haha
0 likesWho are fans of Pentatonix as well and this video made your day?! ❤️❤️❤️
0 likesi love this
0 likesomg i actually wanna cry ahh why are you the besttttt
0 likesquestion: what's the meaning of dodie's snaps/claps at the beginning of videos?
0 likesi sung this in acappella club!!
0 likesme and my little sib love to sing this togeater!
0 likesYaaaaaaaaaasssssssssss this song was made for you to cover
0 likesI love your hat and voice
0 likesPlease do vedj (January) I miss you and a video every day would be a beautiful way to start the new year x
0 likesDodie twin is the cutest lil thing
0 likesMichael is angel - that’s all I know (thanks Cassandra Clare)
0 likesMY FAVORITE WINTER SONG
0 likesshe is too pure for this world
0 likesmy first thought: you have a twin?!
0 likesWhen she said who’s Michel at the beginning, I thought she was gonna sing Michael in the bathroom and I was like OHHHH SHOOTJHDKSH
0 likesthe writer of the song said it wasn’t really about anything, it just was supposed to be an intro to their album and the focus was more on the composition of the song lol
0 likesThat low key book promo lol
0 likesAHHH I LOVE THIS SOMG YAY FINALLY
1 likeWait does she actually have a twin?
0 likesDodie I saw you on YouTube rewind YASSSS
0 likesIM SERIOUSLY DYING
0 likesI LOVE YOU DODIIIIIIEEE
0 likesbless ilysm ❤️❤️
0 likesDodie has her one woman choir up in here and I can barely sing twinkle twinkle little star
0 likesShe make death sound like life.
0 likesFor those who are confused, the song has no actual origins or meaning. Fleet Foxes wrote the song as an album opener, and wanted it to focus mainly on singing. Of course, many people took to the internet and came up with their own ideas. Michael was taken as a reference to the bible verses John 3:16; Daniel 12:1. "Michael shall not fall.... He can never fall." The scarves of red were taken as a reference to the Russian revolution, as those who wanted to survive wore the red scarves of the revolution. These were ones that popped out to me, but there are a lot more out there.
0 likesSource: https://www.lyricinterpretations.com/fleet-foxes/white-winter-hymnal
I THOUGHT IT WAS 'AND LIKE A UFO' NOT 'MICHAEL YOU WILL FALL'
0 likesi feel like i've been lied to
Michael is one of the original writer's brother who died when they were little in the winter
0 likesits a shame you didn't take the time to learn the percussion that accompanies this song
0 likesFLEET FOXES THANK YOU.
0 likesliterally thought this was an old vid because of the hair!
0 likesthe best winter song ever
0 likesMY TWO FAVS FLEET FOXES AND DODIE
0 likesthe song is about the french revolution btw
0 likes💛
0 likesI have been blessed.
0 likes<3
0 likesi missed you!😘
0 likesIs that her real twin??
0 likesI'm just a little bit in love with you
0 likesMichael was another name for a gilloten, I think? Or a person who didn't follow the others. Apparently this song is about the French revolution, how if you were apart of it you would wear a red scarf and the line "to keep their little heads from falling in the snow" was another way to describe the people being exicuted, having their heads chopped off. Leaving the line "turn the white snow red as strawberry in the summertime" to be the victims blood. In this case probably Michael
0 likesI probably spelt like nothing right
This song is about a army during the French Revolution pretty much the red scarves tied on the throat was kind of a symbolism for hoping their heads cut off!? I think so this is what I was told so yeah by the way love the song was great OK Bye
0 likesWhen she said Michael did anyone think she was talking about 'Michael in the Bathroom'
0 likesthis is the medicine i need
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oh hi
0 likesApparently it's about his friends ditching him.
0 likesDid anyone think of Pentatonix when they heard this??
0 likesYOUR BEANIE IS SO BIG AND CUTE
0 likesMaybe they mean the Archangel Michael..?
0 likesdid anybody else think hedy was the one in the mirror the whole time ?
0 likesdodie appreciation comment 💖
0 likeswhat a cutie.
0 likesI thought michael was an angel but im not religious so tbh that's just a guess
0 likesTe amo mucho aaaaaa
0 likesI’m not sure if it’s true or not, but apparently this is about a pack of skiers or something who have red scarves on in the case of they fall into the snow they can be found, turning the snow red because of the scarves. Idk if it’s accurate but ay
0 likesit's about the russian revolution, and those who did not wear red scarves or hats were assumed to be disloyal and were executed, so um.. lost their heads. 😅 yayyy for pretty music!
0 likesQWWWEEEAAAAAAAN!👑
0 likesidk what this song is actually about, but it's talking to Michael about him falling and turning the snow red. I wonder if it's religious connotations? Like the angel Michael leading forces against Satan, who fell from Heaven down to red hell...
2 likesor something like that ^^
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Bleepboop The artist said that it was from personal experiences with bullying but it resembles the Russian Revolution when people were forced to wear a red scarf to show their loyalty to the revolution or they would be hung, or in Michael's case, beheaded, turning the snow red as strawberries. We just don't know!
1 likeJennifer Park oh, that’s interesting! ^^ yeah I can see that
0 likesI guess there can be lots of interpretations X3
Hear am I again this year
1 likeWho died??
1 like😂😂
#prayformichael
0 likesseeing you in march! eee <33
0 likesAWWWWWWWWWW
0 likesFLEET BLOODY FOXES
0 likesI love you :*
0 likeswowie much edit very creativity me like
0 likesI JUST REALIZED MICHEAL DIED
1 likewhere's all my people in ohio hoping for the snow too
0 likesThe song is about when people were decapitated by some army. I can't remember exactly but the red scarves were bloody nooses... yeah... Pretty song with a terrible background.
1 likebut strawberries are red in winter
0 likestrippy
0 likesi love you so much
0 likesi love you so much
0 likesMicheal is my math teacher's name
0 likesI'm back, for the 56th time. Okay bye. Actually I guarantee I'll be here again in ten minutes.
0 likes♡♡♡♡
0 likesit's actually vsauce michael.
0 likesI miss you and i don’t even know you xoxo hope i could meet you some day
0 likesNice song but weird lyrics
0 likesThe song either about a guy named Micheal dieing and bleeding out, or kids building a snowman and Micheal the snowman head fell off.
0 likeslol doing a twin video like Tessa
0 likesI thought the person in the mirror was Hedy
0 likesNice hat there mate
1 likeDo another asmr video
0 likesdoditonix strikes again
0 likesIt's about the French revolution. It refers to the revolutionaries scarves on their French coats which prevented them from being guillotined on sight. Not 100% on all of that but yeh
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And yes who the hell is Michael....
0 likesbut i neeEeEEeEeEEeEEEEeeed that hat
0 likesthE BEST SONG YES
0 likesI live in São Paulo it doesn't snows here. :(
0 likesI feel like such an idiot, but does she actually have a twin, and who wrote this?
0 likesThis vid just go public? Swore i woulda known bout this when it came out
0 likesfav christmas song
0 likesI like to think that this song prisoners (following the pack) who hang themselves with their red scarves and then the prisoner "Michael" is sentenced to execution so his head is chopped off (to keep their little heads from falling in the snow) and then his blood covers the snow turning red as strawberries.
