@rollingthunder15 the newsboys new lead singing is the original singer of dc talk, and on their newest album coming out this month they are doing a 2010 remake of jesus freak!
Putting Tait as lead man for the NBs, i think, created one seriously Christian Super Band. McKeehan obviously supports Tait using the song. In fact this is one of the most covered modern Christian songs today. More power to them all for spreading the Gospel of Christ with good music. Don't get me wrong. I was sad with J. James left the band, and i was sad when Furler left. But Tait is doing a good job with the rebirth.
Peter left to pursue his preaching career he still writes for newsboys but no longer sings. It will never be the same without him but I miss the old school DC talk music I saw the "new" newsboys in concert at winter jam '10 Michael tate is good but he isnt the same when he sings the old newsboys songs
I think newsboys "jesus freak" sounds better than when Michael Tate is the lead vocals than when he wasn't lead in the DC Talk's version of Jesus Freak. In my opinion. :-) love the song no matter who sings it though!
@albinos1 I'm also a big DC Talk and Newsboys fan,but since the other band members don't sing or write songs it's almost like the band itself has become DC Talk.
@armstrongbrosband I get what you're saying, but as a long time DC Talk and Newsboys fan, I'm loving what Tait's doing to incorporate some of the Talk stuff into Newsboys performances, although I agree that Furler was a little less spotlight grabbing, more like a team captain instead of a heisman trophy winner if you get what I'm saying
This rendition has some differences from the others I have heard so far . . . Variety is the spice of life. Pardon my ignorance, though, but what happened to the white blond guy who traded off parts of the verse and normally did the rapping part? I like it when people in bands play up and mug on their tradeoffs. Is the missing guy OK or did he get hurt?
@PillarOfChrist I KNOW, I have been a fan of both NB and DCT for a loooong time. but toby wrote this song, he obviously does a better job with it live :)
@TheJesusfreakmusic @TheBookflutterby you should hear it ft. KJ52 it is much better, I dont know what happened to them in the concert... the point of a Christian, is to worship God, it doesnt matter if it is bad or well performed, the intention is what counts.
Newsboys survived their first lead singer switch (to Peter) because Peter Furler is brilliant. Tait is talented, but in a completely different vein. NEWsboys isn't the same band it's name implies. I think this new project should have a different name, so people can judge it on its own merits, and not against the legend that is Newsboys. It'll never live up (and Tait seems to be killing himself trying). By the same token, Kevin Max and two other random singers would NOT be DC Talk.
Their new album is made for Michael Tait's voice but NONE of their old material, they may as well have changed their name. I do like the FAIL in this video of Michael missing a whole line in the rap at the beginning, I can see it being done without Kevin Smith but definitely not without Kevin Michael McKeehan. That part of the song is just made for his style. I liked the recording off the CD, not as good but definitely not terrible. This isn't the newsboys, it's a new band. not bad but different
I got a question.. : Why does it say there was a man with a tat on his big fat belly...? It doesn't really make sense. How is this person with a "tat" going to glorify God by doing what he was doing?
@JesusFreak77753 well yeah that's one thing i don't get... how is this man glorifying God or being a "Jesus Freak" with what he's doing? and claimed he had a dream? That doesn't really sound like something a Christian would do, not trying to be judgemental or anything.... idk.
@JoyMac allright i am not a fan of any of them, toby, dc talk, or michael and the way you said toby mac's version is better! it just kinda made me wonder lol
i agree with everybody else, this is a toby michael and kevin song, not a newsboys song, and those moves michael is doing is horrible born again was good, but peter needs to come out of retirement and take over newsboys again. this aint the newsboys ive come to love
you got to be kidding I'm with y'all! I say the first two or three minutes and I don't like this guy! He doesn't appear to be letting you focus on the words which to me is important because I write lyrics! I'm in shock! I would show the first few seconds to a little child let alone a non-believer!! What were they think replacing the other guy with him!
This guy has a good voice and sings well, it's too bad he does Christian music. I'd love to see him doing rap/rock like Twiztid, about a different subject.
