Failed Musician reacts to “Hypa Hypa” by Electric Callboy

[@TheUpsidesKen]

The best explanation for Electric Callboy that I see people use is, "they don't take themselves seriously, but they take their music seriously." Oftentimes, their lyrics and how they act is definitely goofy, but they're also great musicians and make the catchiest music and blend and produce it to perfection.

[@mackcias3910]

Their hardstyle beats are so SICK, I love this band. NEED MOAR!

[@mackcias3910]

Everytime We Touch next! 🤘

[@JohnathanWestMusic]

@@mackcias3910 on it!

[@devilneji]

I saw a comment on one of their videos of someone saying that the best way they could explain this band is they are "aggressively good vibes"

[@martinmulcahey1618]

Electric Callboy are the most entertaining & joyful band in the world right now, Germans have not put out a bad song in last 3 years and live shows just a massive rave of metal & EDM riffs that fill audiences with a euphoria 😆🤘

[@tho_she_be_but_litl]

EC is one of those rare bands that doesn't miss. Their entire Tekkno album is 1 of 3 in my lifetime where I skip no tracks. I'm picky, so that says something. Their fun and joy is super infectious, IMO due to their talent for blending genres extremely well (and mixing and producing well) and the guys' cheeky and down to Earth personalities. If you ever need to just feel happy, throw on any EC track, and BAM... a lovely smack of joy, right in the face.

[@shenaniganfarm1440]

Best band in the world right now. Every song that they have released since Nico joined is a banger. Watch them all!!

[@ambuchanan1027]

Thank you! I never heard this one before. I kinda like it. Keep doing these and play your own music.

[@mascha28swinkels]

Yes please more EC, most people will suggest the comedic songs and they are great. But I so love the other side of these wonderful guys also, so my suggestion would be to do Hate/Love, Mindreader and Parasite 🩷🩵💛💜❤️

[@JohnathanWestMusic]

@@mascha28swinkels thank you so much! I'll add them to the list!

[@entermesser178]

@@JohnathanWestMusic EC + We butter the bread with butter (is the name of the Band) with Hypa Hypa 🤔 👀🔊 WBTBWB🤩😎‼ It is the "HEAVIEST" version of HH! Real heavy!

[@binemunchen7697]

This song was during Corona. Bands cant tour. So they asked different other bands to cover this song. Now there are seven different versions of hypa hypa. Medievil with Saltatio mortis, country with boss hoss, Disko with sasha etc.

[@JohnathanWestMusic]

@@binemunchen7697 oh boy, here we go. 😂

[@TheUpsidesKen]

Electric Callboy absolutely rule, man. Keep it coming! We Got The Moves, Everytime We Touch, Ratatata, Pump It and Tekkno Train next, please.

[@TheUpsidesKen]

Also, I'd suggest for the purpose of seeing how they are (and because more EC videos mean more clicks), watching their live videos in additional reactions is good too. So after you see a video, I'd suggest reacting to a live too separately. Its worth it.

[@Maki_Lemur]

Thank you for your reaction. It was great. :) I love electric callboy

[@cullain3967]

Just a left field suggestion, a band I'm seeing live a bit later this year, I would highly recommend the Germanic group Heilung who are what they describe as a lived history experience, I'd start perhaps with Anoana which is a very beautiful and soulful track. As an older music fan who is also keen on interesting stuff happening in music today I can appreciate where you are coming from...

[@GummiBoink]

Heilung are amazing, just mindblowing. Saw them live two years ago and it was probably the closest I've been to feeling something truly spiritual and otherworldly. Hope you enjoy the ritual when it's time for you!

[@GummiBoink]

This is the best rabbit hole you can fall into, truly! My dear, almost 60 year old, dad introduced me to them during the pandemic and I've been hooked ever since. They are just pure fun, their music has been dubbed party core which is just right. As someone else said here, they don't take themselves too seriously but they take what they do very seroius which is refreshing in the metal/music scene. You'll find a HUGE catalouge of things to see/react to on their channel, from official music videos to vlogs and behind the scenes stuff. They are german, and speak mostly german but they subtitle everything so it's easy to follow along. Highly recommend checking out more from them, it's just a damn good time!

