No Kevin Macleod? Clearly someone is working with limited brainpower...
@thecolato20 минут бұрын
Okay, but the question my ADHD brain now has (for whatever reason): Is saying you use John Cage's "4:33" when you have no music track backing you up smart or pretentious?
@simonoliver475124 минут бұрын
Smart music should be familiar, but not too familiar, but not too not familiar.
@ThatSkiFreak27 минут бұрын
Gymnopédie No.1 lives in my head in a similar space to the minecraft ost, and I don't think it's leaving that spot anytime soon. It pings more as nostalgic than smart, and I think that's better in any case.
@telivan77629 минут бұрын
Whirling in rags 8am/Fire escape in the sea deserves an honorable mention for being in every fucking video essay
@Jed27737 минут бұрын
Song 1 - 0:24 Song 2 - 3:06 Song 3 - 5:35 Song 4 - 8:50 Song 5 - 11:51 Song 7 - 7:01 Song 8 - 4:32 Song 9 - 1:35 Conclusion - 13:21
@teratoma.48 минут бұрын
wheres 21 savage - red opps?
@lucyinchat49 минут бұрын
This is the Memento of Video Essays.
@yonatanbeer3475Сағат бұрын
Ngl vltava probably reads like it's the national anthem of israel
@bellarosethorneСағат бұрын
Identiteaze came out... pretty much around the same time as this video. So yes, today. XD
@Milan____Сағат бұрын
ESTONIA MENTION
@gammakay521Сағат бұрын
what about idm? it's literally got intelligent in its name I'm sure that's not pretentious at all
@Nawer_RapterСағат бұрын
most of that music i've heard on montages of dope dota 2 gameplay. Most of the time it represents something very stupid happening in a very calm and unsuspecting way. Must honestly also confess that I was trained on classical music, which means that it represents to me something very stupid that looks very calm and unsuspecting.
@ghostdunkСағат бұрын
I asked the piano player at the church for my Grandmother's funeral to "play something by Chopin, she loved Chopin". He played Prelude in E, and I bawled.
@absinthefandubs9130Сағат бұрын
Pro tip if you want to use a vocal song just use the Klaus Nomi version. If it doesnt exist just dont use it.
@Omar-bi9znСағат бұрын
Amazing video and analysis
@3wok0nacid17Сағат бұрын
Patrick Bateman made this video lmao
@lotoreoСағат бұрын
Maybe we should just stop using classical music as a shorthand to mean "smart and sophisticated", it's a hack move in the first place.
@aluminiumsandwormСағат бұрын
i am uncultured swine, so if i hear a piano or a stringed instrument with a bow, i assume the person talking is smarter than me
@3wok0nacid17Сағат бұрын
de bussy
@WallebyDamnedСағат бұрын
Ah, the Ave Maria from 28 Days Later, love that one
@slothking10142 сағат бұрын
Fun fuct: Bach's Air on G string was used as a the opening tune for an italian science tv program that was so popular that both the name of the host and the music piece have become THE standard shorthand for intelligence in italian pop culture
@romesmith2 сағат бұрын
no nocturne op 9?
@qlum2 сағат бұрын
Ah shit, 2 of the ones on this list have heavily distorted / deconstructed versions done by an artist I like to listen to a lot. (World's end Girlfriend), known to be cheesy but still.
@RomanGods12 сағат бұрын
I am ready and waiting for the Arvo Pärt's overexposure in video essays of 2050
@TheGerkuman2 сағат бұрын
Honestly, I think what did Air on a G string in, in my country, is the jazzy piano version of it being used as the omnipresent theme for the TV adverts for Hamlet Cigars for years. And that the jazzy piano version of it inspired the well loved, but often considered pretentious, organ drenched A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum. On the other hand, maybe the UK didn't have enough of a cultural pull to push Air on the G String off the list. Edit: Then again, the Flower Dance wasn't ruined by being used as the theme for British Airways, so what do I know?
@blitzrep16542 сағат бұрын
"...cool person's alternative to Schubert." It's been a while since the last time a sentence made me feel cool AND lame. Seen AND called out. This feeling... is this love?
@the_real_Kurt_Yarish2 сағат бұрын
5:40 My brain 10000% thought for nearly 5 whole seconds that this shot was of a bare-back woman in a g-string squatting in the woods. Please send medical help.
