Grace Vanderwaal Darkness Keeps Chasing Me Reaction
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Grace wrote this song when she was still 13. It was released on her album, "Just the Beginning," which is one of the few albums I've ever heard where every song is worth hearing again and again. After this reaction video, you're probably gonna get a lot of Grace VanderWaal requests. Here's mine: her live performance of "Clearly" on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last April, when she was 14. The reprises will be familiar to you, being taken from Johnny Nash's 1972 hit, but the verses are new, which Grace added to bring in some contrasting darkness. The performance has "superstar" written all over it.
Probably my favorite young artist today. It’s not often that we are lucky enough to witness such an amazing gift at that age. I feel the same way when listening to Michael Jackson’s early music with the J5. The boy could do and sound like no 11 or 12 year old should be able to. You can only be born with that kind of talent. MJ had it, and Grace does too! I really hope she can avoid the toll that fame can have on such young artists. As the saying goes, the brighter the star, the quicker it burns out. Let’s hope her ⭐️ shines for many 🌙 to come! ✌🏻
Evey time i hear this girl, i am captivated by her voice. I get cold chills on top of cold chills, Incredible!! Thank you for doing this!! More Grace please
absolutely beautiful. iconic, transcendent, mesmerizing.. not enough words to describe this girl's musical "gift" as you put it. the words, the music, her voice, all of it is simply stunning. thank you for sharing, and your honest reaction. i loved it!
Thank you! For this first look at this artist. She is amazing!!! Play list definitely. I love the range of types of this art you choose, open my eyes to more please!!!!
I love the fact you were so mesmerized you didn't talk at all during the performance. She is definitely the future of music. Lyrics/ music and an amazing personality.
Can't believe you're reacting to grace... I'm so happy! Don't sleep on her. She's special. ❤️And this song is one of my favorites of hers. I'm 30 yrs older than her and writes lyrics that I so easily relate to
Man what an amazing talent! I love your reacions. Always positive!
Thank you. Follow Grace, you will not regret it. Soon you will be in your long list of fans.
Really looking forward to this, grace is a force to behold and this is one of her most powerful songs.
Your channel is phenomenal. I'm making a playlist solely based on songs I enjoy from your reaction videos. Thanks for broadening my already broad musical taste!
checked your platform out like you advised new viewers to do, have found you to be of good character and humble in your religious and morale beliefs and outreach to your community almost like a pastor thumbs up to you sir subscribed God bless you and yours we need more platforms like yours in these times
Men awesome reaction. Really enjoyed how you melted into the lyrics and her emotions. Thank you.
Wow, this girl is great to be 14 yrs old and wrote this song herself! Wow!
In 30 minutes at the end of a recording day at 13.
This is a song she wrote while in studio working on another song and had some time left. I've heard she wrote this in 30 min. don't know if that's true. She has God given talent that will bring a change to what a lot of people of all ages will listen to. She draws you in with her deep lyrics and holds your attention with her voice. I believe she's one of the best artists to come along in decades. Lots of music today is written for specific age groups base on radio demand but she writes her lyrics that span many age groups. A true lyrical savant of which we may never see again in our lifetime.
There's a commercial by Windex that uses her song Beautiful Thing called The Story of Lucy, and if you haven't seen this, well you may want to take a look at it. Beautiful Thing was written when she was 12 for AGT, an original like all of her songs on AGT. It was written about her sister and its the one song that made me believe she was someone very special. She's easy to give your heart to so be prepared for a life of Grace, it has happened to many people.
Totally agree with you on everything except she wrote beautiful thing before agt it was called i will hold your hand there is a video of her singing it right after she wrote it
james thomas Now that you say that I remember that. What a wonderful young lady to lead the music in the right direction. Enjoy her, for as long as she'll let us 🤓
@@johnraymond9170 Yes, she wrote Beautiful Thing before AGT, but she wrote Light the Sky after the AGT Quarterfinals. And there was only one week between her live performances in the quarterfinals and semifinals. It only took her one week to create and perform a fabulous song -- and it was used as background music for Google's 2016 Year in Search ruclips.net/video/KIViy7L_lo8/видео.html . (I never heard when she wrote Clay. But it may well have been after the semis.)
