I’m finding comfort in this today, Nov. 6, 2024. We still have art. We still have our voices. We still have all of each other who are also suffering today. We are strong.
@@jonathansharp37 I have so many wonderful friends in America. Thinking of them today . Praying for love and understanding. when one side is getting strong, the other is getting strong too...♥
@pattiaroneseno2866 from overseas, it just seems like Trump plays to people of lower education with his simple words and rhetoric. Also those who rely on hunting rifles for their food would be comforted by the fact that he supports guns.
Seriously. Just came back today for the first time after hearing it when trump "might" have become president and here we are at a precipice again. I pay the right thing is done.
we cannot lose hope now. came back to this today for the very same reason. we may have lost this battle but we WILL win the war. this too shall pass. love and strength to you guys 💙💙💙
I LOVE Spotify, but I loved my IPod more! I had this and a few other songs that aren’t available to the public downloaded to it. Sadly it stopped working. I suppose I’ll have to make a TH-cam playlist!
Something about "Angry? Am I angry? You ask am I angry? And I'm at a loss for words..."Is just beautifully chilling. There's just so much under the surface there, so much emotion.
@@pattiaroneseno2866 I know this song from when it was released and I even put it on Twitter, with the lyrics, something I used to do, or parts from a song or poem or quotes. And to think the man is running again and this could all just blow up in our faces, unless he's indicted for more than just Stormy Daniels lawsuit, which is more political and won't end up being prison time, but the jne in Georgia, fhars the one I am coubrujg on and January 6th ofcause. Esp now the right is trying to weapoinize it, by calling it fake news, showing pictures where they walked through the Capitol, sightseeing, yeah right, out of context, they cherry picked their content, only showing the meek parts, if you can call it that and they keep forgetting pppl died that day, officers who ended up in the hospital, the PTSD many have required, like Fantone, who testified in the hearings was so dissapiubted, he lost all faith in the Republicans or their so called love for our police and army, even now some are for Putin?!🙄🇺🇸💖🇺🇦✌🏼🌊🌹✊🏽
Leslie Odom Jr's voice sounds like honey. Sara is one of my favorite musicians and wrote a really great song, and they couldn't have asked a better vocalist to sing this. Love it.
I feel the same way about this song. I reshare it often on Facebook. When I listen to it, I do so repeatedly. In perfectly encapsulates every feeling I have about this administration. Sara and Lamar hit this one spot on.
I saved this episode of "This American Life" when it first ran, and still flash back to it periodically. This song is the capstone, and gets me every time. How can we possibly be in this place again?! VOTE BLUE, everyone. Kick that guy to the curb once and for all. My gosh - he's like Freddie Krueger!!
2020 - Coronavirus, corruption, insurrection, anger, heartbreak, anguish...please feel free to add to the list. This is one of my favorite songs, and it has been so self-fulfilling, sadly. Seriously.
SB is a a genius musician, lyricist and story teller. This needs to be a musical. Odom is absolutely relevant to everything that is beautifully sung. Wow, just wow ❤
Drum 3a Have you listened to ANYTHING the Trump racist has spewed? Wait until he turns his racist agenda in your direction. Let me know how it feels when that happens. Acolyte.
hpaich Apparently you haven't listened, because he has never said anything racist. In fact, the people of color who support Trump have stood up to the kkk demorats
OMG this so damn good! Yes it’s 2022 and I am still HERE!!! This song gives me chills. It’s beautifully written and Leslie’s voice is like hot butter over salted popcorn 🍿 sooooo good.
🤣Love the parallel of the warm voice as in "real butter," not the fake stuff.(and I agree, love Leslie Odom's jr take on the Bareillies lyric. But I first heard this prophetic tune in Sept/Oct. of 2015 ..It was a sign of what was to come. and, did it ever!
"No man's ignorance will ever be his virtue." Just one of many soul-searching lines in this incredible song waiting for America whenever we decide to look in the mirror.
Imagine singing this today, after George Floyd. "Red white and blue, is black in there too?" Lord. The relevance of this song. "By a demagogue flexing, a demagogue flexing" that prophecy.
Glad you used the word prophecy. It justs happens that President Trump was prophesied about since 1983 up until 2014 that God would raise Donald Trump to bring the country back to what God had intended.
