♪ Keep believin' in the power ♪
- Whoa!
Welcome back to another daily video
my fellow famous people.
Together, we're gonna have a look
at other famous people,
before and after they were famous.
I know you're super famous,
these guys are not quite as famous as you guys watching,
but let's just humor them, see what they got.
Let's get started.
Okay so here we have a real good one,
Post Malone before fame.
I've seen this before, this is amazing.
♪ Hey girl ♪
♪ Love me ♪
(upbeat electronic music)
♪ My heart was beating like a very fast drum ♪
♪ You looked at me and said I'm not number one ♪
♪ Why don't you love me ♪
- I never made a music video like this,
but I definitely made music similar to this with my friends
back in high school and stuff,
it's so like classic Nord behavior, I love it.
Here we have a more serious,
old singing video from Post Malone.
I've seen this as well,
because I'm obsessed with Post Malone, okay?
♪ An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe ♪
♪ It'll never do some how ♪
♪ You're the reason that I'm trav'lin' on ♪
♪ But don't think twice, that's all right ♪
- A lot of the things that Post Malone is doing
with his voice is obviously conscious choices, you know,
to sound a little bit more like a rapper-esque and stuff,
as you hear in the old stuff,
it's not like, something he's been doing in his whole life,
but I think that's really cool,
I always respect people who you know,
are willing to change their sound for the music,
I think that makes a lot of sense.
And I might be biased because I also do it, obviously.
(laughs)
Let's compare this to Post Malone, now.
♪ Even when I try ♪
♪ You don't believe it ♪
- Smoking on stage.
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ We do this every time ♪
♪ Seasons change and our love went cold ♪
♪ And I've been lookin' for someone to put up with my bull ♪
(horn honks)
♪ I can't even leave my bedroom so I keep pouring ♪
♪ And I ain't seen a light of day since ♪
♪ Well, that's not important ♪
- Man, Post Malone can sound really a rocky live actually
I don't really think about that too much because
in the recordings I think he sounds pretty,
you know, singy rap-esque obviously.
I don't wanna say this, this might be like
swearing in church but like,
it's a little bit almost Nicklebacky sometimes.
- (screams) Yeah!
(laughs)
♪ I can't even leave my bedroom so I keep pouring ♪
- Not super close to Nickleback, of course.
He's definitely an amazing singer,
and I like his new style a lot better than the old stuff,
it's almost like he was doing a bit of a
Dylan impression in the guitar one.
Anyway, super talented guy.
I do feel like Post Malone's biggest strength
is in the songwriting though,
like the song writing's just pristine.
Just like with Charlie Puth,
like, both of them have amazing voices, but
their song writing skills are like one or multiple steps
over even the voices because it's so freaking good.
And I think that makes a lot of sense.
People who are great at song writing,
should do really well as artists, in my opinion.
Anyway, let's continue.
♪ I like to think of something ♪
(laughs)
♪ I never thought before ♪
♪ If it doesn't happen right away ♪
♪ I'll think a little more ♪
♪ I'll sit a little while, imagine what could be ♪
♪ And a new idea might come to me ♪
♪ I'd like to think of something new ♪
♪ Something fun to do ♪
(laughs)
- That was amazing!
That was Selena Gomez before fame.
What was that from by the way?
"Selena Gomez reveals that she and Demi Lovato
had a crush on the man wearing the purple dinosaur costume."
Okay.
"Despite being a child
she had a crush on the actor inside the Barney costume."
That makes it so weird to to watch that clip now.
♪ I'd like to think of something new ♪
"Selena explained that the costume weighs 50 pounds,
so the actor portraying Barney was quite fit
with his muscles and sweating."
She must like sweat I guess.
Oh my God.
I wanna see this actor.
This guy, David Joyner.
Let's see a picture of David Joyner from back then.
I mean, dude is pretty darn cool, I can see that.
If he was proper like sweaty and muscley,
I guess it makes sense that Selena and Demi Lovato
had a crush on him, he's an attractive man.
Anyway, let's (laughs) continue.
♪ Trust me I can take you there ♪
♪ Trust me I, trust me I, trust me I ♪
♪ Just wanna look good for you, good for you, uh huh ♪
♪ Baby lemme be good to you, good to you, uh huh ♪
- I mean, let's be real, Selena isn't
the strongest singer in the book, she's a cool artist
though and everything but its like, can I say,
maybe I did like her child singing better
than her actual singing.
