The Witcher Season 2 | "Burn Butcher Burn" Scene 

I loved that part as much as Ioved this performance. Well done Jaskier.

@@justadad6677 well done Joey Batey*

@@jorritvanderkooi939 Semantics. He is Jasksier/Dandelion. Just like Henry Cavill is Geralt of Rivia.

yennefer smile was probably the smile of all the fans..i smiled just as silly when i realised Jaskier.is back

Jesus Christ I watched this episode and I didn’t realize he was the piper lmao

He's still a consummate professional as a bard. Can be annoying as all hell if you're just hanging around with him, sure, but the man has skill and charisma in abundance.

You insinuate that Jaskier would preform bellow his own standards? The sacralage!!! That is Viscout Julian... whatever-is-the-rest-of-his-name-is you're talking about

Go woke go broke

@@thesilverreich3947 ...

starving if you don't perform and make money is a powerful motivator

Honestly Joey should just be in more TV shows/movies

no

@@gabrielferreira8393 It should have been Jack Black :)

I think he's good, but my choice if he were about 12 years younger would have been Matt Berry. He's also a talented musician and is a cad/dandy in a few of his other roles so I think he would have nailed it. Joey Batey is a bit too young in my opinion. Dandelion is supposed to be 40, look 30 and act 20 according to the books

No one in this film example of good casting. No one

I’ve rewatched it so many times 😭 this scene is so well done

I have never agreed with a comment more in my life

It's better in this version than the full soundtrack version but it's the best part of the song in either version. It's just so good

Where is the lyric "Nothing will ring quite as true"? I rewatched it a bunch and couldnt find it?

@@GraphicGaming It's around 0:55 I think the exact lyrics are "No word that I've written will ring quite as true"

Is he a singer day to day? He has chops, and can apparently play a Lute. Curious to know.

From a musical standpoint, its doubly impressive. This song would be challenging even prerecorded, without audio-correcting. He's full-out belting right on his bridge (that point where your singing voice naturally wants to switch into a different register), and he sounds pretty powerful without straining. We truly don't deserve this man.

it was not live..

@@GeejMusic he was singing live during the shot. if you listen the studio version and this version is very different in terms of his singing. and google is free :) "Batey performed the song live "take after take" for "a whole day", he shared."

@@selbefr I rather think the scene was dubbed by him (as many scenes in many tv shows and movies). So I don't think that what we hear is the same recorded voice when he was acting that scene. But even then, the dubbed singing sounds so good and raw and powerful :3

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@@samuelburke5636 wtf are you talking about

@@samuelburke5636 sure, why don’t you swivel on it

Go woke go broke witcher

@@samuelburke5636 Fantastic! Please, tell me less!

Shhh we don't talk about that Bruno

That song could be about anyone. Anyone, really.

@@OperationDecoded Does that "anyone" happens to be called Butcher?

@@josetapia9606 It might but it could also apply to anyone with swords and "stupid hair".

@@OperationDecoded Jaskier himself could count on that

Absolutely agreed. He is enjoying it in the beginning and even the crowd joins him on some parts but by the end he is overcome and is like "yeah, I still hurt badly." He really is the perfect cast for this role.

you really should listen to the actor's band, The Amazing Devil. they have so many amazing songs.

@@felicitysmoakandwillgraham6453 oh I have 😎

It's great to read that this stuff still comes across when you have no context, it shows just how well the actor and director were doing for this sequence.

especially since Jaskier still thinks of Geralt as his best friend and can't hate him.

Oi… this is an emotional song don’t be funny 😂

You have no right to be this funny lmao

Nah Taylor writes breakup songs. This was post breakup "fuck you in particular" song

Can't wait for the short film then

@@vlavrentiekutubidzosani but that’s literally what does Taylor does. She writes songs about her exes.

Have u listened to joey batey's band, The Amazing Devil? They are incredible and their live performances are fantastic!

