Jonathon Young is really talented. His cover of "The Bells of Notre Dame" and "In the dark of the night" (Anastasia) are top notch and give me chills every time.
@@Demon-ee5bh Oh I haven't. I mean I could list a bunch of his songs which are top-notch (Phantom of the Opera, Friends on the other side, to name a few) but those two I initially listed are the ones that really hit me the hardest.
Whilst Jonathan is of course not as scary when he isn't playing a role, there's still a certain trend noticable. He and Caleb have sung their way through a lot of what Disney et al have delivered in terms of music and typically, Jonathan is the one who indulges in the villain songs whereas Caleb excells in the more heroic themes.
Which is why I find it interesting that in their Savages cover, Jonathan voices the more heroic Chief Powhatan while Caleb voices the more sinister Governor Ratcliffe. They completely flip the script on us with that cover.
Well, Caleb is a tenor and Jonathan is a barritone, I believe? The villain songs are darker in their tone and therefore complement Jonathans voice better, while the hero songs are lighter.
I love the addition of "Please! Give me sanctuary!" because it's what Quasimodo's mother is screaming at the church doors right before Frollo killed her. Really nice touch adding it to Frollo's song.
My favorite part of his rendition is how he reaches the peak of his distortion at "let her taste the fires of hell" - then pulls back and is basically clean on "or else let her be mine or mine alone". It really shows that, on some level, he really believes his own hypocritical worldview, and genuinely thinks of his claim to Esmerelda as something beautiful and born of love, not even recognizing anything wrong with that.
@@nixixim I’m going to stop saying anything nice about old Disney movies if that’s just going to attract comments about how “they don’t write Disney movies like they used to” as if something like Encanto is simple and clean
@@Pablo360able Well, I definitely prefer past Disney, but people saying that Disney is not as good isn’t always the same as claiming they’re not good anymore. Hunchback of Notre Dom _is_ more complicated, deeper and heart-wrenching than Encanto. That doesn’t mean that Encanto is bad or simple. It is clean, but I don’t understand why that’s automatically a bad thing.
The reason I love the "give me sanctuary scream" hits so hard for me is because thats what Kwasimodos mother is asking for when he kills her, so not only is it super dramatic but it also drives home both his desperation but also his hypocrisy, and I love it.
Yes, he streams his mixing / planning etc on his twitch channel as well - its great to see the depth of his planning and execution for every song he does and the live decision making that goes into it all.
The "Caleb" you're referring to is Caleb Hyles who is indeed a singer as you mention. They pair up on their version of "The Bells of Notre Dame" which I'd love to hear your take on, as well as MANY other collabs between the pair of them.
I'm sure you know but just for folks learning about Caleb from this comment section, his album "In One Breath" is available in full on youtube and spotify and is a phenomenal original composition.
Jonathan is amazing. He does pretty much every instrument himself and a lot of editing as well. He also has his own original music that's totally worth checking out. But as for the covers, he also did Bells of Notre Dame and so many other awesome Disney covers. His Prince of Egypt covers are amazing too.
For fits and giggles, there is also the Twisted Translation of "Be prepared" he did with Malinda ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wT09O3tqaT4.html
The sheer emotion and character that Jonathan put into these performances is what puts his covers over the top for me. If you want some other recommendations Bells of Notre Dame and Be Prepared are exceptional and well worth a watch.
"Hellfire" is my go-to audition number, and I cannot imagine going up to an F on "she will burn" after you just got done doing it on a D. Jonathan's range is worthy of envy.
And the best thing is, this cover is actually 2 semitones higher than the original, so the notes here aren't actually D and F, but E and G, which makes it even more impressive.