I've loved her since her audition ❣️
check out her channel folks "Oh never mind it's just me" thank you MRM for a great reaction ,The Texas Gent
Thanks for suggesting this, Walter. Everybody needs to hear this at least once. Regardless of what people's opinion is of Grace or her music, they can't make an informed decision without listening to Darkness first.
If you want to drop a tear go ahead we all have
I've watched Grace from the beginning. What I love about her is she is natural. No makeup, no fancy. Just herself. I pray she keeps that attribute about her no matter how famous she gets. God bless.
Very talented young lady..she has many great songs! I especially love "Clearly", it's a reinterpretation of Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now".
Grace is an extraordinary and gifted young lady. 14 years old and writes her own songs. More Grace reactions please!👍💜
It took her 30 minutes to write this song...at 13 years old.
Grace just turned 15 today. You can't go wrong with any of her originals but two of her must see covers are River and In My Blood. She can sing anyone's song because if is not quite right for her she will rewrite it so it fitd her style.
I agree but will throw in A-team and One and only as well as All about the base and X's and O's.
I have been awed by this young talent from the beginning on AGT. She writes or co-writes all of her songs, and is most definitely a songwriting and singing prodigy. She performs with amazing depth of feeling and musical interpretation, I still can’t believe she’s still only 15 right now. She has also just finished starring in a new movie for Disney, “Stargirl”, which will be coming out later this year, I believe. It has been great watching this sweet and talented girl with an amazing personality grow and get even better as she continues her rise to super stardom. She has certainly hooked me as a fan, and I hope she can stay sweet and grounded as her rise continues.
Yes, amazing quality to her voice... and Fender even made her a signature ukulele.
Two eukelles and named her its first signature artist for the eukelle youngest signature artist in its history its amazing to look at that list and see all those legends and see grace future legend on there its mind blowing
Great reaction! Everything she has done, written, sang has left indelible impressions. Amazing artist, though she will the first to tell you not so. Welcome to the GV realm of music.
Great reaction, I see Grace has a new fan 😁. Grace is not only an extraordinary singer and songwriter but also one of the best life performers I've heard in my life. Do you have to listen, you will be amazed. Greetings from Germany, a Fanderwaal. ✌️✌️😎
She's just amazing to me.
I love Grace so much........... She is an amazing talent........
Thanks Grace it just gets better and better. .Thanks Tye for playing it.
Love that girl!! Has a maturity and insight way beyond her years
She turned 15 years old today........she is really great recorded.....she is even better live. Check out...review or react or just listen ..... to some of her live performances this past summer when she opened for Imagine Dragons. Also check out her live performances on her Just The Beginning tour. She really is special.
Pray for her. Beautiful angel
Grace is LEGEND Grace's voice IS MUSIC A PRODIGY
Well I know now that she is a special talent you scratched your head four times LOL
The way she's singing and then speaks the words at a whisper gets me every Damm time. I'm truly a big fan of the amazing Grace.
She is an old soul! Incredible talent!!
Very nice ty. I've watched reactions to her alot and most everyone talks thru it and wind up missing things. You just soaked it in and talked after. Have a great day.
Pure vocal and music. No snap or clap track.
Looking forward to listening to more of her music. Great song.
Subscribe to her channel she is phenomenal
They took the sound straight off the mixing console. Every once in a while there's a live video of Grace where they eliminate all the room sounds by recording her direct, ......and my God! The tone, texture, and nuance of her voice is just mind blowing. Put Grace in a phone booth and drop a mic in there, and she can drop all the colors of the rainbow on your head. Most singers sound like poor imitations of themselves once you take off the special effects. Grace actually sounds better if you take away all the window dressing. That's how good her voice is. She's like a beautiful woman who looks better without make-up. Just a stunning voice of unlimited nuance.
She wrote it with another writer when she was 13. This performance by Grace was awesome,. Your reaction was great thank you.
The guy they paired her with said he had a back and fourt with grace and then got out of her way he was asked what the song was about he said you would have to ask grace so not to much improvement
Dude, she wrote that when 13. "I don't know my name " was America got talent audition. She wrote that
@ 10-11. They tried to get her to sing this or that, you'll get more votes. She said hell no all her own material won that contest. Some of those were written@ 11. She writes ALL her own songs. She dropped her own album. Nov 2017. She opened for imagin Dragon tour. Listen to "Burn" live. You got 30yr old artists that can't go there. She's still too young to get drivers license
Great sincere reaction and interesting take on the creativity of young kids. Thanks for that. I would definetly appreciate some more reactions to Grace´s music. My recommendations or better wishes, if you find the time: Her original "Lungs" (only audio, it´s a bonus track from her target version of the Just The Begining album), her cover of "In my blood" at the Elvis Duran show (her voice, man!). Upbeat tip: Escape My Mind live at the Late Late Show. Thanks again and thanks Walt for the request.
