I saw Grace for the first time on RUclips when I just happened to watch the 10 greatest auditions in AGT history, was curious as I never watch those shows. I was absolutely blown away by a 12 year old who wrote 'I Don't Know My Name'. I watched a kid who sounded older than 12, with lyrics that a 12 year old shouldn't be able to write. My wife and I must have watched that video 20 times. We ended up watching all her performances and was hooked. I think the kid is just amazing, she has this ability to put lyrics to paper that tell a story, that you want to listen to her. Her greatest gift might be her ability to sing just about any type of song from jazz, to blues, to rock, to punk, ballads with ease. I just see an artist who will be constantly evolving throughout her career, I listen to your channel a lot I hope you continue to critique Grace, a true artist. Her fans are loyal, thanks again
Thank you for the listen, that was an original composition. just a FYI Grace VanderWaal at 19 years of age is already considered to be in the top upper tier of song writers in the music industry today, Her melodic phrasing and her fusion of different genres, beats and sounds that defy the set rules of musical composition make her the true definition of one of a kind ! Grace VanderWaal is an Artist worth taking the time to explore, but be forewarned. If you allow Grace into your heart, there she will remain. if you choose to follow Grace's journey down the proverbial rabbits whole, it is more like the gravitational pull of a black matter star!!😀
Grace is now 19 years old and she started her singing career at age 12 when she won America's got Talent singing all originals. She has done a tour with Imagine Dragons and solo tours. She has been very active on the music scene appearing on numerous late night shows and was on the edge of a major tour when Covid hit and it was put on hold. She never stopped writing and performed from her room on Instagram and so far has about 50 original songs under her belt but a lot of them will never see the light of day because she keeps changing her style and is evolving so quickly that she is leaving even her own songs behind. She does amazing covers as well and makes them her own. She is a fashion model as well as an actress, appearing as the lead actress in the Stargirl movies on the Disney Channel. She just wrapped up appearing in a Francis Ford Coppola and is at this time performing in small venues to get her singing chops back again. As she's aging her singing voice has become more deep and rich. One of her favourite covers is River by Leon Bridges.. ruclips.net/video/CccMZxkqS0Q/видео.html I love this rendition of her own song UR So Beautiful for the Trevor Project.. ruclips.net/video/dy0Qk-VDNVM/видео.html *starts at the 45 second mark
This IS an amazing song and it helped me get through one of the darkest periods of depression in my life. Amazing how much talent and wisdom there is in this young girl! ❤
At age 12, Grace auditioned for America's Got Talent with an original song "I Don't Know My Name". The crowd and judges loved it and Howie Mendel gave her the golden buzzer. She went on and performed three more original songs and won. All through out the experience, the AGT people were telling her she should do this or that, but Grace stayed true to herself and did it her way. After a session in the recording studio, she wrote this song. Obviously, they were telling her to do this or that and she was tempted to stray from staying true to herself, so she quickly wrote this song.
Thank you for your reaction. Just so you know, she this is her original. She writes and composes all her songs! She won the 2016 season of America's Got Talent at age 12 performing only her originals every round.
Grace has written a lot of songs and has a growing catalog of songs that she has also produced. But She also sings amazing covers, making them better than the originals.
Thank you for the excellent reaction to this genius song writer, i have been in awe of every thing she has written, she started to compose songs in her head at age 3, she started her career by posting cover songs on U-TUBE at 11 years old, many of the artist she covered reacted to her covers and would love for her to join them on colaboration, simply put they love her voice. She have sang in so many diffwrant genres with well known artists from Cyndy Lauper, Jasen Mraz, Imagin Dragons on there world tour, which she opened for on the US tour, Florence and the Machine opener, Austin City Limits, opening and closing the Special Olypicshe with Mraz, she is the youngest artist to have a signiture instument by FENDER, a ukulele two made with the well known head stock of Fender, her awards are so maney you have to look them up, to many in this post, Grace was born to do this, her voice is so originally recognized as Grace Avery Vanderwaal, prodigy. She wrote this song at 13 on a break from her studio recording in a half hour. Who could possibly know what was the insperation for this song was,you my friend have just intered the train that is this amazing artist life, please react to her songs, LUNGS, HOPE FOR CHANGE, AND BEAUTIFUL THING, there are so any origial composition by this artist, it will keep you busy for awhile, THANK YOU
Thanks MRLBOYD MUSIC, great reaction. Grace is a talented performer with wonderful energy, she has a singing force and a voice that is one of a kind. I would say that the artist's great differential is the great potential in composing, she writes very well since her childhood. At age 12, she won the AGT in 2016 with 4 songs of her own, her work is beautiful, she is incredible! "Success always"!!!
