Either way, as I haven't been sharing as often, these videos are a lot more curated than they have been in past years. I used to share just about everything from artists that I really enjoyed, but with so much time between posts, I'm not going to give you a hundred videos in one post to catch up. I watch a lot of YouTube, (overnight job at the hotel 😉) so I'm filtering out the best of the best.
Let's start this out with an old favorite, Alaa Wardi. No idea what the song is, I just love the way he sings it.
If you'll recall from several posts both this year and last year, I was eagerly anticipating a forthcoming release from LSD (Labrinth/Sia/Diplo) and I finally got my wish this spring! I just love their sound, and their music videos are so bizarrely creative!
Walk Off the Earth is always putting out great music, but this collab with Sarah Silverman was just so simple and fun. I loved it.
One channel that I don't usually share on my blog, but I still love, is the Valleyfolk. This is a sketch comedy group that started out on SourceFed back in the day, ended up going their own separate ways for a few years, and then came back together to form one of the funniest channels on YouTube. Now their content is not always the most family friendly, hence my decision to not share it here, but they recently performed on (and WON!) NBC's Bring the Funny, a new comedy competition show, and their sketches were some of the funniest things they've done yet! And since they were [moderately] family friendly, I thought this would be the perfect way to share them!
Now, because of self imposed space constraints, I'm only going to share one of the sketches, but this one is by far the funniest. I about died laughing. And that's almost literal. Stifling laughter hurts, but for some reason I decided to watch Bring the Funny at work, instead of at home where I could ugly laugh in private. Sometime we don't always make the wisest choices in life. Anyway, here's the Valleyfolk's funniest Bring the Funny sketch.
And speaking of Bring the Funny, JK Studios, the new sketch group comprised of the original Studio C cast, were also on the show! They didn't end up winning, but they did make it to the semi-finals! This was my favorite of their sketches.
Anthony of 10 Second Songs is always so creative and talented, so having him work with Peter Hollens just magnifies the talent exponentially. This video they did to coincide with the release of the new live-action version of Disney's Aladdin is just pure fun.
So you know how you sometimes just stumble down a YouTube rabbit hole? Not the kind of YouTube hole where you end up believing the lizard people put fluoride in our toothpaste so they can harvest our chemtrails, but the ones where you end up discovering music and talent that you've never heard of before. That happens to me semi-frequently, and during one of those rabbit-hole journeys I discovered the Hong Kong Ballet. Apparently Hong Kong has a ballet and I REALLY want to go see them perform now.
Over the summer, a couple YouTubers I've watched for years (I'm sure I've shared their videos here at some point) were cast together in a Broadway Musical, and they made a video to announce it. And this is just their own personal video, not Broadway's. Todrick does not go halfway with anything.
Lindsey Stirling never ceases to astound me with the work she puts into her music videos. I love the dark, 80's-esque distopian sci-fi fantasy vibe in this video. It's like Doctor Who Meets Tron meets The OA.
Another channel I don't share much of, for the same reason as the Valleyfolk, is College Humor. However, they have been stepping up their game recently and some of their stuff has been downright, die-laughing hilarious. They recently did a parody of the science fiction series Black Mirror, which, from what I've heard, is like a dark, depressing, version of the Twilight Zone about the potential dangers posed by new technology. And from what I've been told, it usually ends with some kind of disturbing twist. I don't actually know this first hand, I still haven't brought myself to actually watch it, I just don't like being depressed and disturbed. But, the College Humor parody of Black Mirror was hilariously funny, and since it was a lot more clean than some of their other stuff, I had to share it.
As you may recall, Avi Kaplan left Pentatonix in 2017 to make his own music, and even though he doesn't release music that often, his work is always worth waiting for. His latest video gives me feelings I didn't know I could feel. It's like nostalgia, but for something I've never even experienced.
As I alluded to above, Studio C is currently undergoing a change of cast. Of the previous members, only Tori and Dalton are left, and while I'm still on the fence about whether the quality will still be as funny as it has been with almost entirely new people, I'm still hopeful, especially after they released a few preview videos of the upcoming season, including this absolutely hilarious parody of Downton Abby. Do the Academy Awards cover web series? Because if they do, Dalton Johnson deserves a best actor nod. Either him or Dalton Johnson, and if possible, maybe even Dalton Johnson. They're all amazing. 😆
And if you'd like a taste of some of the new cast, this has been my favorite sketch so far. 😆
I think that's all I'll do for now, I have lots more I could share, but I think I'll try to do another post next month as well. We'll see. Either way, I have more blog posts coming, I just need to actually finish them. I'm shocked I finished this one. 😆
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