Seriously - This American Life, Sara Bareilles, and Leslie Odom, Jr.
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- This American Life asked Sara Bareilles to imagine what President Obama might be thinking about the 2016 election and Donald Trump, but can’t say publicly. Leslie Odom Jr. performs the song.
This American Life: www.thisamerica...
Sara Bareilles: www.sarabmusic.com
Leslie Odom, Jr.: www.leslieodomj...
Listen to the “Seriously?” episode of This American Life: tal.fm/599
You could make Leslie sing a grocery list and it would still be so emotional and incredible
Clyto yes and I would have it memorized
Too true. He'll have me crying in a grocery aisle about wanting to buy 5 tomatoes too.
Ha! #SERIOUSLY!!!
I believe Lin once said he would listen to this man sing the phone book^^ true!
Or sell insurance.
4 years later and this more relevant that anyone ever anticipated.
Absolutely crushing. A demagogue, indeed.
Wow! United divided States.. this here!
Seriously. Just came back today for the first time after hearing it when trump "might" have become president and here we are at a precipice again. I pay the right thing is done.
I was literally just saying this.
As my weird friend would say, sing it from the rooftops
Nearly 7 years later and I still just want this to make it onto Spotify.
Same here!
Yes please...
We need this now! How does it work?
For real! Idk how it's not already on there!
That line, "red, white, and blue. Is black in there too?" Gets me every time
yes, it's indeed awesome!
EVERY time...
seriously.
Noah Bradford EVERY TIIIIMMMEEE
ME TOO.
SARA'S WRITING
LESLIE'S VOICE
I'M EMOTIONALLY UNPREPARED FOR THIS BEAUTY
Rani Jones A
AYE
Rani Jones AYE I'M JUST HERE FOR MY DAILY LISTEN
SAME TBH
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
It’s 2023 and I still come back to this performance time and time again. I am so moved by the words ……The music…. The voice…..the message
2024 now and still rings true.
Me as well
2024 and I still think of this all the time. So relevant.
"No man's ignorance will ever be his virtue."
And yet the complicit will never know nor care for... ignorance is bliss.
Reply to original video asking for rebroadcast, thanks
@@TheFlratcatcher reply to original video asking for rebroadcast please, thanks
I want that on a t-shirt. Or better yet, a face mask.
Petition for Leslie to star in a musical about Obama
Sam Pomerant Yes please
Oh my god yes I gasped when I read your comment its such a good idea
Felix Catta i gasped too holy shit
Petition for it to be directed by Lin Manuel Miranda and Michael Grief.
THIS IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA SOMEONE PETITION LIN-MANUEL TO COMPOSE THAT SHIT
Imagine singing this today, after George Floyd. "Red white and blue, is black in there too?" Lord. The relevance of this song. "By a demagogue flexing, a demagogue flexing" that prophecy.
George Floyd was a sad example to make a martyr and excuse looting and crimes. Very poor collective ethics.
Glad you used the word prophecy. It justs happens that President Trump was prophesied about since 1983 up until 2014 that God would raise Donald Trump to bring the country back to what God had intended.
We all knew what he was, even then. He has only exceeded expectations for how truly dangerous he could be.
My name is Baar Aack, I am a bit black, and I own that bullet -proof Cadillac!
So just give me more slack , Jack --
and YOU can sit in the back.
@@1964pencil No, he fooled us in the beginning and some are still believers.
Imagine a musical about the current political climate starring Leslie Odom Jr. as Barack Obama. This song is the first song Obama sings in the entire musical... like he doesn't sing for a majority of the first part of the musical... and then suddenly this emotional scene where he's sitting in the Oval Office reflecting on the results of the recent election.
I WILL WRITE THIS MUSICAL! I WILL IMAGINE IT! BECAUSE I WANT!THIS!MUSICAL!
This would be an amazing musical!!! I’d pay to see it!!!
That would be so dope!!!
SOMEONE GET LIN MANUEL MIRANDA AND WEIRD AL ON THE PHONE!
I WANT IT
Sara Bareilles is absolutely brilliant in song writing (and singing).... and Leslie, second to none. This is a masterpiece
Something about "Angry? Am I angry? You ask am I angry? And I'm at a loss for words..."Is just beautifully chilling. There's just so much under the surface there, so much emotion.
Eloquence personified.
If I make it to this point without crying, this is when I fall apart without fail.
