FIRST TIME HEARING | Erik Grönwall | O Helga Natt (Oh Holy Night - Swedish Version) #musicreaction

Hi, I'm Brad and I'm John. So a year ago, almost, it wasn't quite, we covered it in our last video, yes, but this is in reference to something that we did a year ago, not to something that we forgot to do a year ago. So about a year ago now, we reacted to a video that the Grumble of Erics released and it was his version of Oh Holy Night. A couple of million people watched it. Not on our channel, his, that is, it's like, I wish. And yeah, he enjoyed doing it so much and obviously so many people watched it that he just released, not too long ago, another cover of Oh Holy Night. The only difference is this time, and I'm, no, I'm not going to try butchering it. He's done it in his native language of Swedish. So same song, different language. I did actually look it up because I was curious. So Oh Holy Night was written in 1847. So it's been around for a minute. And we were talking about that in the other one about from the 80s to the 40s. Yeah. 1840. I know. So it was originally released by the Rolling Stones. It was derived from a poem, a French poem called Minuet Christiennes. I probably just butchered that, my French. Although I barely passed French, I basically failed it, which was written in 1843 by the same guy who actually wrote the song version, Placide Capulot, probably butchered his name too. He was a wine connoisseur and part-time poet. He was basically asked to create a song for a rebuilt church that was opening around Christmas time in 1847. That's basically how the story goes. It was set to music by composer Adolph Adam. And then the English version, with a few small changes to the initial melody, is by John Sullivan Dwight, which is the version that we basically all know today. And people such as Mariah Carey went and jammed on the charts, whether we liked it or not. Which she did in the 90s, strangely enough. She charted with O Holy Night back in the 90s. I guess if you can, you might as well. She's thawed now, of course. Anyway. All right. So we're ready? Yes. All right. This is going to be interesting. Before we get going, make sure you hit that like and subscribe. Check out the description down below. You're going to find all our links, information, and stuff down there. Let's see if we can give him another couple million views on this video. I was trying not to do that. Sorry. Um, what was I thinking? Oh, this is actually a treatment that I think he should do to more Christmas songs. Especially the calm one, because it's like, you know the song enough that you can sing along to it. Yeah. Even though he's singing it in a different language, it's like you effectively know the words. I mean, obviously, Christmas songs are actually in French anyway. But not just that, also doing these metal versions of Christmas songs. I mean, okay, it's not there yet. You know it's coming. Especially if you, you know, listened to the one from last year, you know it's coming. But yeah, taking these traditional songs and doing them, well, European. Yeah. Right. Yeah. YouTube pause. See? Yeah, we've said it before. Eric loves to, in his covers and metalized versions, he loves to just build onto the songs. Build it, build it, build it, build it. Crescendo. And then just, yeah. Yeah, his is so good at doing that. Yeah. It's practically his signature style. Yeah. But that was very impressive. Mm-hmm. It's like I'm kind of torn. It's like, if I like that version or the English version better. I mean, obviously, he basically kept the treatment. Yeah. But pretty much the same between the two. It's just one song in English and one song in Swedish. Yeah. But it just sounds so, I don't know, it sounds so. It's like, you know the song. Yeah. But it almost, because the lyrics are different, obviously. It's just, I don't know, just. There's also, I think I've come to this before. It seems as if when you have an artist such as Eric, who's obviously from Sweden. Surprised. That's why he swings in Swedish. That's actually, that's a tongue twister. Say that 15 times fast. Anyway. It seems sometimes when an artist sings a song in their native language that traditionally a lot of people don't know in that language. For example, there's Christmas Carol sung in Swedish instead of English. I know it almost seems as if it comes across as, you know, more comfortable, more natural, even though to us it doesn't. You know, if we were to try and sing it in Swedish it wouldn't sound natural at all. But I don't know, it seems like it comes across as more natural and comfortable when a singer sings something like that in their native language than, you know, the one that he sung in English. It's almost like this one is more, I don't know, comfortable version than the other one. I don't know. I said on tour which one I liked better. Yeah, because they were both incredibly good. I think maybe just the mystery of this one. It's like you know what he's singing. Yeah, you know the words. You know the words. You probably know the words. But it's a mystery. But I don't know. I liked it. I think it was a great performance. Hopefully he'll do another one this year. Yeah, do more of these ones like this and get him off that. Or do another one in English this year and do that one and then next year in Swedish. Or do one in English and then let's wait and vote this year. We do still have a few more weeks this year. He's got time. There's still a couple of weeks. We might not have time to react to him, but he's got time. We'll probably make time. Anyway, we're definitely going to continue reacting to him. So if you want to see those, make sure you hit the like and subscribe. Comment suggestions down below. And if you hit the notification bell, YouTube will consider telling you when we do the suggestions that you commented down below. Until then, thanks for watching.