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The Official Video for Desire by Years & Years featuring Tove Lo. Directed by Fred Rowson. Special thanks to actress Cara Horgan.
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Lyrics
I must be tough
I must behave, I must keep fighting
Don't give it up
I want to keep us compromising (ooh, woah)
Open your arms and pray to the truth that you're denying
Give in to the game
To the sense that you've been hiding
Where are you taking me?
I can't be blamed
I want you to want me again
Is it desire, or is it love that I'm feeling for you?
I want desire
'Cause your love only gets me abused
Chasing that rush
I need to show you what you've been missing
And give me your touch
All of your love is not forbidden
Where are you taking me?
I can't be blamed
I want you to want me again
Is it desire, or is it love that I'm feeling for you?
I want desire
'Cause your love only gets me abused
Is it desire (is it desire), or is it love that I'm feeling for you?
I want desire
I wanna see what you're willing to lose
Taking, pretending you're nothing but giving
Making me lose my cool
Faking my love game, baby, we're the same
Heart turned from good to cruel
You know that you've got me
You've loved me down
You tell me you want me now
Is it desire (it desire), or is it love that I'm feeling for you?
I want desire (I want desire)
'Cause your love only gets me abused
Is it desire (is it desire), or is it love that I'm feeling for you (that I'm feeling for you)?
I want desire
I wanna see what you're willing to lose (oh, what you're willing to lose)
#YearsAndYears
How long can I listen to this song? For years and years
Most original comment
trueeee
+DragonPhlegm hahha lol
Lol yeah
+DragonPhlegm Wow, I'm seeing you everywhere!
I DID NOT SEE THOSE TWO KISSES COMING WOW
SAME
Yh I thought he was gay not bisexual
He is gay, but he's an actor so he can kiss girls without having any romantic feelings towards them...
+Little lodger he is gay... This is just for the video.
I did lol
2021. If you're here, you're a legend.
I am 😏
Olly is the legend..la!!
Yes I am
We are all legends from 🏴🏴 😎🔊🔊
Big tune still 🏴🏴🔊🔊
2022. This song still brings me joy
Yessssss
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Yes, and he performed it yesterday at his concert in Wembley it was awesome 😍
Me too
Yes
Years & Years & Troye need a collab and my life will be complete and over!
That would be hella amazing 😍
Please
+Learie Barry !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THEY'VE MET THO. Troye is mates with Olly
Ali-A haha yess trolly :3
I love how everyone is going crazy in the orgy and then there's this one guy having a chill conversation at 3:20. He's my favorite.
😂omg I didn't notice
@@lew9894 too haha it's so funny😂😂😂
hes asexual and an icon
Fauna OMG I DIDNT EVEN NOTICE THAT 😂😂😂
'tis the platonic type o love.
2024 anyone?
Cheers!!
Yeah for that pantyxbrief edit
Yeee And excited for him to be in Eurovision!!!
Let me explain the dudes from the 3:20 minute. They represent asexuality, that's why they are just chilling while the others are having an orgy. In the video we can see drags, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, etc. What I'm trying to say is the orgy is the representation of all the sexual orientations, and Olly represents the doubt about it (bc in the video he's not sure about his sexuality). The woman in the red dress is just the feeling of desire that we all have.
Asexual, you mean their not interested in what everyone else doing, I'm just like them fuck that asexual term.
drag is not a sexual orientation
@@sensemmosta8019 my bad, i just meant to say all kinds of expressions
@@ellabibby8165 facts!!!
@Summer Sav bisexual is still a valid sexuality. not everyone who is bisexual chooses to identify as pan
WHO ELSE THINKS YEARS&YEARS SHOULD COLLAB WITH TROYE SIVAN???!
YASSSSS
+sofia C. O/
ME
YEEEESSS
YES
I love this video. No sexual orientation. No hate or discrimination.. People of all races are here.
diversity amirite?
Seems like forced non-discrimination
Konrad film studio huh
You need God, because you don't know what this song and video representing
@@dejavucic4864 you don't own the artistic interpretation of the video ;)
8 years?!!!!! Ohmygodness. 2024 and still loving it !!!🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Cheers!!