Darkness Keeps Chasing Me 🎼 grace, an outspoken advocate of depression awareness, wrote _darkness keeps chasing me_ when she was thirteen. the song is a hauntingly beautiful melody which reflects the artist’s internal struggles with her personal demons. grace’s ability to embody emotions in her music is on full display here. this, and an air of inevitability which hangs over the music makes it a difficult listen for some. the studio recording is so darkly compelling that her handlers discouraged her from performing it in public out of concern for her younger fans. grace complied for a season but grace being grace eventually forced their hand because this is her song, and her declaration to the world of what is possible from the most important singer-songwriter of her generation. the amazing grace vanderwaal
Grace said once that Olivia suffers from depression maybe even Bi-polar. Do you know what it's like for a young child to have someone in the home that suffers from depression.
It was a good summer for Grace with lots of Angelina Jordan reactioners taking a quick look at Grace before going back to their usual. Should be interesting after the movie comes out if she is in demand for her modelling or her music, hopefully both.
Hey MRBOYD, the watermark effect is brilliant. Great that you found Grace. You were impressed by pre-teen girls doing covers now feast you ears on a little girl that does her own songs. This one she wrote by her little lonesome while on a break from a recording session. 13 years old you say! Well she wrote a bunch more when she was 12 and the one she is famed for at 11 years old. OOOOOH! I never thought about the "sky light" as being the light from Heaven. Good one. Her sister was suffering from depression. This girl is brilliant, she said in a few interviews that "these are not my experiences" she picks her subject matter from places like movies and such. I don't think she was depressed at all, I think she's a real good actress in the song writing profession. Some pictures of her in the studio jumping around and having fun let's her fan base know she had a good time recording her album. No one really knows what the other writers added to this song other than tweeking it here and there since she stated she wrote the entire song by herself in 20 minutes while spending some time away from the recording crew. Grace at 14 years old on James Corden singing "Escape My Mind" ruclips.net/video/QZLSkrWtUSE/видео.html
"The writer's"??? You refer to. Grace wrote this herself at the age of 13 in 30 minutes at the end of a recording session for her album "Just The Beginning".
Just the worst. His quotes: “I have know idea what the original sounds like”? WTH! “How did the writers, maybe that’s what the writers did, they put that in there for that very specific thing. Feels like it”? WTH! How can he react assuming someone else wrote the song?!! Part of his analyzation was referencing the original writers assuming she didn’t write it. Such a quick and simple thing to find out before reacting. And it would have made his reaction completely different and more authentic. He ripped himself off not knowing that ahead of time. As part of his audience, all I could think of the entire way through is how much of a bummer it was that he didn’t know that. What a shame! Don’t mean to be mean, but someone had to say it
@@AnthonyMinsky He's an Angelina reactor who blushes with enthusiasm when doing her reactions but here he can only see a troubled girl, almost nothing about her abilities as a singer/songwriter just that he thinks she needs a psychiatrist.
I believe that giving Micah Premnath co-writing credit is a technical requirement because he made a suggestion or 2 that she incorporated into her song. This song is all Grace from conception to completion.
@@erich7558 Is there any way of finding out the royalties split? Does Grace only get 50% of her own song or does she get a larger split because it was her creation.
Yes that is accurate Lunar but since we know the story of the beginnings of this song and by law you have to give credit to any and all assistance you get in the recording studio. I'm sure Micah is quite proud of little suggestions Grace took from her like "how about adding one more 'oooooh" We have seen many times on Instagram and Tiktok where Grace has come up with a new song and once it got to the studio a few names seemed to appear in the writing credits even though the lyrics hadn't really change since the live recording.
