the fact that tom macdonald is talking about “his generation” like he’s 75 when he’s literally a millennial makes me want to end it all

@hamsterstyle6152

Жыл бұрын

Me too

@UhaveN0idea

Жыл бұрын

@@hamsterstyle6152 as a fellow millennial im so so embarrassed

@lillian9161

Жыл бұрын

I am also a millennial. Can confirm that we did not, in fact, get our driver's license at 14.

@UhaveN0idea

Жыл бұрын

@@lillian9161 looool seriously!! i have a cousin who got his permit at 14 but that was also in kansas so idk how they do it over there

@campbellsoup93

Жыл бұрын

​@@lillian9161 You could get a learners permit at 14. That could be what he was talking about but that's not really a drivers license so it's a bit weird he called it that. And I don't think I know anyone my age who moved out at 17.

"My generation had a drivers license by 14, a job by 16, moved out by 17. Your generation is still trying to define what a woman is and living in your parent's basement until 35." Tom MacDonald is 34. What generation does he think he is, exactly?

@domocute

Жыл бұрын

I don't have a driver's license, lived with my parents until I was 33 and I'm transing all my genders. I'm also 2 years older than him, so I guess his generation is somehow sandwiched in there.

@InvisibleRen

Жыл бұрын

It’s incredibly cringe. He talks like he’s Gen X or a baby boomer when he’s a mid-millennial.

@RobinTheBot

Жыл бұрын

None of that was legal when he was a kid lmao

@_Kuma_

Жыл бұрын

@@RobinTheBot yeah, in Canada you have to be 16 to get your license lol unless he’s counting the learner’s permit?

@delusion5867

Жыл бұрын

I have no clue what he's talking about. The amount of kids at my school who have driver's licenses and/or have a job is probably 65% and moving out in the current housing market and economic crisis is insanity

fun fact, the tramp stamps tried to move to tumblr and they got trolled by the entirety of tumblr using archived memes off the site. it was absolutely hilarious

@emilyslicer2843

Жыл бұрын

The fact that they even tried it with the tumblr community showed how insanely out of touch they were with the alternative scene

@Robi-Chaud

Жыл бұрын

They were driven off tumblr by bugass. Love it

@wrightcember

Жыл бұрын

@@Robi-Chaud you’re laughing. the tramp stamps were driven off tumblr by bug ass and you’re laughing.

@emilyslicer2843

11 ай бұрын

@@Robi-Chaud you’re laughing Tramp stamps got chased off tumblr with bugass And you’re laughing 🐜🍑

@hellmo8384

10 ай бұрын

strange aeons has made a video about it if anyone wants to know more

i want a subreddit to be born called “charlie puth music prompts” where people do the “what if there was a song that went do do doo, and a tsst tsst tsst, and then if i go oooououuu” and then talented people actually try to make a song from that point rather than the other way around

@joelbedulla4

Жыл бұрын

Lol I'd sub to that

@christianboesch3459

Жыл бұрын

This is kind of a genius idea hahaha

@fuzzymelon1261

Жыл бұрын

what if there was a song that went "Boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ey"

@madeofcastiron

Жыл бұрын

what if there was a song that went “never gonna give you up. never gonna let you down. never gonna run around and desert you. never gonna make you cry. never gonna say goodbye. never gonna tell a lie and hurt you”

@obamasleftcheek8854

Жыл бұрын

“what if there was a song where I literally crapped my pants and used it for the beat drop”

Finally someone talks about this. I HATE new tiktok music promotion. There are a few good ones, but like 95 percent of are horrible. Gabi is really the hero we needed.

@PineappleSquuid

Жыл бұрын

@@TURBOMIKEIFY I remember kenny, didn’t know he made music now. I’ll have to check it out

@shnorksnam9575

Жыл бұрын

Can you guess who the drummer is!?

@doogles.

Жыл бұрын

@@TURBOMIKEIFY his names connor price and yea i agree i think he's cool but a lot of other ones are just 🤢

@ezrac9578

Жыл бұрын

Jarvis did a good vid on this too

@harrypothead42024

Жыл бұрын

Don't sit through it, they will get the idea.

"My generation grew up on uncensored anything" is funny because if anything modern media is much more explicit than in the 90s or 80s if you don't count dated bigotry. Shows like The Boys would have a hard time existing during the Reagan era.

@theonelad3028

Жыл бұрын

Holy shit if the boys even tried to air during the Reagan Era there would be riots in the streets by conservatives

@mcgrey_

Жыл бұрын

Nurture profile pic, so based

@PeachysMom

Жыл бұрын

He’s a millennial, he isn’t even old enough to remember what the Reagan era was really like.

@PeachysMom

Жыл бұрын

@@mcgrey_ oh look it’s one of Tom’s little fascist fans

@thicc_astley

Жыл бұрын

@@PeachysMom he’s a millennial?! bro he literally talks the way boomers talk to millennials 💀 i guess he learned from them that he is supposed to be angry at young people

I’ll never get over the fact that a lot of these musicians who try to be “punk” or edgy are often conservative trumpies. Like just say you don’t understand what punk is 😭

@dorothyallspice1862

Жыл бұрын

LOL right?? You can’t be a rebel and a bootlicker at the same time!

@breebiebreeb

Жыл бұрын

FOR REAL!!!

@thebasedgodmax1163

Жыл бұрын

well doesn't punk just mean outside of the mainstream? the reason punk was so left back in the 80s was because the mainstream was Reagan. I'm incredibly left wing myself but "punk" doesn't just mean "left wing".

