Angelina Jordan - What Is Life (Acoustic) - New Favorite REACTION!

[@salo5167]

Once in a lifetime voice🔥❤

[@tedheiden6357]

That love connection. Perfect. Thanks.

[@geoffreynorth9046]

An interesting thing about this song is that every single time I have listened to is - since first hearing it about 3 years ago - I have liked and admired it more.... it's just a work of great beauty and genius

[@wilfriedmatusch9293]

You gave me this song and Angelina’s lyrics a new perspective thanks Zack

[@stangovers7441]

Thanks for sharing this. I hadn't seen this for a while. A bluesy, jazzy, Angelina at this age. She is totally amazing in so many ways!❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤

[@chelseahaley8350]

She's so amazing!! ❤

[@AuntDandy]

I love the way she can sing slow and easy!💜💜💜

[@brendaveselich3086]

She wrote this at 10 , and recorded it on her cd, It’s Magic when she was 11.

[@elmarwinkler6335]

The gent at the piano is Mr. Dylan Meek and behind him is Mr. Ivan Mendez.

[@jasonmcclay4022]

Zach. Nice reaction to Angelina. It’s nice seeing you get to know her more and more. I’ve been following her for years now and I absolutely love her along with so many growing fans of hers…I know a lot of people don’t even know who she is yet. I’m hoping she gets known and She definitely is Because of Great and special people like you ..To me it’s so exciting to follow her and just to give you a shout out and tell you because you’re reacting to Angelina Jordan, I discovered the Japanese band Band-maid.. what a fun band that is why I want to thank you for that too….. to me however, I will always always always always love Angelina Jordan so thank you so much again!!❤️

[@Pyanfar]

🤎👣, She it a wonder and as you will come to see, a beautiful and kind, humble soul.

[@annc9660]

Love your reactions from Beloit Wisconsin.....Angelina Jordan Astar, full name.

[@bentemjanger1030]

The first time I heard this, I reacted to her using the words embrace "from someone safe" and I just hoped that unsafe embraces was not in her experience 🥀

[@garysen]

THIS is life! 🤩👣🔥🧡🙌❣️

[@ronraskind]

What strikes me so much about this song and it's lyrics It's not only the beauty of her voice and what she has written about life. It is about the maturity that she reflects at the end of the song that life brings good and bad. She emphasized the good throughout the song but made sure we understood that life isn't all about roses.

[@johnbattles1002]

Excellent words!

[@9Ballr]

Angelina's voice and my ears have a love connection too.

[@charlesallison146]

My new favorite you're going to say that a lot !!!

[@tomwhite4736]

Its highly likely that this and oslo were written at aged 10 , both recorded on the album " its magic " november 2017 aged 11 .❤

[@christophersmith7041]

Angelina never disappoints , her innocence is so pure and special,she is a once in a generation talent, checkout Angelina’s mashup with Chris Stapleton singing Tennessee Whiskey and I Would Rather Go Blind, great reaction thanks 🙏

[@andyschnell58]

Thanks for your reaction and commentary. There are times I marvel at how simple Angelina's music is and then there are times, I am astounded by how beautifully complex it is and it can be for the same performance.

[@lightbearer7552]

Thank you Zack not only a love connection with her mic but with our hearts ,don't know if it's possible to love her any more than we do, she is just wonderful , the wisest keep it simple and her mission to spread kindness and love by example is all we require the rest will sort itself out ,live what you wish for, and she does.💜💜💜👣

[@ewelina8b]

Thanks Zack. ❤❤❤

[@hans-georgschroter7887]

Always focus on the good side of life 🥰 She is always a songwriter of the way of Light and focus on the gooood ❤ Building her craft every day 😇

[@OleOlson121]

Beautiful 😊♥👣

[@larsfrodelarsen5757]

At least I know AJs making life better !!!