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Oh yeah, and the coats are for the mentally unstable prisoners, you know, those ones that tie there arms around them
0 likesPulaski at night is song for you please cover it
0 likesheard its about the French Revolution?? idk the whole story but yeet
0 likesI’ve always loved this song! So glad to see you cover it, this is probably my new favorite version!
0 likesWe're singing this in choir on the 14th. Great timing! Love your songs and covers, you're incredible Dodie!
0 likesEasily one of my favorite songs ever. And you covered it so well! Also, I love your hat.
0 likesAbsolutely Beautiful, dodie. You've just made the season so much more special. Much love and warm feelings to you.
0 likesFleet Foxes are SO good! This was a lovely cover & the reflection twin was clever! ❤️
0 likesThis is gorgeous!! You seriously have such a lovely voice! (So does your twin ;))
0 likesI LOVE this song!!! I found it by accident a few years ago and now it's one of my favorite winter songs
0 likesThis is perfect !! You are so magnificent oh my goodness. Happy holidays dodie. What a perfect way to end my Thursday night. Love you ❤️❤️
0 likesThis is so creative and unique, Dodie. LOVE!
0 likesThis is wonderful! I love this song! And burned out is amazing, I hope you feel a little better soon! Seriously this was beautiful though!
0 likesSuper glad you covered this, this was the first song I sung with my high school vocal group, such a beautiful piece! If you're ever keen to cover more of Fleet Foxes in the future, would love to hear you have a crack at 'Isles', one of my favourite songs from the band. Love you babe <3
0 likesIt's so lovely! You should do more like this! <3
0 likesI was literally listening to this song on repeat all day after not hearing it for so long! This is so beautiful
0 likesLiterally my favorite Christmas song mixed with my favorite YouTuber. HAPPINESS OVERLOAD 😜😛😁😁💗💖
0 likesI love this song! I sang it with my girl's chamber group last year!! We did the clap that Pentatonix does too. I love the rhythm!
0 likesi've never heard this song but YOUR VOICE IS SO BEAUTIFUL I LOVE YOU SO MUCH
0 likesthis is so lovely ahhh
0 likesYour stuff always makes me so happy <33
Missed ya vids Dodie. Happy to have ya back! Hope you’re well! xx
0 likesWow wowie thank you sm dodie this just gave me such a warm Christmas feeling in my heart 💛 🎄 Also can we appreciate this editing because dodie has ouTDONE HERSELF
0 likesI love this. My show choir sang this for out Christmas concert!!! 😊😊😊
0 likesahhhhh, this is one of my favourite songs ever - your voice suits it so well hhhhhh. Also. the meaning of the lyrics is actually quite morbid lol
0 likesWAIT I HAD TO SING THIS IN CHOIR WAIT WHAT (and amazing job dodie your voice is so amazing to watch develop and grow keep goin queen💛💛)
0 likesThis song has never sounded so good. Amazing!
0 likesI absolutely love this song we sang it once for a Christmas play
1 likethis is so sweet and soft i love you so much dodie thank u for living and creating u warm my heart every day
0 likesAwwwww this was beautiful!!!! 💖🦌
0 likesVoices go together beautifully😍
0 likesWe did this in my show choir and spent about an hour arguing
0 likesabout the meaning, turns out it was written to be nonsensical. Also, great cover, Dodie.
omg this is my favorite christmas song ive been waiting for you to cover it!!!
0 likesMy choir is doing this and I love it so much!!!! Also I ask my friends "who's Michael?" All the time
0 likesThis is amazing ❤️
0 likesI love this. Love it so much. Festiveness increases tenfold
0 likesThis is so cool and wintery and much aesthetic and wow it makes me happy.
0 likesTHIS IS JUST WHAT I NEEDED TODAY BLESS YOU FOR BEING SUCH AN ANGELIC PERSON
0 likesAhhhmazing! What is this talent ✨🎄❤️
0 likesshes having so much fun with the camera editing lmao I love it
0 likesYESSSS I LOVE THIS SONG AND YOUR VOICE OMG (immediately subscribes to your channel)
1 likelove this dodie!!!! 😸🙌🏼
0 likesSo good! Those harmonies make me melt
0 likesWe literally just sang this song in chorus for a concert 2 days ago. What a coincidence😊
0 likesThis is a cute video. Also! I have recently finished your book. It's deeply personal, at times quite relatable (sometimes very not as I'm not a girl but it's important to understand different perspectives), and covers all kinds of important elements not just to better understand you as a person but for your target demographic of growing millennials to help them better navigate the world. I really liked it. Good work :)
0 likesAh I love fleet foxes❤️ this is excellent
0 likesLovely dodie! ❤️
0 likesthis makes me v calm while i'm walking alone to avoid panic when i think i'm lost.
0 likesSUCH A BEAUTIFUL COVER! YES
0 likesI literally just heard this song in my chorus class today!
0 likesI was waiting and now I have been blessed with this gem, God bless your beautiful soul (I don't normally act like this)
0 likesI was literally listening to all of dodies Christmas songs today and was like I wish there was more and now here we are! It's a Christmas miracle
0 likesdoes your twin have a youtube channel??!!1! she’s really good at singing!!1!
0 likesi love this with all my heart
0 likesThis is so freaking beautiful! Omg Dodie stahp it it's not fair!
0 likesI love the juxtaposition of strawberries and blood (also, Dodie, you should put a link to You EP in the description. Beautiful job!
0 likesthis is my favorite song i am so enthralled to listen to this
0 likesIn love with this 😍
0 likesIn love with this 😍
0 likesIn love with this 😍
0 likesHow did she managed to get the tempo right? How did she film this so well? Can someone answer pls
0 likesAwesome cover! the choir I’m in literally performed this song week ago. The lyrics make no sense, but it seems to be a general thing that it’s about either the murder of Michael or the French Revolution? which is kinda weird for a Christmas carol but you know, whatever...
0 likesI can`t say too much about the words , but I love the harmony , so melodic and calming. Thanks D. for posting G.
0 likesThere's lots of theories online about the lyrics being about the French Revolution, however the lead singer of the band said in an interview that "It's lyrically fairly meaningless" 😲quite ironic considering how the lyrics have quite powerful imagery ❤️
1 likeyou have more talent in your pinkie toe than i have in my entire existence. i am constantly amazed by you.
0 likesgorgeous edit, great sound and beaute piece-a-arrrrrt.
0 likesWow the editing in this is so cool!
0 likesI love this song so much and have been playing it a lot and now dodie uploaded it! Yayayay
0 likeseveryone is commenting about the song (which is honestly beautiful and amazing!) but WOW THAT HAT IS SP BIG AND PRETTY.
0 likesI only know this song cuz of PTX but this was adorable and I loved it and you <3
0 likesI loved this!!! although I was slightly freaked about mirror you for the front bit haha
0 likesi never knew how much i needed this until now
0 likesFleet Foxes blessed me with the creation of this song, then Pentatonix, then Dodie...
