MORE YOUTUBE VOCAL COVER SHENANIGANS
Friday, October 16th, 2009 at 1:30pm by Vince NeilsteinThis guy’s actually not terrible. I mean, he’s not great, and his choice of songs to cover is extremely questionable, but the guy’s low growls are pretty good.
For all the shit we give people who post vocal covers on YouTube — and some them of them are downright awful jokes obviously posted in self-parody while some of them just plain blow — the majority of them are just kids honest-to-goodness trying to express themselves. And the coolest part is that [some] people actually offer legit criticism in the YouTube comments. Like in this video and another one by the same dude, people tend to agree that his low growls are good but his high growls need work. It’s neat to see some positive reinforcement on the Internet from time to time. I’ll bet this kid goes and practices his high growls and improves them greatly in the coming months… and who knows, some day he might front a great metal band. Even if he never goes any farther than covering August Burns Red and The Devil Wears Prada, it stands to reason that some percentage of kids doing these YouTube covers will go on to be members of popular metal bands. It’s scary, but true.
-VN
[Thanks: Patrick Greene]
I like this one where a little kid covers Lamb of God.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xUXW-lNBi8
LOG kid was kind of funny/entertaining. maybe he’ll be good in the future, never know.
That kid fucking owns. Hes cooler than the douchebags I typically hang out with. Very fucking cool
What the hell is wrong with you, Vinnie? Are you going soft on us? Since when do you offer sincere positivity about Youtube kids? “Not terrible” is indeed high praise from you.
I totally agree with Vince here, the low growls are good and the screams are quite weak. At the end he improves a little though. The song doesn’t help him.
And Vince… since you like Scar Symmetry, you should check out this cover. This guy is awesome to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlpDXBN3_D0
A-w-f-u-l
just for the hell of it, ill show you why youtube vocal covers fail hard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLKQpdS-ADw&feature=related
A better black man doing vocal covers:
http://www.youtube.com/user/SenorBivins#p/u/0/6JBuO4brPU8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edWPj0N3w90&feature=player_profilepage#
No others matter. This one wins.
lmfao what the fuck was he doing at 2:07?! and is there someone actually watching him!? hahahahahaha
“yeah keep going man, this si gonna be a youtube hit”
lmao, his friend is prolly a white emo kid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyKCr71Bcrg
That one is awesome!
LOL.
i dunno, man. kids grow up and eventually move on from douchebag music.
I dig that he’s using a television remote in lieu of a mic.