My First Time Watching AJR! Opera Singer Reaction (& ANALYSIS) | "Maybe Man"

Actually on them being rich, I think they’ve only recently started making money. On an interview they said that because they love the art side of performing they’ve been operating basically at a loss just to tour and have incredible visuals etc, they’ve pretty much lost money or broken even just because they love touring and putting on bombastic performances so much.

AJR is one of THE most underrated artists out there today. I’ve seen them three times live and they put on one hell of a show!! Ryan has synesthesia and is an absolute genius. There is genuinely so much talent in this family. ❤❤

I’d like to say that AJR is three brothers. Adam, Jack, and Ryan. Jack is the main singer. Adam is mainly the base. Ryan is the backup singer, guitar. He is also the beat makerish. I heavily recommend listening to the rest of the album

Loved this reaction!! I've been a huge fan of AJR for a long time, and something cool about this song is that it is actually an overture to the remaining songs on the album it belongs to! Each 'concept' pertains to one song😄

the interludes at the end somewhat represent their older albums main sound the trumpet being from OK ORCHESTRA, the modern piano being from The Click, and the violin and sampling from Neotheater

I'm not a devoted follower of AJR, but every time I come across their music, I've been impressed. Each song of theirs I heard has been about the difficulty of being a human being. And who can't relate to that?

Great analyses. I really enjoyed your reaction. Some recommendations, this song has a companion song in "2085". They bookend the album. Also, they have a song that's directly about that external/ internal validation point you made, called "hole in the bottom of my brain" that I think you'd enjoy. Finally, "inertia" is a very musically interesting song from this album. Also my personal favorite.

honestly too many people fail to give this album a chance because of AJR's earlier work being more immature-feeling, but this album is a damn good example of the maturation of AJR's style over time, starting from a childish sense of arrested development all the way to starkly grappling with responsibility and identity

This song is actually so cool cuz it’s all about wanting to be different stuff and exploring who you are, and it serves as an introduction to and table of contents for the album that it’s a part of. That’s why it’s all over the place, and why it ends so differently than it begins. The ending that makes more sense is at the end of the last song, 2085. Fun fact, the album is called The Maybe Man, and this song Maybe Man is the first. The last song, 2085, which ends the first song and the album, when you break it apart to be 20, 8, and 5, spells “the.” This puts the beginning of the album at the end and the end at the beginning, showing how confusing and exploratory this album is

As a AJR fan I feel like you would love there Neotheater album

I’d like to mention, these brothers aren’t that rich. They just recently moved out of their NYC apartment into a small townhouse, and they still don’t have a studio, they use their living room (aka their 2015 album title).

i absolutely love AJR! i am so glad that my favorite reactor/analysis youtuber is now doing my favorite band is amazing! please do more of them!

I highly suggest listening to the rest of this album. Each track is so different instrumental wise and it’s honestly amazing how much work going into them.

AJR has been my all time favorite artists for so long and i loved this reaction. Most people dont give them much of a chance because of their weird beats and don’t give the new album a second to play. thank you for recognizing AJR’s talent!

As a die hard AJR fan I loved this break down. You did an awesome job with this video and won a new fan over. They are also the nicest guys. You can see in my shorts them meeting my 5 year old and giving him the best day of his life. (He is a bigger fan than me).

I absolutely adore AJR, and I sometimes look up reactions to them because I love watching other people discover their music. It's normally difficult to find them, but I saw your video and immediately started watching it. I've never heard of your channel before, but I really wish I had!! You picked up on things your first time listening that I hadn't noticed after months. You're such a thoughtful and genuine person, and everything you say adds to the experience of the music. Thank you for this amazing reaction.

I love this. Works as a natural-sounding, fun, curious song, then goes into the much heavily produced part, with great contrast. It's just very intersting. Thank you for sharing!

The Animation was actually made in Vr, All of the strokes you can see were done by hand!

I love the fact at the end where the trumpet and piano and string instruments are supposed to represent their past albums

This song is just.... it feels like a broadway song to me. It feels like it takes this orchestral approach and mixes it with some of the modern stuff learned through the thousands of years of music making. This whole album and so much of there music feels very unique to me. I love music and while I'm not professional in it.... God its so cool to see people talk about it from a different point of view. Being able to try and pick up what other professionals see and hear is just so fun and ajr's music is such an example of that as they hind so many little things that even (in my eyes) professionals wouldn't see. Amazing reaction and analysis gonna need to watch other of your videos cause god its cool to see everything I mentioned. One last thing is that this song and a lot of there music are very philosophical and from a psychology perspective and philosophy perspective it's just so fun to dig into. (to me at least)