Jacob Collier Sings "Moon River," Daniel Caesar, & The Beatles in a Game of Song Association | ELLE 

Which song would you love Jacob to arrange?!

"daniel caesar is a massive legend, if you don't know him " "you should know him" *"now you know him"*

Me after watching Jacob Collier talk for the first time: Oh, so he’s a GENIUS genius

His hair fits his personality so well, chaotic and weirdly charismatic

This is what it looks like when someone finds their purpose and absolute passion and they live it with every cell in their body

i love how most artists are like 'AHHH I CAN'T THINK' and jacob is like 'okay i have a song but before time runs out lemme tell you about my connection with this particular song as well as change the settings on this keyboard to a 12 piece drum kit'

“So I wrote it in a key that doesn’t exist”

Normal kids: Learns to play twinkle twinkle little star Jacob: Composes a song in 7/4 to study math

I love how Elle let's Jacob have his above average long video. He deserves it. He's extremely talented.

Did he really say “Stevie Wonder if you’re watching”

Honestly he’s that annoying kid in music class but secretly you’re jealous cause they’re so talented and they’re friends with everyone

im convinced the just puts his hands wherever he wants and the keyboard just agrees

This man experiences music on a completely different level than all of us. I love music, but I'm almost jealous that I'll never be able to experience it to the level that he does

He’s so musically chaotic and it’s everything

As a kid, this guy made songs for times tables and each song's time signature depended on the table. Let that sink in

He is a real life Pixar character and I'm obsessed

He looks like a mad scientist of music. And i love it.

he plays the piano with as much ease it takes for him to talk, the guy's beyond talented

I’m convinced that Jacob is just music in human form sent down as an experiment

2 days ago I clicked on this video with no idea who Jacob was. I have since listened to all of his albums and watched his entire RU-vid channel. His talent, skill, and personality are overwhelmingly magnetic.

3:25 - Almost exactly 4 years later, he arranges and sings an amazing rendition of "Wild Mountain Thyme" with dodie, Laufey, the NSO, and the audience as a choir at The Kennedy Center.

it’s kinda crazy how he plays each song with his own sorta melody, like he hears them differently from everyone else. wild

did anyone else get really anxious when he just kept talking about how good the song was going to be so good... but he hadn't sung the word yet... and the timer kept ticking

Challenge: 10 seconds to think of a song with a word. Jacob: 10 seconds to get to the word in the song.

As a Bulgarian, I just want to share that my heart skipped a beat when one of my favorite artists said he wants to collaborate with the Bulgarian female choir. I felt so unbelievably happy and I'd love to see this happening

This man is music personified. Its in his character, his bones, he is just a pure artist.

Elle: Give us one song for this word Jacob: Ok here’s a full orchestral rendition of One Last Time in multiple key changes, different instrumentation, oh and wanna know more about my childhood and lifelong aspirations? Us: PLEASE AND THANK YOU

The fact that this video is over 18 minutes long shows just how sincere he is about music and how he can just get carried away by the simplest melodies - music appreciation at its best

I love the fact that he out of nowhere played that one single note with his nose. He truly feels music so much he HAD to play that one single note. A genius

Jacob Collier: *Records himself 5000 times to make Moon River and put it on his album* Also Jacob: *forgets words*

14:31 is perhaps the most telling part of Jacob Collier. He dips down and plays a note with his nose because he ran out of fingers. And for those of us watching, we expect that to be a little joke hes throwing in there to be funny and we expect some kind of smirk or acknowledgement of that fact from him afterwards. But there's no reaction to it on his part because he wasn't doing it for comedic effect. He just knew he wanted that note in there and knew he was out of fingers. So the nose was just this natural reaction from there to get the sounds he had in his head out into the world.

1:10 Stay With Me 1:37 Time Alone With You 2:16 Best Part 3:26 The Wild Mountain Thyme 4:36 Here Comes the Sun 5:13 Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough 5:28 One Last Time 7:30 Bad Day 8:05 It Don’t Matter 8:46 The Listening Chair 9:47 Moon River 12:01 Fire and Rain 13:48 Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye 15:03 Happier Than The Morning Sun 16:05 You Are The Sunshine Of My Life 17:28 Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love for You

Jacob Collier is quintessential musicians' musician. Out there, really experimental, very intelligent. I'm even surprised a mainstream publication would feature him like this.

this is the mozart of our time and that is not up for argument

He exudes so much JOY. It's so rare, it's kinda addicting.

Jacob going “Idk why I’m doing this with my hands” but just vibing with it is my favorite thing

This dude is so naturally, effortlessly, charmingly weird.

this man is not only extremely talented but incredibly intelligent and well spoken, i admire him

Nobody: Jacob: *casually plays in key that doesn't exist*

I want so badly for my children to learn the times' table through Jacob's music.

everyone else doing this: *rushes to sing* ahhhhhhhh *thinking* jacob: ooo, leemme intro this song quick and play some notes, don't worry about the timer.

His jazz levels are astouding

What i love about him is the fact that he plays the keyboard like he grew up in a black church

He really seems to embody a child that was very well loved and catered to🥺👏🏾

This guy is probably the best musician alive right now, his ability to create something on the spot is INSANE

I like how this video is 20 minutes and every other artists is between 5-8 minutes.

I love how he turned a usually 8-minute clip into a 18-minute mini-concert.

He's absolutely electric. It looks like he thinks in music and it's lovely.

why does jacobs hair always look like he just rubbed a balloon over it

You can just see him cycling through like a 100 'obvious songs' before settling on one haha

“I’d like to collaborate with the Bulgarian women’s choir of television and radio, they’re like ridiculously killing, and they make these sounds like *EEiEeIEEieEEHHhHH* ...and yeah that’s cool so I want to collaborate with those guys.”

