Hey, how's it going?
Hello, guys.
It's your favorite classical music YouTubers.
Today we will be reviewing
music videos.
But, wait!
Isn't music video like pop music?
Why, aren't you a classical music channel?
- No, no, no, no. - No, no, no.
Classical musicians can make music videos too.
That's right.
Eddy: We found five music videos
by legitimate classical musicians.
Some of whom are like...
Actually, I think all of them are legitimate soloist-tier musicians.
Brett: Oh-la-la, yes.
And we decided we're gonna go through them
and see
how these classical musicians, or their record labels,
approach portraying this music in the platform of music videos.
Alright, first one.
- Oh... - Sorry, sorry, can I just say...
For some reason, I thought it was like Summer at the beginning.
Yeah, I was like, "Wait a second!"
(Brett) You almost want it to happen.
Alright, anyway. Let's keep going.
Eddy: Those horses remind me of, like,
the terracotta warriors from China.
Don't you think so?
- Yeah, it's... Yeah. - It's pretty epic.
Okay so, for some context, Erlkönig
has a story to the music.
Uh, f***.
I forget... I just know the horses are involved.
I'm not making this up.
It's about horses and Death. I think, like,
Death is chasing them on the horse or something.
Yeah, sorry, professor from uni,
we've forgotten all your wisdom.
- Alright, let's look it up. - Brett: I know.
- Whoa... - Oooh...
- I remember this story. - Eddy: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- That was the thing... - Yeah, so, he's being...
The Elf King is like Death and he's trying to, like, kill the kid.
He's chasing the kid.
That's the, uh,
context. Now, we can see
where this music video is gonna take that.
- Okay. Yeah, yeah. Dude. - Dude, those horses look like they've seen Death.
Look at the eyes, man. The eyes are just like...
Brett: Neigh! You don't understand what I've seen!
But I'm liking it. They're paying homage to the...
- The story. Yes. Yeah. - The story, the legend.
No way, they got a real horse.
- (Brett) I love horses. - Dude, that production.
That's so funny.
(Both) Whoa!!!
- Eddy: She's playing with the horse! - Brett: Yo! Ooh!
Dude, it's like... I mean,
I don't know if you know because you don't watch pop music.
But you know Gucci Gang?
- Eddy: How that guy literally has a tiger in the music video. - Brett: Oh, yeah, the tiger! I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's her.
- Brett: Wow. Erlkönig Gang! - Eddy: She's doing Erlkönig Gang with the horse.
The purple is like Death as well.
Mm.
(Both) Ooh!
Damn!
Eddy: Is that lady riding a horse
meant to be Death?
Or meant to be the father? Or just some random lady?
Yeah, it doesn't make sense, hey?
Okay, Death's not riding a horse.
- Eddy: Death is like this. - Brett: Yeah.
Or, I guess, it's a father and son but since the
cellist is a girl, they just went mother and daughter.
- It's a modern interpretation. - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That makes sense now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa-ho! Whoa-ho!
Dude, that horse's going crazy!
- Dude, he kicked his hind legs. - Brett: Yeah, I'm, like,
imagine it kicked you.
Dude, what was that?
The horse is like...
Elegant strides.
Whoa! Whoa!
I'm loving that horse now.
- Dude, that horse is... - I kind of want a horse now.
Yeah.
It's like, hey, buddy. Hey, Thomas.
Oh!
- She died! At the end, she died. - Died. She died. She's gone.
- Whoa! - Death has chased... Death has got you!
Alright, next one.
Oh my god.
Well, can I just say Janine Jansen looks so like...
Like a goddess.
A goddess when it's portrayed like this.
- Damn. - Dude, that light.
- Brett: And look at her hair. It's so nice. She has that... Yeah. - Eddy: That glow around her hair.
- Oh... - And that bow looks so nice with the light.
Oh...
- The tone she makes, man. - Brett: That was very nice.
The tone was so suitable for it.
- It was so velvety and soft. - Brett: Yeah.
It's like, it's not easy to play that color.
No, it's not easy.
It sounds easy, guys, but it's not easy. That...
And keeping it, like, consistent. Just... That shift...
- The... Yeah. - It didn't offend me at all.
- 'Cause I can see a lot of people just butchering it like... - Yeah.
- Yeah. - You're like, "No!"
And I love the camera work.
- Eddy: They captured that gliss so beautifully. - Brett: Yeah.
I wonder what this polaroid business is though.
(Both) Oh!
It changed.
Bro, it's an escape room except the hint
- just flashes. You have to remember it. - Brett: Yeah.
Brett: It looks like a place we could pour, like,
a fountain of chocolate.
Fondue.
Fondue, yeah.
- That's what her violin playing sounds like right now. Hm... - Brett: Yeah, fondue.
Oh...
- Dude, that gliss! - You know, I'm actually just...
I'm actually just listening to the music.
That gliss...
Brett: Yeah.
What's up with horses? Everyone's using horses.
Yeah.
Does this music have horses?
I don't know but all the horses so far
they've shown, the eyes are very intense.
Brett: Like they've seen some sheet.
That horse looks like it has seen some crazy stuff.
Bro, her sound is...
That growth from the opening softness to that
epic high bit.
And also her bow changes literally sound like sobbing.
It's like, yeah, it's like...
- you're yearning and it's like... - Yeah.
but it's still there.
