A poem for pole dancers who can't say no | Harry Baker | TEDxExeter
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2015
- Two poems about the importance of saying "No" and "Why not". They encompasses the first week at university, pole-dancing, Weston-Super-Mare and appreciating the feeling of fleece.
Harry’s performance at TEDxExeter 2014 was featured on TED.com and has already been viewed over 850K times.
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Harry Baker (www.harrybaker.co/) has always loved words. He’s been blessed enough to travel round the world with them, winning the Poetry Slam World Cup in 2012 and currently using a maths degree as an excuse to live in Germany and find heaps more new words to play with. With two 5-star Edinburgh Fringe festival shows under his belt, his latest milestone is his 2014 book, The Sunshine Kid.
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"My name is Harry Baker,
Harry Baker is my name,
If your name was Harry baker,
Then our names would be the... Same."
YES
YUP.
i wish i were an oscar meyar weiner
that is what i truly like to be
cause if i were an oscar meyar weiner
everyone would be in love with me. whippee
Sweet to see poetry Alive!
knees weak, arms are heavy. I screamed.
same hahahaha
I LOVE UR USERNAME OML OML U GIVE ME LIFE
Seriously under appreciated reaction from audience. Prolly cuz theyre all academics? Either way amazing performance!
I feel like that Eminem reference went straight over the crowd's head
he talks so fast and discombobulated half of everything goes over my head
It did lmao
Anyone else waiting for the mom's spaghetti?
nope haha I felt alittle let down when he didnt but still entertained
+Truely2Legit but he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down, the whole crowd, goes so loud, he opens his mouth, but the words wont come out, hes chokin now, everybodys jokin now, the clocks ran out, times up! ova! blow! That was from the top of my head :D Amazing song, amazing poet, god life is amazing
I started smiling even harder than I already was when he brought up the lyrics:) eminem is just amazing! (thanks by the way Harry Baker for that refference, now i got the lyrics stuck in my head...)
we all wanted it 😭😭😭
Truely2Legit THAT WOULD BE ME
Damn it Ted, harry didn't get the proper crowd he deserves. MOMS SPAGHETTI.
That's for you Harry
this audience did not laugh hard enough
Amal and Jaz if they laugh too much you can’t hear the perfect voice of Harry styles. I mean Harry Baker....😐
This man is extremely talented! I can see how he was feeling nervous and I appreciate the courage he took to present his poems! I enjoyed the poems! Brilliant, i wish him good luck on his journey!
He came to my school today😂 A boy in my year is his cousin, I'm jealous, he's so cool!!
When he got in with that Eminem I said to myself, Of Course!!!!! Definitely!!Why do I now feel like only a little section of the crowd got it. If he had done this at a high school, everyone would probably go wild!!
Eva Alordiah but the high schoolers probably won't get any other part xD
that eminem reference though..
yea isn't that copywriter protected lol
+Shawn Kevin its a parody :/
+Shawn Kevin copywriter protected lol
+Shawn Kevin Also one the copyright laws allow for references depending on how long the reference is
This is Harry,
Harry Baker.
His presence is adorable
This man is an amazing poet. Absolutely brilliant
Wow~~Sunshine girl had me in tears.
I have grown in what I think is morally attractive, and I like myself as that.
"You're a poet, Harry!”
So, this is rap for people who don't like rap. Top quality as usual, TED.
Poetry is where rap came from
+Freenure rap is poetry lol, it stands for rhythm and poetry.
LOL, I totally agree
Loved your words Harry.
I now want a pair of dungarees.
Russell's Paradox, I'm in love
Have him back on!
"imagine having the fun that you're having
and then adding the feeling of fleece"
i love him.
Truly amazing
I love him so much
Gotta love Harry Baker
How does he know all this from memory! I know a 5 line poem by Nicholas Rowe called 'The Brave' from memory but I can't compete with this!
Well it's different memorizing other people's stuff vs your own. You're the one giving the words life so they inscribe in you easier.
I have never written any poetry!
I've got most of my PINs for my bank cards. And my house number... After that I'm struggling.
never forghetti mom spaghetti
Let him be
Love it!!
Is there a signer to the side?? Dang, that's some skill in it's own hahaha
"that i can't" omg harry
what a haiku though
a Japanese poem
THANK YOU💫HARRY:)
This is hilarious, satirical and sarcastic.
watching on Feb 25!
Shout out to LA Confidential, Ealing Broadway!!
i dig the lyrics, but i just can't understand like half of it
Língua Inglesa 😍😍😍😍
Ahaha... XD I knew he was honing his inner eminent one line in.
cheers
VERY GOOD ... SEHR GUT ....
fab
Ser poliglota 😍😍😍😍
Ran my uni pole soc 😂🙏🏻
His palms seem sweaty...
Amazing job mate
the 1975 like the band?
Cassandra Taruc yeah
1975 damn but it is THE 1975...
Yeah I know lmao but that's just how I liked my username so
The ting goes skrrrahh, pap, pap, ka-ka-ka
Simple Jack?
I didn't get the Jason Donner Van joke. Can someone please help?
Esha Bahal Jason Donovan
MOMS SPAGHETTI
This one needs a Chris as well.
Who wears overalls?
Great poems
me
Harry baker wears overalls😂
Great shoulders!
I need to invest in a fleecy blouse.
SAME LOL
Anyone else peep the Eminem quote 😂
25 February my bday lol
mine too
This is not what I expected, lol
😀
i didn't get the song at the end
+J25code2 what didnt ya get?
+Dat FancyIan the song, I didn't get where does it come from
J25code2 dont think there was a song reference at the end, do you mean in the middle? when he says knees weak arms are heavy hes referencing Emenem's Lose Yourself song
Why is he not a rapper?
he is
+Geoff Velasco well battle rapper
This is so shit, listen to real RAP
geek flow
THE EMINEM REFERENCE IM SCREAMING
lol Discrete Math
4:41 XD #Eminem Collab
Any other poem someone would have written the whole thing out in the comments. I'm too deaf to hear and understand this. Kinda takes the fun out of it. 🙄
He is more of a comedian who rhymes than a poet.
Good luck...
He reminds me of a nerdy 🤓 shotty horror
Love this kid but here he looks AND is dressed like simple jack from tropic thunder..
I’m disappointed in myself that I’m having trouble understanding his accent
really ?
you are cool are you available for adoption... everyone should be you or have a son like youi
cynthia
cyn-thi-a
jesus died for our cyn-thi-as
jesus c r i e d
runaway bride
JULIA ROBERTS
julia,,,,, rOb
/hurts/
He's always seemed really good on don't flop, kinda died on his arse here...
+SHADYASH85 um hes not rapping
i speak english, but UK accents are still hard to understand 🤷🏽♀️
he look goofy asl
boy you be looking like a kid in a mans body
Beck's would have dated you if you weren't wearing that outfit when you met her
What? So...some girl invited him to pole dance? And then while he was there he felt uncomfortable? I just don't get the point of that...was it literally a poem for pole dancers who want to say no but can't? Seems...random >.
+Jay Bertetto It is random, but it's part of a collection of poems written while he was in college. It was probably the one he thought was about the most unusual experience and so used it.
he's really random!
What's wrong with random? I enjoyed it even if it doesn't have some deeper meaning about the inner workings of society. There's a place for that, and that's awesome, but this is too :)
PLEASE EAT SOMETHING
This is gay, listen to REAL rap instead
Saurflax this isn't fake rap, it's just REAL poetry.
It’s called slam poetry, look it up.
Rap is rhythm and poetry. So this is real rap.