Atanacio Atanacio no he is not in it for the money he loves the Lord with all of his heart he would never just do this for the money he’s up their to praise Gods name and spread the gospel to all creation.
God used me through this song, I feel like a lot of people were also touched by God through this song, I feel Michael is doing it for God, otherwise he wouldn't have put this band in my life
no thank you Dc Talk when tate toby and kevin did it, it was good now when toby mac does it its good the instruments are good but its kinda scary watching tate do it
Wow...this is a messssss!!!! I guess if you can't sing you decide to roll around on the floor like a stripper. What happened to original composition? Oh yea, money - that's right!! God bless the money!!! lol
Que perfornance horrivel. Por quê fazer esse gestos e poses? Não tem nada a ver. Me dá tristeza de ver o Tait fazendo isso. O Newsboys na Era Tait está acabando com o que foi construído pelo John James e pelo Peter Furler. This performance is horrible. Why do the poses and gestures? It has nothing to do. It makes me sad to see Tait doing it. The Newsboys in Tait's killing was what was built by James and John by Peter Furler. I'm Brazilian.
yer tait should leave the rappin still for tobymac, hes heaps better, and no version will never be as gud as DC Talks, who cares how he sings it though listen to the message
I don't think that Michael tait shouldn't be acting that way if he's a man of God the. Bible says that by there fruits you shall know them. He needs. To be a Godly man of god Almaty God bless you all
God used me through this song, I feel like a lot of people were also touched by God through this song, I feel Michael is doing it for God, otherwise he wouldn't have put this band in my life
great song, great rock, nice classic rock sound and great message!
I like Newsboys, I like their songs. What more is there to say. Oh yeah I like to praise and thank God.
seen them friday Easter weekend,awesome permance with the spinning drum player
@murtagh231 yeaa I liked him too.. when I saw them at Winter Jam I was like I swear there used to be a blad dude lol.. or was that Newsong..
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@rollingthunder15 the newsboys new lead singing is the original singer of dc talk, and on their newest album coming out this month they are doing a 2010 remake of jesus freak!
I'm not Christian, but I like this band.
I got to say Michael tait is Crazy. That is ok that is what makes a concert FUN. I love the Newsboys
garoto bom . homem de Deus newsboys tdo de bom
Iris Gomes simmm💟💟💟❤
This is like Let it Be to Christian music. Everyone knows the words.
Putting Tait as lead man for the NBs, i think, created one seriously Christian Super Band. McKeehan obviously supports Tait using the song. In fact this is one of the most covered modern Christian songs today. More power to them all for spreading the Gospel of Christ with good music.
Don't get me wrong. I was sad with J. James left the band, and i was sad when Furler left. But Tait is doing a good job with the rebirth.
@JoyMac michael tait and toby mac used to be in a band called DC talk
Dude, he is so flat! I wonder if the other dudes were really confused as this was going on? Ha! Can I get some more cheese with this?
I miss the days of Peter Fuller. and John James.
Kevin is now the lead singer of Audio Adrenaline
I Loved This:D
Peter left to pursue his preaching career he still writes for newsboys but no longer sings. It will never be the same without him but I miss the old school DC talk music I saw the "new" newsboys in concert at winter jam '10 Michael tate is good but he isnt the same when he sings the old newsboys songs
mura man ug si Maloy kung mudala ug concert..ehehehe... jokes...peace tsoy..eheheh
I think newsboys "jesus freak" sounds better than when Michael Tate is the lead vocals than when he wasn't lead in the DC Talk's version of Jesus Freak. In my opinion. :-) love the song no matter who sings it though!
@albinos1 I'm also a big DC Talk and Newsboys fan,but since the other band members don't sing or write songs it's almost like the band itself has become DC Talk.
