So this one time a college kid wrote a song for a Harry Potter parody musical that he and a bunch of his friends were putting on. Cut to a few years later and he’s performing that same song as part of the Presidential Inaugural celebrations in front of the First Lady.
Aminah Martin he wrote it for a contest (songwriting contest to have an original song for American Idol). Eric Kahn Gale wanted to enter and use a song that Darren had written for Little White Lie but he didn’t think it was fitting so instead he wrote ‘Not Alone’😊 they ended up using it in AVPM about a year later because it was really fitting
That moment when you're listening to this beautiful song, wonderfully performed with a professional gospel choir, at a major event, and you realize the song is from a show called "A Very Potter Musical." Sometimes I just love the world.
He wrote it when he was doing a foreign exchange program somewhere in Europe because he was missing his friends, and then they repurposed it for the show, like how they repurposed Harry from Sami
I love this. It shows us that even though Darren has moved on from Team Starkid and on to Glee, he hasn't forgot about his fans from TSK. He started with us and he is still with us, the fans. We love you Darren.
At the end when darren total gets into it and forgets he has to sing into the microphone. That just shows that he isint doing all this to get famous. Starkid wasnt supposed to catch on the way it did, he doesnt do glee to be a public figure. He doesnt perform to be liked, he sings and "does music" because it is something he is so passionate about. He completely lost him self in that song, he got so into it and that is why he is liked. Because his sucess hasnt gone to his head at all.
WHY DIDNT THEY SING THIS IN GLEE LIKE JUST IMAGINE BLAINE SINGING THIS TO KURT AND AT THE "hey Harry part" HAVE HIM JUST LOOK OVER AT A CLOSED DOOR EXPECTEDLY THEN JUST WHISPERING "daju vu"
He went from making covers of Disney Songs in his room, to Starkid Productions, to Glee, and now to the Presidential Inauguration. His fans cannot be more proud of him
This song was actually written long before they decided to use it for AVPM. It was written for a friend who was suffering through cancer with Adele's vocals in mind a couple of years or so prior.
This means so much to me. This song first blessed my ears when I stumbled upon a Harry Potter musical. And there was Darren, with his mini afro, sat on a suitcase on an empty stage and a drawn on lightning scar. Now he's an award winning actor in prime-time TV, a broadway star and let's face it, a national treasure. The boy who never turned up to class in University of Michigan is singing a song, which has saved so many lives since 2011, to the whole world and the president. He's made it.
These kind of things make me soooo happy because this is a Harry Potter song and I wonder if Darren remembers when he first sang this. How far he has come and how much he has grown. Mamas proud xxx
sitting in my dorm at the University of Michigan and I am SO proud to go to the same school he went to. Darren has come so far. This makes me so emotional.
Can I just say how proud I am. HOW PROUD. I mean this is amazing. The backgrounds and Darren. Just the fact that this is a Starkid song. It started with Starkid and now he's performing it here!! DUDE.
I love this performance and I'm so proud that such an incredible artist like Darren (aka Harry Freakin' Potter/Blaine) sang such a perfect song so beautifully at such an important event.
its just amazing how much passion and emotion darren puts into every performance and im just so proud because he wrote that song before he was even remotely famous and now hes singing it in front of the president :')
i am crying.. this was so beautiful.. i have listened to so many versions of him singing this.. i am so proud of him.. just knowing this all started on a stage at Michigan is just ahhh!!
I listened to this song countless times in every available version and I'm still crying every time Darren performs it somewhere. This song is so powerful and Darren sings it with such a depth I'm always blown away by it.
This is so beautiful and moving and flawless. Dare is always so passionate and puts EVERYTHING he has in the song he's singing. I just love that about him.
This was so good. I am just blown away. I need time to gather my thoughts and even then, not every word in the human language could describe exactly how much I admire and respect Darren Criss.
To think that Darren wrote this song in uni for a musical about Harry Potter, no one expected him to be the hit that he is today. I'm so proud of him and what he stands for. i hope he never loses that.
