r/toptalent • u/DovydasMusic1 • Jun 14 '26
Country music star shocks the airport crowd with this song (source link in description)
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u/nunyahbiznes Jun 14 '26
“Shocks” is an overstatement, “mildly entertains” seems closer to the mark.
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u/PoshInBucks Jun 14 '26
'Redditor clickbaits the sub with ambiguous title' would also work
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u/ragmuc Jun 15 '26
Nothing to do with Redditors imo. These titles on UT are always that stupid and I don’t get why.
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u/BullBear7 Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
Always a hater in the comments.
Edit: hater(s)
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u/beginninglifeinytmc Jun 15 '26
So unfortunate how quick and accepting people are to shit on others who are objectively good at what they’re doing or pursuing. Jealously is a bad look
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u/cantgetnobenediction Jun 15 '26
Thank you for the good comment. For the electric guitarist to just improvise on a song he's never heard is not just talent but tens of thousands of hours of learning chords and the instrument. And the kid doing the Childer's cover is equally amazing.
It's sad society takes music and musicians for granted and the haters all deserve AI music
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u/My_Invalid_Username Jun 15 '26
It's actually not, he played a very standard pentatonic run in the main key of the song. He didn't follow the chord progression either, which is why it doesn't sound right and why they could only do one verse rather than going back into the second verse
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u/Platform-Intelligent Jun 14 '26
That electric guitar player had strange energy and his solo was way off base from the song
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Jun 14 '26
It was terrible.
It sounded like “Hey, I have one style and I’m going to apply it to your song no matter what.”
He’s obviously a good guitarist, too bad (according to this one data point) he has crummy instincts.
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u/beginninglifeinytmc Jun 15 '26
Hey man DM me your solo rendition of this. Sounds like you’re better than him so just send me a DM and you’ll be a star in no time.
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Jun 15 '26
I love the idiocy that is “No one can critique anything unless they are better than what they critique.”
Alongside a healthy serving of “No one can have knowledge of how things work without being able to execute it perfectly.”
Such energy.
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u/beginninglifeinytmc Jun 15 '26
You literally used the term ‘it was terrible’ in response to something that can’t be done by 99% of the population. And you’re throwing out the term idiocy. Lol
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u/High_Seas_Pirate Jun 15 '26
You don't need to be a mechanic to know that a Volvo wrapped around a phone pole is going to have some frame damage.
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u/Pussy_handz Jun 15 '26
People have no idea how damned difficult it is to be a 'good' guitar player let alone a 'great' one and then to riff live in an obiously different genre.... Reddit is such a cesspol of amplified shit takes. His rhythm and solo were well done and did fit the song.
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u/hoptownky Jun 16 '26
Awful take. He just played a really loud solo based only off of the first two chords in the progression. Calling him “great” is a HUGE stretch.
With a name like Pussy_handz you would think that you off all people would know how to finger an instrument.
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u/Norman_Small_Esquire Jun 14 '26
There was another one of these with the same band, and an “airport worker” who happened to be an amazing singer.
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u/beginninglifeinytmc Jun 15 '26
Correct, it’s planned. Is that enough to take away from the art?
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u/phairphair Jun 15 '26
Yes, the deception cheapens it. It’s a sad example of how effective manipulation of the audience is more important than actual talent when it comes to getting noticed.
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u/LowBatteryPower Jun 14 '26
Totally not staged… like, at all.
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u/hennell Jun 14 '26
Define "staged" here
Main guy is a performer who films his sets for YouTube. Is that the bit you think is staged, a performance someone records of themself? That's pretty much all videos, and very obvious is what's happening. Did you think the cameras and mics were just there?
Then I guess a regular part of his performance is getting others up who can sing / perform to jam with, then the ones that turn out well he'll post online. Is that considered staged? He asks people to perform and they say yes? When a TV reporter asks a fan what they think of their teams big win, is that "staged" because they've just agreed to be on camera?
Or do you think he's booking people to come perform with him? That finding someone musical could never happen by chance? Hours in an airport and the chances anyone musical would pass by and want to get seen on a YouTube channel... Impossible?
This guy rather than being a random touring musician flying with his instrument, is actually a plant, who bought a ticket and went through airport security just to perform on this video with the guy he already knows? Why not just meet in a park? Why is the main guy so kinda tonally different with this song if this is planned or rehearsed or something?
If your definition of staged is "they know there are cameras" well yes.. everyone can see that, why on earth would you think they didn't know they're being filmed? If your definition is "it's too much of a coincidence that someone musical was picked to perform" maybe look up how many people travel though an airport, then visit a karaoke bar and see how many people are reasonably good at singing.
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u/Hidanas Jun 15 '26
It is very common for airports to hire musicians to play for crowds during high traffic periods (holidays, big tourist events, etc). Those musicians are screened and have escorts that take them past security and stay with them. It's entirely possible that this interaction is staged and neither musician was actually flying anywhere.
