Few songs are able to evoke different emotions when heard, depending on what you were feeling at the time. Besides this, there are so many talented people out of the spotlight that create (usually) even better music than those who are more popular / famous artists. Tyler Ward is one of them:
When I first watched this video, I focused more on the clips of the people rather than the music - a first for me. But I think it was a great idea for Tyler to choose this method as a platform this song. Allowing people to express and share their weaknessess and insecurities helps everyone, including them, come to accept their situation, learn that others are dealing with the same things as them, and hopefully find a solution.
After watching the video's clips, I closed my eyes and concentrated on the music and lyrics. I thought the clips were already pretty inspirational, but I imagine just listening to the song would probably make me feel a whole lot better if I were in a bad mood.
Inspirational songs are hard to come by. So many songs now have no emotion, written by others for an artist that may or may not have gone through the same situation, and therefore not have experienced the same emotion as the song requires to make it effective. Even if the emotion is there, sometimes after watching the video, the song becomes less of an inspiration for me. It's sad.
However, there are exceptions. This, for one, rescued me from accepting this sterotype to be fact.
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