@luclenka

Жыл бұрын

@@thebasedgodmax1163 punk is a political movement- they want anarchy.. not trump

@LovelyLittleLillies

Жыл бұрын

​@@thebasedgodmax1163 yeah labels and movement change (esp through generations). The fact that he's getting lots of backlash kinda makes him punk, no? Lol

“Did I just invent the next big emo anthem?” *Disney music with the wildest set of words ever to exist in a sentence together*

@dorothyallspice1862

Жыл бұрын

It’s like if Austin from “Austin and Ally” fronted My Chemical Romance or Green Day. 😂

@errix

Ай бұрын

To be fair Disney pop is sonically inspired by Paramore's sound on Riot, imo

@RainbowDemon

Ай бұрын

@@errix yah but disney music doesnt have the heart riot did and you can feel that

@errix

Ай бұрын

@@RainbowDemon I know, I love Riot. I'm just saying, that's where they seem to get their cue.

Him saying that his generation doesn't give a fuck about the things they don't agree with, while simultaneously making an entire video bitching about the things he doesn't agree with is the best. His lack of self awareness is comical.

@jod791

Жыл бұрын

That's literally MacDonald's whole schtick. Whining all the time. What a snowflake.

@ThatOneCupOfTea

11 ай бұрын

I was so surprised when they didn’t mention that like the entire time he’s just talking about how he doesn’t agree with anything

@AM-kr4pv

11 ай бұрын

Conservative cognitive dissonance.

@StormG23

9 ай бұрын

@@ThatOneCupOfTeapTy Ty

@terribletimes902

4 ай бұрын

I think he’s fully self aware. Guys like him are grifters

"your generation censors everything" do you think we Want this. i want youtubers to be able to say Fuck and not have the internet softened for advertisers. that's my idea of censorship. his is him being mad he can't call people slurs in the grocery store lmao

@oopsallbugs

Жыл бұрын

This, I'm sick of people catering to corporations in their guidelines!

@cursed-cat9126

Жыл бұрын

People who throw slurs in grocery stores are TRULY the most oppressed 😢😢😭 /j

@eminempreg

Жыл бұрын

@@cursed-cat9126 it's my God given American right as a Canadian to say hateful slurs

@theshire9173

Жыл бұрын

Isn’t it the older people who censor things? I don’t get how he thinks Gen Z has any power in this area

@crazyowlgirlcncowner

Жыл бұрын

@@cursed-cat9126 Unrelated because it wasn't a slur but it reminds me that the other day I went to Target and I was walking though the aisle with my brother when this little white girl points at us and says, "Look Mommy, MEXICANS!" My brother and I just looked at each other like 🤨 while the mom told the girl, "Yes, say hi!"

“My generation broke the law by getting a drivers license by 14, wasted my time by getting a job instead of focusing on my education at 16, and was kicked out because I have daddy issues at 17. Your generation has just begun and half of you aren’t even 14 yet.” - Old Macdonald Had a Farm

@eclipseissad

10 ай бұрын

OLD MCDONALD HAD A FARM WAS FOULLL BUT I LOVE IT 💀

@Zzz2x

10 ай бұрын

Why do I feel like this is actually what he said

@Helpmefindthewilltolive

8 ай бұрын

You can have a job and get an education at the same time?? Usually in high school, kids used to work part time..

@annpc8266

5 ай бұрын

​@@Helpmefindthewilltolivethat's the thing you "people" Dont understand. Kids still work part time. They shouldn't HAVE TO.

@Helpmefindthewilltolive

5 ай бұрын

@@annpc8266 yes they should lol how else will they obtain the experience they need to work a higher paying office job? Not only that - but when you're a teen you're gonna want your own money and independence eventually. You need a job to obtain that. Y'all coddle teens waaaayy too much these days.

The first dude is not Post Malone. That’s 37 year old Post Divorce

@vangoghingtokms

2 ай бұрын

😭😭😭💀💀

"Did that make you wet?" Ew wtf?? I know it's staged but just the idea of a stranger asking me that is so nasty

@Ultinuc

Жыл бұрын

Even if they weren't a stranger 😭 what does that even have to do with the song

@y0_jimb0

Жыл бұрын

That song is not romantic or sexy, or even complimentary.

@daniboy4153

Жыл бұрын

Music isn't even supposed to make you feel wet 🤣 If it does, then I don't know how else to help you

@Breexbloodlust

Жыл бұрын

That was so much cringe like, sir...

@Man-ej6uv

Жыл бұрын

the only song that’ll make me bricked up is anything by NIN

tom mcdonald is yet another thing we as canadians have to apologize for

@theonelad3028

Жыл бұрын

He's also apart of the generation he is complaining about 🤣

@joanjobs4359

Жыл бұрын

Did you ever notice most of the musical acts we have to apologize for didn't actually make it big in Canada, but blew up in the States. I feel like they owe us an apology, but then again, it's CanCon that rammed down our throats once they blew up down south. Can't wait for the CanCon algos to take over the 🇨🇦internet 🇨🇦🙉

@syntheticwisdom1

Жыл бұрын

He kind of is the human embodiment of abusing a culture while telling them it's because his culture knows better. Call him Tom CIRS

@racheldare.

Жыл бұрын

he’s Canadian???