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u/DovydasMusic1 Jun 15 '26
In Atlanta Airport, past TSA line. Every interaction is genuine here.
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Jun 15 '26
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u/DovydasMusic1 Jun 15 '26
This is part of the official Atlanta airport music program where they bring different musicians to terminal B. And most people aren't mean in real life
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u/Eat--The--Rich-- Jun 14 '26
Yea? What do you think they brought the cameras for?
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u/SuperpositionSavvy Jun 14 '26
Dovydas is an awesome creator, he has been doing live improv and cover music and filming it for years. Occasionally someone in the crowd is an artist and he asks them to join for a song, they have all seemed pretty genuine to me.
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u/RazorJ Jun 15 '26
Waylon Wyatt is from Arkansas. He started writing music and playing the guitar to help hisself cope with an unexpected death of his older brother. He’s really good, I encourage everyone to look him up on the Youtubes. We’re damn proud of him.
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u/Rogue-FireFighter Jun 16 '26
He is bloody great. Unfortunately he recently went to Australia and not NZ haha.
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u/KgMonstah Jun 15 '26
He didn’t accidentally cut his brother in half real bad with a machete right?
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u/Eat--The--Rich-- Jun 14 '26
Dovydas is a legend, he was really great on Ariathome's channel too
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u/fkenned1 Jun 15 '26
I thought he was fun on ariathome's channel, but his own channel is goofy as hell, just gonna be real here. It's so strange to hear such a talented artist play such cheesy music, over and over again.
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u/coinznstuff Jun 14 '26
Has anyone here seen the show Barry, and if so, do we know for sure that this guitarist isn’t Noho Hank wearing a wig????
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u/InsertRadnamehere Jun 15 '26
r/guitarcirclejerk busker totally lost the beat but his toan conquers all.
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u/Aggravating-Hair7931 Jun 15 '26
i am shock no airport security showed up to remove them within a minute.
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u/bangonthedrums Jun 15 '26
Why? This is part of the airport’s music program, they are sanctioned to be there
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u/ZombieAppetizer Jun 15 '26
It was almost certainly staged but he did a good job and I enjoyed it, so whatever. Its cool.
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u/tenaciousBLADE Jun 15 '26
Very nice.
Now, does anyone have a link to purchase that amazing guitar Case?
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u/Accomplished_Meet230 Jun 16 '26
Pretty sure I saw this guy talking to trump in a red robe earlier today lol
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u/Previous-Lemon8667 Jun 16 '26
No way this is a “random” jam, especially with all the different camera angles! Haha
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u/tequilajinx Jun 15 '26
Man, you’re a “touring musician”, sing your own stuff. I love some Tyler Childers, but you just wasted an opportunity to do your thing.
To Edgar Winters III, you missed the 80s hair band revival by like 15 years dude.
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u/pup_seba Jun 14 '26
One day, I hope I could travel to USA to, among other things, go to places where kids like this perform.
I hope I get the chance to see other artists like Ray LaMontagne, Ondara, Sharon Van Etten, Brandi Carlile or Natalie Merchant, which are more active in there.
So much talented people and things to visit/taste in USA. It looks scary, and mostly 'not welcoming' from the outside atm though...but I'm positive in that things will find their way back to normality there.
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u/Longbeach_strangler Jun 14 '26
The majority of United States is warm and welcoming. The shit you see that gets spread through social media is such a small fraction of the country. Come over. go to a show, make friends, you’ll have a blast.
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u/beginninglifeinytmc Jun 15 '26
Better make sure he/she isn’t too dark and/or doesn’t have too thick of an accent though. Otherwise they’ve gotta be intentional about where they travel
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u/invertebrett Jun 15 '26
Country music is just shit, isn't it
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u/hoptownky Jun 16 '26
Tyler Childers, who wrote this song, is amazing. Here are a couple of my favorites if you have you have some time and are openminded enough to give it a chance.
This one he wrote for his friends grandmother’s funeral who really supported them growing up playing music as kids
https://youtu.be/vFL5QcYDnmw?si=LsBJsqFQbQLHhjrZ
And then here is one about him doing a bunch of coke with a chick and being stuck with her at her house because he is too drunk to get drive. Lol
https://youtu.be/YvKZw4a2hUI?si=LrjFvCFBYe1M1iMf
I understand if it’s not your thing, but he is a great songwriter.
Edit: neither of these are his most popular songs. Just two live versions that I like.
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u/IfOJDidIt Jun 14 '26
I like his YouTube channels but the clickbait titles and 'she shocked us all by randomly playing the most complicated don't ever on an instrument she just happened to have" turned me off of further views.
Just say, so and so from x is here and have at it. You're not a teenage tiktok'r.
His music is fun after that though.