0 likesI had to chart this song first trimester of uni. such a good piece
0 likesI love this song and fleet foxes and you ❤
0 likesI got chills from the humming bit, oh my god
0 likesI don't know how someone can be so beautiful
0 likesShe’s so proud 😂❤️
0 likesthis is so festive and dodie you are so cute.
0 likes#staystrongdodie
this was beautiful
0 likesThis is beautiful
0 likesyesss dodie this was one of our concert songs in school this year
0 likesDodie can make an already beautiful song about murder even MORE beautiful IS THAT EVEN HUMANELY POSSIBLE
0 likesyou have no idea how much I've wanted this!!
0 likesThis sounds really nice
0 likesTHIS IS AMAZING
0 likesI love this so much AHHH
0 likesLove Fleet foxes!
0 likesthis is really pretty and all but where are the creds? like i get it’s kinda a big song that lots of people cover but i also feel like fleet foxes deserve more recognition!! they’re so underrated !! i can’t believe that we all have not recognized that they actually make the most beautiful music in this world
0 likesI'm so happy she's posting again 😂
0 likesWHEN I SAW THIS IN MY NOTIFICATIONS I CLICKED SO FAST THIS IS MY FAVOURITE SONG EVERRRR
0 likesHahahaha the ending tho. Hey dodie!
0 likesSo beautiful
0 likesI LOVE THIS
1 likeplease do a christmas album
0 likesI wish I could like this a thousand times
0 likesI am using that 'goodbye merry Christmas' at the end as my message ringtone right the fuck now
0 likesYay even more winter feelings
0 likesMichael is another name for Adam as in Adam and Eve in the Genesis story, (who fell as in the fall of Adam). It's a very beautiful song, and I love this sooo much.
0 likesWhat a wonderful early birthday gift. Ten days before birthday heck yeah!
0 likesOk I went back to my old school to pay a visit to my choir teacher AND THEY WERE SINGING THIS EXACT SAME SONG
0 likesI need sheet music ASAP DODIE PLEASE
0 likesHi Dodie! I have no idea how you would do this, but maybe you could do a song collaboration with Crankgameplays? Just a thought. Your voice is beautiful as ever ❤️
0 likesI LOVE IT
0 likesDodie there’s the most adorable person in the world in your mirror, might wanna check that out...
0 likesthis is the best thing i've heard all day.
0 likesomg literally my school choir sang this for a christmas event these past 2 years and our inside joke was "wHo'S mICHAEL??"
0 likesthe voice of an angel
0 likesFleet foxes!! :-))) love your cover
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well mini cover I mean
0 likesIt started snowing here right when you uploaded ❤️
0 likesOnce again another brilliant video
0 likesDODIE I LOVE THIS
0 likesI’ve been waiting smiling for this
0 likesPeople: Winter is coming
0 likesDodie uploads a Christmas Cover
Me: with a Christmas sweater, Santa hat, and a hot chocolate Nope it’s here.
i saw you play a snippet of this on snapchat and i got so frustrated bc i knew i had heard the song before but i couldn't figure it out and then i did some searching and it was the PTX cover from last year!!! (And obviously this video)
0 likesNOW WE KNOW IT IS CHRISTMAS TIME
1 likeyour voice is my fav
0 likesdodie^2 is my new favorite duo
0 likesthis is so cUTE oh my god I'm in love
0 likesI don't know why but it reminds me of the Fleet Foxes a little!
0 likesimagine if dodie sang this with Pentatonix
0 likeschriiiiIIIISTMAAAAAASSSS also you would totally kill candy cane lane by sia I was listening to it and I was like dodie could do this and make it cozy and her own
0 likesTHISS??? IS? PERFECT????? ohhh my sweet goodness
0 likesalso i always think of Michael the archangel when i hear this song. but just a guess!!
omg I'm choir class is singing this!!
1 like"Who is Michael??? Who died?"
0 likesSame Dodie, same.
A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE
0 likesFLEET FOXESSSSS!!! Yes Dodie!
2 likesDodie, we need your book in Mexico
0 likesi've searched for earth, sky and sea and i can't find it!!!!
Omg i hecking love this aaaaahhh 😍🍁💞💞💞
0 likesyour twin is cute and so are you =>
0 likesSHES SO ADORABLE
0 likeslove love love this
0 likesThis is my freaking childhood song. HEHHEHEHE
0 likesthis would be really nice as a round
0 likesI live in Ventura which is currently on fire, the air quality is horrible so we can’t go outside and the wind keeps knocking out the power so communication has been dodgy. I’m really happy you uploaded this right before my phone died. The past few days have been so dark and terrible and you posting this has brightened my day, even in the smallest way it matters so much. Thank you <3
0 likesreminds me of pentatonix i fucking love it
0 likeslove you dodie
0 likes"do you know who michael is?"
0 likes"um I literally have no idea" I'm fucking WHEEZING jskdoxlsnwn
love!!!!
0 likesSo many Dodies! How can I tell you all apart?
0 likesAmazing
0 likesi anticipated this to be perf and i was not wrong
0 likesMichael is an archangel! One of God’s essentially-second-in-command, he was kinda in charge of the war stuff, which might explain him turning the ‘white snow red as strawberries’...
0 likesI've been blessed
1 likepraise god for dodie, amiright?
0 likesyou are my favorite human possibly ever
0 likesLol you know dang well that you got this from Pentatonix. You even did their arrangement.
0 likesLol Merry Christmas! :)
0 likesI thought your twin would be Hedy lmao
0 likesFLEET FOXES! YES!
0 likesJust wondering, if one of you live in London, which one in california? One of you have her ears pircied? Wich one lives with her father and wich one with her mother? (love da video <3)
0 likesPretty sure the story of tie ribbons round their necks so if they were to fall they could be found easier because of the contrasting colours of white and red. At least that's what I read from the pentatonix cover
0 likesQuick question: who originally sang this song? Because I thought it was PTX but then I thought it was just a cover
0 likesyou're the most adorable person living???????
0 likesF E E L I N G F E S T I V E
0 likesI LIVE YOU SO MUCH💗💗💗💗
0 likesThis is why I love you
0 likesMichael died he cracked his head in the snow 😂😂
0 likesPentatonix vibes ❤️❤️
0 likesFleet foxes wrote the song to not make any sense, which is very like them:)
0 likescuddles in blankets
0 likesYaaaaay.
MY SCHOOL HAD AN ASSEMBLY AND SANG THIS SONG TODAY WHAT
1 likeI talk to myself in the mirror a lot
0 likesMY DOdIE ILYSM
0 likesBelow is a comment from an account called Cat Spit a year ago which seems to answer the mystery behind the song :)
0 likesGreat speculations! Unfortunately, this beautiful song actually has a rather sad connotation. Here is what I believe the real meaning of the song is.
During the French Revolution, mobs of revolutionists beheaded those (such as royalty -- I'm sure you've heard of Marie Antoinette) who were against the revolution. Revolutionists would gather around the guillotines in "packs" to watch the beheadings. The fashion then was to wear high-collared coats, which may have appeared to "swallow" the individual. Also, I found a painting depicting a beheading scene in the French Revolution. The revolutionists in the illustration wore red scarves around their necks, perhaps to symbolize their loyalty to the revolution. Perhaps "Michael" didn't wear a red scarf or did not support the revolution, and thus he was quickly beheaded at the guillotine.
