No, he only learned to sing it in reverse for the video, in order to lip-sync to the recording which was made normally. Still doesn't mean it isn't amazing, which it is.
Once upon a time when Tim was, maybe 11, he got his first sound recording program on our out-of-date computer. One of his first multi-track projects was to record the song "Barbara Ann" in adorable, pre-pubescent 4-part harmony. Tim used his sound program to flip the song backwards, then listened to it enough times that he learned to SING it backwards. It sounded so funny that it became sort of a party trick - "Tim, sing Barbara Ann backwards!" For some reason Tim found that annoying, and before long he had sworn off backwards singing and would snap if we so much as mentioned it. But you know, they say nothing you learn is wasted. #OriginStories
Sibling! y u do dis!! 😱 I think I had the sneaking suspicion that people were not so much impressed by my ability as incredulous that I was nerd enough to accomplish such a thing. Ah well. #SweetRevenge
@@deinogreenstreet8631 in reality, he sang everything in reverse (according to the "other video"), but in Acapella Science Theory he actually turned the arrow of time. That's... a job well done!
I totally forgot to credit the awesome camera and production assistant work done by Tom Zalatnai in this video. He's hilarious and extremely sharp. Everyone go give him a follow: @tomzalatnai across various platforms :)
+acapellascience Then stop bemoaning and do it now in your Description already. (You can also remedy it with Annotation right onto your Video, better than [CC].)
When he sang that, it was close to the end of making the video and thus of making a huge mess in many ways. Blame it on *the making* of "Entropic Time"! 😂
hey =D I've been watching your videos since the collab with veritassium in the wind-powered faster-than-wind vehicle After the rocketry and space crown videos my sister is following as well. Just know your content is equally inspiring, albeit in a diferent way \o/
Damn. The amount of effort he must have put in to lip sync that backwards is amazing. But there was almost an "uncanny valley" thing going on with his eyes, probably because of how hard he must have been focusing.
+Lisa Liel It was the result of secretly having to look to the side to read nonsense syllables. I knew someone would notice... working on a fix for future projects because that really annoyed me too.
Are you serious? The moment I realised that you were somehow singing properly while playing backwards, my mind was blown away. Spend time thinking of all possible camera and editing tricks one could use to pull this off and was left scratching my head. You took the hard-work way! Kudos! Also, I love your videos :D Brings a smile to my face.
Astonishing. Watching it I coudn't figure out how you were syncing the mouth movements. Surely, I knew, you weren't actually singing it backwards. And then I watched the making of video. Holy crap! You're singing it backwards!!!!! This is your most impressive video yet. And that's saying something because several of your videos have been really, really impressive. And congratulations on your impending TV appearance! Tell us more about that!
Well you know what they say about stage magic: "No one would ever think that we would ever work this hard to fool you.That’s a secret, and a method of magic" - Jamy Ian Swiss
Check the making of this video. He was or he could be lying, more likely but I mean it cooler to say he did so yea Edit: also sorry this is really late and u probably don’t care.
But I don't get it. Played backward, talking backward will always have some kind of small choking noise. You can hear it in "Hi musical scientist" said in the end. But it's not present in the song. How did he do that? No matter how you talk, you can't make air go backward.
@@JimmyEscajeda Yeah, but Weird Al only did it for like ¼ minute or so, and only one part. This guy did a whole song, five parts, doing all these stunts, each in a single continuous take.
"My room was cleaner... now looks like Godzilla's been there - not my fault! Blame it on entropic time!!" BEST EXCUSE EVER. I will be using this from now on.
I actually had to go through all the nonsense of UA-cam registration just to make this comment-however, I thought it was worth it. "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination" (I'm not sure Einstein really said that, but it sounds good.) I find your work...compelling. Like turning the pages of a riveting novel, I am intrigued by what you'll come up with next. This one is going to be hard to beat, LOL. And while I have purchased all your songs (except Eminemium), yes, you have finally motivated me to support you on Patreon; perhaps that is the true test of appreciation. Bravo, Tim. You make life just a little bit more enjoyable. (Loved you mom too!!)
I love this, loved it since I first saw it, but I only just noticed today that not only did you harmonize while singing backwards, you wrote lyrics that ended in syllables that matched their place in the original. There's not a word for this much talent. Even prodigy falls short.
dude keeps watching entropic time again and again and again never gets old it's too good to get old due to the effort put in it like shooting the whole song 5 times backwards while keeping his mouth movement reasonable just WOW
Why isn't this one on Spotify! This song is one of the best science parodies of all time, and the lecture that inspired it is sooooo good! I've watched that lecture more than I've gone to my actual classes this week!
@@uxleumasyou're kidding?! I thought he had mouth the words backwards, recording the video without song and then added a normal soundtrack on top of it 😮 If he really SANG backwards in live while recording it, this guy's a genius!! ❤️
This is absolutely incredible. It's not obvious at first, but recognize the sheer amount of work that went into making this video! He filmed the entire video not just once but 5+ times, each time completing the video in one shot. On top of that, he had to move his mouth in the "reverse" direction so it looked like he was singing the song when the video was reversed! Based on the outro, he must have learned how to speak backwards, a skill showcased recently on Smarter Every Day. Learning this skill takes months, maybe even years! Sir, I don't know how long it took you to produce this, but this is the most dedicated film making I have ever seen. Astonishing.