Absolutely. Very chilling. EVERY word is True. 6 1/2 years later
@@pattiaroneseno2866 I know this song from when it was released and I even put it on Twitter, with the lyrics, something I used to do, or parts from a song or poem or quotes. And to think the man is running again and this could all just blow up in our faces, unless he's indicted for more than just Stormy Daniels lawsuit, which is more political and won't end up being prison time, but the jne in Georgia, fhars the one I am coubrujg on and January 6th ofcause. Esp now the right is trying to weapoinize it, by calling it fake news, showing pictures where they walked through the Capitol, sightseeing, yeah right, out of context, they cherry picked their content, only showing the meek parts, if you can call it that and they keep forgetting pppl died that day, officers who ended up in the hospital, the PTSD many have required, like Fantone, who testified in the hearings was so dissapiubted, he lost all faith in the Republicans or their so called love for our police and army, even now some are for Putin?!🙄🇺🇸💖🇺🇦✌🏼🌊🌹✊🏽
I feel the same way each time I listen to this song. Seriously.
Leslie Odom Jr. was the perfect person to get to sing this song
Anyone else listen to this completely stunned from line one to the last, addled with goosebumps head to toe? No? Just me?
Nope, not just you. Over a year later and I still play this song (I can't play it just once, usually 3 times in a row).
same
Oh ya....goosebumps
I feel the same way about this song. I reshare it often on Facebook. When I listen to it, I do so repeatedly. In perfectly encapsulates every feeling I have about this administration. Sara and Lamar hit this one spot on.
You are not alone! Goosebumps!
"United, Divided states" I get a little pain in my chest every time that line comes. Because sadly, no matter how much I hate it...
Truth hurts
Me too😪
I can’t say anything cuz I’m Canadian but I love this song
Rexcibtw same bro. XD
Let;s make America UNITED again. SERIOUSLY!
😢 if only
Sara is such an amazing writer.
marbledillon Oboma can't think this deeply
He was president of the Harvard Law Review. What have you accomplished?
Joseph Taylor Padded resume fooled many people
lol
+Joseph Taylor So, what were his grades like? That's classified.
This song made me cry then, right before Trump's inauguration and it makes me cry now. It captures everything.
I discovered the song before the inauguration too, and cried & cried. I am still crying. Still angry. I share this every chance I get because it is still relevant
@@pattiaroneseno2866 me too.... I'm also "at a loss for words." I just keep passing on this message of profound truth & brilliance.
When you've listened to this so many times, you technically count as 5% of its total views...
Hahaha me too!! Over and over, I am hitting replay.
I've been jones'n for them to post this!
TheBookworm741 I'm doing the same!!!! I love this.
More like 25% now
haha me too. There's like… 12 of us that have listened to it those 5 million times. (Not Seriously).
Five years later and this song still breaks my heart. Everything changed after this.
I hope with all my heart that Obama sees this
Maddy Evans I'm sure he has
I have imagined what that would look like. I imagine tears and a flood of thought and emotion. Quite the same as myself, actually.
@@music4ever159 I sure hope so
Can Sara Bareilles write another musical (perhaps in collaboration with LMM?) that's directly about recent politics?
Ha! That's funny because I begged Kristin & Robert Lopez to create a musical about recent politics thanks to their Paul Ryan inner monologue song from THIS week's This American Life episode:
www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/600/will-i-know-anyone-at-this-party
The song's lead in starts at 8:20.
I say they all collaborate -- show politicians how it's done.
Great idea! Can you imagine...?
not sure that would be a good idea cuz i think we would ALL EXPLODE FROM THE INSANE LEVEL OF TALENT
Bro LMM is so overrated. He cast HIMSELF as the lead XD how self obsessed can you be?
@@cadencesturgeon3561 Hardly he worked his butt why not cast himself, make a name for himself in the game
Besides there are projects where he doesn't take the lead so what's the problem?
Every teacher needs to play this in every class; best example of a Griot telling our history in modern day.
“Fear makes a false friend indeed.” These lyrics are so profound.
one man rewriting the book on bad behaviour
goddamit, why is this woman so perfect
Who’s here during the election and shaking their heads at the fact all this became our present
and here we are a-f******-gain
wow. this is equal parts absolutely beautiful and absolutely heart-breaking.
Korra We get it. You're a Trump acolyte. Go back and hang with the racist hate-monger.
hpaich Donald Trump is not racist, and wants to help people. #corruptDNC relies on misinformation and low-info voters.