No, that's not entirely true,
because they just write easy songs for Selena,
that's what happens.
She doesn't sing anything difficult,
but the songs are well-written for someone who's like:
♪ I just wanna be good for ya, good for ya, uh huh ♪
You know, it's whatever.
Okay so we have Britney Spears before fame, interesting.
♪ When we stand together ♪
♪ it's our finest hour ♪
♪ We can do anything, oh anything ♪
♪ Keep believin' in the power ♪
- Whoa!
(audience applauds)
I mean you can't critique Britney Spears' transition
because she definitely, you know,
made herself so marketable and great
but Britney had like a big voice when she was a kid,
and then she just committed to just like:
♪ Eehhhhh ♪
Thing that she did throughout her career that's crazy.
I wonder if she would actually be a better singer now
if she would have committed to singing
in a more powerful way or like
using more of her vocal talents.
That's crazy.
That was some proper like, you know,
wannabe Whitney Houston type singing.
Like, I could've seen her go that direction easily.
♪ Come on come through ♪
♪ New York ♪
♪ New ♪
♪ York ♪
♪ Got a clue ♪ - Dang.
♪ What you doing ♪
♪ You can play brand new to ♪
♪ All the other chicks out here ♪
♪ But I know what you are ♪
♪ What you are, baby ♪
♪ Every time I try to fly I fall ♪
♪ Without my wings ♪
- The first clip was cool.
♪ Womanizer, woman-womanizer ♪
♪ You're a womanizer oh ♪
- It seems like she lip-syncs a lot.
Just listen for the faint thing in the background
that is her like real voice here.
♪ Every time I try to fly I fall ♪
♪ Without my wings ♪
♪ I feel so small ♪
♪ I guess I need you baby ♪
- The loud voice there was definitely pre-recorded.
Anyway, I feel like her voice was sacrificed to,
you know, the icon gods or whatever,
like she's such a, you know, big artist, but I feel like
she could have been so much more of a singer,
if she would've done different stuff.
And maybe kept up a bit more with like
vocal technique and stuff I guess.
But man, that's so interesting,
that she had like such more of a
classically good voice before she became huge.
It's unbelievable.
Next.
♪ I fell out of love with her ♪
♪ Just to trip straight back in ♪
♪ She said it's time for a quick cigarette ♪
♪ by the bike shed she asked me if I regret it all ♪
♪ and I said I replied no love ♪
♪ this about as far as it goes ♪
♪ See me going by the thought of you and it shows ♪
- [RoomieOfficial] Man, that's so interesting it's like
it is the Ed Sheeran that you hear nowadays in this clip.
But at the same time, it's way less refined, like he goes
a little bit too loud compared to what he does now.
Here it's a little less controlled, a little but more
pitchy (laughs) but, you know, overall really really good,
and like you can hear kinda like the diamond in the rough
that was Ed Sheeran that Scott
kinda like more refined later.
It feels like it's that same vision.
He had the same vision all along.
- My music doesn't really hit everyone,
otherwise, I'd be a very lucky man.
- [RoomieOfficial] (laughs) And now he is
a lucky man, that's crazy.
So his music started to hit everyone I guess, okay.
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- It should hit some people today, hopefully.
If there are some fans of folk music and some fans
of rap music and some fans of soul music who are there,
they might, they might dig it.
♪ Now where I come from burning weed is a habit ♪
♪ A big fat bag of high grade weed, ♪
♪ you know I got to have it ♪
♪ But if I don't have it in my pocket I got to panic ♪
♪ 'Cause like I said where I come from smoking is a habit ♪
♪ Yup, gonna do da bun up place up in the hood ♪
♪ One of them things I have inherited like a ghetto man ♪
- Man, he used to be, so,
much cooler that he is now (laughs) let's be real.
I mean Ed Sheeran is kinda like, he's committed to
the very white-ist music out there pretty much nowadays,
which is like, you know, it's very nice and sweet
and he does a lot less of the rapping,
even though he does do it, was just so much more
little bit maybe harder to take in back here,
but I think a lot of his rise to fame
came from kinda like building an audience
with his little bit cooler music, that kind of maybe
applied a little bit more to both guys and girls.
This stuff is like really cool.
