American RAPPER first TIME ever HEARING Kasey Chambers - Lose Yourself (Eminem Cover) 

She took a perfect (Oscar winning!) song, dismantled it, put it back together in a different way with the EXACT SAME WORDS, and made it hers. It's incredible.

Kasey is a respected country singer, here in Australia who likes to wander into other genres occasionally. She is also a big Eminem fan and has always wanted to cover this song but she needed time to do an arrangement which did justice to the words of the song. The Pandemic gave her the time to work on it with her band. They were unable to tour so she perfected this arrangement. The guitarist who comes in on the second part and sings harmonies, is her brother. The man on the slide guitar is her father. Thanks for the reaction.

I love that Em loved this and lifted the copyright for her...pure class move...she is a legend in Australia and I am thrilled she is finally getting some recognition here in the states...

Kasey finished her tour in Newcastle and was performing this at the end of her shows. She officially recorded the sound at this concert but didn’t have the video. When she knew it was a good recording, she put the call out for the audience to send in videos they captured. This is why the clip is made up of a whole lot of angles, grainy and glarey. I love that it’s not polished. Kasey deserves international recognition reigniting a classic through re-inventation! 👏🪕🇦🇺

Props to Eminem for allowing her to release this on Spotify

She definitely has the ability to make you feel every emotion of the song that Em just didn't! I was actually blown the hell away the first time I watched this!

At first I thought there is never the urgency, the desperation, or panic in this cover that make the original so powerful. By the second verse I was sold. By the third verse, I realized how wrong I was. Damn!

I say Em raps it what's in his head, she sings how it must have felt in his soul

My jaw dropped and I got chills!!! Wow!!! This is the magic of music!!!

Eminem performed this as a young man looking forward and knowing he needs to change things, to make more of his future. Kasey is singing this as a (slightly) older woman who's seen life and knows this is it... last chance. Two totally different places but the song works for both. I think this shows just how good Eminem's writing is. Apparently Kasey worked out this arrangement during Covid lockdown when she couldn't perform. Me... I made bread...sigh.

Aussies have a unique talent for rearranging a classic song into a new classic....example the Beatles "help" then watch John Farnham and the Melbourne symphony orchestra.....no wonder Queen approached him after Freddie passed away..........

Kaseys life struggles haven’t been too different from Eminem’s…she’s pigeonholed as country, but her live shows are hard country rock … she’s amazing!❤

I love that reactors are picking this up, the world needs to see this. Eminem’s lyrics might be fantastic but that arrangement and performance is phenomenal!!!!

This has to be THE BEST live performance of 2022 by ANYONE - Kasey is a true artist

Simply the best re invention of any song ever, brought to us in one of the best live performances ever! I don't know if the same song has ever received 2 Grammies before,but if not,this should be the first!!

So impressed by this performance; the whole arrangement is creative genius. This has always been one of my favourite Em songs. Ever since it came out I've used it as a source of motivation to keep on grinding. Those lyrics, "I've been chewed up & spit out & booed off stage....." &, "This is my Life!..." get me every time. She reinterpreted & sang that song in a way that emotes how every performer feels at one time or another & really reimagined the song in such a creative way. It's one thing to simply try to cover a song & recreate it, it's entirely more impressive to take an already great song, from an artist as huge as Eminem, & then make your interpretation unique & completely your own. If anything I think her version draws you in & emphasizes the lyrics. Her commitment to the song is incredible.

So true on the lyricism of EM for real, when ya rappin it's hard to emote so when ya sing the same lyrics and can emote like she just did 🔥🔥🔥

I would definitely sit through a couple of episodes of you showing this to other guests

I love the very last part where she's bowing and she looks like she's close to collapsing because she's given every ounce of her mind, body and soul to this performance.

I love how the ending is so "In The Flesh." Pink Floyd-esque. I'm really happy to see you enjoyed this masterpiece. I wish Eminem had of recorded his reaction to Kasey doing this.

Have this on repeat she's been around for as long as Em has. Started playing in her family's band when she was 9 and she's like 47 now. She struggled breaking into the music business. But now is the youngest person ever inducted into Australia's country music hall of fame. Should check out The Captain. Believe it was used on the Sapranos

Easily in my top 5 covers of all time! This is going to blow your mind!

G'DAY from Australia. This is one of our best country/folk/rock artists. She is multi award winning here and known for covering different genres. She is from a musical family, and her dad is playing the slide guitar in this performance. Great to se a local aussie artist getting international attention

She’s an amazing Australian country singer and she absolutely killed this song got to love it

This is one of those moments where you wished you had not overused superlatives so much that you don’t have one available to use in moments like this.