@wtfcooldown9675

Жыл бұрын

It’s okay, you gave us Bryan Adams ❤

"My generation grew up with uncensored everything, your generation censors everything." Homie has never met anyone who had unrestricted internet access as a kid. Shit wasn't censored and now we have trauma that we want to prevent others from getting 💀💀💀

@jimbeam7636

5 ай бұрын

yay PAIN OLYMPICA

@eiavops4576

5 ай бұрын

How is the FBI getting big social media corporations to censor stories about politicians that could hurt their election chances preventing anyone’s trauma? How is social media corporations banning anyone who doesn’t follow their political narrative preventing anyone’s trauma?

@jesuisunstroopwafel

3 ай бұрын

I know shock sites were a thing.

@strictnine5684

2 ай бұрын

Hell nah. I don’t rly want to protect anyone from the internet I want to protect the internet from corporations and government.

7:08 THE FACT THAT YOU UNDERSTOOD THE BROKEN CLOCK THING AS IT WAS BROKEN BUT ALWAYS MOVING JUST AT THE WRNOG TIME, THATS HOW I UNDERSTOOD IT TOO LMAOO OMGG THIS MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE NOW

@aud7593

3 ай бұрын

to be fair to you both! the hearing I've heard more is "a _stopped_ clock is right twice a day". a broken clock COULD absolutely be broken in the way you and gabi think!

"Eminem used to gay bash" Eminem: "But if we can hump dead animals and antelopes Then there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope" Goofy behavior

@Hermit__

Жыл бұрын

he just said the f slur alot, he never said a bad thing about gay people. he even played stan with elton john

@1BRAINCELLL

Жыл бұрын

Also eminem is like close friends with elton john, even bought him dimond cock rings as a gift 😂

@therealvalevolent

Жыл бұрын

Literally what I thought 😂

@lockdown_lover

Жыл бұрын

He also is very good friends with Elton and sent him some nice “rings” for Elton and his husband

@hamoiq908

Жыл бұрын

And the thing is it’s always seemed like partial satire cause em shits on everyone if every gender race sexuality and religion at some point

The last guy adding captions to the girl like "not her being shy

@cwj2733

Жыл бұрын

i feel like a lot of these little shit heads who do shit like that have no one to tell them no and just approach women like they’re cats.

@butasimpleidiotwizard

Жыл бұрын

I mean she looks kind of flattered and embarrassed but mostly in a "this is a weird encounter that I am really hoping will be over very soon so I can go back to my friends and laugh about it" kind of way, and then ending it by asking if it made her wet definitely 100% killed that and turned it into straight discomfort and mild fear like why the fuck would you even

@gabdongipark

Жыл бұрын

I guess it js

@439801RS

Жыл бұрын

Even if these creators don't really do this irl, there's gonna be kids who see this and are gonna take it as a green light to harass others

@aeoligarlic4024

Жыл бұрын

It's a tiktok pov mentality thing

“my generation only wants the truth and the facts” * *blatantly lies to the camera* *

@eiavops4576

5 ай бұрын

When did he lie lmao

@chaoticdudemakesbeats

Ай бұрын

@@eiavops4576“Your generation censors everything and my generation censors nothing“The older generations censors much more then the new ones

@eiavops4576

Ай бұрын

@@chaoticdudemakesbeats And what does the older generation censor?

@chaoticdudemakesbeats

Ай бұрын

@@eiavops4576 on tv shows there were usually no swearing

@chaoticdudemakesbeats

Ай бұрын

@@eiavops4576 and like all music was censored.Espescially rap songs

Only tumblr could chase away a music group by spamming the word “Bug Ass”

@sasha-is-eepy

2 күн бұрын

and the john green monologue… and the weed smoking girlfriends…. and the ENTIRETY of my immortal… i fuckin love tumblr

seeing James not bark and growl in a video just healed my entire world (still gonna watch every stream tho)

@minikipp8549

Жыл бұрын

i had been pretending that wasn't a thing

@bp491

Жыл бұрын

he still gave us some uwu shenanigans though😂

@strawberry_milk

Жыл бұрын

I know right 🤣

@ps1hagridoufofcharacter

Жыл бұрын

as somebody unfamiliar with James, what?

@ps1hagridoufofcharacter

Жыл бұрын

@@olaa.008 i dont think i'll be able to catch him live anytime soon but maybe i'll check out a vod or something, thx 4 recommendation

Tom referring to the genocide of indigenous people as "native casualties" is WILD

Btw rage against the machine is extremely left leaning, fronted by poc, talking about politics in a really radical way and protested a lot, they aren't right wing at all, the right just doesn't understand what the lyrics to their most popular song is and use it but I promise if you look up rages songs you'll see their true views, idk why they get a bad rep

@bubblest5152

3 ай бұрын

Literally was looking for a comment like this, all of their lyrics are so obviously anti- right bull

Tom MacDonald is 34 years old. He's a year YOUNGER than me, and I still managed to grow into a regular human being with empathy and an understanding of oppression. He doesn't get to blame "his generation" for being an asshole.

@meggoeggo1564

Жыл бұрын

By the way he Said it he sounded 60 something

@dark_quEEnisCringe

Жыл бұрын

Nah he straight from the 1800s 💀

@kweep1

Жыл бұрын

So you base your opinions on emotions

@dark_quEEnisCringe

Жыл бұрын

@@kweep1 empathy allows humans to connect, but based on you're bot like appearance you're clearly not human.