[@JohnathanWestMusic]

@@GummiBoink oh we'll be back to them!

[@Prsboy78]

Party core can't wait to see them in Brisbane Australia 🦘 this December

[@SuperHeuhaufen]

Try "Ratatata" together with Babymetal. 😉

[@JohnathanWestMusic]

@@SuperHeuhaufen I'll add it to my list! Thank you!

[@audivawalsh2983]

EC does masterful genre blending with We Got The Moves... I think they cover most genres in that one ;) This was their first viral hit.. there are so many covers of this song and a lot of them are also hilariously great :)

[@evilducks3710]

Welcome to the reacting game. EC is a great band, and are a lot of fun. There are a ton of good songs from them, Tekkno Train, Spaceman, Pump it, We Got the Moves... all worth watching What they did do recently is a collaboration with Baby Metal called Ratatata. Just a fun ass song. So the question becomes, have you checked out the Japanese rock and metal scene at all? I know everyone knows of Baby Metal, and you can like or not like them, it doesn't matter, the rock/metal scene in Japan is exploding. If you're curious I recommend Band Maid - Shambles Hanabie - Tousou Nemophila - Rise LoveBites - Holy War Those bands hit a lot of different varieties of rock and metal, I think you'll be entertained.

[@JohnathanWestMusic]

@@evilducks3710 I have scoped none of if except for knowing babymetal so boooooy I am stoked about this. I've got my culturally inappropriate Inosuke pants on already!

[@badm0t0rf1nger]

EC are a very capable metalcore band.... who also enjoy some Euro "Hardstyle", & they can compose quite capably in that genre also. Well said then, that they are authentically mixing the two. When the clean singer Nico joined after the old singer leaving, they seem to have made the decision "Fcuk it.... metallers should be able to have overt *fun* while they're earning their zeroes!" LOL And I'm 100% here for it. Definitely check out their "We Got the Moves". In fact, it's not a long song, so treat yourself to a double-header starting with the omv, then the live capture of them in concert: omv: kzbin.info/www/bejne/emKxlXp4ocmaadk live: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6m0nJyObaqrqrM Check out some of the young'uns *loving* their early taste of fun metal in that Denver crowd, & tell me these guys aren't doing great work! p.s. love a bold declaration of "I don't like the Beatles". There are precious few Beatles tracks I enjoy. To hell with peer pressure on that one. LOL

[@JohnathanWestMusic]

@@badm0t0rf1nger thanks my dude! I'll add those to my list! Also, mad love for agreeing about the Beatles. 😂

[@themearkat]

hypa hypa indeed

[@lyssxo1860]

liked, subscribed & watched the whole thing; LETS GOO! 🖤

[@JohnathanWestMusic]

@@lyssxo1860 thank you so much! You da best!

[@Xanderj89]

Idk if you’re familiar with jrock or jpop at all, but since they basically took inspiration from all existing rock and pop mixed w their own twists the entire genres have been genre-blended from the beginning, so it’s so fun as someone who’s loved anime openings and the like that are all over the place with jazz plus traditional or like three different types of rock plus pop etc just all kinds of things mixed for the past couple decades, that we’re seeing that kind of thing now in the independent and even more mainstream western scenes

[@waynemarshall1476]

Electric Callboy is an amazing rabbithole to fall down. Serious musicians, with silly content. I highly recommend their other videos, Pump it, and We got the moves. If you like covers, they did one for Every time we touch. They have an amazing song made with the band Babymetal (also worth checking out) called Ratatata. If you want more serious music from them, the songs Mindreader, and Parasite, are also amazing. This only scrates the surface of them. If you enjoy fusion, i also recommend 2 Cellos for classical mixed with rock. Particularly their video for Thunderstruck. Other songs that work as covers, highly recommend Disturbed cover of Sound of silence, both the live and the studio version. And the Johnny Cash cover of Hurt. For current stuff, Look up Benson Boone, and Teddy Swims. And highly recommend Billie Eilish for her whole catalogue. Her older stuff is very niche, and a bit creepy, but she has a lot of talent, particularly showcased in her new album. Recommend the song Birds of a feather. These will all get you some views.

