#ybc!patrick

sorry i've got an ego abt this. i feel like a million bucks i'm so obsessed w this costume. also bonus points

(I first read about the "Patrick hearing music during his hallucination in the wdtpg music video" in this long analysis of the youngblood chronicles)

I think he is hearing the song that we, the audience, hear during the music video simply because of how Patrick sings along to the music. we see him do this in almost every music video for the youngblood chronicles.

- there's two instances of the audience being directly addressed during the lyrics (Once by Tommy Lee/The Prince in Death Valley and second by Elton John/God in Save Rock and Roll) so it's not completely out of left field to say that the songs have been in-universe acknowledged. -

but before wdtpg I don't think there's been an in-universe presence of the music. I think this video is where the music is first acknowledged by a character.

there's two sides to the wdtpg video: reality (shown by the blue hue of the hospital) and Patrick's hallucination (shown by other neon colors/the presence of the zombie hospital partygoers/the disco ball).

the ONLY time Patrick is singing along to the lyrics is when it is shown that he is hallucinating-- the first/easier example is near the beginning of the song, when he first sings the prechorus "and all the boys are smoking menthols/girls are getting backrubs". we know this is a hallucination because the color of the hallway changes from blue to neon yellow and he is walking much faster (as well as Patrick is stumbling around almost zombie like-- in fact, the zombies in this video seem more alive than he is). when the scene cuts back to reality it shows that Patrick isn't singing at all and is instead wandering around, searching. the next hallucination scene when he's with the nurse, he's singing along to the chorus

unlike the other videos where it's kind of random when Patrick is singing along, the singing in wdtpg feels intentional. Patrick is never shown singing in reality/while hunting the other band members. But while he's hallucinating that party, he IS singing along, oftentimes he's singing TO some other person (the girl in the wheelchair in the hallway, and the nurse in the next scene).

when the singing in the video ends, Patrick snaps back into reality (RIGHT after the last "na na na" part, Patrick's eyes fade back to blue) and sees what he's done. it can't be because he killed Joe that he snaps back-- Joe is dead before Pete and Andy get there (judging by where Patrick is when Pete enters the room). in fact, Patrick starts walking over to them as if he's going to try and kill them next. In Miss Missing You-- the only other time we see Patrick possessed for a long period of time-- the death of Pete (and his own death) isn't enough to stop his evil state. (however, that is post rat a tat, where his brainwashing/possession has been fully completed so take that bit with a grain of salt).