♪ (punk rock music) ♪
♪ (tranquil piano music) ♪
It's nice music.
- ♪ It's been a long day ♪ - I love this song.
It's so sad.
(singing along) ♪ Without you, my friend ♪
♪ And I'll tell you all about it when I see you again ♪
♪ We've come a long way ♪
This is in the Furious 7.
Wasn't this a tribute to Paul Walker?
(choking up) This is such a good song. I get so emotional.
(rapping) ♪ Damn, who knew all the planes we flew ♪
And then Wiz comes in.
- Wiz Khalifa. - ♪ That I'd be standing right here ♪
♪ Talking to you ♪
Is this also a commercial for a movie?
I thought this was a love song this whole time. It's not.
♪ How could we not talk about family ♪
♪ When family's all that we got? ♪
♪ Everything I went through ♪
♪ You were standing there by my side ♪
How can we not talk about family
when Vin Diesel says "family" every single sentence in the movie?
He's got a great voice, dude. That's crazy.
I know this song,
'cause it's like two different genres put together.
♪ When I see you again ♪
Oh, it's so sad.
I haven't watched the movie 'cause I know I'd cry.
See, this is like a life goal--
just to have this massive garage and all of those cars.
(rapping) ♪ And that bond will never be broken ♪
♪ The love will never get lost ♪
- ♪ It's been a long day ♪ - Oh, that's it. That's the scene.
That's the scene that they play this song.
♪ ...my friend ♪
♪ Oh, I'll tell you all about it when I see you again ♪
(sadly) No. And they ride off together.
This is so sad.
♪ ...again ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh ♪
Aw, they split up. That's sad.
It's so sad.
- Endless bliss! - This is sad.
(gasps) "For Paul."
(quietly) That touched my heart.
I'm holding back the tears.
It was like a tribute.
Oh my gosh, that's really beautiful now.
I didn't even watch the movie, and it made me feel some feels.
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(Finebros) So were you familiar with that song before today?
I have heard it before, but I didn't know it was for Paul Walker.
Yeah, I was. I love that song.
- Yep. - Yeah, of course.
I have it on my phone.
I heard this song on the radio a bunch.
Every single station plays it at least 10 times a day.
- (Finebros) And do you enjoy the song? - It's an alright song.
I do.
Yeah, it's a good song.
- Oh yeah. - Oh, I love it.
It's really sweet, and there's also a rap component to it,
so it's not just a sad sob song.
(Finebros) And do you know who the two singers are?
I mean, I know Wiz Khalifa and person.
Wiz Khalifa, featuring that white guy.
No. I feel like I should, but I don't know either their names.
(Finebros) So it's Wiz Khalifa, featuring Charlie Puth.
Okay, I don't know. I don't know who Charlie Puth is.
I like his voice. I didn't know his name.
(laughing) Oh, I don't know who that is.
(Finebros) What are your thoughts about Wiz Khalifa?
- Are you a fan of his stuff? - Um, I'm not a huge Wiz fan.
He's just a good rapper.
Wiz is the man.
I like his music personally.
I'm pretty sure he's just high all the time.
Wiz Khalifa likes to smoke weed, and he makes music.
I don't want to sound like one of those hipsters,
but I prefer his old music.
(Finebros) So Charlie Puth is a newer artist
- who actually has a YouTube background. - (intrigued hums)
(Finebros) When he was younger,
he made music for some big YouTube stars
- before he became a big music artist. - Really? That's awesome.
That's pretty awesome.
That's what's so great.
It's like, you know, just the YouTube community
is, like, catapulting everyone to amazing fame and stuff.
It's great.
(Finebros) Anyway, so this video was part
of the most recent movie in The Fast and the Furious franchise.
- Did you see the latest movie? - No.
I have never seen any of these Fast & Furious movies.
Mm-mm. I haven't seen any of the Fast & Furious movies.
There's six of them. Like, how much plot can you pull
from cars to make six mov-- like, what?
Oh yeah. I love cars so much. I've seen every single movie.
I'm pretty sure I've seen all the movies.
I'm a big fan of the whole franchise.
Yes, I saw it. I saw it, I saw it, I saw it.
It was amazing.
(Finebros) So this song was created for and dedicated
- in the memory of the actor Paul Walker. - Yeah.
He was, like, favorite character in the franchise.
(Finebros) When he died, did that impact you?
Not necessarily, 'cause I had no attachment to it
since I didn't see the franchi--
I haven't seen the entire franchise.
When certain celebrities that are important to you pass away,
it just feels sort of like a part of you is gone.
Even though I don't know him and I never met him personally,
it's as if I knew him. I cried as if I knew him.
To a lot of older people,
you'll see somebody die on the news and stuff that was famous,
and kids will be like, "Who is that?"
But we don't really see somebody from our time that dies.
Everyone makes such a big hype about Michael Jackson dying
or this person dying or Paul Walker dying,
and then no one really cares about the other small people.
(Finebros) So Charlie Puth mentioned that,
when he wrote this song, he was thinking about a friend of his
who he lost at a young age as well.
When you hear a song like this,
does it make you think about those types of things--
people you've lost or the concept of losing someone?
Yeah.
It gets your brain thinking about it.
I end up thinking about death and what happens after death.
Music is powerful that way.
Music can make you feel so many crazy ways; it's unbelievable.
I'm definitely gonna have a different perspective on it
now that I know who it was written for.
When you know why it was written,
then you start thinking of how also it pertains to your life.
Maybe that's why it's really popular,
'cause people feel like they can relate,
and they feel like it's part of them too.
(Finebros) There's been some criticism that the song has
for not being that original and also that it is exploiting
people's feelings for Paul Walker for profit.
Do you think there's some merit to that criticism?
Yeah, definitely.
To me, I just think people are looking at it the wrong way.
It's a legitimate song about somebody's loss
and how they feel about it.
That's not the way to look at it.
I mean, of course you're gonna make money with it.
Someone is making money, even if it's a charity.
There's somebody out there making money
from someone else's sadness.
I think that's a cynical way to look at it.
I think it's a really beautiful cool thing that they did.
No, people always have to find something wrong with everything.
It makes me so mad.
- Why does everything have to be wrong? - Oh, it makes me so mad!
(Finebros) So finally, various songs stand the test of time
and future generations still know it.
Do you think is one of those songs that's going to be remembered?
Probably.
It definitely has a little bit more substance
that could keep it going for a while.
No.
I don't think anything is possible lasting that long anymore.
It's about Paul Walker.
And in 30 years when, sadly, Paul Walker's gonna be irrelevant,
this song's gonna be irrelevant also.
I hope so.
I sure hope my kids know who Paul Walker was...
- And I'll fight them if they don't. - ...because he's a legend
that made the series what it really was.
No one can tell.
It's like, no one ever thought "Never Gonna Give You Up"
would be something that stood the test of time, but it did.
So it's kind of unpredictable.
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