If You Raise Your Head - MonaLisa Twins (Original) 

Another brilliant, creative original from MLT. I sure wish more folks would raise their heads enough to appreciate music like this, as well as take notice of what is happening in the world in general. A subtle message in the great grooves.

The twins aren't a cover band They are an authentic musical force to be reckoned with!

Simply Brilliant!

Can we just take a moment to recognize the incredible talent of not just the groovy ladies, but also their groovy dad? He not only plays an awesome keyboard, but has some serious fun doing it!! Thank you for sharing 💜💜

It amazes me how easily Lisa's delicate fingers play with the more difficult techniques of playing the electric guitar. However, it is as if one notices some background of classical guitar. A rare case of playing technique. Fantastically talented!

These two women started out great and just keep getting better with every performance.

“If You Raise Your Head” is such a brilliant song with so much musical depth and lyrical meaning for these times. The guitar work, drumming, vocals and harmonies are amazing, and in the tradition of true classic rock and roll. The guitar effects are out of this world, and watching Lisa with the talk box and bending those strings and pushing her guitar to the limit is stuff of our true rock legends, just love it. Love Mona’s stellar drumming and rhythmic magic. The singing is so expressive and uplifting and so ultra cool to see Mona and Lisa moving to the groove as they sing and play the guitar. Love the video showing us how the magic is all done, such impressive musicianship. And then there is father Rudolf doing his brilliant keyboard work dueling with Lisa’s guitar creating music bliss. Love seeing you all in your elements creating some of the greatest music today! Just endlessly impressed with your music and talents, can't get enough of it. Genius! 👍🎶💛❤💜

Honestly, this is my new favorite song! I love this so much. Mona’s vocals, Lisa’s talk box, and dad rockin’ the keys! That funky rhythm is awesome. Perfection!

This is one of my favorites from the why album. The lyrics of this song ring so true to me, as is the case for so many "Why" album songs. I love the "duel" between Lisa using the talk box and Papa Rudi on the keyboards.

I always say: 'good music is out there, you just have to work harder to find it these days!" This song typifies that to a tee! Keep creating, it's inspiring to so many of us!

These young ladies never cease to amaze me with their such variable talents.I am always ready to listen to them perform.Thank you 🎼🎼👏👏💐💐.

The title lyric has literally made a change for me, by looking up from the various screens in my life, whether it is the phone, TV, or laptop, and focusing on the blue sky and real life.

This is my new favorite MonaLisa Twins original. Lisa's talk box guitar solo (at 1:44) is sensational. And it is always fun to see Mona on her drum kit... and Rudi on the keys.

Another MLT song that you'd like to last longer. I love it when Mona sings in a lower register and also seeing both of them playing (well bits of) their parts in the recording. The family enjoyment of producing these masterpieces is also wonderful, we really need their uplifting ways in these difficult times.

When I find myself down. I will raise my head and look up playing this in my head. Thank you Mona Lisa Twins staying groovy.

You two just keep blowing me away. Great song!!!!!! Really tasty guitar work and solo with the voice box, Lisa. Your Dad kills it with the keyboards. And Mona....that groove you're laying down with the drums is perfect. Great soulful singing to boot.

Every time I think I can no longer be surprised by the talent of the MonaLisa Twins, I stumble onto another video and realize I was wrong. On the right of my screen, I'm noticing the Twins covering Stuck in the Middle. If you could excuse me for a moment...

Just seeing the smile on your Dad's face I can only imagine how proud he is to be making this fantastic music with his two girls.

Stunning !!!

What a brilliant song, these girls are like a breath of fresh air. Keep it up. Just purchased the album.

Another superb song from the fabulous MonaLisa twins. They just keep getting better and better. This is masterclass music.

The skill of execution has grown significantly. Great!

Great job! Reminds me of Blood Sweat & Tears or early Chicago. But without the horns, of course.

"Tell me what you see" reminds me of something around 1965!! You girls plus dad are remarkable writers and performers I LOVE your music!!

It's been a long time since I replayed a video 5 times just to feel the groove. Ok never and it's now 6. This is fantastic.

One of the great bands of our time.

I don't know how I missed this release, but DANG, LADIES! Thank you.

Dad certainly has got his funk on 😎

this is a great song ,,love the vocals as always,,, drums guitar talk box keys etc,, all cool !!!

This ultra groovy song is just one of a dozen brilliant originals on their new album, "WHY?". I listen to the whole set nearly every day and can't get enough of it! Brilliant musicians, thoughtful lyricists, beautiful people!

The twins are amazing! Kudos to their parents! Talent galore in this family! Love it!

Cant get that song outa my head. Love every thing. All those major chords and no minor!

They just keep getting better and better. On behalf of all of us in the MLT nation, thank you ladies for a very great piece of music.

Wow, What a tune. I love it.