I think he was kinda almost part of the grime scene right,
I don't remember exactly, maybe not grime,
but he was part of the UK rap scene kinda,
before he really blew up with "The A Team"
and all of that stuff.
And here we have after,
the mainstream powerhouse that is Ed Sheeran.
♪ Burning the trees ♪
♪ And I see fire, ♪
♪ hollowing souls ♪ - That distortion's good.
♪ I see fire, blood in the breeze ♪
♪ Now I see fire ♪
♪ Oh you know I saw a city burning ♪
♪ Now now now now now ♪
- [RoomieOfficial] Man,
Ed Sheeran as a performer is so good.
Bruh.
It's so mainstream, but I'm like
I'm unapologetically a fan of pop okay?
Good pop music is frikin' (pop)
he does it really well.
Okay, Charlie Puth before fame.
He was a Youtuber, I've talked about this before,
but like, he had a lot of cover versions and stuff.
I think this is one of them.
One of his YouTube covers, let's have a listen.
♪ Never had a chance ♪
♪ Do you have to ♪
- [RoomieOfficial] Obviously lip-synced but still,
♪ You can take everything I have ♪
(laughs)
♪ You can break everything I am ♪
- [RoomieOfficial] This is some very hard vocal tuning
but still, like we can hear kinda like
what he was all about.
♪ Like I'm made of paper ♪
- Who threw this pickle
- [RoomieOfficial] (laughs) Ah this video again,
classic Charlie Puth.
- At me.
Ow!
Who threw this pickle at me?
Excuse me!
♪ Can't you see I'm tryin' to mack this bitch ♪
Who threw this pickle at me?
- [RoomieOfficial] I mean that's just prime singing.
Who threw this pickle at me?
I mean he was already
the best singer in the world back then,
who can ever beat "Who Thew This Pickle At Me?"
No one!
♪ Now I'm all up on ya ♪
♪ What you expect ♪
♪ But you're not comin' home with me tonight ♪
♪ You just want attention ♪
♪ You don't want my ♪
♪ Baby you just hate the thought of me with someone new ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
- [RoomieOfficial] Yeah, I mean that was good,
sounds like maybe there's some tuning on this
live version as well of Charlie's, but he sounds good.
I really like his heavy bottom tone
like his heavy chest tone, it sounds really good,
and it kinda contrasts to his falsetto,
and his falsetto's pure bliss.
Okay, we have Ariana Grande before.
This'll be exciting, I've never seen this.
♪ For now ♪
♪ Just for now ♪
- [RoomieOfficial] Loop pedal!
Hm.
♪ Just for now, just for now, Just for now ♪
♪ I I, I I I, I I I, I I I ♪
(clapping)
- [RoomieOfficial] This is dope!
♪ Just for now, just for now ♪
- [RoomieOfficial] Super musical.
♪ Would you, quit kicking me under the table ♪
♪ I'm trying, will somebody make her shut up about it? ♪
♪ This time of year ♪
♪ I know we've all had a bumpy ride ♪
♪ I'm secretly on your side ♪
- [RoomieOfficial] Mm I didn't really get
the arrangement there, like it was it really good,
like the whole build up,
but then the melodies I didn't really get.
But, it sounds like she was pretty similar
early on with her singing.
♪ When all the chips are down baby ♪
♪ See I will always be around ♪
♪ And I will play the fool forever ♪
♪ Just to be with you forever ♪
♪ I believe in ♪ - Nice!
♪ Miracles ♪
♪ And I ooh ♪
- [RoomieOfficial] Bruh, that was amazing!
She's been so good all along.
I mean, she was already amazing then,
she's definitely still amazing.
Even though she's kinda changed skin color and stuff.
(laughs)
♪ Lingers when we're done ♪
♪ You'll believe God is a woman ♪
♪ I don't wanna waste no time yeah ♪
♪ You ain't got a one track mind yeah ♪
♪ So have it any way you like yeah ♪
♪ And I can tell that you I know how I want it yeah ♪
♪ You'll believe God ♪
(riffing)
♪ Can't find my one ♪
♪ You'll believe ♪
(riffing)
♪ -Leive God ♪
- [RoomieOfficial] Man!
She's amazing.
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you can still improve and get better and you know,
some people are amazing from when
they're like two years old.
Some people take a bit longer to get there but,
I think it should be inspiring.
Okay, I'll see you in tomorrow's video, bye.