- So, I was looking at the comments on old videos,
which I do sometimes to torture myself,
and I saw this one on the gelatinous cube song,
"He Sees Right Through Me", from Matthew.
"A challenge could be for Ginny
to flip to a random monster in the manual
and then make a song about it.
That'd be really fun." (whoosh)
I agree, Matthew,
I do think that'd be really fun,
so I have my friend Blake here
who does all of my music stuff with me
and we're gonna do that.
There are 350 pages in The Monster Manual,
so I'm going to roll three sets of d100
and then add them together,
roll another set of d10,
halve it,
add it to that.
That's the plan. (laughing)
78 plus 87- - Yeah.
- Plus 26,
plus what's half of 97?
45, 6-7-8.
239. - 239, all right.
- It's "Oozes".
We just did an- - We just did an ooze.
- We just did it! - C'mon.
- It's literally the page
of the gelatinous cube. - It's the gelatinous cube,
we can't do that.
- We can't do that, (book thumping)
we gotta do it over.
So, that's 151.
Frost giant. - Frost giant.
- It even says "Hearts of ice".
- Well, that's the song title, Buddy.
- "Hearts of Ice". (book thumping)
I'm not- (Blake laughing)
I shouldn't close that,
we should look at the frost giant.
Here's what we know about frost giants.
They respect brute strength,
they live in the freezing snow.
During blizzards they stomp through towns
just squashing everything flat
and stealing shit.
If we're going from the "He Sees Right Through Me"
school of thought,
what we're writing is basically like
a cutesy '50s-type song
that is about or from the perspective of a frost giant.
Concepts: Frost giants crushed my whole town-
- Hot. (laughing) - I think I'm in love?
I'm a frost giant
and here's why you should date me.
- True.
- I don't see this being a dance song, like
♪ Do the hearts of ice ♪ [Blake Laughing]
I don't see that.
What if it's like, "I dated a frost giant
and she broke my heart
and also destroyed my town"?
- Ooh, yeah.
- I like that one. - Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. - You wanna roll with that?
- Let's roll with that. - All right.
Should we start with the chorus?
- Do we wanna build to a dope chorus at all
or do we wanna start with the hook?
Just as far as song form goes?
(Ginny exhaling)
- I dunno. (Blake laughing)
Let's think about the chorus
'cause I think we'd wanna use the phrase
"hearts of ice" in the chorus.
- I'm almost picturing like
C major in the verses,
A minor in the choruses.
(strumming guitar)
Then you got the chorus,
A minor. (guitar music continues)
- Oh, yeah, I like that!
Here's a question,
do we wanna actually say frost giants
anywhere in the song?
I feel like maybe no.
- We never say gelatinous cube
in "See Right Through Me".
- It's true. - Uh-huh.
- We don't even say cube.
- No, or gelatinous.
- Neither of the two. (both laughing)
You know how a lot of songs,
for example, "Barbara Ann",
starts with just the title a few times,
♪ Ba-Ba-Ba, Barbara Ann ♪
like a little harmonized
"Hearts of ice,
hearts of ice,
ooh, they got hearts of ice"
or something like that
and then we go into the first verse.
Get a regular track down
and then I'll just go back in
and throw in harmonies over the top.
- Yeah, yeah, that's easy.
♪ They got hearts of ice ♪
and then two more voices come in on the next one,
♪ They got hearts of ice ♪
and then on the third one
it'll go like- ♪ Hearts of ice ♪
♪ They got heart-ar-ar-ar-arts of ice ♪
♪ Hearts of ice ♪
- And then it goes into the first verse.
Hang on, I gotta pull up my trusty rhyming dictionary.
(Blake laughing)
What if it's like "gazing..."
♪ Gazing out over the ruins of my city ♪
♪ And I'm feeling pretty shitty ♪
(both laughing)
♪ Gazing out over my ruined town ♪
"It's cold, but that's not what got me down", basically.
The storm has passed
and, like, shit is destroyed.
- I mean, "The storm has passed
and the blood has dried."
(both laughing)
- "But that's not why I'm aching deep inside"?
(strumming guitar music)
♪ Gazing out over my ruined town ♪
♪ It's cold ♪
♪ But that's not what's got me down ♪
♪ Oh, the storm has passed ♪
♪ And the blood has dried ♪
♪ But that's not why ♪
♪ I'm aching deep inside ♪
Can you go, like, up
to set up for the, like, something, um...
