Remind me the first time I saw the lyrics of Smell Like Teen Spirit, I was so confused

Some lyrics can be ridiculous to read😡😡😡😡 but if you sing the song with conviction,😡😡😡😡 the song becomes cool to hear !😒 Some lyrics can be ridiculous to read😍😘😘😘 but if you sing the song with conviction😍😍😍😍, the song becomes cool to hear !😘 SOME LYRICS CAN BE RIDICULOUS TO READ BUT IF YOU SING THE SONG WITH CONVICTION, THE SONG BECOMES COOL TO HEAR! 😤😤😤😤😤

Example: a lot RHCP lyrics

@@emmettthompson5036 you mean all of them

any smiths lyrics

Right!!! His energy is HIGHLY contagious!!

“Feasting on souls of the fallen”. Wow that was intense

@@isaiahsmith5397 Lmao for real hahaha

This is creative

I literally couldn't stop laughing at this.

he's coked out

@@Kylemathews1 And you know this how?

@@HigherPlanes it’s been confirmed by TedTalk

Agree. I like his sincerity and enthusiamn

I read that as fatherless and went ayo?

Heart murmur gang rise up

OMG, you read my thoughts

X) that is your rhythm

@@Nigarj here

You ok bro?

truely

If you want a chaotic Ted Talk, look up "Beats that defy boxes"

@@BrandonMikelPaul google Sam Hyde 2070 paradigm shift if you want chaos

I guess you haven't seen the GG Allin talk yet...

PRECISELY

idk why but when he sings it at the end it reminds me straight to phineas and ferb. i dont even know the guy you're talking about lol

Boyet San Pablo yes

Ja ja ja

LMAOOFAOA YESS

Back Country Pastimes He-Man!? I didn't know you we're a musician???

Back Country Pastimes I’m hoping this comment will be me, after watching this :)

That’s because you’re gullible

Back Country Pastimes ❤️

i swear to god lol

Sounds like a banger

Sounds a little... half baked

hahaha

Tell us when you’re finished, I want to listen

Reminded me of that food rap battle video

Not the bolts but maybe a little of the nuts.

@@stevenmotchan2048 I have to agree, this just make people stupider. why not discuss chord progressions and typical techniques of song writing

This video is very encouraging. Thank you so much for inspiring us all.

I APPRECIATE THAT BECAUSE I WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE A COMMENT JUST THAT

because its teaching people not to over think writing music.....

I think what he says goes even beyond song writing. Here's how it looked through my eyes: "you have an insane potential, no matter who you are, no matter what you think. Just... you know, come on. It's even in your cells. Just believe in yourself."

Louis, your comment should go viral! I couldn’t agree more...

You’re right, but internet experts always think they’re so much smarter than the award winning songwriter for some reason

@@louislebel2995 he's become the religious cult leader

I imagine two things of the "haters" who do not get it. First, they write very few songs because they just can't let go of their inner critic long enough to explore a simple, new idea without destroying it. Secondly, when they do create something, it is boring and soulless because they lack the playfulness at the heart of creativity.

Not all songs have words

@@thedude4594 not that all of us are as enlightened as you, but that comment is a quote from this video..

52.

Who’s your daddy

good for you!

i am newbie producer too , i need to make a discord server for newbies like us

@@pico6051 lmk

@@pico6051 did you make it?

@@victoriaamoshe3312 No, but i found a really good servers for producers ,like Ahrix's Hideout server , IN THE MIX server

Yes!

Heck yeah

Imma break all the rules, including that one.

Most will choose to do nothing.

Everyone can write a song but not everyone can write a good song. Most people absolutely cannot because they're bad with words. The average person constantly uses words wrong, doesn't articulate their thoughts concisely, and relies heavily on cliches. It requires a certain degree of natural talent that most people lack.

We?

Noah Dunston is the love for what he does

You are in groove.

personally it just annoys me, too much is too much

Just watching him makes me want to take on the whole world

The best advice on anything is the simplest

Yah, if you're a simpleton. While we're at it, let's just abandon all advanced art forms and write children's songs. lol

Chris Thomas the structure is simple. Not necessarily the subject matter.

@@christhomas1904 Why you have to make something complicated and even after overcomplicted Afterwards people like you complain about life

Chris Thomas Everything that’s complex boils down to the basics. From the most ingenious symphonies, to the intricacies of master paintings, there is always simplicity underlying it all. It would be absurd to imagine complexity without its elementary building blocks.

Echokammer Survivor i prefer writing alone because im very picky about what i like in my music

Thats why i quited the band...

But I feel like this is also the reason why bands like RHCP and the Beatles have made such amazing widely popular songs. A few different people all talented with different ideas and they work until everyone is satisfied and you'll have truly great music. But everyone must have that same drive and level. It's often hard in life to leave something behind for something better.