@joebungus3447

Жыл бұрын

Oppression🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

i really dislike when these creators use mental health or depression as a way to make people relate to a songs topic. it feels very disingenuous, like they know a huge amount of people who are spending a lot of time on the internet struggle with mental health and it feels like they’re exploiting that for money/attention and to seem “relatable”. i guess i can’t confirm that the creators don’t struggle with the same things, but it doesn’t feel like it’s coming from a real place, more of a jokey like, “OMG if you have anxiety, this song is for YOU!!!”

@sassafrasfruit

Жыл бұрын

God, same! Like, some of my favourite songs of all time touch on these topics, but to forego all subtlety and just say "listen to this if ur mentally ill!" is so disengenuous. If they just touched on the general story/feeling of the song and let the audience make the connection to anxiety/depression or whatever themselves it would come across much more sincere.

@hamsterstyle6152

Жыл бұрын

Me too! It’s like mental illness is nothing but an opportunity to make money for them.

@InvisibleRen

Жыл бұрын

All my music is about those sorts of topics but when I thought about promoting on TikTok I just decided on overlaying my music over some of my art videos. 😂 Not very cool but at least it’s not cringe. I made the songs to vent and soothe others, not be famous, so that’s probably why my promotion methods are so lazy. 👀😂 I find songs by searching mental health related phrases or personal thoughts in Spotify and Genius lyrics. If people do the same for TikTok, they’ll find your music right? No need to lead with “Have you ever felt nervous? This song is for you!” Sounds like a bad infomercial. 😅

@oldsof69

Жыл бұрын

YES, but at least there's less songs about relationships this way lmao

@alexdoorn234

Жыл бұрын

I think it is way more genuine when such songs are in the metal/rock genre. Panic Attacks, Brittle, Happy Hurts and Under The Knife are great songs by a band called Icon For Hire. Every single song is written about something the singer struggles with. Like with Under The Knife it starts with some universal experience but with the rap part she is directly talking to someone who needs to hear it. In Need Of Medicine alongside other Smash into Pieces songs are also a good example. I love songs about mental health issues when I know that it's genuine.

I believe the "Charlie Puth" method works so well (not only in Music) because it gives viewers that false sense of accomplishment that "i can turn an idea into something in a matter of minutes, If I put my mind to it"

“oh my god, karen, you can’t just ask someone if they’re wet” ESPECIALLY after u insulted their tattoos

I saw a YT short yesterday of JAX with a kid she says she babysits, and in it she was like, "yesterday the kid I babysit got made fun of for how she looks so then I wrote this song for her, and now I am gonna sing it to her!" and then she goes on to play the kid the very fully produced version of Victoria's Secret. Modern music promotion is wild.

@cinnamonroll6454

Жыл бұрын

I saw a short yesterday of her literally vandalizing a scale in her hotel room to promote her new song. Wtf

@rocko34

Жыл бұрын

Hey raz how’s the woman you live with?

@yumine_

Жыл бұрын

I saw that on reels, shorts, everywhere. I thought it was real, is it not? So now it's okay to lie to promote music? ;_;

@annoyedkaren6726

Жыл бұрын

God JAX annoys me so much

@nejdalej

Жыл бұрын

That child looked so confused and that she was losing the will to live. So awkward lmao x

I like how Tom McDonald straight up lies, no you can't get your driver's license at 14 in BC, Canada (where he is from)

@haileystangowitz4202

Жыл бұрын

I thought he was from Alberta

@PandarenSoul

Жыл бұрын

@@haileystangowitz4202 he is originally from bc then ended up in Alberta, even still alberta driving age is 15

@polarispictures5876

Жыл бұрын

I think South Dakota is the youngest place where you can at 14 and 9 months... could be wrong tho Edit: I was! You can get a provisional license at 14 in SD, but you have to be 16 to get behind the wheel alone.

@manifestationsofasort

Жыл бұрын

@Polaris Pictures Even if it's true, there are still like 4 people in South Dakota, which is not nearly enough to be used as a standard in some "my generation" tory pandering video.

@MossTheinvader-qr6bz

Жыл бұрын

💀bro I love how you know for a fact theirs only four people in SD

8:00 this is like rage against the machine, but in defense of the machine

I love seeing artists just playing their song and that's the whole video. It feels more genuine and it adds new value by giving people a "live" version of the song, and they can be excited for what will be different in a produced version when it's released

When ever anyone talks about the good ol days when stuff was not so censored I am livid because they censored sailor moon and gave us incestuous cousins instead of a beautiful wholesome lesbian couple because that's better?

@eminempreg

Жыл бұрын

They're girls, and cousins too!!

@daniboy4153

Жыл бұрын

Censorship was arguably worse back in the 80's and 90's for many reasons

@dannydamnmendez

Жыл бұрын

There was an episode of Seinfeld where they couldn't explicitly mention masturbation. Nowadays the average adult comedy will casually mention the act of jerking off with no censorship whatsoever

@Max.Paprika

Жыл бұрын

There was a narrative arc in I Love Lucy about being pregnant, and they weren't allowed to say the word "pregnant" because of decency or whatever the fuck they were on about in the 1950s. This guy whining about censorship has no idea what he's talking about. I'm not a huge fan of censorship, but I wouldn't mind if they'd have blurred those shitty face tattoos.

@brittanyste

Жыл бұрын

They couldn’t even show Lucy and Ricky sleeping in the same bed on I Love Lucy because it was considered indecent at that time on TV, and now they have full on sex scenes and definitely people sharing beds on TV shows so censorship has come far from that time.

The best part is that "kids these days" happens to *every.* *generation.* Yes it's important to learn from the wisdom of older generations, but we've been continously improving as humans as time goes on. It's equally important to listen to the passion of youth. Their critiques may sting, but we also have more to learn about life.