It is difficult to understand the collective meanness of a nation composed of so many decent and good individuals. I have American friends and relatives supporting a person diametrically opposed to what I thought they stood for. It saddens and baffles me. Thanks for this beautiful, hopeful song.
It's complex. There are a good contingent of people who will never vote for a democratic candidate because of the political differences between that party and the republican party. There are also people who see Trump as an outsider who, regardless of his rhetoric, will disrupt the status quo. Those people are so disgusted with intense gridlock and partisan nature of politics that the idea of someone shaking up the status quo is very appealing to them. There are of course some people who Trump's message appeals to directly. People who are fearful of Muslims and of terrorism. People who feel like non-white immigrants have more presence and more representation in public life than they had in the past. This is why Trump has gotten support from groups like the KKK and other white nationalist groups. This is one of the more troubling aspects of Trump's campaign. Tied into that group are the group of middle Americans who have graduated high school and in some cases college only to find that the kinds of jobs their parents worked, manufacturing jobs, that provided a livable wage for a family, benefits, and a pension, are mostly all gone. Trumps promises to bring them back. Whether or not he can that is appealing to a lot of people. I haven't even touched on why voters may not wish to support Hillary Clinton, and there are plenty of reasons why that may be the case. So remember when this election is way closer than it should be, this is the result of increasingly partisan politics. We need to solve this issue, and there are ways to do it, or else this will be the new norm as we see a growing percentage of our population deeply unhappy with the opportunities being presented to them.
This is, truly, one of the greatest pieces of music/poetry/political representation that I have ever heard. I have shared it with so many, and every time I listen to it (must be close to 70 by now) I love it more. Sara Bareilles really chose well when she picked Leslie Odom, Jr to sing this.
I can't stop listening to this, nor stop being moved to tears. Sara ( our hometown girl) You have written a masterpiece, much needed, and as sad as it is, it speaks volumes of truth. Thank you for having the humility not sing it yourself, but have a man of color ( with an incredible voice and much passion) who best represents what it's about. Though I love all of your music, lyrics, voice, piano skills, THIS my dear, can change people deeply. Thank you. LOVE.....the ONLY answer
Thank you Sara Bareilles, Leslie Odom, Jr, This American Life and these musicians for creating this moving work of art and social commentary. I welcome beauty in the world, even when it is poignant as this piece is.
every time he sings "angry" leading into that last verse my hair stands on end. Sara Bareilles nailed the song's lyrics and Leslie Odom Jr. translated it perfectly.
I discovered the song before the inauguration too, and cried & cried. I am still crying. Still angry. I share this every chance I get because it is still relevant
"Let's talk of fear... It's a dangerous word. It spooks the herd. And we all bleed in the stampede." Four years later it breaks my heart how Bareilles nailed it on top of the head. Dead center.
Imagine a musical about the current political climate starring Leslie Odom Jr. as Barack Obama. This song is the first song Obama sings in the entire musical... like he doesn't sing for a majority of the first part of the musical... and then suddenly this emotional scene where he's sitting in the Oval Office reflecting on the results of the recent election.
Ha! That's funny because I begged Kristin & Robert Lopez to create a musical about recent politics thanks to their Paul Ryan inner monologue song from THIS week's This American Life episode: www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/600/will-i-know-anyone-at-this-party The song's lead in starts at 8:20. I say they all collaborate -- show politicians how it's done.
@@cadencesturgeon3561 Hardly he worked his butt why not cast himself, make a name for himself in the game Besides there are projects where he doesn't take the lead so what's the problem?
I literally listen to this 24/7. There has never been a song that rings more true and with Leslie's voice and Sara's genius, it's an honest masterpiece
I've never heard this song until today. Where has it been? It's magic. Thanks, Sara Bareilles, for writing it, and Leslie's voice is like butter...smooth.
I don't think this is limited to just what Obama might be thinking. This captured everything I myself have pondered during this whole debacle. Thank you for doing this, it is absolutely amazing.
Sara is an absolute genius, and Leslie’s voice is soooooooo smooth I juts love this song! I wish it was actually a song that I could buy or play from Spotify or something😍
I've listened to this about a dozen times. Chills every time. The instrumentation, the words, the voice.... the message. Thank you, Sara Bareilles. Thank you, TAL for all you do to brighten and and enlighten our world.
