I think Jacob has lots of brilliant ideas popping out his mind all the time, looks like organizing it into a phenomenal piece of music may be the hardest task for him.
He is a one-in-a-generation talent. I've been a multi-instrumentalist for nearly 40 years when I listen to Jacob, I feel that all that I have learned gives me just enough knowledge to realise how freaking good he is.
i just about manage to stumble around keys and strings , my embrochure is blech and i can barely manage drums with sticks also learning the different tunings kills me as im not that scientific ... for my own sanity i like to stay where i can play with some feel ... yes i know ... time = feel but im retired now and id quite like to get some stuff down before i forget it as it seems important to me then i watch jacob and i feel " you want fries with that ?" would be a step up i once listen to his "fix you " 3 times to get the piano and i shed a tear each time ...each time ... thats crazy
This is just Lionel Richie's song that was massively popular in the 80's mixed with standard Brazilian rhythms and instruments an d with the well-loved Take 6 singers that many of us were huge fans of years ago and again when they returned. I am an American from Utah who lived a total of 3 years in Brazil and still adores the language and the music. So why do so many people seem to think Jacob Collier invented all of it?? It's cool that he's sort of repopularizing these sounds, but he is NOT THE ONE WHO INVENTED THEM!😊
Don't be pissed. He's one of the most beautiful souls. So gracious, encouraging, and unfailingly kind. His mother teaches the violin at the RAM in London. He used to sit under the piano as a toddler listening to private lessons she gave at home and just absorbed the sounds. He hears music as colours.
he's not mad *at* him, as a fellow musician he's mad at the unreal level that Jacob performs and writes at which none of us non-aliens could hope to reach
I just heard him for the first time 2 days ago. I'm 75 and can't get enough. He is beyond amazing. I saw by his 2023 schedule he only has q more concert in US. Hopefully he will be back in 2024 and I'm going to attend.
He uses advanced musical techniques in the same way that professional culinarians use spices, just a full understanding of that musical pallet. He already knows what he wants his music to taste like and how to get there, and it's so fascinating to hear how he does it
Not even just spices but texture, temperature, plating, aesthetic, and so much more. Shows what a childhood of uncontainable musical exploration can produce.
I can totally relate! The first time i heard Jacob, it literally stopped me in my tracks. I was stunned and sat without moving while tears of joy streamed down my face for 2 hours while i jumped down the Jacob "rabbit hole." Thank you for not making me feel so weird!!
4:58 That's exactly what I feel so often about Jacob. He is so much more than just a musician. Jacob is a kind of musical messiah to me. With his music he shows me how delightful Life actually is... Jacob brings me back to my own happiness and makes me express it in life myself. I think it's so beautiful that you feel Jacob's happiness too John. 🙏
When I first discovered Jacob, I was stung by a sort of jealousy as well. Then I was able to channel that into inspiration to play around more with sound, tonality, especially once I saw how he shares his methodologies for everyone with videos like the one he did breaking down his process for doing Moon River. His cards are on full display-the guy really cares, and wants everyone to enjoy music as much as he does. I started playing music in earnest in 1980, and have never been anywhere close to as blown away and inspired by someone as Jacob. Absolute unicorn.
This eerily echoes my own experience with Jacob. In all my years studying music, I’ve never encountered a force like him. He is truly unique and awe inspiring
Jacob inspired me to learn music theory and buy a piano so I can replicate his harmonies and modulations in some capacity, they're just magical, it's completely incredible.
John, you are missing out by not reacting to Diana Akudinova’s Cover of, I can’t help falling in love with you. It is a dark version performed in minor key! You must must react to this. Looking forward to your reaction to Diana
@@drummersnare6276 I have a healthy-enough Ego, Dr. Freud. Enough to make an honest statement, without qualifying it for the "turdball troll" contingent. Check your Id at the door.
"A conduit to whatever emotion he wants you to fell..." That is exactly how I feel when I listen to Collier! Sometimes, it is overwhelming - one moment, I'm smiling, twenty seconds later, I get teary-eyed because of the absolute beauty of the music I'm listening to!
I think you ARE a true representation to what a lot of us mere mortals feel towards Jacobs insane abilities as a composer / arranger. Thank you for that John 🤓🙏🏼
You are not alone in your frustration; he's just so annoyingly good! You might also be interested to hear that full breakdowns of this and a handful of his other songs are available as livestreams he's done on his channel! Great content as always :D
John, I can totally understand your emotional reaction to such a transcendent talent. I'm often moved to tears when watching and listening to someone who's seemingly from another planet.
You should join his patreon where he does monthly zoom calls with 200-300+ people !! He answers lots of interesting questions, plays a song, and it’s all great fun.
His reaction reminds me a bit of Salieri’s (prob wrong spelling sorry!) reaction to listening to Mozart in Amadeus .. just pure amazement and a tinge of envy
Jacob Collier is Life Affirming. I love your appreciation of him as do I! What momentous times we live in - when we can create in a world where giants walk among us and be inspired.
What contributes to your strong emotions? True novelty. Combined with incredible musical mastery. Music now are 99.9% simple remixes, polishing of existing concepts, reiterations. This reminds us that the world can indeed improve.
I know how you feel listening to Jacob.. I've been a musician since I was very little and this is just absolutely next level genius composition and performance. The world has not seen many talents like him.
JC's music is real sensory overload when you first listen to it. I think it takes numerous listening to even start to comprehend what is going on. but as you say, even though so much is going on it just grooves, such a joyous song. Once again, a really honest and open reaction, I love you Jacob reactions, none even come close to yours.
It's nice to see someone else enjoy what Jacob can do. I try to show his stuff to my non musician friends and they can't get past how virtuosic it is and hear the emotional content. They all say he's "too good" to be enjoyable.
