Hi. Hello, everyone. Anthony Fantano here, the Internet's busiest music nerd. I hope you're doing well. It's time for me to dive back into the endless abyss that is Instagram Reels Music.
Yes, we have an ongoing series on this channel where I go into my Instagram algorithm, which for whatever reason, looking at other people's IG algos, I've found that mine just gives me this endless stream of awful, but also very special music. As far as the internet is concerned, it's really an experience like no other, which is why I continue to share in that with you.
Okay, great start to this video, honestly. This guy over here, if you were at all aware, wear of the weird DIY music space, this guy's an OG, Rayon Base. As you are about to hear, this guy's lyricism and production, always top-notch.
"Ca-a-an I kiss you? Ca-a-an I kiss you? Ca-a-an I kiss you? You say no, you say no, you say no."
Okay. Can I kiss you? Are you asking for a kiss or are you asking if you can kiss someone with your eyes? Which, yeah, maybe somebody would say no to that because that sounds gross.
"Maybe. It hurts to stare at the sun. I'm blinded, you are the one."
Okay, wait, wait, wait. Hold the phone here. Hold the phone. The weird vocal effects there, the eariness, it's reading a little David Bowie, Blackstar coded. I'm not going to lie. I feel like Rayon Base is on to something. He's on some truly avant-garde shit here.
"Did I say that I need you? Did I say that I want you?"
Time – what is going on here? What a crazy IG reels music pull. Russell Crowe?! Russell Crowe's making music?
"Did I say that I need you?"
I swear, all these actors, they really just want to be musicians. They really just want to be rock stars. That's truly what it is at the end of the day. Everyone who's making music would actually rather be acting. Everyone who's acting would rather be making music. And nobody's happy at the end of the day because everyone wants what the other person has.
"I want you, oh, if I did, then I'm a fool."
Zucchero? Zucchero. Also, this font, just the video production and the font, it's just giving beautiful songs, wonderful balladry. Touching Lierx, the new album from Russell Crowe, with collaborations and additional vocals from Zucchero. I swear this is AI. This looks AI. I don't know what to believe anymore. I truly don't know what to believe.
"Anytime a good girl gets this dick, swear to God it turns her to an addict."
Okay. Merry Christmas.
"Hi, this is a song I wrote about wanting to eat a guy's ass and then I know that he has worms."
Number one, hard ass riffs. Sorry, I don't mean to invoke the ass there again. I mean, literally everything she does here is checking all the classic boxes. I mean, you got the drums, you got the guitars, you got the death growls. Topically, it's on point, too. This is exactly what a death metal song should be about. This is exactly the type of lyricism you should be employing for such a musical venture. She pretty much nailed it. No notes.
"If there's somebody that you're crushing on right now, send them this song."
"L-o-v-e, put it on me. K-i-s-s-i-n-g. I'm a F-O-O-L fool for you."
First off, just guys being dudes. That's all I got to say about that. Two, until I hear a better song in this video, this is the song of the summer. Great S-O-N-G, guys. G-o-o-d-j-o-b.
Okay, we have found an innovator, ladies and gentlemen. We have found an innovator. The spooky goth synths and drums, the creepy lead vocals, the reverb? I feel like this is what Yoko Ono or like Jarboe sounds like to somebody who can't even stand a second of weirder or left field alternative music and anything underground, anything the least bit strange. I make that comparison, but simultaneously, musical genius over here. Musical genius, pioneer, innovator. You're killing it. You're smashing it.
"Shoe size 11, do a lot of walk. Text message only, don't do a lot of talk / Shoe size 11, do a lot of walk. Text message only, don't do a lot of talk / My bar's like dogs on the beach, let them bark / Looking for that heat, don't trip by the squark / The beat is a car, spit gas, never park / Music is water. Hendrix Hammer, got the voice like Luke, but my side ain't dark / Real Superman and my name Man, okay."
My man loves to walk outside. He loves walkies. He prefers text over a phone call. He's a man of few words. He's got things to do. He doesn't have time to just be gabbing on the phone all day. He's got to be making a filter rap clips. You don't have time to be on the phone. Pretty classic flow over here as well. Am I getting a bit of a West Coast vibe here? But yeah, he likes walking, likes his comic book superheroes, I think this dude's a solid dude. This guy's a solid guy.
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"I don't want to say it, but I've been having daydreams. I've been seeing visions of my mission, and it scares me. I've been having daydreams. Took another chance, and my life is in revision. Lately, I've been getting tired chasing all these visions. What is it I'm meant to be? Past is always harming me. I don't want to know what to do. Tell me of my destiny."
If I have a thought on this, it just feels like I'm listening to Christian rap, but without God getting shouted at every 10 seconds. It just sounds like bad homespun Christian rap. But instead, a guy who maybe day trades crypto is writing it instead. Bitcoin is his God.
"You're single on Valentine's Day. Boohoo. Well, luckily for you, I have a solution. I'll be your BF, but you must pay. I will be sincere and kind. $10! I will make you love a lot. $10! We will have a heart-to-heart. $10!"
All right. Okay. Actually, messing with this heavily. Like the satire, like the metal jump scares, liking the guitar licks, the beats, and the cutesy verse passages are funny, too. Yeah, it feels like I'm listening to Alice Longyu Gao, a weird experimental metal project, maybe early Kero Kero Bonito, all coming together into a weird Instagram reel music magic. Also love the disclaimer at the very end here because irony is dead.
"Hold time, n—– was a bitch. I was unaware. Hold time, this shit wasn't lit. I was unaware. Mama put some cabbage and some ox tail in the tupperware. Damn this typ of doozy, I done did it with no double dare. That's a damn shady game, dropped off a brocure brochure."
I feel like IG Reels music is evolving. The weird combinations of genres that should not be together are actually changing into something that is viable. The goth industrial metalcore rap fusion. It's fusioning. This is the new wave. This is the new wave. I'm investing in this. The stonks are going up.
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"I believe in myself. I believe in myself. I believe in myself. I believe in myself. Yes, sir. Turn up the temperature right now. Are you ready? Are you ready? Shoobadodobadoo!"
I was not believing in this guy for a second. I really wasn't. I was like, Bro, you need to believe in something else, honestly. Whatever you're doing here, it's not working. But then once he hit the...shoobadodobadoo! Then I was like, 'Okay, wait a second. We're on to something. He's cooking.' It's an experimental meal that not everybody is going to get yet. You could say the shit this guy is on, it's not even out of the ass yet. Also, I love that this guy's Instagram name is WorldPeaceJesus. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if this guy was the second coming. If Jesus did actually come back, would he be an IG Reels rapper Shoobadoobadooing across our timelines? I say yes. In the current context that we're living in, yes. The chances of that happening, very high. I wear a better line.
"I went above the line. I does it every time. I'm not watching Peaky Blinders on a Sunday night. Butter spread, wonder how I got this Wonder Bread."
This is like literally every dude angry in my DMs after I give a negative or mid-Playboi Carti review. It's like dozens of this guy in my DMs, in my mentions going, 'Hey, why did you hit the Carti? How does it go? Carti made music. He invented music.'
Okay, that's the Instagram reels music video for you. For you. We did it for you.
Anthony Fantano. IG Reels. Music. Forever.
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