Watching this, I feel happy and a little sad. I certainly grew teary eyed at the end when Scott is talking about wishing peace to everyone for Christmas. It is a feeling like he is truly and supremely humbled and coming from the heart...a heart that holds a great deal of regret and pain along with a certain desperate wistfulness for peace, love and joy to enter his own life. I know how that feels and that is why I am touched by this video. I can feel that he is trying SO HARD to hold on, look ahead and be hopeful...and a part of him probably IS hopeful, optimistic and feeling blessed...while another part of him is constantly fighting...Anyone who has lived with clinical depression will know what I am talking about. Even when we are truly happy and having a good day, a good month, good year, etc, there will always be that darkness looming somewhere nearby just waiting for a moment of vulnerability. Perhaps I am just being a sentimental gal, but that is the bittersweet vibe I get from this.
Now, as for that dreadful makeup, what the hell? Scott is such a handsome, stylish man. For the life of me, I cannot comprehend the full on face of foundation, blush, lip stain, eyeliner and penciled-in eyebrows. Five and ten years ago, Scott looked hot as fuck with guyliner, but before now, I don't recall ever seeing him with a full face of bad stage makeup, (excluding his times of dressing in "drag" in the 90s). This looks off like the makeup one might see on a senile, sickly elderly old lady. That is unsettling and I don't get it.
p.s. I wonder if that other music vid is going to be released? The one for "I'll Be Home For Christmas."