I think there is a big stigma against maximalism in music, many people think that making music in this style is just trying to impress and that it lacks emotion, but it is completely false, both maximalism and minimalism and everything in between can be good or bad. I think the stigma exists because many who start playing instruments or compossing make the false equivalence of faster/ more notes = better, but the fact that this is not true does not make the opposite true either, it is a logical failure of a large part of the music community unfortunately. A lot of Jacob's songs fall into this kind of maximalist style so a lot of people are just going to hate his music, that just how things are sadly (at least how i see it).
I'm not very musical in terms of what I am able to produce myself. But emotionally I am totally blown away by JC. Yes it's very complex, but in the same way that a plate of food is far beyond what you can cook yourself, you can still enjoy it fully.
@@m.dave2141 I'm afraid the real reason why that "stigma" exists is much more sad... The hard truth is that music is just sound patterns, but not everybody's (in fact, most people's) musical pattern recognition abilities are good enough to decipher music as complex as Collier's. That's why most people don't enjoy fusion jazz or prog metal. I remember when I was young and I started being able to listen to more complex stuff. There was a developmental phase in which, slowly, music that I couldn't comprehend before, music of which my subjective experience could be described as a sort of jumbled gibberish, started to reveal itself to me. I began to recognise the beginnings and ends of rhythmical cycles, and to listen to everything in relation to this framework. Harmonies that previously sounded horribly dissonant and out of place now became beautiful as I was able to experience the relationship between the tones. Be it a matter of nature or nurture, the truth is most people can't enjoy complex music because they can't understand it. Like "reading a book in another language" kind of not understanding. It's not a matter of stigma or preference; it's a matter of cognitive musical ability.
@@c.l.368 well i cant really agree with that statement, that people dont understand complex music and therefore cant enjoy it. this could lead to lengthy debate but let me draw just one comparison. who is usually more happy, someone who constantly jumps around in life, who has very complex life, 1000 things going at the same time, or someone who found his peace, can enjoy easy, slow, calm life? look at spiritual people, they tend to be more happy than the first example i described. beauty is usually not in some high complex (abstract) things, and same i believe is with music. i can give one more, more real example from my life. i live in a country where certain folk music is very popular. i even play an instrument which is most typical. i do know how to play above average complex music and even like to listen to it, but at the end of the day for me and for the most others certain authors from the past (pioners) are just unbeatable. they just got the balance between simplicity and complexity right, and i dont imagine anyone will ever beat them in this genre. so increasing complexity doesn't increase beauty, it just doesn't make sense. its not in our nature to go with that logic. i admit jacob collier is crazy and extremely talented, but that doesnt make music beautiful. its interesting, but its over the top for me. to close this speaking to myself with fun fact, type this into google: most played instrumental song in the world. i wonder if you get the same answer as me (i get the answer for our folk music i mentioned)
@@nagolici3206 My point is not that complex music is better. It's not better or worse. It's just complex. My point is that most people don't understand complex music, and thus couldn't possibly enjoy it. It's like reading a book. If you read a book in a language you don't understand, you won't enjoy its contents. There's music which is complex enough that, for the untrained ear, it's like reading a book in a different language. Take time signatures for example. There's not very much music in 11/8. Thus most people haven't been exposed to that rhythm. Thus, when they hear music in 11/8 they can't make sense of the rhythm. Thus, they can't enjoy it, or at the very least it's unlikely they will. I don't see how you could possibly disagree with this statement.
Loved that! I can only recommend that you look at some of Jacob's recent live tracks from his 2022 tour... I saw him twice on the tour - and each time, I can only describe it as 2 hours of pure musical joy. I've never been to concerts like it before! I'd suggest his solo piano version of Jamie Cullum's "All at Sea" th-cam.com/video/GAWicCkcncE/w-d-xo.html, his solo harmoniser version of "Can't Help Falling in Love" th-cam.com/video/bW1hZ1ix-70/w-d-xo.html and his Piano and Harmoniser version of Queen's "Somebody to Love" th-cam.com/video/cCl7_tXs80Y/w-d-xo.html. Finally, his version of "Blackbird" with the audience choir, played as the encore at his Manchester concert (and filmed by me from the crowd) th-cam.com/video/LW3wY2lp3CM/w-d-xo.html Enjoy!!!
Yes, this is the one. Utterly honouring the original, but adding exquisite musical invention, with thrilling audience involvement in its later meditative phase...
John shows us the spirit moving into higher awareness of awe, grief and relief. This is the link I am sharing for Chanukah and Christmas. He is alive. And walks among us. Healing the pain of separateness from God with the wonder, joy and satisfaction of all of us in such beauty and harmony as one. John is more than half the joy and wonder. His deeply felt expression closes the circle and completes the work - audience responding from unfathomable depth!
@@danielkerlinsky3084 I'm afraid I'm stone cold godless and always have been. Don't suppose a universal home built from thermodynamics and a principle of least action, with mutualism and wonder as natural outcomes is less than your tale. I contend it is far more thrilling,... in my eyes at least. But for you, I am happy if you are. Myself, I am on an adventure. The story is only half told. We meet as ever in feasting and music. And that's enough. Cheers and Peace.
I love the way you describe stuff. Your ability to describe what you hear technically and emotionally is very special. Thank you John. I highly recommend Jacob's live cover of How Deep is Your Love as well. in terms of vocal technique I feel like he showcases a lot more of his falsetto/head voice and would love to hear your take on how he has grown in terms of his vocal techniques.
Jacob Collier broke through the typically unlistenable gym playlist I use to have to endure as a trainer, completely disrupted my day. The one with Tori Kelly, "It don't matter" I believe it's called. So I found the song, found the artist, went home later and played it along with other songs from the album while I was making dinner. It was like seeing the sun for the first time. I could not describe how good and broad and positive his music is, I've never heard anything close. I was formerly a music major, and lamented that music in the world outside of my head is rarely as good as I think it could be, but also lacking in the ability to ever generate it myself. Hearing him was hearing not only that imagined music, but done even better than I thought possible.