[@sag2horses]

#ANGELINAJORDAN SO BEAUTIFUL

[@MichaelAmis-te2md]

Angelina (12) in her music corner in L.A. with Dylan Meek-from Austin, Texas, you will also see him in 7th Heaven on Stand up Bass-on keyboards and Ivan Mendez on guitar! The lyrics are most likely taken from her journals! The song is so amazing as she pretty much tells the story of her life so far! She previously performed this with The Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces (Forsvarets Stabmusuikkorps)! Playlist for the concert: kzbin.info/aero/PLbc1I8fGx6k0e7D4a35pAr9ZSEEjpMG0p&si=J6wJaIo_aYMpJunI For the Album It’s Magic! Like most Angels the last song you heard Angelina singing becomes your favorite! 🇳🇴🇺🇸

[@barryoconnor568]

"Or maybe life's just a memory..." Curious thought for a youngster. I wonder if she's had that feeling.

[@garysen]

Pointing out that Angelina at this age is very aware of poverty and loss. By that time Angelina has already been very active in humanitarian vauses, helping to raise millions (!) to fight hunger and lack of basic necessities for less fortunate children around the world. She knows about the bad and the ugly (even at global level) but maintains her positive, optimistic outlook about beauty and love.

[@Charles-uw9kh]

It is easy to forget that she has seen a lot of life and is undoubtedly very sensitive to what she sees, moreso than most people. Thanks for the comment

[@pjg58x]

A fairly deep song for such a young girl. Angelina was 12 in this performance. We don’t know exactly how old she was when she wrote the song. However we do know that she was no older than 11 as she recorded the song at 11 with the Norwegian military band for her album It’s Magic. The studio version is worth a listen as is the whole album. The piano player is Dylan Meeks. The guitarist is Ivan Medez whom she recorded quite a few songs with at this age. If you continue to do Angelina reactions you will come across him several times.

[@robertsilva631]

This video is in Angelina's music corner at her home in LA. She is 12 years old and the guitarist is Ivan Mendez (whenever you see Ivan with Angelina she is 12 years old) - the Keyboardist is grammy nominated Dylan Meek.

[@CarlD70]

Thanks Robert....just what I was going to say...just beautiful.

[@Mister.315]

The writing, the voice, the smoothness, are all incredible. But her timing has always been so perfect, to me it's a big part of why she's hypnotic.

[@ediatmelb]

My most favourite singers Angelina and Eva Cassidy.....I have streamlined my collection of cds, donated most to charity........simply the best💗💗💞

[@aryachow]

For Angels who have been following Angelina for awhile, we should not be surprised by her voice anymore, but we are somehow surprised by her repeatedly. She has more new songs coming out in the not too distant future. Got a few sneak peeks , they are fabulous ❤❤❤❤👣

[@garyswee9061]

The love affair is not between Angelina's voice and the mic. It's between Angelina's heart and our hearts and souls. She connects like no other. There is no mic in many performances, but the connection is overwhelming (check out "Always on My Mind"- a tribute to her maternal grandfather. Guaranteed you will feel it).

[@thomashoffmann5516]

Dear Zack Angelina Angel 🩵👣💙👣🩵👣💙 So great you get throu Angelina's History. ❤❤❤ Greetings from Frankfurt.🍀🍀🍀

[@Nevelepride]

Love this ! She’s a fantastic songwriter! The voice is like a warm blanket to your soul! Thanks Zack for sharing your wonderful thoughts!🙏👌💎❤️

[@johnvasi]

This won’t surprise you, but there are many songs where young Angelina shows this amazing maturity in her writing or her interpretation of lyrics. In another beautiful original song, Shield, Angelina, at 12, thanks her family for the support and protection they’ve given her. One of her most thoughtful and surprising lines in Shield is: “Forgive me for all that I am”. It’s Angelina understanding the burden her career choice places on the family around her who love her. She’s not just an old soul as a vocalist, she’s wise well beyond her years. And did you ever hear a child singer with the musical patience to give this song the empty space it needs? Her timing is not mentioned much because we’re blown away by her voice, but that timing is immaculate.