I can't listen to this song without crying... I'm not going to deny that I often skip it to avoid crying, so this is the first time in a few weeks that's that I've listened to this song, and with the choir in the background, It just hit me 10x harder... congrats, Darren - so proud
I can't. How dare they follow that with one direction?! I was melting all the way through, and involuntarily going "Omg, Darren, I love you so much, marry me?!"
I wish he wrote more music than be on glee. I know Glee is a fun TV show but it's nothing more than that and Darren is a very talented songwriter. Hope he releases an album soon
um excuse me but harry freaking potter is singing a song from a silly little musical at something about the PRESIDENT? ex-fucking-scuse me? i’m just gonna go cry now brb
"They're gonna help me sing a song that I worte about um... Harry Potter"
So this one time a college kid wrote a song for a Harry Potter parody musical that he and a bunch of his friends were putting on. Cut to a few years later and he’s performing that same song as part of the Presidential Inaugural celebrations in front of the First Lady.
Casual
Darren had written Not Alone before AVPM I think, they just used it in the musical after he wrote it
Sam Pauwels kind of. It’s a rewrite of a song he had written before. He just decided to use it for avpm.
Aminah Martin he wrote it for a contest (songwriting contest to have an original song for American Idol). Eric Kahn Gale wanted to enter and use a song that Darren had written for Little White Lie but he didn’t think it was fitting so instead he wrote ‘Not Alone’😊 they ended up using it in AVPM about a year later because it was really fitting
That moment when you're listening to this beautiful song, wonderfully performed with a professional gospel choir, at a major event, and you realize the song is from a show called "A Very Potter Musical." Sometimes I just love the world.
really just shows how universal music is in my opinion
Anyone else expect Joey and Bonnie to come out and say,"Hey Harry" at 2:55 ?? That would have been totally awsome..
Yeah it's so cool, yeah it's totally awesome.
It's crazy, how far the Starkids have come.
I watched the rehearsal and I freaked out, my second thought: Has the President seen A Very Potter Musical?
WhAt just the fact that they played a potter song and a lot of people prob thought it was some deep song
Actually he didnt write it for avpm the songs existed before
It is a deep song, and also a Harry Potter song.
It's such a great song though!
He wrote it when he was doing a foreign exchange program somewhere in Europe because he was missing his friends, and then they repurposed it for the show, like how they repurposed Harry from Sami
Italy ,he was in Italy in 2008
When he says "now, I know it ain't easy..." I waited for "no it ain't easy"
I wonder if anyone from the audience knew this was from AVPM.....
I love this. It shows us that even though Darren has moved on from Team Starkid and on to Glee, he hasn't forgot about his fans from TSK. He started with us and he is still with us, the fans. We love you Darren.
At the end when darren total gets into it and forgets he has to sing into the microphone. That just shows that he isint doing all this to get famous. Starkid wasnt supposed to catch on the way it did, he doesnt do glee to be a public figure. He doesnt perform to be liked, he sings and "does music" because it is something he is so passionate about. He completely lost him self in that song, he got so into it and that is why he is liked. Because his sucess hasnt gone to his head at all.
I was waiting for the epic 4 part harmony :'( team starkid feels
Imagine people who were there looking up the song on RUclips afterwards and finding the AVPM clip
Then thinking....... um WHAT
I love how most of the comments are just us starkid fans talking about how good the song is and all that kinda stuff
WHY DIDNT THEY SING THIS IN GLEE LIKE JUST IMAGINE BLAINE SINGING THIS TO KURT AND AT THE "hey Harry part" HAVE HIM JUST LOOK OVER AT A CLOSED DOOR EXPECTEDLY THEN JUST WHISPERING "daju vu"
yess
*déjà vu
Yes with Rachel and fin after the break up episode
He went from making covers of Disney Songs in his room, to Starkid Productions, to Glee, and now to the Presidential Inauguration. His fans cannot be more proud of him
I love Darren and I love Not Alone...can't help but wish Jamie Lynn was singing it with him though lol
This song was actually written long before they decided to use it for AVPM. It was written for a friend who was suffering through cancer with Adele's vocals in mind a couple of years or so prior.