I was just thrilled when I saw you were reacting to "All Night Long". I love what you bring to your reactions. There is obviously a great foundation of musical knowledge. But emotionally you are so honest and generous. I feel such joy with Jacob's music and watching your reactions I have someone to share that experience along with me. Wonderful John, absolutely wonderful. FYI: in case you didn't know this truly was a Jacob effort on every level. Arrangement, vocal harmonies, orchestration, he did the entire video himself at home and his astounding Jacob vision. I do feel blessed to be around and hear what this still quite young man is giving us musically. Thanks so much for this reaction. Oh and this did win a Grammy.
I love the fact that he shares the spotlight with all of the others who participated in this. It's not just a video of him and anonymous players in the background.
You might like a more recent video of his, "Jacob Collier - The Audience Choir (Live at O2 Academy Brixton, London". He "plays" the audience like an instrument. th-cam.com/video/3KsF309XpJo/w-d-xo.html
Yes, that blew me away too. One of the most beautiful and amazing things i have ever watched on TH-cam in the last 15 Years. He turns an audience of 5000 people into a choir and it sounds phenomenal.
I love how he spends so much time carefully building up that layered groove at the beginning and then it drops when he comes in with the first verse, trusting our brains to keep it going internally while we enjoy the lazy, dreamy "well my friends the time has come". You don't even notice when that beat comes back because he sneaks it back in a little at a time in little teasing fragments. SO GOOD.
As a 63 year old Musician (Lead Trumpet) and Sing (Bass) hitting those feelings is really what we strive to do in the first place. Some like Jacob Collier, it just comes maybe a little too easy. Which as you attested can make those of us that have to work harder at it get frustrated. But all said and done you conveyed exactly what it represents that sometimes all we can do is listen in awe and just watch and feel the artistry happen. No words are necessary.
I'm not a musician but I can hardly listen to Jacob Collier sometimes because the sounds surprise me in such delightful, unexpected bodily ways I can't stop laughing. I loved hearing how his music threw you, someone so experienced with music, off into these places as well.
I think the thing that a lot of us don’t understand is, this is ALL he does, he was brought up with incredible musicians, his mother taught him perfect pitch, his father was also great musician, from what I know he is very devoted to music, that combined with the way he was raised made what he is, this is what a boundless person looks like and sounds like. It’s incredible, but also I feel it’s reachable to anyone if we breakout of the boxes we are put in, as soon as we pick up an instrument, voice included, discovering Jacob, has opened up my mind to what it means to be a musician, and yet I know exactly what holds me back from this potential.
Many times I say to myself it's a very good thing that Jacob seems to be such a generous and happy person. Because, you are quite right when you talk about his "emotion joystick". If Jacob happened to be sad or depressed, I think it would be a real danger for many people , isn't it ? And maybe that's the reason why he causes a kind of "Salieri effect" on many musicians, that is not really jealousy, but a feeling of willy-nilly loosing control of our emotions, as we confusedly thought we knew how it works (true, but at a poor level compared to his science). Jacob is the musician's musician. The tables have turned. I'm not at all a fanatic person. But there is something a little like a "Christ figure" in the fact that Jacob brings a message in the world of music : everything is now possible, just do it. As a musician myself, I play more freely after a Jacob's song, experiment or masterclass, even if I don't really understand the whole thing. Sure newbies and masters do feel something like this, and you, John, feel this potential because you're so sentitive, don't you ?). Jacob makes us see the abyss of creation, and at the same time, he demonstrates gates, bridges, tunnels, wings, to go through it. This guy is just a young boy nobody ever told anything is hard or impossible. A happy few with a good brain. He is nearly a kind of social experiment that seems to demonstrate how much the context can bend a human being to the extreme.
He really taps into whatever it is we feel when we feel music. One of his live concerts, he’s literally just playing chord progressions, but the way he resolves them or takes them in a new direction, the audience has a physical reaction to it. Mad talent.
I feel you, brother! Friends of mine were at a concerts of his this summer in Lissbon - and they said it was like a mass of music, a spiritual experience and that they never need to go another concert on another artist ever again.
Beyond the sheer command over his voice, his playing, his arranging...imagine having to mix a session with close to 1,000 tracks and making it sound that amazing. Not sure what planet he is from, but I'm glad he's been here for a bit.
Jacob sees music and knows how to draw it in the air with his hands and his whole body. Listening to it causes me frustration, joy, wonder, anger and acceptance of my own limitations... all at the same time. But I always come out happier than before.
Love watching you watch Jacob! You are so in touch with your feelings, and your reactions are obviously genuine. Your videos actually enhances my experience of Jacobs music, because you take in the complexity of the songs and present a clear and pure reaction. I sometimes become a bit "clouded" because of everything going on, but i can totally relate to your emotional reactions. Watching you make it so I clearer understand what I feel when listening to his music! Please do "How deep is your love (live in Fort Lauderdale)" Next! Love from Norway
He ( expertly ) plays the bass, the drums, all the percussions, the piano, he arranges, composes, sings, is there anything this musical genius can´t do ? And yes, there are Quincy Jones, Steve Vai and many others in that Video. And of course, he got a Grammy for this Masterpiece. And he is still so young, we still have a lot to expect in the future from this phenomenon called Jacob Collier.
Highly recommend checking out his recent live performances. If you had to just choose one to watch, his live performance of "All at Sea" is really moving. If you are ever able to attend one of his live shows in person, it is the most magical thing you will ever experience. I cried several tears of joy and happiness when I went to one.
John, thanks for your sincere reactions. I cannot understand the theory behind this masterpiece but I know it moves. Thanks for breaking it down. I really enjoy your teaching moments.
Ugh, I LOVE your reaction! That's exactly how I felt by 2 minutes, like... Why am I tearing up? Why is there anger mixed in with all the emotions like... Hearing COllier makes you think all of music education is lacking, but only as a background feeling... It's hard to think about that when you're overwhelmed with the chorus of curiosity and happiness. Constant exploration, playful at its core... What a joy to behold!