I have not but thank you for the suggestion ❤

And both of them know the lore from the witcher, which makes the characters much more organic!! Such perfect casting

Henry Cavill and Joey Batey are just perfect as Geralt of Rivia and Dandelion(Jaskier).

yo this didn't age well

@@novawolfe7348 no no it did not

@@digitdaydreams wait how did it not age well :(

the visual contrast that brings is not lost on me - It's clearly very cold in that tavern and as you can see his breath, he is singing BURN...but also connects to the coldness in his heart with the loss of his friendship. I like those little details whether they were intentional or not...

Not just that. When he's back to the camera and turns front in there's a difference in sound quality in 'no word that I've written ' vs - turn jump on stage and now muffled 'ring quite as true' then clear on the turn for 'Burn' there is a slightly muffled quality to phrase that clears on the turn and 'Burn'. That's only from a live performance. Or performances. I sounds, maybe, that there is potentially two audios used here given the changed in the sound quality, but I don't think so. Joey has said that this was actually filmed outside, and if I had to guess, above the stage was open, no ceiling. but there was some rudimentary ceiling above the non stage area - which would bounce sound, where as on stage facing the back it won't. - and the main mikes are up and to the right of the video would account for the sound diff.

@@celticbabs3105 According to the actor, it was cold in the tavern because they were filming outside lol

Agreed. Toss a coin was a bigger earworm I think, but this has just so much power to it.

I loved toss a coin when I first started the show, then I forgot about it and MAN that was not good because this comment is very true

No

Have u listened to joey batey's band, The Amazing Devil? They are magnificent!

I also love how he finishes the word Burn at that point. I find it astonishing after the amazing long note. Perfection!

Funny thing is, the long jacket was his request, including the necklace he wears, which is one of his own necklaces that he asked the designer if it could be included in Jaskier’s new atire. He talked about in one of his interviews.

The series is based off the books and not the game

@@NerdHerdForLife he’s read the books aswell

@@F0zzybe3ar no fucking shit mate?

@@F0zzybe3ar Yet the character changes and designs they are all doing are more alike the game than the book, they clearly are drawing a lot of inspiration from the games

Tbf, the last time they were together, Geralt basically told Jaskier to F*ck off.

Still one of my favorite lines of his is "The last time I woke up next to you, you grabbed me by the balls and then blew up the building so.... oh for FUCKS sake"

Honestly is season 2 they're more friends with Yennefer than Geralt. They pretend to hate each other, but they completely enjoy each other company.

have u listened to the actor's band, The Amazing Devil? they have incredible songs!

Jus watch it again but start from Season 1 to relive the beauty of the striga fight

If you start from the striga fight then you’ll miss the breathtaking sword fight of “BUTCHER” of Blavikan and also renfri 💔

@@Aki-mp5jq my bad i meant start from the very beginning so we can experience the beauty of the striga fight 😭😭

@@j.p7311 That really was an amazing fight. This show does the monster battles so well. Freaking loved it when Geralt comes flying out of nowhere to take down the Chernobog.

The season is shit, but at least the song is good

have u listened the actor's band, The Amazing Devil? they have awesome songs!

dude literally nobody cares about this mid show so don't come here trying to sound deep or groundbreaking with that comment lol

@@cardona9448 nobody cares about your opinion if you're going to be mean about it. Off the internet now, Timothy.

​@@cardona9448 You're probably baiting for reactions, but if you're here listening to one of the show's songs, scrolling through comments, and responding to them by shitting on the show - think about your daily life choices, okay? It's very concerning (and time consuming!!!!) to sit through two seasons of a show you don't like.

I’m waiting for the day Geralt’s in massive trouble and Jaskier being the only one nearby out of pure adrenaline saves him somehow

@@caelenjestercreates unless he becomes like a dnd bard i cant see how he can do something like that even if hes ripped

Geralt? Pff that song could be about anyone. Anyone!

That song not about him acording to jasper lol

@@billybob9269 didn't he say it was about him tho

@@ayshaAFG I think they were quoting the show lol 😂

have u listened to the actor's band, The Amazing Devil? they are awesome!

