Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago

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Listen- Look- If you squint a little bit, these songs could absolutely be referencing the same event.

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Dance With Me, Sad Machine is a mashup unlike most of my other mashups (and it's the reason why I haven't really been uploading too many to my channel at the moment.) It's a combination of two of my fiancé's favorite songs, and two songs that are my absolute favorites as well. A long time ago, we talked about what is sort of "Our Song" and these were the two major contenders. In the end, we settled on Shut Up and Dance as "Our Song" because, and I quote, "Sad Machine is a sad song."
To which now I'm here and ready to give the hottest of takes here: What if Sad Machine and Shut Up and Dance are just the /same/ song? One's more melancholic, concerned with the past and worried about the future to come. However, there's an underlying tone, a meaning that's lost behind the fears of tomorrow and a line of dialogue that's complimented by the other. The other that says screw the future, screw where we were, and screw where we're going; the most important thing is the here and now. Right now, you took my hand. Right now, you reawakened me again. Right now, right here, and for the foreseeable future: I'll depend on you.

Dude, this is the second time I've typed out an absolute unit of a paragraph for these Youtube descriptions, yeesh. I promise, I'm a funny haha one sentence of description kind of person.

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Massive and special thanks to Lizzie for drawing the art in this video! She went above and beyond for this and I massively appreciate it!
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