I was surprised to find NO reaction on Aurora here! 😯 Like Aurora Runaway live at the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Concert and Murder Song (5, 4, 3, 2, 1) from the same concert.
Yeah John, Aurora is a truly magical artist that has the whole package. The Nobel peace concert version of the Murder Song is one of the most beautiful expressions of whole humanity I've ever heard.
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@@osovagabundo1 Agreed! I thought that version of Runaway was so captivating as well.
Music is pure emotional energy. So it was fascinating to watch the energy of Jacob's music being transferred to you, affecting you and overwhelming you. 💖😀
As far as I can tell from his interviews, he’s simply reaching out with everything he’s got, to explore music and instruments and anywhere else his creativity takes him. He is not trying to illicit emotions in his listeners. Certainly he’s hoping the music makes them as happy as he obviously is.
Hey John, I have just watched all your videos up to this one, on Jacob's work. I promise myself every time I watch a new one of his videos, I'm not going to tear up! Damn, hasn't happened yet! He is healing the world, one note at a time!
The tempo never changes throughout Heard this piece uncountable times now and this time I focused on the tempo. Also heard new stuff I hadn't heard before. Worth 2 Grammies, not just one!
Watching and Listening to Jacob makes me think he might be a Prodigy like Mozart / Like him he is re-defining how music can be made and he is probably the only one make a significant change in music nowadays . There has been some talent in every generation but Such a talent and genius in changing the way people view and hear music is a rare. I don't think since Mozart there has been someone so significant and innovative in the way music can be made.
I was one of the people who made this request! I knew it would be interesting to you after seeing your other reactions to Jacob, I have seen and listened to this song many many times and I always discover something new. It excites you, makes you happy and then comforts you. It's a genius and seeing you react to it has been a new journey!
I'm so glad I found this reaction, the algorithm sometimes gets it right, you seem to share the same...?physical reaction that I've seen a lot of us sure. I'm just not sure where that comes from, I feel like his music is pure distilled EMPATHY, I just can't explain why... I see some comments say this but REALLY check out the Mahogany Session performance of his original song Little Blue, that little video contains entire universes. On the day of filming it he put out a call on his Instagram for any and all singers available that day to come over to the church they were filming in and they all learned the song that day and sung it WITH HIM, he conducts them like a choir like he does his audiences, you simply NEED to check it out, if not for a reaction video, at least for yourself. EVERYBODY needs to experience what he's achieved there...
the guy is a musical genius. John when I first heard his work from an audience in England, I'm not ashamded to say, I cried. His playing and harmonies are what jazz players used to say, "He plays in the cracks."
They also go WAY back… There’s so so many great young musicians out…eg Jesus Molina, Matteo Mancuso…Mohini Dey, Joey Alexander, Justin Lee Schulz, just to name a few What a time…but there s only one Jacob
Jacob is simply amazing. His vocal ability is matched by his expertise on all instruments and also his technology skills, which are astounding. His brilliance is overwhelming. Perfection! I’m not sure if you’ve reacted to any of his live performances but, again, they are exceptional.
He said he composed this in 6 hours, just before his flight for the recording session with the orchestra. He got a grammy for it. Think about that.
As awesome as the orchestra is, I wish they had more time to rehearse before recording this. The saxophone riffs were extremely challenging.
Iirc he talked about arranging the orchestra not composing the whole thing, impressive nonetheless
I think Jacob has lots of brilliant ideas popping out his mind all the time, looks like organizing it into a phenomenal piece of music may be the hardest task for him.
Lionel Richie "composed" this in 1983, Jacob has written an "arrangement" of the original song.
@@mikec8116 that is part of the Metropole Orkest. Arguably one of the greatest touring orchestra's today.
Once in a generation talent
He is a one-in-a-generation talent. I've been a multi-instrumentalist for nearly 40 years when I listen to Jacob, I feel that all that I have learned gives me just enough knowledge to realise how freaking good he is.
Me too
i just about manage to stumble around keys and strings , my embrochure is blech and i can barely manage drums with sticks also learning the different tunings kills me as im not that scientific ...
for my own sanity i like to stay where i can play with some feel ... yes i know ... time = feel
but im retired now and id quite like to get some stuff down before i forget it as it seems important to me
then i watch jacob
and i feel " you want fries with that ?" would be a step up
i once listen to his "fix you " 3 times to get the piano
and i shed a tear each time ...each time ... thats crazy
he's better than once in a generation
This is just Lionel Richie's song that was massively popular in the 80's mixed with standard Brazilian rhythms and instruments an d with the well-loved Take 6 singers that many of us were huge fans of years ago and again when they returned. I am an American from Utah who lived a total of 3 years in Brazil and still adores the language and the music. So why do so many people seem to think Jacob Collier invented all of it?? It's cool that he's sort of repopularizing these sounds, but he is NOT THE ONE WHO INVENTED THEM!😊
Your joy was my joy.
Great quote
I really hope you get the chance to experience Jacob live one day because it really is an outer body experience
I love your reaction to Jacob’s work…can see your joy, confusion, ecstasy …it’s just wonderful 💜👌
Much confusion!
“Now I’m really angry.”
- Me anytime I watch Jacob
And im back, Respectfully, dont you ever delete this video from my life. Your reaction and the vibe brighten my day.
Don't be pissed. He's one of the most beautiful souls. So gracious, encouraging, and unfailingly kind. His mother teaches the violin at the RAM in London. He used to sit under the piano as a toddler listening to private lessons she gave at home and just absorbed the sounds. He hears music as colours.
he's not mad *at* him, as a fellow musician he's mad at the unreal level that Jacob performs and writes at which none of us non-aliens could hope to reach
I just heard him for the first time 2 days ago. I'm 75 and can't get enough. He is beyond amazing. I saw by his 2023 schedule he only has q more concert in US. Hopefully he will be back in 2024 and I'm going to attend.
in a world so fragmented one young man extends a hug so full of love and joy
No shout out to Take 6? One of the greatest vocal groups in history??? HUGE influence on Jacob and his vocal harmonies.
