Opera Singer Reacts to Devin Townsend - Kingdom 

Notice: This is a repost of my previous video which had issues on RU-vid! Many of you loved it and have asked for me to report it so here it is. 😍 SPECIAL QUESTION FOR YOU: What/who should I listen to next?! __ In today’s video, I show you my reaction, as a Juilliard trained opera singer, to Devin Townsend performing Kingdom🎶❤️ Help make these videos possible: Patreon: www.patreon.com/MaggieRenee PayPal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/MaggieReneeMusic ​ Follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/maggiereneemusic Thank you for all of your wonderful support! ❤️

I NEVER get tired of watching people react to Devin.

Now watch him sing "Why", specifically from his quarantine concert. It's a Disney-esk opera-type song.

On Devin Townsend's "Why?" video, one of the top comments is "Devin Townsend is my favorite Disney princess'." He makes a good princess, hero and the villain all in one.

🥳 That was a fun video. He has other cool songs. A song called "Why". It's sung to a cartoon where he is the character.

Yeah and get this, Devin is completely self taught. This man is a genius. Also All Hail Ziltoid!

The guitar solo is hilarious. If you ever watched EMG TV it is absolute shredding.His solo is so easy. Hilarious

It was nice to see you laugh at the guitar solo joke as so many reactors don't get it. :) Deadhead live at the Royal Albert Hall is another great performance.

Devvy has synesthesia. A great composition must be a rainbow to him! 🥳

Devin Townsend - 2021 Failure Live WITH an orchestra is immaculate perfection

Devin Townsend Project - Stormbending live at Plovdiv with orchestra and choir accompaniment.

One of my favorite thing as a singer is watch other singers or teachers react to Devin 😄 Devin is a monster!

It's impossible not to love him. I'm sure that I'm not the only one to recommend a reaction to his quarantine concert to the song "why?". Stay safe 🤘😁🤘

The fifthy thousand subscribers dance really got me. Congratulations!

Deadhead live...you will never be the same. Devin is a monster

New sub (and former VP major) here! Devin is AMAZING and if you want to hear his incredible range and emotional captivation, Deadhead live at RAH will blow you away!!!

Now since this has came back, it's time to do WHY.

fantastic voice great musician

Devin Townsend's tamest, most reserved performance

I love watching the coaches react to Devin.

So many people react to this and the guitar solo bit goes right over their heads somehow, was stoked someone finally got it!

Someone fell in love

Devy is a showman! He loves to ham it up.

Please do Funeral, Bastard, and The Death of Music live at the RAH.... Mind blowing 😱🤯

If this is a re-upload, why is it being premiered? Also, if you like this guy and his "operatic" style. You should check out his song "Why" from his quarantine album.

All of you people recommending “Why?” from his quarantine stream are missing the best performance of that song. His live performance at the “Order of Magnitude” show is way better IMO. Hilarious and spectacular. Plus he’s wearing a tutu. What more could you want?

Hi M, that was fun ). Love from Portugal

Welcome to Devy's World. We're all just living in it. :)

Even with all the amazing ability he displays in this performance, I think his on stage charisma is the most impressive part of the whole thing. He’s up there with Freddie Mercury and David Byrne for me

Well I of course have to give this another like!!! lol

His song Deadhead, live at The Royal Albert Hall. Absolutely nothing quite like it!

The amount of moistness from vocal coaches with Devy keeps me coming back. Love it

I watched this the last time it was posted. Watching it again, it's still entertaining. I like Mr. Townsend. He's a different breed of cat.

You should definitely react to “Why” and/or “Deadhead”(live in Royal Albert Hall)by Devin

I'll watch this again. Hell ya🤘

The other day, I was writing something and used the word beautiful, and your voice was in my head as I spelled b-e-a-utiful

I really don't believe he's stressing his cords that much, because he's got the mic IN his mouth almost, and because of how crispy his clean channel stays through the whole song.

I'd love to see one of the youtube reacting channels to check out the really old material by all the reaction favs. for instance this one: "Strapping Young Lad live 8.13.1997 kinda pro shot (Pops, Sauget IL)" You don't have to do a 'live reaction' just skip through it and comment on the difference between now and then.

The flick hes doing with his picking hand (right hand) is actually an endurance break. Because of the speed and style of his music and the palm muting technique, his wrist takes a great level of strain, so the flicking of the wrist helps to keep it limber :)

I would love to see Maggie react to Queensryche take hold of the flame in Tokyo in 1984.. I think she would love it.

Oh my...welcome to the Rabbit hole...Im stuck here for 25 years...still can not get out....heared him first on Steve Vais album following his career ever since....Devin is Mad Genious Production and singing wise

Lyrically, from what I've been told (and maybe experienced), it was a plea to his wife. The lies and deception regarding his drinking. She gave him an ultimatum. Hence, "the point I mean, I missed it".