@markbaker4425

Жыл бұрын

Theres literally medieval texts where people complain that their students are too rowdy and dont respect elders. That the enjoy music and leisure too much and that their soft. Shit doesnt change

@arareanddifferenttune3130

11 ай бұрын

@@markbaker4425 yes I was just going to say they’ve found similar missives from Ancient Greece!!

@raeofsunshine8377

9 ай бұрын

brent rivera has entered the chat

@jenniferdunstan5065

4 ай бұрын

I shall choose to not continue this vicious cycle

OMG Gabi finally learning what the “broken clock” saying was actually about is the most adorable thing ever! Lol

my favorite tramp stamps verse is "gone away is my real dad, here to stay is my stepdad" because its so transparently bait

7:41 “eminem used to gay bash and murder his mom” I like how this lyric implies that he didn’t just murder her once, he continuously murdered his mom as if it was an activity lmao like “he used to murder his mom” bro you can only murder someone once get better lyrics 💀

@judit5173

Жыл бұрын

For real, he makes it sound like Eminem murdered 9-5 every day. Old Macdonald wouldn't be able to achieve that

@hamsterstyle6152

Жыл бұрын

@@judit5173 lmfao exactly

@butasimpleidiotwizard

Жыл бұрын

"Eminem used to murder his mom now he can't even murder his mom anymore >:( cancel culture gone crazy when are they gonna legalise matricide"

@daniellopezparra6430

Жыл бұрын

This is major misinformation, and I die at least 45 times a day and I'm perfectly fine 😊

@overwicket1339

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking that

The funniest thing is that Tom MacDonald censors the swear words in his music videos as well 💀 you can't even blame that on the platform

1:15 “My generation grew up on uncensored everything.“ Yeah maybe except gay couples, divorce, even remotely s3xy content, or anything taboo in general. But ok

The irony of the first guy saying his generation doesn't give a shit about stuff they don't agree with, while literally whining about stuff he doesn't agree with

A more accurate name for Tom macdonald is “rage in favor of the machine”

@petemadrona2252

Жыл бұрын

"Ragesuck off the Machine"

@rainestorm6029

9 ай бұрын

"Raging bootlicker of the machine"

15:20, it’s very common in the rap community for it to go that way. I’m an engineer, and I have the instrumental loaded, auto tune in key the second the artist walks in and we write it together as we go

“The facts don’t care about your feeling... they only care about mine.” 😂😂😂

i grew up in baltimore city during the time when EVERYONE wanted to be a rapper and were just randomly handing out their CD's near the subway stations and that was less annoying than tiktok music promotion.

@dannydamnmendez

Жыл бұрын

People still do that in Los Angeles

@camdenhunt7565

Жыл бұрын

@Danny Mendez i believe it, people still do it here in atlanta too, everybody wants to move here and "follow their dreams"🥲

@butasimpleidiotwizard

Жыл бұрын

I mean at least you get something out of that and there's a level of authenticity you know like they're just trying to get their music heard and they're actually putting in the work to do that, relying on shitty overused disingenuous tiktok formats to make an algorithm latch onto your song and force feed it to thousands of people just feels lazy and inauthentic

@Funeral_Mannequin

Жыл бұрын

We’re the CDs any good?

@ictogon

Жыл бұрын

well i would listen to them

Seeing Gabi learn how a common phrase works is the highlight of this video

@jaaaaaane

Жыл бұрын

I appreciated that because i thought the same as her for a long time and was too shocked when I found out its real meaning 💀💀

@blastypie

Жыл бұрын

I learned with her cause I didn't get it before this video 😭

@jayjayspasta

Жыл бұрын

i’m glad multiple people also had the experience of learning with gabi

At this point, cancel culture is just a concept people think is always happening around us all the time, but it isn’t practiced as much as people think.

@catherinedean3796

8 ай бұрын

Shane Dawson is a solid reminder that cancel culture doesn’t exist

I actually really like watching someone write and play music. My partner plays guitar and electric while we're on call and it's so fun to see their brain work. So I say more real behind the scenes as music promos.

wow.. not staring at your iphone in the 90s.. what an accomplishment. that geezer deserves a medal!

@cwbellor

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm still waiting for someone to give me credit for not using the internet in 1990.

@ball8182

Жыл бұрын

But guys we didn’t censor anything…

@daniellopezparra6430

Жыл бұрын

I was to busy working at 5 years old to use the Internet this generation will never understand 😑

@fart63

Жыл бұрын

@@daniellopezparra6430 absolutely pathetic. I started working the day I was born.

@cactusbuds2979

Жыл бұрын

@@fart63You emerged from the womb with a full lumberjack beard and cut your own umbilical cord

Trying to promote my music on TikTok led to more egodeath than I could’ve ever expected. Oddly enough, I’ve found it’s a lot easier for me to manage others. It’s given me a healthier degree of separation between me and how I go about content creation for myself and my clients.

@BadgerOfTheSea

Жыл бұрын

Your music gets less than a thousand views though, you have to promote on TikTok because no one knows who you are yet.

@KrispyDeRato

Жыл бұрын

@@BadgerOfTheSea "TikTok led to more egodeath than I could’ve ever expected" ... as in wasn't good for my mental health so I stepped away from my own projects for now and redirected by managing others instead. I'll get back to my own projects when I'm ready but for now I'm just stating how it's been more fulfilling helping others as of late.