Was about to say this. Discovered them in 1988 and haven't looked at music the same since.
I love that Jacob never forgets to pay tribute to people who've inspired him in the past
W out Take6 there may have not been an inspiration for aJacob
He uses advanced musical techniques in the same way that professional culinarians use spices, just a full understanding of that musical pallet. He already knows what he wants his music to taste like and how to get there, and it's so fascinating to hear how he does it
Not even just spices but texture, temperature, plating, aesthetic, and so much more. Shows what a childhood of uncontainable musical exploration can produce.
Jacob Collier is a miracle.
I can totally relate! The first time i heard Jacob, it literally stopped me in my tracks. I was stunned and sat without moving while tears of joy streamed down my face for 2 hours while i jumped down the Jacob "rabbit hole." Thank you for not making me feel so weird!!
Good to see Take 6 singing with him! Quincy Jones and his own mother give a cameo! LOL...great. I love this rendition.
4:58 That's exactly what I feel so often about Jacob. He is so much more than just a musician. Jacob is a kind of musical messiah to me. With his music he shows me how delightful Life actually is... Jacob brings me back to my own happiness and makes me express it in life myself.
I think it's so beautiful that you feel Jacob's happiness too John. 🙏
When I first discovered Jacob, I was stung by a sort of jealousy as well. Then I was able to channel that into inspiration to play around more with sound, tonality, especially once I saw how he shares his methodologies for everyone with videos like the one he did breaking down his process for doing Moon River. His cards are on full display-the guy really cares, and wants everyone to enjoy music as much as he does. I started playing music in earnest in 1980, and have never been anywhere close to as blown away and inspired by someone as Jacob. Absolute unicorn.
This eerily echoes my own experience with Jacob. In all my years studying music, I’ve never encountered a force like him. He is truly unique and awe inspiring
Jacob inspired me to learn music theory and buy a piano so I can replicate his harmonies and modulations in some capacity, they're just magical, it's completely incredible.
John, you are missing out by not reacting to Diana Akudinova’s Cover of, I can’t help falling in love with you. It is a dark version performed in minor key! You must must react to this. Looking forward to your reaction to Diana
Lol why were you jealous? You must have a big ego
@@drummersnare6276 I have a healthy-enough Ego, Dr. Freud. Enough to make an honest statement, without qualifying it for the "turdball troll" contingent. Check your Id at the door.
"A conduit to whatever emotion he wants you to fell..."
That is exactly how I feel when I listen to Collier! Sometimes, it is overwhelming - one moment, I'm smiling, twenty seconds later, I get teary-eyed because of the absolute beauty of the music I'm listening to!
I think you ARE a true representation to what a lot of us mere mortals feel towards Jacobs insane abilities as a composer / arranger.
Thank you for that John 🤓🙏🏼
It may be weird to cry over this happy song, but yeh, this song embodies the joy of music, which somehow makes us burst into tears.
You are not alone in your frustration; he's just so annoyingly good! You might also be interested to hear that full breakdowns of this and a handful of his other songs are available as livestreams he's done on his channel! Great content as always :D
Love your raw emotion.
Here he is literally doing what you were describing. Conduit. th-cam.com/video/3KsF309XpJo/w-d-xo.html
I think we hold ourselves and our kids back in this “box” and mold he’s challenged me to be bold and weird and amazing
John, I can totally understand your emotional reaction to such a transcendent talent. I'm often moved to tears when watching and listening to someone who's seemingly from another planet.
You should join his patreon where he does monthly zoom calls with 200-300+ people !! He answers lots of interesting questions, plays a song, and it’s all great fun.
This is exactly how I feel whenever I hear whatever song by Jacob Collier. Good to know there is nothing wrong with me. ;)
man, I feel what you're feeling. Jacob's music brings just an indescribable joy that's so infectious. it continues to blow me away
Agreed!
His reaction reminds me a bit of Salieri’s (prob wrong spelling sorry!) reaction to listening to Mozart in Amadeus .. just pure amazement and a tinge of envy
Jacob Collier is Life Affirming. I love your appreciation of him as do I! What momentous times we live in - when we can create in a world where giants walk among us and be inspired.
What contributes to your strong emotions?
True novelty. Combined with incredible musical mastery.
Music now are 99.9% simple remixes, polishing of existing concepts, reiterations.
This reminds us that the world can indeed improve.
Agreed, one man should not be allowed to be this all-encompassingly talented and a force for good; but I'm glad he's here and I'm here for it!
I know how you feel listening to Jacob.. I've been a musician since I was very little and this is just absolutely next level genius composition and performance. The world has not seen many talents like him.
JC's music is real sensory overload when you first listen to it. I think it takes numerous listening to even start to comprehend what is going on. but as you say, even though so much is going on it just grooves, such a joyous song. Once again, a really honest and open reaction, I love you Jacob reactions, none even come close to yours.
It's nice to see someone else enjoy what Jacob can do. I try to show his stuff to my non musician friends and they can't get past how virtuosic it is and hear the emotional content. They all say he's "too good" to be enjoyable.
I think there is a big stigma against maximalism in music, many people think that making music in this style is just trying to impress and that it lacks emotion, but it is completely false, both maximalism and minimalism and everything in between can be good or bad.
I think the stigma exists because many who start playing instruments or compossing make the false equivalence of faster/ more notes = better, but the fact that this is not true does not make the opposite true either, it is a logical failure of a large part of the music community unfortunately.
A lot of Jacob's songs fall into this kind of maximalist style so a lot of people are just going to hate his music, that just how things are sadly (at least how i see it).
I'm not very musical in terms of what I am able to produce myself. But emotionally I am totally blown away by JC. Yes it's very complex, but in the same way that a plate of food is far beyond what you can cook yourself, you can still enjoy it fully.
