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Interesting fact about the band Queen: their drummer(Roger Taylor) had the same vocal range as Freddie Mercury. A lot of the harmonies that were done by Taylor people thought it was just Mercury.
That's cool, I didn't know that. Thanks for the information
@Jon Hertzog cmon xD no one can sing like Freddie was the greatest singer ever
2,000 Subscribers Without Any Videos actually it’s true, well sorta. Roger Taylor did have a similar range to Freddie Mercury. The difference is the power and control Freddie had in his voice.
I think they showed that in the film!
Like the high note in devil got a site for me is not freddy
Epic Lloyd's overall performance seems to resemble Don Rickles more than it did Frank Sinatra. While they were admittedly close friends and regularly seen together, its hard to imagine ERB would confuse the two. It would've been Rickles that would go after Mercury's disheveled appearance and sexual preferences. Sinatra would mock Freddie's lack of class, disloyalty to the band (Freddie's failed solo act), failed marriage, numerous affairs and whatnot--not necessarily his sexual orientation.
Facts.
Seasick Viking if ERB does a battle with Don Rickles In it I’ll Drop my Pants and fire a rocket
Yeah Sinatra was not played well nor did he have great rhymes. In my opinion, this is the most one-sided ERB of all time.
"..Freddie Mercury was bisexual" *YES!* THIS MAN GETS IT
That made me so happy! People are still speculating that he was actually 'secretly gay' which annoys the hell out of me. Sure, there are some LGBT people that stayed partly in the closet and pretended to/thought they liked both when they didn't, but that doesn't mean we (actual Bisexuals) don't exist.
Wow i actually did not know that :O
I thought he was gay
As in recall. He was married to a woman during his time and she was his emotional lover while man were his physical lover.
@@xXxJason_ToddxXx the main "thing" that I know of that would cause such confusion is that gay men have had "beards" or women who they marry and have kids with to pretend they are straight, for years. So I guess it's thought that this was a distinct possibility
Skeem, your passion for the history of the artists really comes through this vid. Ever thought of doing analysis/synopsis of the musicians you have passion about?
Maybe
I would agree this is one sided. Also, I didn’t know Sinatra was so strongly against racism. That indeed was a very brave position to take at the time. He was also against antisemitism, apparently.
"You're just a bully who's too scared to go to War."
Freddie saw War when he was a kid in his country so him and his mother moved to UK
I’m pretty sure that was more about how Sinatra famously paid thousands to dodge the US draft
Fun fact: Flash Gordon Soundtrack by Queen was the first album I ever bought with my own money as a kid. On vinyl even.
teppec Queen’s The Game was mine and I still have it.
As a Zoomer I don’t remember buying an album. I’ve bought albums on iTunes and such but do to advance in technology I don’t think I bought an actual album.
what i love about your channel is how musically smart and smart about the musicians etc. when i go to relisten to the song or battle that you have covered it hits very differently and i understand it more. so keep it up with the pauses dude.
Ah, time to watch another one-sided ERB. I always liked the flow of this one, but yeah, it's very uncharacteristic of Sinatra and who he was.
I admittedly didn't know much about Sinatra so never had the problems with this battle that you presented, this is why it's nice to watch reactions though.
Every once in a while you learn stuff, so thank you. I'll have to look up Sinatra more as he seems like someone who deserves more respect than I've given him up until now. =)
*jAsOn ToDd aPprOvEs*
Claude Francois was the first person to write “My Way” although the lyrics are completely different (and in French) but the tune and melody are exactly the same. (Like note for note and beat for beat it’s insane). Then Paul Anka heard the song Comme D’habitude (the popular French song mentioned before) and replaced the French lyrics with his own English lyrics. Then, finally, Mr. Sinatra took that song, sang it, and magically it became his.
