“Little do we know that trying to stay young is what is making us grow old.” What a line. Grace is saying that fretting over the future and the past blinds one to all the beauty that life presents to us every moment of every day. Better to just live in the moment because living this way allows one to appreciate life on a deeper and more meaningful level. Grace is a poet as much as she is a musician. Shades of Bob Dylan.
It always makes me feel so good to watch your reactions to Grace. People that don't know Grace really need to watch your reactions to her. Your breakdown of her lyrics are very insightful and very much appreciated. I also mentioned your shout out to Fable on a comment at his channel. Both of you really understand Grace and fully put into words what the whole world should hear.
Trip, thanks very much. The world simply HAS to know about Grace. I appreciate your shout-out to Fable. I’ve commented a few times on his channel complementing him for his superlative analysis and spot-on comments. Love his British humor! I’m glad there are people like you and Fable and many of my subscribers and perhaps millions of others who really get Grace and love her. Thanks again my friend.
Grace is a ‘savant’ a “visionary” able to see things that others can’t a “connection” with her environment I’ve felt this to through my life this “connection” have you ever stood in a wood or a forest and closed your eyes and just.. “feel”.. there is something else...
reflexxtr ... Yes, I have felt that and I think a lot of others have, especially those who connect with Grace and her music. I have felt this sort of deep ambient bond to life and never lost it. I connect with Grace and her music at some level that is almost surreal. Thanks
Wonderful, Dax! You are one insightful and knowledgeable guy. Thanks for letting me sit for a while behind your eyeballs and behind your eardrums. I agree totally with your insight. Grace does have a rare talent for juxtaposing fantasy against reality in a way that few have ever possessed.
WDCousins, thank you. Doing reactions has been a bit of a humbling experience. I seem to be quite a bit more eloquent in my mind while I’m on the couch watching Grace and other great performers. But being in front of the camera can sometimes momentarily yank the mind out of those creative depths at the most inopportune moment. 😉 Thanks again.
Here's the link to the full coffee house session. Listen to it all and you will be stunned by how much she has matured in her music and of course the other half of the duo, Melissa. th-cam.com/video/wQv5pULYxH4/w-d-xo.html The first time I heard Lungs was your reaction of the song. This song is so complex and yet it was written by a child. Just listen to the power of her lungs and vocals. She always brings tears and goosebumps.
This is the greatest song of Grace's that we will never hear her sing live. She doesn't seem to consider her bonus songs as candidates for her concerts. I think I heard her talk about it. The songs themselves were selected from the many songs she wrote that didn't make into Just the Beginning . So Lungs and Hope for Change are Honerable Mentions. Plus since they are not on all albums she feels it's not fair to play them or something.
Great audio experiment! Reminds me of old Chaplin movies, just without the background music. I'm confident that it was very intersting from the way your face moves :-) Cheers. For me Lungs + Hope For Change is located in the cherry of her cakes - music and lyrics wise.
To be honest, when I got the my second copy Of Just The Beginning CD from Target it was to get the 2 extra songs, the other one didn't have the extra tracks. Lungs was one of those tracks. It was the first time that I had heard the song and it took sometime for it to grow on me. I love the song now. If I had to rate the songs of Grace's it would be close to the top of the songs. For me now, Darkness and Today and Tomorrow are at the top, with Tomorrow just winning out. Tomorrow hits home for me because of losing my wife Lorraine. At the end seeing Stargirl's office hits me hard, because to me it shows the lose of her moving on, like my wife's office which was not near as beautiful as Stargirl's.
Hey Dax, thank you for this 3rd reaction! 😊 Sadly the audio quality is in the first minutes full of "rain"? Anyway, you can truely make a reaction to every single performance of every song, because Grace sings a song nearly never the same, but I know that you know this! 😉
reflexxtr ... Many of us on here have been saying the same thing for months. This song is so unbelievably developed and performed on a gut level, and yet she doesn’t or can’t sing it in public. Not sure. Sure hope so also one day. Thanks
reflexxtr - I cant even buy the darn song on iTunes. So sad because it’s the only grace song I have not purchased, and I committed to buying every song she puts out.