This is a fantastic song from the stunning album Why? and you'll find yourself humming it for days after first hearing it. Mona and Lisa along with Rudi say it emerged from a lockdown jamming session and it shows how playing around with riffs and melody in an unstructured way can really bring dividends - of course this is how the Beatles worked and look what it did for them! As well as being one of the grooviest track they have ever written it also conveys an important social message. I love the video from the studio which reminds me of some of their earlier videos and it's so wonderful to see Mona up front singing (and also on the drums) along with some incredible guitar playing and vox box from Lisa (see that guitar weep!) and of course some sublime keyboards from Rudi. The button simply named 'Like' does not do this video justice!

Another brilliant song by these lovely and talented young ladies and their dad,there are definitely a few influences in this song (60s and 70s) l just wish the mainstream radios would play them,keep on rocking MLT, T and N

How can you not love this crew!

Nice song with cracking lyrics, backing vocals, polished guitar work and that funky organ which is one of the best sound to come out of an instrument.

So retro, complete with period fade-out. Nice crisp drumming. Bass with a pick - worked for the sound.

Holy Smokes Ladies! This is Incredible! Such a Great Song! So Fun To Listen To, and watch. Special guest Papa Rudi killed it on the keyboard and Bass. Lisa with her synthesizer solo and Mona on all things percussion is truly a family project. Of course Michaela in the background (off screen ) rocking out. Thanks Ladies and Team MLT for the Brilliance of this video

Super groove, magical Lead/Talk Box interchanges, Talk Box now there`s a thing!, Poinant lyrics of our times and a video to show how it`s done. Brilliant thanks and stay groovy!.

Congratulations Mona & Lisa !!! Really great job. Regards from Buenos Aires, Flavio.

What a great song and I love your dad getting involved.

Funky👍wunderbar seid ihr. Grüße aus Wien

Wow, this is a very good tune! I'm especially impressed with Lisa's guitar work.

This groove is straight out of when your dad and I were in school. Love it!

Your music is the spirit of the 60s. And i love it.

Complimenti! Belli gli arrangiamenti e le armonie vocali!

This is what happens when you spend your entire life growing-up in a recording studio. "WHY?" is proving to be MLT's best album yet.

Girls girls...... awesome just love you two lady's Georgous talented and refreshing in every way! Keep up the excellent music and singing and videos and performances and just everything and know you are my favorite musicians and all my love and blessings from Cape Town South Africa 🌍❤🎉

I love and admire you two young ladies more and more with each new song you release. The lyrics again send the perfect message, and the vocals and instruments were, as usual, perfection. Great job girls!

Woooooo came into this with zero expectations and I love the funky bluesy soul vibe and the kinda casual vocals, I bet this sounds AMAZING live.

This definitely has the 60s & 70s feel to it. Love it!

I still have a big crush on one of the twins! Doesn't seem to go away

In my opinion, this is the best of your original music . . . so far

Love, love, love this! A fan in Michigan, USA.

I am so proud of these ladies. So glad to see their fan base has grown so large and wide spread. I once claimed to be president of the MLT fan club Mississippi chapter - membership of 1 - because no one I talked to had never heard of them. Under the tutelage of Papa Rudy and Michaela, my 2nd favorite pair of twins ( my Mom and her sister being No. 1 ) have developed and matured enormously. Each release of new original music is better and better. Keep on keeping on, my lovely ladies.

I can’t even tell you how much I love this video…it’s perfection..unbelievable talent…and so good to see Papa Rudi on camera🩷❤️

What a great video!! The lead vocals and the harmonies are wonderful and beautifully blended. The lead guitarist is just excellent and the rare 'talk box' work is really fun. The drumming is tight and precise. That keyboardist has impressive chops and a lot of soul! The 'arguments' back and forth between the lead guitar/talk box and the keyboard are exciting. And a solid bass guitar keeps everything in the groove. Best of all, the skilful shooting/editing of this video takes us right inside the music's creation. Keeping one's head down where it's safest, and signing over agency to a few self-appointed decision makers, has written many sad chapters of human history. Although its creation may have been inspired by recent events, the simple genius of this song is that it is timeless and universal. By first appealing to the heart with the fun and soulful feel of the music ... and then waking up the mind with the lyrics ... you can begin to understand how music once helped to stop a war. These talented musicians have succeeded in distilling what was best about the 1960s. Not only have they become masters of the analog instruments of those years, they also know how to create music which inspires us to think and act!

Great song, with an important message for this day and age. 💯

Another little diamond!❤

I just listened to this today (1/28) and all I can say is this is excellent! One of their best. Extreme beauty and extreme talent.

Great job ! Your dad is definitely a rocker !

Great lyrics and musical composition! Kind of Taxman/Sympathy for the devil vibe! Love this!

FUN and FUNKY! Talent and personality abound! Wonderfully catchy throw-back groove now paired with a perfectly matched superb video! All aspects amazing, but special props for the backing woo-hoos and hoo-hoos, Lisa's awesome talkbox performance, Mona's lead vocal and 🥁🪘, and PapaRudi's funky 🎹! Yet another artistic triumph from Team MLT!