@Dahlily

Жыл бұрын

@@KrispyDeRato ugh I tried self promotion as well, two years in I lost all drive and joy I used to have in music. Its just so tedious, pouring so much time and resources into something that doesn't go anywhere... Maybe I can also focus more on others' projects, or find a way to focus on the fun.

@KrispyDeRato

Жыл бұрын

@@Dahlily it can be easy to forget why we do music in the first place sometimes, but there is always a way to fall in love with it again and you can find it! There’s always someone out there who can use your knowledge and services

@corncobbob2326

Жыл бұрын

egodeath? what's that and what happened?

lewis capaldi is the only person who is allowed to do this cause he takes the piss out of it the whole time and it is hilarious

14:43 Okay, so skit A is the school one and skit B is the producer one. So skit B is poking fun at the other skits, including skit A, but skit B is portrayed as the conception of the song for skit A, meaning skit A and any other skits promoting the song don't exist yet, but skit B still makes a reference to the song in skit A, so skit B referenced skit A and any other skits promoting the song while it didn't exist, skit A simply shows the kid _using_ the song, and skit A became a reality using the song that the producer joked about and inspired. Please it's 3:58 am I can't do this

“My generation has-“ WOW so crazy that generations are completely different and evolve from the generation before the,… absolute insanity, who would’ve thought

@ediblefredible

Жыл бұрын

thank youuuu lmao like!

@beccas5171

Жыл бұрын

also the "my generation shot guns and went camping", no that's what you and your buddies did. everyone had different interests then, same as now.

@imsotiredofthiscrap2341

Жыл бұрын

@@beccas5171 MY generation (my group of three friends) used to PICK UP CHICKS (awkwardly flirt with them and then cry and run away) and had RESPECT FOR OUR COUNTRY (i joined rotc and got an A) men these days are PUSSIES (care for others)

@ThexDynastxQueen

Жыл бұрын

He's 34, he was 18 in 2006! 🤣

@intensestare5027

Жыл бұрын

whoa time is moving forward and society is continually advancing? who woulda thought!

Tom McDonald is such a funny man because my mom is older than him and is somehow less transphobic, less rude, and much less "back in my day" like no Tomathy, it's not your generation, it's just you

One of the biggest issues with political musicians is that they just state their political ideologies to a beat

@wolfsisterhowls

Жыл бұрын

This is one reason I think Beyoncé's Formation and Freedom are so great (and were so well received). At no point does she ever say "let's all be anti-racist, anti-xenophobic and fight the power" to an 808. With Freedom specifically, it's poetry like "imma rain on this bitter love, tell the sweet I'm new/I'm telling these tears go and fall away/Oh, may the last one burst into flames". That could apply to anything, but context clues tell you what she's talking about and allow you to feel the passion without feeling preached at. Also, the songs are just fun and uplifting.

@markbaker4425

Жыл бұрын

It depends how you do it. Ratm is so on the nose but its great. So is a lot of punk like minor threat

@superdrwholock

Жыл бұрын

idk bro I think bo burnham does a good job with that haha

@Funeral_Mannequin

Жыл бұрын

Same with political comedians.

@davidnissim589

Жыл бұрын

@@markbaker4425 or System of a Down using nonsensical lyrics and wacky metaphors to deliver the message

8:59 Foreshadowing intensifies

To go back on the thing with songs being shorter now, I am in a modern music school, and I play with a band (that I didn't choose), most of the people with me are the classic 'tiktok kids'. With our tutor, we were discovering the new song we now have to learn and it's 4.20 minutes long. All of the others said that it was too long, that a good music now is 2 minutes long, and that anything longer than 3 minutes quickly becomes boring... I don't have tiktok, I listen to all kinds of songs, and I saw our tutor being desperate with them, it's really stupid

Tom MacDonald seems like the kind of guy who would've made those "SO WHY DO GOOD GIRLS LIKE BAD GUUUYS" tiktoks when they were a thing

@thatoneguy9582

9 ай бұрын

what’s fucked up about this is that the artist of that song Ronnie Radke a) also made “MY LIFE IS LIKE A VIDEO GAME,,” b) is (i think??) a pretty similar kind of person

@breakinglegsandbreakinghea3167

2 ай бұрын

​@@thatoneguy9582yeah Ronald Radkonald is right wing I think and screeches on twitter.

That fact that James mentioned where music promoted on tiktok isn't allowed to just have a moment is so true! I feel like it's so rare to find a song I actually like though tiktok, it's either just that one section that's good and the rest is so disjointed it might as well be from another song, or it's super repetitive. Maybe like 1/10 or 1/20 are songs I actually end up liking the whole thing. It's genuinely annoying.

It's been hard for me to explain to some people exactly WHY this part of Tiktok bugs the shit out of me, but both of you were hitting a lot of the highlights. It's not that all of the music is bad, or that I don't want small artists to have a way to break through the noise re: the music landscape being so crowded and often gatekept by industry professionals. But the disingenuous nature of it all turns me off so quickly! (Though some of that may also come from being too close to how the sausage gets made, as James said. I work in video production, so I've worked on a lot of music videos and overheard artists making their Tiktoks 10 times in a row until they get it just right in the green room or on set, or overheard a manager say they "need" to make a Tiktok to post today essentially to fill a quota. It takes away a lot of the sparkly, entertaining veneer of actually having to MAKE those videos.)

3:42 Tom your parents generations literally INVENTED doing that. Youre grandparents LIVED in a time where all you did was judge of race and sex ☠️ what is he on about???

we don't give a f about the things we don't agree with, yet makes a whole tiktok about the things he doesn't agree with.