@ravshadlucblos Yeah listen to Tobymac's Alive and Transported version if you want to hear a great performance of this song
Wicked music
@armstrongbrosband I get what you're saying, but as a long time DC Talk and Newsboys fan, I'm loving what Tait's doing to incorporate some of the Talk stuff into Newsboys performances, although I agree that Furler was a little less spotlight grabbing, more like a team captain instead of a heisman trophy winner if you get what I'm saying
This rendition has some differences from the others I have heard so far . . . Variety is the spice of life. Pardon my ignorance, though, but what happened to the white blond guy who traded off parts of the verse and normally did the rapping part? I like it when people in bands play up and mug on their tradeoffs. Is the missing guy OK or did he get hurt?
Grr! They took out the "man in the desert" verse! Bring back John the Baptist!
This just in: Michael Tate seen with Jeff Hardy @ Winterjam 2011.
@81tattooed True. But his wife and family, and keeping that pure with God comes #1
I miss the old lead singer.
What is Tait doing!?
Your name is awesome on xbox mine is JesusFreak450 :D
I'm sorry, but Michael Tait rapping cracked me up.
Its better with KJ52 doing the rap parts. Id love to see a tobymac joining newsboys on stage for Jesus freak and a few old DC talk songs
@TheCodyvideo yeah, but what is with his stage moves?!?!?!?
@cyprian3 Yes he is when i saw him he acted almost the same maybe hes going for it due to the song but idk
Will someone hurt me if I say Michael worked it?
I'm the 40,000th viewer =D
@TheJesusfreakmusic yup
Great preformance,dancing was a little weird.It seems like the newsboys have just become Tait's backing band.
@PillarOfChrist I KNOW, I have been a fan of both NB and DCT for a loooong time. but toby wrote this song, he obviously does a better job with it live :)
wow
We should glorify God Your not there to glorify man He's just another Hume being God bless you all
@wewerelegend1 John James made Newsboys. Peter Furler supported it.
@TheJesusfreakmusic @TheBookflutterby you should hear it ft. KJ52 it is much better, I dont know what happened to them in the concert...
the point of a Christian, is to worship God, it doesnt matter if it is bad or well performed, the intention is what counts.
BUTT RUBBER! 0:57-0:59
Tait looks, um, freaky in this video. I don't know if thats what he was going for but he is acting a little weird. Liked the orginal version better.
I like Michael Tait, and I liked Peter Fuller, but Tait is better, brings more energy to the group and live shows
Jesus Freak is DCtalk NOT the Newsboy
Newsboys survived their first lead singer switch (to Peter) because Peter Furler is brilliant. Tait is talented, but in a completely different vein.
NEWsboys isn't the same band it's name implies. I think this new project should have a different name, so people can judge it on its own merits, and not against the legend that is Newsboys. It'll never live up (and Tait seems to be killing himself trying).
By the same token, Kevin Max and two other random singers would NOT be DC Talk.
Their new album is made for Michael Tait's voice but NONE of their old material, they may as well have changed their name. I do like the FAIL in this video of Michael missing a whole line in the rap at the beginning, I can see it being done without Kevin Smith but definitely not without Kevin Michael McKeehan. That part of the song is just made for his style. I liked the recording off the CD, not as good but definitely not terrible.
This isn't the newsboys, it's a new band. not bad but different
What have become of the newsboys!? OMG!
he needs a lot of prayer
and more of a godly man and not worldly man God bless you think about it
I wonder if he actually tries to practice that one line in the first rap at home or something...
@GS11341
idk...but the bald used to be the main singer...and now he's not...i miss him, he had an accent! I dont care for the american black dude.....
I got a question.. : Why does it say there was a man with a tat on his big fat belly...? It doesn't really make sense. How is this person with a "tat" going to glorify God by doing what he was doing?
yea...Jesus Freak isn't the same without Toby Mac or Kevin Max Smith...
@JesusFreak77753 well yeah that's one thing i don't get... how is this man glorifying God or being a "Jesus Freak" with what he's doing? and claimed he had a dream? That doesn't really sound like something a Christian would do, not trying to be judgemental or anything.... idk.
@meadowleenho his rapping sounded alot better when he was up in Kingston ON. but ill agree with you he leave that for toby...
