As a Hazbin Hotel fan, I really like this video and agree with your opinions ! Tbh, in my opinion, you should make more Hazbin videos, this was great ! :D
Respectless isn’t perfect, and I agree with most your points, but it feels like you just really don’t like velvettes character. I personally like that despite being “modern” she still talks like some people did like, 5 or so years ago? You complaining that she’s “terminally quirky” is more of an “issue” with velvette that carries into respectless. Good video tho, nice job 👍
I think the funniest part about Respectless is the fact that it was immediately followed by a superior song. First off, even people who have never made a musical know that you typically need to space out the songs so that they're not crammed together like sardines (there IS a way to make back-to-back songs work but this ain't it chief), and secondly, all it did was provide a stark contrast that made the previous song look even worse.
I'm glad I'm justified in my general neutralness to Respectless. I thought it was fine, just not excellent, especially compared to almost everything else.
I was so disappointed in Hazbin's music. With most songs I was just waiting for them to end. I don't get it. The song you pointed out as a good example was AMAZING, and Helluva Boss has some really good songs in it. So why did so many Hazbin Hotel songs leave me just sitting there hoping they'll end as soon as possible?
there are a host of content/thematic things in this movie that Disney will probably never deal with directly again in a movie (religion, lust, racism/discrimination, objectification of women, etc...) all that's to say that we need to cherish this movie for what it is 😆 it's an amazing movie and deeply underwatched
I'm glad I'm not the only person who disliked this song. I do not understand why it's so popular. Even when I was watching it, I remember being a little uncomfy. At the time I chocked it up to me not liking bitchy characters, which is weird, cause Vivsie shows normally have enjoyable bitchy characters. But yeah, "I'm a hashtag bitch" made me cringe. I'd also point out it makes no sense from a storytelling perspective. Velvet says she wants to fight the angels, and then when other characters do fight the angels, she's hauled up in her bunker and doesn't seem to care. The only V who is invested is Vox because he wants to see Al die. Also Velvet doesn't do anything after "Respectless." Why was this song given to her? Well I know why. The writers had this character lying around and they needed her to do something. For the supposed backbone of the Vs, she's pretty abdent. Vox acts like the backbone of the Vs. Here's how I'd fix it. Give it to Alastor. Obviously you'd have to rework the instrumentals and lyrics to fit the character, but the basic idea that Alastor's motive is to gain others' respect and fear, while he maintains this aloof devil-may-care attitude like he's above how others think of him, while in reality being very thin-skinned. He was even slighted earlier in the meeting when Camilla said she didn't wonder what he did when he was gone. Al would also be a much better contrast to Camilla's down-to-earth focus on self-preservation than just some mouthy braggart we barely see again. And Al, y'know, FIGHTS THE ANGELS HE SAYS HE WANTS TO FIGHT. Broadly, Hazbin's great, but this song and "Welcome to Heaven" are two go-to how-tos on how not to write a showtune. I think what happened is that the songwriters had a quota of two songs per episode so they stuck songs where there shouldn't be. They could've cut this song to make room for an Adam attack song in the final episode.
Oh my GOD thank you, I've literally never seen anybody do such an effective takedown of this song (and then contrast it with my favorite song in the whole show!!! BANGER TAKES). I think Respectless also (like a lot of Hazbin songs) suffers a lot from the eschewing of natural syllable fluctuation in favor of fitting the melody (even the way that she draws out "Respectless" is just... not how that word is pronounced). Drives me insane, and is another reason that I love Stayed Gone because it all feels right. EDIT: I'll fight you on the bloody rare line, though. "Now his medium is getting bloody rare" is the funniest line in any song in this show bar none.
THANK YOU My friend and I were ranking HH songs and for some reason they decided that respectless is one of the best songs and I just straight up went "not for me." The melody is so grating to my ears and I think it's my least favorite song in the show. That or Hell is Forever, which I have a lot of the same problems with
the fact that this villain song is a pop song also ruins the vibe as well. Usually villain songs hide a dark undertone or are large and frightful. These songs aren't usually supposed to be peppy or upbeat like this songs instrumental is.
that's not even close to being true Jeremy Jordan and Alex Brightman are just 2 examples also the songs she's in are not the worst in the show your telling me you think Whatever It Takes Out For Love and Respect less are worse than Welcome To Heaven and It Starts With Sorry?