@cultroses

Жыл бұрын

not only that, but goes on to make SONGS about what he disagrees with and complains in them like… why u so sensitive tom i thought you didn’t care about what you didn’t agree with 😭

i completely thought the same thing as gabi about the broken clock thing but never questioned how it made sense, i just accepted it as a fact

@imaggiore

Жыл бұрын

NO CAUSE LIKE SAME

@girlboss9662

Жыл бұрын

OMG literally same lmao, I was always so confused but I'd just brush it off lol

@IndieHellCat

Жыл бұрын

I've heard stopped clock instead of broken, I think it changed over time to make less sense

@miglek9613

Жыл бұрын

the full phrase actually makes a bit more sense (although I don't remember the exact wording) since it goes smth like "a broken clock is right twice a day but one that's a minute off is never right" but with better wording

@EpicManaphyDude

Жыл бұрын

@@miglek9613 this makes all the sense

“My generation doesn’t give a fuck about things we don’t agree with” *proceeds to go on a rant about trans people minding their business*

I have many mental problems, the most basic of which widdle down to depression, anxiety, and ADHD. I never like music that is so superficial about these mental illnesses because honestly, I fucking hate having these issues. It isn't fun, it isn't quirky, it's hell. I've been taking Adderall before I knew who my country's first president was. I cannot function properly in social settings, which doesn't mean I just angstly sit in the corner like a Wattpad character, it means I'm trying to talk to people and they don't fucking like me because I'm being annoying to them. I suffer everyday trying to just exist and the last thing I wanna hear about is my issues. I listen to music written about love, heartbreak, divorce, death, or literally any other thing besides my mental illnesses. The closest is The Lullaby by The Cure, but that song is only theorized to be about mental illness, it's really about a spider eating people. I hate mental illness music, write something more original than the textbook definition of a generalized group of people.

Btw the tramp stamps were originally on tumblr but got “bullied” off through troll asks saying “BUG ASS”

@peskypigeonx

11 ай бұрын

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@sasha-is-eepy

2 күн бұрын

🐜 🍑

Gabi you have been absolutely popping off with these collabs lately! We appreciate y'all's hard work!!

I thought the same thing about the clock analogy thing Gabi!! And thank you James for providing clarity!

how are these people not absolutely, mortifyingly embarassed. i literally couldnt

Tom Macdonald is 34. He’s part of the generation he’s complaining about

@ruendheart

Жыл бұрын

Melinnials? (Cause I SWEAR it’s them it always is)

@dorothyallspice1862

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, he’s a millennial. He is PART of that generation. He’s not a 78 year old man, vegetating on the couch while watching Tucker Carlson.

@Asmanidoesnotexist2

7 ай бұрын

WHAT????

i think the sad thing is a lot of artists even BIG artists have to promote on tiktok like contractually due to how popular it is

@Corarii

Жыл бұрын

oh james is talking about it

Gabi, THANK GOD! I ALWAYS misunderstood the “broken clock” think the same way you did! I feel way less stupid about it now

its so hard to not fall in the hipster mentality when people make music like this

“there’s rappers pushing xanax at the top of the billboard” i’m sorry, would you like us to censor them for you?

Tom MacDonald is also only 34 lol. He's a millennial, and not even a very old one. Sure you could say his criticisms are aimed at gen z, but he's talking like he's gen x and not a millennial- who have had these criticisms aimed at them for the last decade.

THANK YOU GABI, THAT IS ALWAYS HOW I INTERPRETED THAT CLOCK ANALOGY AND I FEEL EVERYTHING YOU SAID

Oh my god, I also didn’t get the broken clock thing until just now. I had the same thought process as you. And James Marriott of all people was the one who had to explain it so I could understand

i like that gabi's idea of a broken clock is a clock that has the wrong time, that's adorable.

@ruendheart

Жыл бұрын

But it makes sense

@Asmanidoesnotexist2

7 ай бұрын

Is that not what a broken clock is😨😨😨

@vhe9560

6 ай бұрын

@@Asmanidoesnotexist2 A "broken clock" talks about an analog, round clock that doesn't move it's hands anymore. That's why it's "right twice a day". Because the clock only shows one time e.g. 1. And that happens twice a day, 1am and 1pm. "Wrong time" can also mean the clock is ahead or behind time. But that clock is not broken, because it still runs. And it's always wrong, never right. So broken clock =/= wrong time in general. Broken clock == dead clock == stopped on certain time == wrong 23 hours and 58 minutes of the day == right 2 minutes of the day. Similar, but not the same. And doean't work with digital clocks. They just switch off if the battery is empty.

“My generation grew up on uncensored everything… BEFORE the Hayes Code!!” 😂

As an independent musician, I hate that the only way I can promote my work is by reducing it to short form content. When 1 make a song 2-3 minutes long, I actually want people to hear the whole thing, not just 15s of it. The ability to self-produce, promote, and distribute all from a bedroom/through a phone has made music WAY more accessible which is great! But it sucks that pandering to social media is now just as important as the quality of a song if you want it to get heard.