Now that you found Grace, you have some catching up to do. She is a phenom and yes writes all of her own lyrics and music. While I feel you should react to all her videos and songs there are some must sees. If you would prefer to go in order of her career, the next I would recommend, and I think Walter (the Texas Gent) would agree, "Clay", her finals performance, should be next. I'll be waiting for it.
PS the hair pulling is a good way to describe what Grace makes one feel.
Grace Venderwaal is exceptional! She does write all of her material, as far as I know. I hadn't heard this particular song before, but I think I'll have to buy one of her CDs soon.
She is such a talented singer songwriter
Just made MY playlist....just WOW!
Hey Ty..... I really like your reaction videos. You seem to have a terrific natural musical ear, and have a great ability to zero in on the essence of songs or artists, regardless of the genre.
By what I've read this song had the opening 2 lines on paper when it was handed to her. Every song she sang on A.G.T. was written by her, and the cover song I like the best from her is the MTV version of River by Leon Bridges(I think) real down to Earth & soulful...jmo
Yes river is just fantastic her vocals are unreal
I read everything you could possible read about this song and no note was handed to her, she wrote it in the hall of a recording studio while on a break
Grace seems to be a special person, and the world is a better place with her in it.
Have you ever done a one artist Marathon? You should do a Grace VanderWaal marathon. Play them all, back to back. You’ll get a lot of support for that. Only problem is you’ll be bald by the end. 😁
Lol yea definitely
Absolutely...
Here is a link to a good start to the Grace VanderWaal marathon day. :) ruclips.net/video/YwrDW9Z9qGs/видео.html
while she sings mostly originals, she also sings a few covers....Leoon Bridges "River", Shawn Mendes "In My Blood(on the Elvis Duran Show live), are two of the best. Many artists perform covers and do a good job...Gace covers a song and makes it better.
When she won American Idol I was so happy for her, she's awesome for a teenager
The most successful winner of America’s Got Talent. She’ll be 15 in February!
Singer-wise, yes. Total-contestants-wise, no. The first ventriloquist winner in AGT has had $100 million contracts in Las Vegas, so, money wise, he's the front-funner. For now. Grace can overtake him in the next few years. She's on the way.
15 in 3 days
She sounds so much different than she did on AGT. More mature voice! If she keeps her feet on the ground...she will make it big!!
Check out any live version of “clearly”
Or the bonus song “Lungs”
She wrote all of the songs on her album (besides the bonus songs). And helped write the song “Clearly”, which is a new approach to the song “I can see clearly now”, but with totally restructured lyrics to give it more emotion
I've said it before... she is the modern day Dylan... I saw her audition on agt and said everyone else can go home cause she is the winner... Pure genius
She still writes all her songs. The song Clay will go on your play list as well. It is an awesome song.
Great reaction. Find her song 12 Stars, at 12 a deeply mature and moving song. Every one of her songs stands on it's own. And her covers are beyond excellent. Find the MTV version of River or the Troubadour live show version the song.
Recorded and filmed on the roof of the MTV studios building in NYC
I'm an old man and l've enjoyed her music a lot. Glad she's not doing "champions" she probably needs a break, she's been busy since A.G.T., Vegas, her mini-tour, the I.D. tour and then the movie for Disney. Simon Cowell can stick it for what he said...jmo
What did Simon say
@@JamesThomas-dn6ee he was calling out the past champions that didn't want to come on the show, he said it on Monday.
I asked Chooka Parker, Pianist 2014 Australia's Got Talent runner up if was asked, he posted he new nothing about it, but the Screecher Hadwin is on, I forgot Simon signed her to a contract, of course she's on...lol
??
so what did Simon say that you are referring to..?
I believe he didn't say anything specifically about Grace just that some previous winners didn't want to participate because they were afraid to lose. Could have been talking about other past champions since Grace was filming StarGirl while this was being taped.
Yeah the first time I seen her on AGT I was blown away I mean the girl just sounded phenomenal
Awesome just Awesome.....