"I was following the pack all swallowed in their coats" -- someone was following the revolutionists on their way to the guillotine to behead those who opposed the movement. Perhaps this person was for the revolution and was a friend of Michael, or he too was on his way to the guillotine.
"With scarves of red tied 'round their throats" -- the revolutionists wore red scarves to symbolize their loyalty.
"To keep their little heads from falling in the snow" -- in order to keep from being beheaded, they wore the red scarves to show others that they were for the revolution.
"And I turned 'round and there you'd go, and Michael you would fall, and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime." -- Michael did not wear a scarf or did not support the revolution, and thus he was quickly beheaded.
Hope this answers some of the mystery!
k i know this song is from a while back but i was wondering if you could redo 'smile at the snow' or have a piano tutorial
0 likesI believe the song is about the French Revolution
0 likesLOVELY
0 likesYassssss dodie! (Also, Pentatonix anyone?)
0 likesi love you wow you’re beautiful
0 likesthe first time I heard this(pentatonix ) I was shocked like Michael are you OK are you still alive boy like you had to go and ruin the the snow for everyone didn't you also why is this a Christmas song!?!?
0 likesYESSSSSSSSS
0 likesBOY ITS FLEET FOXES
0 likesI wish I knew who Micheal was
0 likes❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
0 likesMORE MORE MORE MORE CRIMBUS COVERS
1 like"Who died" OUR AKITA. EvITA?
0 likesomg ur such a dork i love u
0 likesI think Michael is an angel or something
0 likesI missed you boo
0 likesthats the best beanie evar🍄
0 likesWhy are you so cute I can't
0 likesI’m fairly certain it’s a reference to Michael the angel in the Bible? Correct me if I’m wrong.
0 likesWhy is it so quiet
0 likesF for Michael
0 likesyES WHITE WINTER HYMNAL
0 likesLyrics?
0 likesHarmony~lishess
0 likeswow
0 likesYou can easily tell that this is fake she definitely edited the audio like she definitely did that
0 likesAnd your frog bit greg
0 likesI love you.
0 likesGood shit right here
0 likesMichael is one of the band member's brother!! : (
0 likesThis song is super dark
0 likesWhat she has a twin it am I missing what's going on?????
0 likesyessssssss
0 likesI thought and still think, the snowman died. The scarf holding its head up and bam it fell. I used to take red dye and kill my snowmen... maybe it’s not suppose to be that literal or morbid? Idk
0 likesBEST
0 likesi love u so much
0 likesPentatonix is shooook
0 likesPENTATONIX IS SHOOK
0 likesIsn't it out on tune?
0 likesI LUV
0 likesi love this song so much you don't realize how happy I am you did a cover of this!!
3 likesThis was adorable! This is one of my favorite winter songs <3
0 likesThis is one of my favorite songs of all time!!!!!!!! You did such a beautiful job!!!!! :))))))
0 likesIs it just me or her voice did really got stronger? I love it! I always did 💛✨
0 likesyou are so amazing at everything you do. i love you and am proud to say i've been watching you for 2 years now <3
0 likesThis is so cute! The mirror twin idea is genius, your outfit is perfect, the harmonies are beautiful. Marvellous as always.
0 likesI absolutely love this song. Im so glad you covered it. Only good feels from this song 😍
0 likesI'm so grateful for you 💘 thank you for giving me an escape from my depression through your videos. I hope you're doing okay.
0 likesI love the fleet foxes! She does this song so beautifully!!!
0 likesLITERALLY SINGING THIS IN MY HEAD ALL DAY, AND MAD I DIDNT KNOW THE NAME!! THEN ANGEL DODIE COMES WITH A COVER!! what a Santa 😄😄
0 likesFirstly you look gorgeous, secondly beautiful singing and thirdly amazing editing.
0 likesHoly shit I'm actually crying from the beauty of your voice. I love your cover of this song. This is one of my favourite songs and my choir is doing it and your take on it is leaving me speechless
0 likesFleet foxes and Dodie is a pretty great combo, I literally saw them in London a few weeks ago they were amazing ❤️
0 likesOmg I love this song! It’s one of our Christmas songs for choir this year. We’re performing it tomorrow and six of our members are doing the clapping thing.
0 likesI’m so in love with this it makes my chest hurt 😭💕
0 likesthis has always been one of my favorite crimbo songs! so glad you covered it!
0 likesSo good!!! I love this song and you were incredible!!!
0 likesThis is amazing Go dodie Go! ❤️✨
0 likesi’ve been obsessed with this song for a week and now dodie covers it ahhh my mind is blown
0 likesi was listening to all your christmas covers and i was craving for another one. woke up at 5 in the morning to listen to this and im in love. thankyouu dodie x
0 likesAll your videos just give me this incredible feeling of calmness and safety, like it lets my mind and body relax and focus on nothing but the moment and forget my buzzing mind and remember to breathe and everything feels okay and like nothing can hurt me and I love this feeling so much thank you dodie
0 likeshearing your voice I know everything will be ok love you dodi
0 likesthis is truly beautiful :')
0 likesyou’re so talented oh my god I love you dodie
0 likesDodie, I absolutely adore the way you create- you make it appear so effortless but my god is it flawless! Looooved this one x
0 likesI love this song! it's written by Fleet Foxes and the official video has really amazing claymation that tells a story and its just really cute.
0 likesIt's so good omg! I love both versions of this song (pentatonix and the original by fleet foxes)
0 likesOh my god, I saw this on my feed and died a little- one of my favorite songs, partly cause it’s so odd😂 I was NOT disappointed, this is my new favorite version of it!
0 likesGreat Fleet Foxes cover Dodie! Keep it up 👌
0 likesyou are just so talented and amazing i hope i meet you one day, merry christmas to you too :)
0 likesTHIS IS MY FAVE CHRISTMAS SONG!!! And apparently they just wrote it to sound nice with all the sounds and stuff your mouth makes and that’s why it’s so satisfying to listen to and I love it!! Literally don’t think they meant it to have any meaning but idk maybe they just haven’t shared the meaning but that’s what I remember from reading about it a couple of years ago bc I was interested
0 likesthis is so beautiful! i love it sm. ps: michael is an angel haha.
0 likesMY LORD........THIS SONG. IVE BEEN OBSESSED WITH IT FOR MONTHS!!!! Bless you dodie😍
0 likesThis is creative and beautiful 😍
0 likesthis is so lovely and such a neat visual too!
0 likesThis is beautiful❤
0 likesThis song fits her so well. This is truly a great song to listen to on a cold night.
0 likesThis truly made my day Dodie, you are such a gift in this world xx
0 likesThis is such a pretty song and I’m very glad u covered it
0 likesI love this so much💕
0 likesone of my favorite holiday songs. one of my favorite people year-round.
0 likesi love this song anyway (i first heard it by Birdy) and this cover was amazing
0 likestoday's been such a good day, and then it offically peaked when dodie released a new vid!! <333
0 likesno one can get me anything for christmas bc this is all I need and want forever and always heck dodie I love you
0 likesVery aesthetically pleasing, good job dodie (: also your twin has poor posture..js. though it clearly didn't affect your singing so excellent job once again this is a beautiful lil cover and it's nice to see that you're comfortable uploading again<3
0 likeslove this so much!!