@@m.dave2141 I'm afraid the real reason why that "stigma" exists is much more sad... The hard truth is that music is just sound patterns, but not everybody's (in fact, most people's) musical pattern recognition abilities are good enough to decipher music as complex as Collier's. That's why most people don't enjoy fusion jazz or prog metal.
I remember when I was young and I started being able to listen to more complex stuff. There was a developmental phase in which, slowly, music that I couldn't comprehend before, music of which my subjective experience could be described as a sort of jumbled gibberish, started to reveal itself to me. I began to recognise the beginnings and ends of rhythmical cycles, and to listen to everything in relation to this framework. Harmonies that previously sounded horribly dissonant and out of place now became beautiful as I was able to experience the relationship between the tones.
Be it a matter of nature or nurture, the truth is most people can't enjoy complex music because they can't understand it. Like "reading a book in another language" kind of not understanding. It's not a matter of stigma or preference; it's a matter of cognitive musical ability.
@@c.l.368 well i cant really agree with that statement, that people dont understand complex music and therefore cant enjoy it. this could lead to lengthy debate but let me draw just one comparison. who is usually more happy, someone who constantly jumps around in life, who has very complex life, 1000 things going at the same time, or someone who found his peace, can enjoy easy, slow, calm life? look at spiritual people, they tend to be more happy than the first example i described. beauty is usually not in some high complex (abstract) things, and same i believe is with music. i can give one more, more real example from my life. i live in a country where certain folk music is very popular. i even play an instrument which is most typical. i do know how to play above average complex music and even like to listen to it, but at the end of the day for me and for the most others certain authors from the past (pioners) are just unbeatable. they just got the balance between simplicity and complexity right, and i dont imagine anyone will ever beat them in this genre. so increasing complexity doesn't increase beauty, it just doesn't make sense. its not in our nature to go with that logic. i admit jacob collier is crazy and extremely talented, but that doesnt make music beautiful. its interesting, but its over the top for me. to close this speaking to myself with fun fact, type this into google: most played instrumental song in the world. i wonder if you get the same answer as me (i get the answer for our folk music i mentioned)
@@nagolici3206 My point is not that complex music is better. It's not better or worse. It's just complex. My point is that most people don't understand complex music, and thus couldn't possibly enjoy it. It's like reading a book. If you read a book in a language you don't understand, you won't enjoy its contents. There's music which is complex enough that, for the untrained ear, it's like reading a book in a different language. Take time signatures for example. There's not very much music in 11/8. Thus most people haven't been exposed to that rhythm. Thus, when they hear music in 11/8 they can't make sense of the rhythm. Thus, they can't enjoy it, or at the very least it's unlikely they will. I don't see how you could possibly disagree with this statement.
Jacob created a fantastic equivalent of a party with music. The arc of the evening and night. The emotions. The fun.
Loved that! I can only recommend that you look at some of Jacob's recent live tracks from his 2022 tour... I saw him twice on the tour - and each time, I can only describe it as 2 hours of pure musical joy. I've never been to concerts like it before! I'd suggest his solo piano version of Jamie Cullum's "All at Sea" th-cam.com/video/GAWicCkcncE/w-d-xo.html, his solo harmoniser version of "Can't Help Falling in Love" th-cam.com/video/bW1hZ1ix-70/w-d-xo.html and his Piano and Harmoniser version of Queen's "Somebody to Love" th-cam.com/video/cCl7_tXs80Y/w-d-xo.html. Finally, his version of "Blackbird" with the audience choir, played as the encore at his Manchester concert (and filmed by me from the crowd) th-cam.com/video/LW3wY2lp3CM/w-d-xo.html Enjoy!!!
Yes, this is the one. Utterly honouring the original, but adding exquisite musical invention, with thrilling audience involvement in its later meditative phase...
John shows us the spirit moving into higher awareness of awe, grief and relief. This is the link I am sharing for Chanukah and Christmas. He is alive. And walks among us. Healing the pain of separateness from God with the wonder, joy and satisfaction of all of us in such beauty and harmony as one. John is more than half the joy and wonder. His deeply felt expression closes the circle and completes the work - audience responding from unfathomable depth!
@@danielkerlinsky3084 I'm afraid I'm stone cold godless and always have been. Don't suppose a universal home built from thermodynamics and a principle of least action, with mutualism and wonder as natural outcomes is less than your tale. I contend it is far more thrilling,... in my eyes at least.
But for you, I am happy if you are. Myself, I am on an adventure. The story is only half told. We meet as ever in feasting and music. And that's enough.
Cheers and Peace.
I feel you, John. Jacob's music is more potent than drugs. It takes tou to places within you that you didn't know existed.
Places where we would stay. Forever
It’s 2am here. Watching you watch that was the highlight of my day. Priceless
Not to forget Take 6's input on vocals either.
Yes! Love your Jacob Collier reactions! Here we go!!
I love the way you describe stuff. Your ability to describe what you hear technically and emotionally is very special. Thank you John. I highly recommend Jacob's live cover of How Deep is Your Love as well. in terms of vocal technique I feel like he showcases a lot more of his falsetto/head voice and would love to hear your take on how he has grown in terms of his vocal techniques.
Jacob Collier broke through the typically unlistenable gym playlist I use to have to endure as a trainer, completely disrupted my day. The one with Tori Kelly, "It don't matter" I believe it's called. So I found the song, found the artist, went home later and played it along with other songs from the album while I was making dinner. It was like seeing the sun for the first time. I could not describe how good and broad and positive his music is, I've never heard anything close. I was formerly a music major, and lamented that music in the world outside of my head is rarely as good as I think it could be, but also lacking in the ability to ever generate it myself. Hearing him was hearing not only that imagined music, but done even better than I thought possible.
