Reaction Videos

One of the biggest internet trends of the last couple of years is the rise of “reaction videos”, where YouTube presenters react to musical performances of famous songs and the singers who perform them. The quality of these varies wildly but the best of them are illuminating.

One of the better “reactors” is Beth Roars, a voice teacher from Scotland, who combines her expertise (which is considerable) with an honest display of her emotional reactions to great performances. Here is the one of Bobby Hatfield’s stunning live performance of Unchained Melody, one of the greatest pop songs of all time (it charted three times in three different decades!):



Watch it again—only looking at her hands!