# What I learned from watching random music videos on Youtube today **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 29, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-learned-from-watching-random-music-videos-on-youtube-today/836265 "2019-06-29T16:19:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-learned-from-watching-random-music-videos-on-youtube-today/836265/1 "2019-06-29T16:19:32Z")
Today I learned that the person singing the vocals to [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLTGs4fqxBk) song is a woman. I also learned that the rap part of [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtfZbj4J71A) song is done by a white guy. [Here’s the rap](https://youtu.be/GtfZbj4J71A?t=192). ---
**Author:** ![Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeke_N.Destroi)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-learned-from-watching-random-music-videos-on-youtube-today/836265/2 "2019-06-29T16:27:30Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Today I learned that the person singing the vocals to [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLTGs4fqxBk) song is a woman. Whale oil beef hucked ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-learned-from-watching-random-music-videos-on-youtube-today/836265/3 "2019-06-29T16:31:36Z")
Allison Moyet. And the keyboard player was a founding member of Depeche Mode. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-learned-from-watching-random-music-videos-on-youtube-today/836265/4 "2019-06-29T16:48:51Z")
Holy shit, TIL too! I have a bunch of these I-didn’t-know-about-this-song facts, but I made a thread about it, so I don’t want to repeat myself. Wait! I looked up that thread and another HOLY SHIT moment. That thread is almost 9 freakin’ years old!!! Hey, you participated in it, monstro. Just saying so I don’t feel old all by myself. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-learned-from-watching-random-music-videos-on-youtube-today/836265/5 "2019-06-29T18:27:06Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Holy shit, TIL too! > > I have a bunch of these I-didn’t-know-about-this-song facts, but I made a thread about it, so I don’t want to repeat myself. > Wait! I looked up that thread and another HOLY SHIT moment. That thread is almost 9 freakin’ years old!!! Hey, you participated in it, monstro. Just saying so I don’t feel old all by myself. Thanks for the reminder! 😃 You wouldn’t happen to have a link to that ancient thread, would you? I can’t remember what I said. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-learned-from-watching-random-music-videos-on-youtube-today/836265/6 "2019-06-29T19:02:27Z")
[What I didn’t know about the singer of these songs.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=594050) What kills me is I totally remember writing the OP but, dang, not how LONG AGO I did it! ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-learned-from-watching-random-music-videos-on-youtube-today/836265/7 "2019-06-29T19:14:12Z")
Honestly, nine years ago doesn’t seem that long ago to me. And yet I can’t remember writing any of those posts. So I am definitely old now! ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2019, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-learned-from-watching-random-music-videos-on-youtube-today/836265/8 "2019-06-30T02:13:28Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > [What I didn’t know about the singer of these songs.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=594050) > > What kills me is I totally remember writing the OP but, dang, not how LONG AGO I did it! It’s a shame that most of the links in that thread are dead, but _Jackie Blue_ was sung by a man? **head explodes** ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-learned-from-watching-random-music-videos-on-youtube-today/836265/9 "2019-07-01T08:15:39Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > It’s a shame that most of the links in that thread are dead, but _Jackie Blue_ was sung by a man? **head explodes** It always sounded like a man to me. But I couldn’t figure out the gender of the lead singer of [Spiral Starecase’s _More Today Than Yesterday_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoLRZUgFTy8) until I looked it up. As a hint, I will tell you that the name of the lead singer, who also wrote the song, is Pat. One that completely fooled me is["Oh How Happy" by Shades of Blue.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF5m59gy1P8) I would have bet my house they were black. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-learned-from-watching-random-music-videos-on-youtube-today/836265/10 "2019-07-01T09:35:09Z")
Alison Moyet was a huge hit [in the 80s](http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/41700000/Alison-Moyet-80s-music-41744683-568-851.jpg), then she went off grid for a while, but when she returned recently [she looked very different](https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article1919624.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Alison-Moyet-pictured-in-London.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-learned-from-watching-random-music-videos-on-youtube-today/836265/11 "2019-07-01T12:14:10Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Today I learned that the person singing the vocals to [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLTGs4fqxBk) song is a woman. > > I also learned that the rap part of [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtfZbj4J71A) song is done by a white guy. [Here’s the rap](https://youtu.be/GtfZbj4J71A?t=192). I don’t think I’ve ever heard of Indeep, but without knowing who it was, I would have guessed Chic. I grew up in the 80’s but listening to a lot of 70’s music. Some time in the early 90’s I got a record player and wore out a lot of my dad’s old records, especially his CTA/Chicago albums. Many, many years later, youtube showed up and I was very surprised to learn that the singer from Chicago (specifically Terry Kath) wasn’t black. I don’t know if it was how deep his voice was or the way that he sang, but it took me a while to wrap my head around it. [Here’s a great example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NifeiFF2Ufo). I thought I started a thread about it here (or asked in another thread) just to make sure what I was hearing on the records was the same person I was seeing in the videos, but I’m not finding it right now.