Edit: if you haven’t listened to Comme d’habitude I highly recommend it. It’s a beautiful song
We skeen u should do a reaction to erb rasputin vs stalin
I enjoyed this reaction because it demonstrates the fact that you’re a fan of erb but not a shill. and butt stuff
Pre-premiere early access comment bc I’ll prbly be asleep during the premiere #momlife
Fun fact: Mercury was afraid to fix his teeth because he thought it would mess with his vocals. Commenting this before watching much so if you say that, sorry :)
A year ago I was OBSESSED with Freddie mercury
S-senpai made a video 😳
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I literally watch multiple reactions to ALL of the erb battles...and im a harsh asshole of a critic but u r fucking fantastic with your breakdowns and fuck whoever has some dumb shit to say about what u do keep up the good work man
@@MrsSkeem always love seeing a comment from The Queen of Skeem
I liked the special effects but you’re right, heavily favored to Freddie
The in-depth breakdown was actually pretty enjoyable.
I like your breAkdown because i Actually didn't know this about sinatra, i always kinda assumed..based off this battle, because erb is always usually fairly accurate. But now i know ay least what he Would've been more like.
This is why i like your reactions lmao, you don't just yo "oh damn!" Or "ouch that was a bar!" You explain. Breakdown. Most peopld see that as ruining it. But from watching your vids, I've learned quite a but and appericate the battles far more than i would've normally.
Yeah i edited, but eh i didn't feel like doing two comments
Nice breakdown. This is definitely different than a straight forward reaction. Good job, and like this type of content in your catalog.
The breakdown’s breakdown: That’s not Sinatra’s character
Thanks for the breakdown i learned about Sinatra a little more than i did before.
8:36 "I'm more powerful than you when I'm wearing women's pants" Freddie Mercury and Brian May early in Queen's career wanted flashier costumes for stage performances. Their favorite designer was a little known woman who, before meeting Mercury and May, had only ever made women's fashions. She made custom versions of women's silk blouses, pants, and jackets for them. She's now one of the biggest names in the UK fashion industry because of this.
9:17 Probably also a Live Aid flex. The concert was in England at Wembley Stadium but the entire world was watching and entranced by Freddie's stage presence, together. Making one of the most legendary moments in music history.
WE NEED A JOHN WICK VS MIKE EHRMANTRAUT ERB if you know the characters you get it
Oooo that sounds fun
Cameo by Walter or Saul
But i got money on my boy Mike
@@kathyclark3752 mike is the best ever
John Wick Vs Frank castle
I normally love your vids but this has been by far my most favorite. You have so much good info and knowledge and you can hear it and see it in your mannerisms that you're super into this breakdown.
Tl;dr - love the reactions!
Ever consider branching into music videos from other franchises? Gaming and the like?
Perhaps
This is in fact my favorite ERB of all of them. You make the point that Frank was progressive for his time, in fact most people in show business were quite progressive because of the homosexuals and other types of people that were in it. However, due to the time, they couldn't speak out about it, and that's what I think they're playing on. And also the bigoted mafia stereotype. Homosexuality is, even today, not allowed in La Cosa Nostra. I appreciate that you caught the thing about Frank being a draft dodger, I didn't know that. I also have no idea what the South America line means either. You did miss a couple little things, butthole roulette is a reference to Las Vegas, where the Rat Pack called home. Guinea and dago are "epithets" would have been a good opportunity to show that word. But, I as an Italian American, isn't bothered by most slurs. And most of the people I know and relatives get a kick out of it. Mostly because we're so proud of being Italian that we just don't care.
Your issue with this is that Frank wasn't racist or homophobic, so this was unrealistic. If he were in this for real, he probably would have made the jabs about Freddys sexuality simply because it's "low hanging fruit", it's easy to diss that. I particularly love the line about the "coloreds and the queers" because the antiquated terms are slurs today. And I didn't know that about Sammy Davis, I just thought he was a bit effiminate and that was the joke. "Wait in line" is a joke about Freddie's multiple partners. Anyway, this is still my favorite, I wish you liked it as much as me. They do a lot of research on these and I've only found one glaring error. Skrillex doesn't use Cubase, he's quite known to use Ableton, and Ableton would have fit the verse anyway. Thanks for what you do.
Man you are cranking through these! Love your analysis!
Even more ERB reaction / breakdown :D Holy cow YAY!