Guitar, voicebox, and keyboard smoke shows!!! Another great song all the way around: Vocals, guitar, keyboard, and bongos! What a pleasure, ladies and dad!!!

Top! Great gig, video, vocals and most importantly - good fun!

Papa Rudi and Lisa: Daddy-Daughter time from "All My Loving (2007) to today. Keyboards and Gretsch with Talk Box...wonder if their 2007 selves could even dream of this. Also, this is the first time, since that 2007 concert, that we have seen an extended use of Mona on the drums. Mona, of course, does all the percussion in the studio, but to see her perform...so groovy!

This is the most infectious beat from MLT since their rocking version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"

Love this track. It really rocks. It’s got it all and has great energy and a fine, fine groove. Great vocals and guitar and drums and keyboards. Love the “Woo hoo” throughout. Wonderful, just wonderful!

The percussion & keyboards are well orchestrated. Keen original.

Was not expecting such a catchy 70s funk riff here. Well-played, ladies!

This has a serious late '60s vibe. Another incredible release.

*An awesome presentation!!* We certainly "Raise our heads" when we hear MLT playing! 😃 This is such a 'feel-good' song with a nice groove and the musicianship is outstanding. Mona on Drums, Bongos and percussion; Lisa on guitar and Talk-box solo (sounded awesome). 👍 Plus Rudi's talent as well on Bass and keyboards! All-in-all, with solid singing; makes for an excellent original song! Well done and congratulations! 👏👏It's another great track off the incredible *'WHY?'* album! 💯

Had NO idea that was "DAD" tickling those ivories! Just shows the talent in this family goes further than the two amazing ladies! GREAT SONG! GREAT JOB!

Well, that looked like fun for everyone :) As to the talkbox, I usually hear this when listening to Joe Walsh, so a big surprise. Great song.

It's so cool, harnessing all that familial talent and expressively creating a song out of thin air! A lot went into this and it's a Gem!

That was Fantastic!!! Absolutely Awesome!!

Now THAT is the way to start a day, brilliant!

This is my new favorite video off of the "why?" album. The words fit the times & the music fits the 60's. Great work!!!

Simply, awesome!! ❤

Brilliant! I can't imagine a better way to start today!

Girls , you are ARTISTS ! I love your ART . KEEP UP YOUR GREAT ART !

I see awesomeness all around! What a fantastic video! 🤩 and a fantastic song. So much fun. Great Hammond sound and well played! Really, really great video. All the best of the 60's taken to the next level. Love it! What a lovely and upbeat way to start the year!

Great original music!!

Great sounding song. Really nice arrangement/production, as always, but the rhythm section and the drumming have been especially inspired and creative on this latest batch. Lyrical content has been great, too. Everything sounds fresh and different. What a pleasure to find something like this on RU-vid.

This song, in fact the whole album, is amazing! Love the message and the music. Thank you MLT!!! 😀

Love the keyboard groove, great guitar riffs, great number. This is, as always, mixed and edited incredibly well.

Mona & Lisa are such a pleasure to listen to, to look at, to be entertained by. Both are extremely talented with both their covers and originals. Whoever does their recording work (tracking, mixdown, etc) does a superb job! If they ever tour in the USA, definitely count me in!

Well done. Good on first listen and improves with successive listens.

Always amazes me how far you both have come. This is a great tune but an even better video. Love watching how the music is made. Well done ladies, oh and dad. lol

Amazing!!! So talented.

WOW! Ive followed you for 10 years and now you really blow the minds of the musicians around you! You caught me from your first video but this is............Wow!

I have played with many of those I admired coming up but this is another level!! two way deal with father/Daughters I couldn't imagine the thrill of making music with my children or my father!

Another fantastic MonaLisa Twins original! Thanks to Dad for helping out.

Another great video by "our" twins! Lisa on the Tele, Mona on her drums! I ALWAYS love seeing Mona on her drum kit! A great video to start off 2023 with! 💛❤ 👏👏👏 👍

I've listened to this song so many times already. Like the rest of the album it is amazing! The writing, harmonies musicianship is fantastic!! Hoping for more original work soon!! These studio videos show off just how talented you two are! Your Dad too!!

I was waiting to make a comment since this was out in the club. Just like I waited to listen to the CD start to finish. I so love this one. It gives off such a happy vibe feel and to be aware. I love multiple percussion mixed in. I so miss the Hamond sound. It is so iconic to me. Great job to Papa and his bass. Peter Frampton made the talkbox popular in the 70s. Loved hearing Lisa playoff with her guitar solo. The background vocals give me a Rolling Stone vibe too. Plus, it's nice to see Mona, I think, sing lead. Or leadish. I love seeing the studio and how you mixed all the instruments you all play. Loved it very much. Love you all and the MLT community. Peace. Stay safe. God Speed.🍻 my friends. 🌹♥️🤘

I loved it. Great presentation.

Now that was an outstanding performance & collaboration of Dad & his twins! The MLT's knock another one out of the musical park! 👍👍🎸🎸🎤🎤🎹🎹💖💖