[@JohnathanWestMusic]

@@waynemarshall1476 thank you so much! I'll look into them!

[@TrangleC]

I think Electric Callboy is more than just blending of genres. I think part of what makes them great is that they open up stuff. What I mean with that is that - and this is controversial now - in my experience Metal is mostly music for Nerds. When you were a awkward Nerd or a Geek in the 90s and you wanted to escape the bullying, you had a few choices of "costumes" to put on. Two of those were that you could become the white Rastafarian dreadlocks guy and become popular by selling weed to the Jocks and other kids, or you could become the "scary" Headbanger who wore black leather and riveted wrist bands and so on. The problem was, you had to commit to both off-the-shelf personalities and that meant you had to be a purist who only listened to Reggae or Metal and you had to be a Snob who hated every other kind of music. You couldn't allow yourself to like and corny stuff that was popular in the 90s, like Boy Band music or Techno for example. And that brings us to Electric Callboy. They specifically take those "forbidden" types of music and put them together with Metal, making it possible for old Metal Snobs to enjoy that stuff for the first time, even if they have to pretend to like it ironically. That is kind of liberating.

[@heikehartung6182]

Maybe you like "Saltatio Mortis " a medieval metal band. Good music and Videos. Songs like "My mother told me, The dragonborn comes, Pray to the hunter or a new one "Finsterwacht "

[@JohnathanWestMusic]

I'll add it to my list. Thank you!

[@lauralizoliveira4512]

Hey, nice reaction! Another cool band to check out is We Butter the bread with butter, the songs 20km/h and Dreh auf! are my suggestion :)

[@JohnathanWestMusic]

@@lauralizoliveira4512 you aren't the first one to recommend them so I will be checking them out!

[@DrNighti]

i'm at 1:14 and i gotta say, interesting choice for background noise! normaly people have the music and not the voice in the background!

[@timjobo6062]

Do more (:

[@michaelmueller9635]

Maybe you like this one ;-) Blind Guardian - The Bard's Song & Valhalla - Live at Wacken Open Air 2016 - KZbin kzbin.info/www/bejne/n16slIuVl8iWfMU PS.: It's Metal, it's a little bit out of the box, it's respectful, it's a really really awesome live performance/crowd interaction ...maybe ur cup of tea ;-)

[@JohnathanWestMusic]

I’ll check it out!

[@TrangleC]

The aesthetics of the video are impossible to really understand for people who know nothing about Germany in the 90s. Back in the late 80s and early 90s the German coal and steel industries went belly up and hundreds of thousands of working class dudes who had thought they would be working in those industries like their fathers and grandfathers had, found themselves without much perspective. That kind of created a whole generation of "peaked in high school"-type dudes who couldn't let go of their youth in the 80s and were still running around like that (mullets, handlebar mustaches aso.) till way into the 90s, long after that had stopped being fashionable. So in the 90s (when the guys in that band were kids) you had all those 30 to 40 year old, beer guzzling working class blokes hanging around techno rave parties and dance clubs, looking like time travelers from the 80s and trying to pick up chicks half their age. That is what this song and the video are making fun of and that is why it makes sense that the video mixes tropes from the 80s and 90s (Boy Band music, techno, aso.) and why the dudes look like from the 80s while the chick looks like a 90s raver girl. Ah and one other piece of explanation: The dancing people at the end of the video are a bunch of bigger German KZbinrs who are friends with the band.

[@JohnathanWestMusic]

@@TrangleC that's so cool! I had no idea about that. Thank you for the info! Maybe I'll look into a documentary because that sounds really neat.

[@DeadpoolTesla]

EC video reactions will bring you many views... 😜 Only thing that's annoying, is the "music" in the background when you talk.