Drum 3a Have you listened to ANYTHING the Trump racist has spewed? Wait until he turns his racist agenda in your direction. Let me know how it feels when that happens. Acolyte.
hpaich Apparently you haven't listened, because he has never said anything racist. In fact, the people of color who support Trump have stood up to the kkk demorats
Drum 3a Lies. Goodbye, acolyte.
Angry?
Am I angry?
You ask am I angry?
And I'm at a loss for words...
AMAZING.
I still love this song, it's timeless 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
2024
It keeps getting more timely and timeless
The anthem today
2020 - Coronavirus, corruption, insurrection, anger, heartbreak, anguish...please feel free to add to the list. This is one of my favorite songs, and it has been so self-fulfilling, sadly. Seriously.
You are so right. We have to fight this all or we are done as a democracy
Thank you Sara Bareilles, Leslie Odom, Jr, This American Life and these musicians for creating this moving work of art and social commentary. I welcome beauty in the world, even when it is poignant as this piece is.
It is difficult to understand the collective meanness of a nation composed of so many decent and good individuals. I have American friends and relatives supporting a person diametrically opposed to what I thought they stood for. It saddens and baffles me. Thanks for this beautiful, hopeful song.
It's complex. There are a good contingent of people who will never vote for a democratic candidate because of the political differences between that party and the republican party.
There are also people who see Trump as an outsider who, regardless of his rhetoric, will disrupt the status quo. Those people are so disgusted with intense gridlock and partisan nature of politics that the idea of someone shaking up the status quo is very appealing to them.
There are of course some people who Trump's message appeals to directly. People who are fearful of Muslims and of terrorism. People who feel like non-white immigrants have more presence and more representation in public life than they had in the past. This is why Trump has gotten support from groups like the KKK and other white nationalist groups. This is one of the more troubling aspects of Trump's campaign.
Tied into that group are the group of middle Americans who have graduated high school and in some cases college only to find that the kinds of jobs their parents worked, manufacturing jobs, that provided a livable wage for a family, benefits, and a pension, are mostly all gone. Trumps promises to bring them back. Whether or not he can that is appealing to a lot of people.
I haven't even touched on why voters may not wish to support Hillary Clinton, and there are plenty of reasons why that may be the case. So remember when this election is way closer than it should be, this is the result of increasingly partisan politics. We need to solve this issue, and there are ways to do it, or else this will be the new norm as we see a growing percentage of our population deeply unhappy with the opportunities being presented to them.
+Amir
Wonderfully explained
Your first statement took my breath away. It is right on the money. I couldn't have said it better. Thank you.
Wow I didn’t understand anything u just said but all I know is his voice is the most beautiful voice I’ve ever heard
You wrote so clearly what I have been feeling. Thank you.
MY GOD, here I am again. Now I have to listen to it another 15 times.
Leslie Odom Jr's voice sounds like honey. Sara is one of my favorite musicians and wrote a really great song, and they couldn't have asked a better vocalist to sing this. Love it.
OMG this so damn good! Yes it’s 2022 and I am still HERE!!! This song gives me chills. It’s beautifully written and Leslie’s voice is like hot butter over salted popcorn 🍿 sooooo good.
🤣Love the parallel of the warm voice as in "real butter," not the fake stuff.(and I agree, love Leslie Odom's jr take on the Bareillies lyric. But I first heard this prophetic tune in Sept/Oct. of 2015 ..It was a sign of what was to come. and, did it ever!
"Red, white, and blue. Is black in there too?" & "United divided States." Strong arguments, sting too.
Four years later and it is still relevant... Seriously?
I WANT THIS ON SPOTIFY
4 years later...these words are even more relevant.
"No man's ignorance will ever be his virtue."
Just one of many soul-searching lines in this incredible song waiting for America whenever we decide to look in the mirror.
I would like to buy this. Will you just take my money?
ikr...... this kinda genius deserves to be supported..... so it continues...
Genius? I call it pure hypocrisy.
Genius will always be critiqued by those who don't appreciate its beauty and truth.
Seriously.
I read in comments below that it will be available next week for free download
Thank you
This is absolutely wonderful, still ....in 2023...... I feel so moved and distressed by more recent events and: "no man's ignorance will ever be his virtue...." and "every battle hard won".....Yes, I agree!! Let's take it seriously. Because our survival as a democracy depends on it. Nothing less than that.
every time he sings "angry" leading into that last verse my hair stands on end. Sara Bareilles nailed the song's lyrics and Leslie Odom Jr. translated it perfectly.
