(Or "Wham!? Man! Thank You, Band.")
Three things I love about this video:
Just the whole concept of re-imagining 80's songs as early 20th century material is, to me, pretty cool. I always like new takes on things. Well, usually. And provided they're respecting the source material (which I think this is.)
I find the piano playing fascinating. Actually, I find the whole video fascinating, but I like watching people play the piano. I would say that I have a piano fetish, but that sounds sexual, and I assure it is anything but. I just really like pianos. And ragtime/jazz style piano in particular. (Though not exclusively.)
The saxophone playing in this reminds me partly of why I had wanted to learn the saxophone in the first place when I was little. Both for styles like this, AND for the style of sax playing that was in the original Wham! song. I've never actually played this well, but I used to aspire to do so. If we get our own house instead of an apartment, I will definitely pick up the sax again. (I haven't played it since 2012. And prior to that, it hadn't been since 1998. Though I was able to pick it up again.)
Anyway, this is my favorite song of the day (and that's saying something, as I discovered several songs today while browsing. Including a wonderful piano piece [by this same piano player] that was a mashup of Bohemian Rhapsody and Rhapsody in Blue, which is "an idea I once thought of" (as I'm sure any musician familiar with the two songs probably has), but this guy actually managed to do it. So, kudos to him.
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