- Hi. - Hello there.
- Welcome to our new video.
- This is a more chilled-out, laid back video
that we think you will enjoy.
Stop dropping things.
(ambient music)
- I tweeted saying, me and Niki want to do a video
talking about our favorite bands and music,
and a lot of you guys said, yeah, get on that.
If you aren't following us on Twitter,
the link's like,
- Also if you're not following on Spotify,
then all of this will come as a surprise to you,
and if you are following on Spotify, casual plug,
then you'll probably recognize the fact
that I play these songs every hour of the day.
This is just a video where we're talking about
the music we're into right now,
our current jams that I would put on my toast
and I think you would enjoy as well.
- These are some phat, phat tunes.
I'm gonna start off this, one, with addressing
yes, I'm wearing the Bastille shirt again,
and that means I can segue into telling you
that I absolutely adore Bastille.
Niki also likes Bastille.
- Yeah, I just don't decide to wear it.
- Look, I'm gonna wear the paraphernalia.
Bastille, I think, are like a brilliant union
between 90s melancholic feel,
- You don't mean 90s.
- I do, they've got like the 90s vibe.
They like what I like, they are just good.
My favorite Bastille track is Get Home,
which is off of their first album, Bad Blood.
- How does that one go? - Is it called Bad Blood?
- Yeah.
- The reason I like that song is because
it came out in my last year of university
and I was borderline, unproblematically depressed,
I think because of the dissertation and it was always cold,
and I used to love listening to that track
on the way back to SE 'cause it took me
about an hour and a half, I listen to that, and also,
- And the reason I hate the song
is because Sammy does this thing with music,
and you probably will know someone like this,
where if a song comes out or an album comes out,
they will listen to that one song,
that one song without fault,
wait, is that what I mean? - With no rest.
If I find a track I like, I will play it to death
but then I'm in denial that I've played it to death,
so I'll continue to listen to it until I hate it.
- This one's not gonna come as a curveball
because I think if you follow me on Twitter,
the ilnks are below, then you'll know
that I listen to this religiously.
My favorite band of the moment is BTS.
- Oh my god.
- It stands for bang tang, or no,
Bulletproof Boys or something like that,
it's Korean, they're from South Korea.
- I'm not gonna pretend to know Korean
because I feel like it'll be such
an insult to everyone watching this video.
- But my favorite song is of course, Save Me,
because it sounds like something Justin Bieber
would have come out with if he was born in South Korea.
- ♫ Save Me ♫
- And also Fire, Fire is a jam.
(electronic music)
A lot of YouTubers will pretend to like something
because it's cool, I love South Korean music.
Like, K-pop is so good, I love BTS.
For me, BTS were the ones that started it,
but there's also Shinee, which is how I've been saying it.
- I've got a list, I've got a list.
- At the gym I listen to Save Me and Lucifer
because they've got a sick beat to them
and I can go on the running machine.
- [Both] ♫ Lavaholic Lavatronic ♫
(electronic pop music)
I like that people like K-pop regardless of the language
they speak and whether or not you understand it.
It's just good, catchy pop music, and I love it so much.
- Music which speaks to your soul should be
multinational, it should transcend gender,
race, language, all barriers.
- You're getting a bit deep here.
- Next, Imagine Dragons.
For me, I discovered Imagine Dragons through Radioactive,
which everyone obviously heard and it was massive,
and then I found out they actually worked with Bastille
on a few tracks and they collaborate on a few things,
and I really like their sound 'cause I think it's very,
- They had like a bromance, people put it like
a band bromance, it was like a band-mance.
- Yeah, and I think it's just two hardworking
bands that have got their very own
unique sound and I think are brilliant.
Bastille did a remix of Imagine Dragons' I Bet My Life,
and it's so good, it's such a good remix.
- By the way guys, as we're doing this video,
I want to know what your favorite songs are
of the moment, because I've got a playlist
that I just continuously update and curate.
It's called Happy Hormones because it's like,
music that makes you feel upbeat and happy,
'cause I feel like with what's going on in the news
recently, I've really needed a bit of a pick-me-up.
This is a song that came out of nowhere.
It was a bolt from the blue, and a song called,
I don't think I'm saying it, - MishCatt.
- MishCatt, and it's called Gun to the Head,
and it's just a real good beat.
♫ You're gonna get what you deserve ♫
- For the sake of being a bit faster so you guys
don't get bored, when we were growing up
I absolutely adored Imogen Heap.
- I met her.
♫ Mm Whatcha say ♫
You were so out of tune.
- So Imogen Heap is like no other.
Sonically she's unique, she's so amazing,
and she's very, what's the word,
- Orally pleasing.
- She had Speak For Yourself, then Ellipse,
both of them genius, she is a master of music.
She's the one that gave Ariana Grande the gloves,
if you've seen Ariana Grande use the gloves.
Also the same with two other artists,
Regina Spektor and Sia.
- All right, so, right, I could not, oh, hello.
I could not make a video talking about
my favorite music and not include Sia.
I was on the Sia hype way before you.
- Sia's been around since the 90s
and she was in a band called Zero 7.
She lent her vocals, it was like jazzy blues.
- Start with Some People Have Real Problems,
go back and listen to Colour the Small One,
go forward and listen to We Are Born,
and then go forward again, Thousand Forms of Fear,
and then, do not judge her on This is Acting.
I love the album 'cause I'm a hardcore
Sia fan, but it's not Sia.
- This new album I think was just her
cementing herself in mainstream.
- All the songs, if you're not aware,
the album is called This is Acting because she's acting
the singers that she wrote the songs for.
- Lentil, which she wrote about her dog called Lentil,
- You've ruined it now.
- No because I think it lends to it.
Listen to Lentil, pause this, come back,
and now understand that song's about her dog.
- My favorite thing with Sia is she knows she can sing
but she doesn't go full-pelt all the time,
so you get people like Jessie J, and no offense to her
'cause I like her music, but she will always,
always always go straight in and belt the whole song out,
whereas Sia builds it up and then kills it.
And same with Ariana Grande, I think,
she's always like (high-pitched singing)
- I have to mention otherwise I won't forgive myself,
Marina and the Diamonds, loved all of her albums
because she is someone that is just quite,
- She's taking a break.
- She's artful, she deserves a break,
she hasn't sold out, unlike,
- You were gonna say Ellie Goulding.
- I used to love Ellie Goulding,
but then I feel her most recent album
was her jumping onto the Taylor Swift hype.
- Sorry the video was a little bit longer than normal
and it was a bit of a chattier video
that wasn't like funny, funny, funny, but you know,
- Let's enjoy that.
- I like music, I like talking about music, so.
- Music is very relevant to my well being.
- See you guys later, thanks for watching.
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- Remember, Bastille answers all your problems.
- You need to go to your hairdressers instantly.
- You're not gonna cut a lump off.
- Oh no, I am.
I'll just do a delicate cut first.
- No, no,
Why are you not using both hands?
You're supposed to hold the hair with,
- Use your other hand!
- Stop moving and I won't need the other hand.