This song is really cathartic in the wake of the election. It encapsulates my own feelings so well and serves as a channel for similar emotions to what I'm feeling. I've been listening to it on repeat all day, because it allows me to lament for a span of time and then try to move forward when the song ends. A cycle I continue until I feel a bit better.
This is absolutely wonderful, still ....in 2023...... I feel so moved and distressed by more recent events and: "no man's ignorance will ever be his virtue...." and "every battle hard won".....Yes, I agree!! Let's take it seriously. Because our survival as a democracy depends on it. Nothing less than that.
BRILLIANT! ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT SONG - both music & lyrics by the gifted Sara Bareilles.& Great singing & presentation by singer Leslie Odom & supporting musicians. Thank you to This American Life for asking Sara Bareilles to imagine these words by the former President Barack Obama. A true work of art.
Still get chills from this. SO good. Watching Sesame Street with my daughter today and saw Leslie Odom Jr singing rubber ducky so beautifully (lol 😂) and it made me look him up because his voice is stunning. Stumbled on this video that I LOVED from so many years back to realize it was him! So good. ❤
OMG! That was fantastic. It resonates so deeply within me. The saddest thing about the Cheeto's presidency is that it was so easy for him to tap into the worse parts of Americans. The fear, distrust, anger, prejudice and me first attitude that I saw slowly being removed from our national personality, he brought roaring back with selfish cruel intentions. This piece spoke to that with quiet intensity. Brava.
So, so fucking good. Well written, I love the instrumentals, and Leslie Odom's voice captures the emotion so well. I really wish I could have seen him in "Hamilton." Thank you Sara Bareilles and This American Life for a fantastic song to help get me through this circus of an election.
This song is what keeps my hope for this country going. It is a reminder of what we are really about during this incredibly painful and confusing time. Thank you to everyone who created it.
This puts into words the pain all the devisive language of hate and fear-mongering is generating in our country. Thank you to This American Life, Sara Bareilles, and Leslie Odom Jr., for you collaboration and courage to remind us all to take this election...seriously.
I played the video countless times over the weekend, it does not tire. It seems to me it shows beyond the music, lyrics and that glorious voice, a collaboration. Each has their part (eg the sound engineer etc) to make the whole contribution?
The lyrics are so thoughtful and heart-wrenching. Sara Bareilles did a wonderful job and Leslie Odom, Jr. made the lyrics his own. Thanks to all of you who put this thing together. You represent the best of America.
Joanne Ritter you are so sweet Joanne I have been reading the replies and every time anyone says something to the effect of "Pleasr, how can I acquire/ download/purchase this amazing song ?!?" You have quickly responded with the URL many times... it is truly comforting as well as wonderful to know that there are still many decent and caring Americans standing strong... NOW we just have to all get out and vote! Thank you again, Madeline
Can't stop listening to this piece of brilliance. The writing is nuanced and insightful, and Leslie Odom Jr.'s voice is pure velvet ecstasy. Can't wait to be able to download - would pay good money for this.
November 6, 2024 and again this song is relevant. Seriously.
Was the first thing I thought seeing the results this morning.
💙💙💙
He's history repeating. Angry? am I angry? You ask am I angry? And I'm at a loss for words
I came back to it as well.
@@lrech1218 It's so painful, isn't it.
I’m finding comfort in this today, Nov. 6, 2024. We still have art. We still have our voices. We still have all of each other who are also suffering today. We are strong.
💙💙💙
@@jonathansharp37 I have so many wonderful friends in America. Thinking of them today . Praying for love and understanding. when one side is getting strong, the other is getting strong too...♥
I'm so happy I remembered the song title again.
Me too. Except why didn't people listen. I even played this for folks during this election
@pattiaroneseno2866 from overseas, it just seems like Trump plays to people of lower education with his simple words and rhetoric. Also those who rely on hunting rifles for their food would be comforted by the fact that he supports guns.
2024 and I still think of this all the time. So relevant.
Same. It seems more and more relevant. Seriously.
Me too.
4 years later and this more relevant that anyone ever anticipated.
Absolutely crushing. A demagogue, indeed.
Wow! United divided States.. this here!
Seriously. Just came back today for the first time after hearing it when trump "might" have become president and here we are at a precipice again. I pay the right thing is done.