By the way Skeem, can we expect more songs from you and Blindsight in the future?
Hopefully.
@@WeSkeem Was kind of hoping you would say "Yea we are working on something right now" xD
@@kasperandresen8898 lol
@@WeSkeem Hell. Fucking. Yes
Hooray for early access!
To account the UK line. I am mexican. And we LOVE Queen.
This is accurate.
I think it´s more on the fact that he was more mainstream thant mercury? If that makes sense?
I actually didn't know these things about sinatra. I like his music and hearing we skeem tell us this just makes me happy
I gotta be honest I don't know why Blackbeard vs Capone is being so hyped, it was a good battle but nothing that crazy.
Eh, it has some good moments. But personally i prefer this one. Though thata mainly because i LOVE freddies rebutal at the start of his first verse
It's EpicLloyd's favorite? So maybe that!
blackmagic 93 cmon. A gangster vs a pirate. That’s badass
@@dragons0914 i mean..a pairing being..interesting, doesn't make it instantly really good. Yeah it's a decent battle. But personal not one of their best
BossMr51 a GANGSTER bro. He’s a G
I was gonna drink everytime you paused but that quickly became a bad idea
Pre watch comment- also, damn, is this 4 days in a Row of erb videos? Wow, skeem. Edit: so I watched the video, and I loved seeing the opinions back and forth about the disses you didn’t like. I always just took this battle at face value, but I feel like you really went with the behind the scenes on the characters, I appreciate that.
I've always found the battle weird for the reasons you said. Sinatra was a weak characterization.
Did anyone get the nod at the outro? Freddy famously did a sing along with the audience at the Wimbledon concert. He sang opera verses that the audience repeated before the opening of a song
I didn't notice the we will rock you beat in the beggining..so cool
We Skeem sounds like a bored teacher while doing these ERBs lol
Kinda sad that his songs ain't getting the same views
Interesting tidbit about 'My Way'; 'My Way' was originally a French song that a music studio, I'm only going off memory, wanted to be translated to English & David Bowie at the time had a job where he would translate foreign songs & record them in English.
He translated the song & named it 'Even a Fool Can Love', he sent in his work & waited til he got word back from the studio.
One day Bowie hears the song on the radio, but it's not _his_ song, the lyrics & vocals were different, they reason why was b/c it was Frank Sinatra singing the song, but it wasn't 'Even a Fool Can Love', it was 'My Way.'
So Bowie called up & asked, 'So um, what is this now?', 'Oh, well your lyrics sucked, so we got Sinatra to do it', 'oh OK, I get it.'
Then 'Life on Mars?' was born, a song made to get back at Sinatra.
Of course I'm merely going offa memory so maybe a detail or two are wrong, so here's a video going into more detail; th-cam.com/video/dd-b8GbOPKg/w-d-xo.html
Also, the 'Champion of The World' verse, might be a reference to the Queen Song, 'We Are The Champions.'
Love the channel you explain stuff i have no knowledge about.
It's not an ERB but you really should check out Dan Bull's "The Crew" and "The Crew 2" they are amazing
The portrayal of Freddie is just so sympathetic, it hits those marks. I do appreciate your factual information of Sinatra, a celebrity I have no issues with, and I can see how he was shifted as the villain. That worked with Tesla/Edison as facts have come out. I am not a huge fan of Sinatra, thanks for the information and possibly unpopular opinion!
woah woah. You're making rock music now? Bro, thats awesome! It's really cool that you're dabbling in different types of genres.
I don't think Sinatra's portrayal in the first verse contradicted the second. I think it's meant that he didn't appreciate Mercury's flamboyant behavior. As you mention about the BH roulette, Sinatra is fine with "queers", but there's a line to be drawn between having a preference and having a "lifestyle".
It’s an insightful comment about the how Sinatra’s progressiveness for the era is at odds with the nature of the burns he’s delivering-- yeah, I know, it’s a rap battle... I can’t see many of the participants actually saying the things they do (Mother Teresa, for instance...)... that being said, ERB isn’t the first to portray him in a weird duality that way; I’m reminded of how Joe Piscopo used to play him on SNL; in particular, that duet with Stevie Wonder (Eddie Murphy.)