The Part at 5:00 min that vocal is a bit comparable to Amy Winehouse. Grace is a music wonder and since I heard her for the first time (since Agt), I've been obsessed with her. This girl can move worlds! Love her!
Lungs is a weird one. Practically my favorite too. But it comes with great mystery. Except for one little skit of her going into a Target telling us to go there and buy her album with the bonus tracks, she never even alludes to the song again. Not by name, not by anything. Three years and nothing. None of us understand why, and she has never explained it
@@AnthonyMinsky Comments were turned off on all of the non-VEVO videos when TH-cam panicked over pedophiles lurking on youtube channels about, owned or for minors. When originally posted this video did have comments... I remember myself commenting about the Lungs track (probably why I remember that the track was there still).
Don't know if you know how she started this song in an interview she said she was just looking at a candle in a glass jar hence the line flames in a glass castle and wax underground and the song just took off from there
Thank you Dax for all your Grace reactions. You mentioned Fable nuclear reactor, I enjoy both of your reactions, you guys are so different. You talked about Clearly. Grace did not add much to the rewrite, she wrote the bridge. Ido and his friends did most of the rewrite.
Sorry Dax I really wanted to hear but could barely until you put your headphones on.During each pause the volume went low again. I'm sure by the time this gets to you corrections will be in place. Definitely worth a redo...this time place your mic closer to you.
Dax,Lungs is one of my favorite Grace song also. I watched the video of "Waste My Time" yesterday.Got the link off a comment on another reactors site but I can't seem to find it now. It is making me crazy because I wanted to get it for you . I will keep looking and will let you know ASAP
Dax - the sound was a bit more than 'off' this time - even with the headset and mike on your voice was so quiet in comparison to the clip it was very distracting. The reaction/commentary was quite good. And at this point, you and Fable are my favorite "reactors"; in quotes because I value the commentary so much more than what run-of-the-mill reactors bring, and you are both excellent at this.
Thanks Tom, I apologize about the sound. For some reason, my camera switched to the headset microphones just as I was recording, and I didn’t know about it until I began editing. Thought about redoing, but it was still audible. Yes, I just discovered Fable this last week and really enjoy him. Love that British humor and he is so frank and honest. Sure appreciate it, my friend.
Absomazing! So much to say, so brevity, brevity... #1 I like Fable a lot, too. He gets Grace, which surprised me at first. But please remember, you have to be you. #2 While Lungs is not near to my favorite Grace song, (I know, I know, it's not the most popular position to take) your analysis did help me appreciate it more. #3 Their is still a mystery for me with this song: If the air is filling her lungs, why is "autumn filling your lungs"? I have a few theories, but I'd like your thoughts. #4 From the Knit Pick Dept. I still don't think that is a steel guitar. I believe it is a regular electric guitar with the tremolo turned on on the electronics (amplifier). Stay safe.
Neil, thanks! I’m not real sure about the autumn reference, though I thought it was simply a specificity to the kind of air, with perhaps a suggestion it wasn’t quite as vibrant as spring or summer. Don’t know. You are right. I should’ve said electric guitar. Damn. LOL thanks my friend!
@@daxmusix One thought I had was that it was a reference to the "making us grow old" theme. "You're already breathing in the autumn, late in the year (i.e. life) air." Or perhaps, as you said in a reply, stale, stodgy air because autumn is when things die or go dormant. Just one thought.
Thought provoking, as usual, Dax. "Trying to be young is what is making us grow old." Wait. Old can be great. It's important to reclaim words used pejoratively: alone, beastly, old. Of course, Grace's language isn't mine, which is fine, as with any person I meet. My task is to respond to what prompts your words, even when your words and views are not mine. No problem.
