Therapist reacts to Disturbed - Sound of Silence REACTION #disturbed #soundofsilence #reaction

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  @danielolson5378 · 3 years ago

  When Paul Simon heard Disturbed perform this song on Conan O'Brien he tweeted that from now on this song belongs to you! To me that would be the highest form of a compliment when the author of the song says it's no longer his but Disturbed's.

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  @suemoore6445 · 3 years ago

  I’m a 73 year old grandma who still has the original S & G vinyl that includes this song. I accidentally came across the Disturbed’s video version in 2020 as everything locked down because of the pandemic descended. I was blown away. I’ve since checked out the bands concert performances and other videos and came to love them, even the heavy metal. I’ve been checking in on re actions by others (voice teachers, musicians, reacters) and your response has been the most Savvy and complete one I’ve heard. Thank you!

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  @Vincebennett7873 · 3 years ago

  The best description of this performance that I've seen is: Simon & Garfunkel's version was the warning of where our society was going, and Disturbed's version is an expression of the frustration and anger that the warning has been ignored.  Paul Simon is an absolute genius in the composition of this song.  He and Art performed it with a "sweetness" and softness that actually belied the importance of the song.  I've always felt it was one of the most prophetic of my long life.  David pounded it home with a sledgehammer, and we needed it desperately!  And yet society still does not hear!!  We are so self-centric, so self-absorbed, see ourselves as a star, around which planets orbit, when we are actually asteroids, and are only significant when we lift others - allowing our eyes to drift away from ourselves.  It's a masterpiece for a second time.

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  @phyllisrocher · 3 years ago

  It gives me goosebumps every time.  At 73 I think this is my lifetime favorite song.

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• LA

  @lancearn7332 · 3 years ago

  With 7 years of struggling with the dark demon's inside,  I see and hear this song in a different light to most people....  I cried like a baby when I first heard Disturbed's version, and after hearing this many dozens of times, I still cry every-time I hear David Draiman sing this version.

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• TI

  @timheiss5207 · 3 years ago

  This is the most powerful version of this song I've ever heard. It brings tears to my eyes.

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• LE

  @lewis.hamilton.3 · 3 years ago

  When Paul Simon, himself,  adds this song to his personal playlist, I think you made it. :)

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• RU

  @ruthiewohlforth5464 · 3 years ago

  One of the best male vocalists on the planet...amazing range and control!

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• MI

  @mitchellhartman6205 · 3 years ago (edited)

  David Draiman is a classically trained cantor..so you can imagine his range.. This is one of the best covers ever done!

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• DO

  @dondecaire6534 · 3 years ago

  THIS is the way this song was MEANT to be performed. It is so amazing that 2 different artistic visions created it decades apart.

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• RO

  @roguemerlin1969 · 3 years ago

  The original was written in sadness as a warning about the direction society was taking. This version starts out with the sadness but develops into anger in that society hadn't heeded the warning, more engrossed in the shallowness of the connections of the internet or phones, rather than actual personal connections.

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• MR

  @MrPhife333 · 3 years ago

  His voice begins like a gentle rain with looming clouds on the horizon, builds slowly to a down pour, crescendos into a raging storm,  then finally gives us a little peak of the sun as the rain eases back to a gentle mist.

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