4:03 Yeah I can see why that's a problem. I think there's two big issues contributing to that is: a) The show is packing plot for a 15-25 episode season into only 8 episodes. Since there's so much plot and only 160-240 minutes to pack all that plot in, there's a lot of telling and not showing because telling requires less time. And probably the reason why this is a song (aside from the 2 song per episode quota) rather than dialogue is because a song is shorter (and more entertaining) so it goes with that decision. It also does this with You Didn't Know. b) it's trying to tell you about characters who are going to become more relevant, just not right now. While normal fans who have seen other material like comics, the pilot episode, livestreams, etc. know more about characters like Carmilla and the Vees, and know their importance while a casual viewer who knows nothing about the show when they first click on is questioning why Velvette and Carmilla get a song (and why Carmilla even gets 3 songs) when the people getting songs should be Charlie and the gang, and Adam, the main antagonist who's the main antagonist of season 1. So it needs to try to tell you about the Vees and establish their importance when we get season 2 and they become the main antagonists than just establishing the Vees naturally because of above point.
I really love Respectless because it's not meant to be good! Velvette is someone who died around 2010 at the age of around 21 and speaks with slang words so the point is that it's meant to sound like an improvised hype song wrote in the 2000s Sometimes a song's lyrics abd vibes don't have to be perfect as long as they fit the character. In this case, Vel is arrogant, annoying and fairly young so the kind of pointless nature fits for someone with those traits
imo if they were going for that they could've leaned a little more into her immaturity and made it more of an "unintentionally" comedic song, though i see what you mean
I honestly would adore if you analyzed "You didnt know" not just cause its a personal fav, but because i find it so jumbled that its perfect for dissecting, imo atleast
I'd like to add in my two cents because although I've warmed up to it more, it's still by far not my favourite song. (spoiler warning) While Astor can dissect the rhymes, I cannot. However, I do like to dissect themes. And, in my opinion, You Didn't Know just misses the mark. When it comes to themes, I feel like it's all over the place. First, it starts off with questioning about Heaven's standards and saying that it's unfair, then it goes to Emily being shocked by Adam and Lute's exterminations, then Emily and Charlie raging against heaven, then ends with Adam and Lute telling that Vaggie is an angel. I feel like the song would've been fine with sticking with questioning heaven or just rebelling against them or just making the song dialogue because it's more believable for dialogue to constantly switch topics as people bounce off ideas and go off topic. But a song constantly switching topics and themes feels off. And I felt like the song was dragged out with Adam and Lute telling Vaggie was an angel. This would've been fine as dialogue. Everytime I listen to the song, I end up just skipping to the next song after it ends with the 'Hell is Forever' reprise because it doesn't sound good nor does it stick with any of the other song's points about heaven's standards or rebelling against it.
While I agree there are lame redundant lyrics in this, I actually enjoy the way this villain song deviates from the trope because Magnifico is a villain who thinks he’s a hero. Most Disney villains know they’re villains, but Magnifico, being deluded, gets an upbeat pop song for his villain song.
I would like to defend one of Velvette's choices a bit because I think there's an element missing in this analysis. Velvette isn't the "hip new thing", she's the hip new POWER. She's not a social media user or even an influencer: she's a social media developer and marketing executive. No, nobody in common parlance actually says "hashtag" out loud. But I believe I've heard media executives do it in interviews, and I've seen it in programs that think they're being hip with the kids. Realistically, these people are probably playing it up for the camera and, in an actual conversation, wouldn't talk like this, but I do think Velvette is playing it up for the Overlords in-character. I'm surprised you didn't rag on the random "WOOO!!!" she does, though. It's an affectation to "do as I please," but doing as you please doesn't tend to say any random noises for the sake of... well, yeah, quirkiness.
this channel has made me think about music in a different way. I've never watched Hazbin Hotel or Helluva Boss but I've definitely heard divisive opinions on the music.
