Jimmy Eat World React To Prince's Cover Of 'The Middle'
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2022
- Back in 2009, Prince played a live cover of Jimmy Eat World's classic 'The Middle'. The band were aware it happened but had never actually heard the track...until now. Watch as Jim Adkins and Zach Lind react to the unearthed recording of Prince putting his own purple spin on the 'Bleed American' single.
Interviewer: James Wilson-Taylor
Shoutout to @CodePurple for posting the version which you can check out here: • Video
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I SOOO hope 'Jimmy Eat World' do a 'The Middle: Reinterpretation - Prince Style' ... Stabs n all. !
I love a huge (eclectic) range of music but (my opinion) the only song to really pull off a near crying vocal is Prince's "When Doves Cry". (coming from a Led Zep, Van Halen, Robyn etc fan that can't stand Crybaby 90's boy bands)
I do miss Prince. Fkn Warner Bros!
If Prince is playing your song, thats the best music award you could ever be rewarded
No doubt..
I was going to like your comment but didn’t wanna ruin the 69 😂
I’ve listened to Prince my whole life, I’ve seen him live, I love prince. The prince worship HAS to stop. It has reached atomic cringe levels.
yep
@@joeywho534 stfu, let us mourn
Their new Prince version of the song should be called "The Song Formerly Known as The Middle".
Jim Adkins is out here ageing like fine wine
Just saw him a few weeks ago, absolutely killed it at Outlandia!
You can see in Jimmys eyes, and he’s like prince is actually doing a version cover of our song. Wow. Lol
Oh dude, imagine having the opportunity to do present this cover to Jimmy Eat World but then present it via iphone speakers.
Literally the greatest honor any musician could have received is Prince recognizing you in any way.
Literally one of my all-time favorite songs it always puts me in a good mood!!❤️❤️🔥
Omg did you just say that?
Okay thats cool af. Had no Idea Prince was into that Song. Nice
My brain just exploded. I love this song and I love Prince so much.
Nice to see Jim Carrey reacting to Prince's cover of Jimmy Eat World's song 'The Middle'.
💀🤣
💅 it
I was thinking Steve Carrell
He looks like Louie Barletta a bit too. A mix between the two for sure
Prince was such a cool dude. As much as it would piss him off, I hope more things get released like this from his archive
amazing. unbelievable!! WOW!
I like The Middle by Jimmy. That Prince version, on the phone, sounded sick. He looked confused but as he said 'I didn't think we'd be on Prince's radar'
O wow🔥 u can tell he's touched by that!♥️
Prince was a treasure to humanity
Gotta love the White Lion 'Wait' reference. At least these guys know who came before them. Great band.
Nice surprise to hear my late musical hero do this cover. But then again I can see how he dug that track since it was kinda reminiscent of Prince's early Power Pop/New Wave-style material a la "When You Were Mine", "Teacher Teacher" and the song he wrote for The Time called "After Hi School".
When you were mine is a favorite.
Yeah prince cut his teeth in new wave, It's not a leap for him to do pop punk.
Awesome feeling that must be to hear prince covering your material.
When worlds collide. I love Prince and Jimmy Eat World a lot!!
Awesomeness!!!💜💜
Prince and Adkins 2 of my favorite voices.
so cool!!
Prince can also appreciate others songs. They should be honored 😉
Bucket list ticked for those boys
Wow 👍🏾
Reminds me of how the Foo Fighters played Darling Nikki on tour and Prince didn't like it, so to "get back" at them, Prince played Best of You at the Super Bowl.
Of course, the Foo Fighters were beyond psyched. The tit-for-tat didn't quite work.
Love how he's more like: "why tf would did he bother doing one of our songs?"
It's like a confusing honer. 😂🙌
What an honor.💜
nobody is going to mention that jim referenced white lion of all things?
That's so cooooool!
Jimmy eat world must be stoked.
Prince was awesome I. My tee years.
What a huge compliment!!
Now i have to go listen to it.
How could you not cry hearing prince cover your song.
I was going to say the same thing! I'd be tearing up so bad
I find Prince unlistenable, so I too would be crying if he ruined my song.
Glad you.learned something. People are entitled to their opinions. You think prince is good. I find no value in his music. If you read other comments some people agree with you and some agree with me. But we can come together and both cry over prince's version (with horrible audio) of one of Jimmy Eat World's worst songs.
@@gregjustlovesyoutubeguidelines it must be tough being so miserable. Prince is certainly not my favorite, or even in my top 50 artists, but art by its nature is impressive. Prince was a genius. Judging my your comment and attitude, I’m sure you have made a couple of the best records of all time. Please leave a few links to all of your music. Thanks.
@@conorohconnor I don't have to make music to have an opinion on it. I don't care that you think prince is a genius. That's your opinion and you are entitled to it. I'm not telling you that you shouldn't think he is. But don't act like my opinion isn't valid either when I'm not the only one in the comments that doesn't care for prince.
I could ask the same thing... "What records have you made to think he is a genius?" But that's dumb.
The best complement a band can ever get is Weird Al Yankovic doing a parody of your song. But Prince comes a close second.
...having Prince acknowledge your band and perform a cover of one of your songs...
...must be like the musical equivalent of getting a thumbs up 👍 from God...
Absolutely
I swear Jim never ages, what is his secret!
Effing amazing
Yeah....that's pretty crazy lol. Must be strange to have such a throwaway song (albeit their "big hit") sung by a true master. Says a lot about Jimmy Eat World's craft!
Surprised they didn't tear up. I almost did! Somehow I ended up with a radio demo disc of these guys in 2002ish in Atlanta. Also got to see Prince at his last live show. 🤘
I'm 42 and I still consider them my favorite band of all time.