I was literally just saying this.
As my weird friend would say, sing it from the rooftops
2024 November 6-still the same. 😢 Come here for comfort from the people who know the pain of what has happened to our country.
We all need to stick together. Support one another. 💙
we cannot lose hope now. came back to this today for the very same reason. we may have lost this battle but we WILL win the war. this too shall pass. love and strength to you guys 💙💙💙
Sara Bareilles is absolutely brilliant in song writing (and singing).... and Leslie, second to none. This is a masterpiece
Yes. Yes it is!
You could make Leslie sing a grocery list and it would still be so emotional and incredible
Clyto yes and I would have it memorized
Too true. He'll have me crying in a grocery aisle about wanting to buy 5 tomatoes too.
Ha! #SERIOUSLY!!!
I believe Lin once said he would listen to this man sing the phone book^^ true!
Or sell insurance.
It’s 2023 and I still come back to this performance time and time again. I am so moved by the words ……The music…. The voice…..the message
2024 now and still rings true.
Me as well
8 years later, still ringing in my ears. So well done. 👏🏾
Election on the horizon and still so true
Nearly 7 years later and I still just want this to make it onto Spotify.
Same here!
Yes please...
We need this now! How does it work?
For real! Idk how it's not already on there!
I LOVE Spotify, but I loved my IPod more! I had this and a few other songs that aren’t available to the public downloaded to it. Sadly it stopped working. I suppose I’ll have to make a TH-cam playlist!
Something about "Angry? Am I angry? You ask am I angry? And I'm at a loss for words..."Is just beautifully chilling. There's just so much under the surface there, so much emotion.
Eloquence personified.
If I make it to this point without crying, this is when I fall apart without fail.
Absolutely. Very chilling. EVERY word is True. 6 1/2 years later
@@pattiaroneseno2866 I know this song from when it was released and I even put it on Twitter, with the lyrics, something I used to do, or parts from a song or poem or quotes. And to think the man is running again and this could all just blow up in our faces, unless he's indicted for more than just Stormy Daniels lawsuit, which is more political and won't end up being prison time, but the jne in Georgia, fhars the one I am coubrujg on and January 6th ofcause. Esp now the right is trying to weapoinize it, by calling it fake news, showing pictures where they walked through the Capitol, sightseeing, yeah right, out of context, they cherry picked their content, only showing the meek parts, if you can call it that and they keep forgetting pppl died that day, officers who ended up in the hospital, the PTSD many have required, like Fantone, who testified in the hearings was so dissapiubted, he lost all faith in the Republicans or their so called love for our police and army, even now some are for Putin?!🙄🇺🇸💖🇺🇦✌🏼🌊🌹✊🏽
I feel the same way each time I listen to this song. Seriously.
SARA'S WRITING
LESLIE'S VOICE
I'M EMOTIONALLY UNPREPARED FOR THIS BEAUTY
Rani Jones A
AYE
Rani Jones AYE I'M JUST HERE FOR MY DAILY LISTEN
SAME TBH
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Five years later and this song still breaks my heart. Everything changed after this.
And here we are, 8 years later. Repeating the same terrible mistake. They didn't learn. They didn't listen. 🥺
That line, "red, white, and blue. Is black in there too?" Gets me every time
yes, it's indeed awesome!
EVERY time...
seriously.
Noah Bradford EVERY TIIIIMMMEEE
ME TOO.
Leslie Odom Jr. was the perfect person to get to sing this song
7 years later and I’m sharing this on FB because it’s still so wildly applicable.
Maybe even moreso 😢
So sadly applicable.
"No man's ignorance will ever be his virtue."
And yet the complicit will never know nor care for... ignorance is bliss.
Reply to original video asking for rebroadcast, thanks
@@TheFlratcatcher reply to original video asking for rebroadcast please, thanks
I want that on a t-shirt. Or better yet, a face mask.
“Fear makes a false friend indeed.” These lyrics are so profound.
Angry?
Am I angry?
You ask am I angry?
And I'm at a loss for words...
AMAZING.
Sara is such an amazing writer.
marbledillon Oboma can't think this deeply
He was president of the Harvard Law Review. What have you accomplished?
Joseph Taylor Padded resume fooled many people
lol
+Joseph Taylor So, what were his grades like? That's classified.