My mind is blown!!!! OMG you are amazing! Going to watch the "making of" video now. I can't imagine the planning that went into this..... You are crazy! Love it!
I just showed this video to my college "Science and Science Fiction" class, to introduce our discussion of Isaac Asimov's short story "The Last Question." Your video won applause from my students, and clarified a difficult scientific concept! This is a truly marvelous creation!
This is not how this works ...This is not how any of this works... This is an affront to the 2nd law xb Can only try to imagine hard was to make this video, just wonderful !
Bravo. You managed to make a video that is not only clever and fun to watch, but you simultaneously taught me (as a person who hasn't taken physics yet) about the arrow of entropic time. Seriously man, your videos are amazing.
Incredible! As a Billy Joel fan,(and yes, I know that dates me) and someone who also enjoyed college science, I was curious what this would be like. This far exceeded my expectations. This is one of my all time favorite videos on youTube.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who splits his brain all day thinking about the beauty of the Universe. Then I realise I'm not alone in that venture. It keeps me right on track to see people who have that hunger for knowledge and wisdom. On top of that, You have an amazing voice and an even better talent to fit some amazing things in depth into song forms.
I just have to say this video is absolutely amazing. Once I watched the video, I could not believe what I was seeing -- I thought you did some sneaky cgi where you cut the top half of your body, which was going forward, with the bottom half, which was going backwards. Once I saw the behind the scenes video, and understood how much time went into singing this video backwards,was I truly amazed by the effort put into making such an amazing video. I apologize for not knowing your name, but I am truly impressed with this amazing video that you made. The thought of learning the song backwards just blows my mind, and I cannot believe that you made this video. I have already watched this video several times, and it is one of my favorite videos that you have made. You have done such an amazing job with this video. I knew I would enjoy subscribing to your channel, but this video just blows that notion out of proportion. Kudos! Such a truly, but unfortunately underrated, amazing video.
He wouldnt have to sing it backwards, the monotonous beat and timing is the same played backwards and forwards. All he has to do is lipsync it forwards, reverse the video, and match up one way-o-way with another, and all other mouth openings will match. Shrug.
One day a genius Tim from an alternate universe jumping across multiverse will stumble upon a universe where 5 Tims are singing a science parody of Billy Joel backwards.
Man. I can't bein to tell you how much you amaze me. The way you take everything that's important to me and forge it into unbelievable masterpieces makes me excited for days every time you upload a new video. My life got better by a statistically significant amount ever since I started watching you do those things I wish I could, in a way that satisfies my innermost perfectionist needs. This is the closest thing to a love letter I ever wrote and I'm not even gay. Thanks for everything, man. You are awesome.
It’s incredibly rare for words to fail me, but you’ve succeeded. This is remarkable in so many ways. As a fellow musician, I can certainly appreciate the execution, but then I realize that you’ve memorized and mimed it in reverse... The science is on point, the video editing is great, it’s musically solid, and the best part... really fun!! I award you infinity points, and thank you for adding your light to an all too often often dull, anti-intellectual world. You’re amazing!!
So, I knew of and watched your 1st accapella Science music video rolling in the Higgs, when it first came out, multiple times. Initially, the Bohemian Rhapsody parody was the only other one you had done. Tonite, a physicist friend posted a newer creation of yours and I am back now, just adoring your head SPACE and everything you've created over these bits of time as it's passed.. I could only wish someone like you was around when I was young. I would have fallen head over heels. Lol! You are adorable, and smart and so talented. And you are even more handsome than when you first started doing this. You make me smile from ear to ear. I LOVE YOUR CREATIVE MIND. I hope you get out of life all that you wish and that success is defined however you dream it to be. Keep doing what you are doing. You are amazeballs.
The up for discussion with Hank made me so happy. I was grinning the whole time! Up for discussion and Dear Hank and John are my favourite podcasts, it was so weird to see them mixed together :D Completely amazing video as well!
"my room was cleaner, now looks like godzilla´s been there. not my fault, blame it on entropic time" I actually use this reasoning. my room only is so dirty and messy because i constantly struggle to defeat the universes entropy
I can't believe I just found out about you and your beautiful brain! A friend of mine posted A Capella Science on FB, and now my daughter (age 9) is non-stop watching you, over and over again. She said "I don't know what he is saying, but I'm learning something!"
The making-of video is great, but it'd be awesome to hear the song reversed as you sung it from the video. The few clips you included in the making-of were mighty impressive!
+Xiao'sChannel I think he recorded the audio forward and (separately) the video "backward", singing backward so that he'd get the mouth movements to show correctly, and then simply tossed the audio from the video-recording session. (I agree with +Arc Riley that it'd be great to watch/hear that.) Then he spliced together the forward audio and backward video.