Jacob is the Mozart and Beethoven of our time.....pay attention, learn from him, study him and remember him - we are so lucky he exists in our lifetimes. He should be known - tell others what this incredible musician can do. He is a musical genius who knows he also has the power to change not only anything in music but how people feel about themselves, our society etc. with his messages of peace, love and caring for others. He is truly unique and important to learn from. All people, not just musicians, should know about him and what he does and how he creates. Amazing indeed. What a brain! Most of us literally only use about 10% of our brain - can't say that about Jacob Collier.

It's insane that he can just figure out the chords for these songs with no prep, just chucks straight into them. Insanity

I love how this guy just loses himself in every little detail and it seems like after a little while he realizes it’s still an interview and then he comes back to reality ! So glad I found out about him like 2 weeks ago 🙏🏼

This is the best Song Association guest ever

I love that this man can play any song’s instrumental but can forget the lyrics

You can see the passion. That alone is addicting. I can watch this guy forever.

no one: he's blind literally everyone: he can't see jacob : stevie, if you're watching hit me up

This called me musically incompetent in keys that don't even exist...

I love that Billies was 5 minutes, Jacobs is 18 minutes because he just loves to jam out so much and I'm here for it.. He is brilliant

As someone who has never really understood music- I started crying when he began playing Stevie Wonder. I recognized the songs, because my grandpa listened to him. And for some reason, I felt like Stevie, Grandpa, and Jacob were all feeling the same feeling together; and I was part of it too.

It’s crazy how he doesn’t even know the words but can still play the musical progressions of these songs he hardly knows

"I can keep going up and up the keys, but Ariana Grande doesn't deserve that"

His existence is absolutely a gift to this world.

I feel like he could sing whatever and say "this is a song I created just right now in this moment", and we'd all buy it

Jacob: *plays beautifully* keyboard: *KLACK KLACK KLACK*

he's living on the edge with all these close 1 second failures

When you’re so musically advanced that you completely forget that “Heart and Soul” exists

The most impressive thing here is how Jacob can just start singing a song in perfect key. You can pull up any of the songs he sings and the key is bang on.

Why does he always sounds like he's on 1.25 speed?

Jacob Collier looks like his brain exploded inside his head, but the only thing that reacted was his hair.

That little passage at 10:50 is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.

*You:* keep forgetting the chords for the songs you sing all the time *Jacob:* heard a song a once two years ago from a random car driving by, haven't memorized the lyrics at all, but the melody and complex harmony are just there to stay

I read “Jacob Collier” and I’m instantly here

He'd be a great childrens' tv program host. Teaching them through music and stories. Love him!

My favorite bit: the unexpectedly beautiful vocals at 11:01 which are quickly followed at 11:09 by that wonderful whirl of an ending, just pure fun (especially that last note). Second place is that sudden joyously wild glissando at 16:22, but honestly the entire performance of that tune is sunshine in and of itself, notably 16:33 & 17:00. This kid doesn't just play music, he IS music. There's no other way to describe it. He exudes such pure & inspired creative wonder; that golden soul illuminates every note & word.

as an aspiring musician, listening to this man perform is simultaneously extremely inspiring and extremely depressing

He is 100 percent counting the ten in his head and waiting till 1 second is left on purpose

A wonderful, inventive young man who is very generous with his fellow musicians. Doesn't take himself too seriously. Cheers me every time I listen to his music. The Game of Song Association was great fun, thank you!

You know someone is a musical genius when they said they went to a key that doesn't exist. *mind blown*

Nobody: Jacob: I could keep going up in key, *but Ariana Grande doesn't deserve that*

“I was into maths” I KNEW IT!! He gives off vibes of someone who likes math.

gosh his level of energy is unmatched when he’s talking about music. just shows how much he enjoys it because the ideas, notes? melodies just go out of his brains yk 😂

I have so much respect for this guy. He's so so so talented and yet he never stops praising other musicians with his insanely posh vocabulary. He exudes so much happiness and chill, love from South Africa bro:)

Everything he says just seems so important

Can't even hate this guy, he's just so positive

Jacob really has a true heart for all the things that make up music and he loves to teach and share. Salute.

Other than being a stupendous musician, I noticed he has a wide range of vocabulary, makes this video 100 times more enjoyable honestly

Now and again, a musician will play a chord while singing, and it will sound wonky, and I'll think something along the lines of "this sounds weird because they lack musicality". Then Jacob Collier will be playing a chord while singing, and it will sound wonky, and I'll think something along the lines of "this sounds weird because I lack musicality".

Is no one gonna talk about how he managed to arrange the 7 times table into 7/4 at the age when you’re still learning your times tables?

I'm in love when he does that runs in Moon River... It was so amazing

jacob can make 300 versions of each song ever existed and each one will turn out so beautiful

“I’m from england, which is a good place to be from”

The fact that he wants to collaborate with Kendrick is quite literally a match made in heaven and a dream come true

His ability to reharmonize on the spot is ridiculous. I wish I had that ability! Can’t wait to see him in Denver later this month!!!

When you give a baby a toy piano, they just vaguely mash the keys and the right sounds come out. Jacob has taken his mastery to such a level as to go come full circle, past that familiar precise command of a classical virtuoso, right back to where he casual flails half limp fingers over the keys and somehow by some magic beautiful music comes out the end of them

“i could keep going up and up keys but ariana grande doesn’t deserve that...”😂

No one: Jacob: due to a shortage of hands, I shall play with my nose

5:34 I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THAT! Wow

Jacob to me is one of the most intriguing musicians out there nowadays. He's on such a tier of his own that it's kind of hard to have a full grasp of what he's doing, but it's really interesting to observe.