I don't know what I'm thinking
'cause I don't know music things.
(guitar chords music)
Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking!
- Yep.
- I don't know how you can just read,
I don't communicate anything (Blake laughing)
and you somehow know what I'm talking about. (laughing)
- 1, 6, 2, 5,
1, 2, 4, 5.
- 1, 6, 2, 5,
1, 2, 4, 5? - That's the one.
- I wrote it down in case
you need to hear that later (Blake laughing)
'cause it doesn't mean anything to me,
and then it'll go into
♪ She left me with a heart of ice ♪
or whatever, something,
I don't know.
"If you fall for a frosty girl".
(both laughing)
What about a glacial,
"If you're falling for a glacial gal".
We got intro, we got first verse,
we got half a chorus-
- Except now the intro sounds different.
♪ Gazing out over my ruined town ♪
It just sounds like a Nancy Sinatra song. (laughing)
- (laughing) Isn't that mission accomplished?
- Which is good, yeah! (both laughing)
What if the vibe is like
you might think that your love will thaw her heart
but actually- - Yeah.
- It'll freeze yours.
"You think that you can thaw her heart but"...
(guitar strumming music)
♪ You think that you can thaw her heart ♪
♪ But don't roll the dice ♪
What if we did a...
yeah, that's good. (both laughing)
- No, no, go on.
- I don't know how to say what I,
what's in my brain.
What if we brought in some tension
in the "Heed my advice" part? - Mm-hm.
- With an unexpected chord. - Okay.
♪ You think that you can thaw her heart ♪
♪ But don't roll the dice ♪
Yeah, I like that!
Let's do that!
All right, so we need,
I figure two more verses.
This one should flashback
to the beginning of their relationship.
- Uh-huh.
♪ We met in the blinding snow ♪
Or the mountaintops? - Or it could be, like,
the very, very beginning of winter
when they first met.
- How 'bout, how 'bout, how 'bout
♪ At first... (nonsense syllables) ♪
Wait,
♪ We, we, we ♪
♪ We met as the first snow gently fell ♪
♪ I first laid eyes on my ♪
I wanna not use the word giant-
- Or- - But I want an adjective
that means giant,
like my towering, my colossus.
"She towered above me"- - "And I could tell".
- "And I could tell",
that's nice, yeah.
Sorry. (guitar strumming music)
♪ We met as the first snow gently fell ♪
♪ She towered above me ♪
♪ And I could tell ♪ (Blake humming)
♪ We'd be together ♪
♪ No matter what it took ♪
'cause I feel like we also need to explain
why the giant liked the person
who's singing this song. - Oh.
- Or did she?
Like, maybe she didn't even see him. (laughing)
- Yeah, maybe she just, like, strolled through
and crushed his village
and he's just, "Who was she?" (Ginny laughing)
Something about how much it would take
to win her affection kinda thing,
you know, like a- - Oh yeah, like she's a,
like, she's a 10 who's 10 feet tall?
- Like, I'd give... (both laughing)
"I could tell
just exactly how hard I'd fall,
she's a 10
and she's 10 feet tall". (laughing)
- We should throw in one more reference
to frost giants specifically. - Yeah,
we've got a lot of height
and not a lot of cold. - Right-
Well, hearts of ice.
- And also she,
that they are, like, really violent.
They're like, "Oh yeah, we fight for dominance."
"I wondered how I could catch her eye,
so when the winter,
so when springtime came
we wouldn't say goodbye"
or something like that?
- Or like, I don't know,
it's a lot to fit in a line
but could there be a line about, like, realizing
that it's gonna be a very short amount of time
before she crushes the whole village
and has to say goodbye.
- "I wondered how I could catch her eye
before she finished her raid
and we had to say goodbye"
or something like that. - Yeah! (laughing)
♪ Before the pillaging ended ♪
♪ And she said goodbye ♪
- There it is!
There it is. (laughing) - Yeah.
- I know they respect, like, power and strength
but, like, what about the strength of my love
or what, you know,
something like that. (Blake laughing)
♪ I wondered ♪ (strumming guitar music)
♪ How to catch her eye ♪
♪ Before the pillaging ended ♪
♪ And she said goodbye ♪
♪ She wants brute strength ♪
♪ And terrible might ♪
♪ But my heart's the strongest muscle ♪
♪ I have in this fight ♪ (guitar music continues)
♪ She left me with a heart of ice ♪
- And this is why I'm really glad
we wrote stuff down earlier.
