Drummer reacts to "Work It Out" by Dirty Loops 

Its not a cover...its their original song...

Welcome to Dirty Loops. Go down the rabbit hole. You won't regret it. 3 of the best musicians on the planet.

Thanks for a great reaction! I love seeing someone experience Dirty Loops for the first time. They started the group as a hobby project in 2008, and never thought it would be anything other than that, and did twisted jazz fusion covers of top 40 pop songs. In 2010 they put up a video on youtube (a cover of Lady Gaga's "Just Dance"), as a booking reference, to see if they could get a gig or two, just for fun, as they thought their music was way too unsexy for anyone to actually like it. Needless to say, they were completely wrong. The video went viral and a LOT of people absolutely loved it. In 2014 they released the album Loopified, which is mainly their own compositions with a few covers sprinkled in. The Phoenix EP was released in 2020 and is all their own compositions, and in 2021 they released a collab album, Turbo, with guitarist Cory Wong and his horn section. Everything they've ever released is of this ridiculous musical quality, so you could pretty much pick any song to listen to, and you more than likely would not be disappointed. They've all known each other and played together for 20+ years by now, in their mid-to-late-thirties. Jonah Nilsson (keyboard/vocals) and Henrik Linder (bass) even went to music elementary school together and met when Henrik was 11 and Jonah was 9. Aron Mellergård (drums) comes from another part of Sweden and came along when he moved to Stockholm at the age of 16, to attend the same music high school as they did (he was in the year between the other two). Then they all attended Kungliga Musikhögskolan (Royal College of Music) in Stockholm, where Henrik and Aron studied jazz/rock, and Jonah opted for music production as his main subject. There's an interview in Bass Magazin, which gives a wonderful insight into their process and the creation of the EP Phoenix, in which Henrik said the following about writing Work Shit Out, and about their approach to lyrics on the Phoenix EP: Question: "Work Shit Out” has a killer fretless, finger-funk bass line and it’s the most musically adventurous track on the EP." Henrik: "That’s how we conceived it, as a song that would evolve into a long improvised section with keyboard and drums solos. It started with Aron’s octave-jumping MIDI bass line. I wanted to simplify it a bit and remove one of the beats, but Aron insisted on his version, so I had to figure out how to play it because it’s a little unorthodox on bass. From there, Aron and I wrote the verse and the chorus, coming up with the one-note melody concept for the chorus. Then Jonah and Aron added all the harmonies. For Jonah’s solo, I stick pretty much to the root notes so he stretch and change the harmonies above them. It was a lot of fun to play the song live on a few gigs before the pandemic because it took different directions each time." Question: "Who wrote the lyrics?" Henrik: "Unfortunately, I did [laughs]. We’ve worked with some great lyricists, including our manager, Andreas Carlsson, on Loopified, and we’ll continue to collaborate with lyricists in the future. But this time around it was more about the sound of the lyrics than the context. For some of the songs, Aron sang nonsense English lyrics on his demos, and when he sent them to me to finish he said he wanted all the vowels to remain the same as in his nonsense lyrics, so that limited me. It’s more about the phoenetics than the meaning of the lyrics on these songs." If you want to read the whole interview, , just search for "Henrik Linder Songified", and it should pop right up. ☺

The drummer Aron also writes most of the bass parts. Genius!!!!!

One of my all-time top ten bands. And I'm old. Love these guys. They've said in interviews that they got together to play the music that would get them fired as session musicians. This is what they love and want to do, not some formula. Quincy Jones manages them now.

My favourite Swedish band! Saw them live a year and a half ago. Love them! Great musicians! 🔥🔥🔥

You would also enjoy Next To You, Rock You, Follow The Light and others. They did start out doing covers. You should check some of those out as well.

Barry, thanks for that 🙏 And thanks for a rad reaction bro, this was super interesting. I loved all your ideas and thoughts about this piece and those three guys, the influences you’ve heard, really very interesting to me…. And you weren’t far off, Beyoncé came out with a song ‘Work It Out’. And whilst this isn’t a cover, still, the Loops might’ve played on that, both writing-wise and with the title :) as they do with many of their tracks, they start out nice and poppy, and then take it up a notch and completely blow everyone’s mind 🤯💥 😉 Initially, when exploding into the music scene, they did quite a few covers, -all of them mindblowing fusion stuff (see their first album Loopified). And even more recently their style of writing often is to first come up with a simple pop-like melody and then ‘loopify’ it, ‘destroy’ it, or ‘do the surgery’, and build their genre-bending ideas around it. Three guys from Sweden, friends for many years, all trained at the top Swedish music school, having studied music from jazz to everything else. Check them out online, they’re worth the deep dive. So are all of their songs, covers and everything. Their bassist, Henrik Linder, is an absolute beast on bass…. Aron is on drums… And Jonah on vocals and keys…. Oh and btw Aron comes up with a lot of their compositional parts, including melodies bass lines, etc. AND he edits all of their video footage…. You might find some time to check out an interview it’s Henrik on Bass Magazine slash Songified, where he explains a bit about each of their Phoenix tracks, including how his bass line came to be in this one, and how it was recorded. Thanks for featuring them, they deserve all the attention they can get. Cheers, from a big DL fan, and more Dirty Loops please ✌️🔥🤘☺️

Dirty Loops is the shit man. Try their collab with Cory Wong....Follow the Light

Wow, real talent here!

