YouTube reaction twins TwinsTheNewTrend interviewed Barack Obama about the importance of Bob Dylan, playlists, mixtapes, and how young and open people can change America and the world for the better. Three nice guys chatting...
“I got a whole bunch of varieties on my playlist now. I used to listen to all rap, now I’ve got rock, old music, 80s. I’d hear songs but I had no idea who made it” - Fred Williams, of the reaction-video twins TwinsthenewTrend told Guardian about how his listening habits changed since he started posting videos with his brother reacting to songs after hearing them for the first time. Williams brothers were raised on Twista and Lil Wayne, so different genres were a surprise - “I guess I’ve been most surprised by rock, which I never listened to growing up. It’s good, and I thought rock was bad”. Fred appreciates it because “There’s no computer or autotune. They just focus on voices, beats and instruments. It’s just interesting how they can make a song like that”. But life hasn't changed a lot since the boys became popular (over 570,000 subscribers) - Fred is still working at his day job as a barber...
Phil Collins' song 'In the Air Tonight' saw a 1,110% increase in sales after a viral video of two brothers reacting to the song while listening to it for the first time, CoS reports. Tim and Fred Williams, a pair of 22-year-old twins from Gary, Indiana, create reaction videos on YouTube under the account TwinsthenewTrend, and their most popular video is their reaction to Collins' 1980s pop hit, with over 4 million views. The song is climbing the Billboard charts, and it has already reached No. 3 on the iTunes Charts.
Tim and Fred Williams are twenty-one-year-old twins from Gary, Indiana, who make videos of themselves listening to famous songs for the first time, and release those on their YouTube channel TwinsthenewTrend. They've uploaded dozens of songs, mostly rock - Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Johnny Cash - and their most popular one is Phil Collins’s 'In the Air Tonight', with over 4 million views. The New Yorker likes the naivety of the two...