Os I’m not entirely sure Grace means old in age. Perhaps but maybe not. I tend to think that she means old like many people turn out, which is stale and stodgy. I’m sure she would consider me “old,” but hopefully not stale and stodgy!😉
Here is the full session...waste my time starts at 4 :04 . Its edited by Sam Borgman so you know the audio is good.... th-cam.com/video/wQv5pULYxH4/w-d-xo.html . You and Fable are my fav Grace reactors since the audition. :)
What happened, Paul, was that at the last second, without me knowing, my camera switched to my headset instead of my professional mic. I’ll have to watch that in the future. Thanks
“Little do we know that trying to stay young is what is making us grow old.” What a line. Grace is saying that fretting over the future and the past blinds one to all the beauty that life presents to us every moment of every day. Better to just live in the moment because living this way allows one to appreciate life on a deeper and more meaningful level. Grace is a poet as much as she is a musician. Shades of Bob Dylan.
This song is so sweet. Grace just resonates with me.
My favorite songs of Grace VanderWaal are all of them!!! I just can’t pick one! Grace VanderWaal Rocks!!! 😎💜💜💜
It always makes me feel so good to watch your reactions to Grace. People that don't know Grace really need to watch your reactions to her. Your breakdown of her lyrics are very insightful and very much appreciated. I also mentioned your shout out to Fable on a comment at his channel. Both of you really understand Grace and fully put into words what the whole world should hear.
Trip, thanks very much. The world simply HAS to know about Grace. I appreciate your shout-out to Fable. I’ve commented a few times on his channel complementing him for his superlative analysis and spot-on comments. Love his British humor! I’m glad there are people like you and Fable and many of my subscribers and perhaps millions of others who really get Grace and love her. Thanks again my friend.
@@daxmusix His South African actually , but English speaking South Africans have closer British ties
Oh, great, Greg. Thanks very much for correcting me on that.
@@daxmusix No problem
As I have told my son so many times now, that the Instrumentation on Grace's songs are so spot on.
I just watched stargirl the amazing thing about grace in the film is she wasn’t acting... she is stargirl.
Everyone seems to forget one of her best weapons: The audacity - and self-confidence -of youth.
Grace is a ‘savant’ a “visionary” able to see things that others can’t a “connection” with her environment
I’ve felt this to through my life this “connection” have you ever stood in a wood or a forest and closed your eyes and just.. “feel”.. there is something else...
reflexxtr ... Yes, I have felt that and I think a lot of others have, especially those who connect with Grace and her music. I have felt this sort of deep ambient bond to life and never lost it. I connect with Grace and her music at some level that is almost surreal. Thanks
Wonderful, Dax! You are one insightful and knowledgeable guy. Thanks for letting me sit for a while behind your eyeballs and behind your eardrums. I agree totally with your insight. Grace does have a rare talent for juxtaposing fantasy against reality in a way that few have ever possessed.
WDCousins, thank you. Doing reactions has been a bit of a humbling experience. I seem to be quite a bit more eloquent in my mind while I’m on the couch watching Grace and other great performers. But being in front of the camera can sometimes momentarily yank the mind out of those creative depths at the most inopportune moment. 😉 Thanks again.
I love this song so here I am again.
Here's the link to the full coffee house session. Listen to it all and you will be stunned by how much she has matured in her music and of course the other half of the duo, Melissa. th-cam.com/video/wQv5pULYxH4/w-d-xo.html
The first time I heard Lungs was your reaction of the song. This song is so complex and yet it was written by a child. Just listen to the power of her lungs and vocals. She always brings tears and goosebumps.
This is the greatest song of Grace's that we will never hear her sing live. She doesn't seem to consider her bonus songs as candidates for her concerts. I think I heard her talk about it. The songs themselves were selected from the many songs she wrote that didn't make into Just the Beginning . So Lungs and Hope for Change are Honerable Mentions. Plus since they are not on all albums she feels it's not fair to play them or something.
Great audio experiment! Reminds me of old Chaplin movies, just without the background music. I'm confident that it was very intersting from the way your face moves :-) Cheers.
For me Lungs + Hope For Change is located in the cherry of her cakes - music and lyrics wise.