It threw me off to be honest. I'm so use to how yennifer is in the game

Geralt is his number one muse, but was a complete dick to him at the end of season 1. He didn't deserve that. :(

In Jaskier's words "He grunts. I sing"

There's nothing to be ashamed of in that, mate. We're in the same boat.

Say it louder 👏

In most films and TV series, the voice acting is recorded over the footage. This scene is no exception, but Joey Batey is still very talented

⁠@@kelaris3692 Nah, this was recorded live. Just listen to the acoustics when he’s singing, it’s not clean like it would be if it was a pre-recording, you can hear this voice bouncing around the set, there’s muffling when he turns away from where the microphones would be, and then there’s the obvious big thing, Joey himself said that this was done live.

@@decimation9780 I don’t believe. He makes too clean sounds for the scene where he moves so actively. Of course they inserted not the cleanest studio version, because the sound engineers had to keep the overall entourage

@@kelaris3692 The audio isn’t just not clean, it’s not from a studio recording booth. You could remove every bit of soundproofing from that room and the acoustics still wouldn’t produce the same sound heard in this scene. This kind of audio is the result of a song being sung in a large wooden tavern set, built outside probably near a wooded area. Joey's voice is bouncing around the set itself, when he turns away from the microphones set up just outside of where the cameras pan over, his voice and his instrument are muffled, you can hear him moving around the set, which wouldn’t be part of prerecorded audio, and Joey himself said that this was done live, and the producers used the live audio for this scene.

@@decimation9780 I do not rule out that you are right. But I can't believe that even compared to other languages, the original sounds better, even though Joey had to jump around the stage, play the lute and hit high notes at the same time

have u listened to the actor's band? The Amazing Devil? they're incredible

he needs him because he can trust him with Ciri. He wasn't much use in the books either except for occasionally seducing someone, and that usually backfired. So I think this season was very authentic.

@@RyanGuthrie0 that's true. But , past their reunion, i felt like once Jaskier was back at being Geralt's sidekick, he was left on the sideline, while he was much more developped during his time with Yen.

We’ll see more of Jaskiers arc in season 3 I’m certain , especially after Djikstra mentions him at the end of the season.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they do in season 3 as at this point it’s not even based on the books so they’ll end up making up stuff

While i do agree he did have a subtle but important role in Season 1. Geralt isn't treated nearly as badly as he originally was after he started making songs. But yeah i would definitely like him to have a bigger role on-screen

Wait have u seen joey batey play dnd? He loves it and he is real good 😂

Nice catch! Never noticed that until you pointed out out

Yes and no, while yes it is vague enough hypothetically, in the first season Geralt gets labeled as 'Butcher of Blaviken," after the Renfri incident.

lmao ajajaja

@@kiraasmos lol it went over your head. In the show Jaskier is trying to unsuccessfully convince Yen that that song could be about anyone

@@kiraasmos stop ruining jokes

@@kiraasmos the joke went right over your head and for someone who seems to know alot about the show the fact this joke went over your head is very disappointing

What's interesting about this is if you watch the interview with Joey he talks about doing take after take (and singing all this live), but that despite how it looks this tavern set is actually outside and it's really cold (and how hard it was for everyone to keep going take after take in the cold and wasn't sure if he could keep singing in that much cold, but did). He points out that you can see the warm breath in the cold air because of that. So that was just due to it being so cold outside. Originally I thought it was some cool effect, but it works perfectly and that sort of discomfort in the cold might've helped elevate his performance and it's severity here too.

Agreed. Jaskier is the season2 MVP

Have u listened to his in real life band, The Amazing Devil? They are awesome! They even have live performances available online!

Have u listened to his band, The Amazing Devil? They are very good!

if you listen to his band The Amazing Devil I suggest starting with their live performance of Battle Cries - it's freaking superb. And he writes the lyrics and music himself :)

have u listened to his irl band, The Amazing Devil? they're awesome