Ok, awesome on so many levels! Level one.....great singing/harmony--nice full sound, good blend. Level two....that you chose one of the greatest Billy Joel songs. Level three.....the cool video effects with running everything backwards. Level four....the greatest miracle of all......you actually sang the words backwards in real time so it would look like you were singing in forward time when you ran the video back! (I didn't notice at first; about halfway through, I wondered how you were singing forward and going backward, and then I caught a word that was off. Then I noticed the finger snapping looked off.) I wish I had had this video about 4-5 weeks ago when we covered entropy in my chemistry classes....
This video is amazing. I wondered how you did this and when i saw the Making Of, i was even more astonished by the amount of time and work you invested. Really really well done, I love this video (and your other songs)
Came back to this video after nearly 4 years. The fact this video haven't blown up to bigger proportions is truly surprising. This video deserve way more than 1 million views.
Soooo awesome!!! I've watched it several times now and just can't get enough... :-D One wish for future videos: Could the text precede the audio for just some more split-seconds so that we can use it to sing-along? :-) Acapella karaoke versions #FTW!!!
That is awesomely amazing! Even before seeing the comments below I recognized he was singing backwards!!!! This is going out to all my physics colleagues!
You guys should try making your own Periodic Table song! I've been trying to find one with them all in order that contrasts ASAPScience's without just saying the last 20 or so really fast.
This video deserves so much more attention than it gets. I'm honestly so surprised it hasn't broken 1 million yet every time I revisit it. Excellent work!
My evolution during this song: "Wow, sounds great." "And looks nice, I like the colours." "Wait, that was kinda funny." "Oh my god, it´s backwards, that´s the reason why he was so wet at the beginning!" "One moment, does this mean, he had to sing it backwards too?" I watch the making-of. "He really sang it backwards. WHAT?" (Okay, of cause someone could also only sing it backwards for the recording of the pictures and then sing it normal for the recording of the vocals but I suppose that wasn't the case.) I watch the video again. "Still sounds grat. Woah, there are some really low tunes." (Is "low" the right word? I'm no native speaker but you don't say deep for this, do you? "Low" sounds weird, too. Well, you know what I mean, I hope.) "How can it sound so great and clear in language if it was sung backwards???" "I wanna give more than one like..."
Yes, you can call it a low note. ;) I also found this video absolutely great! By the way, what is your native language (if i might ask)? I'm just asking this out of interest since I speak several languages and are really interested in languages.
GENIUS!! As a musician I can appreciate the work it took to learn the lyrics backwards and arrange the song; as a video editor I can appreciate the creativity, the planning & execution; and as a visual learner I can simply appreciate the very creative method of explaining the concept. I rarely subscribe to YT channels, but you've got me hooked!
Incredible! And the "making of" video is extraordinary. But we've come to expect nothing less from Acapella Science! Congrats on the Discovery Channel interview/show. Can't wait to see it!
Idk how many times I have come back to this video I’ve the last couple years. I know my physics teacher showed me this back in high school. And I graduated in 2016. Just too good.
Woah-oh Arrow of Entropic Time Woah Arrow of Entropic Time If you made a scrambled egg tonight There'd be no return to yolk and white And when it's fried you can't turn it back to raw food That is the arrow of Entropic Time Structure Decomposes till it's gone Hot spots cool and entropy grows on My room was cleaner Now looks like Godzilla's been there Not my fault Blame it on Entropic Time Woah Arrow of Entropic Time Woah Arrow of Entropic Time Stars Explode and leaves turn brown in fall That's Thermodynamic's second law But from a deep view That doesn't need to be true Time-symmetry precludes Entropic Time Maybe this won't last very long Our cosmos's light A fluctuation In that case it's probable we are A brain without a jar Decomposed in a moment Who knows if that's true And I'll be gone Thermalised Before you hear this song I'll take my chances Though I can't disprove these answers That there's a reason for entropic time One must go right back to the start The order from whence All things fell apart All life hinges On that state that was We hope to find it's cause But it's more than we know now Maybe ther's a Time-symmetric space Birthing Big-Bang's All across the place That then disperce as New baby Universes With there own direction of Entropic Time Woah arrow of Entropic Time Woah arrow of Entropic Time Woah arrow of Entropic Time Woah arrow of Entropic Time Woah arrow of Entropic Time
Omg, I could practice for the length of my age and still cant do a single one of this correctly… you’re a genius! This vid is out of me brain’s understanding capability 🤯
A great effort on your part, thank you very much for this video, I have used it many times to explain to my students how time direction is basically an illusion.
So, the quality of the singing is superb, the visuals incredibly executed, and the subject very informative...but I've got to take a moment to appreciate the writing of this song. So many clever rhyme schemes. Absolute delight to go back and read through while listening.
Sooooo my 3 and 6 year olds love this video and we just used it to explain why we apologize when make mistakes or hurt someone. We can't undo things because of the direction of entropy, but we *can* say we wish it didn't happen. #hotparentingtip
How do you do this!!!!!!!!!😍 😍 😍 your actions in reverse direction but lips in perfect sync with song!!!! Amazing... Im in love with your skills mate... #fan
Somehow hadn't seen this one until today. It took me until that first reverse egg crack to notice you'd filmed this in reverse. Incredible work, I don't even want to think about how long it must've taken to figure out the reversed mouth shapes and memorise the lip-sync for it.