Your bold and true reaction to Grace's "Darkness" deserves our support. Here's mine: "Ur So Beautiful" performed by Grace at a benefit for the Trevor Project, a suicide hotline. (Best sound is Sam Borgman's copy, start at 0:48). It as a message to self, encouraging us to like ourselves. But when she sings the same song to open her concerts, or in the studio, it is an upbeat celebration of the beauty of her lover! Same words and music, different message: that is one very talented and thoughtful young woman.
I not sure I got this right. You think that the way Grace sings a song is a hint to her fans that she's suicidal? She sang Ur So Beautiful at the Trevor Project in a slow Jazz genre but you think the slow version means she's not talking about a person she knows who may not be very confident and has a crush on her but that she's trying to convince herself not to end it all? Almost 7 years after she wrote the song he thinks she's suicidal.
The writers? No. Grace makes her music and writes her own lyrics. No one does it for her. In the section where she sings, "When I call you," in the original, she does sing "I might cry." If you take notice of the guitarist she starred at Grace because she left out the word, "Cry." Just to let you know.
"The writers". Grace is "the writers". She writes her own songs. You should check out her latest song "What's Left of Me". I suggest reacting to the original video.
She wrote this at the end of a studio session in under an hour , at 13, she is performing this on the rooftop of MTV at 14.
I saw Grace for the first time on RUclips when I just happened to watch the 10 greatest auditions in AGT history, was curious as I never watch those shows. I was absolutely blown away by a 12 year old who wrote 'I Don't Know My Name'. I watched a kid who sounded older than 12, with lyrics that a 12 year old shouldn't be able to write. My wife and I must have watched that video 20 times. We ended up watching all her performances and was hooked. I think the kid is just amazing, she has this ability to put lyrics to paper that tell a story, that you want to listen to her. Her greatest gift might be her ability to sing just about any type of song from jazz, to blues, to rock, to punk, ballads with ease. I just see an artist who will be constantly evolving throughout her career, I listen to your channel a lot I hope you continue to critique Grace, a true artist. Her fans are loyal, thanks again
Thank you for the listen, that was an original composition. just a FYI Grace VanderWaal at 19 years of age is already considered to be in the top upper tier of song writers in the music industry today, Her melodic phrasing and her fusion of different genres, beats and sounds that defy the set rules of musical composition make her the true definition of one of a kind ! Grace VanderWaal is an Artist worth taking the time to explore, but be forewarned. If you allow Grace into your heart, there she will remain. if you choose to follow Grace's journey down the proverbial rabbits whole, it is more like the gravitational pull of a black matter star!!😀
Not likely, you should know by now these AJ reactors only do one or two Grace reactions and that's about it.
No writers- just Grace, wrote, arranged and sang this original. She is now 19 and has a solid following.
Grace is now 19 years old and she started her singing career at age 12 when she won America's got Talent singing all originals. She has done a tour with Imagine Dragons and solo tours. She has been very active on the music scene appearing on numerous late night shows and was on the edge of a major tour when Covid hit and it was put on hold. She never stopped writing and performed from her room on Instagram and so far has about 50 original songs under her belt but a lot of them will never see the light of day because she keeps changing her style and is evolving so quickly that she is leaving even her own songs behind. She does amazing covers as well and makes them her own. She is a fashion model as well as an actress, appearing as the lead actress in the Stargirl movies on the Disney Channel. She just wrapped up appearing in a Francis Ford Coppola and is at this time performing in small venues to get her singing chops back again. As she's aging her singing voice has become more deep and rich. One of her favourite covers is River by Leon Bridges.. ruclips.net/video/CccMZxkqS0Q/видео.html I love this rendition of her own song UR So Beautiful for the Trevor Project.. ruclips.net/video/dy0Qk-VDNVM/видео.html *starts at the 45 second mark
Good choices of songs, those are up there with my favorites to listen to from Grace
This IS an amazing song and it helped me get through one of the darkest periods of depression in my life. Amazing how much talent and wisdom there is in this young girl! ❤
At age 12, Grace auditioned for America's Got Talent with an original song "I Don't Know My Name". The crowd and judges loved it and Howie Mendel gave her the golden buzzer. She went on and performed three more original songs and won. All through out the experience, the AGT people were telling her she should do this or that, but Grace stayed true to herself and did it her way. After a session in the recording studio, she wrote this song. Obviously, they were telling her to do this or that and she was tempted to stray from staying true to herself, so she quickly wrote this song.
