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"Kristine from the 7th Grade" - Ben Folds with the NSO | DECLASSIFIED: Ben Folds Presents
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- Опубликовано: 12 окт 2022
- Kristine From The 7th Grade
Composed and Performed by Ben Folds
Arranged by Jherek Bischoff
Ben Folds premiered a new song with the National Symphony Orchestra on July 20, 2022 as part of the “Declassified: Ben Folds Presents” concert series at the John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts.
With the National Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Enrico Lopez-Yañez
DECLASSIFIED®: Ben Folds Presents - In this concert series, NSO Artistic Advisor Ben Folds breaks down barriers between music genres. Folds selects the artists to showcase both classical and modern music arranged specifically for the National Symphony Orchestra.
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Hes incredible. One of the most awesome, amazing, wonderfully creative persons on the entire earth. Shockingly talentented. I'm in awe. I love him so damn much. God bless him. Love, love, love. ❤❤❤
The artistry in this song got me a bunch of times, but that Picardy third at the end was such an elegant touch. This is a song only Ben could have written -- equal parts hilarity and beauty, and all so real. I grew up with BF5 and as a musician myself have been so inspired by Ben over the course of my life. My kiddos learned Ben at early ages and know his voice by ear. Thank you for being even more relevant today and showing us how to deal with the Small Things, which can sometimes be as troubling as the Big Things. 🤘🏼❤️
I love a RUclips comments thread that reminds me of forgotten music theory. Thanks!
All hail that epic Picardy third!
Ben Folds is one of the greatest composer of our time.
"We went to a good school, Kristine!"
🤣
Saw him perform tonite. Just him, a piano, and about 900 people. Amazing.
Saw him last night and I completed agree. He is a gem!
Only Ben Folds could write such a hauntingly beautiful song about such a strange subject.
This channel and this music deserve more views!
The laughs are understandable, but man, this song makes me cry. It is funny, but in the most tragic way. I love the part about a break in the rain, asking if she notices the joys in life.
I love this comment. It certainly has a somewhat humourous narrative but I've never found myself cracking a smile at it. A very tragic song that is all too common.
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Yes, exactly! This song contains all the acidic humour that Ben Folds is an expert about, but it's so, soooo tragic that makes me want to cry when I remember about all the good old friends that now are immersed in dubious narrative and fake beliefs. Perfect, tragic and, yet still, very familiar.
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This song is absolutely genius on so many levels and doesn't only apply to people that fall into conspiracy theories like Qanon, where life is beautiful and ugly and even in the rain, the smell of wet leaves is amazing.
I say it's genius though because it totally subverts and flips your expectations based on the types of songs Ben Folds often writes. So much of his stuff is about sentimental loss and being awake in the middle of the night wishing you had a chance to do it again and maybe you wouldn't be alone, either literally or alone in your bed with the thoughts of dread and shame from some thing you thought was this tiny tiny thing at the time...again, a lot of that is present in this song even...he's not just talking about Kristine.
But where the song starts out with you thinking he was looking back at his crush in 7th grade and then suddenly she's sending him daily emails for two years and ok, that's a little weird, but there could be an explanation...and then it just continues getting weirder until the big reveal...it's freaking genius...reminds me a bit of a film noir or a Dean Koontz book with things looking not so much different in the dark, but as they really are in the dark and it's our own assumptions that we only later realize were the shadow that blocked our true perception that ironically was present in the light.
That's a long way of me saying listen to Brick and the Kristine From the 7th Grade back to back and you'll see what I mean.
The waltz. The words. The mood. Makes me cry every time. Brilliant. U never disappoint. I get you.
An absolute masterpiece. Thank you, Ben Folds, for creating a song that is as precise as it is funny and touching and also defines our current times.
And funny and clever. Best human being on earth. ❤❤❤❤
This is what songwriting is all about. Finding unique and inspiring ways to talk about tragic realities.
flashback to Brick. also tragically beautiful. ❤
I only heard this song for the first time a few days ago and it's my new fave Ben Folds song. It's so funny and sad and beautiful.
Fantastic! Ready for a new record. Ben Folds is only getting better.
My favourite song of 2023
I’ve never heard of Ben Folds, but I think I’m in love now!
🤨 You must be new here! 😎
Oh what a journey you could go on! Start with Emaline!
Ben. your new album is a Masterpiece. Thank you.
I took all my kids to see this uttterly brilliant man, in 2016 at the Royal Opera House. There is simply no words you write down to describe his immense talent. By far, my favourite artist of all time and an musical genius.