Such feels. I just wanna cry thinking, "Once a Starkid, always a Starkid". He'll always be Harry Potter, along with Daniel Radcliffe :)
If Harry Potter was a spy
Omg, im crying
Im just so proud so proud of this Dikrat.
This means so much to me. This song first blessed my ears when I stumbled upon a Harry Potter musical. And there was Darren, with his mini afro, sat on a suitcase on an empty stage and a drawn on lightning scar. Now he's an award winning actor in prime-time TV, a broadway star and let's face it, a national treasure. The boy who never turned up to class in University of Michigan is singing a song, which has saved so many lives since 2011, to the whole world and the president. He's made it.
i don't think i could have refrained myself from singing harry's part and saying hey harry if i was there to see it lol
to have seen darren criss make it this far in his journey..... it's been totally awesome.
I like to think he was thinking of the Starkids when he sang that...
And all the Starkids in the audience sang along I bet :)
This is just proof that the power of fanfiction can take you anywhere
He is so underestimated as a singer, songwriter, actor and dancer. I wish people could see how talented he really is
These kind of things make me soooo happy because this is a Harry Potter song and I wonder if Darren remembers when he first sang this. How far he has come and how much he has grown. Mamas proud xxx
sitting in my dorm at the University of Michigan and I am SO proud to go to the same school he went to. Darren has come so far. This makes me so emotional.
For the record this song has NOT been written for AVPM, he wrote it for his EP and then they used it in AVPM...
I could tell Darren wanted to get off that chair and just start dancing. Good on you Darren this song gives me the chills every time.
Thank you Glee for bringing Darren out the rest off the world.. XX
Can I just say how proud I am. HOW PROUD. I mean this is amazing. The backgrounds and Darren. Just the fact that this is a Starkid song. It started with Starkid and now he's performing it here!! DUDE.
I love this performance and I'm so proud that such an incredible artist like Darren (aka Harry Freakin' Potter/Blaine) sang such a perfect song so beautifully at such an important event.
I love the song and Darren Criss! The choir is also fantastic!
He is such a passionate singer and he is just amazing darren we give our love to u
They're playing One Direction AFTER Darren?????? What just happened?? That performance was perfection!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Man it would have been so great if Jamie had been there to sing with him
Who cares when he wrote it?! I think it's totally awesome how far Darren has come in the last few years! who knows where he'll go from here?
Back when Obama was our future. Now this song takes on a whole other meaning with our new president-elect. One more week until D-Day
I'm here at what could be the other side.
@@michaeloconnor5904 I'm working at my polling location right this second and praying to whatever God will listen to make my suffering finally end
@@ycart3285 Well, it's either over or you're halfway there. But whatever happens, you're not alone. :)
It's over. You made it... throooooouuuuughhh. :P
Our Darren, from AVP, to Glee to The inauguration! Starkidd Love Nd tears right now! Our Love is all we need to make it through!
omg guys!! he sang Not Alone,i'm still freaking out! the acapella part at the end was my favorite....oh darren y u so damn perfect..
The last part was magical.. Darren is the definition of "artist"
its just amazing how much passion and emotion darren puts into every performance and im just so proud because he wrote that song before he was even remotely famous and now hes singing it in front of the president :')
This has to be my fav version yet
Woow, I've never seen a singer sing with so much passion before!
This is my favourite performance of this song. The escalation of the bridge gets me every time
Darren criss's life is amazing. how did he possibly pull off "singing at obama's inauguration."
San Francisco breads talent and osm rational people.
Darren seems to be having some trouble trying to stay sitting down. He just gets so into it! I love it!
So proud of Darren and all he has accomplished
Strakids all over the nation cry in happiness :)
i am crying.. this was so beautiful.. i have listened to so many versions of him singing this.. i am so proud of him.. just knowing this all started on a stage at Michigan is just ahhh!!