Thank you for your reaction. Just so you know, she this is her original. She writes and composes all her songs! She won the 2016 season of America's Got Talent at age 12 performing only her originals every round.
Grace has written a lot of songs and has a growing catalog of songs that she has also produced. But She also sings amazing covers, making them better than the originals.
Thank you for the excellent reaction to this genius song writer, i have been in awe of every thing she has written, she started to compose songs in her head at age 3, she started her career by posting cover songs on U-TUBE at 11 years old, many of the artist she covered reacted to her covers and would love for her to join them on colaboration, simply put they love her voice. She have sang in so many diffwrant genres with well known artists from Cyndy Lauper, Jasen Mraz, Imagin Dragons on there world tour, which she opened for on the US tour, Florence and the Machine opener, Austin City Limits, opening and closing the Special Olypicshe with Mraz, she is the youngest artist to have a signiture instument by FENDER, a ukulele two made with the well known head stock of Fender, her awards are so maney you have to look them up, to many in this post, Grace was born to do this, her voice is so originally recognized as Grace Avery Vanderwaal, prodigy. She wrote this song at 13 on a break from her studio recording in a half hour. Who could possibly know what was the insperation for this song was,you my friend have just intered the train that is this amazing artist life, please react to her songs, LUNGS, HOPE FOR CHANGE, AND BEAUTIFUL THING, there are so any origial composition by this artist, it will keep you busy for awhile, THANK YOU
Thanks MRLBOYD MUSIC, great reaction. Grace is a talented performer with wonderful energy, she has a singing force and a voice that is one of a kind. I would say that the artist's great differential is the great potential in composing, she writes very well since her childhood. At age 12, she won the AGT in 2016 with 4 songs of her own, her work is beautiful, she is incredible!
"Success always"!!!
Darkness Keeps Chasing Me 🎼
grace, an outspoken advocate of depression awareness, wrote _darkness keeps chasing me_ when she was thirteen. the song is a hauntingly beautiful melody which reflects the artist’s internal struggles with her personal demons. grace’s ability to embody emotions in her music is on full display here. this, and an air of inevitability which hangs over the music makes it a difficult listen for some. the studio recording is so darkly compelling that her handlers discouraged her from performing it in public out of concern for her younger fans. grace complied for a season but grace being grace eventually forced their hand because this is her song, and her declaration to the world of what is possible from the most important singer-songwriter of her generation.
the amazing grace vanderwaal
Grace said once that Olivia suffers from depression maybe even Bi-polar. Do you know what it's like for a young child to have someone in the home that suffers from depression.
she seems like a very talented artist, would like to see more on her
Best song by Grace - still gets me after all these years... 🤩
Very insightful reaction. Your comment about the “skylight” and Grace running away to it in the night was almost prophetic. Peace
It was a good summer for Grace with lots of Angelina Jordan reactioners taking a quick look at Grace before going back to their usual. Should be interesting after the movie comes out if she is in demand for her modelling or her music, hopefully both.
She is the writer! Amazing
Grace is the writer of this song. She was 13 when she wrote it.
Hey MRBOYD, the watermark effect is brilliant. Great that you found Grace. You were impressed by pre-teen girls doing covers now feast you ears on a little girl that does her own songs. This one she wrote by her little lonesome while on a break from a recording session. 13 years old you say! Well she wrote a bunch more when she was 12 and the one she is famed for at 11 years old.
OOOOOH! I never thought about the "sky light" as being the light from Heaven. Good one.
Her sister was suffering from depression. This girl is brilliant, she said in a few interviews that "these are not my experiences" she picks her subject matter from places like movies and such. I don't think she was depressed at all, I think she's a real good actress in the song writing profession. Some pictures of her in the studio jumping around and having fun let's her fan base know she had a good time recording her album.
