- Hey, what's up, you guys?
It's Mike Shinoda, and I am going to listen to a song
by Chris and Nicole.
It is a cover of my song Crossing a Line,
and I'm going to critique their cover.
♪ Don't care anymore ♪
♪ And I hope you'll know that's a lie ♪
Let's call them.
(ringing)
- Hey! - Hi!
- Yes, there you are!
Hi, guys!
- It's so nice to meet you, man.
- You too!
Where are you guys?
Where are you from?
- Vancouver, BC.
- West coast, man.
- And you guys did a cover of Crossing a Line.
- Yeah, yeah, we did. - Yeah, we did.
- Awesome.
I have not seen it.
When they first mentioned this, I thought that I had,
and I was like, "Oh, cool, I know what this is!"
Then they showed me your names and everything,
and I was like, "Ooh, I haven't seen this."
- Uh-oh.
- So, I just wanna say, before we even do this,
that I'm super mean when it comes to critiquing things.
I'm very blunt, and just brace yourselves.
- All right.
- I'm just kidding.
Okay, I might stop it as we go.
- Yeah. - Alright.
♪ They'll tell you I don't care anymore ♪
♪ And they'll tell you I don't care ♪
♪ And I hope you know that's a lie ♪
♪ And I hope you know ♪
- Wait.
That voice is coming out of you?
- Me?
- Yeah!
But no, both of you, but I just pointed at you.
I'm pointing at Chris.
That was great, you guys have great voices.
- Thank you, making me blush.
♪ Found what I have been waiting for ♪
♪ 'Cause I found what I have been ♪
♪ But to get there means crossing a line ♪
♪ I don't know how to warn you ♪
♪ For what I'm gonna say ♪
♪ 'Cause you're holding too tight to ♪
♪ What I'm taking away ♪
♪ I got demons inside me ♪
- They changed the notes, cool.
♪ Either try to ignore them ♪
♪ Or I give them a voice ♪
♪ And it's keeping me up at night ♪
♪ Worried it's not alright ♪
♪ Holding back things you don't know ♪
- You know Depeche Mode?
- [Both] Yeah.
- How you chose the whole,
and something about the way you sing Chris,
just has this whole like new wavy
kind of '80s thing to it.
♪ And it's keeping me up at night ♪
♪ Worried it's not alright ♪
♪ You're not gonna like where this goes ♪
♪ And they'll tell you I don't ♪
- Did you just, did you just switch it to four four time?
- I think so, yeah I think so.
Isn't it three four?
- The song has like a triplet thing,
like a duh-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh, duh,
you guys are doing it duh-duh-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh-duh,
yeah like a, like the strumming pattern.
♪ Oh, and it's keeping me up at night ♪
♪ Worried it's not alright ♪
♪ Holding back things you don't know ♪
- Bum bum bah.
(laughs)
I wanna hear, like I want like somebody in the background
with like a xylophone, like doing that.
(laughs)
I think what you guys are doing is awesome.
You do have a band?
- [Both] Yeah.
- Does the band, does the band play with you
on any of your covers?
Or did you do them this way all the time?
Or do you.
- Yeah we do them just duo, our covers.
And then we have our band for our own music that we write.
The acoustic thing is really just for us at home,
we love our, you know we play the songs that we love,
and we put it on YouTube.
- To me that sounds like, when I'm making a demo.
- Yeah.
- It's usually this stripped,
where it's just like your voice and instrument.
And that's kinda nice.
I wanna hear more instruments on it now,
but only because now I've seen this much,
and I feel like, now I've gotten curious about you guys.
So maybe the, that, with that said,
maybe that's not a criticism,
maybe that's something you're doing right.
Yeah.
♪ I'm crossing a line ♪
♪ So I'm crossing a line ♪
- That's great you guys!
- Thank you! - Thank you so much.
- Do you guys have questions?
- I was actually wondering if you were coming
to Vancouver for your tour?
- Oh, I wish.
I don't have a plan to at this point.
I don't even have US dates either,
so there just aren't any plans yet.
But yeah I would love to.
- I was wondering when you released the Post Traumatic EP
did you have plans to make it a full album?
Or is it just like the fans response,
and the response that made you decide to make it an album?
- When I released the Post Traumatic EP,
the idea before that was,
can I just put out the whole album January 1st?
But everybody said, like,
"It's coming, like the stuff you've got is so good,
"like just keep, why don't you keep working,
"and then, put out some songs now,
"and we'll put out songs, you know every month or two."
Post Traumatic is like a diary.
- [Both] Yeah.
- So to lead people along piece by piece,
has been I think, really good for me,
and good for a lot of the fans.
- Yeah, we love it.
We literally had it on loop non-stop since it came out.
- Thank you guys, thank you.
- Thank you so much for your time.
- You got it, of course.
Alright guys, I'm gonna take off.
- Bye. - Bye, thank you.
- Thank you.
- Bye bye.
- I'm Mike Shinoda, and this has been
critique my cover.
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