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  • ♪ (punk rock music) ♪

  • ♪ (tranquil piano music) ♪

  • It's nice music.

  • - ♪ It's been a long day ♪ - I love this song.

  • It's so sad.

  • (singing along) ♪ Without you, my friend

  • And I'll tell you all about it when I see you again

  • We've come a long way

  • This is in the Furious 7.

  • Wasn't this a tribute to Paul Walker?

  • (choking up) This is such a good song. I get so emotional.

  • (rapping) ♪ Damn, who knew all the planes we flew

  • And then Wiz comes in.

  • - Wiz Khalifa. - ♪ That I'd be standing right here

  • Talking to you

  • Is this also a commercial for a movie?

  • I thought this was a love song this whole time. It's not.

  • How could we not talk about family

  • When family's all that we got? ♪

  • Everything I went through

  • You were standing there by my side

  • How can we not talk about family

  • when Vin Diesel says "family" every single sentence in the movie?

  • He's got a great voice, dude. That's crazy.

  • I know this song,

  • 'cause it's like two different genres put together.

  • When I see you again

  • Oh, it's so sad.

  • I haven't watched the movie 'cause I know I'd cry.

  • See, this is like a life goal--

  • just to have this massive garage and all of those cars.

  • (rapping) ♪ And that bond will never be broken

  • The love will never get lost

  • - ♪ It's been a long day ♪ - Oh, that's it. That's the scene.

  • That's the scene that they play this song.

  • ♪ ...my friend

  • Oh, I'll tell you all about it when I see you again

  • (sadly) No. And they ride off together.

  • This is so sad.

  • ♪ ...again

  • Oh, oh, oh, oh

  • Oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh

  • Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

  • Aw, they split up. That's sad.

  • It's so sad.

  • - Endless bliss! - This is sad.

  • (gasps) "For Paul."

  • (quietly) That touched my heart.

  • I'm holding back the tears.

  • It was like a tribute.

  • Oh my gosh, that's really beautiful now.

  • I didn't even watch the movie, and it made me feel some feels.

  • ♪ (punk rock music) ♪

  • (Finebros) So were you familiar with that song before today?

  • I have heard it before, but I didn't know it was for Paul Walker.

  • Yeah, I was. I love that song.

  • - Yep. - Yeah, of course.

  • I have it on my phone.

  • I heard this song on the radio a bunch.

  • Every single station plays it at least 10 times a day.

  • - (Finebros) And do you enjoy the song? - It's an alright song.

  • I do.

  • Yeah, it's a good song.

  • - Oh yeah. - Oh, I love it.

  • It's really sweet, and there's also a rap component to it,

  • so it's not just a sad sob song.

  • (Finebros) And do you know who the two singers are?

  • I mean, I know Wiz Khalifa and person.

  • Wiz Khalifa, featuring that white guy.

  • No. I feel like I should, but I don't know either their names.

  • (Finebros) So it's Wiz Khalifa, featuring Charlie Puth.

  • Okay, I don't know. I don't know who Charlie Puth is.

  • I like his voice. I didn't know his name.

  • (laughing) Oh, I don't know who that is.

  • (Finebros) What are your thoughts about Wiz Khalifa?

  • - Are you a fan of his stuff? - Um, I'm not a huge Wiz fan.

  • He's just a good rapper.

  • Wiz is the man.

  • I like his music personally.

  • I'm pretty sure he's just high all the time.

  • Wiz Khalifa likes to smoke weed, and he makes music.

  • I don't want to sound like one of those hipsters,

  • but I prefer his old music.

  • (Finebros) So Charlie Puth is a newer artist

  • - who actually has a YouTube background. - (intrigued hums)

  • (Finebros) When he was younger,

  • he made music for some big YouTube stars

  • - before he became a big music artist. - Really? That's awesome.

  • That's pretty awesome.

  • That's what's so great.

  • It's like, you know, just the YouTube community

  • is, like, catapulting everyone to amazing fame and stuff.