DUUUUUUUUDE I am going through all your videos one after the other, this is madness ! This is awesome ! At the first one I was subbed, notified and it was liked, let me do that for all of them ...
Great, I enjoyed many of your videos. How about an "acapellascienceKIDS?" I'm a middle school Earth Science teacher and could use a song about the rock cycle or planets.
+acapellascience oh please my high school physics teacher would absolutely love songs that the rest of my class understands... I don't mean to brag but I'm a lot more interested and therefore better at physics than my classmates, specifically physics, oh did I forget to mention I'm great at physics, oh I'm also great at physics aswell as physics and physics especially physics... I'm also doing chemistry and engineering but meh
That was effing BRILLIANT! Brain-boggling BRILLIANT! Thank you for doing something so totally outside of normal reality. I think I'm building new synapses right now -- my brain is tingling!
Dude. This is incredible
+It's Okay To Be Smart This is my 4th time watching it and I still like it! It's something that never gets old!
Wow you watched this a year ago! And now you have so many subs lol
crazy how he managed to lip-sync it in reverse
Aloosi - Lilj0unior it’s not lip-syncing. He sang it reverse
No, he only learned to sing it in reverse for the video, in order to lip-sync to the recording which was made normally. Still doesn't mean it isn't amazing, which it is.
Tim I sometimes come back to this because I'm angry at how good it is
I just really love it!
Literally I came back two years later
Me, too! Except for...happy :)
@@saraahmed2603 literally came back 3 years later :)
This video is timeless
Once upon a time when Tim was, maybe 11, he got his first sound recording program on our out-of-date computer. One of his first multi-track projects was to record the song "Barbara Ann" in adorable, pre-pubescent 4-part harmony. Tim used his sound program to flip the song backwards, then listened to it enough times that he learned to SING it backwards.
It sounded so funny that it became sort of a party trick - "Tim, sing Barbara Ann backwards!" For some reason Tim found that annoying, and before long he had sworn off backwards singing and would snap if we so much as mentioned it.
But you know, they say nothing you learn is wasted.
#OriginStories
Sibling! y u do dis!! 😱
I think I had the sneaking suspicion that people were not so much impressed by my ability as incredulous that I was nerd enough to accomplish such a thing.
Ah well. #SweetRevenge
+Mary-Jane Blais everyone thumb this up so that Tim has to see it all the time forever and ever amen
tomzalatnai +
tomzalatnai just did
Thank you Ms. Blais. The world owes you a debt of thanks!
I am blown away by how you can keep your singing in sync while unscrambling eggs and unpopping balloons!
his singing is time symmetric
He explained that it takes a lot of practice in another video. My theory is that he reversed the time arrow, but that's just a theory 🙂
@@rolfedrengen an Acapella Science theory!
@@deinogreenstreet8631 in reality, he sang everything in reverse (according to the "other video"), but in Acapella Science Theory he actually turned the arrow of time. That's... a job well done!
I totally forgot to credit the awesome camera and production assistant work done by Tom Zalatnai in this video. He's hilarious and extremely sharp. Everyone go give him a follow: @tomzalatnai across various platforms :)
+acapellascience Do you think you could do a song on the Falcon 9 landing?
+acapellascience it me
+acapellascience Wow. Getting those consonants and vowels to sound proper when played backwards would have been so hard... good job!
+acapellascience 4th time watching it and it's still awesome!
Amazing job!
+acapellascience Then stop bemoaning and do it now in your Description already.
(You can also remedy it with Annotation right onto your Video, better than [CC].)
I could only imagine how much work went into this. kudos.
why is there no replies in this comment?
There are.
bro had to memorize the song backwards
* _multiple times_
Next time my mom tells me my room is messy I'll tell her : "blame it on the entropic time."
Best excuse ever
Blame it on a fundamental law of thermodynamics
When he sang that, it was close to the end of making the video and thus of making a huge mess in many ways. Blame it on *the making* of "Entropic Time"! 😂
My college chemistry teacher just showed this to my class lmao what a legend
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I think I watch this every month when I need an example of the genius that exists on this website
Same here. This is absolutely incredible!
hey =D
I've been watching your videos since the collab with veritassium in the wind-powered faster-than-wind vehicle
After the rocketry and space crown videos my sister is following as well.
Just know your content is equally inspiring, albeit in a diferent way \o/
You know who should cover this? ONE DIRECTION.
(pun of the year)
how *about you get the fuck out
edit: *hands you had one fucking job and it's to type "about"
+yrjosmiel73 sorry boss I probably stood to close to his cage so he stole my keys
+yrjosmiel73 I'm not good at comedy
Barbed Two
it's alright mate
neither am i
From First To Last
Damn. The amount of effort he must have put in to lip sync that backwards is amazing. But there was almost an "uncanny valley" thing going on with his eyes, probably because of how hard he must have been focusing.