0 likesThanks for this, it was just what I needed to keep me from losing my mind over biology homework.
0 likesI used to perform this in chorus during the winter time and I always assumed Michael turned the snow red due to a bloody nose from the dry, harsh winter air.
0 likesthis is actually pretty amusing, seeing my singing group at school is singing secret for mad, and we just got done with singing white winter hymnal :)
0 likesYesss!! I love this song!
0 likesOkay wasn’t feeling really happy and Christmas-y today but if there’s anything that can make my mood do a complete 180 it’s festive Dodes ❤️🌲
0 likesHow are all of your videos so aesthetically pleasing?
0 likesThis made the whole rest of my year, honestly
0 likesok tbh dodie u r the best ur harmony in this is honestly the best thing i've ever heard and it is like all a capella which just shows how freaking amazing your voice is thanks for your awesome content <3
0 likesI AM SO HAPPY YOU DID THIS
0 likesThis is beautiful
2 likesyes queen just the bit of holiday I needed <3
0 likesBeautiful😍🤗
0 likesPlease sing lower songs more often, it sounds really great
0 likesMy favourite Christmas song sung by my favourite singer.
0 likesBest Christmas present ever
This was beautiful
0 likesYES
1 likealso.... coincidence! Im going to sing with my choir in an hour
I love this :)
1 likeI sang this at carol service last year with my choir
0 likes"medy christmas" 😹 I love dodie 💛
0 likesi will played this amazing cover for christmas day
0 likesi promise.
We’re singing this in choir!
0 likescan you imagine if dodie and lisa mitchell did a song together I would explode
0 likesthis is so good dodie the heck i want it on the big big "main" channel
0 likesThe story I believe is from the writers childhood? The song he said was about a time when his friends ditched him in middle school. I have no idea how it correlates but that’s what I heard. Gorgeous cover, by the way! 😂👏🏻
0 likesIM SHOOK HECK YES DODIE I LOVE YOU 😭😭😭😭
0 likesI love your twin shes supa cool👌🏼
0 likesTwo new songs in two weeks
0 likesThis is a perfect winter now
THIS IS SO GOOD DODIE WE LOVE YOU VVVVV MUCH!!!!!!!
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BUT SIDE QUESTION?? Could someone tell me what in the living head this song is about?? It seems really interesting.
0 likesYES! Fleet Foxes cover! :)
0 likesIt's not Christmas until dodie starts her Christmas covers
0 likesand I'm highkey so excited for more dodie Christmas music, honestly MAKE A CHRISTMAS EP
Giving me serious Pentatonix vibes I LOVE SO MUCH
0 likesI'm doing this song in chorus!!
0 likesI have actual goosebumps yes queen
0 likesUm this is literally perfection lol
0 likesThose harmonies are indescribable!!
0 likesAbout the meaning of the song: a while back, after finding this song through Pentatonix, I got really curious because it´s such a cute little song but the lyrics sound so dark, but what I found was that Fleet Foxes apparently said the lyrics were ¨fairly meaningless¨ and that they just created it for the sound or something, which I thought was pretty funny (after me and my mom and sis spent ages throwing out theories about the meaning). So yeah, apparently there isn´t really any meaning behind it. I think it´s just up to the interpretation of each person.
0 likesOh my god dodie you’re SO CUTE😘💛
0 likesI LOVE THIS SONG
0 likesI LOVE THIS SONG
0 likeslove this song
0 likesHow are you so great? Like is this even real?
0 likesI love this song omg (also I think Michael is the angel)
0 likesDodie you're a beautiful mashroom (great hat...? Cap? Idk...) with angelic voice
0 likeslove fleet foxes <3
0 likes"Who died?" is the exact question I ask myself every time I hear this song. Why did someone write this?
0 likesi have bad memories associated with this song but because of you singing it so calmly i finally have the courage to sing it aloud with you
0 likesThis song is so wierd but I love it 😘 to make it less creepy: think of them as foxes and hunters and it being about "the circle of life" (starts singing lion king)
0 likesI love you Dodie!! You are very beautiful!!!!!!!
0 likesThe best video i ever seen ❤
0 likesHow do you do split screen?!?like OMG it’s so cool!😂🙈
0 likesi lOoOoOve this song, ty dodie!!!! also r.i.p michael!!!!!
1 likethis is wonderful
0 likesMy mind pictured the “front” dodie as the high part and the mirror dodie as the low
0 likesif dodie had a twin. i prolly gonna die. i ll take them both for sure
0 likesThis is my favorite christmas song
0 likesAaaaaaAAAA beautiful!!
0 likesI LEGIT WAS SINGING THIS IN CHOIR WHEN YOU POSTED IT
0 likesThis sounds like heaven
0 likesWe're singing this song in my choir! We're doing the Penatonix (sorry idk how to spell their name) hand movements
0 likes( 0:47 - 1:00 ) oh my god my ears have been blessed😍
0 likesI sung this two years ago!
0 likesKillling it
0 likesWE ARE SINGING THIS IN CHOIR OMGGG
0 likesi heard that the fleet foxes just wanted to make something upbeat that sounded a bit like "whistle while you work" but then they added these sad lyrics to convey a loss of innocence that people get around growing up. so yeah. no murder, guys!
0 likesdamn.. i love dodie <3 xx
0 likesI LIVE FOR CHRISTMAS TIME DODIE
0 likesFLEET FOXES IS MY FAVOURITE BAND
0 likesim cracking up at the end lmao
0 likesSo lovely holy crap
0 likesPUT THIS ON SPOTIFYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
0 likesU ARE SO CREATIVE AND CLEVER WOW
0 likesweirdly enough,, my school's chorus sang this 🙊😂
0 likesThis need to be posted on your main
0 likesI LOVE THIS FROM PENTATONIX AND U SANG IT AND IM GONNA DIE
0 likesI think you may regret that little tongue gif in the future xD
0 likesOk so it's dodie with her "twin" but there are three voices an I going insane or
0 likesI mean it's really good though
Oof- I love her so much
0 likesMe and my sister use to call this song the little head song when we were younger because we could never remember the real name
0 likesWe’re doing this in our school Christmas concert huzzah
0 likesFor people confused (like me)
0 likesFleet Foxes songwriter Robin Pecknold revealed to Rolling Stone that his songs are "written from personal experience,” including “Hymnal,” which was about a time when his friends ditched him in middle school. The lyrics might have been about childhood past, but the melody came from a familiar source — namely, Walt Disney. “The idea was a song like “Whistle While You Work,” from Snow White, you know?” Pecknold said. “So it started with that very beginning thing, the first kind of like, melody. And then once the verse was done, it just seemed like it lent itself to the repetition, you know?”