Omg, I love you!!! I agree!
Here for Grace but a lot of good stuff tonight
Texas Gent is a cool guy!
Yes he is a great grace supporter
Mark thank you , your true and respected , Hope all is well for you and yours Mark The Texas Gent
Gifted girl❣
I am going to thank The Texas Gent for bringing this to your attention. This may be the best thing that she has yet written. I have heard multiple times that she wrote this in 30 minutes. I wont believe that until I hear it directly from her. Regardless, she is a brilliant songwriter-music and lyrics and an unreal singer. I worried that her voice would change as she grows up. Whatever change there may be seems to be for the better. Her voice is improving. She is scary good.
ruclips.net/video/qjgLY3mkf5g/видео.html
Modern Renaissance Man, I checked out your channel and saw that this is your only Grace VanderWaal reaction. I hope that changes. You can pick any GVW song at random or even some of her comic posts or her interviews. Any GVW content is worth reacting to. You may find that it will be like a stealth bomb. It will command a few hundred or thousand views now but if you are still doing this in a year or two you could end up with views in the millions even with all the competing GVW reactions out there.
Watch her do River
Brother, I think you know what it's like to have the Darkness chase you...me too.
Yes, 14 in this one, I think it was on the roof of the MTV studios NYC, so the sond system should be top notch.
Amazing voice!!!
Subscribe to her channel you will love it all she has her two albums on there plus covers
Oh hi!!! My name is Giovanna too, hehe sorry it’s just weird to see someone with the same name spelled the same way🥰
The Rolling Stones Miss You
I hope She dosn't fall into the Star Trap.Imagine what She will be like in a few more years
MTV hooked her up , she was on their roof top .
You should check out graces cover of Leon bridges the river
Bee Uuuu Ti Full! She heard it in record store and loved it. It was like "Mom! If I need additional song for set.. she immediately searched and learned it
Please react to her rendition of River by Leon Bridges
Agreed. Her performance of River at Troubadour, LA, for example, is a quality recording and a beautiful, soulful performance: ruclips.net/video/qVCdi4CwBU0/видео.html
This seems like a prayer.
She composes most of the music as well..
Well at least the core melody. When she sits down with a producer, they already have the basics of the whole song. Its just a matter of what touches to add to the song, which she is heavily involved in.
Just letting you know.
A true virtuoso of musicality, her melodies and bridges are truly unique and stand above other artists and song writers three times her age. She truly is a stand alone artist and song writer. Truly a musical genius of iconic proportions if she had syndicated radio presence any number of her songs would be in the top ten even a number one hit or two. LOL but what do you expect from a fourteen year old Her songs and lyrics will stand the test of time while others simply fade away. Enjoy your platform young man thumbs up to you and your platform ruclips.net/video/nTphEozUkxg/видео.html a simply but quite profound song she wrote called a better life
"A Better Life" was written for her brother who was going through problems with drugs. She gets pretty emotional every time she sings it.
@@WarrenPDavis lol I have been following Grace since she was nine dont tell me tell Ty Smith he has the platform thanks Warren always good to interact with a Grace fan
@@GRANTTRIBECreates I meant to put this ona new line for Modern Renaissance Man
...to give him some history of the song.....must not have been watching where I put it....OOPS!
@@GRANTTRIBECreates I agree with you about if she had syndicated radio presence....her handlers missed a great chance to rocket her into major stardom by not getting her music played.
@@WarrenPDavis Things work out and whats meant to be will come to pass probably a blessing in the long run enjoyed the exchange with you
Here's one for you. "The Outlaws Prayer", by Johnny Paycheck. (posted by Terry Morgan) In it is a reference to his signature song 'Take this job and shove it. It is an old live video, but a great one.
The next Taylor Swift, really Simon? She's much better now than Taylor will ever be.
100 percent__ talent ____ shout out to guitar player.;;;;;:::::::
Everyone should definitely listen to When It Rains it Pours by Shawn James. I have a feeling he may have visited a crossroad along the way!
I recommend three acts for you to review, Miko Marks singing her song "Mama", Mamamoo singing "Egotistic" and PMJ's "Burn".
Your reaction at 3:17 is pretty much how Grace's fans reacted, it touches your soul with sadness. The saddest part about this is 90% of the music world don't even know she did this song back in 2018. On a lighter note, career women like Kindergarten teachers may not be ready to change diapers
You may want to react to another heart breaker from Grace ruclips.net/video/TBk195XPk3s/видео.html
Umm speechless
Just turned 15. Wow. What talent.