Honestly I’ve been thinking about that clock adage a lot lately and I’m glad James was able to clear it up

i love it when videos end abruptly like this it’s so fresh and i’m being 100% serious. we need more videos that simply stop when they are over. thank you gabi belle

19:20 I think Jame's story here is actually a really important piece of the puzzle. I make random IG videos of my modeling projects that I do and they never get any attention outside of my friends, but one day as a joke I made a sped-up video with some cheerful music under it to look in the style of 5 minute craft type videos, and it got thousands of views. And I was pretty mad, actually. It felt like all my hard work of regular videos was a waste of time if all I really had to do was throw up some crap that took less than 5 minutes to make. I never made one like that again. So I think some of these people may have gone down a similar path where a they made a joke that accidentally worked, but they just decided to keep running with it. And sometimes I can't blame them for it.

My favorite example of the tiktok promo is the guy goes “do you guys ever have that one girl that just got away” and the FIRST line of the song is “this is about the girl that got away”

First guy was like “your generation can’t decide which bathroom to use” then said “your generation harasses trans people and my generation doesn’t care” like this man is a “musician” but can’t even write a script that doesn’t contradict hims😂

i barely go on tiktok but i've found when i do see artists trying to promote their work, i'm more receptive to videos where they just...play their music. sometimes they have a little caption with the lyrics or explaining why they wrote the song, but that's all you need. it's kinda upsetting how now music producers are making artists post promotional tiktoks. sometimes that's not the type of audience you want to reach or the brand you want to reflect your music.

@delusion5867

Жыл бұрын

What's better than understanding the passion and love that goes into great music, instead of inflammatory fake nonsense like the crap in the video.

A coworker old white lady recommended Tom Macdonald then the nicer old white lady receptionist apologized to me when she looked up who that was

@eiavops4576

5 ай бұрын

Imagine apologizing because someone else recommended someone an artist who has political opinions that you don’t agree with, hilarious

I hate I just found this after a month!? I watch both of their videos all the time and absolutely love when they collaborate! Honestly they need to collab on a song together! I was pleasantly surprised to find out they both produced music well after I found their commentary vids.

The problem is that a lot of people do what they think they should be doing to promote on TikTok (ie: basic promo, singing to the cam videos, skits, “spontaneous” videos). In reality, they should be telling a story of the song, how the song connects to influences, the process behind it, etc. It feels like people are actively making bad promos to get boosted by the cringe factor, instead of making solid content! (This isn’t a totality statement either)

I really struggle with promoting my music these days because I want to keep the mystery and open interpretation to my songs. I want people to be able to connect to them with their own truth. BUT it is so hard to get anything to stick with the small amount of time you really get to promote on any platform. You have to jump to these eye catching conclusions to get people to stick around. It's a weird time.... I try not to be cringe and hate trends but lately it's hard to get things to work without doing them at least a bit. Great video! I love your stuff and look forward to new videos from you all the time!

OMG. I only just found this channel a couple months ago and it's my new comfort channel so when I saw this video was a James Marriot collab, who is my old comfort youtuber (who I still watch). I can't. Perfect.

for some reason I had always thought of the broken clock analogy the same way gabi was thinking of it, but in my mind it was like if the clock keeps going around even if it's off it'll match up with the real time twice a day and the rest of the time it'll be fast/slow......idk but obviously the way james explained it makes way more sense so idk why it wasn't clear to me before um

"This guy is Rage Against The Machine, but worse" nah this guy is Rage For The Machine

@dorothyallspice1862

Жыл бұрын

LOL PERFECT 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@vcc947

Жыл бұрын

Rage For The Machine is basically what the original band has become anyway

tysm for making this video, as someone who stopped making music because the whole management making you do tiktok thing destroyed my mental health.... this was awesome to hear and made me feel less crazy

thank you!! it took me years to figure out that clock thing, glad to see im not the only one

No cause Tom MacDonald literally being a millennial and talking like a Booker is killing me. I hate the whole insult the new and younger generation thing. Also him saying "his generation doesn't care about the things he doesn't agree with" but also making a whole video bashing the younger generation because he doesn't agree with them.

@maryaetayeb5143

Жыл бұрын

Boomer*

I love when conservatives complain about cancel culture as if it's a thing that exists. It ain't cancel culture, it's accountability culture.

@rubyxaruby

Жыл бұрын

Yeah the only actual cancellation that ever comes to my mind is The Dixie Chicks who were cancelled by the conservatives lol.

@MrBlue11900

Жыл бұрын

Bro Dave Chappelle can't make a joke without some one trying to kill him 🤣 It's a thing you just reword it differently. You're just apart of the other side

@rubyxaruby

Жыл бұрын

@@MrBlue11900 That's crazy that Chappelle was cancelled, I could've sworn he still had sold out shows and movie deals, where have I been! Jokes aside, Dave Chappelle gets criticized because he is transphobic, he makes transphobic "jokes" and he defends them because he's transphobic. I'm not saying he should get death threats of course, but he should stop and look at what he has become and change as a person.

@__-yh7pn

Жыл бұрын

@@rubyxaruby he's also said anti Semitic things while defending Kanye not too long ago

@eminempreg

Жыл бұрын

@@MrBlue11900 Dave Chapelle literally just had a show in my state. And I didn't hear anything about a single assassination attempt. Are you getting him confused with another black man like Martin Luther King Jr.?

I think the worst part is some (read : not all) tiktok musicians are not that bad, but their advertising is so cringey its hard to bear.

“Your generation is still trying to decide what a woman is and living in your parents basement until your 35” sir. The oldest a gen z can be is like 26.

I thought of the broken clock thing the same way as gabi i feel so enlightened now

The only promo tic tocs that work for me is just the song with like text that says listen now, or part of the music video

charlie puth is basically tryna do what ppl think making music is like for someone with perfect pitch