+Lisa Liel It was the result of secretly having to look to the side to read nonsense syllables. I knew someone would notice... working on a fix for future projects because that really annoyed me too.
+acapellascience But other than that, it was freaking amazing. Kudos.
It reminds me of the Scientist by Coldplay
Are you serious?
The moment I realised that you were somehow singing properly while playing backwards, my mind was blown away. Spend time thinking of all possible camera and editing tricks one could use to pull this off and was left scratching my head.
You took the hard-work way! Kudos!
Also, I love your videos :D
Brings a smile to my face.
This was an amazing video and I really appreciate all the work you put into it- it’s one of the best things I’ve ever seen!
Astonishing. Watching it I coudn't figure out how you were syncing the mouth movements. Surely, I knew, you weren't actually singing it backwards. And then I watched the making of video. Holy crap! You're singing it backwards!!!!! This is your most impressive video yet. And that's saying something because several of your videos have been really, really impressive. And congratulations on your impending TV appearance! Tell us more about that!
Well you know what they say about stage magic: "No one would ever think that we would ever work this hard to fool you.That’s a secret, and a method of magic" - Jamy Ian Swiss
Check the making of this video. He was or he could be lying, more likely but I mean it cooler to say he did so yea
Edit: also sorry this is really late and u probably don’t care.
He did sing it backwards
Yeah.. that's so tough n confusing.. hats off to him
But I don't get it. Played backward, talking backward will always have some kind of small choking noise. You can hear it in "Hi musical scientist" said in the end. But it's not present in the song. How did he do that? No matter how you talk, you can't make air go backward.
Anyone else realised that they needed to film them singing backwards in order for the video to work?
Nieve Andrea He learnt the song backwards
Yes
Ikr It must have been damn hard..
I think this may have gotten inspiration from Weird Al - Amish Paradise. I think he was the first to do this.
@@JimmyEscajeda Yeah, but Weird Al only did it for like ¼ minute or so, and only one part. This guy did a whole song, five parts, doing all these stunts, each in a single continuous take.
"My room was cleaner... now looks like Godzilla's been there - not my fault! Blame it on entropic time!!" BEST EXCUSE EVER. I will be using this from now on.
haters will say the video is in reverse
I actually had to go through all the nonsense of UA-cam registration just to make this comment-however, I thought it was worth it.
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination" (I'm not sure Einstein really said that, but it sounds good.)
I find your work...compelling. Like turning the pages of a riveting novel, I am intrigued by what you'll come up with next. This one is going to be hard to beat, LOL. And while I have purchased all your songs (except Eminemium), yes, you have finally motivated me to support you on Patreon; perhaps that is the true test of appreciation.
Bravo, Tim. You make life just a little bit more enjoyable. (Loved you mom too!!)
Bro,its at 69,i am not gonna ruin it
I love this, loved it since I first saw it, but I only just noticed today that not only did you harmonize while singing backwards, you wrote lyrics that ended in syllables that matched their place in the original. There's not a word for this much talent. Even prodigy falls short.
dude keeps watching entropic time again and again and again never gets old
it's too good to get old due to the effort put in it like shooting the whole song 5 times backwards while keeping his mouth movement reasonable just WOW
Hate to burst your bubble, but he wasn't singing backwards, just lip-syncing backwards.
@@matthewmitchell3457 still, the harmonies kill, like as a song he just nailed it first of all, let alone the backwards gimmick
Why isn't this one on Spotify! This song is one of the best science parodies of all time, and the lecture that inspired it is sooooo good! I've watched that lecture more than I've gone to my actual classes this week!
maybe they didnt get the rights to publish a cover of billy joels song (the structure is identical)?
Omg, did you actually mouth the words BACKWARDS the entire time? This is amazing.
You sir are a genius.
He didn’t just mouth them, he SANG the song backwards
@@uxleumasyou're kidding?! I thought he had mouth the words backwards, recording the video without song and then added a normal soundtrack on top of it 😮
If he really SANG backwards in live while recording it, this guy's a genius!! ❤️
This is absolutely incredible. It's not obvious at first, but recognize the sheer amount of work that went into making this video! He filmed the entire video not just once but 5+ times, each time completing the video in one shot. On top of that, he had to move his mouth in the "reverse" direction so it looked like he was singing the song when the video was reversed! Based on the outro, he must have learned how to speak backwards, a skill showcased recently on Smarter Every Day. Learning this skill takes months, maybe even years!
Sir, I don't know how long it took you to produce this, but this is the most dedicated film making I have ever seen. Astonishing.
My mind is blown!!!! OMG you are amazing! Going to watch the "making of" video now. I can't imagine the planning that went into this..... You are crazy! Love it!
I just showed this video to my college "Science and Science Fiction" class, to introduce our discussion of Isaac Asimov's short story "The Last Question." Your video won applause from my students, and clarified a difficult scientific concept! This is a truly marvelous creation!
This is not how this works ...This is not how any of this works... This is an affront to the 2nd law xb
Can only try to imagine hard was to make this video, just wonderful !