I love this song. Found it by mistake. Definitely my 2024 jam
Congrat and welcome to the family!
Olly and Tove Lo' s voices mix so perfectly
not my opinion i think ollys voice is too good in comparison with tove los voice.
I love them both, I agree.
Both are great,very talented and charismatic!!!
The lyrics are really goodddddd and the video is also good
I like both, prefer Olly. I just don't like how their voices mix oddly. I also think the solo version is better because I think someone else would've made more sense for the ft. I'd say the same thing if it were like Troye Sivan and Tove Lo. I think Olly should've done this with someone who was at least a little more different musically or vocally than him. Florence Welch or Kimbra or Jess Glynne or Christine & The Queens, Beth Ditto would also be interesting.
This is the family friendly content I subscribed for.
Idiot
Pajama Donuts there is no family friendly content
@@ogsunnyaayan4216 that's the point
@@ogsunnyaayan4216 r/wooooosh
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Rediscovering this in 2024! Still good
August 2023. Heard this song at the arcade yesterday and remembered how much I loved this song.
Just rediscovered this gem like u did. Singing out loud to it at the moment!
This looks like it's an advertisement for Kanye's spring clothing line.
😂
Agree
+gigi black Brilliant! hahaaa
ah ha
omg yes yes
For me the video isn't about 'sex sells'. In the start he's taken and finds himself 'confused' and you see him kneeling while the others are bowing like slaves or conforming to 'societies norms' i.e. that everyone is straight etc. they're surrounding him (the dancers) and forming him or moulding him into what they thing he should be. this is like society and some teachers in schools, religion, families and friends etc. Then you see him walk down the corridor and he appears tired and drained because he can't live that way or the way society expects he should be as a person anymore. he gets to the door and he realises he is free to express himself how ever he wants, and with whoever he wants. AS HE SHOULD!! The video is about your sexual identity and about emotional and sexual expression of love. not just throwing sex in your face. I love this band so much and what he's doing is awesome! :) oh and yes, I like guys too.
Absolutely awesome explanation homie
Well said Ryan, I think your observations and statements are at the apex of the videos visual stream. And if I may I would like to amend your ALL CAPS statement to include: AS HE SHOULD!! AS WE ALL SHOULD!! Because a life lived in the darkness of denial "In and Of It's True Self" is a life filled with shame, guilt, and regret. And NO ONE deserves to live like that. I Thank you in kindness.
Ah, ok
uu7
PREACH
2024 summer here we come!
This dude is seriously 100% consistent with his delivery! he gets the blood pumpin' spin a beat, 'feller
Me during the video 0:01 Ooh this is a nice video 0:57 nice 2:11 Ok then 2:40 well ok 3:04 stop it 3:15 too far now too far
100%agree
+Gressel Rodriguez lol
same 😂
haha me too. If you want check out my chanel for different music Top 25s. In this weeks list this song will be included
same 😂😂😂
Why is every one of years and years's music videos of olly being touched by strangers?
they like being touched by strangers, what of it? xD
he like being touched by alot of people. kappa
hahaha only if i had him
lol what a gay ass
Galateanu he is not really gay this vid is only a drama
2024 and still here :p
4 march 2024. Exactly 8 years ago
Is it just me or does every years and years song has the lyric 'oooooooooooooooooh'
Same choreographer as the King video I would guess too.
tru lol
Maybe you've only listened to like 3 songs.
Not every song,but - king,desire,shine (kind of like an "uhh") had. If there are more,let me know!
not every song !
Loving the Tove Lo feature. Anyone else agree
?
+RJKT It'd be even better if she was IN the video
me 😍 I love her
+RJKT YES
+RJKT Their voices are so perfectly in unison. It's so alluring.
What a voice. Amazing in looks and as a human being. Just want to give him a hug 😀 if I'm having a bad day he always makes me smile ☺
2024 still hitss
This video reminds me of the "King" video.
yes
+Pamela A !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Same here, I squealed. xD MAYBE they're both about the same person or situation? :3
Ow... That's true...
lol because people are touching him?