@JoyMac allright i am not a fan of any of them, toby, dc talk, or michael and the way you said toby mac's version is better! it just kinda made me wonder lol
Everyone who says that tait is making the newsboys go downhill, They are doing good in winter jam this year. so please keep the negativity to yourself
he is scary, something is wrong with Tait.
for me its not the same cause its not the real Jesus freak song by DC TALK
@81tattooed John James would never come back. You know why. I wish that would be the case, but it will never happen.
@rozzie101
yeah...:D
@mugglewahfuls ANyone know what happened to him???
@kcsljj123 I totally agree
For those that have negative comment... Do you call yourselves Christains?
@murtagh231 - Peter Furler
@JesusFreak77753 Ah okay.
he shuld scream more lol
i agree with everybody else, this is a toby michael and kevin song, not a newsboys song, and those moves michael is doing is horrible born again was good, but peter needs to come out of retirement and take over newsboys again. this aint the newsboys ive come to love
@valandilcamcacil
i respect your opinion. we all have them :D
you got to be kidding I'm with y'all! I say the first two or three minutes and I don't like this guy! He doesn't appear to be letting you focus on the words which to me is important because I write lyrics! I'm in shock! I would show the first few seconds to a little child let alone a non-believer!! What were they think replacing the other guy with him!
This guy has a good voice and sings well, it's too bad he does Christian music. I'd love to see him doing rap/rock like Twiztid, about a different subject.
MT is a FREAK!!!!! A Jesus freak that is ;)
Ok seriously, why is he acting like he is on drugs and throwing himself around like Jim Morrison? "Freak"ing scary.
Tate is too weird for me to handle. He's singing is horrible, too.
I wonder if he's in it for the money or to glorify God who died on the cross for his sins
Bruh SHut Cho ASS up
Atanacio Atanacio no he is not in it for the money he loves the Lord with all of his heart he would never just do this for the money he’s up their to praise Gods name and spread the gospel to all creation.
God used me through this song, I feel like a lot of people were also touched by God through this song, I feel Michael is doing it for God, otherwise he wouldn't have put this band in my life
I Like the bald dude who used to sing better....
I love their version on the CD, but doesn't sound very good live.
Michael tait needs to really study the Bible how he should be acting like a godly man that's if he's a real man of God all
Atanacio Atanacio bruh he did
Atanacio Atanacio what are you talking about he is a Godly man he was singing at one of his concerts and he was just having fun🙄
He does It always🙏
no thank you Dc Talk when tate toby and kevin did it, it was good now when toby mac does it its good the instruments are good but its kinda scary watching tate do it
Wow...this is a messssss!!!! I guess if you can't sing you decide to roll around on the floor like a stripper. What happened to original composition? Oh yea, money - that's right!! God bless the money!!! lol
@kcsljj123 Negative
Que perfornance
horrivel.
Por quê fazer esse gestos e poses?
Não tem nada a ver.
Me dá tristeza de ver o Tait fazendo isso. O Newsboys na Era Tait está acabando com o que foi construído pelo John James e pelo Peter Furler.
This performance is horrible.
Why do the poses and gestures?
It has nothing to do.
It makes me sad to see Tait doing it. The Newsboys in Tait's killing was what was built by James and John by Peter Furler.
I'm Brazilian.
Can you say " out of ideas" and not authentic.
toby mac's version is better!
I love the newsboys but this was a akward preformances
yer tait should leave the rappin still for tobymac, hes heaps better, and no version will never be as gud as DC Talks, who cares how he sings it though listen to the message
This is not the best, he missed the second rap part
Sadly to say, I see the band breaking up in the next few years.
I don't think that Michael tait shouldn't be acting that way if he's a man of God the. Bible says that by there fruits you shall know them. He needs. To be a Godly man of god Almaty God bless you all
Atanacio Atanacio no it makes people laugh
God used me through this song, I feel like a lot of people were also touched by God through this song, I feel Michael is doing it for God, otherwise he wouldn't have put this band in my life
very poor parformance............... without peter newsboys is nothing...
not good......not good at all.....sorry...
very poor parformance............... without peter newsboys is nothing...