There is magical Jacob Collier live version of the Beatles "Let it be" at the Newport Music Hall from 22 May 22
I was just thrilled when I saw you were reacting to "All Night Long". I love what you bring to your reactions. There is obviously a great foundation of musical knowledge. But emotionally you are so honest and generous. I feel such joy with Jacob's music and watching your reactions I have someone to share that experience along with me. Wonderful John, absolutely wonderful. FYI: in case you didn't know this truly was a Jacob effort on every level. Arrangement, vocal harmonies, orchestration, he did the entire video himself at home and his astounding Jacob vision. I do feel blessed to be around and hear what this still quite young man is giving us musically. Thanks so much for this reaction. Oh and this did win a Grammy.
You should do one with his latest "Little Blue" !
oof that Mahogany Session video is just out of this world, did not know music can do what he does with it in that performace
I love that everytime you just cant hold the emotion!! Jacob is truly a gift to this world.
watching someone go through the different stages of grief watching Jacob - what a treat
I love the fact that he shares the spotlight with all of the others who participated in this. It's not just a video of him and anonymous players in the background.
You might like a more recent video of his, "Jacob Collier - The Audience Choir (Live at O2 Academy Brixton, London". He "plays" the audience like an instrument. th-cam.com/video/3KsF309XpJo/w-d-xo.html
Yes, that blew me away too. One of the most beautiful and amazing things i have ever watched on TH-cam in the last 15 Years.
He turns an audience of 5000 people into a choir and it sounds phenomenal.
I love how he spends so much time carefully building up that layered groove at the beginning and then it drops when he comes in with the first verse, trusting our brains to keep it going internally while we enjoy the lazy, dreamy "well my friends the time has come". You don't even notice when that beat comes back because he sneaks it back in a little at a time in little teasing fragments. SO GOOD.
I suspect Collier is a rare genius
As a 63 year old Musician (Lead Trumpet) and Sing (Bass) hitting those feelings is really what we strive to do in the first place. Some like Jacob Collier, it just comes maybe a little too easy. Which as you attested can make those of us that have to work harder at it get frustrated. But all said and done you conveyed exactly what it represents that sometimes all we can do is listen in awe and just watch and feel the artistry happen. No words are necessary.
I'm not a musician but I can hardly listen to Jacob Collier sometimes because the sounds surprise me in such delightful, unexpected bodily ways I can't stop laughing. I loved hearing how his music threw you, someone so experienced with music, off into these places as well.
Yeah, makes me grin too!! Brilliant
I think the thing that a lot of us don’t understand is, this is ALL he does, he was brought up with incredible musicians, his mother taught him perfect pitch, his father was also great musician, from what I know he is very devoted to music, that combined with the way he was raised made what he is, this is what a boundless person looks like and sounds like. It’s incredible, but also I feel it’s reachable to anyone if we breakout of the boxes we are put in, as soon as we pick up an instrument, voice included, discovering Jacob, has opened up my mind to what it means to be a musician, and yet I know exactly what holds me back from this potential.
Back on Jacob, heck yeah! Please more Jacob reactions!!
Please react to "Hideaway", one of his early masterpieces.
Many times I say to myself it's a very good thing that Jacob seems to be such a generous and happy person.
Because, you are quite right when you talk about his "emotion joystick". If Jacob happened to be sad or depressed, I think it would be a real danger for many people , isn't it ?
And maybe that's the reason why he causes a kind of "Salieri effect" on many musicians, that is not really jealousy, but a feeling of willy-nilly loosing control of our emotions, as we confusedly thought we knew how it works (true, but at a poor level compared to his science).
Jacob is the musician's musician. The tables have turned.
I'm not at all a fanatic person. But there is something a little like a "Christ figure" in the fact that Jacob brings a message in the world of music : everything is now possible, just do it.
As a musician myself, I play more freely after a Jacob's song, experiment or masterclass, even if I don't really understand the whole thing. Sure newbies and masters do feel something like this, and you, John, feel this potential because you're so sentitive, don't you ?). Jacob makes us see the abyss of creation, and at the same time, he demonstrates gates, bridges, tunnels, wings, to go through it.
This guy is just a young boy nobody ever told anything is hard or impossible. A happy few with a good brain. He is nearly a kind of social experiment that seems to demonstrate how much the context can bend a human being to the extreme.
Yeah his mother seems like a great parent and person in general, she clearly nurtured her kids interests brilliantly
He really taps into whatever it is we feel when we feel music. One of his live concerts, he’s literally just playing chord progressions, but the way he resolves them or takes them in a new direction, the audience has a physical reaction to it. Mad talent.
I feel you, brother! Friends of mine were at a concerts of his this summer in Lissbon - and they said it was like a mass of music, a spiritual experience and that they never need to go another concert on another artist ever again.
I had the same reaction. I was angry then I wept tears of joy and acceptance knowing this child is channeling the voice of God himself.
Beyond the sheer command over his voice, his playing, his arranging...imagine having to mix a session with close to 1,000 tracks and making it sound that amazing. Not sure what planet he is from, but I'm glad he's been here for a bit.
Sting has the musical philosophy that you should be surprised by what you hear, and not anticipate the song. Collier does that in spades.
Just the horn and orchestra arrangements alone are absolutely insane.
It hits me this way... he *expands* reality. For the good of all of us. Kind of like the "4-minute mile".
Your reactions to Jacob Collier are top notch! Thank you!
Jacob sees music and knows how to draw it in the air with his hands and his whole body. Listening to it causes me frustration, joy, wonder, anger and acceptance of my own limitations... all at the same time. But I always come out happier than before.
He is out of this world!
On top of it all...he also edited this video, I believe...
Love watching you watch Jacob!
You are so in touch with your feelings, and your reactions are obviously genuine. Your videos actually enhances my experience of Jacobs music, because you take in the complexity of the songs and present a clear and pure reaction. I sometimes become a bit "clouded" because of everything going on, but i can totally relate to your emotional reactions. Watching you make it so I clearer understand what I feel when listening to his music!