Also another article said the lyrics were intentionally vague and pretty much meaningless so who knows😂
You are a literal saint
0 likesmy ears have been blessed
0 likesdodieee please like this comment and if you do I just want to say your freakin adorable and I’m a huge fan
3 likesheart is actually smiling
0 likesmake a christmas album
0 likesTHANK YOU SO MUCH
0 likesyou're extraordinary
0 likesOk so according to my choir teacher micheal is the song writers best friend who changed from being this innocent elementary kid to like an addict, I COULD BE WRONG PLEASE DONT ATTACK ME LOL
0 likesI freaked out at first about the mirror thing lol
0 likesdodieee, shouldn't you aLSO be promoting You EP in the description box? 😂
0 likesJust realized how morbid this song is . . . thanks dodie
0 likesMy childhood best friend was called Michael <3 bare emosh
0 likesMy ears are blessed
0 likeshow did dodie do the mirror thing?
0 likesLovely
0 likesOMG YES!!!!
0 likesWait rly or was that just good editing to make it look like you have a twin
0 likesFavorite song, favorite you.
0 likesDamn I thought this might be a vid with Shannon v good anyway much much love✨
0 likesI think the singer in the band has said that it's a fairly meaningless song about when they were kids, although there are some pretty interesting theories out there!
0 likesYou are my obsession love of my life
0 likes;^; of course, first snow of the year and I got a cool cover too
0 likesi assume when they’re talking about micheal they mean the angel but idk
0 likes💛
0 likesWhat is this song called? I lovveee it
0 likesGLORY GLORY HALLELUJAH
0 likesOMG THIS REMINDS ME OF PTX
0 likesohmygooood i literally want to marry u ♥♥♥
0 likesWhat can I do to get a "HEART"
0 likesThe only reason I know this song is fleet foxes
0 likesnot gonna lie, thought the title said winter winter thermal at first and was very confused after clicking the video.
0 likesIly and u make my mad a soo much better to my heart
0 likes💛💛☀️💛⭐️🌙🌙
0 likes1:43 godamnit dodie what are you doin hun
0 likes"who died?
0 likesOur Akita!
Evita?
Bet this took a shitload of time to edit
0 likesmakes me think of ptx
0 likesThroughout the video, I thought it was Heather on the background
0 likesMissed youuu
0 likesThis has me mcfucked up
0 likesYESSSS
0 likesMUSHROOM BEANIE where is the bell coat xp
0 likesCute as a button
0 likesBut the real question is who is Michael?
0 likesyou're cute ❣️
0 likesFLEEEEET FOOOOOXEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS MMMMMMMMMMmmmMMmmmMMmMMMMMMMMMM-
0 likesI love you so very much you are best person ever ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod
0 likesThe song actually has no meaning. The original writers of the song, Fleet foxes just said that they came up with it and know that there will be numerous questions about it because of how interesting it is, but there isn’t actually a meaning loo
0 likesI MISSED U SO MUCH
0 likesWow.
0 likesI LOVE FLEET FOXES FUCK
0 likesit's about the Russian Revolution and the Archangel Michael
0 likesA song about me!!!! Lol jkjk
0 likesWhy is Intertwined advertised in the description but not YOU?
0 likesI like it. :) and I like you
0 likestHe onLY MiChaEL i kNoW iS MiCheAL mELL
0 likesYESYESYESYESYES
1 likeyour twin is really creepy
0 likesWho died? 😂
0 likes"who died"
0 likesProbs Michael
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Bahah I'm funny and nobody sees it
0 likespoor michael oof
0 likesI think it's Micheal that died. Still don't know who Micheal was.
0 likesMICHAEL IN THE BATHROOM
0 likesFor fuck sake, this humming is so fucking cute
0 likesily omg
0 likestwo dodies better than one.
0 likesthis is not accurate in anyway seen as i couldn't find any proof of it but "Michael" is another name for Jesus Christ? so idk, it could be something? however Robin Pecknold (the writer) said "It's lyrically fairly meaningless. As an introduction to the record, (this was intended to be the opening track on the album), we thought it would be nice to start it with a simple jam that's focussed on singing - on the record it starts with a tongue-in-cheek harmony thing that we hoped would make people laugh or something but I think it just confuses them. This is my favorite song to play live, though singing it live is sometimes difficult because the lyrics are so vague. Weird how that works!" :)
0 likesMaybe indicate that it's a Fleet Foxes song... It's not anonymous and you probably wouldn't like somebody covering one of your songs without mentioning that it's yours.
0 likesMerry Chrism
0 likeswhy did i think she was gonna sing michael in the bathroom i hate myself
0 likesdodieception
0 likesAhhhhhh <3334
0 likesI LOVE U
0 likesoh you were following the eye?
0 likesI have been singing this all winter, that was really beautiful <3
1 likeONCE AGAIN A CINNAMON ROLL HAS BRIGHTENED UP MY DAY
1 likeTHANK YOU DODDIE YOU ARE LITERALLY AN AMAZING SINGER
💕💕
2 of dodie, singing 3 or more parts I LOVE THIS DODIE THANK YOU!
1 likeLots of people I know say I'M your twin! I'm offended that I've been replaced :(
3 likesSidenote: this was creepy and awesome
this is so soothing.. i love your voice and the harmonies in this song. this is both relaxing and also festive, which is honestly what i needed on this yucky december day. thank you for this ♡
0 likesThis was so lovely, thank you for blessing us with such a beautiful cover
0 likesi love this so much!!!! dodie, you're so incredible!!! i'm VERY heart eyes!!! ❣️
0 likesWow, I love this song. You’re so talented Dodie.
0 likesI love this part of Year when all dodie does is wonderful Christmas covers!!!
0 likesi'm watching this, purple fluffy socks resting on my toes, warm linen duvet over my head and snow falling outside my window, praying for a snow day
1 likethank you dodie for making it even more magical
This is ALL I've ever wanted. I can die happy now that my fave girl has covered my fave wintery song.
0 likesBeautiful cover ❤️ love this and you
0 likesAaah, that was so cute, Ioved it!! Having a twin in the mirror like that is very creative~! You always make me smile ; v ;
0 likesi just finished your book today and i am absolutely obsessed with it. thank you for writing such lovely words.
0 likeswe did this for our choir concert last year and I still have the clapping memorized! this song makes me so nostalgic and you did a lovely job
0 likesBeautiful rendition dodes I love it :)
0 likesyour voice makes my heart all warm <3
0 likesI was panicking so much about my driving test tomorrow, but listening to this song and taking a few breaths helped me so much. Thank you for such a gorgeous song Dodie!
0 likesSong sounds super lovely, also your hat is great ❤
0 likesWe sand this in choir and I got so excited when I saw this video 😍 I wanna hear her on raido
0 likesThis song used to scare me when I was little but it's so fun to sing along to :)
0 likesi've only ever heard the fleet foxes (is that right? I think so) version before but this is just soooo beautiful. I'm in love
0 likesIf this was on Spotify it would go on my holiday playlist so fast
0 likesAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA I LOVE THIS SO MUCH THO i mean the lyrics are kinda sad but just anything that is said in your voice is beautifulllll I LOVE YOU DODIE i love youuuu xxxxx
2 likesI was just reading your book and then you post this! Fleet Foxes is one of my favourite bands and this was the first song I heard by them, this is too good to be true c:
0 likesWe sang this in choir last year it was so beautiful
0 likesThis is my favorite winter song and my favorite artist 👌🏻👏🏻💛
0 likesyou never fail to impress me 💓
0 likesI’m so happy now I can listen to both yours and ptx’s versions of one of my favorite Christmas songs aHHhHh
0 likesnice song you have such a soothing beautiful voice I love your book
0 likesYES THANKS SO MUCH FOR THIS
0 likesTHIS IS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL
So nicely done <3
0 likesDODIE YOUR VOICE IS LIKE A BIG, GIANT BOWL OF CANDY FOR MY EARS I LOVE YOU SO MUCH THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU AND INSPIRING ME
0 likesnever clicked so hard in my life THIS IS MY FAV HOLIDAY SONG
0 likesps i've missed you Dodie
This is so beautiful!!