It really helps where his vocal range is too, being a super low bass makes hitting those in pure chest much harder, but I think Jonathan is in that high bass, low baritone range with a very dramatic timbre in his voice. I, for instance don't have too much issue hitting a high F, maybe even a high G in my chest voice despite being around the same area as Jonathan, but since him and I are both raised on rock and metal I can only guess he grew up singing way out of his own range like I did. I have pushed my range a stupid amount that I probably need to get an instructor to figure out what my actual voice classification is, I am not a tenor, I know that much, I have an E2-F4 chest on any given day, C2-A4 on rare occasion, pushed chest can get me down to A1 and chest fry/subharmonics can get me to C1 and sometimes lower, mix and head voice get me anywhere between D5 and F#5 depending on the day. Based purely on my comfortable chest range I am a bass, but I have heard baritone as well, I am not a trained vocalist so I am not an expert at all. Either way Jonathan's range and just general singing prowess is utterly insane, I am hoping I can get down to a consistent C2 as I age and improve in the same way as him, portraying this kind of emotion is one of the most fun things you can do. Whatever character you are playing or song you are doing, this sort of emotional vocal performance is amazing.
The one thing I very much enjoy about Jonathon Young, is his vast and overwhelmingly powerful grasp of emotion. He seems to be able to command just the right about of anxiety, levels of distraught, rage, or outright fear in ways that I honestly would expect out of a method actor, not a singer.
He really sells the "man who thought he was righteous but realized he has fallen into sin" that makes Frolo such an amazing character. 10/10 just for the production then another 10 points for the song being a banger. Solid 20 out of 10
In the original: the music dips off after “mine and mine alone” as a guard comes in to inform Frollo that Esmeralda escaped. Then Frollo resolves to burn Paris to find her. In this one: he starts pleading to Maria, quoting the Lord’s Prayer, and screaming for help as the music crescendos to a stop. And then his inner demon takes control over him as he resolves to burn Paris to find her. It completely changes the impact of the scene, and I LOVE IT.
Jonathan Young's "Villains" album is -*chef's kiss* A suggestion for something that might pique your interest is Melancholia, by the band Dark Sarah. Each of their albums tells an overarching story of the main character Sarah, and the latest album is about a character named Luna, with a surprising connection to the original stories. I think you'll really enjoy it!
@@platinum_noelle Glad to hear! It amazed me that all of the albums told one giant connected story, it was an incredible journey to follow along and i'm excited to see what the future holds!
I like how the ad lib at the end, "Give me sanctuary." is a callback to one of the earlier songs, The Belles of Notre Dame, in which Quasimodo's mother is crying out for sanctuary at the doors to Notre Dame Cathedral when she was being pursued by Frollo and is then subsequently killed on the steps
Jon did an awesome job highlighting just how creepy and dangerous Frollo really would have been as a real person. Thanks for looking at his work, it was great to see your impressions of one of his best covers! If you want some more great RU-vid artists, there's a collab on Caleb Hyles' channel 'The Wellerman Collab' which itself is great, and can also lead you to more great artists like PelleK, NateWantsToBattle, and of course Anthony Vincent :D
One of my favourite parts that wasn't touched upon in this video, is his cries of "Give me sanctuary!" When Frollo killed the Gypsy Woman on the steps of Notre Dame at the start of the movie, those are the words she was crying out. Speaking of, please check out his version of "Bells of Notre Dame." You'll also get to hear Caleb Hyles! (An incredible vocal chameleon!)
JY is god tier RU-vid. Loved him for years. I listen to his One Punch Man cover several times a week since it came out. His Pokemon cover makes me 10 years old again. His voice is powerful and beautiful.
I have been waiting to see Jonathan Young on this channel for a LONG Time!! His voice has such a wide range and his covers have SOOOO MUCH more emotion than most of the original!
Love the original song. Judge Claude Frollo is such a real villain. Someone that you can see existing. It’s the reason he’s so menacing. This version’s dark timbre adds a grit to it that I love. It’s hard to say which I love more as the original will always hold a place in my heart. I love Hunchback! Great review as always!!
Jonathan Young is one of my favorite artists. His covers of so many songs are amazing. Even though he doesn't always write his own. He takes songs and makes them his own, while staying as close as possible to the original.