This lady has been a country artist for decades; it was so surprising when she released this performance.

After 25 years of a stellar career - she always leaves it all on stage. An absolute gem. I love how this song took you on the journey - from sceptic to disciple.

This has become one of my favorite covers of all time, if not my favorite one. It's a testament to the song that it can be totally reconstructed and be as powerful as the original.

Shorty got a banjo 😂 She's about to rock your world, and you don't even know it yet! That's why watching reactions to this Kasey Chambers video are so much fun 👍😁

You gotta show this shit to your boys holy crap this was amazing. She straight up stole this song from Em.

Raw BrillianceI will always turn the doubter! Totally blown away when I “experienced” this Phenomenal performance, amazing arrangement & pure to the emotional interpretation of Em’s masterpiece - just legendary!! Em gave her his permission to release on Spotify, that says it all 👏👏👏 She is aged 46 at the time of this performance 2022. I’ve always been a fan of Kasey, she is a freakin amazing & talented musician, artist & woman. But this was next level genius & so personal for her. She has lived every second of this story. The performance wasn’t filmed, she put a post out after the show to fans present to please send in any footage, the compilation of which you see. The band killed it, matching & building with her energy brilliantly, Brandon on guitar & vocals that nurtured the momentum & her dad on slide guitar making it sing like a phoenix - all of them together made this the best live, for me a rebirth, not a cover, I’ve ever heard, seen & felt to my core. Top reaction - new subscriber from Tasmania Aus 👍🏻👏

I love the blue grass feel of it. She’s hella talented.

Now that's a freaking cover!!! ❤❤❤ Wow!

Effing AMAZING!!! Wow!!! Thank you for bringing this to my attention!!! She MURDERED that!!!

This is the best cover of this ever done probably one of the best covers done.....

My parents were Australian country music followers and knew her parents after meeting them while travelling around Australia while her parents were playing a heap of small venues. They met her when she was just a teenager playing with her parents. They only told me one day when i was listening to her when her song, Am i not pretty enough , when it came to prominence on Australian radio and tv. Th6e said she was a lovely talented kid 😅. I guess the didn't under how much her music had become relative on mainstream radio rather than just her parents backup in country music circles and radio.

I was so excited for reaction. I would pay big money to see Eminems reaction. I know he would be blown away.. deserves a million views

Holy Shieeet indeed! Thanks for giving it time to develop and taking the time to offer a real opinion. Some don't and dismiss it because they expect it to be rap as the original 20yr old track is , which is brilliant in its own right. Good lyrics that really mean something to people will transcend musical genres, as this does. I'm not a rap fan but not closed to it at all, and really liked 8 Mile. This is a folky/bluesy blue grass version that morphs into a rock song of sorts. Kasey sang it with pain, passion, meaning and importantly intent, she feels it. She must have really connected to the original version years ago. Eminem's version is largely considered by many as more motivational. They are both brilliant.

Kasey has rearranged Em's song and made it her own. I had the pleasure of seeing her perform this at the Big Red Bash in Birdsville 2022 and was blown away! Love her Dad on slide guitar as well, heck the whole band are great.

Kasey feels this song in her bones she has been there through the mill and back again. She is an Eminem fan from way back and has always loved this song Covid lockdowns gave her the time to devote to putting together this incredible arrangement. Kasey is big in Australia and was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association’s Hall of Fame. She always sings with passion and authenticity and always leaves it all onstage when live.❤😂 Great reaction from WTF??? To WTF!!!!❤

Saw you were doing a react to it so I listened to it last night, and now the 7th time in I still got chills and tears in my eye.

I heard this version for the first time just a few days ago!! I’m still blown away!! Purely beautiful!!! ❤❤

HEART AND SOUL! What a Performance! Live also. She has torn that up!! EPIC!!!👏👏👏👏

Such a PROUD Aussie here!!!! :D.. I'd love to here Eminem's reaction to this!!

Dude i love it! It gave me chills when the band came in all hard

OMG- I have been waiting for y’all to react to this!

Thanks heaps for being open minded enough to give this a fair listen. Your reaction was intelligent and insightful. I’m subbing. Love from Australia. 🙂🇦🇺

I had seen this floating around and just didn't Really want to watch . Then 😮I saw this premiere and said F it lets watch it with Black Pegasus. 😮😮 I LITERALLY HAD THE EXACT REACTION AS HIM LIKE DEAD ON THROUGH THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE. JUST WOW

Loved your reaction so much. Thank you for the respect and great analysis of her performance. Kasey has been a big fan of Eminem. Yes she has lived some hardships in her own career when radio stations refused to play her music. Then she wrote 'Am I Not Petty Enough" which went up the charts to number 1. Saying hi from Australia

You hit the mark about the quality of the song writing. The difference between a good cover and a great cover, a great cover makes the original shine brighter.