0 likesThis gets me into the christmas spirit!
1 likeI love this and i love you, you're a cute lil genius in a cute lil bobble hat that deserves so much more credit for your content
0 likesThis was so cool!! 💖
0 likesTHIS IS MY FAVORITE CHRISTMAS SONG OH MY GOD DODIE I LOVE YOU
0 likesI love it so much ❤
0 likesONE OF MY FAVOURITES AND MY ANGEL COVERED IT
0 likesWell I'll be putting this on repeat for the rest of winter lol
0 likesI love your voice & harmonies so fucking much! 😍
0 likesWe sing this in a chorus and we sound like we are dying but this is a just pure beauty.
0 likesdodie, this is one of my favourite songs and you are one of my favourite youtubers in existence...how could you?!?! ^^ <3 <3 <3 <3
0 likesOMG MY FAVORITE CHRISTMAS SONG ❤️
0 likesPlease do a Christmas album!
0 likesMy new obsession is joining in on the harmony and making it a 4 part harmony ahhhh it's so fun
0 likesI'm super proud of your new song on your main channel!
0 likesLiterally one of my favorite songs
0 likesit's originally a fleet foxes song. absolutely amazing
0 likeshey dodie!! you said you didn’t know what the song was about- so I’ll tell you how I interpreted it!!
1 likeI think it’s about the French Revolution. Everyone’s making their was to the guillotine, and many are wearing red scarves to show they are pro-revolution, as to not get their heads cut off. then this michael person was guillotined and his blood turned the snow “red as strawberries in the summertime” :) hope this helped. I’m not sure if this is totally right but after analyzing it- this is what I came up with!!
this is so lovely i'm gonna cry
0 likesYou just saved me so much stress 😂 I was trying to figure out the name of that song!
0 likesso calming and lovable, awh
0 likesMade my night ❤
0 likesthis shot is so particular! i love it. also that fluffy beanie is HUGE! i also love it!
0 likesand finally, the song is so ominous...i love it.
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update: i researched about the song because i loved the harmonies and wanted to learn more about it and i was surprised to learn that's by fleet foxes! i thought it was an ancient song handed down generation to generation for centuries. turns out it's not, it's from 2008.
0 likesthe singer of fleet foxes said that the lyrics are fairly meaningless and the track it's just supposed to be a lil' exercise in style, of their singing and their vibe.
anyway i'm obsessed now and i'm going to listen to it until my head doesn't fall off like poor michael's.
That EDITING is so impressive
0 likesfor those of you who've been asking, and Dodie, my mother, I love you, Michael was an angel. I'm a Buddhist so idk why he was super significant but he was one of the big important ones like Lucifer and such
0 likesOh we missed you dodie. Love you 😘
0 likesomfg im literally singing this song in my acapella group
0 likesapparently according to fleet foxes there's literally no meaning to the song. they made it nonsense on purpose but wanted it to sound pretty?? so there's that!
i really appreciate this video. especially the tongue movement near the end.
0 likesDodie is my queen 👑 Best Christmas present ever!!!
0 likesmy last month of 2017 is complete because of this new vid from dodie!!
0 likesWow this made my entire existence as a human. Thank you.
0 likesWE LITERALLY JUST DID THIS FOR OUR CHORUS PERFORMANCE AT SCHOOL. WE ALSO DID THE HAND CLAP PATTERN THING. YOU ARE AMAZING😍
0 likesPerfection 💕
0 likeslistening to this is like sipping hot cocoa while watching the snow fall, while elves give you a foot massage and Santa Claus stuffs jams cookies in your face lovingly...
0 likeslol I don't know I live in a tropical country, what even is snow
PREEEETTTTTY PLEASE update patron soon! I adore this song and now it’s even better the you’ve made a cover
0 likesdodie i bought your book 2 weeks ago and woowoww wowowowo wow, dodie your book is amazing. do you know that feeling when you youve just absorbed something really moving or inspiring thats given you crazy epiphanies or like when you've had a really strange vivid dream, and everything around you looks different, as if you shifted into an alternate dimension for a a little while?? that happened but in like a really refreshing way. i know this sounds super weird but i dont know how else to describe it. i just learned so much about so many things, and when i finished it i felt so connected and warm and i started to underline my favorite quotes and paragraphs. its just so good, im so glad this a work of text like that exists in the world now.
0 likesOH MY GOSH I LOVE THIS SONG
0 likesJust when you thought you couldn’t get enough dodie now there are twooooo
1 likeyes i fucking love fleet foxes and this is my favorite song yessss💕💕💕 thank you sm!
0 likesThis is beautiful
0 likesWow where'd you find her!? She looks and sounds exactly like you!
0 likesWe sing this song in my a cappella group and our nicknames for it are white winter nipple, white jimmy kimmel, and the combo of the two, white kimmel nipple. Much love to you my dodes 💛💛
0 likesi hate the fact that you're too perfect for me. im like nothing at all :")
0 likesEvery song sounds the same with her... just because it’s acapella doesn’t mean it’s good guys :/
1 likeBeautiful.
0 likesfuck i have always loved this song and equally had no idea wth it was about lmao i just listened to this like twelve times trying to find the original melody line, the harmonies were crazy good
0 likesyou should make a christmas album boiiii🎄
0 likesThis is the most pleasant thing I've ever heard.
0 likesYes winter songs are back❤
0 likesi waited smiling for this and it was worth it
0 likesThis is like getting Christmas injected directly into your veins
0 likesthis is what i call art
0 likesLol my choir called marians did this song last year and we did crazy hand movements and stuff and it was lit AF. Just yesterday my choir teacher reminded us of it!
0 likesThat harmony thoooooooo!
0 likesI MIGHT ACTUALLY CRY, I DIDN'T THINK ANYONE COULD DO THIS SONG BETTER THAN PENTATONIX, I STAND CORRECTED
0 likesbeautiful, just beautiful
0 likesWow when is she releasing a Christmas album
0 likesWhy do you have to be so good ?
0 likesYeaaaa I knew it
0 likesYesterday I said to 'oh its christmas time, dodie will sing agaaaain'
I love this sm
0 likesDODIE I GOT YOUR BOOL I BLOODY LOVE IT!!
0 likesThis song is somewhat macabre :’)
0 likesTHIS IS MY FAVORITE SONG
0 likesI actually gasped when I saw this in my subscriptions FECK I love white winter hymnal
0 likesI love it
0 likesHow is 1 person so perfect? How is it possible?