Bravo. You managed to make a video that is not only clever and fun to watch, but you simultaneously taught me (as a person who hasn't taken physics yet) about the arrow of entropic time. Seriously man, your videos are amazing.
Strongly agree... please kindly help to support my physics songs too... thank you
Incredible! As a Billy Joel fan,(and yes, I know that dates me) and someone who also enjoyed college science, I was curious what this would be like. This far exceeded my expectations. This is one of my all time favorite videos on youTube.
Unbelievably well done, as well as insightful, almost spiritual in it implications. This is the way humans should be.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who splits his brain all day thinking about the beauty of the Universe. Then I realise I'm not alone in that venture. It keeps me right on track to see people who have that hunger for knowledge and wisdom. On top of that, You have an amazing voice and an even better talent to fit some amazing things in depth into song forms.
I just have to say this video is absolutely amazing. Once I watched the video, I could not believe what I was seeing -- I thought you did some sneaky cgi where you cut the top half of your body, which was going forward, with the bottom half, which was going backwards. Once I saw the behind the scenes video, and understood how much time went into singing this video backwards,was I truly amazed by the effort put into making such an amazing video. I apologize for not knowing your name, but I am truly impressed with this amazing video that you made. The thought of learning the song backwards just blows my mind, and I cannot believe that you made this video. I have already watched this video several times, and it is one of my favorite videos that you have made. You have done such an amazing job with this video. I knew I would enjoy subscribing to your channel, but this video just blows that notion out of proportion. Kudos! Such a truly, but unfortunately underrated, amazing video.
+Myles Kornfeld Tim. Hi, nice to meet you :) Also thanks :D
+acapellascience hi Tim. Nice to meet you too. And no thanks necessary -- you deserve it.
He wouldnt have to sing it backwards, the monotonous beat and timing is the same played backwards and forwards. All he has to do is lipsync it forwards, reverse the video, and match up one way-o-way with another, and all other mouth openings will match. Shrug.
An Anna if you watched the behind the scenes video, then you'd know that I'm right
This video was so good and perfect to be made with CGI
Your videos are one of, if not THE, best things (in my opinion) I get to see in my subsciber feed.
One day a genius Tim from an alternate universe jumping across multiverse will stumble upon a universe where 5 Tims are singing a science parody of Billy Joel backwards.
Man. I can't bein to tell you how much you amaze me. The way you take everything that's important to me and forge it into unbelievable masterpieces makes me excited for days every time you upload a new video. My life got better by a statistically significant amount ever since I started watching you do those things I wish I could, in a way that satisfies my innermost perfectionist needs.
This is the closest thing to a love letter I ever wrote and I'm not even gay. Thanks for everything, man. You are awesome.
It’s incredibly rare for words to fail me, but you’ve succeeded. This is remarkable in so many ways. As a fellow musician, I can certainly appreciate the execution, but then I realize that you’ve memorized and mimed it in reverse... The science is on point, the video editing is great, it’s musically solid, and the best part... really fun!! I award you infinity points, and thank you for adding your light to an all too often often dull, anti-intellectual world. You’re amazing!!
It’s amazing that they were singing backward the whole time
I've watched this countless times over the years, but I always find something I haven't noticed before. Absolutely incredible work.
This is amazing. Can we get a "blame it on entropic time" bumper sticker? I love that line.
This is the highest quality of content. Makes me smile every time I watch it.
This might just be my favorite A Capella Science video, and that title is VERY competitive.
So, I knew of and watched your 1st accapella Science music video rolling in the Higgs, when it first came out, multiple times. Initially, the Bohemian Rhapsody parody was the only other one you had done.
Tonite, a physicist friend posted a newer creation of yours and I am back now, just adoring your head SPACE and everything you've created over these bits of time as it's passed..
I could only wish someone like you was around when I was young. I would have fallen head over heels. Lol! You are adorable, and smart and so talented. And you are even more handsome than when you first started doing this. You make me smile from ear to ear. I LOVE YOUR CREATIVE MIND.
I hope you get out of life all that you wish and that success is defined however you dream it to be.
Keep doing what you are doing. You are amazeballs.
Loved it. Had to watch several times to catch everything. The banana at the end (or beginning I suppose..) was excellent.
The effort of syncing lip movement on backwards videos is amazing
The up for discussion with Hank made me so happy. I was grinning the whole time!
Up for discussion and Dear Hank and John are my favourite podcasts, it was so weird to see them mixed together :D
Completely amazing video as well!
+elzilchoco HAHA WOOOOOOOOO
+tomzalatnai +elzilchoco I showed Tom this comment right after recording a podcast and he responded with characteristic eloquence. ^_^
+acapellascience Now I'm grinning again XD
+acapellascience I do smarts good
Most under rated video on UA-cam, right here
"my room was cleaner, now looks like godzilla´s been there. not my fault, blame it on entropic time" I actually use this reasoning. my room only is so dirty and messy because i constantly struggle to defeat the universes entropy
I can't believe I just found out about you and your beautiful brain! A friend of mine posted A Capella Science on FB, and now my daughter (age 9) is non-stop watching you, over and over again. She said "I don't know what he is saying, but I'm learning something!"