Randy Newman should be proud. Ben has that same brilliance
I never know what to say after this beautiful song having heard it live twice. My ❤
Saw him in concert last night and he did this song but faster and with only himself playing more in his bangy rock piano style and it was even better than this big arrangement, hope that’s the style on the album!
Oooh I hope so too, that’s exciting
Sorry you were disappointed! 😂
Beautiful! Orchestration sounds a bit like alexandre desplat to me. So stoked
didnt know jon (john paint) cozart likes ben folds
Arranged by Jherek Bischoff (playing guitar here)
This is incredible. I wanted to shout to the crowd to quit laughing, at this point in the set it this isn't comedy, its real! Yes there's a comedic element but if you really listen to Folds' lyrics, he is lamenting.
The end is also so good because he leads you to fill in the blanks for the last half of the last stanza.
Absolutely beautiful stuff
I do think there is intended to be some humor in it. It's kind of a laugh-to-keep-yourself-from-crying kind of vibe.
I think it was sardonic laughter. The audience was recognizing a Christine from their own life, or something close. This tune was almost like group therapy. Folds is both a master musician and a master social commentator.
Ben is such a gifted artist. Had the opportunity to see him perform w/ a live Orchestra a few years back, and meet him back stage. One of the most entertaining and enjoyable performers you'll ever meet.
I'm so ready for this album Ben bring it on!
Just beautiful.
....and true.
Incredible piece. This song's message is something a lot of people need to hear right now
🤣🤣🤣Perfect Ben!!! The major chord resolve at the end was unexpected... love it!
Saw Folds perform this tune last night in Lowell MA with Tall Heights as his backup band. There were similar waves of acerbic laughter from the audience. Kind of like his intermittent habit of splitting his audience into sections to sing backup for him, the performance of this tune was nothing short of a public service. Perhaps Gen Z, who've been online from the start, don't have these problems, but as a GenXer I've had similar experiences with a few former classmates I hadn't talked with in decades, but then friended on social media. Given the audience reaction, I'm apparently far from alone. Genius!
Gen Z here, and it still does happen. We see it younger and younger. High school wasn't that long ago for me and I already have friends I knew from there posting similar rhetoric. It's less email for us and more posts on other social media apps.
Yesss! I've been waiting for them to upload this since I heard it. I'm so stoked for the album!
Poignant, funny, and moving all at the same time. Very few people can maintain that balance. Kudos, Mr. Folds.
The best
this arrangement is so Ben Folds
Some great lightning bugs, Ben Folds!! Awesome mix of stand-up, composition, and a Shakespearean tragedy - Et tu, Kristine?
I was not expecting the laughter, none of my listens to this song have ever made me laugh. Though I think I get why one might.
the 'we went to a good school, Kristine' made me spit out my drink.
[Instrumental introduction]
Are you the same Kristine
I knew from seventh grade?
Yeah it’s definitely you
Just with a new last name
Someone who laughed a lot
Is what I remember the most
But the face in your profile
Suggests maybe not so much anymore
Cause I got the emails
These last two years every day
And I just don’t reply because
I don’t really know what to say
Kristine from the seventh grade
The anger, the all caps
And all the pseudoscience
The misspellings, the must be on purpose
We went to a good school, Kristine
So what would you imagine I might
Take from this deluge of memes
The cryptic, dark Bible quotes
Guns and dead fetuses
Kristine, seriously, are you okay?
Cause this world can be
Wonderful too
Do you ever see it that way?
Kristine from the seventh grade
[Instrumental interlude]
There’s a break in the rain
A perfect time for a walk
The smell of wet leaves
And warm smiles and hellos
These things exist in the real world, you know
Oh what a shame, Kristine
This disease that makes strangers of friends
But if these days it’s really “us’s” and “them’s”
I want to you to take me off of both of those lists
Cause this world can be
So wonderful too
Do you ever see it that way?
[Instrumental finale]
Read the lyrics as you listen to the song.
WOW! WOW! WOW!
@anyway96 Ben said next year
I needed this song after a long school board meeting last night.
It’s not funnnnnyyy it’s beautiful
Wow. Describes why I've had to cut off some friends and family over the last 7 years. Dammit Ben! You keep making music that is too real.
Everyone's all masked up like they were living in the Dark Ages except for Ben, the conductor, and the guitarist.
I hope this is on Ben's upcoming album!
The music is beautiful.
Ben Folds is his usual self.