Freddie and Queen also did all the songs to the movie HIghlander.
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Has to recomment because my last one was messed up. Great video tho skeem love the content love the early access.
Anyone notice at the end the words being repeated spell out "World Prime Ass"
Everytime you plug that song, I just lose it XD
i personally believe that the main reason that Frank would make the comments about Freddy's sexuality is because of how openly flamboyant he was about his lifestyle. in Frank's day, it was more on the downlow regarding what people did in private, since it was private.
I think you probably put as much research into the people erb pits against each other as they do 🤘 i wasnt aware Sinatra paid to keep from being drafted myself, this is one of my favorite epic rap battles to thanks for always breaking these down to man 🤘😄
I am not early access but I am biased to Freddy. He is my favorite singer due to his sheer stage presence.
I think the main thing is because theses are all fan voted, and most people probably have no idea about Frank Sinatra and then on the flip side, most people love Queen or Freddie Mercury. I think if ERB were to make a opponent vs Freddie Mercury they might of chose someone different.
I was one of the few who voted/guessed correctly. Praise me.
Consider yourself praised, good sir. Though I don't know how much that is worth coming from a stranger and a total non-entity on these interwebs...
Nah he's having a go at his dancing...
Here's the issue with ERB: they pick the character they like to win (especially if it's fits their view on history, politics or morality) and will write them to win even if it makes the battle suffer for it. This is easily one of the worse cases of it.
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I am a little concerned we are defining words like "disheveled"...
how is it concerning? As a non-native english speaker i find that quite helpful
I don't know about you, but I've never been heveled in my life.
The 4 notes in his whole range is basically hyperbole. They were both baritones with Sinatra singing to an A4 i believe and slowly less as he started smoking with age. But Freddie Mercury sang to an F6. So he's just straight up belittling him by comparison
I enjoyed this, thanks
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Do michael jackson vs elvis presley next
Damn 5 days in a row what did we do
If I recall correctly, Queen had a traveling tour called Rock the UK, which was very popular in South America. But that might be wrong, so *shrugs*
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While I like both artists, I have to go with Frank because he was open to performing with artists from around the world.On what would have been his 100th birthday they did a special on TV about him.He had an ear for talent because he performed with a bossa nova artist in the 70s from Brazil(can’t remember the name of the artist) and I’m fairly certain Freddie never did anything like that-I could be wrong though.Frank also sang with Elvis in the 50s and his album Sounds for Swingin’ Lovers was the soundtrack everyone used when they had sex during that time
I would subscribe but don't want you ending up like the others i subscribed to (I stopped watching them once I subscribed) so gonna just keep lurking and enjoying the vids
It’s like they did the Joe Piscopo version of Sinatra.
Of course you can be racist against an Italian. The true nature of racism is discrimination, which Is based on the making and underlining of differences. Racism is not just white against black. It can be any sort of somewhat enclosed cultural and ethnic group against any other such group. Yes you can be racist to Italians 😂😁
I think I heard in one of the background videos that it wasn’t so much that they didn’t like Sinatra, but that nice Peter was a huge Freddie Mercury fan.
This was also a really old video so maybe if they redid it, it would be better
Freddie mercury the greatest Singer of all time :D you should to react to Queen songs
It's a fucking rap battle they had to up play the fact that he was gay. Even if the character wasnt homophobic
I grew up on Sinatra since my parents were born in the 40s (I didn’t know how Bowie, Jagger, or Mercury were until I was like 12). I like him, but I kind of agree with my gran - she didn’t like him because he always sounded flat to her, and I can kind of hear it as well. And my mom was never much impressed with his acting. But he’s still cool.
Still with Freddie though.
If you don't get why this is so lop-sided, you don't understand their politics. Nice Peter is extreme left, and Lloyd is pretty close to it, too. Also, Nice Peter has a huge man crush on Freddy - like he even said something in the behind the scenes or something about Freddy was his favorite musician.
