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Hey, how's it going?
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Welcome back to another episode...
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Of Twoset Violin.
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You already know from the title,
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but today we will be listening to some pop music.
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*Gasp*
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Oh!!!
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- Pop?! - Pop music on TwoSet Violin??
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How's that pop-ssi, pop-ssi, pop-ssible?
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Our friends sent us some links of pop...
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Songs, I wanted to say pieces,
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but songs that apparently...
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Were either inspired or influenced by classical music.
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We just thought we'd watch it together today.
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Listen to them, see if we can identify the source and...
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And try not to cast our judgment on them.
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On one hand, it would be cool to see how...
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Classical music is still truly alive in today's pop music.
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Mhm.
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But also just to see...
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Whether how creatively or un-creatively
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- they have reimagined it. - That's true.
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And first one we have...
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Z...
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A piece, I mean...
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Song.
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Called "Blue" by a guy called Zayn,
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- who apparently has 11.2 million subscribers. - Whoa...
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Zayn...
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I don't know who he is.
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Makes me feel quite in-Zayn!
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- Oh!!! - Oh!!!
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Oh, yeah, that's um...
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Um... The Bach Prelude.
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C major.
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- It's also the Ave Maria chords, right? - It is.
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Ooo.
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The harmony is the same.
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- But his melody is completely different. - He changed the melody.
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Which I actually appreciate.
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Yeah, thank you.
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Because um...
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It's definitely Bach, but it's different.
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Yeah.
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And I like it.
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But, I mean, I don't like it cause it's pop, but I like it.
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Yeah, I still prefer Bach.
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To be honest.
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It's a bit more pure.
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Purer than Zayn.
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I mean no offense to Zayn.
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11.2 million Zayn subscribers just like...
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"Dislike."
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"You guys are attacking pop s -"
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I know, I just prefer Bach.
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I think it's cool too that it's also like doo-doo-doo-doo.
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- Yeah. - It's like a...
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- Honky-tonk. - Voice.
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A voice.
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Okay, it's a voice.
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Instead of piano.
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- Yeah. That's true. - Nice.
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It looks like coffee beans in the background.
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Anyway, that's all I see.
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Next one.
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All right, this isn't like modern day pop.
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But it's a very famous song.
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Celine Dion's "All by Myself."
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Which we all love.
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But, I mean, I don't like it cause it's pop.
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♪ When I was young ♪
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♪ I never needed anyone ♪
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I don't know it.
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- You don't know this song? - Nah.
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Bro...
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♪ And making love ♪
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Celine Dion's O.G.
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♪ Just for fun ♪
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♪ Those days are gone ♪
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♪ Livin' alone ♪
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♪ I think of all the friends I've known ♪
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♪ But when I dial the telephone ♪
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Da~ Da~ Da~
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- ♪ Nobody's home ♪ - Da~ Da~ Da~ Da~
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- Oh, I know this one. - Yeah.
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- ♪ All by ♪ - All by~
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I mean I don't know it, cause it's pop.
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I don't know if you guys caught it,
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but that was very clearly
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Rachmaninoff concerto no.2. Piano concerto.
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A little bit, right?
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Yeah, it sounds kind of similar.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And then, this bit.
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It's the same, right?
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In the, no... The strings, listen to the strings.
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- That's the same. - Da~ Da~ Da~
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Da~ Da~
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And this one is...
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Da~ Da~ Da~ Da~ Da~ Da~
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- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. - It's the same.
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But just in the violins.
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- Yeah. - Versus the...
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Wow, Celine Dion, didn't know you like the violins.
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- Hmm... - Hmm...
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Rachmaninoff, the O.G romantic.
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Did you guys hear that?
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Next one.
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Apparently, this is an Asian song.
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By S.H.E called "Bu Xiang Zhang Da."
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Like...
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A combination of everything.
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Dude, that had like freaking Indian drums.
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Indian drums, bass line, techno.
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Doom!
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Bro, that was the most confusing mix of genres.
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I wanna listen again. That was so funny.
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Da-da-da!
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All right, in case for those of you that
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don't know the original, we'll play it here for you.
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Very, very, very famous.
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If you don't know, be ready for an IQ boost of 50.
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Oh god.
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I mean, this whole video is going to be copystriked.
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I know.
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So please check out our apparel,
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cause it's going to get copystriked.
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Check it out. Mmm.
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Don't forget to practice.
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But it's the famous...
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*Hums music*
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Isn't it crazy that
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a semitone can become so recognizable?