Beautiful and terrifying, art at its best.
yes. before i die, i wish to contribute something so meaningful.
I played the video countless times over the weekend, it does not tire. It seems to me it shows beyond the music, lyrics and that glorious voice, a collaboration. Each has their part (eg the sound engineer etc) to make the whole contribution?
Yeknodathon I really like this one
Sublime!
"Let's talk of fear...
It's a dangerous word.
It spooks the herd.
And we all bleed in the stampede."
Four years later it breaks my heart how Bareilles nailed it on top of the head. Dead center.
That part!
"Fear makes a false friend indeed". Damn, that is a killer line!
SB is a a genius musician, lyricist and story teller. This needs to be a musical. Odom is absolutely relevant to everything that is beautifully sung. Wow, just wow ❤
This is, truly, one of the greatest pieces of music/poetry/political representation that I have ever heard. I have shared it with so many, and every time I listen to it (must be close to 70 by now) I love it more. Sara Bareilles really chose well when she picked Leslie Odom, Jr to sing this.
I keep coming back to this song. "Fear makes a false friend, indeed." Oo, so true!
Need to bring this video back to the fore... the election of 2020 needs to see this, again.
Put it on 1.25 speed. Its amazing.
This is my best life choice
My good god that's brilliant
totally works!
Josh Cuz how do u do that?
mariareynoldsdidnothingwrong 2k16 you have to be on a computer. Then you press settings and change the speed
BRILLIANT! ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT SONG - both music & lyrics by the gifted Sara Bareilles.& Great singing & presentation by
singer Leslie Odom & supporting musicians. Thank you to This American Life for asking Sara Bareilles to imagine these words
by the former President Barack Obama. A true work of art.
Brilliant, sad. Sara Barielles needs to make a musical with this song & sentiment at it's core. I cry every time I hear Leslie Odom as a musing President Obama sing "these United, divided States." This song should have charted at number one.
I remember listening to this in the car right after the election. I had to pull the car over because I started sobbing.
June2 2020... please re broadcast this video... we need it re seen asap.. bring hope to those that feel there is none.. thank you...
I can't stop listening to this, nor stop being moved to tears. Sara ( our hometown girl) You have written a masterpiece, much needed, and as sad as it is, it speaks volumes of truth. Thank you for having the humility not sing it yourself, but have a man of color ( with an incredible voice and much passion) who best represents what it's about. Though I love all of your music, lyrics, voice, piano skills, THIS my dear, can change people deeply. Thank you. LOVE.....the ONLY answer
I cry every time.
The has to be the most underrated song and performance. Bareilles and Odom. Wow. Seriously :)
In the last four years, it never got better. Not a minute of relief.
On my knees and crying.
Jesus. Too much genius to handle. I've got goosebumps.
Sara Bareilles never ceases to amaze me! ❤❤❤
"Demagogue flexing... demagogue flexing" deep!
On this day of sorrow, this song plays in my head ever more urgently. Seriously.
I'm at a loss for words...seriously.
7 years later and I’m sharing this on FB because it’s still so wildly applicable.
OMG! That was fantastic. It resonates so deeply within me. The saddest thing about the Cheeto's presidency is that it was so easy for him to tap into the worse parts of Americans. The fear, distrust, anger, prejudice and me first attitude that I saw slowly being removed from our national personality, he brought roaring back with selfish cruel intentions. This piece spoke to that with quiet intensity. Brava.
Just when I thought I couldn't appreciate This American Life and our serious, dignified, committed and wonderful president any more.
Seriously.
OMG LESLIE NAILED THIS.
he pretty much always does. they don't give those Best Actor Tony Awards to just anybody
"No man's ignorance will ever be his virtue..." I have a new respect for Sara and Leslie, plus the musicians are funky, I love it.
I don't think this is limited to just what Obama might be thinking. This captured everything I myself have pondered during this whole debacle. Thank you for doing this, it is absolutely amazing.
This puts into words the pain all the devisive language of hate and fear-mongering is generating in our country. Thank you to This American Life, Sara Bareilles, and Leslie Odom Jr., for you collaboration and courage to remind us all to take this election...seriously.
I haven’t been able to listen to this in four LONG years. Thanks Joe!!!
When geniuses collaborate, that was absolutely beautiful!
glitterandglueforyou Seriously!! 😍
Watching this after 1-6-2021 hits so much harder than it originally did. And it hit so hard originally.