Casting another vote for the quarantine version of Why? I think you'd enjoy the heck out of it. Devin even more...extra...in that one.😆👍🤘

Look up his performance of ‘Why’ from his Order of Magnitude concert. It’s perfect.

Hello from Orange France, you will probably love the song "Ih-Ah" live - with the marvelous & beautiful Anneke Van Griesbergen

OF COURSE you are in love with him like the rest of us ;)

Can't wait for the day when you'll do his Deadhead live version reaction.

You want more Devy? You gotta check out "Grace" from the Retinal Circus concert. It'll take you to church and back.

The Death of Music, Live at the Royal Albert Hall. Mr. Townsend's greatest performance.

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NOTICE how his "screams" are produced with his upper lip placed ON the mic. He's NOT at full volume, or anywhere close. My best theory is that he has superb breath support and throat control so that he can produce a raspberry-like effect through the false folds to restrict pressure and airflow this allowing his vocal folds to vibrate cleanly behind that distortion at th tip-top of his range. Just like a lip-roll warmup exercise except his throat is freeing his mouth to shape that beautiful sound.

The Avett Brothers - Ballad of love and hate (live)

When you start as an Opera singer and upgrade to rock. 🙌🏼

Now WHY, from his Quarantine Show. 😊👍

Now watch him sing Being Me Home if you wanna hear more of the classical/music theatre side of his voice. It's so impressive coming from a legend of metal.

🥳🤘🏻🥳🤘🏻🥳🤘🏻🥳🤘🏻🥳

I love you, that is all

Will watch it again!! 🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸 Sus RU-vid 🤔

I gotta man CRUSH so frick’n hard on this Dude “Devin”. I can growl/screech and I got clean vocals all day. But I can’t do both. I wonder if I can get him to roll 🎲🎲 and 🎼“play D&D with me, lord?”🎶

Loved your reaction to Devon. He is definitely one of a kind! If you really want to hear his voice without a lot of the growl watch his quarantine session of Why. This is just another reason to love this guy..

Yep, Devin's "Why?" will blow your mind. He sings entire concerts full-out like this and his voice only gets stronger as the night goes on.

If Bill Nye and Hulk Hogan had a child together, and he grew up to be a Rock singer.

Listen dir en Grey vinushka

Can you react to devin townsend with anneke van giersbergen. "Grace" or the lovely duet "Ih Ah". Anneke was the inspiration for Floor Jansen (Nightwish) to turn to metal. They sing together on Ayeron Universe - Valley of the Queens.

Could you do a reaction to five finger death punch's wrong side of heaven. As a veteran and memorial day coming up if you haven't heard this song it is my favorite because of the truths it speaks. Thanks

Heavy Devy and his magical wall of sound are an amazing thing. He is a genius. You should check out his stuff with Strapping Young Lad. Maybe the song “Love?”. Pretty mind blowing. Devy is definitely a force of nature. Great review! 🙂

Welcome to the black hole called heavy devy

I still think you'll love Jeff Buckley's Last Goodbye.

Extra Maggie meets extra Devvie for good times....

Devin Townsend has something that seems to be missing from a lot of rock and metal lately. You mentioned it in your reaction. He has fun and doesn't take himself too seriously. I love rock and metal but too many performers take themselves too seriously and the music and the performers lack fun.

The best part of this video is definitely watching Maggie's facial expressions of joy and wonder. We Hevy Devy fans adore this guy and can't get enough of him and his music. He is one of the most personable, down-to-earth and self-effacing people in rock and does regular "hangout" livestreams on Twitch for his fans. He has done a series of livestream "Quarantine Concerts" during lockdown over the last year or so, some of which to raise funds for hospitals/NHS in Canada, the UK and USA.

Our budding metalhead see you then

I could easily imagine this song being played by a classical orchestra and it would lose NOTHING of its impact.

I never knew Voldemort could sing so well.

I’m just waiting for the day My Mother Told Me by Voiceplay reaches your channel. I’m seriously considering sponsoring it🤣

The most amazing thing about Devin is that he's self-taught

I'm really late to this party, but I like the comment about the facial expressions and gestures used to engage the audience. Metal shares a lot with opera and musical theater in that regard. If anyone has ever wondered "What the hell were they thinking" when looking at 70's-80's hair-metal bands, with the bright spandex suits, excessive makeup, etc... it's so you can be seen from the back of the house in live concerts. You weren't going to be projected on a 30 foot screen. The same reason stage actors wear tons of makeup. Bands like Kiss and Twisted Sister turned it into a persona for the band. Others would wear makeup live, but any time they were videoed, they wouldn't (or would wear film makeup that had less contrast), so a lot of time, you really couldn't even tell. But there's so much that goes into the production of those events beyond just the music. A friend of mine from way back became a make-up artist and she tours with tons of bands, and it's apparently a good paying gig, lol. Some people have an innate stage presence, like Devin here, but there's still a very conscious effort that is being negotiated while preforming.