What's so bad about Respectless the lyrics fit with Velvette's character its easily the catchiest song in the show and Velvette's fake cockney accent is perfect for the song
My issues with Respectless is the same issue I have with many Lin Manuel Miranda songs. Where you'll have a fine line, but then a yo, yeah, bro, etc. gets thrown into it and doesn't really add anything. It just reads as very "how do you do fellow kids."
Lin-Manuel Miranda is a far stronger songwriter than Haft or Underberg and I love Hazbin's music. Songs like Satisfied and Yorktown are phenomenally written
My main problem with this song is mostly the fact that Velvette (and Vox for that matter) are both irrelevant characters for this season who they seemed to just give songs for the sake of making people interested in and keep note of them for later. Funny that Valentino, the only one of the Vees who has a relevant connection to a main character that's important this season does not have his own song at all.
I'm honestly surprised to hear you like the show considering all its damning(ha) flaws, but with how severely you dress everything about the show's style down I cannot tell if that's true or you're just afraid of the annoying fans lmao.
I do see some of your points(And let's be real Episode three's song slots could have been better used), but I think some of your criticism is overly pedantic and a case of pretty standard critical dissonance. You're a lot more knowledgeable about song writing then most people which is usually a good thing but can also result in you caring about things the core audience doesn't.
oh hey, was wondering if you'd cover HH as a very recent fan of the creator's shows (never really clicked with me until this year), the forced quirkiness of the musical segments was definitely one of the biggest hurdles to enjoying it and was probably one of the biggest problems that caused my friends to completely bounce off of it. they needed to ease off the 2 songs per episode goal-stick to the ones that they have time to polish *and* which meaningfully move the story along (Hell's Greatest Dad is a nice tune, but a total plot cul-de-sac) helluva boss has a better batting average since the songs usually only crop up when they're useful to the story
I personally really disagree with using "disrespectful" in place of "respectless". I personally don't see how the first word would be any less awkward than the first. Plus there are plenty of songs that use rare words, or even words that straight up don't exist
As explained, no one really says the term “respectless” (heck even autocorrect agrees) and the point is this was used as the main hook of the song, so I highly doubt the same situation being common in “plenty of other songs”
Okay but that's really not a comparable comparison because that's a specifically long made up word and respectless is a really but infrequently used word that doesn't flow well
THANK YOU!!!! There was always something about this song that pissed me off and you uncovered it! It DOES feel very forced and unnecessary, but it made my brain hurt too much so I never asked myself why. Anyway 10/10 video, and I pray that the hazbin fandom doesn't crucify you for speaking the truth
Oh my gosh thank you for doing this. I like the song for what it was but my problems started when I wrote a parody for it and tried to record myself singing it. The instrumental was my biggest problem because I got completely lost when I tried to sing it, which normally I just need to hear the instrumental for like 5 seconds to figure out where I’m at but I had to start from the beginning to figure it out, which I’ve never had to do for a song before. Also I didn’t change any line with “respectless,” in it, which proved to be my undoing because it was so awkward to sing. I’m probably going to have to shelf this project or at least rework it before trying again. Honestly the singers carried this song way more than the writers did. I’d love to see you do more videos from Hazbin like Loser baby or Hell’s greatest dad.
Surprising how this song is the second most listened to if we go off the official Amazon prime RU-vid channel- also the analysis you did was very good!
I got here from your Poor Unfortunate Souls video. You're doing great! I'm learning a lot about the pop culture I grew up with. As a person who has to sit through a lot of musicals for work, your stuff is giving me a better vocabulary and a better appreciation of the genre. Keep it up!
Nah, quirky is the same meaning as always, a girly that tries to catch social media attention by using " relatable " gimmicks to the character, either cute clumsy girls or boss bitches
I only liked the song since it really reminded me of Don’t Lose Your Head from Six the musical, I really wonder if they took inspiration from that show?
