"Shut up and love me. Shut up. And love me."
Daniel Thrasher is an American YouTuber and composer who posts various Sketch Comedy skits and videos, many based around his skills as The Piano Player.
His content can be found on YouTube here
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Daniel Thrasher's work provides examples of:
- Afterlife Antechamber: The After in "Welcome to the After (music video)" is a White Void Room with nothing but a couch and television where dead souls go to be judged.
- Auto-Tune:
- Staan speaks entirely in Auto-Tune.
- In one video, Daniel gets surgery from a back-alley doctor to give his real voice Auto-Tune. He can't turn it off or adjust it, and it interferes with his ability to eat solid foods.
- Benevolent Mage Ruler: While "benevolent" might be a stretch, in "When you meet a jazz demon in medieval times", it's revealed that the King has been faking much of his buffoonery and is actually an accomplished wizard, being able to banish a group of jazz demons with a Scatting incantation.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Hoodie Guy, a common recurring character in Daniel's sketches, very often exhibits Cloudcuckoolander traits. Despite that, he's shown himself to be a very talented musician and, depending on the video, having supernatural powers, like reading minds and warping reality.
- Crossover: Occasionally collaborates with other content creators, most commonly with RoomieOfficial.
- Deal with the Devil: In "When you wanna be an artist", Staan offers to make Daniel's artistic career successful in return for his soul. However, Daniel accepts the offer before he could finish his Villain Song, completely ignoring the warnings of the tragic consequences that could come from being a star. It ends with Stan deciding not to go through the with the deal when he sees how little Daniel understands what he is offering and Daniel stabbing himself with a knife, all too ready to sign in his own blood.
- Easy Road to Hell: In "Welcome to the After (music video)", Daniel ends up "down south" for only being a moderately normal guy. The sins that left him eternally damned include: not giving change to a homeless guy, being insincere to his grandad over the phone was trying to have a conversation with him and, when given the chance to know anything, asking if his high school girlfriend ever cheated on him.Daniel: But doesn't matter that I tried to be kind?
Judge: Eh...
Daniel: Like I've always tried to be a good person, ultimately. Doesn't that matter at all?
Judge: Did you try? You really tried? Like you really, really, really tried? - Epic Fail: In "When you pray to Gsus", Gsus has a "flood the world" button right next to the "go see the Ethereal Plane of Musicality" button on his phone, pressing the former by accident when he tried pressing the later.
- Foil: Hoodie Guy acts as the Wise Guy to Daniel's Straight Man, often causing mischief or exacerbating Daniel in some manner.
- Heavy Meta: "When you write a song about hip hop" is about Hoodie Guy writing an Educational Song about Hip-Hop. The twist? It's an upbeat, not Hip-Hop song where you Follow the Bouncing Ball that you'd picture the Animaniacs singing.
- Hollywood Voodoo: In "When you find the steel drum setting", it is revealed that Hoodie Guy was cursed with a voodoo spell that allowed him to control reality whenever he plays the piano.
- Implausible Deniability: In the "When you accidentally write songs that already exist" series, after a certain point, Daniel refuses to admit that all the material he's come up with is ripped off from other artists, no matter how many times he puts the melodies in a different key or runs the lyrics through a thesaurus.
- Improv: A big part of Daniel's skillset is coming up with short songs and sketches on the fly based on prompts given to him, which he's demonstrated in some of his videos. He's done it live too, as can be seen here.
- Manipulative Editing: In "When reality show producers give you the villain edit", one contestant catches on to the show editing what he says to make him look bad, such as editing him to say the girl in the show looks fat, volunteers for the cartel, puppy mills and satanic worship, blames things on wokeism, wants to "do homophobia", and complains that "the producers are refusing to let [him] about the Japanese. When he asks to leave the show, he is edited to say that he came to kill babies and wants to go back to his firearms.
- Messianic Archetype: Gsus from "When you pray to Gsus" is a King of All Cosmos take on Jesus, being summoned whenever a GSUS chord is played. He is the son of GAD (as in the notes), is super into himself and tries reenacting The Great Flood (with Daniel playing the part of Noah) because he hates modern music. When Daniel manages to convince him not the flood the Earth, he accidentally does it anyway using an app on his phone.
- Not Helping Your Case: In the "When you accidentally write songs that already exist" series, Daniel might be able to get away with ripping off some songs if he had a less knowledgeable teacher, because the first one he brings is usually obfuscated enough to almost pass without being caught. But when he is inevitably called out for plagiarism, he tries to defend himself with more tunes, and it becomes clear that everything else he came up with is even more obviously ripped off, just proving the teacher's point.
- Overcomplicated Menu Order: "How Lin Manuel Miranda Orders a Pizza" is a parody of "Alexander Hamilton", detailing Lin's (Daniel's) highly specific, highly questionable pizza order, with wildly different ingredients, such as extra dairy-free garlic butter from the Himalayas, a vegan buffalo chicken chowder with boiled, crushed, pickled, & fermented vegan fish, and a McFlurry. This ends up being Deconstructed as the order takes so long that the pizza place closes, requiring Lin to outsource the order to a location in New York.
- Production Foreshadowing: In "I can play anything by ear", Daniel is told to play Lin-Manuel Miranda ordering a pizza, which has him play the first few notes of the song described in Over Complicated Menu Order above.
- Psychic Static: In "When you have perfect pitch", Daniel sings "Never Gonna Give You Up" in his head to deter Hoodie Guy from further reading his mind.
- Satan: Staan claims he isn't Satan, but he clearly is.
- Secret Test of Character: In "Welcome to the After (music video)", the Judge gives Daniel the chance to learn one thing he always wanted to know to see whether he deserves to go "Up North" or "Down South". Daniel asks if his high school girlfriend cheated on him. The video is just the Judge telling him that it was a test and he failed it.
- Suspiciously Similar Song: In-Universe. The "When you accidentally write songs that already exist" series of videos is about Daniel trying to write an original song, only to accidentally plagiarize the instrumentals of various popular songs and showtunes.
- Unconventional Food Order: How Lin-Manuel Miranda Orders a Pizza" is a Song Parody of "Alexander Hamilton" from Hamilton where Lin-Manuel Miranda places an order for a pizza, but the sheer number of toppings he orders goes from the unconventional to the ridiculous to impossible.
- Visual Pun: During "When you accidentally write theme songs that already exist" Terry Toronto explains that the dog from the show he needs a theme song for doesn't talk. To use his words, "Rock and the dog don't talk." Then his assistant enters, saying "Knock, knock! You ready to rock your 12 o'clock?" Terry...
shoots him with a gun. In other words, a glock. - YouTuber Apology Parody: "I've grown as a person" features Daniel standing over a blue background, sighing, then rambling vaguely at length about an indiscretion he committed in the last couple years, but he claims that it's okay because he's grown as a person since then. The audience is less concerned about his apology, and more concerned with the fact that he has literally grown, to like eighty feet tall (the blue background was the sky). Apparently, he got struck by lightning ten times in a row to end up like that, and it was all over the news.