[@rogergraetzer5992]

Hi Zack 👋 my fellow AJ Angel 😇 Short and sweet! Angelina's voice 😲 and my soul ✨️ and my heart 💖 had already made this connection with Angelina in the 2nd song forever 😀😇👸😲🎙! Thanks for sharing this video👍great emotional reaction and comments as always Zack my fellow AJ Angel 😇👍! Love 💖 and peace✌ ☮️ and kindness 😀 from Switzerland 🇨🇭🇨🇭 🇨🇭 😇👣👸😯🎙🎺🎷🎸 🎹 ❤️‍🔥🔥💥🌍🌹💎 Spread Love 💖 all Day 😀! Roger aka Röschu out👋🙋‍♂️😀! Thank you a thousand times for the support, my fellow angel 😇 from Angelina!! our jazz queen👸 and angel 😇!! on her two You Tube channels 🙏 She deserves it a thousand times over 😀!

[@alberttenfoot]

Thank you, Zack, for another heartfelt reaction to Angelina singing her first original song. Although she is singing it at the age of 12, she wrote it when she was eleven. Simple words by an 11-year-old child describing the things that are important to her at that age, but when one listens carefully one realises that those words are of great emotional depth to which all of us can relate. For me, that a child can so clearly tell us in simple words what is important to her is remarkable, and then when one listens closely realises that those simple words describe an intellectual and emotional depth which is certainly unusual in one so young.

[@dianedove1000]

Since you liked this song, I want to let you know that the first video that came out was a lyric video with only the music and her voice. It is my favorite because I think this visual distracts from her vocals. She was younger in the earlier one as she wrote this at age 11 and recorded it for her album, It’s Magic, at age 12. I do like the new ending she threw in (she never sings a song exactly the same way twice!), giving it a more jazzy flair, but the first one pulls at my heartstrings with her innocent voice. Please watch that one as well for a special treat!

[@CarlosCastillo-ue9cz]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@charliemiller5831]

don't you just want 'a warm embrace from someone safe', right now?

[@dlblakey62]

👏

[@richardduffy3115]

I'm 72 and i can tell you for sure that the world has never seen someone like Angie before and i'm into it for the long haul. I'm addicted to her talent and how she makes me feel with her voice!

[@I_scribbles]

Yeeeesssss my favorite song of all time!

[@robertsilva631]

Angelina has been writing songs since she was 10 years 0ld - So far 12 have been released: Oslo, What is Life?, Shield, Million Miles, 7th Heaven, Love Don't Let Me Go, Now I'm The Fool, Fire and Rain, All My Fault, Good in Goodbyes, Diamond, and Our Time. Angelina has stated that she has written about 100 songs that have yet to be released. Her songs are taken from her Journal writings. When she was 10/11 she rewrote the Lyrics to Amy Winehouse's Back to Black and Rehab to make them more age appropriate at that time. In addition, Angelina performed an unreleased original song Princess of Ruins at her Las Vegas concerts - if and when that is officially released it will be her 13th original. There will be more coming in 2024 - one original title that is known so far is Bad Valentine.

[@zack_reacts]

I'll be seeing Back to Black tonight- speaking of (the movie)

[@poolhallshark]

♥♥♥♥♥♥

[@FlameCold258]

😀😀😄

[@thomashoffmann5516]

If WE are older, WE have now better answer wath life is ❤️☮️🍀💙💙👣🩵❤️☮️👍

[@fredneecher1746]

And a bit older still and we realise we haven't an answer after all. Well, that's life.

[@lynettepascua4730]

I am 71 and if we are faced with an extreme tragedy, the importance of life goes back to the very basic, your loved ones and a safe embrace these are what are important in the middle of a bad hurricane, or typhoon (I live in the Philippines) flood, fire, or earthquake. Yes, you want those important papers but even above that are your loved ones and that safe embrace. So What is life, it is subjective to your circumstance, but when close to death, that safe embrace just may be the most important.

[@thomashoffmann5516]

Angelina ist ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@fredneecher1746]

All this while wearing a Tweetiepie tee-shirt! I love how she mispronounces 'stealthy'. After all, why not? That tear does 'steal' its way into the night.

[@OscarMinera]

Gracias Zack, un placer oírte reaccionar a Angelina Jordan. Thanks Zack, nice to hear you react to Angelina Jordan.