Hi Elizabeth, this is my first time listening to this song/artist, and this performance was amazing. The dark aggression in Hellfire is perfect for Metal, and Jonathan's voice is the incarnation of Disney's villains. I look forward to more reactions/performances from Jonathan. Thank you, Elizabeth!!! 💙
This is almost like a metal opera. Went to see this 2 years ago in Finnish theater that was ALOT more tame. This really feels more capturing. Awesome rendition!
It's awesome that you're checking this cover out! For what it's worth, I think you should try his cover of Phantom of the Opera. His version is so far superior to the original cast recording that it's ridiculous.
If you want a happier side of him, have a look at his rendition of the first Pokémon intro, featuring the original singer at the same time. There's another song that's just too good to pass up despite the sadness it carries, named Unravel, both by TK from Ling Toshite Shigure, and its translated rendition by Jonathan Young.
He is very versatile. He started more with pop rock and overtime it has gotten a lot harder. My kids absolutely love his stuff. The Caleb you mentioned is Caleb Hyles. He's also very good. Jonathan plays a lot of different instruments, so he was likely heavily involved. You should check out more. PS... Jonathan also has an entire album of Disney villain songs.
I'm so happy that you've finally reacted to Jonathan Young! He's been one of my favorite singers on RU-vid for years now, and I'm so sad that he doesn't get more attention from reactors like you. You definitely need to follow up with his cover of The Bells of Notre Dame, I feel like. That's one of his collaborations with Caleb Hyles, and they do some great work together. Their cover of Wolf in Sheep's Clothing is INTENSE. Though, I'm happy to say that Jonathan is now putting a lot of energy into shifting to more original works, and his song Land of the Living is amazing. I'd love for you to react to it.
Jonathan Young has such an amazing voice, I love his versions of Disney songs. He puts so much energy and emotion into them all, and of course his voice, the instruments, it's great.
Hi Elizabeth! Thanks for reacting to Jonathon Young, he's a remarkable and prolific artist, and I'm glad you enjoyed this video! A couple of things that you wondered about during the video: Jon is a multi-instrumentalist. He plays guitar, keyboard, bass and drums, and I believe he usually plays all the instruments on his songs, unless otherwise mentioned. He has a group of other RU-vidr friends that he collabs with quite often, including Caleb Hyles whom you mentioned (and whom you should definitely check out - he has a fantastic voice and also has done a lot of covers of Disney songs, pop songs, and much more), as well as RichaadEB and FamilyJules, who are both guitarists who do a lot of video game covers. The four of them together have done an INCREDIBLE set of eurobeat covers in a power metal style, which I cannot recommend highly enough. Even if you don't post reactions, you should give them a look just because they're so much fun. They're on RichaadEB's channel. Jon has also branched out into original music, as well as his covers of all sorts of things. If you want to hear him singing his own composition, I'd recommend Echo Chamber, or Land of Broken Dreams. Have a great day!
Oh man, I wish you'd revisit Jonathan Young and his amazing Disney covers. I'm be happy to see your reaction to all his covers and also his original works.
Hell yeah! Jonathan Young is one of my favorite metal artists! His covers and originals are both amazing and worth looking into. The artist he frequently collabs with that you alluded to is named Caleb Hyles, and he is an incredible signer as well. On a rather topical note, they actually teamed up to do a similarly awesome cover of "The Bells of Notre Dame" (would strongly recommend this one as a great way to see a bit of Caleb and more of Jonathan Young). I would definitely recommend diving deeper into both of them! 😉
Soo happy you finally did a Johnathn Young song. He does a lot of covers with Caleb Hyles as well. I would love to see you do Johnathans cover of "The One Punch Man" opening. He does most of the production himself as far as I know
His rendition to Be Prepared is also one of his greatest songs. A few others that you may love is Shiney - Moana. bells of Notre Dam, and Greatest Showman. They are all very fantastic and well produced.
with how much you enjoyed this, you would love his cover of "Be Prepared" from the Lion King, particularly the more recent 2019 version. it is on the level of this video in terms of how well he sorta crawls into the characters head and lays every last bit of emotion and madness in his performance, in a way that just haunts the viewer. also his collab with Caleb Hyles on The Bells of Notre Dame is pure fire, as well as their many collaborations on covers of the Prince of Egypt soundtrack
Love the fact your actually doing Jonathan Young. I hope you do more of him in the future. His covers are great but his OG stuff also brilliant. Maybe if you would please check out Anthony Vincent.