Leslie Odom Jr's voice sounds like honey. Sara is one of my favorite musicians and wrote a really great song, and they couldn't have asked a better vocalist to sing this. Love it.
Anyone else listen to this completely stunned from line one to the last, addled with goosebumps head to toe? No? Just me?
Nope, not just you. Over a year later and I still play this song (I can't play it just once, usually 3 times in a row).
same
Oh ya....goosebumps
I feel the same way about this song. I reshare it often on Facebook. When I listen to it, I do so repeatedly. In perfectly encapsulates every feeling I have about this administration. Sara and Lamar hit this one spot on.
You are not alone! Goosebumps!
I saved this episode of "This American Life" when it first ran, and still flash back to it periodically. This song is the capstone, and gets me every time. How can we possibly be in this place again?! VOTE BLUE, everyone. Kick that guy to the curb once and for all. My gosh - he's like Freddie Krueger!!
2020 - Coronavirus, corruption, insurrection, anger, heartbreak, anguish...please feel free to add to the list. This is one of my favorite songs, and it has been so self-fulfilling, sadly. Seriously.
You are so right. We have to fight this all or we are done as a democracy
"United, Divided states" I get a little pain in my chest every time that line comes. Because sadly, no matter how much I hate it...
Truth hurts
Me too😪
I can’t say anything cuz I’m Canadian but I love this song
Rexcibtw same bro. XD
Let;s make America UNITED again. SERIOUSLY!
😢 if only
SB is a a genius musician, lyricist and story teller. This needs to be a musical. Odom is absolutely relevant to everything that is beautifully sung. Wow, just wow ❤
This song is more relevant and important today than ever.
wow. this is equal parts absolutely beautiful and absolutely heart-breaking.
Korra We get it. You're a Trump acolyte. Go back and hang with the racist hate-monger.
hpaich Donald Trump is not racist, and wants to help people. #corruptDNC relies on misinformation and low-info voters.
Drum 3a Have you listened to ANYTHING the Trump racist has spewed? Wait until he turns his racist agenda in your direction. Let me know how it feels when that happens. Acolyte.
hpaich Apparently you haven't listened, because he has never said anything racist. In fact, the people of color who support Trump have stood up to the kkk demorats
Drum 3a Lies. Goodbye, acolyte.
OMG this so damn good! Yes it’s 2022 and I am still HERE!!! This song gives me chills. It’s beautifully written and Leslie’s voice is like hot butter over salted popcorn 🍿 sooooo good.
🤣Love the parallel of the warm voice as in "real butter," not the fake stuff.(and I agree, love Leslie Odom's jr take on the Bareillies lyric. But I first heard this prophetic tune in Sept/Oct. of 2015 ..It was a sign of what was to come. and, did it ever!
MY GOD, here I am again. Now I have to listen to it another 15 times.
"No man's ignorance will ever be his virtue."
Just one of many soul-searching lines in this incredible song waiting for America whenever we decide to look in the mirror.
Imagine singing this today, after George Floyd. "Red white and blue, is black in there too?" Lord. The relevance of this song. "By a demagogue flexing, a demagogue flexing" that prophecy.
George Floyd was a sad example to make a martyr and excuse looting and crimes. Very poor collective ethics.
Glad you used the word prophecy. It justs happens that President Trump was prophesied about since 1983 up until 2014 that God would raise Donald Trump to bring the country back to what God had intended.
We all knew what he was, even then. He has only exceeded expectations for how truly dangerous he could be.
My name is Baar Aack, I am a bit black, and I own that bullet -proof Cadillac!
So just give me more slack , Jack --
and YOU can sit in the back.
@@1964pencil No, he fooled us in the beginning and some are still believers.
It is difficult to understand the collective meanness of a nation composed of so many decent and good individuals. I have American friends and relatives supporting a person diametrically opposed to what I thought they stood for. It saddens and baffles me. Thanks for this beautiful, hopeful song.
It's complex. There are a good contingent of people who will never vote for a democratic candidate because of the political differences between that party and the republican party.
There are also people who see Trump as an outsider who, regardless of his rhetoric, will disrupt the status quo. Those people are so disgusted with intense gridlock and partisan nature of politics that the idea of someone shaking up the status quo is very appealing to them.