Yes, that did blow my mind. It's crazy to think of the paths you take. I keep wondering if I never found this channel..... would I never hear this song? It is accidental or fate? I love this drummer. Crazy talented. "Maybe we never do grow up. Maybe it’s all a lie we tell ourselves to make us feel better.” Great quote, Lee. You could really be a writer.

You should check out some of their cover songs too. All their stuff is amazing - also "Coffee break is over". Really fun!

Could do without the gunfire intro. But the music is fantastic! Definitely want to hear more! Talented artists!!!

That was awesome! I love discovering new music as much as you enjoy discovering old music. Re: Jazz fusion - "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." - Frank Zappa. Yeah, I heard a little bit of Frank in this tune, too! You're killing it, dude, I love it!

Here we go. Waited that you encounter Dirty Loops. I bet it won't take long till Guthrie Govan and The Aristocrats are comming up 👍

Great reaction as usual. They are all amazing musicians, and yeah, really deserve a lot more fame than they have. Rock on, Lee!

This is original

Welcome to the rabbit hole that Dirty Loops provides………..try next to you

Get Barry on the show! Keep smiling.

They did a cover of Thriller. Have you checked out Billy Cobham yet? Check out his song Stratus from the Spectrum album. He’s a Jazz Fusion drummer. And one of my fav. Artists. His music is awesome!

Some very wise words. i'm impressed. thank you for appreciating good music from all genres

You should hear their cover of Michael Jackson's "Thriller."

Cue the standard joke: Dirty Loops is the band you get when each member is the most talented one.

Hope You keep reacting to this band, every song from them is insane🎉

This is not a cover it was wrote by Jonah Nilsson vocals Henrik Linder bass and Aron Mellergardh drummer. Look it up

Such a weird song, so pop sounding and yet...not at all. Music is on point. I went and watched the sideways reaction, btw. I think it's important to watch reactions for songs that we're unfamiliar with. I get used to clicking on Ren and Yes and Rush reactions because it's enjoyable to see someone discover works I've loved for so long. But I needed the reminder to check out new things as well. Thanks for mentioning it at the beginning of the video Lee. Also been busy the last few weeks and didn't realize how much of your content I've missed, lol. Lot's to catch up on.

Wow. This is great. I'd never heard of this band!

Oooh! Now that we are going down this rabbit hole, it might be time to check out some Louis Cole/Knower and maybe even some ClowCore! Not that ClowCore has anything to do with Louis Cole or Knower of course... 😂

I believe Aron is the King of the Snare Rolls.

Must do their New One "Run Away" Best base and Drummer on the Planet!

Dirty Loops is a great rabbit hole for sure! But since you love Jazz Fusion, lemme introduce you to the group that brought it back to life in the last decade and a half: Snarky Puppy. Check out "Lingus" from the 2012 album "We Like It Here". And for extra mind-blowage, lemme inform ya... the drummer, Larnell Lewis, was a last-minute replacement due to a passport issue with their regular drummer. He had 48 hours' notice, learned the _entire album_ on the plane ride over to Europe, had one dress rehearsal, and then played the opener for their live studio audience. Also, it has perhaps the greatest jazz keyboard solo of this century so far.

You should do a reaction video to ‘just waiting for a mate’. It would be awesome to see your head next to Clinton’s.

You should do more Dirty Loops

Great band. Try oceans, John Butler. Live studio. 👍🏻

Yeah, oh my gosh is the only thing we can say with this band. I had to burn my guitar.😂

Let's see new guitar solo Gary Richraft flying turkey trot live REO Speed wagon underrated not well known but mind blowing

gotta say, I haven't cared about lyrics my whole life, so I don't care that DL lyrics are actually pretty bad, but yes, they are pretty bad :) DL still top 3 of artists I listen to daily and avidly watch reactions to

Maybe try "Follow the light" together with Cory Wong. Or Thriller also with Cory

If you like that song by Dirty Loops try "Next to you, Breakdown and Michael Jackson's, Billie, live in Europe at Quincy Jones birthday party. These guys are great. david

You may have heard someone else's cover of this Dirty Loops original. 😊

NOT A COVER! Although they're famous for their covers ... Check out "Thriller," "Baby," "Roller Coaster," "Wake Me Up," "Ta Fete," "Circus," and a few others.

Original song. Their stuff is overproduced for my taste, but they're massively talented.

I love this group- right up to the nansecond the keyboardist starts singing and then I'm out.

By Beyonce? LOL, no dude, that's not a fucking cover. lolololol.

Seriously, you think that's a cover? Funny! Back in 2011 when they first posted to Y.T., they did some of the best covers I'd heard (check out "Circus"). Since then they do ALL original music, and musicians from all over attempt to cover THEM!

Not a cover...original