So a few weeks ago, I wrote a column about discovering a hard-rock band of three sisters from Mexico called The Warning.
Well, I have now gone down the rabbit hole The Warning Army (their fans) like to warn people about. The good news, I guess, is I’m not the only one.
Their are a number of streamers on YouTube who do reaction streams to music from different groups, and I have found several of those streams with the reactions to videos from The Warning.
It’s pretty easy to tell when someone is about to do their first reaction video. One fellow thought he was going to be watching a song called “The Warning” from a group called Evolve (which does sound reasonable, actually).
Another streamer who I quite enjoy goes by Phil Zero. He had The Warning suggested to him from a member of The Warning Army, who suggested if he was looking for an earlier rock sound, to check them out. The suggester also stated, quite correctly, that “Live is their super power”.
Phile decided to give it a listen, starting with their live video for “Z”. As he got ready to start the video, he made it clear that he knew basically nothing about them since he wasn’t sure if they sang in English or Spanish.
He found out very quickly that most of their songs are in English, although they have written a few in Spanish as well.
I like watching Phil’s reaction videos because he obviously knows a lot about music, and pauses the video quite frequently when something catches his attention, so he can explain it to his audience.
Actually, one of my favourite Phil moments was when he didn’t pause the video. He was reviewing “Evolve” which is a song where, near the end, Pau, the drummer, lets loose with a scream.
Phil was halfway through a sentence when Pau screamed, and he just sat there, frozen. I have to admit I had the same reaction the first time I heard the song because the scream comes pretty much out of nowhere.
However, I don’t think my reaction was as full as Phil’s. I went back and times it from when he froze until he started up again. He sat there for 30 seconds, trying to process what he had just heard.
He is actually one of the few reviewers I have watched who talks about both the music and the vocals. His big problem with Pau’s scream was that, by his training, it was physically impossible. He listened to it a number of times, trying to analyze what was going on.
He actually tacked on a little piece at the end of the reaction from a couple of days later where he had figured out what happened, and concluded Pau was, after all, human.
I still have some doubts at times about that, watching and listening to her.