I feel something that might be cooking. Set the temperature, preheat the oven. That's right, your favorite violin detectives are going to be checking out just how accurately, or sacrilegiously, - pop music videos portray classical music.
- Mm-hmm. That's right, so we found a compilation of different pop songs, and their music videos. We're going to watch it together, and see if they are sacrilegious or not. Ohhh yeah, here we go! First one. Wow, that... That just went straight for it, like... Why is that cello...? Let's not even get to the harp or the tambourine. You should never bow up here! 'Cause that literally sounds like this. Not to mention, you're going to get rosin all over the fingerboard part, where your left hand is meant to be on. Yeah, and it's all getting all sticky. And you can't play anymore. Oh, that neck! She's strangling the cello's neck. It's like this. And the thumb is here. Wait a second! Which side is the harp on again? - It's this side, right? No, it's this side.
- Is the head on the right side, or head... - Head's on the left side, right?
- Yeah, it's on the left. - But hers is on the right side!
- Brett: Yeah. I am upset. And why are her hands just like... that? - Brett: I mean... Clearly, they just...
- She's not playing anything. The cameraman's like, "Hey, we gotta see your face, - so put your face on the other side."
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. "Hey, hide your legs with cello, put it on the outside." Oh, yeah! - Dude, the cello is meant to be between the legs.
- Yes. And the spike is meant to be out. The spike's not even there. Even for aesthetic reasons, this doesn't do a good job. That cello has just the worst varnish. The cello knows it was gonna get roasted, - so it roasted itself beforehand.
- Yeah. - It started getting black on the corners.
- Yeah, it's like, - crisped on the outside.
- It's getting burnt already. Char siu cello! - Save char siu cello!
- She looks like she's grabbing the poor cello - on the neck, and like, beheading it.
- Yeah. - That's what it looks like.
- Yeah, it is! - Like a chainsaw, like...
- Eddy: Yeah. The poor cello. Alright. - Oh. Even I know the guitar is off, man.
- Wow. Yeah. Her right hand's just like... - Brett: Dude...
- ♪ Dun dun dun ♪ On the shoot that day, it probably sounded like... Next one! I'm hungry! Oh, dude, that hair is like... Pretty intense. Can you imagine you went to like, Ray Chen's concert, and he had the hair? Sorry, I got distracted by the hair. It looks a bit better, the posture. - Much better.
- Yeah, I think it's just the syncing is... ...just a bit off for everything. - Yes. So probably, they're just playing...
- Yeah. ...on repeat a few bars, and then they just took whatever take where - Eddy: Justin Bieber walked in looking the best.
- Brett: Yeah. 'Cause there's no time on set! Justin Bieber's time is so expensive! You got one shot! Whatever she's playing is not... - She's playing, like...
- Brett: Yeah. Left hand is like, moving. But then it's just like an A. I can say, though, they look like - they do play instruments.
- No, I think they... I think they do play. Poor guy on the right, though. That would be very annoying to play with those things dangling down. - Oh, yeah.
- 'Cause just, it's just... You know when it's like, weight but it's like, swinging the other way? Maybe it's like, training. - It's like, my sound will be...
- Moving against gravity! It was okay. It wasn't sacrilegious. But, it was not... - ..."Yummy," either.
- Yeah. Bruno, there's something called, um, - professional piano movers.
- Yeah. I think you could maybe call them. - Yeah.
- With... how much money you probably have, - it's probably very affordable for you.
- Yes. And they will probably give you a few wheels to put on that piano, - so you don't have to lug it on the tarmac, right?
- Oh, there's no wheels! Maybe there is. I don't know, but look... Bruno, you don't have to work that hard. I don't think that's good for the piano. Like, I think you should push it. Not like... - ...pull it with a rope.
- Pull it, yeah. 'Cause where's the rope pulling on the piano? - That's true!
- If the force is not evenly distributed, - you're gonna deform the piano.
- That's true. I guess it's a... It's symbolic, right? It doesn't offend me. Even though it's a bit weird, but it doesn't offend me. Oh yeah. See, he's getting smarter now. - He's pushing it.
- Ahh... He learned! Next one! Bro, there's no strings on the cello. Brett: Whoa! If you're gonna put that much effort in costume and makeup, - at least just...
- Just get like, the cheapest strings. Like, or just buy an instrument that has strings! And then there's strings on the white violin... - Well, a white violin's just sacrilegious, bro.