@AnacondaHL3 сағат бұрын
I've been sporadically hearing Vivaldi's Winter more often recently, as a dark horse to make the top 10 soon
@ollie21113 сағат бұрын
I loved clair de lune since I played Evil Within. That grainy comforting notice that you're next to a save point. It stuck with me even tho I only played the game for a few hours at the time. Then for years I was like, oh this song is EVERYWHERE. I think one yotuber wondered if its because its public domain (tbh I don't know if thats true, I didn't check). And it was an interesting thought. Either way tho, I am amused and delighted every time I hear it in something hahaha. I even got my mom along it and because she hasn't been able to memorize it, now she asks me just about every time a piano song comes on "is this one clair de lune?" 😂 Its also the exact opposite of the feeling I get when I hear the Wilhelm scream (at minimum when its not being used ironically like a comedic scene or something) which is irrational seething rage :P. I blame Lego Star Wars on that one, half the times you fall off a ledge you hear it, so then it gets extra stuck when you hear it in movies. Plus as a scream it just sounds bad/unserious for a serious moment imo. 😩
@PotatoPhoenix3 сағат бұрын
I feel like I have stumbled onto something I don't know how to understand because I failed at my music kid chops
@Fjonan3 сағат бұрын
lmaoed when he said "lmao out loud" out loud
@isaacm.94763 сағат бұрын
Nerd is compulsory. They're all nerd, you see. (complimentary)
@hoie113 сағат бұрын
This is, in the nicest way possible, the most pretentious top 10 list
@olgabecci66853 сағат бұрын
I think at least in Italy air on the g string will always be the top "smart music" because it was used as the soundtrack of the most popular educational show here. But to be honest, it is used more as a joke, I can't think of anyone who uses it seriously apart from the show itself, it's more the joke "when you explain something you put that music there because that is THE explanation music"
@MorganRhysGibbons3 сағат бұрын
Holy crap this video
@currypuddin69023 сағат бұрын
In the scene from The Queen's Gambit at 1:45 Alma is playing the first Gnossienne, not the Gymnopedie
@cicalinarrot3 сағат бұрын
Curious to know where you'd put: Nocturne in b-flat minor Schubert's Piano Trio in E-flat, op. 100,second movement Anything Tchaikowsky
@premmy10203 сағат бұрын
“The water bender” how DARE you
@Bazlair4 сағат бұрын
May I use "Der Spiegel im Spiegel im Spiegel" in my video essay if I ever do one?
@ZedAmadeus4 сағат бұрын
WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING LMAO
@OlleLindestad4 сағат бұрын
Didn't realize how much I missed Ian just goofing around
@crwmy4 сағат бұрын
13:18 why I feel Ian is oracling here in a way many probably will recognize from The Matrix, where, in the end, we never will know if the rise of Spiegel im Spiegel or Prelude in C Major (15:27) would have come to pass (or not) because many enough Video Essayists have watched this video and said to themselves „try me, b****“ in the one or other way.
@kleine.kleeblatt4 сағат бұрын
How did I only notice the Fuer Elise come in at the very end as your voice was fading. You snuck it in. Hang on, going back. ... Yeah you snuck it in 20 seconds after you said not to use it. _Precisely_ long enough for your previous warning to leave short term memory. You genius trickster.
@ZippyLeroux4 сағат бұрын
Having auto clicked when the video showed up in my subs, I can't tell if I'm pleased or disturbed that you meant 'smart' as in intelligent and not 'smart' as in 'AI' music. You got me, though I would have clicked anyway...
@kleine.kleeblatt4 сағат бұрын
"just popular enough to signify obscurity to a large number of people" dang that's good. you probably felt clever coming up with that. and you should.
@cms89894 сағат бұрын
As someone with strong opinions on classical music performances and of course someone who's also smart, I'll have you know that the Yo-Yo Ma version of Bachs Cello Suite 1 PALES in comparison to both Mischa Maisky and of course Mstislav Rostropovich!
@thewon96334 сағат бұрын
I’ll leave a like and a comment for the algorithm gods but i prefer the political stuffs
@4dragons6324 сағат бұрын
Unsure if this is a shitpost, but I feel like I've learned a lot.
@dliessmgg4 сағат бұрын
still waiting for the video essayist who has the courage & bravery to use beethoven's great fugue
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No Kevin Macleod? Clearly someone is working with limited brainpower...
Okay, but the question my ADHD brain now has (for whatever reason): Is saying you use John Cage's "4:33" when you have no music track backing you up smart or pretentious?
Smart music should be familiar, but not too familiar, but not too not familiar.
Gymnopédie No.1 lives in my head in a similar space to the minecraft ost, and I don't think it's leaving that spot anytime soon. It pings more as nostalgic than smart, and I think that's better in any case.
Whirling in rags 8am/Fire escape in the sea deserves an honorable mention for being in every fucking video essay
Song 1 - 0:24 Song 2 - 3:06 Song 3 - 5:35 Song 4 - 8:50 Song 5 - 11:51 Song 7 - 7:01 Song 8 - 4:32 Song 9 - 1:35 Conclusion - 13:21
wheres 21 savage - red opps?
This is the Memento of Video Essays.
Ngl vltava probably reads like it's the national anthem of israel
Identiteaze came out... pretty much around the same time as this video. So yes, today. XD
ESTONIA MENTION
what about idm? it's literally got intelligent in its name I'm sure that's not pretentious at all
most of that music i've heard on montages of dope dota 2 gameplay. Most of the time it represents something very stupid happening in a very calm and unsuspecting way. Must honestly also confess that I was trained on classical music, which means that it represents to me something very stupid that looks very calm and unsuspecting.
I asked the piano player at the church for my Grandmother's funeral to "play something by Chopin, she loved Chopin". He played Prelude in E, and I bawled.