The moment acapella with the clapping and Darren riffing and enjoying the moment is so precious 🥺 gives me chills I love starkid
hii!! I made a little cover from this song, it would mean the world to me if you could check it out !
Omg... I am so proud of him :,)
i say this every time he performs not alone
but i swear to god he just gets better every time
This kid has sooo much more talent than one TV sitcom can hold. He is just getting started. He will be with us a long time.
GOOSEBUMPS from start to finish!!!
I listened to this song countless times in every available version and I'm still crying every time Darren performs it somewhere. This song is so powerful and Darren sings it with such a depth I'm always blown away by it.
Not even the ending of this video could ruin that perfection.
I'm just always blown away by his interpretations and this choir was just amazing :')
Clearly our Harry is not alone anymore 💜
hii!! I made a little cover from this song, it would mean the world to me if you could check it out !
Starkid fangirling has begun again :)
this actually gave me chills
I don't know how the fuck this came to happen but thank god it did
This is so beautiful and moving and flawless. Dare is always so passionate and puts EVERYTHING he has in the song he's singing. I just love that about him.
So fabulous.. love your work Darren
hii!! I made a little cover from this song, it would mean the world to me if you could check it out !
oh god, his voice is like... every beautiful thing in this fucking world.
I didn't know he wrote it! So talented!
This performace was PERFECT!!!
It was SO AMAZING I can´t believe how talented and fantastic Darren and the Soul Children Chicago are!!!
This was so good. I am just blown away. I need time to gather my thoughts and even then, not every word in the human language could describe exactly how much I admire and respect Darren Criss.
I have loved this song for YEARS. Since AVPM. :)
This is awesome! One of my favourite songs of all time, it's so beautifully written!
Well done Harry ;-)
His nerves are palpable in this performance. Which makes it even more sensitive and human.
HOW did I not know about this? Oh my gosh I'm so excited now!
This song is so inspiring!excellent performance as usual.darren criss is so talented.
To think that Darren wrote this song in uni for a musical about Harry Potter, no one expected him to be the hit that he is today. I'm so proud of him and what he stands for. i hope he never loses that.
I can't listen to this song without crying... I'm not going to deny that I often skip it to avoid crying, so this is the first time in a few weeks that's that I've listened to this song, and with the choir in the background, It just hit me 10x harder... congrats, Darren - so proud
Love this song so much
I can't. How dare they follow that with one direction?! I was melting all the way through, and involuntarily going "Omg, Darren, I love you so much, marry me?!"
there is soooo much passion on that one stage! its incredible!
How am I JUST finding out that this happened?? 🤯 chills
Darren is freakin amazon
I have so many proud feels about this. SO MANY.
1:13
darren: "mmm"
me: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IMMMA THROW UP!!!!!!!!!! I'M DEADDDDDDDDD!!!!!! KIIIILLLLL MEEE!!!!!!!!!! LIFE RUINER!!!!"
I keep real calm don't i?
Beautiful. No other word can explain this. Bravo :D
It gave me chills. Ugh Darren why are you so perfect?
MY FEELS!!!!
I wish he wrote more music than be on glee. I know Glee is a fun TV show but it's nothing more than that and Darren is a very talented songwriter. Hope he releases an album soon
um excuse me but harry freaking potter is singing a song from a silly little musical at something about the PRESIDENT? ex-fucking-scuse me? i’m just gonna go cry now brb
I was smiling so much throughout the whole song.
Look how far he's come since he wrote this song!!
Sooooooooooooooooooooo amazing!!!!!! ... *crying*
every time i hear this song i burst into tears
my heart just melts
I feel so proud of Darren singing a song from AVPM/S for Obama!
OMG Darren is just so... ugh I love him
I would have watched if I knew about this! Is the president a Starkid fanboy?!
My little 12 year old:')
MY BABYYY THAT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL
He is so beautiful, his songs too (;
Happy Birthday Darren!
And this is why I'm a Starkid.