There are of course some people who Trump's message appeals to directly. People who are fearful of Muslims and of terrorism. People who feel like non-white immigrants have more presence and more representation in public life than they had in the past. This is why Trump has gotten support from groups like the KKK and other white nationalist groups. This is one of the more troubling aspects of Trump's campaign.
Tied into that group are the group of middle Americans who have graduated high school and in some cases college only to find that the kinds of jobs their parents worked, manufacturing jobs, that provided a livable wage for a family, benefits, and a pension, are mostly all gone. Trumps promises to bring them back. Whether or not he can that is appealing to a lot of people.
I haven't even touched on why voters may not wish to support Hillary Clinton, and there are plenty of reasons why that may be the case. So remember when this election is way closer than it should be, this is the result of increasingly partisan politics. We need to solve this issue, and there are ways to do it, or else this will be the new norm as we see a growing percentage of our population deeply unhappy with the opportunities being presented to them.
+Amir
Wonderfully explained
Your first statement took my breath away. It is right on the money. I couldn't have said it better. Thank you.
Wow I didn’t understand anything u just said but all I know is his voice is the most beautiful voice I’ve ever heard
You wrote so clearly what I have been feeling. Thank you.
I still love this song, it's timeless 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
2024
It keeps getting more timely and timeless
This is, truly, one of the greatest pieces of music/poetry/political representation that I have ever heard. I have shared it with so many, and every time I listen to it (must be close to 70 by now) I love it more. Sara Bareilles really chose well when she picked Leslie Odom, Jr to sing this.
Petition for Leslie to star in a musical about Obama
Sam Pomerant Yes please
Oh my god yes I gasped when I read your comment its such a good idea
Felix Catta i gasped too holy shit
Petition for it to be directed by Lin Manuel Miranda and Michael Grief.
THIS IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA SOMEONE PETITION LIN-MANUEL TO COMPOSE THAT SHIT
I can't stop listening to this, nor stop being moved to tears. Sara ( our hometown girl) You have written a masterpiece, much needed, and as sad as it is, it speaks volumes of truth. Thank you for having the humility not sing it yourself, but have a man of color ( with an incredible voice and much passion) who best represents what it's about. Though I love all of your music, lyrics, voice, piano skills, THIS my dear, can change people deeply. Thank you. LOVE.....the ONLY answer
I cry every time.
Thank you Sara Bareilles, Leslie Odom, Jr, This American Life and these musicians for creating this moving work of art and social commentary. I welcome beauty in the world, even when it is poignant as this piece is.
I keep coming back to this song. "Fear makes a false friend, indeed." Oo, so true!
Sara Bareilles + Leslie Odom Jr #PotentBeyondWords I'm still here in '22 marveling... 🤩👌🏾💯
every time he sings "angry" leading into that last verse my hair stands on end. Sara Bareilles nailed the song's lyrics and Leslie Odom Jr. translated it perfectly.
This song made me cry then, right before Trump's inauguration and it makes me cry now. It captures everything.
I discovered the song before the inauguration too, and cried & cried. I am still crying. Still angry. I share this every chance I get because it is still relevant
@@pattiaroneseno2866 me too.... I'm also "at a loss for words." I just keep passing on this message of profound truth & brilliance.
"Let's talk of fear...
It's a dangerous word.
It spooks the herd.
And we all bleed in the stampede."
Four years later it breaks my heart how Bareilles nailed it on top of the head. Dead center.
That part!
"No man's ignorance will ever be his virtue..." I have a new respect for Sara and Leslie, plus the musicians are funky, I love it.
It’s Election Day 2024 and I’ve come back to this song a second time…
2023 and I still come back to hear Leslie Odom Jr. sing this. He has so much emotion in his voice when he sings and it’s so mesmerizing
Imagine a musical about the current political climate starring Leslie Odom Jr. as Barack Obama. This song is the first song Obama sings in the entire musical... like he doesn't sing for a majority of the first part of the musical... and then suddenly this emotional scene where he's sitting in the Oval Office reflecting on the results of the recent election.
I WILL WRITE THIS MUSICAL! I WILL IMAGINE IT! BECAUSE I WANT!THIS!MUSICAL!
This would be an amazing musical!!! I’d pay to see it!!!
That would be so dope!!!