- All right, so what were the cords
that you had again for the bridge?
(guitar strumming music)
(Ginny humming)
- I don't think I like that B flat on second thought.
♪ If only we could lay ♪
♪ Beneath a blanket of snow ♪
♪ If only my body ♪
♪ Could survive 10 below ♪
♪ If only I could live a life ♪
♪ At 15 below ♪ - Yeah! (laughing)
- 'Cause then it's enough syllables.
♪ I da-da-da, da-da ♪
♪ Mm-mm, da-dum fell ♪ ♪ I ♪
♪ And then I have some mm ♪ (both laughing)
- Exactly!
- Hang on, coming outta that first part.
- Okay.
(guitar strumming music)
♪ If only we could lay ♪
♪ Beneath a blanket of snow ♪
♪ If only I could live a life ♪
♪ At 15 below ♪
- Now sing your next note.
♪ Maybe we could ♪ (guitar strumming music)
♪ Maybe we could ♪
♪ Something, something ♪
♪ And I'd never catch cold ♪
and wouldn't there be another line after that?
- Mm-hm, yeah.
- What about, "Maybe I could catch her
without catching a cold". - Can we fit that in there?
- I feel like it needs to bring back into hearts of ice,
it needs to circle back around to hearts, too.
Like, "Maybe I could catch her
without catching a cold
and then her icy heart
would be all mine to hold"
or something like that.
Or, "And then her melted heart
would turn into a heart of gold".
- "Thaw away that ice and"-
- "Thaw away that heart,
thaw away that ice
to leave a heart made of gold".
- Yeah!
- I think we have a song!
- I think we just wrote a song.
This actually might not suck.
- Hey-hey! (Blake laughing)
- [Blake] You ready to just try a take and roll
and see what happens?
- Yeah!
- One, two...
♪ Heart of ice ♪ (guitar strumming music)
♪ Heart of ice ♪
♪ Heart-ar-ar-ar-art of ice ♪
♪ Gazing out over my ruined town ♪
♪ It's cold ♪
♪ But that's not what's got me down ♪
♪ The storm has passed ♪
♪ And the blood has dried ♪
♪ But that's not why I am aching ♪
♪ Deep inside ♪
♪ She left me with a heart of ice ♪
♪ If you're falling for a glacial gal ♪
♪ You better think twice ♪
♪ Hear my song ♪
♪ And heed my advice ♪
♪ You think that you can thaw her out ♪
♪ But don't roll the dice ♪
♪ We met as the first snow gently fell ♪
♪ She towered above me ♪
♪ And I could tell ♪
♪ Just exactly how hard I'd fall ♪
♪ 'Cause she's a 10 ♪
♪ And she's 10 feet tall ♪
♪ I wondered how to catch her eye ♪
♪ Before the pillaging ended ♪
♪ And she said goodbye ♪
♪ She wants brute strength ♪
♪ And terrible might ♪
♪ But my heart's my strongest muscle ♪
♪ And I don't wanna fight ♪
♪ She left me with a heart of ice ♪
♪ If you're falling for a glacial gal ♪
♪ You better think twice ♪
♪ Hear my song ♪
♪ And heed my advice ♪
♪ You think that you can thaw her out ♪
♪ But don't roll the dice ♪
♪ If only we could lay ♪
♪ Beneath a blanket of snow ♪
♪ If only I could live a life ♪
♪ At 15 below ♪
♪ Maybe I could catch her ♪
♪ Without catching a cold ♪
♪ And melt away that ice ♪
♪ To find a heart made of gold ♪
♪ She left me with a heart of ice ♪
♪ If you're falling for a glacial gal ♪
♪ You better think twice ♪
♪ 'Cause she left me with a heart of ice ♪
♪ I thought that we would share ♪
♪ A winter paradise, oh ♪
♪ She left me with a heart of ice ♪
♪ So, unless your heart is something ♪
♪ You could sacrifice ♪
♪ Hear my song ♪
♪ And heed my advice ♪
♪ You think that you can thaw her out ♪
♪ But don't roll the dice ♪
(crisp high five)
We did it, we made a song!
- We did it! - Oh, God.
- Oh, Luna, are you good? - Hi.
- Hi. - Hi, sweet girl.
- Hi. - If you like this song
you can find it on streaming platforms,
or you will be able to do that
by the time this goes up.
Comment to tell Luna that she's a good girl,
not to tell me that frost giants are 20 feet tall.
(both laughing)
All right, great.