Pro tip if you want to use a vocal song just use the Klaus Nomi version. If it doesnt exist just dont use it.
Amazing video and analysis
Patrick Bateman made this video lmao
Maybe we should just stop using classical music as a shorthand to mean "smart and sophisticated", it's a hack move in the first place.
i am uncultured swine, so if i hear a piano or a stringed instrument with a bow, i assume the person talking is smarter than me
de bussy
Ah, the Ave Maria from 28 Days Later, love that one
Fun fuct: Bach's Air on G string was used as a the opening tune for an italian science tv program that was so popular that both the name of the host and the music piece have become THE standard shorthand for intelligence in italian pop culture
no nocturne op 9?
Ah shit, 2 of the ones on this list have heavily distorted / deconstructed versions done by an artist I like to listen to a lot. (World's end Girlfriend), known to be cheesy but still.
I am ready and waiting for the Arvo Pärt's overexposure in video essays of 2050
Honestly, I think what did Air on a G string in, in my country, is the jazzy piano version of it being used as the omnipresent theme for the TV adverts for Hamlet Cigars for years. And that the jazzy piano version of it inspired the well loved, but often considered pretentious, organ drenched A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum. On the other hand, maybe the UK didn't have enough of a cultural pull to push Air on the G String off the list. Edit: Then again, the Flower Dance wasn't ruined by being used as the theme for British Airways, so what do I know?
"...cool person's alternative to Schubert." It's been a while since the last time a sentence made me feel cool AND lame. Seen AND called out. This feeling... is this love?
5:40 My brain 10000% thought for nearly 5 whole seconds that this shot was of a bare-back woman in a g-string squatting in the woods. Please send medical help.
I've been sporadically hearing Vivaldi's Winter more often recently, as a dark horse to make the top 10 soon
I loved clair de lune since I played Evil Within. That grainy comforting notice that you're next to a save point. It stuck with me even tho I only played the game for a few hours at the time. Then for years I was like, oh this song is EVERYWHERE. I think one yotuber wondered if its because its public domain (tbh I don't know if thats true, I didn't check). And it was an interesting thought. Either way tho, I am amused and delighted every time I hear it in something hahaha. I even got my mom along it and because she hasn't been able to memorize it, now she asks me just about every time a piano song comes on "is this one clair de lune?" 😂 Its also the exact opposite of the feeling I get when I hear the Wilhelm scream (at minimum when its not being used ironically like a comedic scene or something) which is irrational seething rage :P. I blame Lego Star Wars on that one, half the times you fall off a ledge you hear it, so then it gets extra stuck when you hear it in movies. Plus as a scream it just sounds bad/unserious for a serious moment imo. 😩
I feel like I have stumbled onto something I don't know how to understand because I failed at my music kid chops
lmaoed when he said "lmao out loud" out loud
Nerd is compulsory. They're all nerd, you see. (complimentary)
This is, in the nicest way possible, the most pretentious top 10 list
I think at least in Italy air on the g string will always be the top "smart music" because it was used as the soundtrack of the most popular educational show here. But to be honest, it is used more as a joke, I can't think of anyone who uses it seriously apart from the show itself, it's more the joke "when you explain something you put that music there because that is THE explanation music"
Holy crap this video
In the scene from The Queen's Gambit at 1:45 Alma is playing the first Gnossienne, not the Gymnopedie
Curious to know where you'd put: Nocturne in b-flat minor Schubert's Piano Trio in E-flat, op. 100,second movement Anything Tchaikowsky
“The water bender” how DARE you
May I use "Der Spiegel im Spiegel im Spiegel" in my video essay if I ever do one?
WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING LMAO
Didn't realize how much I missed Ian just goofing around
13:18 why I feel Ian is oracling here in a way many probably will recognize from The Matrix, where, in the end, we never will know if the rise of Spiegel im Spiegel or Prelude in C Major (15:27) would have come to pass (or not) because many enough Video Essayists have watched this video and said to themselves „try me, b****“ in the one or other way.
How did I only notice the Fuer Elise come in at the very end as your voice was fading. You snuck it in. Hang on, going back. ... Yeah you snuck it in 20 seconds after you said not to use it. _Precisely_ long enough for your previous warning to leave short term memory. You genius trickster.
Having auto clicked when the video showed up in my subs, I can't tell if I'm pleased or disturbed that you meant 'smart' as in intelligent and not 'smart' as in 'AI' music. You got me, though I would have clicked anyway...
"just popular enough to signify obscurity to a large number of people" dang that's good. you probably felt clever coming up with that. and you should.
As someone with strong opinions on classical music performances and of course someone who's also smart, I'll have you know that the Yo-Yo Ma version of Bachs Cello Suite 1 PALES in comparison to both Mischa Maisky and of course Mstislav Rostropovich!
I’ll leave a like and a comment for the algorithm gods but i prefer the political stuffs
Unsure if this is a shitpost, but I feel like I've learned a lot.
still waiting for the video essayist who has the courage & bravery to use beethoven's great fugue