0 likesI LOVE THIS SONG YES
0 likesSo magical
0 likesIt's 1AM but this is more important than sleep
0 likesPerson: Who’s good editor
0 likesMe: DODIE! shows video
I thought the title of this was "white winter hymen" I was like woah dodie get that checked out please
0 likesVery nice :)
0 likesYou make me so happy
0 likesYES I LOVE FLEET FOXES
0 likesTHIS IS SO PRETTY WHAT
1 likeso fun fact the girls in my choir are singing this song and we looked it up it's about the Russian revolution! kinda weird but yep! the scarves were to show that they supported it and if they didnt their heads were cut off! yep weird :DDD
0 likesbeauty at its finest
0 likeswho needs to do homework when you have have this
0 likesthis👏has👏blessed👏my👏ears
0 likesdodie is so beautiful
0 likesI JUST FOUND A COVER OF THIS BY PENTATONIX AND IVE BECOME OBSESSED WITH IT AND LIKE TWO WEEKS LATER YOU POST A COVER TOO W O W I HAVE THE BEST LUCK
0 likesShe looks so pretty in the thumbnail and now I'm angry
2 likesYES! I am so happy!
0 likesI was literally just watching pentatonix's version of this song and I died seeing the notification
0 likesAmazing
1 likeMY FAVOURITE SONG
0 likesDamn I missed you <3
0 likesI lOVe THIS SONG!
0 likesYour twin is pretty cute
0 likesqueen of acappela cloning melancolic christmases
0 likesThe lyrics are so disturbing but dodie singing it make a it sound soothing.
0 likesThose 17 dislikes are just jealous of the angle in that video
0 likesI’m in love
0 likesDodie omg I love you
0 likesThere’s actually no history to this song, The lyrics of the song are completely made up to sound nice-
0 likesLead singer and songwriter Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes (from Daytrotter): "It's lyrically fairly meaningless. As an introduction to the record, (this was intended to be the opening track on the album), we thought it would be nice to start it with a simple jam that's focussed on singing - on the record it starts with a tongue-in-cheek harmony thing that we hoped would make people laugh or something but I think it just confuses them. This is my favorite song to play live, though singing it live is sometimes difficult because the lyrics are so vague. Weird how that works!"
❤️❤️❤️
this is my aesthetic
0 likesEditing sorcery!
0 likessong is by fleet foxes for anyone wondering!
0 likesPlot twist. it truly her twin that we never knew about
0 likesWTF THIS IS SO WEIRD IVE BEEN LISTENING TO THIS SONG FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS AGAIN AND TODAY MY TEACHER PLAYED IT NOW YOU WTH
1 likeadorable
0 likesAs for where the song came from: the person who wrote lyrics are fairly meaningless and it was meant as an introduction to record and if I would be nice to start with a simple song that’s because I’m singing. It is the first single from fleet foxes debut 2008 album.
0 likesWhat's better than one dodie? Two dodies! Duh.
0 likesWhy's it gotta be a white winter?!?!
0 likes1:45 nooo second Dodie, don't cross the split screen you'll disappearr
0 likesNotification squad 😍😍😍 so perfect 🙈
0 likesLyrics:
0 likesI was following the [8x]
I was following the pack
All swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
I was following the pack
All swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
I was following the pack
All swaddled in their coats
With scarves of red tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From fallin' in the snow
And I turned 'round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime
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Just copied this off of google. It’s more than she actually sings.
0 likesCAN I HAVE THIS MIRROR WITH SINGING DODIE?
0 likespossibly creepy compliment: Dodie has a nice mouth
0 likesWHY ARE YOU SO CUTE
1 likei've never heard this song before and i thought it was gonna be super cute maybe religious christmas hymn but instead its about little michael staining the snow red bc his head fell off????? what the fuck????
0 likesthe real question is, who's micheal?
0 likeswho died?
micheal jackson. too soon? lol
Michael is the angelic name of Adam, so I think that this song talks about the Fall of Adam and Eve, dooming man to mortality sort of thing; and thats why he turned the snow red. There's a scripture talking about our sins being red as scarlet, and being turned as white as snow (cuz of Christ's atomic sacrifice), so that's probably what the other lyrics are referring to.
0 likesThis song needs a trigger warning
0 likesDodie is such a fucking goddess, oml.
0 likesthe song is about the french (or russian?) revolution! the “pack” is people who wore red scarves to show loyalty and those who did not were beheaded. michael i think is just a person who apparently was beheaded, and the blood turned the snow turned red.
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((i think))
0 likesi’ve also heard that “michael u” was the name of the guillotine they used but that could be bs who know
0 likesyay another Christmas song
0 likes😍
0 likesPentatonix vibes!!
0 likes💛💛💛
0 likesahajjssj you’re so amazing
0 likesthanks this reminds me of my ex ha ha ha
0 likesdont lie we all know this song from pentatonix not fleet foxes
0 likesFLEET FOXES YESSS
0 likespretty!
0 likes❤❤❤💖💖💖💛💛💛💙💙💙
0 likesSOSO CUTE
0 likesIt's about the French revolution
1 likeFleet foxes!!!!!!!!!!!!!
0 likessobs i love fleet foxes and u
1 likei’m p sure this song has to do w the french revolution
0 likesgoddamnit dodie
0 likesLove it!!! But why is this song called a hymnal???? A hymnal isn't a song... It's a book that contains hymns. And a hymn
0 likestoday i was thinking about if you would upload and HERE YOU ARE
0 likesNice song nice hat nice sing
0 likesYASSSS BeBE
0 likesI LOVE YOU
0 likesI thought it was gonna b a video with hedy lol
0 likeshow your day been my love?
1 likeWhomst is micheal? Idk
2 likesFleet foooooooxeeeeeeeessssss
0 likesThat chunky knit hat
0 likesUMMMMMFFFF YES
0 likesi'm so confuse with the editing :p
0 likessee you in belfast march 20!!
0 likescollab with PTX
1 likei ship Dodie and Dodie
0 likesWOWOWOWOOWOWOWOWOWOWOW
0 likesFleet foxes ayeeee
0 likesplease be hedy!
0 likesWHO IS MICHEL THAT IS THE QUESTION EVERYONE ASKS
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We shall never know
0 likesnice
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0 likesMichael is the guy who fell out of the back of a truck and he died
0 likesU look a bit like momo in the thumbnail
0 likesDid this song in school last year
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Great job lol
0 likesEdit: that sounded sarcastic I didn’t mean it like that lmao 😂
The song is about someone who wears a scarf the keep there head on there neck and someone takes off there scarfs and there head falls of and turns the snow red with blood
2 likesI could be very wrong, but I think this song is about the French Revolution. Revolutionists would wear red scarves around their necks, and if removed they would be persecuted (most often punished by death -- "and Michael you would fall, and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime"). Again, I could be remembering this wrong
0 likeswhat song??
0 likesi️ think the song means michael the archangel??? but i don’t know.
0 likesMmmmMMMMmmmmmmmmMM Christmas.
0 likeswOW what a qt
0 likesIM SO GAY JFC
0 likesIs Michael ok?
0 likescHRISTMAS IS HERE
0 likesmichael as in michael clifford
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