I love that I was just rewatching JoYo's villain compilation and thinging: "Hey, it would be awesome if Elizabeth did a reaction to one of those." and two days later I see that. Love the reaction and the analysis.
I like this one a lot, but I actually prefer his "Be Prepared" cover. It's... honestly amazing. Another great cover of Hellfire is done by Tomi P. If you want a stupidly deep bass sound, check him out.
His voice is better for be prepared, but then again I'm very attached to this Disney movie and I generally don't like covers of this song. I feel the same way about friends on the other side from the princess and the frog I havent found a single good cover of that song
At times, I get the feeling that if you had a tail you'd be wagging it like crazy - you show just pure, unrestrained delight in music, and your enthusiasm is so infectious.
I'm super thrilled ✨ you're listening to Jonathan Young!!! His covers are awesome. 😀 One of my most favourite of his is "UNRAVEL" from the anime Tokyo Ghoul 🔥❤️
I love that you referenced how his technique has a little "Ronnie" in it. Absolutely legendary influence on power metal Ronnie had, and Jonathan Young really slays his own renditions of that power metal technique.
Well, Mrs. Z, no one embodies the wholesome beauty, charm, and intellectual curiosity of a Disney princess like you; and no one channels the snarling, maniacal evil of a Disney villain like Mr. Young here. They also say that the best villains are mirror images of the heroes and Mr. Young is ridiculously talented, absurdly prolific, has an amazingly expressive face, and seems super likable. Hmmm, how can this not be awesome? I hope this video does well, because I would love to see you not only check more JY, but also other amazing RU-vid artists like Dan Vasc, Violet Orlandi, and Skar Also, and I hate making requests because I know you're swimming in them, but Halloween is approaching, and Mr. Young has an AMAZING version of Oogie Boogie song. I know Geoff and Voiceplay already crushed that song, but you must react to JY's version. Geoff was creepy and fun as the character, Jonathan Young is intense and absolutely terrifying!
I have been a huge fan of Jonathan Young for many years now and I always love his versions better than the originals so it makes me happy that someone with your knowledge thinks about it the same way.
To answer some questions: Jonathan does all of his own arranging from what I've seen He specifically went to school for that. Caleb is a fellow singer, normally doesn't do as much arrangement. You should look into Jonathan's originals as well, because he puts even more into them.
Your reactions to this mirror my own so immensely, watching your face is a mirror of my own. This song really reaches into the heart, and Jonathan Young does an amazing job with all his religious and villain songs - particularly his male voices. He has *so* much talent for taking distortion in and out of his voice and such an ear for when the hard edge of rock will improve a song to reach the heart. Thanks for this review. And your reactions are so awesome as you watch him struggle with his hope and torment, as well as his madness.
I recommend checking out his original stuff as well - "Jet Pack Race" and "Final Frontier" both got me choked up (for different reasons), excellent songs.
It was so fun to see you break down Jonathan. I have loved his stuff for a long time, and he does have some really fun songs, that aren't quite so crazy, and his original music is amazing too. Great breakdown though, love it!
I love Jonathan Young so much! I honestly can't recommend his stuff more! Some of my favorites by him are "In the Dark of the Night", "Bells of Notre Dame", "Friends on the Other Side", "Playing with the big boys now", "poor unfortunate souls , and "you're gonna go far kid". Also for something very different, his version of "Be Our Guest" is super fun and phenomenal. Seriously it's hard to go wrong with him and Caleb, they are both fantastic!
I'm so glad you reacted to this cause I love Jonathan Young! He was one of the first artists to get me into metal and heavy rock. And I absolutely agree; in all his covers he always makes a great villain, though of course that's not all he can do.
