Tori and Jacob recorded Tori's verse in one hour as she had to rush out and participate the Lawrence' band's concert. Plus Jacob had 3 days to arrange the whole song and sing his parts, before heading to Mumbai where he had to deliver Djesse vol. 4. It was a last minutes work. And still, this is the end result. Mind blowing.

@penuelodiaka6359

2 ай бұрын

🤯🤯

Yebba asked to not be featured in the song's title as she didn't add anything new to the song. :) Jacob used her amazing cover years and years ago in his I-Harm you series. The original video is not even complete, so Jacob (and Ben Bloomberg) had to do some crazy engineering magic to finish Yebba's verse and clean the audio.

@elizabethrauchenstein7725

3 ай бұрын

Yes, Jacob Collier shares explicitly in his KZread video here re: Yabba's name - 1:55:13: kzread.infoI8DWlis-MEY?si=rUFvFPrsbTZoesaT&t=6912

Jacob is carving out one VERY DEEP LEGACY for himself. Every generation gets to share the planet with some giants and we're fortunate to be here at this time with Jacob.

@micosilver

3 ай бұрын

If Jacob disappears today - there are tens of hours of stuff that he's done that we can pour over for years, analyze and enjoy, so the legacy is already here. Now we just watch this amazing explosion of creativity, love, joy divinity, etc. - in real time, and we should be grateful for every minute.

You have to watch the almost 2 hour Jacob breakdown of this song. he recorded it, how he pieced everything together, it’s a master class that he offers on KZread for free! Really amazing, like you feel like a part of how this was crafted when you’re listening to the final version. Totally worth it!

I just started freaking out during the tori Kelly part I don't think I took a single breath and it probably looked like I was having a seizure

@Okaythen193

3 ай бұрын

Why is it so good??? I just cant handle it, this whole song is blowing my mind!

AMEN!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Tori Kelly does not get the credit she DESERVES!!!! You should react to the Jimmy Kimmel Jacob and Tori song “Witness Me”

Thank you for this reaction, I’ve been looking for someone to share my shock and pure excitement about this arrangement 😂

@justinolmo8492

3 ай бұрын

i know its currently my obsession

@lashawnbrown3891

3 ай бұрын

thats so real 😭💯

You are exactly right. No one else is doing what Jacob Collier is doing. That’s precisely how I felt after seeing him live for the first time.

This whole album is incredible. Contemporary album of the year for sure.

@gmermoud

3 ай бұрын

Of the year?! A lot more than that from where I sit.

I’m so relieved someone else freaked out as much as I did to this masterpiece 😅

Been listening to Tori for absolutely ages, and just when I think I’ve heard it all she pulls this little stunt. Ridiculous. And as always Jacob is just unfathomable.

“Alright Ma’am, alright”😂😂 I feel that too man

Hahah Crazy😩😩..Two of my fav Yebba and Tori kelly…Slayyy da house down

Jacob is a sick puppy. What a time to live!!

I am 73 years old and I just played this for my 95 year old father. . He just sat and smiled and cried and cried and cried. . . and then he smiled some more. .

Yes. Yebba asked not to be acknowledged as she didn’t have time to re-record her KZread recording from 2016 that Jacob harmonised on in 2021. Hence her name not mentioned. Watch the other video Jacob did on the making of the recording. He is a musical alien.

I have listened to this one maybe 20 times now. And it always provokes massive chills and tears from my eyes. This is unlike anything I've ever heard before. Not to undersell any of the others, but especially Tori's part, wooh. When she enters there... it's just so pure and innocent. As a linguist, I have a hope that we one day come up with a word strong enough to describe this masterpiece. Otherwordly, yes, but more. Otherdimensionally? Please help.

And I had to go away and rest my head after listening to the song first time. Had to recover from it. It wasssss soooo divine.

She’s a walking riff!

Jacob just did a 2 hour live stream on his channel going over the logic session for this amazing arrangement.

That arrangement/performance represents the moment in modern pop music that signals the end of looping and sampling and a return to deep craft, intellectual and artistic expression and the search for profundity, and all I can say is, YAY!

@rickvandijk

2 ай бұрын

It’s ironic that Jebba did not want a full credit for this, and therefore it’s actually registered as a sample for this recording. Awesome either way.

My friend, Yebba ASKED Jacob NOT to credit her because she felt she didn't add anything new to this arrangement. Out of respect for her decision, Jacob did not credit her. But TRUST me, he respects her and WANTED to mention her in the title. Check out Jacobs breakdown video of this track and you'll hear him talk about this.

Incredible collaboration

The most amazing and genuine reaction I have ever seen. Thanks for sharing!

Oh my goodness, tears man. The talent we are listening too is just amazing. Thank you Jacob and your collaborations with some of the most amazingly gifted performers of music in modern times. Wow, thanks Brad for your reaction.

Love your comments. You just GET GET GET it! You're hearing on many levels at once, clearly. So great. Thank you. (Takes an alien to know an alien!) ;o)

Tori's riffs are INSANE

i love this reaction videoo.. we all get to appreciate the song and geek out together before your thoughts come in..hehe

We literally had the same expression!! CRAAAAAAAAAAAAZY MUSIC

Class reaction

Haha we had a similar reaction. I had to throw my phone the first time I heard this last week

Wow. I have no words. That. Was. phenomenal. I don’t think I breathed. Glorious. The heavens opened up. Four extraordinary musicians giving all they’ve got for an extraordinary, iconic piece of music. Wow, wow, wow. I am in awe. I will probably listen to this over and over again, all day and tomorrow and the next day…as infinitum. It was perfection. Almost total perfection. It would’ve been TOTAL perfection if they had Gabriel Henrique in there to add his two cents with a whistle or two…although Tori can do whistles too. I just love Gabriel and he, IMO, is as iconic as they are. What a joy that was! What an explosion of talent. God breathed his glory through all of that. He did, indeed!