No one really knows what the other writers added to this song other than tweeking it here and there since she stated she wrote the entire song by herself in 20 minutes while spending some time away from the recording crew.
Grace at 14 years old on James Corden singing "Escape My Mind" ruclips.net/video/QZLSkrWtUSE/видео.html
She has an amazing voice.❤
If you want to hear the original look up her album just the beginning grace wrote it at age 13
I think he was just testing the waters for more patreon moola, AJ people are still the top donators.
"The writer's"??? You refer to. Grace wrote this herself at the age of 13 in 30 minutes at the end of a recording session for her album "Just The Beginning".
Grace VanderWaal - Darkness Keeps Chasing Me (Behind the Song)
ruclips.net/video/qjgLY3mkf5g/видео.html
You missed the amazing point that she wrote it aged thirteen
Just the worst. His quotes: “I have know idea what the original sounds like”? WTH! “How did the writers, maybe that’s what the writers did, they put that in there for that very specific thing. Feels like it”? WTH! How can he react assuming someone else wrote the song?!! Part of his analyzation was referencing the original writers assuming she didn’t write it. Such a quick and simple thing to find out before reacting. And it would have made his reaction completely different and more authentic. He ripped himself off not knowing that ahead of time. As part of his audience, all I could think of the entire way through is how much of a bummer it was that he didn’t know that. What a shame! Don’t mean to be mean, but someone had to say it
@@AnthonyMinsky He's an Angelina reactor who blushes with enthusiasm when doing her reactions but here he can only see a troubled girl, almost nothing about her abilities as a singer/songwriter just that he thinks she needs a psychiatrist.
Beautiful ❤️🔥
This is an original co-written with Micah Premnath
I believe that giving Micah Premnath co-writing credit is a technical requirement because he made a suggestion or 2 that she incorporated into her song. This song is all Grace from conception to completion.
@@erich7558 Is there any way of finding out the royalties split? Does Grace only get 50% of her own song or does she get a larger split because it was her creation.
@@tomsmith7429 There must be a fair way to determine royalty splits and probably a way to find out. But that is above my pay grade.
Yes that is accurate Lunar but since we know the story of the beginnings of this song and by law you have to give credit to any and all assistance you get in the recording studio. I'm sure Micah is quite proud of little suggestions Grace took from her like "how about adding one more 'oooooh"
We have seen many times on Instagram and Tiktok where Grace has come up with a new song and once it got to the studio a few names seemed to appear in the writing credits even though the lyrics hadn't really change since the live recording.
@@tomsmith7429 FWIW. All named writers get an equal share unless there is a prior written agreement
Here is when she was 13. She writes her own songs.
Your bold and true reaction to Grace's "Darkness" deserves our support. Here's mine: "Ur So Beautiful" performed by Grace at a benefit for the Trevor Project, a suicide hotline. (Best sound is Sam Borgman's copy, start at 0:48). It as a message to self, encouraging us to like ourselves. But when she sings the same song to open her concerts, or in the studio, it is an upbeat celebration of the beauty of her lover! Same words and music, different message: that is one very talented and thoughtful young woman.
I not sure I got this right. You think that the way Grace sings a song is a hint to her fans that she's suicidal? She sang Ur So Beautiful at the Trevor Project in a slow Jazz genre but you think the slow version means she's not talking about a person she knows who may not be very confident and has a crush on her but that she's trying to convince herself not to end it all? Almost 7 years after she wrote the song he thinks she's suicidal.
The writers? No. Grace makes her music and writes her own lyrics. No one does it for her. In the section where she sings, "When I call you," in the original, she does sing "I might cry." If you take notice of the guitarist she starred at Grace because she left out the word, "Cry." Just to let you know.
I think she is incredible!
Grace wrote this aged between 12 13 years old, great song genius considering her age.
Check out her new song, what’s left of me - same intensity, so good
"The writers". Grace is "the writers". She writes her own songs. You should check out her latest song "What's Left of Me". I suggest reacting to the original video.
Just like Blondie, Grace can be very confusing.
How dare he use Grace to make this ridiculous vid of HIM. GO AWAY PLEASE. Let grace sing to us without interuption.
love your comments to help grace!!
You got to learn to trick that darkness make it go after something else.