Ralph is an awesome guy. So charismatic and friendy. His band The Bad Examples are great & he has a group called Ralph's World that does kids tunes. If you ever get the chance to see him you'll have a wonderful time! Peace

Same here buddy hate all the narcissism in the comments . I found it lit that fire on a song I got stuck on

Hello yeah. I’m a metal vocalist on my fourth band and I really enjoyed this

I hope this guy does another TED talk about how to be charismatic. Actually, I think he just did. Melody, lyrics, rhythm, and an emotional center.

I find it endlessly fascinating the ambiguity behind why somebody or groups of people likes a song enough that it becomes a top 100 or a top 50 or a top 10 or a number one hit within a certain amount of time what exactly makes that switch In somebody's mind Is that works almost like a mass psychology.

Agree. I've dumped a sh*tload of music teachers for that reason. Just teach me what I wanna know.

We are…at least this one is…despite the looks from my students who think I’ve lost my mind😅

I should not have laughed as hard as I did at this comment 😂😂😂 You did not have to roast them this hard 🤣🤣🤣

It's gifted not everyone has it

@@helenaveiga46 Everyone can get it

Did they all doze off in a metronome factory?

Wat

That's an insult to Phoebe~

Oh sh!t, laughed out loud at this one!

I have voice and feeling to sing but doesnot know how to write. Can you please help

Lmao. Brilliant bro

@@fumericavibes9894 Learn theory and an instrument that can play chords

I'm not sure about that. Giving false information is worse than giving any information just hearing him mention McCartney and his explanation makes my head want to explode. It's very sad that these people are considered academics in modern society

I thought you were the guy in the talk. Gave me a heart attack

J Uylsses there are almost 200 likes on this thread that means the amount of people that seen your comment could be in the thousands. You certainly discouraged many. The only reason is because the internet gives unfortunate souls like yourself a platform to speak their unhealthy mind. I only comment this in hopes someone reads your comment then reads mine and regains hope. Love to everyone.

@Js Bchad right*

@@dallasmcnally8913 thank you

@TheRoneZone I would agree. My problem was or is? I decided because I thought I understood what it was about a song I liked that made me like it, and made it a hit single, and I convinced myself if I could then follow that template, that road map? I convinced myself for a split second that I too could write a hit single. Armed with all that knowledge. Guess what happened? Exactly. I never wrote a hit single in my entire life. Even though I convinced myself I'd cracked the code. But what I think really happened? I forgot the part of the process where the song actually went from being a possible hit single, to actually being a hit single. Often it was the way the artist or artists performed the song that made it a hit or not. It's that unspoken and often inexplicable something that makes some bands or solo artists have tons of hit singles, while others become one hit wonders. Or even have no hits at all. I've heard full albums by several one hit wonders, and in many cases, I couldn't quite figure out why they'd only had just one hit. Like, Lit. An alt pop band from the 90s, most of the songs on their debut album were fantastic to me, and I couldn't quite understand why "My Own Worst Enemy" was to be their one and only Top 40 hit. They released several singles off many of their albums. And yet? "Enemy" was the only hit of theirs that landed in the Top 40. And I get it. Kinda. It's a damn catchy melody with great lyrics and a huge sing along chorus you just couldn't help singing along with, and you couldn't drive the melody from your head with a 9 iron. It was just that sticky. A truly great earworm in the best way. But I don't think they knew how to duplicate that formula. As great as pretty much all the songs on that album were. None ultimately had that deeply sticky earworm quality that made "Enemy" the smash hit that it was. And if you listen to it, it just has that something indescribable about it that, even if you understand the formula, or believe you do like I did for a minute? It's that indefinable something in the song that all too often cannot be duplicated, and bands can spend entire careers chasing that ever elusive 2nd Top 40 hit and never find it because it's often just impossible to capture that lightning in a bottle more than that one time. So knowing the formula isn't the same as using the formula, and doesn't guarantee you yourself will ever have your own hit single, in spite of knowing the formula inside and out. And knowing or believing you know the formula doesn't make you a hit single song writer. You just have the basic skeleton of the concept, not the entire concept. And even though some songwriters have written a ton of hit singles? I don't recall ever hearing or reading an interview with them ever where they completely understood why some songs became smash hits, and some songs didn't. Even the biggest hit single writers have written songs that just went nowhere. And I don't know that anyone can precisely nail down why one song is a hit, and another song is a dud. Hit single writers have kinda cracked the formula. But even then, sometimes a song just doesn't work for them. Like Holly Knight. She's a famous hit single writer, and in the 80s she had a band called Device that had like two hit singles on the radio, and I remembered the songs a little bit when I went back and listened to them again many years later. But what I remember most was how disposable the songs were, and how they didn't really explode to the top of the charts. It was the same for certain other artists. Like one of Holly's famed co-writers released a song he'd written on his own band's album, and the song went nowhere. Didn't even hit the charts at all. Then someone else recorded it, and, yet again? Crickets. The song bombed ridiculously. But about the third or fourth cover of the song, it suddenly became a smash hit. And I think that speaks to why some hit singles just explode in some people's hands, and flop in other people's hands. Like Holly's song Love is a Battlefield. Pat Benatar had a smash hit single with that song. It was all over the radio forever. I finally heard Holly's version of the song, and it was just so completely different and ultimately drearily one dimensional that I almost found the song unrecognizable from the Pat Benatar hit that dominated the FM radio airwaves for so long. Granted, on her very best day, Holly's pipes are no match for Pat's. Still. It was a huge hit for Pat, and I'm quite positive Holly's version never got anywhere near the radio, let alone became a hit single. Pat's just had that indisputable catchy hook thing going on, such that even the original songwriter herself just couldn't replicate. I remember not long ago finding a version of Lady A's (formerly Lady Antebellum) smash hit Need You Now as performed by the original songwriter. And his version of the song was flat dull and colorless, and I was stunned it was even the same song. In Lady A's hands? It rocketed to Number 1 and stayed there forever. And not just the country charts. It crossed over to the pop charts and did equally well. Basically made them superstars. That one hit single. Even though they've had a flurry of big hits. I don't think any of their hits were as huge as Need You Now. (Maybe This Kiss got into that rarefied air.) But the original songwriter's version just went nowhere, and, for me? Didn't have the same impact at all. Lady A's version nearly always brings me to tears. His version? Sterile and cold and I never got even a twinge of a tear listening to his version. Same song. But completely different in terms of delivery and impact. The original songwriter's version couldn't get him arrested. Lady A's version made them worldwide superstars. Their version just had that indefinable something that his version lacked. Hit single or not. (I would say Hillary Scott's vocals were the best thing about that song, although Charles Kelly's co-lead-vocals were equally laudable. But their version just had me crying buckets of tears nearly every time I heard it. And I think it was THAT particular quality of their version that made it such a monster hit.) Anyway. Oh. Mutt Lange has proved to be a great hit single songwriter, and he's one of the only songwriters I know that have had nearly every song he wrote on an album become smash hits. He co-wrote Shania Twain's first three country albums, and sang background vocals on every song, and nearly every album he co-wrote with her was all killer no filler. Made her a superstar, who also briefly crossed over from the country charts to the pop charts. He's had other huge hits with other artists, but, I think he had the most songs on the radio with Shania. He did have a few hits with Def Leppard, Billy Ocean, AC/DC, Nickelback, and a bunch of others, too many to name. Although, he did become equally famous for one catchphrase that resonated throughout most if not all of the entire music industry: "Needs more cowbell."