I’ve listened to this song so much in the last few years but I’d forgotten JUST HOW AMAZING THE VIDEO IS WOW 😍😍😍
My new favourite song! I will be watching this for the last four years ago!
Wow. No CGI... What genius effort!
The making-of video is great, but it'd be awesome to hear the song reversed as you sung it from the video. The few clips you included in the making-of were mighty impressive!
i think the song here is dubbed in later.
+Xiao'sChannel I think he recorded the audio forward and (separately) the video "backward", singing backward so that he'd get the mouth movements to show correctly, and then simply tossed the audio from the video-recording session. (I agree with +Arc Riley that it'd be great to watch/hear that.) Then he spliced together the forward audio and backward video.
+d4b that is exactly what i meant.
+d4b this is so impressive btw, cant believe so few views
+Xiao'sChannel no. Watch the making video. He sang the thing backwards.
I'm proud to be a Patron supporter. This was awesome.
I am always looking for new acapella to listen to and you are very clever with your lyrics. You also sing incredibly well.
Damn, that was amazing! This is by far my favourite song of yours so far, keep up the great work.
Ok, awesome on so many levels! Level one.....great singing/harmony--nice full sound, good blend. Level two....that you chose one of the greatest Billy Joel songs. Level three.....the cool video effects with running everything backwards. Level four....the greatest miracle of all......you actually sang the words backwards in real time so it would look like you were singing in forward time when you ran the video back! (I didn't notice at first; about halfway through, I wondered how you were singing forward and going backward, and then I caught a word that was off. Then I noticed the finger snapping looked off.) I wish I had had this video about 4-5 weeks ago when we covered entropy in my chemistry classes....
This video is amazing. I wondered how you did this and when i saw the Making Of, i was even more astonished by the amount of time and work you invested.
Really really well done, I love this video (and your other songs)
Came back to this video after nearly 4 years. The fact this video haven't blown up to bigger proportions is truly surprising. This video deserve way more than 1 million views.
Soooo awesome!!! I've watched it several times now and just can't get enough... :-D
One wish for future videos: Could the text precede the audio for just some more split-seconds so that we can use it to sing-along? :-) Acapella karaoke versions #FTW!!!
That is awesomely amazing! Even before seeing the comments below I recognized he was singing backwards!!!! This is going out to all my physics colleagues!
Has every seen the egg at 0:26 ? This guy did the "Inversion" thing 5 years before Christopher Nolan made "Tenet". 😉
This is art !
This might just be the best thing I've ever seen on the internet. No need to say more.
You guys should try making your own Periodic Table song! I've been trying to find one with them all in order that contrasts ASAPScience's without just saying the last 20 or so really fast.
This video deserves so much more attention than it gets. I'm honestly so surprised it hasn't broken 1 million yet every time I revisit it. Excellent work!
Just you wait.
My evolution during this song:
"Wow, sounds great."
"And looks nice, I like the colours."
"Wait, that was kinda funny."
"Oh my god, it´s backwards, that´s the reason why he was so wet at the beginning!"
"One moment, does this mean, he had to sing it backwards too?"
I watch the making-of.
"He really sang it backwards. WHAT?" (Okay, of cause someone could also only sing it backwards for the recording of the pictures and then sing it normal for the recording of the vocals but I suppose that wasn't the case.)
I watch the video again.
"Still sounds grat. Woah, there are some really low tunes." (Is "low" the right word? I'm no native speaker but you don't say deep for this, do you? "Low" sounds weird, too. Well, you know what I mean, I hope.)
"How can it sound so great and clear in language if it was sung backwards???"
"I wanna give more than one like..."
Update: I watched the original.
"Uh, no. Tim sings better."
Yes, you can call it a low note. ;)
I also found this video absolutely great!
By the way, what is your native language (if i might ask)? I'm just asking this out of interest since I speak several languages and are really interested in languages.
I figure he lip synced backwards
@Michael Darrow NVM I watched the bts
Every few months I see this video in my recommended and check it out just to admire how impressive it is on a technical level
Dang. This is a masterpiece. Absolutely incredible. Bravo!
GENIUS!! As a musician I can appreciate the work it took to learn the lyrics backwards and arrange the song; as a video editor I can appreciate the creativity, the planning & execution; and as a visual learner I can simply appreciate the very creative method of explaining the concept. I rarely subscribe to YT channels, but you've got me hooked!
My science teacher just showed us this in class. Such an awesome video
Just astonishing! Proud to be a Patreon supporter. (Seeing this level of quality/creativity makes me proud to be human.)
Holly Molly! This probably took -4 years to make
Man taught himself how to sing backwards! Legend!
"my room was cleaner now looks like Godzilla's been there" this hit close to home ...
Not your fault, blame it on entropic time 😁
I've first found this about 3 years ago, and it amazes me every time I see it. You've got MAD SKILLZ, Tim.
this is so so so good. i have no words to describe it. They could never do it justice.