I can't stop listening to this. The lyrics are like poetry
The lyrics are poetry
So, so fucking good. Well written, I love the instrumentals, and Leslie Odom's voice captures the emotion so well. I really wish I could have seen him in "Hamilton." Thank you Sara Bareilles and This American Life for a fantastic song to help get me through this circus of an election.
This is so much harder to watch on November 10th.
recallthename and it's even harder to watch on November 11...
t.j from. D
and even harder a week before the Con Man is inaugurated.
In August 2017 it is apparent that there really ARE folks in government who take America seriously. I'm thinking of Robert Mueller right now. The institutions that have given us the country we have are worth believing in and fighting for. Even a wretch like Jeff Sessions in the office of Attn. Gen. has the power to protect the Constitution, protect America. I've never taken our government more seriously than I do right now!
Trump is not a dork. stop.
Leslie's voice is so freaking beautiful. It just gives me chills every single time i hear it.
2023 and I still come back to hear Leslie Odom Jr. sing this. He has so much emotion in his voice when he sings and it’s so mesmerizing
I've come back to this periodically over the last 4 years and now, after Joe Biden has been elected, it's almost surreal to watch it again--cathartic beyond words
"No mans ignorance will ever be his virtue" YES.
2.5 years later, every word still punches to the gut! Truth!
WOW!!!! 4 years later and this hits me like a brick! Totally stunning and excellently done.
I loved this prior to the elections but now, now that it's done, this song brings me to tears. Seriously.
I literally listen to this 24/7. There has never been a song that rings more true and with Leslie's voice and Sara's genius, it's an honest masterpiece
god, thank you sara bareilles
How do I like this a billion times over? Why is this song not yet in my music collection? Come on, sell it for $5 with half the proceeds going to public radio. Then bring that price down to earth shortly after.
I don't ever comment on UA-cam videos, but I wanted you to know that ThisAmericanLife.org is offering free downloads of these songs until December 3rd - www.thisamericanlife.org/blog/2016/10/this-american-vote-in-song
Thanks for sharing that ...respect !
This song is really cathartic in the wake of the election. It encapsulates my own feelings so well and serves as a channel for similar emotions to what I'm feeling. I've been listening to it on repeat all day, because it allows me to lament for a span of time and then try to move forward when the song ends. A cycle I continue until I feel a bit better.
CaptainQuirky me too baby.
I've listened to this about a dozen times. Chills every time. The instrumentation, the words, the voice.... the message. Thank you, Sara Bareilles. Thank you, TAL for all you do to brighten and and enlighten our world.
It's gonna be a rough 4 years
Edit: My expectations were low but holy fuck.
omfg it was horrible
It was
I want to make it very clear I made this edit on January 6
2024 checking in and Trump leads the polls. The likelihood of his being reelected is high despite his sitting in a court room in a case about misuse of campaign funds in bankrolling silence for just once of his many indiscretions. We are more divided than we were even in 2016. It's terror and heartbreak.
This makes my heart ache. How did we get here America?
I love you President Obama and I am so deeply sorry for the lack of appreciation and respect that you received. I have trouble going to sleep, thinking that in just a few months you will no longer be our President. You will be so, so, so, so, dearly missed.
I listen to this everyday. And still, I cry.
Yvette Kopp You and me both ... 😔😢
This song is especially powerful in light of the election results. I am simultaneously disheartened and terrified of the hatred and fear that continues to consume our country. Seriously.
did anyone else like this before it started playing? 😂
Bria Alexander ME ME ME!
i did...his voice is perfect
The second the bass came in, I was hooked. Can't get it out of my mind!
I liked it before I even clicked on the video
THAT is a voice like butter. A cool, hopeful song indeed, with the smoothest tones I think I've possibly ever heard.
I am so grateful to have found this video again. I'm fully aware that no one will see my comment based on my overly late-to-the-game statement, and that's ok. I just have to put this in writing as a cathartic exercise. To Ms. Sara Bareilles, your lyrical talent is haunting. Mr. Odom Jr, your voice is unparalleled. For months I have prayed that our recent election would yield to a commitment of forging onward with our great strides in equality for all humans. I now resign myself to admitting Sara's insight is more of a prognostication. This incredible work of art now stands as a foreshadowing of what happens when hate and fear control the Oval Office. May God have mercy on our Country.
Kellyanne Shereck 👏👏👏🙏
Well put!!!
I wish you guys would sell an instrumental of this along with the actual song. Leslie's voice is butter, but the accompaniment is just sexy.
I literally cant stop repaying this song... it needs to be published!
man, this was gorgeous