Thisssssss!!!!!

TRUE

I don't think so. He is so passionate and his passion is his fuel and what leads his talk.

Didnt notice any jokes.

@@hughkelly5701 just read this when the man made a joke lol. It's at 3:53

@@hughkelly5701 just read this when the man made a joke lol. It's at 3:53

They did, the audience wasn't mixed into the audio strongly though.

That's because he started out at Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago for kids, I imagine. I seem to remember meeting him once or twice...

and can make simple things very complex

who's your daddy?

hot dogs sure are awesome

Who’s your daddy?

Who's your daddy?

I miss drinking strawberry NesQuick through a twizzler straw.

they wrote "rivers cuomo" wrong. they said "ralph covert". disappointed with the spelling error

😂

LOL

Haha, so true. Speaking of which, I'd love a ted talks from Rivers about songwriting.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I THOUGHT THE SAME i mean cmon chill bro

LMAO 24:01

damn

Lmfaoooo this is making me laugh rn . He was singing like a psycho 😂

Galactic Empress 😂😂😂😂 omgggggggg Im so dead at this time at this speed

Robert Dabob LMBO!!! Dude your comment made my day! Hilarious!

You can Dooo Eeeet!!! :-)

how's thst going :D

Songwriters can’t express out of their songs, that’s why they write

its because the mic only picks up nearby sounds which is the talker's mouth, watch towards the end of the vid they all got up and sang

Point of fact, the Beatles wrote songs using modes, but they probably had no idea that was what they were doing.

I got a cross between REM and Crowded House ...

ditto

I agree....I also sense he's really been influenced by Paul McCartney and of course The Beatles.

REM by Ariana Grande, or someone else 💗🌙

@@morganwadleigh4283 He's talking about the rock band REM.

No, it was Ralph Covert. You're thinking of the band with Nate Ruess, Jack Antonoff, and Andrew Dost.

... and watch them grow

Soso so mi re mi do Soso so mi re mi la

oof

It's genuinely sounds nice

Yikes

I agree!!!!

What

What

@@declamatic Idk what version of me posted this. Hes just giving away free knowledge and I disrespect his character. If anything his jokes just went over my head.

@@johnreid5814 maybe you should just chill out and enjoy people. Everything will be okay.

@@sneakysquirrel4253 The unexamined life is not worth living.

This is fire

yeah but it sucks