To be honest, when I got the my second copy Of Just The Beginning CD from Target it was to get the 2 extra songs, the other one didn't have the extra tracks. Lungs was one of those tracks. It was the first time that I had heard the song and it took sometime for it to grow on me. I love the song now. If I had to rate the songs of Grace's it would be close to the top of the songs. For me now, Darkness and Today and Tomorrow are at the top, with Tomorrow just winning out. Tomorrow hits home for me because of losing my wife Lorraine. At the end seeing Stargirl's office hits me hard, because to me it shows the lose of her moving on, like my wife's office which was not near as beautiful as Stargirl's.
Sorry for your lost man, i hope your doing well.
Enjoy life and have a nice day 😊
Hey Dax, thank you for this 3rd reaction! 😊 Sadly the audio quality is in the first minutes full of "rain"? Anyway, you can truely make a reaction to every single performance of every song, because Grace sings a song nearly never the same, but I know that you know this! 😉
jo bi .. Thanks very much. Yes, I actually plan to get to every single performance. LOL that will take years thankfully. 🤓
Hi Dax this is still the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard I just wish she would sing it ‘live’ now though she probably never will😔
reflexxtr ... Many of us on here have been saying the same thing for months. This song is so unbelievably developed and performed on a gut level, and yet she doesn’t or can’t sing it in public. Not sure. Sure hope so also one day. Thanks
reflexxtr - Why do you think she doesn’t sing it live?
bobby u Hi I’m not sure I just hope it’s not because of copyright issues?
reflexxtr - I cant even buy the darn song on iTunes. So sad because it’s the only grace song I have not purchased, and I committed to buying every song she puts out.
The Part at 5:00 min that vocal is a bit comparable to Amy Winehouse. Grace is a music wonder and since I heard her for the first time (since Agt), I've been obsessed with her. This girl can move worlds! Love her!
Lungs is a weird one. Practically my favorite too. But it comes with great mystery. Except for one little skit of her going into a Target telling us to go there and buy her album with the bonus tracks, she never even alludes to the song again. Not by name, not by anything. Three years and nothing. None of us understand why, and she has never explained it
Grace did use Lungs as a background track on her Loveloud recap video (August 2018). th-cam.com/video/cf7BXTgULJE/w-d-xo.html
You’re right. Didn’t remember that. It’s curious that no comments are allowed on that particular video.
@@AnthonyMinsky Comments were turned off on all of the non-VEVO videos when TH-cam panicked over pedophiles lurking on youtube channels about, owned or for minors. When originally posted this video did have comments... I remember myself commenting about the Lungs track (probably why I remember that the track was there still).
I though maybe that was the reason too, but then I noticed comments on all the other videos on her channel
I wish she would've sung this song live at some point, but she never has 😞 I wish I knew why.
Don't know if you know how she started this song in an interview she said she was just looking at a candle in a glass jar hence the line flames in a glass castle and wax underground and the song just took off from there
Dean ... Yes, thanks, I found out later in the video in which she explains herself and the song. Thanks
WMT video included 😊
➡️ th-cam.com/video/wLEdMDXChuk/w-d-xo.html
Thank you Dax for all your Grace reactions. You mentioned Fable nuclear reactor, I enjoy both of your reactions, you guys are so different. You talked about Clearly. Grace did not add much to the rewrite, she wrote the bridge. Ido and his friends did most of the rewrite.
Thanks Rick. I forgot she had only done the bridge on that after they asked her to do it. Thanks again
Sorry Dax I really wanted to hear but could barely until you put your headphones on.During each pause the volume went low again. I'm sure by the time this gets to you corrections will be in place. Definitely worth a redo...this time place your mic closer to you.
Dax,Lungs is one of my favorite Grace song also. I watched the video of "Waste My Time" yesterday.Got the link off a comment on another reactors site but I can't seem to find it now. It is making me crazy because I wanted to get it for you . I will keep looking and will let you know ASAP
I just saw in the comments that Thamos Endicott got you the link,and it is the one i saw yesterday. Can't wait for your reaction
Dax - the sound was a bit more than 'off' this time - even with the headset and mike on your voice was so quiet in comparison to the clip it was very distracting. The reaction/commentary was quite good. And at this point, you and Fable are my favorite "reactors"; in quotes because I value the commentary so much more than what run-of-the-mill reactors bring, and you are both excellent at this.