I have not t he words to explain the greatness that is this version of a classic Eminem song. I have hurd so many covers in my life but have never hurd one that was changed so much yet still had exactly the same WORDS. goosebumps yes butterflies in my stomach yes Mrs./Ms. CHAMBERS YOU DID NOT MISS THIS CHANCE TO BLOW YOU YOUNPUT A DEATH GRIP ON THIS OPROTUNITY YOU TOOK YOUR SHOT AND ABSOLUTLY KILLED IT. I dont think my words truly exsplain to the full existent they should. Amazing thank you.

This is impressively passionate💕👍🦇

It shouldn't work but then it does. Perfectly, with such rawness.

Kasey is a 47 yr old Mum, who grew up in my home State of South Australia. She played with her family Country band (her Dad plays slide guitar on this) and at one point they lived in a bus in a semi arid area called the Nullabour Plain, catching rabbits for dinner.. They put this video together with all the video taken by the people in the audience.. Eminem's Oscar performance is amazing, but this is something separate. Goosebumps is called "Frisson" and not everyone gets it from music etc. Im a muso, Ive been getting them since I was a child.. Hi, liked, and subscribed from Adelaide, South Australia (in the middle, down the bottom! haha)

Yeah man, Ems got to share ownership with this one now. Lol. Absolutely amazing version.

I love the way music is going now I thought music was stuck but now its all smashing together time for the next wave im 62 lived though all the best music of our time now its all coming back love it love this

Damn! Wasn’t expecting that!🔥🔥

It’s 🔥 captivating, shows how strong these lyrics really are

Youngest female inductee into the Australian Recording Artist Industries hall of fame and 9 time best country music album recipient.

This lesser known woman of sorts has just blown my mind!!😱.. to take an epic and iconic song to a level BIGGER than hip hop, bluegrass,Rock, country and pop! The beauty, the creativity, the heart, the talent and the balls to do it!! Much respect, much love. I was floored and I love it!! 💯🔥🔥🔥🔥👍

This is the only good thing to come from Covid. Locked up and time to master this performance. Kasey brings out the absolute sadness and helplessness in the first part of the song and then the absolute determination to rise above adversity to triumph. She has lived this, performing from a very young age to support her family. There is nothing more painful in life than not being able to provide the right life for your family, having your kids go without, but it drives you on. If you’re not clenching your teeth or fist by the end of this, then there is something wrong with you. Well done Kasey.

You need to introduce this to other people

Thanks for the Great reaction. It’s the song you didn’t know you needed. A female Australian country singer doing lose yourself should t work. But somehow it does. A masterpiece.

SHE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY DEFINITELY TURNED THIS SONG INTO HER SONG, YEP IT DEFINITELY IS NOT EMINEM'S SONG ANYMORE BOTTOM LINE....

So glad you finally got round to see this. 🤘

I love Casey's version of this song! Its powerful and gritty and passionate and you lose yourself in it! The backup band is phenominal too! 😊

Chills every time 😊❤ glad you liked it.

Eminem & 8 mile told this story as a rapper finding his way but Kasey took that & told a story of not only every kind of musician but every person that has struggled & fought to succeed in their dream. Yes Kasey has been there, she’s an amazing Aussie country/ blues performer who has fought her way through success in the industry. Proud of her

Don needs to see this to, id love to see his reaction to it. Keep up the amazing work BP. my number one reaction channel on the whole of youtube

She made it hers !!! Fire !!! Thank you !!!

Man this happened in my home town and for longest time I considered Kasey Chambers a washed up pop star from the early 2000s whos one song was rubbish...I have never been more humbled. She's rock bansheee who has more musical talent in her left pinky than I have in my entire body. Sadly Kasey kinda did miss her 1 shot unless you really really followed her career, it gives me chills to hear this story from the side of someone who didn't quite catch it. Kasey was chewed up, spit out, and boo'd off stage and you can feel that pain in her song here. She's showing you the pain in the struggle that didnt win.