+Pamela A like every other video they make?
First the King video and now this, I have a feeling Olly loves being rubbed by shitloads of people?? 😂
I'm dead 😂
This made my day😂😂😂
+Kyra Paige HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA THIS MADE MY DAY
probably in his spare time
Not same meaning at all, in the King video
This is absolute perfection. Everything in this video is incredible
2023 🎉🎉🎉 I love years & years...I can't stop listening to this song. It's really catchy.
[Verse 1: Olly Alexander] I must be tough I must behave, I must keep fighting Don't give it up I want to keep us compromising Open your arms and pray To the truth that you're denying Give in to the game To the sense that you've been hiding [Pre-Chorus: Olly Alexander] Where are you taking me? I can't be blamed I want you to want me again [Chorus 1: Olly Alexander + Tove Lo] Is it desire Or is it love that I'm feeling for you? I want desire Cause your love only gets me abused [Verse 2: Tove Lo] Chasing that rush I need to show you what you've been missing And give me your touch All of your love is not forbidden [Pre-Chorus: Tove Lo] Where are you taking me? I can't be blamed I want you to want me again [Chorus 2: Olly Alexander + Tove Lo] Is it desire Or is it love that I'm feeling for you? I want desire Cause your love only gets me abused Is it desire Or is it love that I'm feeling for you? I want desire I wanna see what you're willing to lose [Bridge: Tove Lo & Olly Alexander] Taking, pretending you're nothing but giving Making me lose my cool Faking my love game, baby, we're the same Heart turned from good to cruel You know that you've got me You've loved me down You tell me you want me now [Chorus 2: Olly Alexander + Tove Lo] Is it desire Or is it love that I'm feeling for you? I want desire Cause your love only gets me abused Is it desire Or is it love that I'm feeling for you? I want desire I wanna see what you're willing to lose
Thanks!
Thanks for this x
2020 and i still can't get over this
2023 🎉, still this song makes me crazy!
I prefer his hair in the 'Shine' video. Anyone else?
✌
Yeah
I was just like NOOOOOO Dx
yup
omg yes the old hair was the best :/
That girl at 0:56 reminds me of the queen from Star Wars
Padme sitting in the middle of a basketball court.
+The Lich God yes the one played by Natalie Portman
+abdi lopez i am pretty sure that is the singer ollie alexander dressed up in a costume
+Fred Slone good
Abdi López: D + well disappointing because he is gay pussy
2013-2016 was the golden age of pop man, this couldn't be more 2016
When I listen to this song, I feel alive and my heart is full of happiness. Almost 4 years and still my favourite song. And btw: If you are reading this comment, you are an amazing person
I liked this,....BUT I still love the original :)
same it was good but I prefer the original one..
same
Yes i do to❤️
Same
+Bailey Tap yea
This video plays with my sexuality all the time
lmao
Comentario en español?
Gabeeh :D pos pa mi q es puñal
It's been years and years and I still love this song, both versions of it ❤❤❤
Years and years desire song stays undefeated 🤩💃🔥💃👀
OMG OLLIES OUTFIT IS BEAUTIFUL AND HIS HAIR CUT IM IN LOVE!!!!
Omg yessssss
are you fuckimg gay m8
:)
It's Olly, not Ollie
I have to be honest. I like this clip BUT i like the real disire videoclip more❤️
Desire*
+Bailey Tap me too!! something about him just typing makes him more desirable
+Purple_People_Eater i see Lasky :0
Marlayne Melendez okurrrrr
moi aussi je préfère la version originale, Tove lo gache la voix de Olly 😦
2024!? Regresando a 2016 con este rolon 🖤
I love this era when the gays made a rebellious act by making explicitly beautiful music videos. Bring back this era!!!
How about gay guys dancing with the devil in music videos?
why are years and years videos so touchy and feely????