I'm so happy you found Jonathan Young! I absolutely love his covers. my favorite Disney song as a kid was "In the Dark of the Night" from Anastasia. I loved how creepy and dark it sounded(i guess i was a messed up kid lol) and Jonathan does a fantastic cover of that as well.
i love your reaction. at first you didn't know what to expect and not to offend, but the look in your eyes was almost that of a princess being courted by a nat 20 charisma check, the eyes expressive, facination, almost being courted on the backfoot, so much focus on so many things you aren't ready for and the second time around you giggle like a nerd at so many places it's super cute XD. i love these reactions, getting a technical look at these artists while still enjoying the medium
So, now I want you to look at / listen to the "Hellfire" cover of Violet Orlandi. Me, being a Disney nerd had that on my YT front page and I loved it so much and now I'm just in love with everything she does. Then I found Halocene cause of Violet and then I found Jonathon cause of Halocene. I'm having a moment watching this reaction of his "Hellfire" cover :D
Lisa keep going down the collab rabbit hole with Violet, Halocene, Malinda Reese and Jonathan. They have introduced me to so many other YT Artists they are incredible
YES! So much YEEEEES! Jonathan Young is one of the most talented people I've ever heard, I really hope you check out more of his stuff, he's done a TON of disney villain covers (literally the best versions of them, like this one, no joke), and has recently been releasing a lot of amazing original work as well. Your insight into his work and performance is so interesting to watch as well, I've always loved him but not only hearing your analysis of his work but also seeing how much you're enjoying it yourself puts a smile on my face lol
Of his music, the ones I would recommend most are his cover of Be Prepared (the most recent one), as well as his collab with Peter Hollens for Rains of Castamere. For Rains of Castamere, theres a metal version on Jonathan's channel and an a capella version on Peter's, and I would recommend listening to the a capella version. Or you could put them both in the same video, since they're very similar. Love the reactions 👍
Jonathan arranges everything himself I'm fairly sure, he sometimes livestreams the process on his twitch, Caleb Hayes is another youtube cover singer who is also awesome! They've collabed a bunch of times ^_^
I found Jonathan first but The Bells got me to Caleb & I am so impressed with their collabs as well as his solo work. I especially love his Steven Universe cover work!
I felt the same way when I first heard him do Be Prepared from the Lion King. I was so bummed his version didn't make the live action version when it came out 😢
I recommended this a few times, especially after the last Peter Hollens video. I am glad you loved this song as much as I thought you would. The video almost got lost it the algorithm but this has been one of my favorite reactions.
It would be absolutely amazing to see some Manowar and Iced Earth on the channel. Both bands have some of the best metal singers to ever do it. A question of heaven by iced Earth and either heart of steel or blood of kings by manowar are fantastic choices. Love the reactions.
This is the best version of this song, original or otherwise. I really get the sense he’s tortured and tormented, and trying to convince himself he’s not to blame. And the tears at the end are just genius.
I would love to see more reactions on Jonathan Young! He has some excellent covers on some of the songs. His "Be Prepared" has two renditions. I recommend the newest one he did because it adds a personality twist on scar that was not in the original and I think it really makes it better. He does good covers of "Playing with the Big Boys" (Prince of Egypt), "In the dark of the Night" (Anastasia) and "Poor Unfortunate Souls" (The Little Mermaid).
He has a cover of an originally japanese song called "Unravel", from an anime called Tokyo Ghoul, it's really underrated and I'd absolutely love to hear your take on this song, there is so much emotion he puts into this song, no matter how many times I listen to it, it gets me time and again.
I recommended this a while ago but seriously, Jonathan Young did a song with Peter Hollens called "Rains of Castamere"... its fantastic. You should give it a listen!
The Bells of Notre Dame is how I got into Jonathan Young. His non-Disney covers are also awesome. And if you like magical and mystical music, check out AURI - Pearl Diving. Johanna Kurkela is an amazing vocalist, I think you will love her.