I’d start crying. Straight up
For years my high-water mark was when Johnny Cash covered None Inch Nails and Soundgarden.
Prince might just set a new mark.
Also, The 9 Inchnails. .
How freakin’ cool.
Love the White Lion reference too!
It's even crazier considering Prince is no longer with us.
The guy in the middle looked like he was going to cry. Yes, I understand. 👍💜
Weirdly, if I didn't know this was Jimmy Eat World, if I had heard Prince doing first it I would have thought it was his 🤷🏽♀️ it fit his style!
Cool!
Loved how he referenced White Lion
It's Prince. He can sing whatever lyrics he wants to.
Better than I thought
That's great. It's a good song
Great content this!
This is a thing? Awesome!
Prince is phenomenal, and Jimmy eat world is great. I know I'm going to get flack but I 100% agree with his face... idk if that was very good...
When the greatest musician of all time likes your song enough to cover it
WOW that White Lion reference... such a deep cut nowadays. I respect the band so much more just for that!
Jim's like "this will be a blast" then it looks like it hits him what is actually happening in the recording and looks like he's going to cry.
💜🐾
My favorite part of this was the White Lion reference.
Can I also just say, what an awesome set at 2000 Trees.
Lost my voice hard
Jim adkins is such a handsome dude
Omg omg when he said "the white lion, wait, sound" holy shit!! Yeeeeesss! Wow! I get that! Yes! Wow this is epic!
Trying to listen to the song playing through dudes phone, through my phone, is nearly impossible
This is awesome but would have been so much better if you put the microphone up to the phone, or better yet post the actual recording. It sounds like there is different music loud in the background and you can barely hear the Prince recording.
That song came out when I was in kindergarden and i knew every word to the chorus
I love the White Lion reference.
God he's so handsome 😍
🥺🥺🥺
Not the biggest Prince fan here but the man was truly a legend!
How can you not be an prince fan lol
@@TreyMessiah95 Well, when you put it like that, I guess I am a fan. :D
Take care and cheers!
@@TreyMessiah95I’m not. He’s super weird and cringey. From the weird way he dresses to his winery falsetto voice to his mediocre lyrics and Melodie’s. I’m not impressed at all. He’s a fruit cake. The one gold star I give him is that he can play like dozens of instruments, that’s pretty cool, although specializing in one instrument is even cooler.
Purple rain is a pretty lame song. There’s a reason you don’t hear it being played that often. It’s just not that good….
These guys don't age!!!
Jim looks like 4-5 different famous people rolled in to one.
This ha
The look of “fuck, why didn’t we think of that?”
Prince did a phenomenal job with the song! A maestro working with a wonderful song!
they should start covering his cover
They don’t seem like Prince fans. Fans would have been listening more carefully for that solo to come. They seemed mildly flattered but ready to move on and the interviewer who is an actual fan starts to scramble and skip to the solo wanting to impress them but he accidentally skips too far and passes it. So funny. Prince nerds relate to that interviewer. Lol
So, it's that kind of day, is it. I find out that Prince does JEW "The Middle" and Jim is going to throw White Lion's "Wait" in there? Alrighty then!
Yeah.. This guy's a tool.
The interviewer didn’t have a Bluetooth speaker ready? “Hey guys, really amazing moment when Prince plays your song, here’s a shitty IPhone speaker to listen out of”…
Damn I miss Prince
I hope they sat down and listened to it on the pc with good speakers or headphones later. Phone speakers sound like a tin can and string set up.
Prince covered a couple of my songs too, shit was lit
It's waaay better than his cover of Creep, I'll say that. He actually learned this one!
He learned the music, not so much the lyrics.
480 for life
I’d be a little more stoked if prince covered my song.
i LOVE BOTH BANDS. But i think im seeing something way different then other people .. To me They were way stoked to see what twist he put in the song.. Then when it gets going , to me , it looks like they were like expecting something more... I dont know like i said . Im just calling it like i see it..
I agree. Too many dolts online get geeked up over nothing. I don't think they were too blown away whatsoever, if not maybe a bit underwhelmed. Thanks for one of the only reality-based posts on this video.
Yeah they didnt seem too impressed. I started looking at comments and wondered if i was missing something.
I don’t think they weren’t overwhelmed or underwhelmed I think they are confused that he even covered the song in the first place. Like why our song? When prince did foo fighters the best of you. You can tell the foo fighters were completely excited and shocked and happy. I agree definitely not overwhelming excitement.
Always wondered who "Jimmy" of JEW was. Jim Carrey.
White Lion ❤
That's the face I made when someone told me that I sounded a bit like Prince.
Give you an idea of the immensity of his legend...!!! You should have at least give Jimmy a nice pair of headphones to hear properly but that's fine he probably spend the next month watching it at home on repeat lmao
Tom's dad would probably know lol.
Jim didn't know what to say about the cover.
If Prince originally wrote and released this song back in the day it would have failed then later became a hit when Jimmy Eat World did a cover of it.
In a parallel universe that's probably what happened lmao
@@jas_bataille In a parallel universe you are a fan of my band.
@bladrey Prince's cover blows and you know it.
It def has to be rad an icon covers your song, but you could tell they were holding back saying they hated it.
I get the White Lion reference.
Shout outs to White Lion!
Sub for the journalism quality right here
1:11 Prince cover of Jimmy Eat World begins...
Who copyright struck the video?
Jim Adkins ageing in reverse
How does one unhear that? Uhg... 🤦♂️
:)
jim adkins reverse ages.
Noticed By Prince, a story about being relevant.