This Kristine feels very undressed and in such a tragic, haunting, intimate way.
Also, I hear Miss Galinda and Bick/Boq in the best way. This song is like Dancing Through Life’s older cousin who like taught her emo and goth shit.
I'm loving the Wicked references but wish I could understand how you tie these together. Enlighten me, please.
So cool! Been waiting for some new tracks!
Brilliant as all get out
Fro Ode to Merton to this. What a beautiful song and what an amazing talent.
Stunning ❤
Can you post bens cover of “The Ghost in You” from this concert, I really liked it
Very relatable lyrics!
Love this!
I relate to Kristine, This is absolutely beautiful.
Love it!
Josh Hawley on guitar a surprise!
🤣🤣 My thoughts as well!
Still laughing at this comment months later
Who's playing the piano?
Why did I KNOW this would end with the Picardy third? Somehow it just felt like there was no other option.
This song hits home having watched my intelligent, compassionate parents with the several science and medical degrees between them slowly falling into the grips of Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk ideology. It’s heartbreaking.
I'm so glad to read this, it's happening to my parents too. What's causing this?!!? It's like a 'TV will rot your brain' phenomenon but of our parents instead of our kids.
I’m in the same boat. I know my mom would love the orchestration on this song but I don’t dare share it with her because she’s into Qanon conspiracies 😔
I need the sheet music for this stat
I just spent a good part a day trying to play along so I can figure this out. Had to hit the pause key an awful lot! Awesome piece and the lyrics really hit home.
Who's the pianist and why was she hidden?
What is going on at the end where there's a piano playing, we see what look like Ben's hands... and yet the wide shot shows he's no longer on stage?
They have a pianist
@@drmacvetsounds419 Oh yeah. Duh. I can't see where the other piano is in the wider shots. But, I see now that Ben Folds is not wearing a wedding ring and the hand at the end is.
@@sethbender2448 I was there for this concert. If you look in the orchestra it's on the left side, there is a black shape dividing some of the strings. That's the other piano.
@BenFoldsTV Ben, that was amazing! Could I trouble you to come to Iowa for your new album? ❤
@@marayochim1521 Thank you -- I thought it must have been offstage.
The orchestral movement could be a viable alternative soundtrack for “Schindler’s List.” Frighteningly tragic and identifiably scary/sad reminiscing on the loss of friends and family to Covid, conspiracy theories, and conspiracy theories surrounding Covid. Ben does a phenomenal job all-around. Hauntingly beautiful because it’s all real. And really depressing.
Exposing people to the symphony is always a good idea.
Very french chanson....
Crazy stories like Christine are so relatable to SO many people... sad really.
Seriously. It’s exactly why I bounced from the book face app . Too many Kristines. 🤷🏻♀️
when are Ben and Cody Fry going to collaborate!?!?!!?
I love Ben Folds. This song and the orchestration is beyond. But to see all these people in the audience and orchestra “masked-up” is beyond hysterical. All in unison, sniffing their own farts. Between the song’s subject and this fact, exists stiff irony.
Tom Lehrer would approve.
It's a song, not a standup routine.
Interesting reaction from the audience, for sure. This song makes me cry. It's haunting and reminds me of how many people I've lost to right wing delusion and Qanon bullshit over the past years. You want so badly to help them at first, but over time you realize that they're not who they once were, and that person you once loved is unrecognizable. 🙁
You too Ben?
Beautiful music ... And maybe time to consider co writing lyrics with someone again, like with Nick Hornby.
The funny thing is actually that Kristine is being proven right day after day.
Nah, Kristine is dead wrong.
The laughing pissed me off. It's not a funny song at all. It's a tragedy.
Nothing says a beautiful world like muzzled people paying to hear you and other muzzled people bash an old "friend." I am sure she forgives you. You know not what you do.
Sounds like Vicky Ann had some people block her over the last few years and is still salty about it.
Vicky, what the fuck are you taking about?
she’ssimply stating an opinion, man
@@osp3640 Indeed!
perhaps Kristine was unable to walk.
Meh. I dont like it.
I side with Kristine😅 Song is actually quite pretentious and self-serving and stereo-typical. Even the fact that he says he imagined her and wrote a stereotype caricature rather than writing about a real person from real experience. Instead of humanizing someone we are programmed to dislike, he just created a one dimensional character we are supposed to dislike. Not very innovative nor thought provoking in my opinion. It is song preaching to the woke choir.
Nah, left wing can get wrapped up in conspiracies too.
I agree