  • It's great.

  • (Finebros) Anyway, so this video was part

  • of the most recent movie in The Fast and the Furious franchise.

  • - Did you see the latest movie? - No.

  • I have never seen any of these Fast & Furious movies.

  • Mm-mm. I haven't seen any of the Fast & Furious movies.

  • There's six of them. Like, how much plot can you pull

  • from cars to make six mov-- like, what?

  • Oh yeah. I love cars so much. I've seen every single movie.

  • I'm pretty sure I've seen all the movies.

  • I'm a big fan of the whole franchise.

  • Yes, I saw it. I saw it, I saw it, I saw it.

  • It was amazing.

  • (Finebros) So this song was created for and dedicated

  • - in the memory of the actor Paul Walker. - Yeah.

  • He was, like, favorite character in the franchise.

  • (Finebros) When he died, did that impact you?

  • Not necessarily, 'cause I had no attachment to it

  • since I didn't see the franchi--

  • I haven't seen the entire franchise.

  • When certain celebrities that are important to you pass away,

  • it just feels sort of like a part of you is gone.

  • Even though I don't know him and I never met him personally,

  • it's as if I knew him. I cried as if I knew him.

  • To a lot of older people,

  • you'll see somebody die on the news and stuff that was famous,

  • and kids will be like, "Who is that?"

  • But we don't really see somebody from our time that dies.

  • Everyone makes such a big hype about Michael Jackson dying

  • or this person dying or Paul Walker dying,

  • and then no one really cares about the other small people.

  • (Finebros) So Charlie Puth mentioned that,

  • when he wrote this song, he was thinking about a friend of his

  • who he lost at a young age as well.

  • When you hear a song like this,

  • does it make you think about those types of things--

  • people you've lost or the concept of losing someone?

  • Yeah.

  • It gets your brain thinking about it.

  • I end up thinking about death and what happens after death.

  • Music is powerful that way.

  • Music can make you feel so many crazy ways; it's unbelievable.

  • I'm definitely gonna have a different perspective on it

  • now that I know who it was written for.

  • When you know why it was written,

  • then you start thinking of how also it pertains to your life.

  • Maybe that's why it's really popular,

  • 'cause people feel like they can relate,

  • and they feel like it's part of them too.

  • (Finebros) There's been some criticism that the song has

  • for not being that original and also that it is exploiting

  • people's feelings for Paul Walker for profit.

  • Do you think there's some merit to that criticism?

  • Yeah, definitely.

  • To me, I just think people are looking at it the wrong way.

  • It's a legitimate song about somebody's loss

  • and how they feel about it.

  • That's not the way to look at it.

  • I mean, of course you're gonna make money with it.

  • Someone is making money, even if it's a charity.

  • There's somebody out there making money

  • from someone else's sadness.

  • I think that's a cynical way to look at it.

  • I think it's a really beautiful cool thing that they did.

  • No, people always have to find something wrong with everything.

  • It makes me so mad.

  • - Why does everything have to be wrong? - Oh, it makes me so mad!

  • (Finebros) So finally, various songs stand the test of time

  • and future generations still know it.

  • Do you think is one of those songs that's going to be remembered?

  • Probably.

  • It definitely has a little bit more substance

  • that could keep it going for a while.

  • No.

  • I don't think anything is possible lasting that long anymore.

  • It's about Paul Walker.

  • And in 30 years when, sadly, Paul Walker's gonna be irrelevant,

  • this song's gonna be irrelevant also.

  • I hope so.

  • I sure hope my kids know who Paul Walker was...

  • - And I'll fight them if they don't. - ...because he's a legend

  • that made the series what it really was.

  • No one can tell.

  • It's like, no one ever thought "Never Gonna Give You Up"

  • would be something that stood the test of time, but it did.

  • So it's kind of unpredictable.

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  • Thanks again, everybody! Goodbye!

  • ♪ (punk rock music) ♪

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