I haven't bought any of the tracks apart from this song which is fantastic
Have you listened to "Lungs", by Grace, great song?
GRACE!!!
Please do Roy Orbison crying
Practice defines what your ability is. Well, maybe.
Love it - i try and get people to react to this too =) would also love if you reacted to Angelina Jordan singing 'I put a spell on you' - she won Norway's got talent at 8 year's old in 2014 and sung this at 11. She has a raspy voice too :)
I love Angelina Jordan too . both are amazing girls
Please do a cover of Grace's new song / video "Stray". It's beautiful!
Please consider wearing headphones so we don't get her feedbacking through your mic :)
Since you've done this from an AGT contestant, would you please now do the best. Jackie Evancho. Try her performance of Nessun Dorma from Britain's Got Talent or her recording of The Lord's Prayer, both when she was 11. She's 18 now and coming out with her 8th album soon. She's the youngest solo artist to go platinum at age 10.
Actually went to the Dallas concert of hers and yes the Lords prayer made me cry and I was 50 at the time one of the purist voices in the industry and has a beautiful soul. But it disturbs me when people compare , berate or judge. I love both artists and frankly there is nothing to compare or distinguish whos the better artist. Grace produces, writes and has an outstanding voice her bridges and melodies are unique and lyrics that put artists three times her age to shame. She won AGT with all original songs and over half a billion hits and likes on RUclips since then. She can take her Uke and a stool place it in the middle of 30,000 people and blow them away. And she is how old. Jackie is an awesome singer with great emotional interpretation They are both awesome Some of Grace's songs will be around forever the key being Grace;s songs lyrics, music
@@GRANTTRIBECreates Nobody's berating or judging. Jackie and Grace are two different voices and may appeal to different people. As a personal preference, I prefer Jackie's style voice. The only thing that I am tired of is people saying that one singer is better than another because they write their own songs. Does that mean that Bob Dylan is a better singer than Sinatra or Elvis? I don't think so.
@@OldBoiler62 LOL we can agree but you did judge by the stipulation of now react to the best. And frankly I dont see it that way at all as a singer Jackie has one of the finest voices period but as an over all artist in originality emotional and lyrical content and able to cross multiple genres and excel at it. Grace has it. She appeals to all ages and cultures does not have to cross over, her music is distinct and encompasses the wide spectrum of music. Her lyrics and melodies are already in a class of elites and defined as so by them pretty impressive for a fourteen year old. But then again just went and seen Jackie in Tucson and she was outstanding, But only one of the songs were hers. Jackie is a beautiful girl and is comfortable doing her classical circuit but that is where she will remain because of her specific genre. Grace will become a paramount figure in music and iconic in writing and producing her music if she chooses to. She is a Dylan with a voice there is the difference.
@@GRANTTRIBECreates And I have a right to my opinion, just as you just expressed yours that Grace was a bigger talent than Jackie merely because she writes her own music. You may like her music and vocal style, while I personally don't care for it. I'd much rather listen to Jackie any day. I'd also rather listen to Sarah Brightman, Il Divo, Jonathan Antoine and I could go on. Thus we have personal choice. I haven't heard anything yet that crosses multiple genres. everything I've listened to sounds pretty much the same. Her songs have a long way to go to get to Dylan status. There is no way that Grace could perform the music that Jackie does. It doesn't suit her voice. Jackie sings what she wants to sing. She used to say that she couldn't sing pop music. She put that to rest with her covers of "Safe and Sound", "Writings on the Wall" plus her own songs on her last album.
@@OldBoiler62 no argument there I love Jackie and I love Grace and Callas Clapton Mozart Coltrane and Buddy Guy LOL enjoyed the debate and Jackie's concert
Soooo glad! Following you. Have you ever reacted to Allen Stone? Anything by him... Brown Eyed Lover, Unaware, etc. Really anything. Pllllleeeaaassseee!!! Scooter lady (🛵👵🏻)
I promised you... I'd send you more awesome *Jason Mraz* songs.
This one isn't sang often... Doesn't have an official video, is one of his from the beginning... But it's well worth a listen. 💓
It's called *God Rests In Reason*
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That happend to bei an MTV Event