Lost Horizon - Highlander (The One), best singer in metal, definitely check that out

MORE DEVIN!!! He does a live performance singing "Bring him home" he is just amazing 😊

You said more with your initial facial expressions that most reaction videos said with their voices during the entire song. Kind of a shocker if you've never heard of him before, ain't it?

Theese faces to Devin might compete to a vocal athlete i follow,wich showed the full register from "terrified","in pain","about to cry" to just "all out seduced".🤣

Heeeee there is New Floor Jansen- Euphoria !!!!!!!!

I don't know if this has been stated in the comments below, so if I'm repeating, forgive me. But if memory serves, the lyrics deal with a time he was dealing with addiction to drugs and was a love song to his wife to stick with him through it. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but that's what I remember him saying about the song's meaning.

Side note Devin Townsend, was born in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.

should check out spiritbox - circle with me and rule of nines

You should re act to Metallica...At lest one is classically trained...

If you're traveling through Amarillo, you should try to meet Mary Jane Johnson.

Loved that.!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't have emojis. I'm too old.

A note about most metal singing, those really heavy parts with the growling and heavy distortion, are almost always far, far quieter than most people realize, really using proximity to the mic. Good metal distortion technique is fairly quiet, clean vocals, which allows you to add just a small amount of distortion on top, as compared to trying to do it loudly, you'd need to really go heavy with the distortion to make it loud compared to the clean vocals. If you ever get the chance to listen to the unprocessed solo vocals of many metal songs, without reverb most metal growls and screams really don't sound all that loud or quite honestly appealing. Metal definitely takes advantage of the microphone and certain effects like reverb a lot. That's not to say they can't do those growls loudly, but it's more taxing to do so depending what type of distortion you're using. Notice how he is practically eating the mic while doing the screams. while he backs away more for the more clean vocals.

Dude this is nothing lol. Devin like streams in his backyard and office with a Xbox controllers to move his cameras and he like walks around talking shit and plays with stuffed animals while he plays. He's easily one of the most down to Earth guys. He's like the Keanu Reeves of metal 🤣. You should watch the tea time interview he did recently. You'll learn a lot about him with her

YOU ANT SEEN NOTHING YET !...Finally you entered the World of Heavy Devy......we all waited for!.....the Fan Clubs will bomb you now with requests like DEADHEAD,WHY?,DEATH OF MUSIC,GRACE, etc.....and always react to the LIVE Versions !

🥳 That was fun! He is a very unique and special talent!

"Rockpra" is the term that was coined in the 1970s in London's East End (over JatATD, unfortunately), and popularized again via Puddles Pity Party; other than "heaven metal", it's the pseudo-genre in which Townsend fits best.

Great reaction! Now that you’ve seen a bit of his talent it’s a good time to view his live performance of Why? It’s kind of a mix of Disney/Danny Elfman/& Opera. And if you think his humor and personality shines through here wait until you react to Why ... he’s hilarious. But as usual his vocals are on point and actually better in this video. Then it would be great if you reacted to Deadhead live at Royal Albert Hall. :)

I know that you have done Phantom of the Opera and several Nightwish reactions. I think you would like this performance. I think it is amazing. "Floor Jansen & Henk Poort - Phantom Of The Opera | Beste Zangers 2019"

Loved your reaction to hearing Devin Townsend for the first time Renee. Devi does what I like to call heavy metal musical theater. And you picked up on his performance personality. Devi never fails to entertain and as others have said, I definitely recommend checking his "Why" Quarantine performance from his RU-vid Channel. But you really cannot go wrong with anything from Townsend's discography. There are a good number of live performances like the Ocean Machine show from the Ancient Roman Ampitheatre in Plodiv in 2017 or the Ziltoid show at Royal Albert Hall in 2015. There is also the Retinal Circus show from 2012 at the Roundhouse in London that features vocalists Anneke van Giersbergen as well.

The funny thing is, that most so-called "serious musicians" never ever acknowledge the musical skills of mere rock / metal artists. Which makes watching videos like these a cross between absolutely cringy and relief. Honestly: There are many many *MANY* musicians (not just vocalists) in the rock / metal genre out there, that absolutely deserve recognition by elitists - i.e. classical and jazz buffs...

Devin actually started out with Steve Vai way back in the early 90's on an album called Vai - Sex and Religion. There are a couple of standout songs where Devin was singing this way even back then. The title track "Sex and Religion" and "Down Deep into the Pain" are definitely worth checking out to hear his talents from an early age. I think he might have only been 19-20 at the time. Check these out, you won't be disappointed.... Metal! :D

Great reaction, your a cool chick. Keep it up.

Your eyebrows are absolutely perfect. Love 'em.