Please do "How deep is your love (live in Fort Lauderdale)" Next!
Love from Norway
He ( expertly ) plays the bass, the drums, all the percussions, the piano, he arranges, composes, sings, is there anything this musical genius can´t do ?
And yes, there are Quincy Jones, Steve Vai and many others in that Video. And of course, he got a Grammy for this Masterpiece.
And he is still so young, we still have a lot to expect in the future from this phenomenon called Jacob Collier.
Herbie Hancock s there in beginning….Jacob s a very very heavy pianist…that where all genius eminates from
Always a pleasure to watch your brain 🤯 while listening to Jacob. :D
Highly recommend checking out his recent live performances. If you had to just choose one to watch, his live performance of "All at Sea" is really moving. If you are ever able to attend one of his live shows in person, it is the most magical thing you will ever experience. I cried several tears of joy and happiness when I went to one.
That part at 7:04 where he sings "We're gonna raise the roof..." is my personal favorite. I just like the little trip down and up he takes there...
An arrangement and performance of pure joy! 😊
Yeah I pretty much cry with happiness, hope and joy every time I hear this, powerful stuff.
John, thanks for your sincere reactions. I cannot understand the theory behind this masterpiece but I know it moves. Thanks for breaking it down. I really enjoy your teaching moments.
And having seen him live twice this year, yes he IS this good! 🎶🎶🎶
And being there when he gets the audience to sing is magical.
Your response is gorgeous. I felt that overwhelming respect. I’ve watched dozens of reaction videos to see what I saw in you with this song.
Ugh, I LOVE your reaction! That's exactly how I felt by 2 minutes, like... Why am I tearing up? Why is there anger mixed in with all the emotions like... Hearing COllier makes you think all of music education is lacking, but only as a background feeling... It's hard to think about that when you're overwhelmed with the chorus of curiosity and happiness. Constant exploration, playful at its core... What a joy to behold!
Fantastic video dude, seeing your emotions to this really got me 👌🏻
There are some things, people, moments that are so beautiful that they are joyfully painful.
I feel you, it fills my soul with painful joy.
I was surprised to find NO reaction on Aurora here! 😯
Like Aurora Runaway live at the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Concert and Murder Song (5, 4, 3, 2, 1) from the same concert.
Yeah John, Aurora is a truly magical artist that has the whole package. The Nobel peace concert version of the Murder Song is one of the most beautiful expressions of whole humanity I've ever heard.
@@osovagabundo1 Agreed! I thought that version of Runaway was so captivating as well.
I would love to see John’s reaction to some Aurora as well! Agree with the Murder Song Nobel Prize suggestion. Also, “Warrior (Live at HAIK)”
Love watching someone react the same way I do when I hear amazing music!
What a genius. Hearing gnawa rythmes at he end is just magnificent.
Thanks, John. Jacob's music affects me the same way.
Music is pure emotional energy. So it was fascinating to watch the energy of Jacob's music being transferred to you, affecting you and overwhelming you. 💖😀
As far as I can tell from his interviews, he’s simply reaching out with everything he’s got, to explore music and instruments and anywhere else his creativity takes him. He is not trying to illicit emotions in his listeners. Certainly he’s hoping the music makes them as happy as he obviously is.
Hey John, I have just watched all your videos up to this one, on Jacob's work. I promise myself every time I watch a new one of his videos, I'm not going to tear up! Damn, hasn't happened yet! He is healing the world, one note at a time!
The tempo never changes throughout
Heard this piece uncountable times now and this time I focused on the tempo.
Also heard new stuff I hadn't heard before.
Worth 2 Grammies, not just one!
Watching and Listening to Jacob makes me think he might be a Prodigy like Mozart / Like him he is re-defining how music can be made and he is probably the only one make a significant change in music nowadays . There has been some talent in every generation but Such a talent and genius in changing the way people view and hear music is a rare.
I don't think since Mozart there has been someone so significant and innovative in the way music can be made.
I was one of the people who made this request! I knew it would be interesting to you after seeing your other reactions to Jacob, I have seen and listened to this song many many times and I always discover something new. It excites you, makes you happy and then comforts you. It's a genius and seeing you react to it has been a new journey!
I'm so glad I found this reaction, the algorithm sometimes gets it right, you seem to share the same...?physical reaction that I've seen a lot of us sure. I'm just not sure where that comes from, I feel like his music is pure distilled EMPATHY, I just can't explain why...
I see some comments say this but REALLY check out the Mahogany Session performance of his original song Little Blue, that little video contains entire universes.
On the day of filming it he put out a call on his Instagram for any and all singers available that day to come over to the church they were filming in and they all learned the song that day and sung it WITH HIM, he conducts them like a choir like he does his audiences, you simply NEED to check it out, if not for a reaction video, at least for yourself. EVERYBODY needs to experience what he's achieved there...
the guy is a musical genius. John when I first heard his work from an audience in England, I'm not ashamded to say, I cried. His playing and harmonies are what jazz players used to say, "He plays in the cracks."
Hey, you know that he won a grammy for this arrangement ? Nice to see your reaction, I was blown away too when he released this video. Thank you.
What a tight samba they got going on. This song is great LOUD! que Rico! How rich a song this is✨🤯
I’d like to recommend Dirty Loops ”Next to you” - think you’d like it for both vocals and musicality of the band as a unit.
Seconded!
They also go WAY back…
There’s so so many great young musicians out…eg Jesus Molina, Matteo Mancuso…Mohini Dey, Joey Alexander, Justin Lee Schulz, just to name a few
What a time…but there s only one Jacob
Jacob is simply amazing. His vocal ability is matched by his expertise on all instruments and also his technology skills, which are astounding. His brilliance is overwhelming. Perfection! I’m not sure if you’ve reacted to any of his live performances but, again, they are exceptional.
He also made all the videos…and does other crazy Bach like meanderings when he s chilling( see the ‘hearts’ music he makes on edit roll)
SMH smh smh