Chris Andrews lmao, ikr. I just finished watching the video for King
xD
Chris Andrews because he a gay
Hazwan Norrasid maybe
erm, kden
2:46 .......... *YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSS*
Wha?
I prefer 3:23
I prefer 3:43
+ZEF ha! good one but it reach 1M already so most people think different
+ZEF I prefer 3:43 too
Who is also here for Tove Lo? ❤️ This woman always give a high quality in every song's she performs.
Quien en 2k23?, Den un me encorazona para no olvidarme de esta chida rola❤
❤
I think this song and video is about questioning your sexual orientation. So in the beginning the people who take him away are the ones that are trying to make olly bow down to the female body or that goddess of desire. So the goddess tries to seduce him with get glowing nether regions and once he starts exploring "desire" he sees that it gives him a chance to see what he really likes for himself. Which is why he kisses the girl first and the music stops and when he kisses the guy it feels just right and the music starts and he stops resisting and lets go. And then in the end it's shown that the deity of desire can take any gender you desire/love. Loved the video!
It's just promoting more people to be gay/lesbian/bi. Goes directly against evolution, how will it help society? Jesus, people these days are going to kill off the human race...smh
+Hannah Freed Gays are killing off the human race, but you know it's not like denying climate change and going out of your way to destroy a planet in your ignorance and arroganceis actually doing that, but go ahead. Paraphrase your bible and make irrelevant and nonsensical claims on a matter you aren't actually concerned about
Homosexuals will never be normal. This is a choice that people make because they're TOO OPEN to anything. They think, "Oh, well I never really thought about that before....maybe I should." No one is born this way. The bullshit they will put out there like Socrates was gay, like no... It's just a form of propaganda so they can take control of people easier. But no, people are too damn caught up in their "feelings", which change drastically very quickly, they can't even think 'straight' (not intended to be a pun) Intuition is like prehistoric logic. Disgusting. Do you want to go back to the Stone Age? We have evolved off of LOGIC, not "feelings". Open your eyes, people!
+Hannah Freed you really shouldn't speak on matters you are completely ignorant on, regardless of the science behind it you're choosing to do something far worse, a bigoted fool relishing in her own words and thoughts. You know, a narcissist? You talk about going back to the stone age, when you're already there with your archaic thinking
nope :) you're just upset because your, oh look, "feelings" are hurt because you are gay yourself XD
I never thought i would see twerking in a years and years video...
yh
yea bruh omg wtf all that stuff was quite inappropriate.. 😕
lol
+aminath rajan maybe man-twerking
same
“True friends are like diamonds - bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”
WHAT A GOOD SONG I CAN´T EXPLAIN HOW GOOD IT IS FOR ME, MAIGOSHHHHHH
have yall thought about making a song with marina and the diamonds or ellie goulding? edit: damn yall. ellie is great. idk why you guys are so harsh on her. their voices would sound so good together. plus, ellie and Y&Y support each other already (I'm pretty sure they were her opening act for her delirium tour) so it's probably more likely for them to do it anyway? (Also ellie even said on Twitter that she wants to work them so I'm hyped!) no complaints about marina though, she's a brilliant writer and they would sound perfect together.
Marinaaaaa yasss
mARINA
PKIvysaur Marina
PKIvysaur M A R I N A pls
not ellie eww
the hook is just so catchy..
Yeah!
+Rajsuryan singh what it means hook?
Daniela Sanz The meaning of this hook or what is a hook of a song?
2019 and keep loving this music 🖤
2021 still lit asf 🔥🔥🔥
Love it but can't beat the original👌
true x
true
true
+GemmaHarris1602 what original?
+Alanis Sophia /watch?v=6nJCF01b510
Before you complain in the comments, this video celebrates human sexuality in all its forms 💖
amo esta cancion no dejo de escucharla hasta la fecha, deberia ser mas reconocido excelente artista
2023 if u r here … u r a LEGEND.
