Favourite Music Video

My favourite music video at the moment is this – a beautiful animation of Freddie Mercury’s Love Me Like There’s No Tomorrow. The song is about wanting to end a relationship in a good way, knowing that the relationship has to end, and the animatic takes the meaning of the song and applies it (aptly) to the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. Freddie himself died of complications from AIDS, and the animatic tells a horrible story that was so common at the time – a person, dying from AIDS, and his partner, both desperate to find help. In the ’80s, many people (often gay men) died preventable deaths from AIDS, AIDS complications, and poor treatment from everyone – and were ostracized and avoided, due to the homophobia of the time and the misguided belief that the disease was airborne. I find this video extremely saddening and even more so upon deeper reflection to the fact that elements of it are true.

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