- Yeah, you don't... Never put color on an instrument. It's just wrong. Oh, that's where the strings go, they got chopped off in rehearsal! Oh, no! Oh, no. I can't! Who came up with this idea? I want to find the director. "Directed by Chris Harms"! - Harming. Yeah, definitely harming.
- His last name is literally Harms. - *Violin cries*
- No, no, it's okay! It's okay! Don't look! It's not your buddy! It's not your long-distant cousin! They don't have a name yet, but don't look! Dude, that was so messed up. - Too sacrilegious. Next!
- Why? Wow! 47 million views! 47 million people need to know! - 47 million views?!
- Yeah, they need to know, like... ...what's wrong. - And not a single...
- "I love the sound of the violin"! Not a single person mentioned - how bad that violin was...
- "This is the part, I love the sound of the violin"! This is good. This means that this video will still reach an audience to educate. Education time. Are you ready? Before I even see that bridge is not there, - that bow is way too tight.
- Yes. And the bow is not even... It's on the fingerboard. You rarely play on the fingerboard. And there's no bridge! Bruh! You need a bridge! Brett: Where's your bridge to success? I'll tell you why you need a bridge. Without a bridge, there's no tension. And without tension, there's no sound. It would be like... And without the bridge, the bow will just touch all the strings at the same time. It won't sound good. It's just... And there's no shoulder rest, that's why your hand is like this. - Yeah.
- On the ribs. Some people can play without a shoulder rest, but clearly not here. I love how it's like... Which requires, like... Do you want to show it? Like just left hand? Yeah. But her left hand's just completely still. And look, her... - Her chin's not even on the chin rest.
- It's like... This is called a chin rest because you put your chin on it. Yeah! Not on the violin, actually. You're gonna sweat on the violin, and then the sweat's gonna like, - make your violin varnish messed up.
- I've never even... Okay, she's... ...on the wrong string, the string is like... On a different string. Yeah, the sound. Yeah, you guys get it. You're all pro, veterans now. And that pinky! That pinky is like... Okay, don't mind that, like... leaning on that, the pinky's like… - Dude, that is the worst posture!
- Posture. Elbow's a bit too low there, miss. Bro, the guy's using the guitar on the ground! - Yeah, and then…
- As a weight support? - That's so bad for the wood!
- Oh, dude…! It's like, freaking bitumen! It's hot! The freaking wood's gonna get torn apart! What are you thinking, bro?! - Dude, and...
- Bro!! There's nothing romantic or cool about this right now. And it's called "Violin Song!" - They actually named it after violin!
- Are you serious? How can you call something "Violin Song" and then just... - …proceed to decimate the violin?
- And not even get a violinist. - Come on, like...
- Yeah. She went behind the nonexistent bridge. - Lost contact point.
- Yeah. I think your contact point with your bow has to be straight... - …to make a sound, right?
- Yeah. If it's not, it's just... Do you think it's freaking possible to even play like that? - No way!
- No way, hey? Your center of gravity is off! That's messed up. And, look. Playing violin is one thing, but I don't particularly want someone behind me and like, freaking up my neck, smooching while I'm playing. - You're like...
- Well, you need to move, dude. And if someone's like... Breathing down your neck, and you're like... "Yes, keep going!" - Bro, it's combined bowing, bro!
- It's like... - What is the point...
- No no, no no! The point is it's double the weight, double the sound! - We should just get...
- No no... - ...10 people to all put their hands on the bow.
- Yeah yeah, and like… Like, just like that. Dude, that's so much sound. You don't even need like, the hair, man. I'm gonna put my leg on it as well. - Just while I'm at it, like...
- Oh, bro! - You can't have two people bow like that.
- You can't. Imagine you're doing like, F1 Formula racing, and you're driving like, 250 kilometers an hour. Except there's two people on the steering wheel. - And you both have to steer.
- No way! No way! Dude, it's like, the tiniest sensitivity - will mess everything up!
- Yeah, it will. - That's the sound you hear on set.
- All right. All right, let me try. Dude...! - And now we do it with both our hands on it.
- Okay. Yeah yeah, both hands. Ready? - Oh, I gotta do this.
- Yeah. Oh, dude! It went the wrong way! I thought Eddy was going upwards, and I wanted to go down! - Yeah, nah.