Kasey struggled to break into the popular music scene, she worked her butt off but was constantly turned away. She wrote a song years ago (I’m sure other have mentioned) called am I not pretty enough which is about her struggle. Imagine a really soft story/version of this song. She asks herself if it’s her looks, is she too outspoken, is her heart to broken etc. This feels like a follow on 20yrs+ later and now she’s really hurt & angry about it & using his lyrics to convey that.

She's amazing. Thanks for the great reaction ❤

Kasey should do a US tour, this is blowing up so much, I’m certain she’d sell out venues in a heartbeat. Much love! ❤️

An Australian country singer playing a banjo covering Lose Yourself? Yea, why not. Second greatest cover I have ever heard. She nailed this!

Damn. Simply Top Shelf. Just…ENTERTAINED!!

I loved your change of face during this performance, it's the best performance I've EVER SEEN.

Em, gave Kasey the nod to release this on Spotify. That already tells you all you need to know. Cheers from Oz.🫶🍻🇦🇺

Oh wow. Loved seeing your reaction to this especially after the second hook. Brilliant.

If you had a single doubt about the degree of spectacular of this version, performance, and complete dedication she put in to expressing the pain and feeling behind the lyrics, I read somewhere that she ACTUALLY received permission from Em, himself, to not only PERFORM the song, but to release it, I believe either ITunes and or Spotify. He ain’t lettin his carefully crafted, gut spilling, vulnerable exposing masterpiece that is MOST of his work, but specifically this track, be rereleased by just ANYONE, if at all, if their initials ain’t MM, unless he believes in it being equal to or surpassing the original. I promise you that. Speaks volumes to the homage Kasey displayed to Em, by putting her flavor into it but not changing a single word. Just amazing. I, too, was skeptical AF until about 6 notes and 4 or 5 words sung. Spun my entire top

I never really thought I'd be into an Eminem song OR power cords on a banjo, and yet here I am, liking both in the same damn song! 🤷

We told you, you weren't ready lol You try and describe this to someone ...but you just can't til you see it for yourself

Her father is on the slide guitar. She is the youngest person ever inducted into the Australian Country Hall of Fame. This is also filmed on cell phones from audience members.

This reminds me of how Johnny Cash did a cover of Nine inch Nails "Hurt" and made it his own

This Aussie gal has just blown the roof off this song, Eminem giving her the opportunity to make this raw passionate and dynamic version. So blown away my our Aussie secret, getting the global recognition she so rightly deserves.

Kasey worked on this during Covid lockdown . Its been one of her favourite songs. Took excellent lyrics and made it her own!

Her dad’s steel guitar is the perfect addition to finish with.

Kasey fan here. Your reaction is priceless! She is the real deal. This might be one of the best live performances I’ve ever witnessed. Would be otherworldly to see her perform this live. What a treat for her audiences. Just wow!!!!

Australia has a got some freaking good talent.

I’m not a country fan or a KC fan really, although I admire her talent. However, this is simply MAGNIFICENT, probably the best live performance I’ve ever seen. Her voice, the arrangement, the emotion, the storytelling thanks to Em is simply perfect. She MUST be invited to perform it at the Emmys.

This is just your classic Eminem head banging banjo music that starts out singing like Jewel and end like Janic Joplin. Eminem’s version takes you from where you are currently emotionally. Kasey brings you down to melancholy and then let’s you ferment in that emotion so that you can feel the desperation of needing a win. Then her mood changes and presents a dangling carrot as a path out of melancholy by rocking out. Her and Ren are my two biggest surprises of the year!

She listened to alot of Eminem in her household during the pandemic lockdown and this song really resonated with her, she spent that time trying ro fit the lyrics to her style and melody, this was one of the first performances out of lockdown, she also asked the audience to film with their phones and send them.tonher, the sound was digitized and professionally done but the video was from all the submissions

Glad you got around to this Been listening to it daily 40!

I was waiting for you to react to this I was not disappointed. She killed that song and put her whole heart and soul into it. And you Crack me up with your expressions😮

Now that's a cover👏👏👏. ✌️❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Shes amazing. Great reaction

So excited you are doing this one 🙌🙏

I have never heard this. I love this musician's creative take on this. What a great choice given your goal of being open to new music. I especially love that this isn't just another cover because of the inique genre she's chosen to sing it. I would agree, she has a great voice not sure if i like it or not but absolutely appreciate the artistry. With that being said, i think you should listen to Radio/Video by System of a Down. It has a lot of dynamics and its upbeat and kind of fun and Id love to see your reaction! Not one of their top songs but loved by all!

Been waiting for you to react to this. I knew you'd love it...

Man, this is one of those that grows on ya! Why am i crying? Happy tears...happy tears... damn, gina!