Sideways440

Original Cats Video (Patreon)

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2021-01-05 23:35:50

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2026-06

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Hi everyone, little bit of an update for you:

This video is an unlisted version of the original Cats video that I uploaded to YouTube.

At 9am on the Monday after the holidays, 5 days after it went live (and was cleared by the Content ID bot) the video got slammed by manual claims from Universal Music Group (UMG).

Initially I thought it was just 3 claims, but after going through them it looks like YouTube isn't showing me exactly how many there are.

Now normally I'd just let it be, have a drink, play a game or two and just let it go, but I spent WAY too much time on this video to let UMG have it and I've tried fighting it.
Unfortunately, I have yet to hear a story from someone with THIS many MANUAL claims by UMG that's gotten away totally free without some kind of special circumstances (like UMG literally forgetting to file the counter-claim's counter-claim and the whole thing expiring, which I don't think is going to happen with me).

So I tried replacing some of the music with the YouTube Content ID tool, and I've tried muting others, but like I said, YouTube didn't really let me know exactly how bad the manual claim was (so much for transparency) so as of right now all of Gus is either replaced or muted, and it looks like it's going to be the same with Jenny Anydots.

SO.

Since it looks like I've butchered the live video to the point of no return, I wanted to make sure that you all would have access to a clean version with no replaced or muted music.
And since this is an unlisted video it should (hopefully) stay away from the prying eyes of UMG's unpaid interns. *knock on wood*

tl;dr, here's a version that you can show your friends that doesn't sound like a mediashare livestream.

ugh, I have had a day
it's times like this that really proves that I mean it when I say it

Thank you all for your continued support

I literally could not do this without you

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Why the Music in Cats (2019) is Worse than you Thought

In this video I freak out about Cats holding hands Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sideways440 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/sideways440 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Sideways440 Sources: The article penned by the audio leads on Cats I cannot overstate how much of a fascinating read this is, you owe it to yourself to read it! https://www.local695.com/magazine/cats-part-2/ Part 1 of the above article with some interesting insights to the film industry (I liked the part where they lucked out with the forehead-mounted mics not interfering with the dancers' somersaults) https://www.local695.com/magazine/mixing-live-singing-vocals-on-cats/ Luciano Berio's Sequenza III performed by Laura Catrani (I love this performance!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0TTd2roL6s https://catsmusical.fandom.com/wiki/The_Old_Gumbie_Cat because of course Cats has it's own wiki The Toronto Star article about the Orchestra having to work up to 2 months before the film released https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2019/11/19/dont-judge-cats-film-by-its-trailer-says-canadian-music-producer-greg-wells.html John Cage's Water Walk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXOIkT1-QWY The Greenport Peter Pan Fiasco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_kx3byv8ow Maria Joao Pires prepared a different Mozart concerto to the one that was performed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS64pb0XnbI The same thing happened to pianist Tianxu An in the finals of a Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOUSFNgEy7c Ryan Chen breaks a string during a performance (and the concertmaster doesn't flinch when he has to swap violins like a pro) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=686xoeQAVA4 The metal pole modern dance thing that we've all seen a million times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UueJK_HGn2o If I've missed anything please let me know Seriously, if I've used a clip from your video in this video and I haven't put it here please contact me!