SOMEONE GET LIN MANUEL MIRANDA AND WEIRD AL ON THE PHONE!
I WANT IT
Watching this after 1-6-2021 hits so much harder than it originally did. And it hit so hard originally.
Can Sara Bareilles write another musical (perhaps in collaboration with LMM?) that's directly about recent politics?
Ha! That's funny because I begged Kristin & Robert Lopez to create a musical about recent politics thanks to their Paul Ryan inner monologue song from THIS week's This American Life episode:
www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/600/will-i-know-anyone-at-this-party
The song's lead in starts at 8:20.
I say they all collaborate -- show politicians how it's done.
Great idea! Can you imagine...?
not sure that would be a good idea cuz i think we would ALL EXPLODE FROM THE INSANE LEVEL OF TALENT
Bro LMM is so overrated. He cast HIMSELF as the lead XD how self obsessed can you be?
@@cadencesturgeon3561 Hardly he worked his butt why not cast himself, make a name for himself in the game
Besides there are projects where he doesn't take the lead so what's the problem?
Sara Bareilles never ceases to amaze me! ❤❤❤
The has to be the most underrated song and performance. Bareilles and Odom. Wow. Seriously :)
I literally listen to this 24/7. There has never been a song that rings more true and with Leslie's voice and Sara's genius, it's an honest masterpiece
Four years later and it is still relevant... Seriously?
Leslie's voice is so freaking beautiful. It just gives me chills every single time i hear it.
On this day of sorrow, this song plays in my head ever more urgently. Seriously.
one man rewriting the book on bad behaviour
goddamit, why is this woman so perfect
I've never heard this song until today. Where has it been? It's magic. Thanks, Sara Bareilles, for writing it, and Leslie's voice is like butter...smooth.
On my knees and crying.
I don't think this is limited to just what Obama might be thinking. This captured everything I myself have pondered during this whole debacle. Thank you for doing this, it is absolutely amazing.
Sara is an absolute genius, and Leslie’s voice is soooooooo smooth I juts love this song! I wish it was actually a song that I could buy or play from Spotify or something😍
In the last four years, it never got better. Not a minute of relief.
I've listened to this about a dozen times. Chills every time. The instrumentation, the words, the voice.... the message. Thank you, Sara Bareilles. Thank you, TAL for all you do to brighten and and enlighten our world.
I can't stop listening to this. The lyrics are like poetry
The lyrics are poetry
Eight years later and I still feel the same chills and, and fear for our future.
Just when I thought I couldn't appreciate This American Life and our serious, dignified, committed and wonderful president any more.
Seriously.
Jesus. Too much genius to handle. I've got goosebumps.
WOW!!!! 4 years later and this hits me like a brick! Totally stunning and excellently done.
"Fear makes a false friend indeed". Damn, that is a killer line!
I literally cant stop repaying this song... it needs to be published!
When geniuses collaborate, that was absolutely beautiful!
glitterandglueforyou Seriously!! 😍
This song is really cathartic in the wake of the election. It encapsulates my own feelings so well and serves as a channel for similar emotions to what I'm feeling. I've been listening to it on repeat all day, because it allows me to lament for a span of time and then try to move forward when the song ends. A cycle I continue until I feel a bit better.
CaptainQuirky me too baby.
Exquisitely, profoundly, transcendent. Utterly serious. Sara and Leslie, this is achievement unqualified. My gratitude.
This is absolutely wonderful, still ....in 2023...... I feel so moved and distressed by more recent events and: "no man's ignorance will ever be his virtue...." and "every battle hard won".....Yes, I agree!! Let's take it seriously. Because our survival as a democracy depends on it. Nothing less than that.
the lyrics, his voice, what a beautiful blend.Amazing.I can listen to this the whole night.
Need to bring this video back to the fore... the election of 2020 needs to see this, again.
BRILLIANT! ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT SONG - both music & lyrics by the gifted Sara Bareilles.& Great singing & presentation by
singer Leslie Odom & supporting musicians. Thank you to This American Life for asking Sara Bareilles to imagine these words
by the former President Barack Obama. A true work of art.
Still get chills from this. SO good. Watching Sesame Street with my daughter today and saw Leslie Odom Jr singing rubber ducky so beautifully (lol 😂) and it made me look him up because his voice is stunning. Stumbled on this video that I LOVED from so many years back to realize it was him! So good. ❤
Damn Sara this is amazing!!! And Leslie those vocals were insane!
