Mumford & Sons have just released a poignant music video for their 2018 single “Beloved.”
The video tells the story of a boy and his mom escaping the hospital to hang out and have fun together in a dreamy sequence. The video is directed by BAFTA-nominated Charlotte Regan and it hits you right in the feels.
The song is lyrically about saying goodbye to someone you love and telling them they they are “beloved” before they go. The video of the pair riding off into the distance with horses having one last hurrah in the boy’s imagination before he says goodbye is heartbreaking.
You can watch the full music video here:
Frontman Marcus Momford previously said of the track: “Everyone knows loss in one way or another. This song is about that. I’d never sat with anyone as they died before, and it had an effect on me. As it does everyone I know who has experienced it.
“But there’s wildness and beauty in it as well, and a deep honouring, that became the beginnings of this song that we worked up called ‘Beloved’. I feel determined for people to take whatever they want from it, and not to be emotionally prescriptive.”