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- I know. - Na, na, na, na, na~
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Mozart nailed it.
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Apparently it's someone called Little Mix.
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13.6 million.
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Have you heard of Little Mix?
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No, are they going to mix a lot of classical music?
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- Just a little bit. - Just a little bit.
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- It's a little mix. - Little mix.
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- Not a lot, a little mix. - It's a little mix of classical music!
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Da~ Da~ Da~ Da~ Da~
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- You know it, right? Yeah. - Yeah.
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♪ She lives in the shadow of a lonely girl ♪
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♪ Voice so quiet ♪
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Oh, it's still going in the background.
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It's still running.
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The harmonies.
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Doo-doo~ It's a very famous pavane by Fauré.
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Mmm...
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But they just added some hip-hop beats.
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Tchkchakck.
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We'll show the evidence...
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That it is indeed inspired by Fauré.
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Dude, the most iconic.
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O.G.
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So, the next one.
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Maroon 5, "Memories."
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530 million views...
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Woah...
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Did you get it, guys?
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If you didn't...
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Check this out.
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- Mmm... - Hmm...
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They took every cellist's favorite piece.
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Oh yeah, every cellist is like...
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"How dare you take it away from us?"
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- "We suffered all these weddings." - "We suffered for so long."
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♪ Here's to the ones that we got ♪
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♪ Cheers to the wish you were here, but you're not ♪
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♪ 'Cause the drinks bring back all the memories ♪
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♪ Of everything we've been through ♪
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You know what would be so funny?
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Imagine you started playing at a gig.
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Pachelbel's Canon in D,
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- because it's the same chords. - It's the same chords.
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And the first violinist starts playing...
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Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo~
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I mean a lot of people won't know
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it's from classical music actually.
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- Subconsciously. - Subconsciously.
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But they won't be able to put the dots together.
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Yeah.
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They be like, "oh, that's the one!"
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"Yeah, Pachelbel! Yeah!"
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Pachelbel just got another hun -
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530 million views.
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Yeah.
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- In the background. - Whoo!
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All right.
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- Bum Bum Tam Tam. - Bum Bum Tam Tam.
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I think we made a short skit about this once.
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Oh, really? Okay.
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Yeah, I think you'll recognize it.
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Oh.
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Eh!
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Ah!
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Ah.
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Uh.
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Ah.
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♪ É a flauta envolvente que mexe com a mente ♪
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♪ De quem tá presente, as novinha saliente ♪
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♪ Fica loucona e se joga pra gente ♪
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♪ Aà eu falei assim pra ela ♪
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I love how the beginning is like Bach, right?
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And then once the beat comes in,
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the flute part is reduced to...
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Eh~
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Eh~
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It's just like one note from Bach.
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They had to dumb it down.
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They had to dumb it down for the masses.
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Try not to cast our judgment on them.
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This is literally the reaction of every pop person
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that is listening.
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*Hums the introduction*
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Bom! "Oh, yeah!"
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I mean, it's cool though.
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I think it's very creative that they found...
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Bach and um...
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- And used that part. - Turned it into something...
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Very non-Bach.
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- Imagine Bach hearing this. - He's such a religious person.
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- Seeing this music video. - He'd be like...
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"This is sacrilegious."
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- He would be. - "Oh!"
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- So sacrilegious. - "Oh, my fugues, my toccatas."
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All these toccatas on screen.
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Apparently, some people have said this one.
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I'm not so sure about, but we'll listen to it.
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This is "White Stripes."
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You know this.
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- Oh, I know this one. Yeah. - Pretty famous.
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- Doo-loo-doo~ - Doo-doo~
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I've never actually watched the music video for this.
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Me neither.
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Dude, it's so trippy.
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I feel like I'm unlocking some consciousness.
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All right, so some people on the internet
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have been saying that it is taken from Bruckner.
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Let's see if it's true.
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It's kind of fun listening to that and listening to this.
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- Yeah, cause they're so different. - It's so...
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It's so different.
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I don't think so for me.
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This one to me feels like,
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it could have been a coincidence.
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I believe it was a coincidence.
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I mean, he might have copied it from Bruckner
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or be inspired,
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but it also very much could have been...
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He just came up with that idea.
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Yeah, and I also highly doubt
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they would listen to Bruckner.
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Is that too rough?
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And try not to cast our judgment on them.
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They just don't strike me as a -
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They just don't strike me as
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people that will listen to Bruckner.
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Maybe they do.