Thanks Tom, I apologize about the sound. For some reason, my camera switched to the headset microphones just as I was recording, and I didn’t know about it until I began editing. Thought about redoing, but it was still audible. Yes, I just discovered Fable this last week and really enjoy him. Love that British humor and he is so frank and honest. Sure appreciate it, my friend.
@@daxmusix well, my former buddy, this oversight was intolerable. And the dogs will be sicked on you immediately!
Absomazing! So much to say, so brevity, brevity... #1 I like Fable a lot, too. He gets Grace, which surprised me at first. But please remember, you have to be you. #2 While Lungs is not near to my favorite Grace song, (I know, I know, it's not the most popular position to take) your analysis did help me appreciate it more. #3 Their is still a mystery for me with this song: If the air is filling her lungs, why is "autumn filling your lungs"? I have a few theories, but I'd like your thoughts. #4 From the Knit Pick Dept. I still don't think that is a steel guitar. I believe it is a regular electric guitar with the tremolo turned on on the electronics (amplifier). Stay safe.
Neil, thanks! I’m not real sure about the autumn reference, though I thought it was simply a specificity to the kind of air, with perhaps a suggestion it wasn’t quite as vibrant as spring or summer. Don’t know. You are right. I should’ve said electric guitar. Damn. LOL thanks my friend!
@@daxmusix One thought I had was that it was a reference to the "making us grow old" theme. "You're already breathing in the autumn, late in the year (i.e. life) air." Or perhaps, as you said in a reply, stale, stodgy air because autumn is when things die or go dormant. Just one thought.
@@themusicofnewyork1570 Hhmmmm.
Snaddly addly, snork nork bork.
Very well done, daX
Thanks Paul! 😉
Thought provoking, as usual, Dax. "Trying to be young is what is making us grow old." Wait. Old can be great. It's important to reclaim words used pejoratively: alone, beastly, old. Of course, Grace's language isn't mine, which is fine, as with any person I meet. My task is to respond to what prompts your words, even when your words and views are not mine. No problem.
Os I’m not entirely sure Grace means old in age. Perhaps but maybe not. I tend to think that she means old like many people turn out, which is stale and stodgy. I’m sure she would consider me “old,” but hopefully not stale and stodgy!😉
Any one know what Grace's vocal range is? Example; Ariana 5 Maria Carey 5 Angelina Jordan 5
Here is the full session...waste my time starts at 4 :04 . Its edited by Sam Borgman so you know the audio is good.... th-cam.com/video/wQv5pULYxH4/w-d-xo.html . You and Fable are my fav Grace reactors since the audition. :)
OK, but in the link from me there is not only audio, but also video! th-cam.com/video/wLEdMDXChuk/w-d-xo.html
Ty :)
Roland, thanks very much. That’s exactly what I was looking for. Don’t know how you found it and I couldn’t! LOL 😉
@@rolandkallinger592 Wow I watched that yesterday and then I couldn"t find it thanks
Shame that your audio is so low, time to clean those contacts. Hindsight, do a dry run, and that doesn't always work.
What happened, Paul, was that at the last second, without me knowing, my camera switched to my headset instead of my professional mic. I’ll have to watch that in the future. Thanks
@@daxmusix It happens.
Dax have you seen stargirl ? if not you need to. it’s beautiful
He already had a great reaction about the movie
reflexxtr I did a reaction on it on my channel.
daXmusiX great! Sorry missed that will have a look take care.
Sorry Dax I couldn't listen to this one. Hope next time is better.
Nutella Why couldn’t you listen to it?
@@daxmusix I couldn't hear you until I turned my volume all the way up and then when you went to the video it blasted my ears.
Nutella ... Oh I see. I had microphone issues. I posted a comment on that. Sorry about that. Thanks