- Nah, it doesn't work. Don't even try. Oh, man. Oh, I've seen this. It's messed up. I saw this. Dude, what is with hip-hop and flute? - Is that guy like, trying to conduct or something? Like…
- Is there like…? I feel like he's creating some like… Like a flute cult. Look at all the flautists under my control! Wow. - Now flutes, there's like the joints, right? All that stuff.
- Yeah. And you're swinging about in a mosh pit. Smashing into someone else's flute, wa-pow! Bam! And imagine all that saliva coming out from the flute. - Oh…!
- You're swinging it around. Yeah, yeah... Dude, I don't think that's a flute. - No, it's not! It's like a...
- It looks like a... ...very big bubble tea stainless steel… Straw… straw. Yeah, I don't think all of them are flutes. "I think they bluff," that's right! - I think this is bluffing.
- I think you're bluffing. None of them can play the flute! Does that look right? It doesn't look right. - Look, I'm not a flautist…
- It doesn't look right at all. But I can tell you it doesn't look right. And the… Her lips don't look right. - I mean, this…
- That person there! They're just like... - They're just like... Yeah, they're...
- That's definitely not right. - Oh, man.
- Next one! Whoa. Whatever you have to do to get views, right? - Dude, 172 million views.
- Yeah man, that's what I mean, like... Brett: Pop music. The epitome of art and culture. Pop music. The epitome of art and culture. Oh my god. How much would they have to pay you for them to be like, "Hey." "Just be in this video where 200 million people are watching you doing it to your violin." I'd do it for free. 'Cause pop music. - 'Cause pop music... and culture.
- The epitome of art and culture. Last one. Oh, my god. Oh, my... Okay, contact point, man. Contact point! He's like, doing like this... - ♪ Helicopter, helicopter ♪
- …circular motion. And where are the spikes? Yeah, no spikes. Is that bow underneath the bridge? -The one on the left?
- Yes, but not just that. - That bridge is way too high.
- Yeah...! The bridge is like, up here! Eddy: The second bridge is better. You see, it's usually between... - Eddy: Like, the middle of the f-holes right? Like here.
- Yes. - Eddy: But that one's like, up here.
- Yeah. Yeah. And bro, look at the violinists, man! - Oh, I didn't even see them...
- They're like, "Hey, symmetry!" - "Half of you just do the other side!"
- Yeah, let's just... Yeah, let's just poke everyone's eyes out. Actually, you know what's funny? The number of times we've done like, photoshoots, and photographers have been like... "Hey, can you like, hold your violin on the other side?" - "Just for like, symmetry?" And we're like,
- Yeah... "Look look look, I'm sorry, like..." Like, I get that you're a visual artist and you wanna like, composite some symmetry. - But, nah.
- We don't do that here. - I'm digging this beat.
- This is pretty cool. I feel like I'm watching some like, - 007, but like Indian version,
- Yeah. or something, I don't know. - The big boss!
- The final boss! Okay, they're not playing, but I would say their syncing is better than some of the music videos out there. Yeah, yeah. I'm actually impressed, like... For like, two seconds I almost thought this guy in the middle could play. But then, the giveaway was here. I mean, that first. - First was that...
- You never flick. - And also, the wrist is too low. It's like, that.
- You don't go... Yeah. And... Again, he's not on chin rest. But I was thinking like, maybe fiddle players... - Folk fiddle might be a different style, but...
- That's true. But... - That! That gave it away.
- And then, oh, that. - Bow contact point, lost it. Yeah.
- Yeah. That. It's sliding too much, right? And dude, that bridge looks messed up. It's too pointy. Yeah, it looks way too high! That bridge is way too chunky. But hey, at least he got like... - ...the rhythm, of the bowing right.
- Yeah. - That's... And then he shifted up before.
- Brett: At least the... This guy actually cared to learn when to shift and stuff. I can imagine someone that doesn't know how to play the violin, to learn these patterns would take quite a while. Yep. You're like... - Yeah, and then try to make it look...
- Yooo! - I mean, I guess he's not the final boss for no reason, right?
- That's true. (both) He is the final boss. - All right! That's it for today.
- All right. It looks like there's still a lot of sacrilegious playing out there. But again, pop music... (both) ...is the epitome of art and culture. If there's anything you learned today on this channel, probably that might be it. So on that note though, if you don't want to look like that on screen, you better go practice! Remember, Ling Ling is watching you. - I feel like I need to bleach my eyes out.
- Yeah. I need to... Brett: I'm done. That's too much.
