Beautiful video and a lot of fun and interesting facts. My wife and I are big hummingbird fans, but we were a little disappointed after putting out a feeder that ended up being dominated by a very crafty and very vicious little guy. We put several more up, thinking that he wouldn’t defend them all, but he did. He was really attempting to injure and or kill the others, so we took the feeders down. Little bastard ruined it for everyone!!
I think that it wouldn’t hurt to maybe cut about 40% of the humor. I don’t think that some posters understand how distracting humorous comments can be, and how they can seem forced and entirely irrelevant to the subject.
You have a great voice for this sort of presentation!

Errr... he's not even white.

To pick on Bruno Mars, of all artists, is a bit ridiculous. At least he has a great voice and is a great live performer, which is much more than can be said of a lot of pop stars.

That dude has a great voice and he's a very good study of vocal characteristics.

Dude's got a great voice

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Well I loved it. And I don't think he's a mediocre vocalist. He really has a great voice and fantastic mic control.

Also, the way he did this one, cutting back and forth was really a revelation. Now that "She knows" line actually makes sense to me. *promote

I wish they wouldn't pull their punches (more so than Des O'Connor nowadays) and let their clearly great voices linger a bit. The huge silences took me out of the moment.

Great voice.

The term "red light district" comes from the practice of railway brakemen leaving their lanterns on cathouse porches.

@JustSaying

I'm gonna be nice cause I don't have any experience with you or your opinions yet. And, to an extent, I agree..

Hopefully you can contribute something meaningful to videosift, considering all the great voices who've disappeared from this place.

It's just extremely frustrating that these two goofballs are haven't left yet.

And in fact, your premise is a topic that I definitely have been meaning to discuss.

There's a Prager "University" video that addresses that exact premise of sugarcoated vs blatant belligerent racist.

The video itself is flagrantly patronizing.

That being said we have all three types of racist on videosift currently:

Bobknight is your classic Neo-Con Racist.
- He hates blacks, gays, jews & liberals and makes no qualms about expressing how subhuman those groups are.

Trancecoach is your more politically-correct racist.
- Seems pretty open-minded and accepting, until you reach the middle or end of his comment.
Then it's all like "isn't it sad that all black people have no fathers and live in the ghetto."

Lantern is a special case.
- He'll be toned-down yet flagrant at times. Openly belligerent at others.
But it's always under the guise of "I can't be racist cause I don't FEEL like i'm racist"

He even used the classic "Well I CAN'T be racist cause my DAUGHTER married a BLACK/BIRACIAL guy! See, not racist"

Then will immediately say some heinously racist shit like he has in this thread. i.e.

"Of course I didn't bother reading the article for context or facts.
I'm a cop, I know how the 'Criminal Element' thinks.
Clearly those kids were dangerous.
If we had just heard the audio, we would have seen how those punks are no better than those looting rioting savages in Baltimore"

So no, JustSaiyan.. I would NOT prefer to have some idiot saying idiot things whenever I come back to check out the site.

At least Bill O'Reilly is smart enough to have a somewhat substantive discussion.

Lantern just says racist shit, then cowers behind the "i'm a good person because my job & family FORCE me into being around lesbians & colored people.. and I put up with that pretty well. so.. yeah.."

But yeah, I just hate people like Lantern cause he's too chicken shit to just say he thinks black people are inferior whenever I press him on it.

At least Bobknight will straight tell you gays are immoral sinful perverts or whatever. The old-fashion, honest, terrifying-murder-clown bigot he is.

Then again, Bobknight can't admit he's racist either.
So.. maybe that's just a core Conservative talking point now.

Some great voices there....

She has a channel of practicing singing, she's just an amateur. Recently her video went viral as it was posted to Facebook only, it got 4 million views and featured on TV. They told her to post it on YouTube as well.

This time she normally practices around midnight. Her baby was sleepless and crying so she sang to her while doing her normal routine of practicing. But she noticed baby seeming to love it, she turned on webcam for a cute memory and posted to Facebook only.

She wasn't looking for fane as she never uploaded to YouTube just her family. But her family shared on Facebook and those shares were shared and on and on until 4 million views later and a news interview...the video finally got added to YouTube.

I thought it was cute, sweet, and great voice and even though the Facebook vid got 4 million views it hadn't been added here. So I added it

I really wanted to love this...

but I just couldn't. The lady has a great voice, but they have stripped the song of its swagger and confidence.

Congratulations, @alien_concept!!!!

And @dag, I love the songs. You have a great voice!

Cry on demand does not = good acting
She needs to switch to singing, great voice.

Yup. Great voice, great track.

That was epic. Well done to all involved.

The vocalist had a great voice, not sure if it was right for this song, but definitely will develop with age. Didn't really think the piano added much and it's not a song that lets the guitarists shine, but they played well. The bassist owned the hell out of it... but let's be honest, the drummer was the star. He absolutely nailed it.