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SPACE AND TIME — We all know by now that The Piano Guys love to add a healthy dose of pop culture into their videos to draw in, for lack of a better phrase, a traditionally unconventional audience into the classical music world.
They’ve battled good and evil with a “Star Wars” theme, jumped on the “Let It Go” bandwagon, and even nodded to British boy band One Direction, among many other things.
The premise of their latest video, “I Want You Bach,” asks what would happen if the 1770s and the 1970s traveled through space and time, colliding into an unlikely jam session.
The answer, of course, is in the video, which includes Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back” mashed with several Bach pieces—Brandenburg Concertos No. 3 and 5, Two Part Invention No. 8, Minuet in G, Bourrée, and Gavotte from the French Suite No. 5, according to the video description.
Let me say this (and please don’t hurt me, dear readers): I am not a fan of The Piano Guys. I admire and respect their talent and energy, but they just aren’t my thing.
That being said, I loved this video, and I think you will too.
Maybe my enjoyment comes from the harpsichord walking that bassline like a champ, or perhaps it's the frock coats and (very bad) powdered wigs juxtaposed with ruffled tux shirts and cheesy mustaches. I've liked things for lesser reasons, that's for sure.
