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@UnathleticProductions
September 5, 2026 at 12:35 pm
They are talented. Almost got chills, but I still prefer Elvis’s version. I think they’re doing too much. 😢
@bartlemy
September 5, 2026 at 12:37 pm
Mediocre but ok fair enough. Gen z at it’s ‘best’
@dmfrench
September 5, 2026 at 12:49 pm
The soloists! Especially Yebba’s part! 🔥
@joebagodonuts8119
September 5, 2026 at 1:09 pm
They are good. Really good. The one girl has an incredible voice, but I did not find the performance transformative. But it was nice.
@marianalopezz3526
September 5, 2026 at 1:15 pm
beautiful, the first soloist gave me chills everwhere of greatness. Amazing performance all of them
@quochuyle1771
September 5, 2026 at 1:25 pm
Needlessly complicated. Much worse than the original version, in my opinion 😌!
@penelopelopezz
September 5, 2026 at 2:01 pm
Complicated stuff that u couldn’t do a day in life byw! ❤
@quochuyle1771
September 5, 2026 at 2:24 pm
@penelopelopezz Yep, that’s my personal taste: I couldn’t do that complicated stuff even a second in life, and I don’t need to do that, simply because I don’t like it; the original version is still much better to me, btw ❤️ (the original version is already complicated, but I like it much much much more than this one 😌)
@tvuser9529
September 5, 2026 at 3:05 pm
@quochuyle1771 Same. Couldn’t do it, wouldn’t want to. Just way too much “vocal masturbation”. The choir is good but the soloists ruined it for me. Same problem as certain guitar soloists have.
@mmcowan
September 5, 2026 at 1:47 pm
Where’s your dress, Jacob?
@pedroigor93
September 5, 2026 at 3:10 pm
@mmcowan ksksks
@McHale72
September 5, 2026 at 1:54 pm
Choir sounded really good but the soloists have been given the impression those STUPID vocal runs at the end of almost every phrase is impressive. It’s not. Not only that, there were WAY too many and got old about 30seconds in.
@tvuser9529
September 5, 2026 at 2:58 pm
I’m glad I’m not the only one. Exactly what I wanted to say. Good choir, interesting arrangement, but the “vocal masturbation” of the soloists made it impossible for me to listen to, had to skip forwards through most of it. I guess there is some skill to that kind of singing, but not art. Taken to this kind of extreme it doesn’t add anything to the music, it takes away from it. It’s the same problem that certain guitar soloists have.
@Patricia_H
September 5, 2026 at 3:36 pm
The era when vocal runs, became a testament that singers could sing was ruining the music. It’s annoying to listen to. You see musicians have this preference too becouse they want to make things incredibly complicated, so they build out a cord into massive amount of notes in between. It’s making music overly complicated and mostly other musicians love to listen to this, but just a normal music enjoyer, cannot enjoy the music. I love Jacob Collier in much of his music, but if this was his arrangement and he let her do theese constant vocal runs, then he didn’t make an arrangement for a listening audience. The conductor needs to rethink this too.
@tvuser9529
September 5, 2026 at 5:48 pm
@Patricia_H I’m not sure musicians in general tend to like this kind of singing. It seems to be particularly in R&B and related genres, and I think it got gradually worse since the 90s. Seems that to these singers, your worth is measured by how fast you can yodel up and down randomly within an otherwise beautiful melody.
@Patricia_H
September 5, 2026 at 6:29 pm
@tvu@tvuser9529sicians that are highly into the science behind music and into showing off technically, tend to overcomplicate when playing a song, they add to the cords and embellish them. Instead of playing the basic cords and notes, they play way more notes and at high speed. Saying look I am so technically apt and can play fast. Jacob is also into the technicallity of music, and when you get into the deep knowledge, It is easy to loose track of what sounds good to a listener that is not listening with technical ears.
At first adding to cords will make it sound interesting, then with to much notes added it becomes overworked overcomplicated. For me singers do the same, they are so focused on what they can show off technically they forgot what makes a good dynamic song. Doing a little vocal run here and there is nice and can make a song more interesting, doing it constantly is not.
I understand some things are inspired by music styles, i am not knocking the style itself it comes from. Since the online world exploded for me this showing of thing has been going strong since the 90ties and getting worse and worse. And it just doesn’t make the music enjoyable or better.
@katealittle
September 5, 2026 at 2:29 pm
he’s so right, i think about this cover almost daily
@user-E.L.I.
September 5, 2026 at 2:47 pm
Wow
Beautifull
But i think the other half will waiting for me
@PCM-mc5xy
September 5, 2026 at 3:01 pm
Have to go on AGT.
@Patricia_H
September 5, 2026 at 3:39 pm
Thoose vocal runs are really annoying. This is music for musicians. I hope one day we go beyond the constant vocal runs and embellishments while singing. It is not impressive, it doesn’t show me you can sing well, and it is exhausting to listen to.
@cjay2
September 5, 2026 at 3:53 pm
You can sing what you want, the song wasn’t created like this. Simple.
@kingofhoarbags
September 5, 2026 at 4:19 pm
Are the waters troubled because of the Climate Change Hoax?
@GregorFris
September 5, 2026 at 4:22 pm
incredible
@temporamen
September 5, 2026 at 4:31 pm
Finally it posted to YouTube, the world needs to see this! It’s nice having clear audio of the choir, they are all amazing.
@DOCHNELSONDOCH
September 5, 2026 at 5:24 pm
Speechless!
@tvuser9529
September 5, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Less random yodeling, more singing please. The choir is good, but the soloists? Even if you’re able to cram in 100 notes where the original melody has 1, doesn’t mean you should. Personal interpretation is all well and good, but it has to retain musical value, not just be a speedrunning competition.
@hogpashon
September 5, 2026 at 6:08 pm
Well done women
@mtiedemann11
September 5, 2026 at 6:11 pm
Fantastic!
@Культурнийфонд
September 5, 2026 at 7:18 pm
Як це можливо ?🤩🤩🤩
Це неймовірне звучання 🥹
@NomaD_203
September 5, 2026 at 7:51 pm
Sometimes less is more. The choir is incredibly talented but the marathon of vocal runs is exhausting and needlessly noisy. This arrangement doesn’t honor the spirit or sentiment of the song.
@KazTrumpet
September 5, 2026 at 8:17 pm
Incredible!!!
@bradleysampson8230
September 5, 2026 at 8:52 pm
Wow, incredible soloists!