I Don't Like You -- MTV (Grace Vanderwaal) reaction 

Grace is a genius!!!

Dax yes you have Grace perfectly. She's a definite upbeat soul. She's so caring. I just love her.

Well of course we want to hear you praise Grace Dax. I think it’s what we live for. Grace’s genre style is evolving by the minute. I’m sure there’s so much going through her mind it’s hard to keep up with herself. Evidently the quarantine gave her a lot of time to experiment and explore her abilities. It’s gonna be awesome what she has to feed us. I can’t wait.

I think I remember that she was surprised that the audience was so close so she probably closed her eyes so that she could remover herself back into her own mind.

I think a good example, and was the first time I realized she could do scat type singing so well, was when she sang UR So Beautiful on the Trevor project.

Grace VanderWaal Rocks!!!😎💜💜💜

That's a great performance. Happy one-year anniversary on I don't like you, Grace!!!!!! Great find Dax. Thanks.

☑️ Grace as a human being appeals to those who eschew the material and hubristic trappings of this world. The pandemic has stripped away much of these trappings and has forced people to confront their naked selves. We are seeing Grace untethered from the influences of the music industry and it is allowing her to pursue her own vision of what her music can be, and so far it is a glorious vision. This is one of the few good things that this pandemic has produced. We would do well to follow Grace’s lead and pursue our own vision for our lives.

That hoodie is such a good color for her

Hey Dax. Great reaction. As far as Grace's musical transformation goes.....My opinion is that she has always had these intimate musical moments where it's just her and her uke. Then she started teaching herself guitar and introducing that into her repertoire. When she was 12 she did a lot of very sophisticated things vocally, and I assume that she did these things because of an almost supernatural musical instinct. With this instinct as her fallow ground - so to speak - she naturally gravitated to sophisticated music done by other instinctual and learned geniuses. I think she understands these iconic legends from the moment she hears them, and this starts flash bulbs going off in her brain. I knew a guitar player who had the same gift Grace does. If he heard one little snippet of something unique - Wes Montgomery's octave lead playing, for instance - then he would sit down and just rip with that concept. The same when he was 15 years old and heard slide playing for the first time. He didn't know what made that unique sound on the guitar. An older guy showed him the brass tube that he put on his finger. Bob took that slide home with The Allman Brothers Live album, and during one Sunday learned the entire album, including all of Duane Allman's solos. I think that Grace is now hearing chord substitutions and such for the first time, and it's like a baby shark smelling blood for the first time. She instantly knows what it is because her instinctual endorphin alarm bells are ringing off the wall. Just like Bob the guitar player. If he heard something on the radio that rang his musical alarm bells, he was liable to drive right off the road. Grace just understands stuff on an intuitive level. Once a window opens a crack, she just flies through the crevice and gobbles up everything. She really is astounding. You have mentioned many times in your reactions how much you appreciate her dropped words ....or missing words.....or stuffed syllables. Well.....that's one of the lessons that only the most sophisticated musicians learn.; the creating of space to frame a note or phrase. That's what Miles was all about in his most brilliant era. The use of silence to frame sound. The use of one note to frame another....one chord to color the next. Like push/pull of Judo, or sweet/sour of cooking, or irony in literature...... Grace was already doing this at 12 years old. Then she was running. Now she is flying. It sure is fun to be alive to hear this all happening in real time.

I think you missed Grace's full statement when answering the question about who inspired the lyric "I love you, but I don't like you". She wasn't being disingenuous. She started to take a cop-out and say she didn't know who it was about and you could apply it however you like, but she then went on to say that she's a normal person living through life, and she more than likely sees the people she writes songs about every day or pretty often. She didn't want to disclose who it was about for the sake of the person's privacy, as well as her own.

She's always good when she in a small venue. Watching this I was wondering how each of her band members have been doing over the last 8 -9 months and when she starts touring will it be a different group of people. I'm they all have had to move on and make a living.

So excellent reaction as always! -- Six or seven years ago (I am embarrassed to admit), I finally realized that Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits is the finest lead guitar player of all time. (IMO yes, others will disagree, siting Clapton or Hendrix or whoever.) The reason I believe he's the best is because he so amazingly becomes one with the guitar. Grace does him one better though. Grace becomes one with whatever song she is performing, original or cover. One with the song, they are inseparable! In this case, with this song, Grace puts on a clinic on how to do it.

Great reaction. I looked for your reaction on Grace covering ,Max miller's everything stays , but could not find it.Can't believe you have not done that one.Found out you had some power outages and trees down in your area, hope all is well.

Chance plays such a big part in life...the young woman from Brazil who stayed at Grace's home and inspired Grace to get a ukulele..Grace's mom thinking it would be fun to audition for AGT...I think her new jazzy style may have emerged simply because Grace felt a need to be discreet and relatively subdued at her new school. She says she is still shy about performing in front of people she considers peers, like her fellow students. She is so talented that she simply adjusts her style based on the situation. Who knows, someday she may be doing alternative rock or punk!

Thomas and Sammy, I really sorry for my reaction. I know I was way out of order and I really hope you guys will forgive me. If no other reason just the love of grace. Peace!

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Dax, the whole ep Letters Vol 1. = Eduardo

I regularly watch your reactions because I love Grace but I rarely get through one without being infuriated. Grace is not a philosophical genius nor a literary one . What she is is a very astute and perceptive young woman with extraordinary gifts.