I have heard you start your program singing, sounded good but l heard you actually singing a song, l immediately purchased EVERY song l could find by you. You are a fantastic singer consider me a BIG FAN.

@BradSteele

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Your stare at 05:22 cracked me 😂 This piece is nuts!

Transcendent!!!!!

he mixed the bridge over troubled water with her my mind performance. He's a mad scientist.

“Cancelled Plans” going to be huge.

This was other-worldly!!!

Few songs have made me cry

At 9:17 I feel like I got rick-rolled. The most elaborate set up for a rick-roll I have ever seen.

Tori Kelly is a goddess

Jacob and Tori is all that was really needed to make this amazing.

3:13 to 3:46 my soul is full 😍😍😍😍😍😍

Hi Brad. I was waiting for this reaction. Great reaction always. 😊

Straight ear-gasm

Wow!!!! Amazing!!!! Gave me chill bumps!!!💗💙💜❤💯 This was totally insane!!

Best reaction ❤ Thank you

So good

Just insane! The only person that I can think of that comes close to how musically talented Jacob is, is Jonah Nilsson - Lead singer of the band Dirty Loops. These guys are just on another planet

I need a therapy and a rehab after 100 times listening to this song

Jacob’s new version is great, and everyone who sang on it did a fantastic job. The issue I have with it, is that JC operates so far off into the musical stratosphere, that he doesn’t come back down to earth enough for the everyday music listener (example, He Won’t Hold You). What I loved about his arrangement of Yebba’s TikTok cover, is that he took what she already had and just elevated it a couple steps further. He put more of a warm gospel flair on it that blew all our tiny minds within the first fifteen seconds, and kept us wanting more when the video shut off early. I wish he had just done a longer version of that original recording for the record. People were literally screaming for it in the comments section of that video. But yeah, John Legend and Tori Kelly both slayed it with what they were given.

a genious

That's Yebba, yeah. But she declined Jacob's pleas to be featured on this song because she felt she didn't contribute anything new (Her part originated from JC's #IHarmU series some years ago.

Yebba asked not to be promoted on this, Jacob respected that request. He talks about it on his youtube logic breakdown of this song. kzread.info/dash/bejne/e2x4uc6io5Czdbw.html

No doubt Jacob is the greatest musical genious of the first decades of the 21th century!

🤯

❤

Thanks for making this video. But what the heck happened at 9:19? you were just starting to get into analyzing what makes Tori Kelly so great, but then it cuts to dancing and the chapter is called “Calling the function.” Is it just my KZread client glitching out? (That would be a new one.)

@gbulmer

3 ай бұрын

Same for me. I guess there was an edit that cut-off the Tori Kelly analysis, and failed to introduce Brad's song. Best Wishes for 2024. ☮

The problem with "popular music" is that it's musically simple. Watch YT's Frank Tedesco playing his improvised impression of whatever people in the chat ask him to play. 17 years of piano playing, music theory and school, and Frank nails it every time, and often succeeds in making it more interesting. Believably so. Bridge over troubled water is melodically beautiful, yes. But not too difficult. Some of the hymns of Christian church may compare. And this performance harks back to US black church and its music performances. The overall atmosphere goes back to, say, the 1960s with close harmony, but not of the a capella kind, but the layered multi-track studio kind. Check out the Singers Unlimited that would hardly ever perform live because 4 singers cannot reproduce, live, what was done in, say, 20 overdubs. The cleverest application of the use of mastering pieces of vocal studio recording into one masterpiece may be "I'm not in love" by 10cc. They recorded bits of vocal and used the mixing console as a sort of keyboard. They sort of used the mixing console as a DIY mellotron. Jacob does not think he is a genius. Well, in popular music, he is. As to this specific performance, the female soloists sing ornamentations into the song that are bordering on annoying me. All of these people in this recording are masters at what they do and seem pitch perfect. The result is great, and indeed, I could put it on repeat and forget to switch it off.

Yebba didn't want to be featured on the song. Jacob talks about it. She didn't feel like she contributed to the this version when it was released.

the way I like to put it is that Jacob does way too much, but thats why its great lol

The Logic Session of this song kzread.infoI8DWlis-MEY?si=eTmqz4C9MrzVqv_G

Simon and Garfunkel. Listen to the original.

Great collaboration. Not the best rendition of this song I have heard, but they did a good job.

@Jwitz30

3 ай бұрын

😂

@gabrielp1826

3 ай бұрын

"actually, as a matter of fact.." 🤓

@SpencerTwiddy

3 ай бұрын

That’s because it gets better and better every time you listen to it :)))

Believe it or not, dear Brad, I had never heard of Tori Kelly or Yebba. Yebba and Tori don't impress me at all. There's loads of ladies like that. John Legend is a courageous and inspired singer and he's indeed quite unique. A criterium is always "Do You Want to Keep Listening To This Singer?" Tori does not pass that test, she's boring, Yebba may develop something, John does it right, he does not bore you with a way of singing that 100.000 others have or do, too, like Tori does.

@zimbogreen7105

24 күн бұрын

You have admitted to being ignorant , sad . Tori Kelly has won a couple of Grammy awards . Has not sold out her Soul so may have missed your usual music channels .