It's such a small vibrato.
Mm.
- Eddy: The last polaroid was her with the violin. - Brett: Mm.
Eddy: Second last polaroid was the violin.
And she finds the vio-
She comes- She finds herself.
She found who she is.
And she was the violin and the violin was her all along.
Wow.
- Après un Rêve. I don't know how to say it. - Very deep, I like it.
- Nice! - Makes me want to play escape room.
- Yeah. - Next.
Dude, this is so epic.
I actually like how
- Brett: the visuals really match the music. - Eddy: The music!
So far, this is, like, one of my favorites.
It's actually the one where the music and the visual vibe
- matches the most in terms of the world. - Brett: Yeah. Yeah.
- Right. - Brett: It's really cool.
Ooh!
Wow.
Dude.
This is actually epic.
It's actually really good. I feel like I'm
being taken to some imaginative world.
- You're discovering who you are. - Eddy: Yeah.
And it feels like I'm in the... What's that anime?
Paprika.
- Yes! Yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah! I was thinking that. It's freaking anime.
- I want anime and classical music. Like... - Yeah, it has to happen.
- Like, it needs to. This is so cool. - Wow.
Oh! Hilary!
Can I just say like it's...
The graphic went with the intensity of the music.
- Brett: This drawing of the... - Eddy: Yeah.
- Brett: And then, bam, back to the... - Eddy: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Back to the first subject,
- Brett: Yeah. - Eddy: which is the first character again.
That's so good.
Next one.
Okay, I love the cinematography.
I feel like I'm watching a movie.
I feel like, yeah, I feel like I'm in those like...
[I'm like] far far away land.
It's beautiful. It's a bit slow, though, the visuals.
A bit like, come on, what's going to happen?
Yeah, it's like,
what's going on?
But I do think, um,
Eddy: it makes you want to know what's their story.
- Brett: Yeah. Like why are they... Where are they going? - Eddy: Yeah.
Eddy: Why do they all look like they've been through some
sheet?
- Oh! - Oh, oh, oh.
You know what it feels like?
What's that movie?
Game of Thrones?
No?
No, um,
Westworld.
Yes.
They're drawn to the source of life and it's the music here.
- Oh, that's deep. - Yeah, man.
Bet they didn't think of that.
I'm just kidding.
- Damn. - Damn, very nice.
Okay.
Last one for today.
"Marguerite is a symbol of beauty."
Oh-la-la, I thought she was going to play piano.
And the voice came out.
Damn, it's one of those music videos with, uh...
You know, like a...
storyline and monologue
- that starts it. - Yeah, oh, I'm so curious.
"Everything that tempts us... Sex, money, glamour."
You know what I was gonna say it feels like?
What?
It's like, you know in, like, Lord of the Rings?
- Eddy: Yeah. - Brett: Frodo's about to get the ring, he senses that weird (hiss)
- Eddy: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! - Brett: like vibe, like you're tempted by darkness.
- This is supposed to be that. Yeah, right? Yeah. - Yeah. She's being tempted.
- By like whatever she said. - By those things she said.
- Whereas Frodo's tempted by power - Power, yeah.
- of the ring. - And it's like this voice, "Do you want it? Do you want it?"
Bro...
Yeah, damn.
- Whoa. - Whoa, dude.
Did you see something?
(Both) Whoa...
Dude, that's creepy.
Bro, that's Slenderman.
- Yeah, Slenderman. That's so freaky. - Yeah.
This song is a bit like the Janine one for me, it's like,
Eddy: it seems like they're trying to create a plot
with the music video,
but I'm vibing with the music a bit more.
Dude, yeah... Well, I mean, she's such a great player.
Ooh.
"Faust, Marguerite and Mephisto."
"Liszt..."
They're talking over the playing.
Yeah, I totally forgot she was doing, like, a monologue thing.
This is actually like a modern day music video, you know?
- Yeah, it's true. They talk over the playing. - Yeah, you know, like, they...
A lot of times in modern music videos,
halfway through they make, like, a phone call.
Yeah!
- Brett: (mimics phone ringing) - Eddy: Yo, Drake, blah blah blah.
- Dude, that's crazy. - Yeah, I can see the inspiration.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh... Whoops.
Oh, sh**. I mean, oh, sorry.
I don't know piano repertoire.
There's one more chord left!
There's one more dun!
That was the most sacrilegious...!
Oh, yeah, she was like...
"Prank, baby!"
- I am officially sorry. I apologize. - Alright, on that note, guys.
Gomenasai!
And on that note, guys. Look...
I feel like some
very conservative people feel like
doing music videos with classical music is a bit tacky,
- or cheesy. - Mm.
But I think
- Eddy: there's potential if it's done right. - Brett: Same.
- Eddy: It's just so creative. - Brett: Yep.
- Eddy: And I respect... Yeah. - Brett: I respect everyone's stuff, like...
Brett: What they've created here, it's amazing.
and it's a great step forward.
- Brett: You know? I think... - Eddy: Yeah.
- Brett: Really we want more people listening to this 'cause - Eddy: Yeah.
there's so much depth to classical music.
The more you get into it the more you want to know more.
So, it's like, yeah.
Anyway, on that note, that's enough.
You better go practice
'cause that's what makes you a better musician.
- Alright, bye-bye. - Bye.