[@taihavard]

Good to see a new reactor pop up. Should help you find cool new stuff, and pull in some views and subs for you :) Here is a Rabbit Hole for you. Japanese all women or women fronted metal / rock / punk bands. As you like EC there is a good chance you will like plenty of these. The top 7 are my personal favs. At least 4 of the top 7 do a good amount of genre blending. I haven't suggested Babymetal as I am sure others will suggest them as they are the best known. If you get to any, great. If you can only get to a few I would say Lovebites, Broken By The Scream, Hanabie, Nemophila are top tier for me at least. If you can't get to any might still be worth just checking out outside of reactions at some point. Lovebites - Set The World On Fire live kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2rdpHtsnqySbMU Hanabie - Be the GAL mv kzbin.info/www/bejne/noXYgaqMjq2Wla8 Nemophila - REVIVE live kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp2sk5agprNol9E Broken By The Scream - Sayonara Birthday mv kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2nUgHtjm5uXpa8 Passcode - Taking You Out mv kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZ7XaWmIgKqeq7s Aldious - Go away live kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZS1hX95lKlmqJo Band-Maid - Hate live kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5eyg6KHftZ1aac -------- Mary's Blood - Marionette mv kzbin.info/www/bejne/g32wY6iki5Werbc Mardelas - Patriot Anthem mv kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGLQlXqdjteNmbc Bridear - Still Burning mv kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGi4gId4dtl9npI Destrose - Maze live kzbin.info/www/bejne/emfMp6dreKh7hac Fate Gear - Battle Against Justice mv kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZvMeHp8jJydeKc Show Ya - Fairy dvd version kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGPdd4V5n5Wgopo Saiseiga - Jumble kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIPLioltlsmWbbc NEK! - MAZE kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3nXiH2jgt6Vfbs Galmet - Zero kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKqYmJtrfrWXhdE Gacharic Spin - Mindset mv kzbin.info/www/bejne/h56vYYlsa5yEsKs STMLT - Antimental live kzbin.info/www/bejne/fp3No2l5h8uKjZY Mellows - Death sentence live kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zni1gYahj66oq9k Maximum The Hormone - Yoshu Fukushu mv kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJaxZpimarKlmrs Shingeki - Inferno kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaG0oYGfn6qMh6s Otoboke Beaver - Don't Light My Fire mv kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJy6l3mOo7Gjj8k Unlucky Morpheus - Angreifer live kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXiuiJqDaa6CncU Kosame - Cord mv kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaWQpXVuqtCohKs Maze - Idol Riot live kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHmke2yAgK-eeas Gallhammer - Blind My Eyes live (ruin of a church) kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJe3mqyFhJahkKc Dragdown - Sinister Prodigy kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnjWi5ubp5ucn7c Rolling Quartz - Fearless (disclaimer, actually Korean) kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4fTYqKca79jqNE Brats - Spiderweb mv kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3jRXmaIgLuUnas Ladybaby - Nippon Manju mv kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2mQp52bYsekb8U Trident - Kick Ass mv kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIiQfpatnrKGfqM --------- Also as you like EC you might enjoy "We Butter The Bread With Butter". They are also German like EC. WBTBWB - 20 km/h mv --------- If you want some cool Indian Metal try Bloodywood Bloodywood - Aaj mv --------- Some cool Siberian music, not really sure of Genre Otyken - Storm mv --------- Comedy but solid Italian band Nanowar Of Steel Nanowar Of Steel - Valhalleluja mv --------- Quite amusing Russian band Little Big Little Big - Rock Paper Scissors mv

[@JohnathanWestMusic]

@@taihavard thank you so much for all of this! 🙏🙏

[@Anni_Mau]

"nobody's gonna watch" lol no, you're reacting to EC and we'll come find you eventually ;)

[@JohnathanWestMusic]

@@Anni_Mau I found that out pretty quick. 😂

[@Warchild0311]

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[@ambuchanan1027]

Can Lacey be in one of your videos?

[@JohnathanWestMusic]

@@ambuchanan1027 I will certainly ask her if she would be down!

[@blutwigknochensense3750]

Just my oppinion. Your backround music is a bit to loud. It distraced from what you sre saying.

[@chrissandoval7675]

dude needs to check out bloodywood. recommend aaj, gaddaar, or ari ari.

[@JohnathanWestMusic]

@@chrissandoval7675 I'll check em out!

[@chrissandoval7675]

@@JohnathanWestMusic sure you'll dig them