Evidence to the political bent - the video where there talked about coming back after 2 years. Peter went on about how badly hurt they were Hillary lost, and his disappointment in the US because of it.
At 7:08 and I'm still wondering where your proof that a man from the 50s and 60s would not be so cruel to another human being that was different than society's norms, regardless of their own affiliations. People were throwing each other under the bus calling each other commies.
Where is the proof that contradicts history?
The second verse sounded more like a tokenism, than appreciation or acceptance to me. 1 member, and I don't recall any marches, speeches or anything public, that couldn't also be linked to his mob connections, like which clubs to play at.
Sinatra wasn't dissing Freddie for being gay. He was dissing him for being irresponsibly oversexual, pointing at the cause of his death being his sex with another male. The problem? In order to make it come off as a diss, since it is a rap battle, it simply sounds homophobic - clarification of meaning is a complicated thing to do.
Or at least that's my take on it, considering ERB is known for being pretty in-depth with their character portrayal.
Either way? Freddy wins.
I've seen some reactors overexplain things, but you explain rape everything to death 🤯😳🤣
Oof.. If you think this was tilted towards one side, you should not watch the Banners one. Or the Jefferson vs Douglas one. ERB is being very PC in their favorites. But that's up to them, ofcourse - and they are still pretty damn funny to watch, especially the latter one.
Funny how you brought the moustache being part of the gay community. I realized I was bi when mine first started growing in.
Early access!!
Pennywise vs Freddy Krueger from freshly Jamal
The chewbacca defense lol ... it doesnt make sense
oof I’m not in the early access squad
Freddy was a great to be sure. Both where ahead of their perspective times truthfully.
7 years old at the start be like:
ILlUmInAtI cOnFiRmEd
I always thought "you people" was more towards rock stars not gays. "You'll do anything to get famous" to me means Rock Stars would do anything to get famous, they have no class.
Hey skeem don't know how you feel about UK rap but it would be cool to see your opinion on and artist called Scarlxrd if you haven't hear of him already.
Here's a comment for the algorithm
During that time period, it was not uncommon to refer to any group as you people. Wether it was gay, Hispanic, black, broads, etc...
just wanted to say that sinatra in fact had a 2 octave range. Like you said, nothing to scoff at, but small compared to freddie's range
I looked up the Italian words Guinea and dago and as you said, it just said it was ethnic slurs not exactly saying what the slur was, but I can figure out what it is though.lol
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Anyone else not like Sinatra enough to not have known that these bars didn’t make sense until now? 😂 I knew way more about Mercury before seeing Skeem’s reaction. 🤔 The more you know I guess.
Franks sing range is that impressive. He has a rich voice tho i can give him that. But his range from all the songs i heard by him sing has never been to crazy. I definitely haven’t heard every Sinatra song tho soo that might be my problem
He hits (I think) a G#4 in “You are Love”
Post premier dad joke algorithm comment
What time did the man go to the dentist?
Tooth hurt-y
Boooo!!!
Dad jokes are not funny.
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You can very much be racist against Italians - racism and nationalism grew up next to each other; a lot of what we consider "racist" is is pretty much just taking nationalist stereotypes and trying to get a genetic component out of them. It's pretty common to look at 18th and 19th (and early 20th) century texts and ads, and see them talking about "the Irish race" or "the French race".
Racism grew out of ethnocentricism -> the belief that your "extended tribe" (ie, your city-state or country) was inherently superior. That's the whole "500 years ago people weren't racist" idea. It's true, but that's because they were ethnocentric instead. Folks back then weren't racist in the modern sense, because modern racism requires that people create social categories that include individuals living thousands of miles away form each other, on different continents. (ie, black people in Austraila are somehow the same as those living in West Africa.) Society as a whole just didn't have that sort of cultural self-awareness to make that sort of thing work.
The intermediary step between Ethnocentricism and modern racism is a form of "lesser racism", I suppose (in terms of the category size), where what we would consider "white" people being fully racist against each other: the Irish in particular if you were English, but yeah - also the Italians.
Skeem are you gonna do a face reveal?