June2 2020... please re broadcast this video... we need it re seen asap.. bring hope to those that feel there is none.. thank you...
I listen to this everyday. And still, I cry.
Yvette Kopp You and me both ... 😔😢
And now it's 2024. The song still haunts with its sadness and warnings. Even more poignant today than 7 years ago.
2.5 years later, every word still punches to the gut! Truth!
This song is just everything right now. It gives me chills every time I listen to it.
I haven’t been able to listen to this in four LONG years. Thanks Joe!!!
OMG! That was fantastic. It resonates so deeply within me. The saddest thing about the Cheeto's presidency is that it was so easy for him to tap into the worse parts of Americans. The fear, distrust, anger, prejudice and me first attitude that I saw slowly being removed from our national personality, he brought roaring back with selfish cruel intentions. This piece spoke to that with quiet intensity. Brava.
So, so fucking good. Well written, I love the instrumentals, and Leslie Odom's voice captures the emotion so well. I really wish I could have seen him in "Hamilton." Thank you Sara Bareilles and This American Life for a fantastic song to help get me through this circus of an election.
I come back and watch this every few months and it still gets me every time. Brilliant.
When you've listened to this so many times, you technically count as 5% of its total views...
Hahaha me too!! Over and over, I am hitting replay.
I've been jones'n for them to post this!
TheBookworm741 I'm doing the same!!!! I love this.
More like 25% now
haha me too. There's like… 12 of us that have listened to it those 5 million times. (Not Seriously).
Leslie’s voice blesses all our eardrums, don’t deny it
This song is what keeps my hope for this country going. It is a reminder of what we are really about during this incredibly painful and confusing time. Thank you to everyone who created it.
I hope with all my heart that Obama sees this
Maddy Evans I'm sure he has
I have imagined what that would look like. I imagine tears and a flood of thought and emotion. Quite the same as myself, actually.
@@music4ever159 I sure hope so
This puts into words the pain all the devisive language of hate and fear-mongering is generating in our country. Thank you to This American Life, Sara Bareilles, and Leslie Odom Jr., for you collaboration and courage to remind us all to take this election...seriously.
THAT is a voice like butter. A cool, hopeful song indeed, with the smoothest tones I think I've possibly ever heard.
Sarah and Leslie are so freaking talented!
Beautiful and terrifying, art at its best.
yes. before i die, i wish to contribute something so meaningful.
I played the video countless times over the weekend, it does not tire. It seems to me it shows beyond the music, lyrics and that glorious voice, a collaboration. Each has their part (eg the sound engineer etc) to make the whole contribution?
Yeknodathon I really like this one
Sublime!
The lyrics are so thoughtful and heart-wrenching. Sara Bareilles did a wonderful job and Leslie Odom, Jr. made the lyrics his own. Thanks to all of you who put this thing together. You represent the best of America.
I've watched this every day since I first saw it and it blows my mind every time like it's the first time... LOVE
www.thisamericanlife.org/blog/2016/10/this-american-vote-in-song
Joanne Ritter you are so sweet Joanne I have been reading the replies and every time anyone says something to the effect of "Pleasr, how can I acquire/ download/purchase this amazing song ?!?" You have quickly responded with the URL many times... it is truly comforting as well as wonderful to know that there are still many decent and caring Americans standing strong... NOW we just have to all get out and vote! Thank you again, Madeline
We're all in this together, Madeline! You're note made my day!
Joanne Ritter Thank you so much! Have an awesome weekend! :)
I come back to this periodically, um seriously. But damn in 2022- 20forever? Here we are. My heart breaks.
And now. Dec 2022, the Committee makes recommendations to the DOJ. An American watching, Seriously.
Can't stop listening to this piece of brilliance. The writing is nuanced and insightful, and Leslie Odom Jr.'s voice is pure velvet ecstasy. Can't wait to be able to download - would pay good money for this.
It's free until December 3: www.thisamericanlife.org/blog/2016/10/this-american-vote-in-song
That is so beautiful. Leslie Odom Jr has a wonderful voice. Great lyrics, Sara.
Wow. Just wow. Leslie is an amazing vocalist. Pair him with such a gifted writer and....magic.