This is the video of the song “Hoppipolla” of Sigur ros, an Icelandic
post-rock band. Hoppipolla means “jumping
into a puddle” and talks about how simple life is when you are a child how you
can have fun with simple things like spinning in circles, getting dirty, having
imaginary adventures, jumping into puddles, making mischief no matter what, how
the time passes by very slow playing with friend and how much you enjoyed it. I love the fact that the song talks about
childhood, but in the video we can watch old people playing as children and
having a lot of fun, and that makes me thing of how we still having a child
within us, and sometimes we forget that, that child is the spark that makes us
enjoy life and makes us see things in a different special way, like children
do.
I have to admit that I spend a month loving this song without knowing
what it was about (because it’s in Icelandic), but it makes me feel something
anyway because of the melody and video as well. Sigur ros have a lot of songs
like this one with good melodies that make you think and feel a lot, without
knowing what they are talking about, they even once released an album that
included songs in an invented unreadable language in a way of challenging
people to feel their music as they want, so now I invite you to hear another
songs of Sigur ros and just hear them, because to me they are sometimes a cure
for the soul.
Hope you enjoy it :)