Incredible! And the "making of" video is extraordinary. But we've come to expect nothing less from Acapella Science! Congrats on the Discovery Channel interview/show. Can't wait to see it!
jesus this channel should be worldwide famous
Man, i watch this video when i was like 8, and found it truly fascinating. coming back to it 7 years later it’s still a masterpiece!
You’re the best human. You are everything humanity needs. You are MAN.
Wow, this is stunning. So well done. A great version of one of my favorite Billy Joel songs.
What song is it?
Billy Joel - The Longest Time
That was actually HEAT - the entire physics 2 class
My dad first explained entropy to me in the form of explaining my sister's bedroom to me
Idk how many times I have come back to this video I’ve the last couple years. I know my physics teacher showed me this back in high school. And I graduated in 2016. Just too good.
Woah-oh Arrow of Entropic Time
Woah Arrow of Entropic Time
If you made a scrambled egg tonight
There'd be no return to yolk and white
And when it's fried you can't turn it back to raw food
That is the arrow of Entropic Time
Structure Decomposes till it's gone
Hot spots cool and entropy grows on
My room was cleaner
Now looks like Godzilla's been there
Not my fault
Blame it on Entropic Time
Woah Arrow of Entropic Time
Woah Arrow of Entropic Time
Stars Explode and leaves turn brown in fall
That's Thermodynamic's second law
But from a deep view
That doesn't need to be true
Time-symmetry precludes Entropic Time
Maybe this won't last very long
Our cosmos's light
A fluctuation
In that case it's probable we are
A brain without a jar
Decomposed in a moment
Who knows if that's true
And I'll be gone
Thermalised Before you hear this song
I'll take my chances
Though I can't disprove these answers
That there's a reason for entropic time
One must go right back to the start
The order from whence
All things fell apart
All life hinges
On that state that was
We hope to find it's cause
But it's more than we know now
Maybe ther's a Time-symmetric space
Birthing Big-Bang's
All across the place
That then disperce as
New baby Universes
With there own direction of Entropic Time
Woah arrow of Entropic Time
Woah arrow of Entropic Time
Woah arrow of Entropic Time
Woah arrow of Entropic Time
Woah arrow of Entropic Time
You sing it forwards Thats the other way around
Omg, I could practice for the length of my age and still cant do a single one of this correctly… you’re a genius! This vid is out of me brain’s understanding capability 🤯
I wish I had a fifth of this man's talent
A great effort on your part, thank you very much for this video, I have used it many times to explain to my students how time direction is basically an illusion.
This is perhaps one the most creative explanations of the Second Law of Thermodynamics that I have ever seen
This genuinely sparkled my interest in thermodynamics.
I can't believe it took me this long to see this but this is the best video I've seen all year! (probably the last couple too)
So, the quality of the singing is superb, the visuals incredibly executed, and the subject very informative...but I've got to take a moment to appreciate the writing of this song. So many clever rhyme schemes. Absolute delight to go back and read through while listening.
Sooooo my 3 and 6 year olds love this video and we just used it to explain why we apologize when make mistakes or hurt someone. We can't undo things because of the direction of entropy, but we *can* say we wish it didn't happen. #hotparentingtip
I am absolutely obsessed with this.
this requires a mandatory thumbs up for level of difficulty X ) plus yeah the acapella
Best part: How he actually sang backwards in 0:44 ff - which makes his lips move correctly to the song lyrics when he flipped the video :DDDDD.
How do you do this!!!!!!!!!😍 😍 😍 your actions in reverse direction but lips in perfect sync with song!!!!
Amazing... Im in love with your skills mate... #fan
govardhanreddy ss He sang the lyrics backwards
Somehow hadn't seen this one until today. It took me until that first reverse egg crack to notice you'd filmed this in reverse. Incredible work, I don't even want to think about how long it must've taken to figure out the reversed mouth shapes and memorise the lip-sync for it.
Greetings from Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany. We use this video for our physical chemistry education.
It's a more poignant discussion of time than most educational content I've seen on youtube.
DUUUUUUUUDE I am going through all your videos one after the other, this is madness ! This is awesome ! At the first one I was subbed, notified and it was liked, let me do that for all of them ...
Great, I enjoyed many of your videos. How about an "acapellascienceKIDS?" I'm a middle school Earth Science teacher and could use a song about the rock cycle or planets.
I am actually going to give that some serious thought.
You might want to look into www.teachertube.com. It's popular at my school.
+acapellascience oh please my high school physics teacher would absolutely love songs that the rest of my class understands... I don't mean to brag but I'm a lot more interested and therefore better at physics than my classmates, specifically physics, oh did I forget to mention I'm great at physics, oh I'm also great at physics aswell as physics and physics especially physics... I'm also doing chemistry and engineering but meh
Bonus points for recycling a schoolhouse rock song :-)
who apart from you gives the slightest of fucks!? But good for you!
You make my day happier by posting these :)
these really should be going viral
Looks like a lot of work went into this video, great work :D
That was effing BRILLIANT! Brain-boggling BRILLIANT! Thank you for doing something so totally outside of normal reality. I think I'm building new synapses right now -- my brain is tingling!
"What the Hell happened here?"
"Hasn't happened yet."