So he ends up being queen Amidala?
olly.....you like to be touched in all your videos bro
rei paloka lol true😂
2021. hope to see y'all here " is it desire" that part slaps 😭 😭
This song hits just different to this day.
why nobody is talking about tove lo
I love Tove Lo
lady wood amazing
Yuno Zaim Do you love Tove Lo too? and years and years?
Giulia Ort2 yes of course I do they are both very amazing
Yuno Zaim me too
when such good voices synchronize perfectly they sound like this....so good....I love Tove Lo, Olly Alexander has a great voice
2023 and still a banger.
Of all the 44 versions of years & years , this is My favorite
0:55 I was not expecting Queen Amidala to be in this video
Am I the only one that wasn't surprised that by those two kissea
Kisses
At first I was like "I thought he was gay" then I saw him him kiss the other guy and I was like "oh ok"
Well he does act...
Is he really gay?
+d4ny _y if he kissed a man and woman hes clearly bisexual
if your here 2020 show me a sign x
His skin just looks so smooth
is it only me or does this song really get you into the feels?
The most underrated song of 2016
dont lie to me.. it is 2021 and still listen to this song. you'e a leyend
2022 .... You are still legend ?
I've listened to desire soo many times, and with Tove Lo featuring in it now I will be smashing that replay button! Love YaY, keep it up lads!
Padme wtf are you doing here ?
lol nice 😎
Amidala xD
+Graczyk 😂😂
Ciatilé Cabrodu m
Ciatilé Cabrodu
time flies so fash, my goddddd i loved this music so muchh and now that i remembered i feel so nostalgic
The concert yesterday in Hamburg was flyyyyyyy. Years&Years nailed it.
This song is addictive.
+Alain Bruno I agree with you
+Alain Bruno and the video is so cool
So, nobody is gonna talk about his hair?
2022. Many more years and years to go.
2022. i love this song thanks for this artwork
can we all refresh this and share it with everyone please, this video is so good and so important it deserves way more views than this
thanks fam
poor society.
Why? What's good does it have
Stupid video but great song
Good music
people are like "omg, orgy! eww" didn't you hear or listen to the lyrics? 😂 what do you expect?!
true!
+Jordan Jones Indeed, and yet the ending feels more clean than those rap videos with women dressed in few fibres and some jewelry. It depends how it is presented, and this was about desire, not macho boasting and showing off.
It's cuz there mad no one invited them to an orgy
+Jordan Jones I love a good music video orgy :)
+Jordan Jones I agree with you
ESC 2024 😱
I've been looking for this songs for years hope everyone is having a fantastic day 👍
sense8 vibe
sebastian portal sim 😍
Absolutely 💕😍
Totallyyyy
OMG! Yes lol
I just realised he's the Cassies stalker in skins lmao
+Eva Blaker Yees! Jakob XD
+Noee Zaba yessssss
lol thats what got me into years and years in the first place. I saw olly in the kings music video being played on TV and I was like wtf, when did Cassie's stalker have a music career? Immediately had to look it up to make sure I wasn't seeing things :p
lol
hahah yea :D
2022 - Years & Years (Night Call) New album ❤️ are you guys with me 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Hearing this takes me back to the old days when I used to hear this with my school day buddies
That was amazing Ugh, he so artistic
still one of my fav songs half a decade later, that hook is legendary
I’m NEVER getting tired of this Song
This video makes me not want to say I'm gay anymore because love is free it shouldn't be trapped by labels of sexuality.
+sunta sing well nice to meet you too
hater.
true
exactly 💯
oh my god another sjw. "labels of sexuality". what the fuck are you talking about man, it doesn't make any sense. it's quite simple, don't complicate it: you're a dude and you're into dudes - you're gay; you're a dude and you're into chicks - you're straight. same applies for chicks. why do these tumblr fuckheads feel the need to fuck everything up? labels are fine. they keep things organized.
The original is so much better. 🇫🇷 love u
🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
Fraaance !! I saw them monday in paris I miss them
+zeeko I wish I could be there ! Why can't they make a tour in all 🇫🇷 (sorry for my bad english)
+Meggie Hembert you from ?
Veve la France!