[@jeffthebeeguy]

When I first heard this song, at the beginning I'm like---OK, this is what I would expect from a 12 year old. Then comes "we come, we see, we go" and "the good and the bad". These are very adult themes, esp. the first one---what child acknowledges the life cycle or even contemplates an ending to it? She has a very special ability to connect as well as to transmit these things to people. She is a study all by herself in quantum physics.

[@I_scribbles]

Yes Jeff the moment the line of "maybe Life is just a memory, we come, we see, we go" was a litteral bitchslap from the universe that made a profound effect on me still to this day. I now tell my oldest son that in life we are only given one thing, Time, so be careful how you spend it and who you spend it with. It now a cornerstone of my daily philosophy thanks to a 12 yo Angelina.

[@Charles-uw9kh]

You are not the only one that got slapped!

[@michaelrogers7426]

The “and bad” brings this to a higher level of philosophy, religion land consciousness. This song could be the subject of a lecture. And her voice is outstanding on this….

[@mauistevebear]

Credits: Dylan Meek is playing the keyboard and Ivan Mendez is playing guitar for Angie here...(you asked), this is one of the songs from her album "It's Magic", speaking of "It's Magic", you HAVE to hear her sing "I'm a Fool to Want You" by Billie Holiday...(seriously you have to give it listen!)

[@jameshunt14]

Absolutely love this song by her one of my favorites the barefoot princess is an angel sent from Heaven.

[@joanburnley6244]

She wrote this when she was 11 years old but here she`s 12

[@tomwhite4736]

Recorded aged 11 , it's highly likely written aged 10 ?

[@thomashoffmann5516]

Das Komische ist, um so älter Du wirst, um so mehr entfernst Du dich vom wahren Leben. 🍀🍀🍀

[@evykollerud4853]

Who are you looking at whven you talk.?? Good reaction. 😊

[@zack_reacts]

Usually the screen with the video i'm watching. Then sometimes I'll look to another to check audio levels, and my video feed to make sure there's nothing on my face. Never a who...

[@SteveAckerman-ly3qg]

Her voice has a love connection with (fill in the blank)). LOVE that you thought microphone. Just as valid: one's heart. Your soul. She's just amazing.

[@anitaherbert1037]

Guitarist is Ivan Mendez who was her accompanist in some great songs 12-13 years old. Favourites with Ivan ...STAY( Rihanna) , A MILLION YEARS AGO( ADELE), ( Happier) I Know What You've Done ( Sam Smith) though that uses a family trip to Vegas for AGT.

[@tooley1367]

Zack, loved your view of this. I thought of her sitting on a window sill, watching the world go by at 11 years old composing this song. Simple beautiful lyrics but very thought provoking. Try Oslo next her other song she wrote at eleven: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4qqnWSMfqmBjck

[@johnbattles1002]

“A tear that’s stealthy in the night” What 10 or 11 year old child even knows the word “stealthy” nowadays, much less can use it in that type of phrasing!? “We come, we see, we go” WHAT!?!?!? Here we see pre-teen Angelina’s inner Socratic and Aristotelian philosopher shining through! This is NOT “childish” writing! This is prodigious writing!

[@mikec2420]

Nice reaction as usual. Enjoyed the imagery inspired by her performance that you shared. Speaking of her sister, Juliette,one of my all time favorite videos, is Angelina and Juliette on the couch, as AJ sings La Boheme. It’s priceless kzbin.info/www/bejne/p17IpIObfbuSnacfeature=shared

[@elmarwinkler6335]

The video was released a year after recording.

[@most2dot0]

No. It was released on the release date of the single, on June 1st, 2018. According to what Ivan told Alan Papier in his interview, he only only played with her about in spring and summer 2018. So it was at most recorded 3 month prior to release.

[@HS-ol4zl]

*NEW* Tea Time with Angelina Jordan kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3PbYaKPaqx8mKs

[@heliobastos4088]

Fantástica Música de ninar pra irmã Juliete kzbin.infoVA_-ENk8ogQ?si=8XyLXeMOAcxgowPO