Review: Just a Dream (cover)

Just a Dream (Nelly), performed by Sam Tsui and Christina Grimmie with Kurt Schneider on piano/keyboard/drums/I'm not even sure what else.

This video.... I don't even know where to start.  It's lovely in so many ways.  Let's start off with the instrumentals, because it's ridiculous how often they're ignored.

Kurt Schneider is an amazing instrumentalist.  I can't even name just one instrument, because he plays them all. While I haven't heard the original version of this song yet (heh heh...), the introduction to this one sucked me in right away.  I love piano openings.  Case closed.  But the video itself is awesome--the shots of each individual forming one giant picture reminds the viewer that a song is made of many parts.  There is a vocalist (in this case, two vocalists), and so many different sets of instrumentation going on at once that I ended up watching most of this video with my mouth open.  Loved it, loved it, and LOVED IT.

The vocals were surprisingly good.  For YouTubers, these people are insanely talented.  Honestly, for the human population in general, these people are insanely talented.

However, I felt that Sam's vocals could have had a little more "pop" to them.  While he's undeniably an amazing singer, I found myself starting to take his sound for granted and focusing more on Christina's voice.  By the way, I love Christina's voice.  I did feel that this song fell a little outside of her optimal range, but she did an excellent job.

I loved this song.  Have I said that already?